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Larissa Schmid

Education and work experience | Research interests | Publications |

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Education and work experience nach oben

September 2016

PhD-project at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

Project title: "Objects, bodies and agents of knowledge: colonial North African prisoners-of-war in Germany during the First World War" (BMBF)

2013-2016

"Cultural Exchange in a time of Global Conflict. Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War" (funded by HERA)

2010-2013

Academic Assistant to the Director, Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin

2010

M.A. in Modern History, Islamic Studies and Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 

Research interests nach oben

 

- Colonial History of North Africa and the Middle East

 

- History of the German Empire

 

- History of knowledge

Publications nach oben

2017

Essay on "Photography" in: Digital Sourcebook, Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict. Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War.

2017

Essay on "Captivity" in: Digital Sourcebook, Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict. Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War.

2015

Schmid, Larissa, Competing Visions of Area Studies in the Interwar Period: The School of Oriental Languages in Berlin, in: Middle East – Topics and Arguments 4 (2015), pp. 127-137.

2014

Liebau, Heike, Schmid, Larissa, Studying the First World War as a moment of „cultural encounter“, ZMO Bulletin, 26 June 2014.

2014

Schmid, Larissa, Conference Report: The World During the First World War: Perceptions, Experiences, and Consequences, Herrenhausen Symposium, Hanover, 28-30 October 2013, H-Soz-Kult, 8 May 2014.

2013

Schmid, Larissa, Conference Report: Geteilt. Vereint. Global: Vom Forschen im geteilten Deutschland zum Forschen ohne Grenzen?, Conference at Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, 6 December 2012, H-Soz-Kult, 17 May 2013.

2010

Schmid, Larissa, Symbolische Geschlechterpolitik in Saudi-Arabien, in: Freitag, Ulrike (ed.): Saudi-Arabien. Ein Königreich im Wandel?, Paderborn 2010, 89-106.

Selected paper presentations nach oben

13 February 2016

"Voices from World War One: Exploring Sound Recordings of Colonial Prisoners of War in Historical Research", Paper presented with Anandita Bajpai, Heike Liebau at "Listening to the Archive - Histories of Sound Data in the Humanities and Sciences", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

22 January 2016

"Tracing Sheich Salih at-Tunisi in Transnational Networks in the First World War", Paper presented at the Conference "Cultural Encounters during Global War, 1914-1918: Traces, Spaces, Legacies", King's College/ German Historical Institute, London.

17 September 2015

“A trip around the world “: Photography and colonial Prisoners of War in Germany during World War One, Paper presented at "Colonialism, War & Photography“, King’s College London.

5 March 2015

"Objects of Knowledge": Colonial North African prisoners-of-war in Germany during the First World War, Paper presented at MESAAS Graduate Conference, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University in the City of New York.

29 August 2014

Engaging colonial knowledge in the Metropole: Voices of colonial prisoners-of-war during the First World War in Germany, Paper presented at "Locating voices of marginalised 'others'": Strategies for engaging textual, visual and material sources", Workshop at Radboud University Nijmegen.

16 June 2014

Tracing the role of Sheikh Salih al-Tunisi in a transnational network of North Africans during World War One, Paper presented at "Networks of non-European actors in First World War and Interwar Europe “, Workshop at ZMO, Berlin.

Talks nach oben

12 May 2016

"Deutscher Orientalismus und die Anfänge der Islamwissenschaften in Berlin", Vortrag im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe: Ander(e)s Wissen: Kritische Betrachtungen globaler Wissensproduktion at Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin.

15 December 2015

"Anti-colonial Networks, Independence Committees and Germany's Global War", Paper presented with Jennifer Jenkins (University of Toronto), Heike Liebau (ZMO) at Forschungskolloquium zur Neueren Geschichte (Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin.

Workshops and conferences nach oben

10 March 2016

Organisation of the workshop together with Daniel Steinbach: (King's College, London) "Colonialism, War & Photography" at Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.

6 December 2012

Organisation of the Conference together with Heike Liebau, Bettina Gräf (ZMO): "Geteilt. Vereint. Global. Vom Forschen im Geteilten Deutschland zum Forschen ohne Grenzen" at Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.

Exhibition projects nach oben

September 2016 - March 2017

Conception of HERA-exhibition with Heike Liebau, Jan Braubuger (ZMO): "Lives from a global conflict. Cultural Entanglements during the First World War", at Freie Universität Berlin, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

6 December 2012

Conception of the poster-exhibition and production of audio- interviews for the conference "Geteilt. Vereint. Global. Vom Forschen im Geteilten Deutschland zum Forschen ohne Grenzen" at Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.

Media nach oben

27 April 2016

Interview with Marcus Hansson, Halvmånelägret – jihadistskolan i Berlin, Swedish Radio.

13 July 2015

Interview with Matthias Bertsch, Deutschlandfunk: Vor 100 Jahren: Die erste Moschee in Deutschland.

19 November 2014

Interview with Julia Tieke, Deutschlandradio Kultur: Das deutsche Kaiserreich und der Dschihad.

 

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