Johannes Barth

Lectures and other activities

• 2026:
  • Presentation: »Sometimes You Just Want to Talk to Your Friend« – AI-based Posthumous Communication Technologies and the Mediation of Continuing Bonds, event of the section for Sociological Network Research "Relationship of the Future: On New Forms of Social Interconnectedness" at the 43. congress of the German Sociological Association, Mainz 28.09.-02.10.2026.

• 2025:
  • Presentation: 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.
  • Presentation: "Digital media. On Posthumous Communication Technologies and the Presence of the Dead in the Mediatised Present", lecture series "Current mediasociological research", Bielefeld, 18/06/2025.
  • Presentation: "On the Coping with Evanescence in the Production and Posthumous Reception of Video und Audio Testimonies", First interdisciplinary summer conference of the grief research institute kleine BLUME e.V., Hanover, 13.06.-14.06.2025.

• 2024:
  • Presentation: "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.
  • Presentation of Doctoral Research: "Digital Mediumship. On the Technosocial Production of Social Presence through Intentional Posthumous Communication Technologies", Early Career Workshop at the Annual Conference of the Section Media and Communication Sociology of the German Sociological Association: "Social Figures of the Digital", 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 Background

• Since 2024:
  • Research Associate at the working unit for Media Sociology, Bielefeld University

• Since 2021:
  • Freelancer for historical 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

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 2026:
  • Seminar: Body - Media - Society, BA Sociology, Bielefeld University
• Winter semester 2025/2026:
  • Seminar: Mediatisation of dying, death and mourning, BA Sociology, Bielefeld University
  • Seminar: Sociology of Mediatized Presence, MA Sociology, Bielefeld University
• 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