Jena Team
The university of Jena has one of the oldest professorial chairs within the young area of scholarly Intercultural Communications in Germany; the Jena Chair of Interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation was established in 1992. From the very beginning Intercultural Communications in Jena looked to combine theoretical and empirical perspectives, and has remained always mindful of context and reciprocity. The Jena project within ReDICo “Cosmopolitans, Nationalisms and Intercultural Competence in Online Contexts” built upon Jena’s tradition in Intercultural Communications, looking to examine digital worlds from an Intercultural Communications perspective. The ReDICo team situated at Jena is in the process of establishing a dedicated Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies, which will concretise and institutionalise the study of Digital Interculturality further.
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Fergal Lenehan
Researcher. Investigating cosmopolitanism and neo-nationalist discourse, online. Co-edited “Reclaiming the European Street” by Michael D. Higgins, Uachtarán Na hÉireann. Dad. Social Europeanism. Hurling. Likes posting pictures of rooftops.
Twitter @fergallenehan
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Fergal Lenehan is a researcher who has engaged with intellectual history and cultural studies since acquiring his initial undergraduate degrees at University College Dublin. Following this, he received a PhD from the University of Leipzig and a Habilitation (the German formal post-doctoral qualification) from the University of Jena. He has written monographs on the intellectual engagement with Europe and German media depictions of Ireland. His current work revolves around theories of cosmopolitanism, cyber-utopianism and the platform Twitter. He has just completed the co-editing of, and the writing of the introduction to, the volume Reclaiming the European Street: Speeches on Europe and the European Union, 2016-2020, by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins.
Luisa Conti
Moto perpetuo. Rapid, curious, engaged. Says tendentially: Yes! and jumps into new adventures. Researcher, eager to learn more, understand deeper, see further. Eager to share privileges, she shares knowledge; willing to make sense of it, she transfers it.
Twitter @LuisaContiEU
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The chief pillars of Luisa Conti’s highly interdisciplinary research are communication and education. After her studies at the University of Udine (Italy), she moved to Germany where she became a lecturer and researcher at the University of Jena. Following her PhD, which examined on-line projects related to Intercultural Dialogue and which was undertaken in Jena and Padua, she questioned her Eurocentric perspective by spending research time in Latin America. In the context of the European Project SHARMED (SHARed MEmories and Dialogues) she focused on the power of communication in shaping inclusion/exclusion, while in her studies for ReDICo she re-orients this focus towards the World Wide Web. Furthermore she is also supervising the creation of a participatory, multilingual e-learning platform for the EU-Project KIDS4ALLL (Key Inclusive Development Strategies for LifeLong Learning).
Carmen Pereyra
Latin researcher living in Leipzig. Avid reader and knitter. Political Sciences and whiskers on kittens, Anthropology and warm wollen mittens, racism and hate tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. If I can’t dance I don’t want to be in your revolution.
Lymor Wolf Goldstein
Human rights lawyer and political activist, transplanted from Jaffa to Berlin in the exploration of new landscapes. Master’s in Cognitive Studies of Language, with a taste for Babylonian confusion.
Former team members
Hong Van Nguyen
Idealist and realist. Passionate for anti-racist, systemic change and action-orientated thinking. On her way to becoming an expert in individual and organisational change and growth.
Hannah Wiese
Educational scientist, constantly in motion. Always interested to dive into topics related to learning processes and their intended influence. Always curious to be surprised by new views of the world. Inspired and motivated by postcolonial thinking.
Annika Schlimm
Trying to make her reading habit and museum visits into a living. With a special interest in the broader cultural and communicative implications of literature, art and language. Mostly spending time on crossword puzzles and lurking on twitter.com.
Sören Schöbel
Researcher from the village. Sociology and figures. Metaphors and stuff. Sometimes, thinks only communication can communicate. Usually looking for things and finding words.
Alina Jugenheimer
Trained feminist. Discusses right-wing discourses online, and offline. Research focus: antifeminism and nationalism on the net. Coffee and book addict.