Christiane Brosius

Biography

Position HCTS Professor of Visual and Media Anthropology Karl Jaspers Centre for Transcultural Studies Speaker, Research Area B "Public Spheres", Cluster "Asia and Europe" since 10/2016-Member of the DAAD-funded research collaborative on "New Directions in 'Active Ageing' and 'Age-Friendly Culture' in India and Germany", with JNU, Delhi 04/2016-2017-invited as Fellow of the Marsilius-Kolleg at Heidelberg University, on the topic of „Beyond North and South, comparative urban research in the context of natural and social resource conflicts“ (South Asia), with Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gerhard, Institute of Geography and Prof. Katja Patzel-Mattern, Historisches Seminar Since 2016 successful nomination of Prof. Dr. Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) for the Humboldt Foundation's Anneliese Maier-Research Award (2016-21), in collaboration with Profs. Monica Juneja and Barbara Mittler. Launch of the initiative "Manly Matters, Representations of Maleness in South Asian Visual Poular Culture

Research Interest

Visual and Media Anthropology