Johannes Barth

Presentations and other Activities

• 2025
  • Presentation (in German): "Digital mediumship. On posthumous communication technologies and the presence of the dead in the mediatized present", Lecture series "Current media sociological research", Bielefeld, 18.06.2025.
  • Presentation (in German): "On the media-practical handling of transience in the production and posthumous reception of video and audio testimonies", First interdisciplinary summer conference of the insititute for bereavement research "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.-6.12.2024.
  • Participation: Early Career Workshop during the annual conference of the section "Sociology of Media and Communication" of the German Sociological Association: "Sozialfiguren des Digitalen" (Social Figures of the Digital), Darmstadt, 21.-22.11.2024.
  • Particiation: "Mapping (your) research in context(s)", PhD-Workshop during the 7th International Death Online Research Symposium (DORS#7): "Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife", Helsinki, 02.10.-05.10.2024.

• 2023:
  • Presentation: "Mediating the Immediate Witness. The Production of the Digital Witness through Interactions with Digital Testimonies of Survivors of the Nazi Crimes", 16. European Summer University Ravensbrück: "Witnessed Memory. Narrating. Preserving. Passing On.“, Fürstenberg/Havel, 28.08.-01.09.2023.

Professional career

• Since 2024:
  • Research associate at the Unit 'Sociology of Media', Bielefeld University

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

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

• 2019-2022:
  • 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 archives, 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 grants

• 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) for the participation in a summer school program at the University of Haifa

• Summer semester 2025:
  • Seminar: Mediatized Bodies and Embodied Media, BA Sociology, Bielefeld University
  • Seminar: Critiques of Digitalization in the Social Sciences, MA Sociology, Bielefeld University
• Winter semester 2024/2025:
  • Seminar: Mediatization of Dying, Death and Grief, BA Sociology, Bielefeld University
• Summer semester 2024:
  • Seminar: Sociological Perspectives on/as Media Critique, BA Sociology, Bielefeld University
• Summer semester 2022:
  • Seminar: Fundamentals of Sociology and Political Science (2), BA Public Management, HAW Hamburg (2 courses)
• Winter semester 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