This page gives an overview of my talks in the years 2010-2021.
November 2021
The Indian Highway Exhibition – geoaesthetic mapping vs. transculturality edk das Ende der Kunstgeschichte_trans_positionen
July 2021
Migratory art in the ‘European Memory Wonderland at the panel “(Trans)national Memory Wonderlands – Europe” at the Memory Studies Association Annual Conference “Convergences”.
April 2021
Resisting and Commemorating from a Distance? Digital Transformation of Migratory Citizenship in Times of the Pandemic. Presentation as part of the panel “Mobile Belongings: Digital Everyday Life and the Question(s) of Citizenship” at the conference “Migrant Belongings. Digital Practices and the Everyday”
May 2020
Lecture, Seminar “Exploring the Intersections between Transcultural, (Post-)migrant and Feminist Perspectives on Contemporary Art” with Marsha Meskimmon and Monica Juneja, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
March 2020
“Along the Indian Highway. An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition“, Institutskolloquium am Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Universität Bern. [Colloquium at the Institute for Social Anthropology at Bern University.]
January 2020
‚Nicht ohne Widerstand‘ – Gegenwartskunst und ‚Othering‘. Die Künstlerin Parastou Forouhar im Gespräch mit der Ethnologin Cathrine Bublatzky. Vorlesungsreihe „Konstruktionen des Othering“. TU Darmstadt.
October 2019
“Forging New Directions through Bridge-Building: (Post-)Migration and Transcultural Studies. A Conversation with Anne Ring Petersen”. Conference: New Directions in Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, 31.10.2019.
Discussant for the panel “Ethics and Digital Media in Highly Contested Anthropological Fields” (S. Pfeifer, Mainz/Lene Faust, Bern). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kultur-Anthropologie (DGSKA) Konferenz, “Das Ende der Aushandlungen?”, Universität Konstanz, 29.9 – 2.10.2019. [German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology Conference, “The End of Negotiations?” at Konstanz University.]
July 2019
“Aesthetics and Performativity. The Arts and Border Zones”. Student Conference South Asian Studies 2019: Rethinking Borders: “Step(ping) Across the Line” Thoughts are Universal; Beyond Flags and Borders and Passports. Heidelberg Universität.
„Transkulturalität”. Workshop: Das Richtige im Falschen. Ethische Grund- und Grenzlagen Schulischer Bildung, 05.07.2019, Heidelberg School of Education, Universität Heidelberg. [“Transculturality”. Workshop: The Right in the Wrong. Ethical Essentials and Marginalities of School Education.]
May 2019
“Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Agents. Insights into an Interdisciplinary Field of Research”. Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst (DAAD), StipendiatInnen-Treffen, Heidelberg Universität. [German Academic Exchange Service, Fellow Gathering.]
“Photo-Documentation and Post-Truth?! The Role of Press Photo Awards and transnational Politics of Representation in Iranian Photo-Documentation”. Kolloquium am Institut für Anthropology und Afrika Studien, Mainz Universität.
“Not without Dissent. A Transcultural Snapshot of Diasporic Aesthetics and Politics of the Hijab in Art Photography, the Museum Space and Public Campaigns.” Keynote at the Transcultural Studies Student Conference 2019 “Voices of Dissent: Transculturality and Activism”. HCTS, Heidelberg Universität.
April 2019
“Aesthetics of an Iranian Diaspora. The Artist Parastou Forouhar.”
September 2018
“Contested Photographic Regimes. A Controversy in the Field of Iranian Photo-Journalistic Documentation and Its Becoming Global.” Conference Images in the Post-Truth Era. Birkbeck College/University of London. London.
„Bilder anders sehen – Wirksamkeit und Unwirksamkeit von Bildpraktiken in der Medienkommunikation”. Jahrestagung des Bundesverbandes für Hochschulkommunikation e.V., 12.-14. September, Heidelberg. [“Seeing Images Differently – Efficiacy and Inefficiacy of Image Practices in Media Communications”. Annual Conference of the Federal Association for Academic Communication.]
