About the person:

Carina Branković is a research assistant in the "Teacher Education Critical of Anti-Semitism" project funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture in the University Strategy - Focus on Teaching staff unit of the Presidential Board of the University of Oldenburg.

She previously worked as a research assistant in the fields of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies and Intercultural Theology at the Institute for Protestant Theology and Religious Education at the University of Oldenburg from 2017 to 2024. Her dissertation in religious studies examined ritual constructions in George Tabori's Holocaust drama "The Cannibals" (New York City 1968) and "Die Kannibalen" (West Berlin 1969). From 2013 to 2017, she was a research assistant at the Institute for Religious Studies at Heidelberg University. From 2011 to 2013 she received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and from 2009 to 2011 she was a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Centre 619 "Ritual Dynamics" at Heidelberg University.

Her master's thesis in religious studies was dedicated to the exhibition "Glaubenssache. An exhibition for believers and non-believers" (2006/07) at the Stapferhaus Lenzburg (CH). During her studies, she was supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (2006-2009). She studied Religious Studies, Protestant Theology, European Art History and Jewish Studies at the University of Heidelberg, the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg and the University of Zurich.

Teaching:

• WiSe 2024/25: Seminar: "Introduction to Judaism"
• WiSe 2024/25: Advanced training: "Antisemitism - recognising, reflecting and acting"
• Summer semester 2024: Seminar "Antisemitism - passing on stereotypes and motives"
• Summer semester 2024: two seminars: "Approaches to interreligious dialogue"
• Winter semester 2023/24: Seminar: "Introduction to Judaism"
• WiSe 2023/24: Seminar: "Transcultural Interreligious Studies: Perspectives and Approaches" (Lecturer: Dr Carina Branković, Prof Dr Andrea Strübind, Prof Dr Almut Höfert, Prof Dr Dr Joachim Willems, PD Dr Tilman Hannemann, Dr Kim Strübind)
• Summer semester 2023: Seminar: "Introduction to Judaism"
• Summer semester 2023: Seminar: "Interreligious dialogue in the public sphere" (with Friederike Henjes, M.A./M.Ed.)
• Winter semester 2022/23: Seminar: "Teaching workshop: Jewish life in Oldenburg" (with Friederike Henjes, M.A./M.Ed.)
• WiSe 2022/23: Seminar: "Transcultural Interreligious Studies: Perspectives and Approaches" (Lecturer: Dr Carina Branković, Prof. Dr Andrea Strübind, Prof. Dr Almut Höfert, Prof. Dr Dr Joachim Willems, PD Dr Tilman Hannemann, Dr Kim Strübind)
• Summer semester 2022: Seminar "Gender and Judaism"
• Winter semester 2021/22: Seminar "Introduction to Judaism"
• WiSe 2021/22: Seminar "Transcultural Interreligious Studies: Perspectives and Approaches" (Lecturer: Dr Carina Branković, Prof Dr Andrea Strübind, Prof Dr Almut Höfert, Prof Dr Dr Joachim Willems, PD Dr Tilman Hannemann, Dr Kim Strübind)
• Summer semester 2021: Seminar "Introduction to Judaism"
• Summer semester 2021: Seminar: "BS/Excursion as part of the commemorative year '321-2021: 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany'"
• Summer semester 2021: Seminar: "'We ourselves have heard him'. The theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye"
• Winter semester 2020/21: Seminar "Introduction to Judaism"
• Winter semester 2020/21: Seminar: "(Religious) Concepts of Identity in Contemporary Jewish Literatures"
• WiSe 2020/21: Seminar "Transcultural Interreligious Studies: Perspectives and Approaches" (Lecturer: Dr Carina Branković, Prof Dr Andrea Strübind, Prof Dr Almut Höfert, Prof Dr Dr Joachim Willems, PD Dr Tilman Hannemann, Dr Kim Strübind)
