University of Heidelberg

Contact information

Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2/ 4400
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

Email:

kern@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Curriculum vitae

 

Education

2009 - 2012: Heidelberg University, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries of Cultural Flows”, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Member of the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies

2008 - 2009: Heidelberg University, Advanced Research Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary History

since 2008: Heidelberg University, Institute of Contemporary History, PhD candidate, current working title of thesis: “'Framing the Nation' - Museums and Memory Politics in Contemporary Turkey”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Edgar Wolfrum (Heidelberg)

2006 - 2007: Innsbruck University, Austria, Student Assistant for the workgroup “Science and Responsibility” (“Wissenschaft und Verantwortlichkeit”),

2003 - 2004: Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy, visiting student (ERASMUS)

2003 - 2008: Innsbruck University, Ancient History

2002: Innsbruck University, Student Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary History

2000 - 2005: Innsbruck University, History/ Media Studies

 

Teaching Experience

2009: Heidelberg University, Historisches Seminar, Übung “Die Türkei im 20. Jahrhundert”

 

Conferences

Fall 2007: Co-Organisation of the Obergurgl Governance Symposium “Governance: Multi-Level or Post-Democratic?”, Innsbruck University, Obergurgl Centre, 18-20 October, 2007

 

Scholarships and Grants

2011: Turkish government grant, Ankara, Turkey (July-August)

2009 - 2012: PhD scholarship by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries of Cultural Flows”, Heidelberg University, Germany

2008: Graduate grant for field research by the Graduate Academy, Heidelberg University (September)

2003 and 2007: Scholarship for the promotion of highly-talented students in the study of history by the Richard- and Emmy Bahr-Foundation, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

2003: Merit scholarship, Innsbruck University, Austria

 

Conference and Workshop Papers

2011: ‘Neo-Ottomanism and museum space: Two case studies from Istanbul’, conference: Well-Connected Domains, 10-12 November 2011, Karl Jaspers Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

2011: ‘Framing the military-nation: War museums and their changing representational practices in contemporary Turkey’, conference: Gehört der Krieg ins Museum/ Does War Belong in Museums?, 21-23 September 2011, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

2011: ‘Museums and the politics of memory: The Ataturk and Independence War Museum in Ankara’, conference: Media History and Cultural Memory (XXIV International Conference on History and Media), 6-9 July 2011, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2011: ‘“… why the ambiguous ruins of Troy needed a modern horse”: The ‘new myth of Troy’, commodifications and transnational contestations of memory’, conference: International Conference on Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage, 25-29 May 2011, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

2010: ‘Global actors – national museum? The makers and the making of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art’, conference: Annual Conference of the Cluster 'Asia and Europe', 6-8 October 2010, Heidelberg University, Germany

2009: ‘Museen als geschichtspolitische Akteure: Das Atatürk und Befreiungskriegsmuseum in Ankara’, summer school: Erinnerungskulturen in transnationaler und transkultureller Perspektive, 28 September-1 October 2009, Research Academy, Leipzig, Germany

 

Selected publications

 

Articles:

• Framing the military-nation: new war museums and changing representational practices in Turkey since 2002, in: Wolfgang Muchitsch (ed.), Does War Belong in Museums? The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions, Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2012. [Edition der Museumsakademie Joanneum; 4] (forthcoming)

• Discourses and performative design of sites of memory: The Atatürk and Independence War Museum in Ankara, in: Erinnerungskulturen in transnationaler Perspektive, Leipzig 2012 [Transnationalisierung und Regionalisierung vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart; 5] (forthcoming)

• Die italienische EU-Ratspräsidentschaft 2003, in: Michael Gehler/ Maddalena Guiotto (eds.), Italien, Österreich und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ein Dreiecksverhältnis in seinen wechselseitigen Beziehungen und Wahrnehmungen von 1945/49 bis zur Gegenwart, Wien: Böhlau, 2012. [Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration. Historische Forschungen. Veröffentlichungen; 8] 545-562.

• “…den Zeitpunkt der Explosion genau einstellen…”. Georg Elser und das Attentat auf Hitler vom 8. November 1939, in: Michael Gehler/ René Ortner (eds.), Von Sarajewo zum 11. September. Einzelattentate und Massenterrorismus, Innsbruck-Wien (et al.): Studienverlag, 2007, 63-78.

Encyclopedia Articles:

• “Schneller (Schnöller), Julius Franz Borgias”, “Rollett, Hermann”, and “Tausenau, Karl.” In: Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der demokratischen und liberalen Bewegungen in Mitteleuropa, ed. Helmut Reinalter. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2011.