Curriculum Vitae
Education
2017 - PhD at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Emmy-Noether Group 'The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in South-east Asia'
Working Title: 'The Stories before Film: The Cinematic Practices of Komunitas Film in Indonesia'
2013 - 2016
MA Modern South- and South-east Asian Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
Thesis: 'Gender Roles and Feminine Sexuality in the Thai Teen TV Drama Hormones: the Series'
2008 - 2012
BA Asian Studies and Management, HTWG Konstanz, including one semester at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang
Thesis: 'Design Thinking in Development Cooperation'
Grants/Scholarships
2014 - 2015
Deutschlandstipendium: Karl Schlecht Foundation
2016
ENITS Scholarship: Chulalongkorn University Institute for Thai Studies
Fieldwork
2015
Research with the Women’s Health Advocacy Foundation (WHAF) on ‘Social Movements for Reproductive Rights in Thailand’
Presentations
13.09.2019
Film Talk: Last Night I Saw You Smiling (2019) by Kavich Neang, Cambodia, EuroSEAS Film Screenings, co-curated with Dr. Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo and Carmen Schmöl, 10th EuroSEAS, Humboldt University, Berlin.
13.09.2019
“A Case Study from Indonesian Film Communities: Conceptualizing Film Censorship as a Relational Socio-Technical Process”, in co-convened panel with Taufiq Hanafi (Leiden University, “Censorship of the Arts in Southeast Asia”, EuroSEAS 2019, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. (Panel co-convener).
11.09.2019
Roundtable contribution: ‘“Listen to Your Eyes”: Multimedia Story-Telling and the Future(s) of Academic Publishing`, Roundtable and Project Launch, EuroSEAS 2019, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
10.09.2019
Film Talk with filmmaker in attendance: Sakorn-Nawan (2018) by Puangsoi Aksornsawangm Thailand, EuroSEAS Film Screenings, co-curated with Dr. Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo and Carmen Schmöl, 10th EuroSEAS, Humboldt University, Berlin.
30.08.2019
“The Politics of Environmental Crisis Visualization in Indonesian Short Films”, in panel “Space and Environment”, The Indonesian Film Scholars Association (KAFEIN) Conference 2, Institute Seni Indonesia, Surakarta, Indonesia.
20.08.2019
Invited talk: “Approximations towards Komunitas Film” in panel “Film Community and Challenges of Community Activist in Digital Era”, Arkipel Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival Forum Festival, 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia.
24.06.-26.06.2019
“Stories about Humans in Uncanny Environments of Non-Human Nature: The Cinematic Constructions and Practices of Komunitas Film in Contemporary Indonesia”, 3rd Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference: The Environments of Asian Cinemas, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
16.-19.07.2019
'History-Altering through Film: The Cinematic Practices of Komunitas Film', in convened panel 'New Film History Approaches, Indonesian Cinema Style: New Film History, Film Communities, Film Festivals', The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Leiden, Netherlands. (Panel Convenor).
08.05. - 10.05.2019
Workshop participant “Listen to Your Eyes II’: Multimedia Web-Based Storytelling for Researchers”, KILTV, Leiden, Netherlands.
04.06.2019
'A Political Dance in the Rain: Cinematic Practices and the Creation of Social and Material Spaces for Argument', at The Transnational Radical Film Conference 2019, University of Nottingham, UK.
11.04.2019
Invited Lecture: “The Stories beyond Film”, Prof. Feng-Mei Heberer “Asian Media and Pop Culture”, Department of Cinema Studies, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, USA.
11.04.2019
Invited Lecture: “Youth, Gender and Sexuality in the Thai Teen TV Drama Hormones the Series”, Prof. Feng-Mei Heberer “TV History and Culture”, Department of Cinema Studies, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, USA.
04.04.2019
'Dancers in the Rain: The Cinematic Practices of Komunitas Film', (in workshop 'Bureaucratizing Diversity in Muslim Southeast Asia'), Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change (ILSP: LSC), Harvard Law School, Harvard University, USA.
