Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Political Theory

Dr. Liesbeth Schoonheim

Postdoctoral researcher
 

 

 

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Office hours:
By appointment via e-mail


Contact

e-mail: liesbeth.schoonheim (at) hu-berlin.de

Visiting Address

Universitätsstr. 3b, Room Nr. 126

Mailing Address

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Department of Social Sciences
Unter den Lin­den 6
10099 Berlin

 

Personal Profile

Dr. Liesbeth Schoonheim is Postdoctoral researcher at the Research and teaching area Political Theory at Humboldt Universität. Previously, she was a junior postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at KU Leuven, Belgium. She also held an appointment as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, where she taught in political and social philosophy, ethics, and the relation of both disciplines to literature. Her PhD, which she obtained magna cum laude from KU Leuven, was funded by an FWO PhD-fellowship. Her dissertation, entitled ‘The Limits of Tragedy. Arendt’s Philosophy of Remembrance’, offers an Arendtian account of self-understanding—speaking directly to contemporary debates on subjectivity and agency. She has been a visiting researcher at Brighton University (CAPPE), DePaul University (Dept. Philosophy), Oxford (Dept. Politics and IR), and Humboldt-Universität (Sozialwissenschaften). She is particularly interested in themes on the intersection of political theory, social theory and feminism. She has published on questions regarding resistance, political violence, historiography and literature, and corporeality in, among others, Foucault Studies, History of  European Ideas, and Philosophy Today and she presented her work on numerous conferences abroad.

She is a member of the editorial board of Krisis, a journal of contemporary political and social philosophy, and a board member of SWIP-NL, the society for women in philosophy for Flanders and the Netherlands.