University of Heidelberg

With a background in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Art History and Art Education (Frankfurt/Oder, Oxford and SOAS/London) Christiane Brosius’ work is strongly related to Media and Visual Cultures in South Asia. For her book Empowering Visions, A Study on Videos and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism in India (London: Anthem Press 2005), Brosius explored the iconography, rhetoric and production context of video propaganda of the Hindu Right from the late 1980s to 1990s. Her post-doctoral project took her to the South Pacific where she explored silent films made by missionaries, explorers and travellers. Her latest book entitled India's Middle Class. New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity (2010 Routledge New Delhi), includes case studies about real estate advertising and urbanisation, religious leisure parks, heritage tourism, themed weddings, lifestyle specialists and magazines. Additionally, her research interests are Urban Anthropology, Diaspora Studies and Ritual Studies. Christiane Brosius heads a research project entitled "Agency and territorial Rituals in India" at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Ritual Dynamics’, Heidelberg (www.ritualdynamik.de). She is co-founder of Tasveer Ghar/House of Pictures: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture (www.tasveerghar.net) which is now, in the context of the Cluster initiative, being expanded towards other Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Brosius currently prepares a monograph on Romantic love, media and urban youth cultures in India and Nepal and conducts research on contemporary art, public space and transculturation in India. [read more]

E-Mail: brosius@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de  
Phone: +49 (0) 6221-54 4343
Fax: +49 (0) 6221-54 4490
Office: KJC, room 107

Please note:
Prof. Brosius is away for research and conferences between March 2nd - April 10th, 2012. For the next office hour on April 18th, 9:00 - 11:00 AM, please contact Mrs. Berger-Göken. 

Brigitte Berger-Göken studied Political Science at the Otto-Suhr-Institut (Freie Universität Berlin). After studying and teaching in Milan (Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori) for several years she worked as an officially appointed and sworn interpreter and translator for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as administrative assistant to the Secretary of the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin and later to the President of the Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut) in Greifswald-Insel Riems. Presently she is administrative assistant to the Cluster Professorships "Global Art History" and "Visual and Media Anthropology".  

Phone: + 49 (0) 6221-54 4097
Fax: + 49-(0)6221-54 4490    
E-Mail: berger-goeken@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
Office: KJC, room 110
Office hours: Monday to Friday, 10 to 1 pm and 2 to 4 pm (during March, the office is open until 3 pm) 
Please note: Mrs. Berger-Göken will be on holidays from April the 2nd to April the 9th, 2012. Therefore the office will be closed.

As a trained photographer Cathrine Bublatzky received 2008 her Magister's degree in Anthropology with focus on South- Asian Studies at the South-Asian Institute, Heidelberg University in 2008. Since then she has been a member of the Cluster ‘Asia and Europe in a global Context. Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows’ (University of Heidelberg Heidelberg http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/) and is currently working as the assistant (professor) to the chair of 'Visual and Media Anthropology' at the Cluster. Since 2009 Cathrine also works  on her dissertation "Indian Contemporary Art in a Transnational Context – An Ethnography on Art with Focus on the Travelling Exhibition 'Indian Highway'" and has, until today, conducted several short fieldwork trips to London, Oslo, Herning and Delhi.

Email: bublatzky@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 (0) 6221-54 4330
Office: KJC, room 006
Office hours: Wednesdays 11:15 am to 12:00 pm (during lecture time: April - July/ October - February)

Please sign up for an appointment via e-mail to Mrs. Brigitte Berger-Göken (berger-goeken@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de).

Cathrine Bublatzky is conducting fieldwork from March 16th to April 13th, 2012. If possible, she will answer your e-mails.

Alexander Ebinger finished his M.A. in Educational Science and Cultural Anthropology. Since September 2009 he has been working at the Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology as a specialist for eLearning and Research Based Teaching. He supports our lecturers as educational assistent and is also the webmaster of our website. As a trained online tutor and eLearning manager Alexander Ebinger is one of our main contact persons and supervisors for our students. Besides his work at the chair, Alexander Ebinger is completing his MBA in Educational Management at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. 

Email: ebinger@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 (0) 6221-54 4330
Office: KJC, room 006
Office hours: by appointment

Laila Abu-Er-Rub finished her M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies and Media Studies. She started to work for the Chair for Visual and Media Anthroplogy in September 2009. Ever since she is working on her PhD thesis about the representation of Western women in Indian media. Besides that, she is teaching and the project manager of the Cluster project B4 "Transcultural Visuality Learning Group". Her main research interests are women's magazines, anthropology and advertising, images of feminity and masculinity as well as whiteness studies.

Email: abu-er-rub@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de  
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 54 3945 
Office: KJC, c/o Institut für Ethnologie, Sandgasse 7, room 018
Office hours: Monday, 3 to 4 pm (during lecture period)

Tina Schilbach joined the research group of “New Urban Imaginaries” (B11) as project coordinator in June 2010. Her research explores themes of social change, aspirational modernity and everyday life in urban China, and in particular in Shanghai, which she studies as a place where ideas and images of the world are reworked into the local imagination of the global city itself. She is currently finalising a PhD at the University of Sydney, where she examines the politics of class and cosmopolitanism in Shanghai. For her post-doc project she will be investigating changing forms and formats of white-collar work and the emergence of new career patterns among young people in Shanghai. She asks how modern middle-class work lives and work regimes are negotiated around a complex nexus of class entitlement, individualised life plans, and social responsibility in an increasingly cosmopolitan urban context. In this, she is particularly interested in the growing "normalisation" and localisation of middle class and its global reference points; the project enquires in what ways this process intersects with shifting discourses on the meaning of success in China and relates to new expectations about biographical paths, gender relations and individual attainment among young urban Chinese.

Email: schilbach@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
Office: KJC, c/o Institut für Ethnologie, Sandgasse 7, room 020 

Teresa Tanner has been a student assistant at the Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology since February 2010. She's in her last year of studying the combination Anthropology/Political Science South Asia and Public Law. In her first position she was involved in the research area of B4 Transcultural Visuality until August 2010. Since September she is assisting at the chair of Visual and Media Anthropology of Professor Christiane Brosius. Her major responsibilities are the preparation of course literature, book and film orders for our catalogues, investigations for our local library as well as basic administrative tasks. 

Email: tanner@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 (0) 6221-54 4330
Office: KJC, room 006