M.A. Clara Wieghorst

Since 03/2019: PhD-student, Leuphana University Lüneburg, doctoral thesis on imaginiaries of disconnection, supervised by Timon Beyes (Leuphana University Lüneburg) and Urs Stäheli (University of Hamburg)

10/2018: Master of Arts in Sociology (with distinction), University of Hamburg

05/2016: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, University of Hamburg

2024: Parental leave

Since 04/2023: Research Associate at the Professorship for Sociological Theories of the Knowledge Society, Leibniz University Hanover

07/2022 – 03/2023: Research Associate in the Research Project ‚Disruptive Technologies. On the Remeasurement of Society through Social Freezing, Digital Assistants and Clean Meat, led by Henning Laux, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Technical University Chemnitz

05/2022 – 06/2022: Research Fellow at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg

11/2018 – 04/2022: Research Associate in the German Research Association (DFG) funded project: ‘Disconnectivity. Imaginaries, Media technologies, Politics’, led by Timon Beyes (Leuphana University Lüneburg) and Urs Stäheli (University of Hamburg), Leuphana University Lüneburg

04/2015 – 10/2018: Student Assistant of the Professorship of General Sociology, University of Hamburg

01/2015 – 09/2015: Student Assistant in the Research Training Group ‘Loose Connections. Collectivity in Digital and Urban Spaces’, University of Hamburg

Laux, H., Matthäus, S., Wieghorst, C., & Zeltner, P. (2025). Techno-Fixes: On the Non-Disruptive Disruptions of Cultured Meat, Social Freezing and AI Assistants. Social Studies of Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127251395213

Wieghorst, Clara (2021): Analogue Nostalgia: Examining Critiques of Social Media. In: Chia, Aleena/Jorge, Ana/Karppi, Tero (Hg.): Reckoning with Social Media. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, S. 207-225. https://meson.press/books/undoing-networks/

Karppi, Tero/Stäheli, Urs/Wieghorst, Clara/Zierott, Lea (2021): Undoing Networks. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press/Lüneburg: meson press.

Wieghorst, Clara (2020): Digital Detox. Zu Guido Zurstieges Buch Taktiken der Entnetzung. In: POP-ZEITSCHRIFT. pop-zeitschrift.de/2020/04/06/digital-detoxautorvon-clara-wieghorst-autordatum6-4-2020-datum/

09/2025: Kultiviertes Fleisch zwischen Persistenz und Transformation, together with Lea Zierott, 42. DGS-Kongress, University Duisburg Essen

09/2023: Kultiviertes Fleisch als Weltverbesserungstechnologie – Transformation oder Fortsetzung bestehender Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen?, Conference: Transformation der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen: Ursachen, Dynamiken und Folgen, Technical University Dortmund

05/2023: Cultivated meat as a technology to ‘save the world’, STS Conference Graz 2023, Technical University Graz

06/2022: Narrative der Entnetzung, Conference: Affizierte Narrationen: Soziologisches Schreiben zwischen Gesellschaftstheorie, Zeitdiagnose, Essayistik und empirisch-historischen
Perspektiven, University Kassel

12/2021: Tales from technology: beyond ‘old’ and ‘new’ media, Stanford-Leuphana Winter Academy 2021: Technologies of Bureaucracy: Before and After the Digital Turn, Stanford H.G.; Will Center, Berlin (online)

05/2021: Imagining ‘Off the Grid’, The 4th International Geomedia Conference: ‘Geomedia 2021 – Off the Grid’, University Siegen (online)

01/2021: How to Study Disconnection and Detox? A Panel on Challenges and Opportunities of Larger Projects, Digitox Seminar, University of Oslo (online)

10/2020: Imaginaries of Disconnection, Advancing Digital Disconnection Research: ECREA Pre-pre conference; University of Oslo (online)

01/2020: Szenen und Imaginäre der Entnetzung, together with Lea Zierott, Colloquium of the Professorship for Sociological Theory, Technical University Chemnitz

05/2019: Re-reading Dave Eggers’ The Circle – Human-technological entanglements in processes of organization, 14 th Organization Studies Workshop: Technology and Organization, Mykonos

12/2021: Unrelating: Infrastructures, Imaginaries and Politics of Disconnection (gemeinsam mit Timon Beyes, Urs Stäheli und Lea Zierott), Key note: Marilyn Strathern, Warburg-Haus Hamburg (online)

06/2020: The Space Between Us: Networks After the Pandemic. Gespräch mit Wendy Hui Kyong Chun und Tero Karppi (gemeinsam mit Timon Beyes, Randi Heinrichs und Lea Zierott), Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (online)

06/2019: Disconnection. Workshop mit Tero Karppi (gemeinsam mit Timon Beyes, Urs Stäheli und Lea Zierott), Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg