Laura Holderied
Laura Holderied
Laura Holderied
Academic training
Laura Holderied studied European Social Science Studies (B.A.), Political Science and Transnational Cultural Studies (M.A.) at the Universities of Bremen and Salamanca. Since April 2017, she has been a scholarship holder of the doctoral programme "Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen" at the University of Oldenburg and an associate member of the "International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture" at the University of Giessen, where she previously worked as a research assistant.
Laura worked as a lecturer in the "European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations" and as a writing consultant for students at the University of Oldenburg. Since September 2019, she has been a visiting PhD student at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests lie at the intersection of (global) politics and culture with a focus on critical migration and border studies, critical security studies, visual global politics, post-structuralist international relations and discourse analysis and research
Project outline
Visual practices as bordering practices. Visual politics and EU border governance in the "summer of migration" and its aftermath (working title)
In my PhD project, I focus on the role of images in the discourse of EU European migration and border politics during and after the "summer of migration" 2015, analysing how the EU's external border is made specifically visible, understandable, imaginable and "governable" by state and non-state actors through references to photojournalistic images in discourse. To this end, I combine perspectives from Critical Border and Security Studies, post-structuralist International Relations and the research programme of Visual Global Politics.
Lectures
2020, October (adopted): European Icons and B/ordering Processes. An analysis of multivalent border formations in policy discourses during the 'Summer of Migration' 2015. 6th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft: "B/ordering Cultures. Everyday Life, Politics, Aesthetics", European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder
2020, July (accepted): European icons during the 'summer of migration' 2015. An analysis of visual representations of German 'Welcome culture' in Germany and the UK. Workshop "Zwischen Willkommenskultur und Restriktion: Migrationsdiskurse im und nach dem langen Sommer der Migration", Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin
2020, March: Visual identity politics as border politics: Analysing Alan Kurdi and other European icons during the EU 'border crisis' 2015. Meeting "Ethnography Apprentice Class", Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
2020, February: Visual Identity Politics as Border Politics. European Icons in the 'Summer of Migration' 2015. Concluding Conference of the PhD programme "Boundary Formations in Migration Societies": "The Formation of Boundaries in Migration Societies and the Responsibility of Scholarship", University of Oldenburg
2019, May: Doing Border - Image Politics in the EUropean Border Regime. Expert discussion at the black market for useful knowledge and non-knowledge of the Mobile Academy Berlin on the topic "Niemandsland. Migration and border work at the edges of order" at the Staatstheater Oldenburg
2018, October: Migration, borders and democracy in Europe. Umrisse einer demokratietheoretischen Grenzregimeanalyse, together with David Niebauer and Simon Sperling. 27th Academic Congress of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) "Grenzen der Demokratie / Frontiers of Democracy" at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2018, July: What can Political Science contribute to Border Studies?, together with David Niebauer and Simon Sperling. 2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderland Studies at the Universities of Vienna and Budapest.
2017, December: Politics of representation and doing border in film. An analysis of filmic positions in the discourse on the EU-European border regime. Workshop "Faces of Migration - Representations of Migration and Migration Experience" of the DFG project "Narrating Migration" at the University of Bielefeld
2017, June: Interdisciplinarity as Translation: The Case of Visual Securitisation in the EUropean Border Regime, VII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture of the Lisbon Consortium at the Universidade Católica Lisboa: "Global Translations"