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Professional career:

• Since the winter semester of 2009, Research Fellow at Carl von Ossietsky University of Oldenburg, Faculty III: Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Institute: Art – Textiles – Media, Department of Art, Art History and Art Education
• Since 2007, lecturer in the Department of Educational Science, University of Hamburg.
• Since 2007, freelance collaborator at the [FuL] Research and Teaching Centre for Art – Education – Psychoanalysis at the University of Hamburg and the KurzFilmSchule, Hamburg.
• 2007–2009: PhD fellow at the University of Hamburg, working on a thesis entitled ‘Film Education’
• 2000–2006: Studied Educational Science, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Hamburg;

Main areas of work and research focus:

• Philosophy and theory of education and the media, particularly film
• Cultural Studies and visual culture
• Art education/art outreach

Publications (selection):

• Pazzini, Karl-Josef; Zahn, Manuel (eds.): Teaching Performances. Cinematic Representations of Teaching. (Media Education and Society Vol. 17). Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag 2011 (forthcoming)
• Meyer, Torsten; Crommelin, Adrienne; Zahn, Manuel (eds.): Sujet supposé savoir. On the Moment of Transference in Art, Education and Psychoanalysis. Berlin: Kadmos 2010
• Preliminary Remarks (Introduction co-authored with A. Crommelin and T. Meyer). In: Meyer, Torsten; Crommelin, Adrienne; Zahn, Manuel (eds.): *Sujet supposé savoir*. On the Moment of Transference in Art, Pedagogy and Psychoanalysis. Berlin: Kadmos 2010, pp. 9–15
• Teaching Performances. In: Meyer, Torsten; Crommelin, Adrienne; Zahn, Manuel (eds.): Sujet supposé savoir. On the Moment of Transference in Art, Education and Psychoanalysis. Berlin: Kadmos 2010, pp. 111–119
• The Gender of Images. Reflections from educational theory on the gender coding of film. In: Decke-Cornill/Luca (eds.) Youth – Film – Gender. Media education and didactic perspectives on film. Stuttgart: ibidem 2010, pp. 67–86
• (together with Nina Rippel): The KurzFilmSchule. A project in artistic film education in Hamburg schools. In: Henzler et al (eds.) Learning from Cinema: International Perspectives on Film Education. Berlin: Bertz+Fischer 2010, pp. 110–120
• What is film education? Guest contribution to the dossier ‘Film Education and Pedagogy’ of the project ‘The Art of Education: From the Archives of Educational Film’ Entuziazm. Friends of Film and Text Education e.V., Berlin. (http://www.kunst-der-vermittlung.de/artikel/manuel-zahn-filmvermittlung-ist/)
• Film Education. In: Meyer, Torsten; Sabisch, Andrea (eds.): Art, Pedagogy, Research. Current Approaches and Perspectives, Bielefeld: transcript 2009, 225–231
• Film Education. In: Michael Wimmer, Roland Reichenbach, Ludwig Pongratz (eds.) Media, Technology and Education. (Publication series of the Commission for the Philosophy of Education and Upbringing of the DGfE). Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2009, 107–121
• The Sublime Body. A Cartography of the Body between Two or More Deaths. In: Lecke, Bodo (ed.): Media History, Intermediality and Literary Didactics. (Contributions to Literary and Media Didactics 15). Frankfurt am Main 2008, 321–341
• Images as an Educational Moment. Master’s thesis (typescript), Hamburg 2006
• An Essay on Full Speech. In: hyper[realitäten]-büro and Holger Schulze (eds.), Theory Narratives™. Personal Speech on One’s Own Thinking. sinn-haft 9 (2005), No. 18, Löcker Verlag Vienna, 120–126

Lectures (selection)

• ‘Memento’ – On the Temporality of Film and its Experience. Lecture delivered as part of the 3rd Magdeburg Theory Forum ‘Time, Mediality and Education’, 2–3 July 2010.
• ‘Blackboards – Cinematic Observations of Pedagogical Practice’. Lecture at the Scala Cinema, Lüneburg, as part of an event organised by the Institute for Art, Music and their Mediation (IKMV) in collaboration with the Institute for Educational Science (IBIWI) at the University of Lüneburg, 7 June 2010.
• Media Thinking. From Heidegger’s Concept of Technology to Deleuze’s Philosophy of Film. Lecture as part of the Magdeburg Theory Forum “The Constitutive Power of the Media”, 9–10 October 2009.
• Pedagogy of Perception. Notes on Film-Bildung with Deleuze. Lecture as part of the panel ‘Deleuze on Bildung. Connecting Deleuze with the German Tradition’ at the international conference ‘Connect Deleuze’, Cologne, 10–12 August 2009.
• Film Education. On the Cinematic Exploration of Individual Education. Lecture delivered as part of the 3rd Colloquium for Early-Career Researchers at the 14th Bremen Symposium on Film: ‘Film Education’, Kino 46, Bremen, 15–18 January 2009
• The Gender of Images. Lecture as part of a series of lectures ‘Youth, Film, Gender’, University of Hamburg, 25 November 2008
• Film Education. Key Principles of an Artistic and Aesthetic Approach to Film Education. Lecture in the series ‘From Educational Practice’ at Leuphana, University of Lüneburg, 22 November 2007
• Film Education. Lecture at the autumn conference of the Commission for the Philosophy of Education and Upbringing within the General Education Science Section of the German Society for Educational Science, held from 1 to 3 October 2007 at the Catholic Academy ‘Die Wolfsburg’ in Mühlheim/Ruhr: ‘Media, Technology and Education’.
• Film Education. Lecture as part of a series of lectures ‘Positions in Art Education’, University of Hamburg, 30 April 2007
• Film in Schools. On the possibilities and challenges of film education in schools. Conceptualisation and moderation of a panel discussion during the 2007 International Short Film Festival in Hamburg.
• Film Education. Outlines of a Negative Film Theory – from the Perspective of Art. Lecture at the Institute for Art and its Mediation, University of Lüneburg, 15 January 2007