Tuesday, 23.09.2025, 12.30-14.00, walking distance approx. 3 km, max 20 people, start and end: Duisburg campus, €12
Meeting point: Public transport stop: University (Universtät)

How about a slightly different lunch break? This forest walk invites you to listen to the birds chirping away from the noise of the city, admire the spreading treetops of the old beech trees or simply enjoy the forest. And along the way, you will learn a secret or two about the trees and forest dwellers and suddenly see the forest with completely different eyes....

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via ConfTool. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025.

Tuesday, 23.09.2025, 16.30-18.30, max. 49 people per bus, start and end: Duisburg Campus, €19
Meeting point: Public transport stop: University (Universtät)

On this tour, you will travel by bus and explore the north of Duisburg, including the districts of Marxloh and Ruhrort. Marxloh is a colorful and vibrant district that is home to one of the largest mosques in Germany and attracts numerous tourists because of its bridal fashion mile. The Ruhrort district also has a lot to offer. Between the Rhine and Ruhr rivers, inland shipping and the still important industrial port have shaped this district and given it an almost maritime atmosphere. A tour takes you over cobblestones and past narrow streets. After passing the Thyssenkrupp site, you reach the highlight of Duisburg, the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park. Industrial history, leisure and culture find their place on the 200-hectare site. Numerous attractions have been created here, such as a high ropes course, the diving gasometer and a climbing garden in former ore bunkers. Participants have time to explore the site themselves.

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via the ConfTool congress platform. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the city tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025. The event is organized in cooperation with the event management of the City of Duisburg. 

Fully booked - Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 1:00–5:00 p.m., meeting point: 901 tram stop, Schweizer Str., joint travel by tram (please purchase your own public transport ticket), max. 20 people, free of charge

As a supplement to the session ›Migration and Urban Sociological Perspectives on Arrival Areas‹ organized by the sections ›Migration and Ethnic Minorities‹ and ›Spatial and Regional Sociology,‹ we will visit the Duisburg-Marxloh district.

Much of the Marxloh district, located in the north of Duisburg, was built during the industrialization of the Ruhr region between 1880 and 1910. Since the mid-1970s, Marxloh has undergone significant structural change. Changes in the iron and steel industry in particular led to a massive increase in unemployment in this traditional working-class neighborhood. At the same time, the district increasingly became a destination for migrants. Today, the district is characterized by (post-)migrant everyday life and superdiversity. While the district has been stigmatized as a ›no-go area‹ and ›lawless space‹ in police reports, among other things, many local people are committed to helping shape the neighborhood, improving living conditions in the ›arrival city‹ (Doug Sanders 2011), and recognizing migration as part of everyday life, a matter of course, and an opportunity. This also includes a well-known migrant-influenced economy, especially in the retail sector.

To get to know the arrival space of Marxloh, we will take a guided tour of the district and discuss our observations on site.

Organization: Eva Bahl (Section for Migration and Ethnic Minorities) 
Sebastian Kurtenbach (Section for Urban and Regional Sociology)

Bookings can be made via ConfTool from April 1, 2025.

Wednesday, 24.09.2025, 17.30-19.30, walking distance approx. 3.5 km, max. 20 people, €13
Meeting point: Public transport stop: University (Universtät)

What could be more relaxing than enjoying the evening in the forest? On this forest tour, we encounter the forest as we have never seen it before. We make the acquaintance of a living creature that seemed familiar to us, but here for the first time appears before our eyes in all its vitality.

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via ConfTool. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025. 

24.09.2025, 18:00 - 21:00, max. 30 people, Language: German, €10
Meeting point: Platanenhof stop (line 903/U79), Duisburg Hochfeld, independent arrival

Duisburg-Hochfeld is an exemplary district where migration, socio-economic precarization and urban political interventions meet. The post-industrial working and migration district is characterized by discourses of poverty and crime, migration-specific dynamics and institutional practices of exclusion in the areas of housing, work, social services, education and health.
We offer this guided tour from a critical research perspective and together with people from the district and the Verein für die solidarische Gesellschaft der Vielen e.V. (Association for the Solidarity of the Many). It is aimed at anyone who wants to get to know Hochfeld from a deeper perspective and understand how urban development policy measures, institutional discrimination and social dynamics interact and shape local life.