June 2018
“Nowhere by here. Deconstructing the traces of conflict and war with artist Baptist Coelho’s works. A conversation between Baptist Coelho (Mumbai) and Cathrine Bublatzky (Heidelberg.) Conference Art, Materiality and Representation. Royal Anthropological Institute, London.
April 2018
“Entangled: Contemporary Iranian Photography as socio-political practice in migratory contexts.” Colloquium at Anthropology Department, Basel University.
October 2017
“Parastou Forouhar: Geschichten der Gegensätze“, Tagung: Iranische Kunst gestern, heute und morgen. Künstlerische Produktion im Iran und in der Diaspora, 20.- 21. Oktober 2017, Kunsthalle Tübingen.
“Entangled: Contemporary Iranian photography in migration context”, Encounters: Handling, Placing and Looking at Photographs in Relation to Migration, Art History Institute – Max-Planck-Institute Florence, Italy, October 12-13, 2017.
July 2017
“Looking both ways’: Kunst der politischen Teilhabe am Beispiel der Künstlerin Parastou Forouhar aus dem Iran”, Symposium Looking Both Ways. Bildpolitiken zeitgenössischer Künstlerinnen aus dem Nahen Osten und in der Diaspora, Marta Herford.
“Fiction in documentary photography and its ‘making of Iran’. Insights into a controversy about a misleading photo-journalistic documentation” International Symposium: Imaging a ‘Middle East’, 6-7 July 2017, ICI Berlin.
June 2017
“Iran: Generation Post-Revolution – a photo-essay”. A performative paper in collaboration with Kaveh Rostamkhani. Conference: Out of Space? Erratic, Ephemeral & Emerging Cultural Practices in illegal, illegitimate or Intangible Locations. A Cooperation between the Centre for Transcultural Studies (Heidelberg) with the Sound Studies Lab (Copenhagen).
May 2017
“Another Country. Art and Archivism.” Engaging Refugee Narratives: Perspectives from Academia and the Arts III. Anthropology Department, University College London.
May 2016
“Digital Research Platforms in Visual and Media Anthropology”. Digital Humanities Workshop, 13.-14. Mai, 2016, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada).
December 2015
„Ethnografische Einblicke in indische Gegenwartskunst“. Kunstpause der ARTGenossen Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim.
August 2015
“Socio-Political Role of Contemporary Art in India and Beyond”. Colloquium Series der CSSS, Jawaharlal Nehru Universität, Delhi.
July 2014
“What Can be Seen, be Read and be Listened to? Ethnographic Writing on Digital Platforms”. Symposium New Methods in Media Anthropology Arbeitsgruppe ‚Media Anthropology’ (DGV) 10.-11. Juli 2014, Universität Siegen.
February 2014
“Ethnography on Contemporary Art in South Asia”. Kolloquium Ethnologie-Institut, Universität Basel.
October 2013
“Student Photo-Essays in Atomic Wiki.” Digital Humanities Cafe (Heidelberg Research Architecture), Jahrestagung 2013, Exzellenzcluster Asien und Europa im Globalen Kontext, Heidelberg Universität.
May 2012
„Ist Kunst ein Kulturvermittler? Indische Kunst auf globaler Überhohlspur”. Die Akademische Mittagspause “SAI dabei! In 50 Fragen durch Südasien”, 50 Jahrfeier des Südasieninstitutes, Heidelberg Universität.
October 2010
“The display of Indian contemporary art in Western museums and the question of ‚Othering’”. Jahrestagung 2010 The Flow of Concepts and Institutions 6.-8. Oktober 2010, Exzellenzcluster Asien und Europa im Globalen Kontext, Universität Heidelberg.
June 2010
“Indian Highway: Transculturality of Indian Contemporary Art”. HEART Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 3. Juni 2010, Herning (Dänemark).
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