Location & approach

By Car

The campus of Dortmund University is located near the Dortmund West motorway junction, where the A45 Sauerland line crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By public transport

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

By 'H-Bahn'

The H-Bahn, an elevated railway, is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Centre via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, it takes just over 20 minutes to get to Dortmund Central Station with the AirportExpress and from there to the university with the S-Bahn. Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometres away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Location & approach

By Car

The campus of Dortmund University is located near the Dortmund West motorway junction, where the A45 Sauerland line crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By public transport

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

By 'H-Bahn'

The H-Bahn, an elevated railway, is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Centre via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, it takes just over 20 minutes to get to Dortmund Central Station with the AirportExpress and from there to the university with the S-Bahn. Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometres away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Dortmund SST team at the DGS Congress in Mainz

10/15/2026

The opening event on September 28 at the Rheingoldhalle.

From September 28 to October 2 2026, the 43rd Congress of the German Sociological Association took place at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. This year, around 2.000 sociologists gathered in late-summer temperatures under the conference theme “Futures of Society” to discuss current research and relevant questions about the future of society .

The Dortmund-based sociologists of science and technology were involved in a variety of ways:

Ann-Kristin Augst and Cornelius Schubert spoke on the panel Bodies of/in the Future in the “Sociology of the Body and Sport” section, discussing “Popular Body Data: Apps and Devices as Embodiments of the Future in Healthcare.”
Also on this panel, Isabelle Bosbach presented on “Cryopreserving Reproductive Futures: Unchosen Futures of Present Bodies.”
In Ad-hoc Group 6: Building Societies. Sociological Perspectives on Construction and Construction Sites of the Future, Clara Gander, together with Thomas Barth, Rosalie Oetinger, and Hans Rackwitz (all three from the IfS, Frankfurt/M.), presented“Work and Environmental Orientations on the Construction Site: Experiential Knowledge, Experiences of Climate Change, and the Ecology of Work.”
Cornelius Schubert was involved in organising the section event of the Sociology of Science and Technology on “‘Knowledge of the Future’ and Its Production in Science, Technology, and Society.” In addition, he participated in the special event organized by the joint Ethics Committee of the DGS and BSiD Research Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in Sociology with a keynote presentation and a joint discussion on current developments and research ethics challenges in dealing with generative artificial intelligence.
Ronja Trischler co-organized Ad-hoc Group 77: Sociology of Repair with Kevin Wiggert (TU Berlin). Together with the presenters, they discussed the sociological value of repair as a theoretical concept and as a subject of empirical analysis.

Thank you very much for the exciting conference!