Mediality and interculturality

About this research field

This field of research includes knowledge production and organization, identity construction and its cultural representations, (new) social media, political participation, memory cultures and colonial pasts.

Projects

  • YouTube-Politainment aus Mexiko: Eine diskurslinguistische und glottopolitische Analyse des Kanals von Alfredo Matta
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Lidia Becker
    Led by: Jan Salzbrunn, M.A. (Romanisches Seminar)
    Year: 2023
  • The Representation of Horses in Anglophone Fiction 1950-2015
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch
    Led by: Lena Rindermann, M.A. (Englisches Seminar)
    Year: 2023
  • Wuthering Waters: Maritime Working-Class Movements across the Atlantic, 1800-1900
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch
    Led by: Hannah Pardey, Dr. des. (Englisches Seminar)
    Year: 2023
  • Afro-Costa Rican Foundational Literature: Approaching the Ignored Histories of Anglophone Production
    Supervision: Prof. Dr Anja Bandau, Romanic Seminar) and Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch (English Seminar)
    Led by: Karla Araya (Universidad de Costa Rica)
    Year: 2023
  • Dissertationsprojekt: The Cuban Journal Diáspora(s) and Transatlantical Intellectual Networks
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Anja Bandau
    Led by: Natascha Rempel, M.A. (Romanisches Seminar)
    Year: 2023
  • Political Activities of Evangelicals in Latin America
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gabbert
    Team: Lukas Nestvogel, M.A.
    Year: 2022
  • La circulación de las ideas feministas en América Central y su impacto en la región (1960-2000)
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Christine Hatzky
    Led by: Alexia Ugalde Quesada
    Year: 2022
  • Erwerbsstrategien und Wissensproduktion von Objekten der kolonialen Kamerun-Sammlung des Landesmuseums Hannover
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald | joint project: Provenance Research in Non-European Collection and Ethnography in Lower Saxony - PAESE
    Led by: Bianca Baumann, M.A. (Historisches Seminar)
    Year: 2022
    Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
  • Grenzenlose Schwesternschaft? Die bundesdeutsche Nicaragua-Solidaritätsbewegung aus geschlechtergeschichtlicher Perspektive, 1977-1992
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Christine Hatzky, PD Dr. Hinnerk Onken, Universität Münster
    Led by: Friederike Apelt, M.A. (Historisches Seminar)
    Year: 2022
    Funding: DFG-Sachmittelbeihilfe
  • African and South Asian Diaspora Cultures in Contemporary Britain
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch
    Year: 2022
  • Transatlantic Victorian Studies: Theory and Method
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch
    Year: 2022
  • Manuel de linguistique populaire
    Publication project: Handbook. Publication planned for June 2024. Publisher: De Gruyter This handbook discusses the concept of folk linguistics from a range of perspectives (i.e. historical). It also takes into account methodological questions, the collection of data, the relationship between folk linguistics and translation studies, lexicography, language teaching, and onomastics. Finally, it presents research findings that concern folk linguistics in the Romance-speaking areas.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Lidia Becker, Dr. Sandra Herling, Dr. Holger Wochele
    Year: 2022
  • Inclusive Citizenship
    The research centre Inclusive Citizenship is interested in the social constructions of citizenship and the processes of exclusion that accompany them. Based on the analysis of exclusion, interdisciplinary questions are asked about existing or aspired practices of inclusion.
    Led by: Bös, Mathias
    Year: 2020
    Duration: 2016-2020
  • Dissertation: Fachkräfte für die Entwicklung. Fortbildungskooperationen zwischen Ghana und den beiden deutschen Staaten, 1956-1976
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Birthe Kundrus (Universität Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Brigitte Reinwald (Secondary supervision)
    Led by: Jana Otto, M.A. (Historisches Seminar)
    Year: 2020
  • Territorio, Autonomía y Autodeterminación de las comunidades Mapuche. Una visión desde la palabra, la práctica y la legalidad
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gabbert
    Led by: Javier Lastra Bravo
    Year: 2020
  • Dissertation: Booming Solidarity. The Construction of Nicaragua’s Image by the West German Solidarity Movement and the FSLN (1979-1990)
    Published as: „Botschafter der Revolution: das transnationale Kommunikationsnetzwerk zwischen der Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional und der bundesdeutschen Nicaragua-Solidarität 1977-1990“ (Berlin, Boston: Oldenbourg/de Gruyter, 2018) | Supervision: Prof. Dr. Christine Hatzky, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Metzler (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
    Led by: Dr. Christian Helm (Historisches Seminar)
    Year: 2020
  • Hollywood Memories: Cinematic Remaking and the Construction of Global Movie Generations
    Remaking is a long-standing Hollywood practice: an industrially motivated creative process that generates remakes, sequels, etc. over decades. At the intersection of American Studies, Memory Studies, Film Studies, Generational Theory and Global Studies, the project explores the long-term cultural impact of such films and assumes that they shape memories, lived experiences and generational identities of spectators in a globalised world. It is about how popular culture, media and memory construct generationality.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Kathleen Loock, Stefan Dierkes, M.A., Alejandra Bulla Buritica, M.A.
    Team: Alissa Lienhard, Lida Shams-Mostofi, Brunella Tedesco-Barlocco
    Year: 2020
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 2020-2026
  • Multiplication: Modernity, Mass Culture, Gender in the United States 1910-1933
