Jan Mollenhauer

PhD candidate

Georgenstr. 47
10117 Berlin

mollenhauer@tfm.uni-frankfurt.de

Jan Mollenhauer is Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the Research Training Group »Configurations of Film« at Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main. During summer 2017, Jan Mollenhauer was Research Assistant at the research and teaching area »Cultural History and Theory of Aesthetics«. 2017, he received scholarships from the Humboldt Graduate School and the Getty Research Institute. He is working on a dissertation about visual constellations of the African Diaspora.

 

Publications

2017
»Adorno Noir. Los Angeles und der deutsche Wiederaufbau«, in: ilinx, 5 [Peer Review].

Talks and Presentations (selected)

2018
Was wäre Ethnografie? (What would ethnography be?)
Annual Conference of the German Association for Aesthetics (DGÄ)
University of Art and Design, Offenbach, 14-17 February 2018
2017 
Fremde Trauer. Georgia und Buchenwald
Conference »Körper und Lager – Eine interdisziplinäre Betrachtung der Verflechtungen von Herrschaft, Leben und Sterben in nationalsozialistischen Lagern«, Institute for History, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, 26-27 October 2017 
Ethnografischer Film und afroamerikanisches Kino, 1915-1928
Conference »Nach der ikonischen Wende. Aktualität und Geschichte eines Paradigmas«, Closing Conference of the Research Training Group »Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung. Hybride Formen des Bildwissens« at the Institute for Theory, University of the Arts, Zurich, 13-15 September 2017 
Nothing but fear. On Lynching Photography
Conference »Media and Fear« at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Lund University, Sweden, 16 March 2017