Fantastic news: Our lecturer Prof. Dr. Roger Horn from the Master's program Visual and Media Anthropology was awarded "Best Experimental Film" at the International Film Festival Cologne.
Last week, the first on-campus workshop in our program M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology took place in one of the newly established hybrid rooms. Lecturer Mark Dölling gave the students an introduction to the practical work with the camera.
With the global pandemic and related measures such as border closures, lockdowns and social distancing, anthropology and many aspects of life have moved into the world of the digital. In a new online journal, students and researchers of the study program M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology have devoted themselves to a wide variety of aspects of this digital transformation of anthropology and focused on phenomena of the digitized world from an anthropological perspective.
How can migration be perceived from a new perspective? In Prof. Nora Bibel's online seminar "Documentary Photography" of the M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology program, photographer Michael Danner gave the students exclusive insights into his project "Migration as Avant-Garde" and the concept for the current exhibition at C/O Berlin.
In October a new professor was appointed to the Department of Psychology at the Media University Berlin. Also in the Humanities department the university welcomes a new professor as of November 1.
Berlin insiders have known it for a long time: Wedding is the place to be. Now it's official: The famous magazine Time Out has nominated the district around Osloer Straße, Gesundbrunnen and Leopoldplatz as one of the 40 coolest neighborhoods in the world.
The start of a new, initially hybrid semester: The matriculation ceremony for the winter semester 2020/21 took place recently at the three branches Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt (Main) on site and online via livestream. The university management welcomed the prospective new students and gave a preview of the new semester, most of which will probably take place online.
With immediate effect Media University joins the university network of the French group AD Education. ADE is an association of French, Italian and Spanish universities with a total of more than 15,000 students.
Media activism has been a burning issue at least since the recent protests of the "Black Lives Matter" movement. This semester, Dr. Philipp Budka is leading the seminar "Media Activism" in the course of studies M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology and he immediately picked up the current developments there. We talked to him about his approach to the topic, the emergence of media activism and upcoming student projects.