Representation, Narrations

This study group brings together PhD researchers and senior scholars from a range of disciplines, including history, political science, linguistics, and cultural studies. Research projects of study group members address different forms of representations based on discourses, knowledge, and practices. We are interested in highlighting the underlying dynamics of knowledge production and relate them to locally bound social practices. This is an eminent task for Area Studies, which tap into local knowledge and serve as translators between different knowledge spaces. An important aspect concerns the representation of knowledge in relation to principles of categorization. Through joint readings, the discussion of the applicability of various approaches in different disciplines, and the presentation of individual dissertation chapters, the study group aims at enhancing interdisciplinary exchange. Our study group is based on the assumption that learning about different approaches to investigate the same phenomenon creates new ideas for any project. 

Group Leaders:

• Prof. Dr. Guido Hausmann
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Koller

Members and Projects

• Bárbara Aranda, M.A.

• Andi Balla, M.Sc.

• Magdalena Daller, M.A.
  Essen und nationale Identität in kulinarischen Stadtlandschaften. Reisen von St. Petersburg über Odessa nach Tbilissi im 19. Jahrhundert

• Lena-Marie Franke, M.A.
  Early Narratives of the Shoah in Czech Literature
• Merrit Fedzin, M.A.
• Nikola Gajić, M.A.
  “I Solemnly Declare that I will Speak the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing by the Truth”: Afterlife of the ICTY Victims’ Testimonies
• Rina Geci, M.A.
  Contemporary Medical Pluralism in Kosovo: Practices, Markets, Politics
• Anni-Lotta Hamer, M.A.
• Maximilian Hartl, M.A.
• Fatos Hoxha, M.A.
  A Transformation from below. Understanding Workers’ Lives in the Trepca Industrial Complex during 1960-1980.
• Teona Ivashchenko, M.A.
• Elisa Mucciarelli, M.A.
  The Space of Abkhazia in Transnational Literature and Visual Media after 2008
• Oleksandr Nadtoka, M.A.
  Historical Forensics and Historians as Expert Witnesses at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia 
• Yulia Pyankova, M.A.
  The Symbol is Born: Commemoration of Contemporary Russian Assassinations
• Olga Trufanova, M.A.
  Absorbing the Asian Frontier: Food and Food-Related Knowledge in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Siberia
• Renjie Xiong, M.A.