• Summer semester 2020: Seminar "Introduction to Judaism"
• Summer semester 2020: Seminar: "Discourses of Christian-Islamic dialogue"
• Summer semester 2020: Seminar: "Approaches to interreligious dialogue"
• Winter semester 2019/20: Seminar: "Introduction to Judaism"
• Winter semester 2019/20: "Holocaust Education. Block seminar with excursion to the Auschwitz memorial site" (together with Rebecca Hedenkamp, M.A.)
• Summer semester 2019: Seminar: "The Holocaust in German-Jewish Literature of the Second and Third Generation"
• Summer semester 2019: Seminar: "Christian-theological and Islamic-theological foundations of dialogue"
• Summer semester 2019: Seminar: "Religious Studies and Theological Approaches to Interreligious Dialogue
• Summer semester 2019: Seminar: "'America' in the museum: Insights into the permanent exhibition of the Übersee-Museum Bremen"
• Winter semester 2018/19: Two seminars: Jewish Life in Oldenburg in co-operation with the Jewish Places online platform of the Jewish Museum Berlin
• Winter semester 2018/19: Seminar: Christian-theological and Islamic-theological foundations of dialogue
• Summer semester 2018: Seminar: "The Holocaust in German-language literature after the Second World War"
• Summer semester 2018: Seminar: "Introduction to Islam"
• Summer semester 2018: "Resurrection or reincarnation? Reflections on religious studies and theology"
• Winter semester 2017/18: Seminar: "Local religious history: Jewish life in Oldenburg"
• Winter semester 2017/18: Seminar: "Individual religiosity in the exhibition 'Religramme - Faces of Religions'"
• Summer semester 2017: Introductory seminar/excursion: "'What would Luther say?' - The exhibition 'The Popes and the Unity of the Latin World' and the Reformation discourses"
• Winter term 2016/17: Introductory seminar/excursion: "'The Bible' staged in a museum: Religious studies perspectives on a religious exhibition setting"
• Summer semester 2016: Introductory seminar: "Ritual and ritual dynamics. A reading course with practical exercise"
• Winter semester 2015/16: Introductory seminar/excursion: "'Material Religion' in Practice - The Esoteric Days in Mannheim"
• Summer semester 2015: Introductory seminar: "'Opening rituals' in museums"
• Winter semester 2014/15: Introductory seminar/excursion: "'Tibet' and 'Myanmar' in the museum. Insights into the permanent and special exhibition of the Linden-Museum Stuttgart"
• Summer semester 2014: Introductory seminar (together with Simone Heidbrink, M.A.): "'Zurück zu den Sachen' Reloaded - Erstellung eines (Online-)Ausstellungskatalogs und weiterer PR-Texte im musealen Kontext"
• Summer semester 2014: Introductory seminar/excursion (together with Simone Heidbrink, M.A.): "Religious Studies in the museum - disciplinary history of objects 'yesterday' and 'today'"
• Summer semester 2014: Participation in the ring seminar: "'Religion goes Media' - (Re-)presentation of religions in selected media discourses"
• Winter semester 2013/14: Introductory seminar (together with Simone Heidbrink, M.A.): "'I have no rituals - except for things that are always done the same way. Ritual and ritual dynamics in theory and (religious) practice"
• Winter semester 2013/14: Introductory seminar (together with Simone Heidbrink, M.A.): "'Back to the things! Religious Studies as the subject of an exhibition - a practice-orientated seminar (with an open outcome)"
• Summer semester 2011: Introductory seminar (together with Simone Heidbrink, M.A.): "'Kraftwerk Religion'. Religious studies perspectives on an exhibition about 'God and the people'"
• Winter semester 2010/11: Ring seminar: "Materiality, actor and/or the space in between. Interpretation, perception and (re-)presentation of material objects in religious contexts"
• Summer semester 2010: Introductory seminar: "Text reading III on ancient Iranian religious history"

