Network
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pranz
is professor for technology development in online communication at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. His reserach interests include science & technology studies, platformization, and autonomous driving.
Dr. Pearl Boineelo Lefadola
is senior lecturer in family and consumer sciences at the University of Botswana. She specializes in food waste management and upcycling, indigenous foods, and sustainable food systems, among other research areas.
Dr Aïda Terblanché-Greeff (Botha) is Senior Lecturer at North-West University in Potchefstroom (South Africa) and has been a long-time collaborator with colleagues at JLU. Her research interests include African philosophy, social philosophy, cross-cultural studies (viz., psychology and philosophy), and environmental ethics.
Jörg Metelmann was a Visiting Fellow at our Centre in the summer semester 2024 and was highly involved in the work of the Research Centre.
Nancy Pedri
is professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, where she has taught since 2006. She is an award-winning author and has published extensively in the fields of comics studies and word and image studies, including photography in literature. She is coeditor, with Silke Horstkotte, of
Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics
and author of
A Concise Dictionary of Comics
, the latter published by
University Press of Mississippi
.
Sarah Bird
is an artist-scholar researcher and PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, focusing on relations with trees in the more-than-human world at a time of ecological crisis. She is currently collaborating with our centre on a site-specific installation for our conference
"Arboreal Entanglements: Human, Nonhuman, More-than-Human"
.
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Cooperating institutions
International peer counselling in the international study of culture:
The European Research Network Peer Net is a network of scholars from internationally renowned European universities that is dedicated to counseling the development of large-scale research projects. It is based on the GCSC’s international networks and is curated by Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Hagen and Dr. Deborah De Mujnck.
The PeerNet provides a platform for international research projects and for international researchers to exchange ideas. (Pictured here during a meeting in Giessen in 2025.)
