Presentations + Panels


> “Creando la ciudad nocturna: Lecciones de Berlin y más allá” / Panama Crossroads (2024)

> “Numbers, Please!: Night Economy Studies and Numbers” & “Awareness in Club Culture – A Model for Safer Nights in Cities” / Stadt Nach Acht (2023)

> “Why Measure The Impact Of The Night As Cultural Heritage, And How Can We Do It?” & “Creating Your Own Space: Who’s Fighting For The Right To The City?” / MIL Lisboa (2023)

> "Creative Footprint Montreal" / Montréal Night Summit (2023)

> “Safer work environments: practical perspectives” / NTIA Nighttime Economy Summit (2023)

> “The A-Team: Awareness Teams in Berlin Club Culture as Self-Governance Practice for ‘Safe(r) Space’” / Franco-German Conference on Night Studies, Université de Paris/Laboratoire ICT, IUT de Paris, EHESS/Laboratoire CESSP, DAAD, Gaîté Lyrique (2022)

>“The Role of Cultural Policies In The Cities’ Transition” & “Safety, not Surveillance: Towards More Inclusive and Safer Nights” / MIL Lisboa (2022)

>“Good Nights: Rethinking Urban Safety, Wellbeing, and Community through Culture After Dark,” UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) 11 (2022)

>“The A-Team: Awareness Teams in Berlin Club Culture as Self-Governance Practice for ‘Safe(r) Space’” / Night Spaces: Migration Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE) 3rd International Conference, Leiden University (2022)

>“Good Nights: Re-Imagining Urban Safety, Sustainability and Community After Dark” / Stadt Nach Acht (2021)

> "Art in Times of Corona," Alexander von Humboldt Foundation virtual study tour (2021)

> “Rethinking – Changing Roles of Music in Media and Civil Society,” AmplifyMusic (2021)

> "How to Combine Green & Financial Sustainability" / Museums Facing Extinction/We Are Museums (2021)

> “The Future of Dancefloors” / EXPOBAR, Asobares (2020)

> “Amplification of Imagination,” UNESCO High-Level Futures Literacy Summit (2020)

> “Strategies for Restarting Nightlife” / 7th International Nightlife Congress, International Nightlife Association (2020)

> “Clubsterben: Threats to Berlin’s Club Culture and Responses from Nighttime Governance” / 1st International Conference of Night Studies (ICNS.LX), Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology - University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL) (2020)

>“(Re-)Building cooperation and communities in the times of post-Corona,” Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Annual Meeting (2020)

> “Future of the nighttime economy: impacts of COVID-19” / Nighttime in Cities, Fraunhofer Institute

>“Nightlife: Practical Actions and Challenges” & “How Data is Collectable/Collected Toward Local Action and Recovery” / Amplify Music (2020)

>“Safer Cities at Night: Collaboration, Festivalization, and Lessons from Nightlife Culture,” UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) 10 (2020)

> “Sustainable Clubbing: Nightlife, the UN SDGs, and Visions of 2030” / CTM/transmediale Festival

>“Nightlife For The Next Decade: Night Culture, Wellbeing, And Sustainable Cities” / Stadt Nach Acht (2019)


Teaching

Invited lectures:

>Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Course: The City at Night / “Studying nightlife: a practitioner perspective” (2023)

> University of the Arts Berlin / Course: Rave and resistance: Politicizing the dancefloor / “The A-Team: Awareness Teams in Berlin Club Culture as Self-Governance Practice for ‘Safe(r) Space’” (2023)

> Willem de Kooning Academy at Rotterdam Univ. of Applied Sciences / Program: Leisure & Events Management (2022) / “Nightlife Research & The Creative Footprint”

> University of Denver, College of Arts & Media / Course: Music Cities (2021, 2022)

> ArtCenter Berlin / Course: ‘Reading’ Berlin Soundscapes / “Preserving & promoting sonic space in a changing city” (2022)

> Coro Southern California Fellowship in Public Affairs / “Nighttime Governance: Responses to COVID-19” (2020)

Workshop facilitation:

> “The SDGs at night: What does ‘sustainable’ look like in nightlife?” / Montréal Night Summit (2022)

> “Using SDGs at Night” / Stadt Nach Acht (2021)

> “Reading & Writing Reality: Practical Dramaturgy” / University of the Underground (2020)

> Workshop facilitator, public speaking, leadership skills and systems thinking / University of California Los Angeles with Coro Southern California (2018-19)

> Workshop facilitator, public speaking, leadership skills and systems thinking / Harvard-Westlake School with Coro Southern California (2018-19)

Arts + experiential education:

> Workshop designer & facilitator (Gr. 9-12), “Police Accountability and Civic Arts Practice” / Jewish Council on Urban Affairs/ONE Northside (2017)

> Educator, environmental & food justice (Gr. K-12) / Common Vision (2015-17)

> Teaching artist (Gr. 9), theater performance and design / American Theater Company/Chicago Public Schools (2013)

> Teaching artist, creative drama and creative writing / 826CHI/Northwestern University (2012)


Publications

Book chapters

> Raiselis, D. (2024 (forthcoming)). ‘“Holding the frame”: awareness as care work and community practice in Berlin club culture,’ in Jóri, A. and Robin, G. (eds.) Living at Night in Times of Pandemic. Bielefeld: transcript verlag. 

> Sachse, K, & Raiselis, D. (2022). ‘Recht auf Club: Clubkultur in einer wachsenden, sich verdichtenden Stadt’, Massive Volume—Neue Räume für Clubkultur. Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, pp. 27–31. https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/12480 

Conference proceedings

> Raiselis, D., & Sachse, K. (2020). ‘Clubsterben: Threats to Berlin’s Club Culture and Responses from Nighttime Governance’, in Garcia-Ruiz, M. and Nofre, J. (eds.) 1st International Conference on Night Studies Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal (online), 2–4 July 2020, pp. 121–138. https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/20802.

Selected industry reports

> Raiselis, D., Salem, A., & van Brederode, M. (2023). ‘Creative Footprint Sydney’, VibeLab. Available at: https://www.creative-footprint.org/ 

> Raiselis, D., Salem, A., & van Brederode, M. (2023). ‘Creative Footprint Montréal’, VibeLab. Available at: https://www.creative-footprint.org/ 

> Raiselis, D., Rai Handa, R., & Knap, K. (2023). ‘A Manual for Regenerative Gatherings’, OnEarth Foundation. Available at: https://onearth.io/regenerative-gatherings/

> Salem, A. and Raiselis, D. (2022). ‘Creative Footprint Stockholm’, VibeLab. Available at: https://www.creative-footprint.org/ 

Editorial leadership

> “Global Nighttime Recovery Plan,” (Chapters 1-7) nighttime.org/recoveryplan. July 2020–December 2021 (eds. Fichman, Foster, Leichsenring, Milan, Raiselis, Salem, Seijas, Yuan).

Blogs, podcasts, digital resources

> Hafedh, N., Dawood, M. and Raiselis, D. (2023). ‘Engaging in Utopia: Towards More Inclusive, Joyful Civic Engagement’, Salzburg Global Seminar.

> White, R., (2022). ‘Nighttime Operating Hours: The Case for Later Nights’, 24Minutes, 24HourNation [Podcast].

 > Seijas, A. and Bassett, S. (2021). ‘Having Night Mayors’, Cities After Dark, University of Melbourne Connected Cities Lab [Podcast].

> Seijas, A., Milan, M. and Raiselis, D. (2020). ‘Mapping Night Mayors, Offices and Commissions Worldwide’, Nighttime.org.