It will highlight the links between exclusion, forced evictions and displacement caused by urban development projects such as the IGA 2027 and their impact on the realities of residents' lives. At the same time, the importance of local networks and civil society involvement in these processes will be examined. A special focus is placed on questions of sovereignty of interpretation, representation and serious social participation: Which voices count, which are heard?
The tour offers the opportunity to critically reflect on urban policy top-down interventions and their effects and to enter into a discussion about them.
Organizer: Lena Wiese

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via ConfTool.

Thursday, 25.09.2025, 9-10.30 am, max. 25 people per tour, start: Mercatorbrunnen in front of Duisburg Town Hall, end: Steiger Schwanentor, Calaisplatz, 47051 Duisburg, €7

Grain used to be stored and milled here, today modern office buildings are lined up next to each other, restaurants and museums invite you to visit. Find out on this tour how the inner harbor became a prime example of structural change and industrial heritage and what makes this contrasting part of the city so special.

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via the ConfTool congress platform. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025. The event is organized in cooperation with the event management of the City of Duisburg. 

24.09.2025, 18:00 - 19:30, independent arrival, max. 40 persons, Language: English, €12
Meeting point: Augus-Bebel-Platz in Marxloh

Neighborhoods like Marxloh are associated with stereotypes and one-sided narratives about ›failed integration‹ and crime, both in public perception and in academia. For years, Marxloh and its residents have been subjected to the extractivist practices of different actors such as journalists, politicians and scholars resulting in further stigmatisation and mistrust of outsiders. The city walk ›Marxloh from the perspective of its residents‹ is intended to offer an alternative to this by giving the participants the opportunity to hear about the life in the neighbourhood from those who live and work in it. Members of two local grassroots initiatives: ›Stolipinovo in Europa‹ and ›Marxloh›s neighbour‹s Initiative‹, as well as local researchers will guide participants through central locations and the associated conflicts around migration management, labour exploitation, urban restructuring and ethnic displacement. As any other space in the margins Marxloh is a space of resistance and fight, participants will learn more about the history of local struggles and their current dimensions. 

Organizer: Polina Manolova (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via ConfTool. 

**Cancelled: the brewery tour has been canceled due to low registration numbers.**
Wednesday, 24.09.2025, 17.15-21.30, max. 50 people, start: Duisburg campus, end: party location, €45

During the tour of the ›royal‹ brewery, visitors learn what makes König beers so special. They have been brewing in Duisburg-Beeck since 1858. A long tradition and great care have made the König brewery's products what they are today: Beers of the highest quality and best taste. After the tour, guests can see this for themselves over a drink and a pork knuckle with potato salad.

Bookings can be made from 01.04.2025 via the ConfTool congress platform. Please note that we reserve the right to cancel the tour if a minimum number of participants has not been reached by 01.08.2025. The event is organized in cooperation with the event management of the City of Duisburg. 

Beim Rundgang durch die ›königliche‹ Braustätte erfährt der Besucher, was die König-Biere so besonders macht. Seit 1858 wird in Duisburg-Beeck gebraut. Und so haben lange Tradition und große Sorgfalt die Produkte der König-Brauerei zu dem gemacht, was sie heute sind: Biere von höchster Qualität und bestem Geschmack. Davon können sich die Gäste im Anschluss an die Besichtigung beim Umtrunk und einer Schweinshaxe mit Kartoffelsalat gleich selbst überzeugen.

Die Buchung erfolgt ab 01.04.2025 über die Kongressplattform ConfTool. Bitte beachten Sie, dass wir uns eine Stornierung der Führung vorbehalten, wenn eine Mindestteilnehmerzahl bis zum 01.08.2025 nicht erreicht wurde. Die Durchführung der Veranstaltung erfolgt in Kooperation mit dem Veranstaltungsmanagement der Stadt Duisburg.