Philosophical Anthropology
Phenomenology
Psychoanalytical Social and Cultural Theory
Sociology of Knowledge and Education

Consultation hours by appointment

07/2016
Master of Education and Master of Arts (double degree)
Title of thesis: Weibliches Schreiben und/oder Schreiben über Weiblichkeit? Eine gendernarratologische Analyse von Juli Zehs "Corpus Delicti"

2009-2016
Studies of Philosophy, German Studies and Educational Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

2011-2012
Study visit as part of the Erasmus program at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon III

Summer semester 2024
Research associate, Institute of Philosophy, University of Koblenz

since 2017
Research associate, Institute for Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

2017-2018
PES employee (substitute teacher) for ethics, Goethe-Gymnasium Bad Ems

2016
Research project "Educational processes and competence development in the space of reasons" (Head: Prof. Dr. Christian Thein)

2012-2016
Graduate assistant and tutor at the German Department (Chair of Modern German Literature/Literary History) and at the Department of Philosophy (Chair of Didactics of Philosophy), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Contributions to collections and journals

Henke, L.; Weigold, S. (2022). Die Pille für den Mann – Wo fängt Sorgearbeit an? Formen technologisierter (Vor-)Sorge. In: J. Loh; T. Grote (eds.): Medizin, Technik, Ethik. Spannungsfelder zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Heidelberg: Metzler (in print).

Henke, L. (2021). Grenzen der Sorge. In: B. Blättel-Mink (ed.): Gesellschaft unter Spannung. Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der DGS 2020. link to the publication

Henke, L. (2021). Die exzentrische Struktur der Sorge. In: E. Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen; A. Speer (eds.): Philosophische Anthropologie als interdisziplinäre Praxis. Max Scheler, Helmuth Plessner und Nicolai Hartmann in Köln. Historische und systematische Perspektiven. Paderborn: Mentis/Brill, S. 155-172. Link to the publication

Henke, L. (2020). Genderaspekte im Philosophieunterricht. In: C. Thein (ed.): Philosophische Bildung und Didaktik – Dimensionen, Vermittlungen, Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, pp. 203-214. Link to the publication

Übersetzungen und Rezensionen
Henke, L. (2017). Review of: Kristina Rehrs Themenheft: Von Männern und Frauen. Nachdenken über „Geschlecht“. Leipzig: Militzke 2016. In: Ethik und Unterricht 2 (2017), pp. 55-56.

Verlorene Unmittelbarkeit. Der sentimentale Spalt zwischen Selbst und Welt. ÖGS Congress, Vienna, 05.07.2023

Répondant de Gregor Fitzi: Le formalism sociologique de l'opposition conceptuelle entre communauté et societé et les racines anthropologiques des sa vulnerabilité idéologique. Helmuth Plessner et la pensée française. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociale Paris, 21.04.2023.

Die Zeit der Sorge. Research Colloquium Theoretische Empirie, Institute of Sociology, University of Mainz, 21.07.2022.

Unlimited care? Posthumanismus. Transhumanismus. Jenseits des Menschen? Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 27.05.2022.

Grenzen (in) der Sorge. Die ökologische Gesellschaft unter Spannung: Sorgediskurse im Anthropozän, DGS Congress, Berlin, 21.09.2020.

The limits of ecological concern. Ökologie 2.0 – Welchen Beitrag kann die Philosophische Anthropologie zur Lösung der ökologischen Krise leisten? Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Universitity of Oldenburg, 13.02.2020.

The Limits of the human being along the care. A (philosophical-anthropological) proposal for limiting a boundless self-world relationship. Interdisciplinary Anthropology of the Future - Social, Political, and Ethical Dimensions, University of Cologne, 06.11.2019.

The 'care placed in nothingness'. A proposal for limiting an unbounded self-world relationship . DGS Regional Conference, University of Jena, 23.09.-27.09.2019.

