Johannes Barth

Lectures and other activities

• 2025:
  • Lecture: The Subject(s) of Digital Witnessing - On processes of subjects' becoming in the production and use of interactive "holograms" of survivors of Nazi crimes, ad hoc group "Data Body- Avatar - Digital Twin. Digital Figures of the Subject in the Making" at the 42nd Congress of the German Sociological Association, Duisburg 22.09.-26.09.2025.
  • Lecture: "Digital media. On posthumous communication technologies and the presence of the dead in the mediatised present", lecture series "Aktuelle mediensoziologische Forschungen", Bielefeld, 18/06/2025.
  • Lecture: "Zum medienpraktischen Umgang mit Vergänglichkeit in Produktion und posthumer Rezeption von Video- und Audiozeugnissen", First interdisciplinary summer conference of the grief research institute kleine BLUME e.V., Hanover, 13.06.-14.06.2025.

• 2024:
  • Lecture: "Disembodied or Reembodied Witnessing? On Holocaust Survivors' Embodied Testimonies and Their Transformation Into 'Holograms' ", International Conference - Bodies, Arts and Media: (Re)Configurations in the Digital Era, Paris, 5-6 December 2024.
  • Participation: Early Career Workshop at the Annual Conference of the Section Media and Communication Sociology of the German Sociological Association: "Sozialfiguren des Digitalen", Darmstadt, 21-22 November 2024.
  • Participation: "Mapping (your) research in context(s)", PhD workshop as part of the 7th international symposium of the Death Online Research Network (DORS#7): "Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife", Helsinki, 2-5 October 2024.

• 2023:
  • Lecture "Mediating the Immediate Witness. The Production of the Digital Witness through Interactions with Digital Testimonies of Survivors of the Nazi Crimes" (in English), 16th European Summer University Ravensbrück: "Witnessed Memory. Narrating. Preserving. Mediating.", Fürstenberg/Havel, 28 August - 1 September 2023.

Professional Backgroung

• Since 2024:
  • Research Associate at the Department of Media Sociology, Bielefeld University

• Since 2021:
  • Freelancer in memorial site education, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg

• 2021-2022:
  • Tutor in the basic sociology course of the B.A. degree programme in Sociology, University of Hamburg

• 2019-2022:
  • Temporary lecturer for the basics of sociology and political science in the dual B.A. degree programme in Public Management, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences

• 2016-2018:
  • Student assistant in the archive, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial

Education

• 2023: M.A. Sociology (passed with honours), University of Hamburg
  • 2022: Participation in intensive Hebrew course, International School, University of Haifa
• 2018: B.A. Sociology (minor subject: History), University of Hamburg
  • 2015-2016: Erasmus semester, University of Amsterdam
• 2012: (German) 'Abitur'

Awards and sponsorships

• 2023: Janpeter Kob Prize for the best Master's thesis in Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg
• 2022: Scholarship from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Department for Cultural and Scientific Exchange) to support a summer school stay at the University of Haifa

• Summer semester 2025:
  • Seminar: Mediatised Bodies and Embodied Media, BA Sociology, Bielefeld University
  • Seminar: Critiques of Digitalisation in the Social Sciences, MA Sociology, Bielefeld University
• Winter semester 2024/2025:
  • Seminar: Mediatisation of dying, death and mourning, BA Sociology, Bielefeld University
• Summer semester 2024:
  • Seminar: Sociological Perspectives on/as Media Critiques, BA Sociology, Bielefeld University
• Summer semester 2022:
  • Seminar: Fundamentals of Sociology and Political Science (2), BA Public Management, HAW Hamburg (2 courses)
• Winter term 2021/2022:
  • Seminar: Fundamentals of Sociology and Political Science (1), BA Public Management, HAW Hamburg
• Summer semester 2021:
  • Seminar: Fundamentals of Sociology and Political Science (2), BA Public Management, HAW Hamburg
• Winter semester 2020/2021:
  • Seminar: Fundamentals of Sociology and Political Science (1), BA Public Management, HAW Hamburg
• Winter semester 2019/2020:
  • Seminar: Fundamentals of Sociology and Political Science, BA Public Management, HAW Hamburg