    This project explores US-American mass culture of the early 20th century with a close attention to their trans-Atlantic circulation and repercussions. It responds to the fact that the big dance revues of the 1910s and 20s gained emblematic significance for industrial modernity at large.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Mayer
    Year: 2020
    Duration: 2020-2023
  • Tendencias actuales de simplificación lingüística en la América Latina entre la demanda de democratización y la creciente desigualdad
    CALAS-Fellowship
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Lidia Becker
    Year: 2020
    Duration: Dezember 2020 - April 2021
  • Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Studying Postcolonial Readers in the Internet Era
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch)
    Led by: Hannah Pardey
    Year: 2019
  • PAESE - Provenance Research in Non-European Collection and Ethnography in Lower Saxony
    The PAESE joint research project is based on close cooperation between the universities of Hanover, Göttingen and Oldenburg and various museums in Lower Saxony (Hanover, Hildesheim, Göttingen, Braunschweig & Oldenburg). By jointly researching the non-European ethnological collections there with researchers and museum representatives from the different regions of origin (Namibia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Central Australia & Papua New Guinea), the project systematically contributes to the international transfer of knowledge between universities and museums.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Reinwald
    Year: 2018
    Duration: 2018-2022
  • Dissertation: „Indigene Autonomie in Lateinamerika: Zur Verstaatlichung indigener Selbstverwaltung in Bolivien“
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gabbert
    Led by: Dr. des. Michael Fackler (Institut für Soziologie)
    Year: 2018
  • Zerbrochene Ketten und zerbrochene Träume: Christliche Mission und die Transformation der Unfreiheit in Suriname, 1863-1900
    Supervision: Prof. Dr. Christine Hatzky, PD Dr. Ulrike Schmieder
    Led by: Wolf Behnsen, M.A., Historisches Seminar
    Year: 2018
    Funding: Graduiertenakademie der LUH - Reisemittel
  • Dezernat 4 der LUH: Transatlantische Theoriegeschichte, Förderung: Wege in die Forschung II
    Led by: Dr. Mark Minnes
    Year: 2018
    Duration: 2018 - 2019
  • Contingency & Contraction: Modernity, Temporality in the United States 1880-1920
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Mayer
    Year: 2018
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 2018-2021
  • Cultural Heritage als Ressource? (CHER)
    Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, joint project
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Mathias Bös, PD Dr. Nina Clara Tiesler
    Year: 2016
  • Sprachnationalistische Bewegungen in der Romania
    Publication project
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Lidia Becker
    Year: 2016
  • Congress Reshaping (g)local Dynamics in the Caribbean. Relaciones y Desconexiones – Relations et Déconnections – Relations and Disconnections
    Who creates visions of the Caribbean and how are they produced? Who is trying to explore how the circulation and non-circulation of knowledge and culture has historically occurred in and about the Caribbean? These were some of the central questions of the conference. The international conference contributed to the understanding of the Caribbean by focusing on transatlantic and transoceanic circulations of knowledge. Its interdisciplinary approach created a space for dialogue and discussion about how the humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences can discuss these dynamics and how a critical, transcultural, and decolonial history of science can emerge.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Anja Bandau
    Team: Natascha Ueckmann und Anne Brüske
    Year: 2015
    Funding: VWStiftung
  • Aushandlung von Belonging und Citizenship unter Berücksichtigung sozialer Kategorisierungen
    BMBF, research grant
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gabbert
    Year: 2014
    Duration: 2014-2016
  • Dissertation: Breaking the Silence: South African Representations of HIV/AIDS
    Published as: „Breaking the silence: South African representations of HIV/AIDS“ (London, Currey 2013) | Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch
    Led by: Dr. Ellen Grünkemeier (Englisches Seminar)
    Year: 2013
  • Serializing Mass Culture: Popular Film Serials and Serial Structures in the United States 1910-1940
    This subproject of the research project "Popular Seriality - Aesthetics and Practice" explores the historical foundations of popular seriality. It aims at reassessing the filmic material from the vantage point of seriality studies and, additionally, investigating this material's implications for a newly accentuated history of twentieth-century American mass culture.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ruth Mayer & Ilka Brasch
    Year: 2013
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 2013 - 2016
  • Handlungsstrategien ehemaliger Sklaven und Sklavinnen in Kuba und Martinique nach der Abschaffung der Sklaverei
    This project aims to examine the period after the abolition of slavery on the Caribbean islands of Cuba (1886) and Martinique (1848) with regard to the transition from slave labour to other forms of labour (forced labour, free wage labour, share cropping), the transformations of gender relations with regard to new divisions of labour, new forms of couple and family relationships, intra- and inter-ethnic conflicts as well as the political and cultural resistance of the former slaves against new bondage and racial discrimination as well as cultural paternalism by state and church authorities. | Sub-project of the joint project: "After Slavery - The Caribbean and Africa in Comparison
    Led by: PD Dr. Ulrike Schmieder
    Year: 2010
    Funding: DFG
    Duration: 2010-2014
  • Global Interdependence? Newness and Tradition in the 21st Century
    International Conference
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gabbert
    Year: 2005
    Funding: DFG