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Katharina Niemeyer is a professor of media theory at the Faculty of communication, the media school at University of Québec in Montréal, Canada. Her research focuses on media and technologies and their relations to memory, history and nostalgia. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, she is currently working on nostalgic online communities expressing different types of nostalgia for the former GDR (a project financed by the FRQSC). She also works on (international) media events and currently on the mediatization of “terrorism” funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2015 she co-founded the International Media and Nostalgia Network after having edited the volume Media and Nostalgia. Yearning for the past, present and future in 2014 (Palgrave Macmillan). She translated texts of Jean Baudrillard and Bernard Miège from French to German.
Previous academic experiences
Katharina Niemeyer studied European media culture (Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Université Lyon 2) and received a PhD in social and economic sciences from the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 2009. From 2012 to 2017 she was an associate professor at the French press institute, University Paris 2, Sorbonne universities as well as a guest scholar at McGill University and also at the Catholic University of Louvain.
Affiliations (selection)
- Regular member of CELAT, Centre de recherche Cultures – Arts – Sociétés
- Member of the editorial board, Memory Studies (SAGE)
- Council member of International Association for Media and History
- Associate member of Memory and Media Research Network
- Affiliate member of the Media History Research Centre
- Associate member of CRICIS
- Member of the Cool Memories association (Jean Baudrillard)
Research interests
- Media and communication theory
- nostalgia, memory and history
- mediatization and media events
- online communities and their relation to memory and nostalgia
