Research Projects
Own Projects
Current Projects
- Project Biographies – Affective Archive
Duration
2023 – 2027
Funding
Subproject Ö within the CRC 1171 Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Co-existence in Mobile Worlds, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Project coordination
Prof. Dr. Anita von Poser in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch and Prof. Dr. Margreth Lünenborg (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Mobilizing Carescapes: Affective Dynamics of Multiple Crises in Psychosocial Healthcare
Duration
2023 – 2027
Funding
Subproject D03 within the CRC 1171 Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Co-existence in Mobile Worlds, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Project coordination
Prof. Dr. Anita von Poser in collaboration with PD Dr. med. Thi Minh Tam Ta and PD Dr. med. Eric Hahn (Charité – Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Benjamin Franklin).
- Affects and Institutionalization Processes in Vietnamese Carescapes in Berlin
Duration
2019 – 2023
Funding
Subproject A02 within the CRC 1171 Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Co-existence in Mobile Worlds, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Project coordination
Prof. Dr. Anita von Poser in collaboration with PD Dr. med. Thi Minh Tam Ta and PD Dr. med. Eric Hahn (Charité – Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Benjamin Franklin).
Completed Projects
- Affective Struggles of Migration: Southern and Northern Vietnamese Life Worlds in Divided and Reunified Berlin
Duration
2015 – 2019
Funding
Subproject A02 within the CRC 1171 Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Co-existence in Mobile Worlds, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Project coordination
Prof. Dr. Anita von Poser in collaboration with PD Dr. med. Thi Minh Tam Ta and PD Dr. med. Eric Hahn (Charité – Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Benjamin Franklin)
- Aging in Papua New Guinea
Duration
2010 – 2011
Funding
Postdoctoral fellowship of the Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale
- Foodways and Empathy: Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea
Duration
2004-2009
Funding
Doctoral scholarship by the Volkswagen-Foundation as part of the research project Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific
Research and teaching fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Doctoral scholarship by the Marsilius-Kolleg of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg.
Supervised Projects
Current Dissertation Projects
(First supervisor)
Norbert Pötzsch: Umweltveränderungen und Wirkvermögen: Interaktionen zwischen Personen, materiellen Entitäten und Energien im Pazifikstaat Tonga.
Seblewongal Asefa Tesema: Sociopolitical Function of Ethiaopian Art: Examining Activism, Resistance, and Social Change.
Rosa Dümlein: Die Zukunftsgärten von Luganville? Auseinandersetzung mit neuen Anbaudynamiken als Aushandlung von Multispeziesbeziehungen im peri-urbanen Vanuatu.
Shadman Ardalanrad: Unsatisfied Desires, Unquiet Anxieties: Perceptions of the ‘Desired’ and the ‘Achieved’ among Iranian Immigrants in Germany
Max Müller: Fighting for a Place to Care – Elderly Vietnamese Buddhists and the Affective Dimension of Dying in the Diaspora
Janne von Seggern: Education towards More Sust'āinability – Engaged Ethnography in Germany and Hawai’i
(Second supervisor)
Cecilia Luci: Urban-Rural Migration and Rural Revitalization in Japan
Lynn Lin-Yu Ng: Precarity and Hope: Migration Motivations and Risks in post-Disaster Fukushima
Franziska Seise: Diversität (er-)leben und Integration (mit-)gestalten/Experiencing Diversity and Shaping Integration
Mira Krebs: Menschsein in Soteria: Die anderen Be-/Deutungen von Schizophrenie/ Being Human in Soteria: Alternative Interpretations of Schizophrenia.
Completed Dissertation Projects
(First supervisor)
Alexandra Bauer: „Das mal zuzulassen, dass man das alles fühlen darf…“ - Zum Ringen mit multi-rassifizierten Affekten im Leben von Frauen der koreanischen Nachfolgegenerationen in Deutschland /“Das mal zuzulassen, dass man das alles fühlen darf…” – On Grappling with Multi-Racialized Affects in the Lives of Women of Korean Descendant Generations in Germany.
Edda Willamowski: Zerrissene Zugehörigkeiten. Schweigen und affektives Erinnern im Leben älter werdender vietnamesischer Geflüchteter in Berlin / Torn Belongings: Silence and Affective remembering in the Lives of Aging Vietnamese Refugees in Berlin
(Second Supervisor)
Friederike Eichner: A Social Ecology of a Shelter for Underaged Refugees
Anh Thu Anne Lam: "Und irgendwann wurden wir immer weniger streng": Parenting-Praktiken und Vorstellungen ehemaliger vietnamesischer Kontraktarbeitender in Berlin – Eine biographische Interviewstudie/Parenting Practices and Perspectives of Former Vietnamese Contract Workers in Berlin – A Biographical Interview Study.
(Supervision as Outside Committee Member)
Anjana Bala: Stolen Bodies: Madness and Materiality in South India (UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco)