About the Author

Katja Wehde

E-Mail: Katja.Wehde@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

Katja Wehde studied English, German and Education at the University of Dresden as well as Cultural Studies during a DAAD-funded stay at the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad, India. After her B.A., she completed a Master’s degree in Transcultural Studies at the University of Heidelberg. In 2014, Katja Wehde has been awarded a doctoral scholarship from the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in Giessen, Germany, where she is currently working on her doctoral project entitled “Translating Transcultural Objects: Narratives of Otherness in Educational Measures of Ethnographic Museums in Germany and Great Britain.”

Contributions by Author: Katja Wehde

05/30/2016 _Perspective
emergence
emergency
methodology
material culture
visual culture
curating
ethnography
, , ,

Shake Those Methods!

The Art of Doing Research

In the winter term 2015/16, the GCSC research area ‘Visual and Material Culture’ held a number of meetings on the application of the research methodology while conducting research in the study of culture. As the immediacy of practical application of the research methods leaves a strong imprint on the ideas and knowledge that appear in academia, we wanted to report on our discussions in the light of the theoretical concept of ‘emergence.’ …