Melanie Sindelar, MSc. Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************************** * Research Areas ****************************************************************************************** Melanie Sindelar is an art anthropologist, translator, and editor, as well as an academic and university teacher. At Charles University, she is conducting a research project titled the Ethnographic Museum in Central Europe”, a comparative study of three ethnographic muse Prague, and Budapest. The project is supported by the Fond Junior Postdoctoral Program. Sh teaching courses in art anthropology and decolonizing museums; her teaching approach is in encompassing history, anthropology, philosophy, art, and the social sciences. Her previous focused on contemporary art production in the United Arab Emirates, Germany, and Austria. ****************************************************************************************** * Courses ****************************************************************************************** See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/predmety/index.php? id=1fe4698ac1aff975ecb2bd7a9f120879&tid=1&do=ucit&kod=89915"] . ****************************************************************************************** * Contact Information and Office Hours ****************************************************************************************** See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/kdojekdo/index.php? id=1fe4698ac1aff975ecb2bd7a9f120879&tid=1&do=detailuc&kuc=89915"] . ****************************************************************************************** * Education ****************************************************************************************** PhD University of Vienna: Social & Cultural Anthropology (with distinction), 2 MSc University of Oxford: Social Anthropology, 2013 BA University of Vienna: Prehistoric & Medieval Archaeology, 2011 ****************************************************************************************** * Previous Positions ****************************************************************************************** 2022 Visiting Professor in Visual Theory and Practice, Central European Univer 2021 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ruhr University Bochum, GER (Aug 21-Jan 22) ****************************************************************************************** * Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles ****************************************************************************************** 2019 When Workers Toil Unseen, Artists Intervene: On the In/visibility of Labor DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2019.1637672.4. 2017 Land Art as a Means to Negotiate Natural and Cultural Heritage in the Unit CL.2017.2.03. 2016 Local, Regional, Global: An Investigation of Art Dubai’s Transnational Str ****************************************************************************************** * Grants & Awards ****************************************************************************************** 2022 Dissertation award for outstanding dissertations, Dr. Maria Schaumayer Fou 2021 Visiting Post-Doc Grant, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) 2020 Translation grant for B. Noys, Accelerationism and Capitalism, into German ****************************************************************************************** * Invited Talks ****************************************************************************************** 2023 FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Political Science, Contemporary Art a 2019 Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall, Die Vergangenheit in lokalen Kulturerbes in den VAE, May 28th 2018 London School of Economics, Middle East Centre, Artistic responses to loca and the Emirati State, October 5th ****************************************************************************************** * Conference Activity ****************************************************************************************** Panels Organized & Chaired 2022 Hopeful Chronopolitics: Contemporary Art and Ethnography, with Jennifer Cl Anthropology, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 26th-29th July. 2020 Provoking Visuals: Creative Engagements with Borders, Wars, and Conflicts, Anthropology, Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology Network, 20th-24t 2018 Beyond Resistance and Complicity: New Approaches to Middle Eastern Art Pro Association, San Jose, CA, 14th-18th November. ****************************************************************************************** * Curatorial and Exhibition Experience ****************************************************************************************** 2015 Projects & Artists-in-Residence exhibition team, Art Dubai, UAE (Jan-Apr 1 Curatorial assistance and exhibition organisation