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Academic appointment:

• Since winter term 2009 research assistant at the Carl von Ossietsky University of Oldenburg, Fac. III Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Institute: Art - Textile - Media, Seminar for Art, Art History and Art Education
• Since 2007 Lecturer in the Department of Educational Science, University of Hamburg.
• Since 2007 Freelancer at the [FuL] Research and Teaching Centre, Art - Pedagogy - Psychoanalysis at the University of Hamburg and the KurzFilmSchule, Hamburg.
• 2007 - 2009 Doctoral scholarship holder at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on "Film Education"
• 2000 - 2006 Studied educational science, philosophy and psychology at the University of Hamburg;

Work and research focus:

• Philosophy and theory of education and media, especially film
• Cultural studies and visual culture
• Art education/art mediation

Publications (selection):

• Pazzini, Karl-Josef; Zahn, Manuel (eds.): Lehr-Performances. Filmic stagings of teaching. (Media Education and Society Vol. 17). Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag 2011 (in preparation)
• Meyer, Torsten; Crommelin, Adrienne; Zahn, Manuel (eds.): Sujet supposé savoir. On the moment of transference in art pedagogy psychoanalysis. Berlin: Kadmos 2010
• Beginnings (introduction together 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 psychoanalysis. Berlin: Kadmos 2010, p. 9 - 15
• Teaching Performances. in: Meyer, Torsten; Crommelin, Adrienne; Zahn, Manuel (eds.): Sujet supposé savoir. On the moment of transference in art pedagogy psychoanalysis. Berlin: Kadmos 2010, pp. 111 - 119
• The gender of images. Educational-theoretical considerations on the gender coding of film. in: Decke-Cornill/Luca (eds.) Jugend - Film - Gender. Media educational and didactic perspectives on film. Stuttgart: ibidem 2010, p. 67 - 86
• (together with Nina Rippel): The ShortFilmSchool. A project of artistic film education at Hamburg schools. in: Henzler et al (eds.) Learning from the cinema: International Perspectives on Film Education. Berlin: Bertz+Fischer 2010, p. 110 - 120
• Film education is? Guest article in the dossier "Filmvermittlung und Pädagogik" of the project "Kunst der Vermittlung. From the archives of film mediation" Entuziazm. Friends of the Mediation of Film and Text e.V., Berlin. (http://www.kunst-der-vermittlung.de/artikel/manuel-zahn-filmvermittlung-ist/)
• Film education. In: Meyer, Torsten; Sabisch, Andrea (eds.): Kunst Pädagogik Forschung. Current Approaches and Perspectives, Bielefeld: transcript 2009, 225 - 231
• Film education. In: Michael Wimmer, Roland Reichenbach, Ludwig Pongratz (eds.) Medien, Technik und Bildung. (Publication series of the Commission on Philosophy of Education 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.): Mediengeschichte, Intermedialität und Literaturdidaktik. (Contributions to literature and media didactics 15). Frankfurt/Main 2008, 321 - 341
• Images as an educational moment. Master's thesis (typescript), Hamburg 2006
• An attempt at full speech. In: hyper[realitäten]-büro and Holger Schulze (eds.), Theorie Erzählungen™. Personal speaking of one's own thinking. sinn-haft 9 (2005), H. 18, Löcker Verlag Vienna, 120 - 126

Lectures (selection)

• "Memento" - On the temporality of film and its experience. Lecture at the 3rd Magdeburg Theory Forum "Time, Mediality and Education", 2 and 3 July 2010.
• "Blackboards - Filmic observations of pedagogical practice". Lecture at the Scala cinema, Lüneburg as part of an event organised by the Institute of Music and its Mediation (IKMV) together with the Institute for Educational Science (IBIWI) at the University of Lüneburg, 7 June 2010.
• medial thinking. From Heidegger's technical thinking to Deleuze's film philosophy. Lecture at the Magdeburg Theory Forum "Die konstitutive Kraft der Medien", 09/10 October 2009.
• Pedagogy of Perception. Grades on Film Education 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 filmic exploration of individual education. Lecture at the 3rd colloquium of young scholars of the 14th Bremen Symposium on Film: "Filmvermittlung", Kino 46, Bremen, 15-18 January 2009.
• The gender of images. Lecture as part of the series of lectures "Jugend-Film-Gender", University of Hamburg, 25 November 2008
• Film education. Fundamentals of artistic-aesthetic film education. Lecture in the series "Aus der Vermittlungspraxis" at the Leuphana, University of Lüneburg, 22 November 2007.
• Film education. Lecture at the autumn conference of the Commission for Philosophy of Education in the Section for General Educational Science of the German Society for Educational Science from 1 to 3 October 2007 at the Catholic Academy "Die Wolfsburg" in Mühlheim/Ruhr: "Medien, Technik und Bildung".
• Film education. Lecture as part of the series of lectures "Kunstpädagogische Positionen", University of Hamburg, 30 April 2007
• Film School. The possibilities and challenges of film education in schools. Conception and moderation of a panel discussion during the International Short Film Festival 2007 in Hamburg.
• Film education. Fundamentals of a negative film theory - from art. Lecture at the Institute for Art and its Mediation, University of Lüneburg, 15.01.2007