Popular Culture
Dr. Tobias Becker
Associate Professor for History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
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Phone (Home)
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Areas of Expertise
- Contemporary History
- Cultural history
- Urban history (especially Berlin)
- History of popular culture (19th and 20th century)
- History of Great Britain
- Nostalgia
- Public History
Prof. Dr. Elena Giannoulis
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Japanese Studies
Culture and literature
Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Modern and contemporary Japanese culture
- Popular culture and literature
- Affects and emotions
- Weakness/ unlinking the literature market in Japan/Japanese literature on the German market
- Emotional robots in Japan/emotional machines
- Emoji, emoticons, kaomoji Anime and Manga
- Japanese testimonies
- Theory and practice of translation/AI and translation
Dr. Hanno Hochmuth
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam
Friedrich-Meineke-Institut:
Koserstraße 20, 14495 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- History of Berlin
- Public history
- Babylon Berlin (television series)
- History in film and television
- Gentrification
- History of the GDR
Dr. Frank Kelleter
Professor of North American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Culture
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Popular culture and media history, especially serial forms
- North American colonial history / revolutionary period and early republic
- (American) Enlightenment studies
Dr. Cordula Lemke
Professor of English Language and Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- English literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries
- European colonialism (especially Scotland)
- Gender studies
- Vampires in literature and film
Dr. Carola Richter
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
International Communication
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Arab media (al-Jazeera, Egypt, Libya)
- Protest movements in the Arab world, Islamists
- Foreign reporting, War reporting
- Image of Islam
- Media and the Middle East conflict
- Media and migration / refugees
Jürgen Schaflechner
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews can be given in German, English, Urdu/Hindi
Areas of Expertise
- Pakistan
- Populism / religious populism
- Politics of resentment
- Religious minorities in Pakistan
- Blasphemy / blasphemy laws
- Forced conversions to Islam
- Popular culture in Pakistan
- Antisemitism in Pakistan
- Islam
- Hinduism
- Ethnology of religion
- Ritual journeys
Dr. Susanne Scharnowski
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Cultural Studies Program for International Exchange Students
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Debates about the concept of “Heimat”
- German regional literature and films
- “Heimat” and propaganda
- “Heimat” and criticism of progress
- “Heimat” vs. environment
- “Heimat” as a European phenomenon
- International student exchange (international students in the German school system)
Dr. Anita Traninger
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Rhetoric (history, theory, practice)
- University History
- Media History and New Media
- Gender Studies
- Global Literature
- Spanish Literature
- French Literature
Dr. Joachim Trebbe
Professor of Media Analysis
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Division of Media Analysis / Research Methods
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- The use of media and its effects (campaigns, advertising, change of attitude)
- Media content (television, Internet, press): program structures, media mechanisms, news selection, celebrity reporting
- Media, political communication, election campaigns, scandals
- The media and migration (the use of media by immigrants; representation of immigrants in the media)
- Religion in the media
Dr. Harald Wenzel
Professor of Sociology
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Sociology
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- (Mass) media in the U.S.
- Sociology of the public
- Religion in the U.S.
- Sociology of disasters and disaster reporting