Dr. Holger Pötzsch

Biography

"Holger Pötzsch was born in Munich, Germany. He lives in Tromsø, Norway. Pötzsch (PhD) is Associate Professor in Media and Documentation Studies at the Department of Language and Culture at UiT Tromsø. He holds a PhD in Media and Documentation Studies and an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies. Pötzsch's field of research includes audio-visual war culture (in particular the war film and war games), materialist approaches to digital technologies, cultural memory studies, and critical border studies. In zijn dissertatie was hij gefocust op de productieve en disruptieve mogelijkheden van gedeelde locaties en grensoverschrijdende karakters in oorlogfilms (2007-2011). Pötzsch has been involved as a researcher in the Border Aesthetics project funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2010-12) and in the FP7 project EUBORDERSCAPES funded by the European Commission (2012-16). He has founded the ENCODE research network and currently leads the development of the international research project WARGAME at UiT Tromsø."

Research Interest

War and Conflict, Borders and Processes of Bordering, Audio-Visual Media, Film and Film Theory, Computer Games, New Media, Popular Culture, Social & Cultural Memory, Discourse Theory, Post-Foundational Theory, Liminality, Security and Securitization