Áron Korózs
Profile
Áron Korózs Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
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Contact hours
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Address
Berner Fachhochschule
School of Social Work
Abteilung Soziale Systeme
Hallerstrasse 10
3012 Bern
Activities
Responsibilities
teaching and research
Teaching
Subjects
«Queer Spaces: A Collective Inquiry across Times and Contexts», Fall 2024, Spring 2026, EN
«Antidiscrimination dans le cadre du travail social», Spring 2025, Spring 2026, FR
«Right-wing Extremism» (with Prof. Dr. Margot Vogel Campanello), Spring 2025, Spring 2026, DE
«Living Library» (with Dr. Claske Dijkema), Fall 2025, EN
«Social Space and Diversity» (specialization), since Spring 2024, DE
«Participation and Social Change» (specialization), since Fall 2024, DE
«Contextualizing Social Work» (core module), since Fall 2024, DE
«Strollology: City for All!(?)» (with Henriette Lutz), since Spring 2024
«Diaspora: Political Activism & Collective Action» (with Dr. Orhan Kaya), Spring 2024, EN
Research
Specialisations
Queer Spaces and Queer-Affirmative Social Work
Critical Romani Studies (particularly in social work and socio-spatial contexts)
Biopolitics and socio-spatial governmentality (particularly in the context of social work)
Media representations and discourses on spaces
CV
Education
- since 12.2025 PhD Social Sciences KU Leuven
- 2018 - 2021 MA International Relations (BUA Joint Degree) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, University of Potsdam (with Visiting Fellowship at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)
- 2014 - 2018 BA Political Science Freie Universität Berlin (with semester abroad at Sciences Po Paris)
Projects
Other projects
PhD project: “Social Governmentality and Resistance of Yenish and Romani Communities in post-1972 Switzerland”
Supervisory Committee: Huub van Baar (corresponding supervisor), Luce Beeckmans (assessor), Peter Vermeersch (assessor)
Publications
Peer-reviewed
Korozs, A. (forthcoming). “We Cannot Send Them to Africa”: A postcolonial reading of Kinder der Landstrasse through Mariella Mehr's counter-archive. In B. Waldis et al. (Eds.), Decolonizing social work in Switzerland.
Selected Conferences
"Rewriting the City: A Palimpsestic Approach to the Socio-Spatial Governmentalities of Itinerant Communities in Post-1972 Switzerland"
Presentation at the conference RC21 2026 “Inequalities and the City: Old Issues, New Challenges”, Vienna, 21.07.2026"Spatial Governmentalities Targeting Yenish and Roma in Switzerland: A Comparative and Historical Perspective"
Presentation at the Swiss Habitat Conference, Lausanne, 13.02.2026"Antigypsyism in the Berlin Educational Landscape: Manifestations and Recommendations for Action (Antiziganismus in der Berliner Bildungslandschaft: Erscheinungsformen und Handlungsempfehlungen)"
Presentation at the symposium “Antigypsyism in Education”, Universität Rostock, 02.07.2022 (with Valerie Laukat)“Biohaus”: Bauhaus as a Synonym of Biopolitical Modernity?
Presentation at the 29th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, UC Berkeley, 20.02.2021"Roma Necropolitics: Repressed Topographies of Anti-Romani Racism, Necroaesthetics and Affirmative Resistance in Documentary Film"
Presentation at the 8th Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations, Universität Gießen, 11.02.2021
Awards
Faculty Call for junior researcher project at the Social Work Department of the Bern University of Applied Sciences
2024, CHF 25’000
Fellow of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
2015-2021
Cornell University Fellowship, 2019
2019, $18,000 and tuition waiver ($10,400)
Language skills and intercultural knowledge
Language skills
- Hungarian - Native or bilingual proficiency
- German - Native or bilingual proficiency
- English - Full professional proficiency
- French - Professional working proficiency