27.03.2019
Invited Lecture: “Queer Film in Independent Film Communities”, Prof. Arnika Fuhrmann “Digital Asia”, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, USA.
27.03.2019
'The Stories before Film: Cinematic Practices of Komunitas Film in Indonesia', (in Group Presentation 'The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia'), Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, USA.
22.03.2019
Introduction and Q&A “LGBT Shorts from Southeast Asia”, Film Expo co-organized with Richard Fox Department of Pacific & Asian Studies, University of Victoria, at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2019 Annual Conference, Denver, USA.
8.-10.03.2019
“Dancers in the Rain: Komunitas Film Cinematic Practices”, The Cornell University Southeast Asia Program’s 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference: Conformities and Interruptions, Cornell University, USA.
31.01-01.02.2019
Workshop participation: “Governance and Processes of Bureaucratization” co-organized by Ursula Rao, University of Leipzig and DFG Emmy Noether Research Group ‘The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia’, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Leipzig University, Germany
17.11.2018
'There Is No Place for Us Here: Arguments about, against, for, and from within Queer Film in Contemporary Indonesia', (in panel 'Pop Culture as Argument: Contesting Religion, Gender, and Romance in Contemporary Indonesia'), American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, Denver, USA.
13.09.2018
'The Stories before Film: Cinematic Practices in Independent Film Communities and Engrained Mechanisms of Censorship', Fieldwork Break Workshop (Emmy Noether Project), Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
24.07.2018
'An Ethnography of the Dynamic Social Process of Film Censorship in Contemporary Indonesia', Association of Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference 2018, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
04.06.2018
'Budaya Sensor Mandiri: Film Censorship in Contemporary Indonesia', Workshop: Social Categorization and Religiously Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia, St Antony's College, Asian Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK.
30.05. – 01.06.2018
Workshop participant 'Listen to Your Eyes’: Multimedia Web-Based Storytelling for Researchers', University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
15.09.2017
‘Southeast Asia Meet-Up’, poster presentation at the University of Zurich.
07.09.2017
'Negotiating the Boundaries of 'Appropriate' Sexuality Through Film: A Quest into State-Based Bureaucratic Film Censorship in Indonesia and the Negative Space Making It', Workshop: Conceptualizing the Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Anthropological and Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
18.08.2017
'Negotiating the Boundaries of 'Appropriate' Sexuality Through Film: A Quest into State-Based Bureaucratic Film Censorship in Indonesia and the Negative Space Making It' (in panel: Bureaucratizing the Shari'a: Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia). Conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS), University of Oxford, UK.
15.08.2017
'Negotiating the Boundaries of 'Appropriate' Sexuality Through Film: A Quest into State-Based Bureaucratic Film Censorship in Indonesia and the Negative Space Making It' (in EuroSEAS PhD Masterclass). Conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS), University of Oxford, UK.
25.07.2017
'Embodied Debates Over Modernity: A Quest Into State Based Bureaucratic Censorship In Contemporary Indonesia', International Indonesia Forum Conference, Universitas Muhammadiyah, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
29.05.2017
'Youth, Gender and Sexuality in the Thai Teen Drama 'Hormones the Series', Transregional Gender and Media Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
12.03.2017
'Gender Roles and Feminine Sexuality in the Thai Teen TV Drama Hormones: the Series'. 19th Graduate Student Conference Crossings in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia Program (SEAP), Cornell University, USA.
05.11.2016
'Gender Roles and Feminine Sexuality in the Thai Teen TV Drama Hormones: the Series'. Student Southeast Asian Conference, University of Hamburg, Germany.
28.07.2016
'Gender Roles and Feminine Sexuality in the Thai Teen TV Drama Hormones: the Series'. ENITS (Empowering Network for International Thai Studies) Scholarship Presentation, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Languages
German
English
Indonesian
Thai
French