The Teachers
Get to know the people who are involved in this project!
Dr. Cordula Weißköppel
Cordula Weißköppel is an assistant professor at the Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research at university of Bremen, where she is a permanent lecturer in the master programme Transcultural Studies, (MATS) and responsible for international relations on department and faculty level. Her doctoral thesis focussed on diversity in schools in Germany (Juventa 2011). Sudanese diaspora, and religious pluralism in immigration societies as well as transcultural processes between Africa and Europe are the most notable of her post.doc-research. Recently her interests expanded to the field of sensory studies, focusing on smells. Weißköppel´s competence regarding experimental and qualitative methods and applied research is emphasized in her publications such as “multi-sited ethnography (2005, 2009) and just recently “Walking, Memory, Storytelling, Decolonisation” (2020, 2021).
Dr. Martin Gruber
Martin Gruber works as an anthropologist and filmmaker at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen. Currently Martin conducts ethnographic research on the relationships between humans and honeybees in Cameroon, Japan and Germany. His PhD on collaborative filmmaking obtained from the University of Bremen in 2013 is based on fieldwork in Angola, Namibia and Botswana. Martin studied Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London and Social Anthropology at Hamburg University. Gruber’s numerous ethnographic films as well as publications of his research, such “Participatory Ethnographic Filmmaking: Transcultural Collaboration in Research and Film making. Visual Ethnography (2016)” and “Precious/Precarious Images: Cameroonian Studio Photography in the Digital Age. Visual Anthropology” (2021), mark Gruber as an expert in the areas of Sensory Ethnography, Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic Film.
Dr. Javier Gago Holzscheiter
Javier Gago Holzscheiter – also known as Luc by his students – is a romanist, cultural scientist, ethnologist and scientific employee at the UB. Following his final thesis for his M.A degree in Romance Studies about spatial notion between mental mapping and postcolonialism in Sicily, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the case study of the radio feature “Bellaró: A market of cultures in Sicily (2013)”, thus forming the concept of ethnophonography. The topic is further explained in a podcast he produced, in terms of his work as a freelance author at the sound broadcasting. Holzscheiter is valued for his knowledge in the fields of ethnography, sensory studies, Mediterranean studies, public anthropology and his expertise in radio features and podcasting.
Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä
Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä has worked as a Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) since 2005. She completed her doctor of Philosophy degree in the field of Ethnomusicology at the University of Tampere. Her research mainly focuses on soundscapes and sensory environments, music, and culture, highlighting an interdisciplinary perspective in combining art with science. In 2012 Järviluoma-Mäkelä was involved in founding the format „Night of sounds“, for a radio channel of the Finnish broadcasting company YLE. Furthermore, her recent research about sensory environments and transgenerational environmental relationships and changes was awarded by the European Research Council, highlighting her scientific research expertise in the field of humanities.
Noora Vikman
Noora Vikman is a senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, where she is in charge of the B.A studies and teaching of Ethnomusicology as part of the Cultural Studies study programme. She completed her M.A and PhD in Ethnomusicology at the University of Tampere, and is currently a board member and vice president of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. Vikman´s recent research interests include tourism, nature cultures, soundscapes, environmental cultures and well being. Her expertise in this area is also reflected in her publications, such as “On the Mountains, from the Mountains, to the Mountains. Polyphonic Pasts, Spaces and Places of singing in Cembra (2009)” and “Soundmarks in silence-listening between beings. Arctic sound and nature: perspectives on vibrating worlds (2018)”.
Joint module organized by University of Bremen and University of Eastern Finland for Yufe
