Shake Those Methods!

Alesya Krit is an anthropologist and a post-doc fellow at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in Giessen, Germany. Her background involves research projects relating to material culture, architecture, and migration (particularly lifestyle migration) at multiple universities, including Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), University College London (UK), Stanford University (USA) and Senshu University (Japan). Her current teaching and research focuses on the topics of methodological pluralism, and she is writing a book on the ‘Cultural Meanings of Energy.’

Katja Wehde studied English, German and Education at the University of Dresden as well as Cultural Studies during a DAAD-funded stay at the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad, India. After her B.A., she completed a Master’s degree in Transcultural Studies at the University of Heidelberg. In 2014, Katja Wehde has been awarded a doctoral scholarship from the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in Giessen, Germany, where she is currently working on her doctoral project entitled “Translating Transcultural Objects: Narratives of Otherness in Educational Measures of Ethnographic Museums in Germany and Great Britain.”

As artist, curator, and scholar, Raul Gschrey investigates socially and politically relevant topics in a multifaceted way. In recent years, he has examined the phenomenon of visual surveillance and explored artistic subversions. He is co-curator of the Frankfurt video gallery “con[SPACE],” which focuses on urban space. His long-term exhibition and publication project “grenzlinien”/“borderlines” deals with irregular migration in a European context. He teaches at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in the Master program “Performative Künste in Sozialen Feldern”/“Performative Arts in Social Fields” and is working on his PhD thesis at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and Internationales Promotionsprogramm (IPP) in Giessen, Germany.

Ronja Trischler is a PhD student at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in Giessen, Germany. Beforehand, she engaged in the study of culture in interdisciplinary programmes at Goldsmiths College, London (UK) and University of Leipzig (Germany) which combined Cultural Sociology, History, Philosophy and Management. Her academic interests include media and technology, material and visual culture, as well as reconstructive methods of social research. Her PhD project deals with contemporary collaborative work practices in digital visual postproduction for cinema and television.