Dimensionen der Sorge. Forschungskolloquium Theoretische Empirie, Institute of Sociology, University of Mainz, 21.06.2018.

Genderaspekte im Philosophieunterricht (with Susanne Reusch). Lunch Lectures/Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, Faculty 05, University of Mainz, 25.10.2016.

Genderaspekte im Philosophieunterricht. Tagung Philosophische Bildung und Didaktik, Philosophisches Seminar, University of Mainz, 19.03.2016.

Seminar: Methods of qualitative-empirical social research (winter semester 2023/24)
Seminar: Methods of qualitative-empirical social research (winter semester 2021/22)
Tutorial: Methods of qualitative-empirical social research (winter semester 2021/22; supervision of tutors)

Lecture: Sociology of Education (SoSe 2023)
Lecture: Social Development, Socialization and Education (WiSe 2022/23, together with Herbert Kalthoff)
Seminar: Theories of Education (BA) (WiSe 2023/24)
Seminar: Sociology of the Unconscious (MA) (SoSe 2023)
Seminar: Sociology of Time (WiSe 2022/23, together with Herbert Kalthoff)
Seminar: Care in the Anthropocene (SoSe 2021)
Seminar: Die Medien der Schule (SoSe 2021)
Seminar: Sociologie der Bildung und Erziehung (WiSe 2020/21)
Seminar: Klassiker der Wissenssoziologie: Alfred Schütz (WiSe 2020/21)
Seminar: Gleichheit und Differenz in Schule und Unterricht (WiSe 2017/18, SoSe 2018, WiSe 2018/19, SoSe 2019, WiSe 2019/20, SoSe 2020; several times)
Seminar: Kommunikation und Interaktion (SoSe 2017, SoSe 2018, SoSe 2020; several times)

Colloquium: Research colloquium "Theoretical Empiricism" (summer semester 2022, together with Christiane Schürkmann)
Colloquium: BA colloquium (winter semester 2020/21, winter semester 2021/22, winter semester 2023/24)Seminar: Methods of qualitative empirical social research (winter semester 2023/24)

Teaching project: What is a just state?; with students from JVA Wiesbaden (winter semester 2018/19, together with PD Dr. Helke Panknin-Schappert)

German Society for Sociology (DGS)
German Society for Philosophy (DGPhil)
German Society for French-Speaking Philosophy (DGFP)
Swip Germany e.V. - Society for Women in Philosophy

since 2023: Deputy Equal Opportunities Officer of Faculty 02, University of Mainz
since 2023: Representative on the executive committee of the Institute of Sociology, University of Mainz
2023: Member of the search committee: Professorship for Body Sociology, University of Mainz
2022: Member of the search committee for a professorship for Educational Science with a focus on Educational Theory, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2017-2022: Conception and weekly implementation of Philosophy seminars, Wiesbaden Prison for young male prisoners
2020: Organization of an ad hoc group "Zwischen Sorge und Kontrolle", DGS Congress, Berlin (with Katharina Block and Franziska Dahlmeier)
since 2016: Employee in the working collective "TOY.TOY.TOY. , Theory and Mediation of Gender", Mainz Academy of Fine Arts

Just like fitness trackers, care beds or sensor-based home emergency call systems, earthworms, dairy cows and bees also care for each other, for nature and for humans. In international discourses, care is no longer understood as an intentional, genuinely human action, but rather as a collective, socio-material practice in which not only human objects participate; animals, substances, artifacts, etc. are also - so the assumption - generally involved in care practices. Against this general de-differentiation of care, the dissertation project aims to reformulate the specific nature of human care, its dimensions and its foundations. To this end, the project is guided by the following questions: Which theoretical discourses on care can be reconstructed and how are they related to each other? What relationship between self and (surrounding) world crystallizes in care discourses and practices? To what extent do species-specific forms of care differ from one another and how can they be characterized? On a theoretical-conceptual level, this work refers to posthuman considerations and approaches from philosophical anthropology.