Publications:

• Branković, Carina: "So wie die Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart weiterlebt" - Erinnerungsethische Implikationen bei Elie Wiesel, in: Zeitschrift für Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 36 (2023), H. 2, 283-290.
• Branković, Carina: Eruditions of being Jewish. On the intergenerational "shared search for meaning" in Dmitrij Kapitelman's The smile of my invisible father (2016), in: Dominik Gautier/Knut Wormstädt (eds.), Lernerfahrungen, Theologie als Beziehungsort im interkonfessionellen und interreligiösen Gespräch, Festschrift für Ulrike Link-Wieczorek, Beihefte zur Ökumenischen Rundschau 136, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2023, 113-130.
• Branković, Carina/Kranz, Dani: Jüdische Gegenwart in Deutschland: Mehr als Antisemitismus und Exotenzirkus, in: APuZ-Edition Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland, Schriftenreihe Band 10799, Bonn: bpb 2022, 151-161, also available online at: https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/APuZ-Edition_JLiD_ba_0.pdf
• Branković, Carina: Antisemitism Criticism as a Higher Education Didactic Task - Institute of Theology and Religious Education at the University of Oldenburg, in: Lower Saxony State Commissioner against Antisemitism and for the Protection of Jewish Life: Jewish Life in Lower Saxony - Vibrant, Valuable and Enriching. Second annual report (2021), Hanover 2022, 85-92 (with Ariane Dihle, Dominik Gautier, Rebecca Hedenkamp, Friederike Henjes, Joachim Willems) To the annual report.
• Branković, Carina/Kranz, Dani: Review of the anthology "Weil ich hier leben will ...". Jewish voices on the future of Germany and Europe, edited by Walter Homolka/Jo Frank/Jonas Fegert, Freiburg i. B.: Herder 2018, in: Zeitschrift für Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 32 (2019), H. 1, 198-200.
• Branković, Carina: Ritual- und religionskritische Konstruktionen in George Taboris Holocaust-Drama The Cannibals (New York City 1968) und Die Kannibalen (West-Berlin 1969), Dissertation, Heidelberg: Universität Heidelberg 2019, URL: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/26832/.
• Branković, Carina/Koselitz, Sören: Beyond Hochhuth. Gedanken zu Rolf Hochhuths Drama "Der Stellvertreter" als Katalysator für kirchliche Selbstreflexion und die Auseinandersetzung mit Schuld, in: Julia Enxing/Dominik Gautier (eds.), Über (Un-)Möglichkeiten von Wiedergutmachung, Beihefte zur Ökumenischen Rundschau 122, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2019, 207-221.
• Branković, Carina/Heidbrink, Simone: Prayer Worlds: Aesthetics and Variance of a Religious Practice, in: Material Religion 13 (2017), no. 1, 124-126.
• Branković, Carina: "I find the Bible funny because: things always go wrong in it, a true picture of our existence." On George Tabori's constructions of selected biblical narratives and events in The Goldberg Variations (1991), in: Carina Branković/Simone Heidbrink/Charlotte Lagemann (eds.), Religion in Ex-Position, Eine religionswissenschaftliche Ausstellung, Begleitband zur Ausstellung, Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg, Kataloge 11, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS ²2016, 82-85, URL: books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks/catalog/book/69.
• Ahn, Gregor/Branković, Carina/Heidbrink, Simone: "Who knows one, knows none." Religionswissenschaft in Heidelberg, in: Carina Branković/Simone Heidbrink/Charlotte Lagemann (eds.), Religion in Ex-Position, Eine religionswissenschaftliche Ausstellung, Begleitband zur Ausstellung, Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg, Kataloge 11, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS ²2016, 21-30, URL: books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks/catalog/book/69.
• Branković, Carina/Heidbrink, Simone: "Holy Coffee"? Ein Vorwort, in: Carina Branković/Simone Heidbrink/Charlotte Lagemann (eds.), Religion in Ex-Position, Eine religionswissenschaftliche Ausstellung, Begleitband zur Ausstellung, Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg, Kataloge 11, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS ²2016, 10-11, URL: books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks/catalog/book/69.
• Branković, Carina/Heidbrink, Simone: Religion in Ex-Position. Eine Einführung, in: Carina Branković/Simone Heidbrink/Charlotte Lagemann (eds.), Religion in Ex-Position, Eine religionswissenschaftliche Ausstellung, volume accompanying the exhibition, Heidelberg University Museum, Catalogues 11, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS ²2016, 14-20, URL: books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks/catalog/book/69.
• Branković, Carina/Heidbrink, Simone/Brand, Madeleine: "On offer today: ...!" Der 'Markt der Religionen' in religionssoziologischer Perspektive, in: Carina Branković/Simone Heidbrink/Charlotte Lagemann (eds.), Religion in Ex-Position, Eine religionswissenschaftliche Ausstellung, Begleitband zur Ausstellung, Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg, Kataloge 11, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS ²2016, 65-69, URL: books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks/catalog/book/69.
• Branković, Carina/Heidbrink, Simone/Lagemann, Charlotte (eds.): Religion in Ex-Position. Eine religionswissenschaftliche Ausstellung, volume accompanying the exhibition, Heidelberg University Museum, Catalogues 11, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS ²2016, URL: books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/heibooks/catalog/book/69.
• Branković, Carina/Heidbrink, Simone: Religion in Ex-Position. Eine religionswissenschaftliche Ausstellung - "Wie können wir Religion(en) untersuchen?", in: Handbuch der Religionen, Kirchen und andere Glaubensgemeinschaften in Deutschland und im deutschsprachigen Raum, ed. by Michael Klöcker/Udo Tworuschka, Ergänzungslieferung 43, Munich: Olzog 2015, 1-29.
• Branković, Carina/Heidbrink, Simone: Religious Studies on Display: the Exhibition Religion in Ex-Position in Heidelberg, in: Material Religion 11 (2015), no. 4, 570-572.
• Rupp, Jan/Branković, Carina/Pattathu, Antony George: On the Media Aesthetics of Ritual Design in Narrative-Fictional Representations. Theoretisch-methodische Überlegungen und Anwendungsperspektiven, in: Janina Karolewski/Nadja Miczek/Christof Zotter (eds.), Ritualdesign, Zur kultur- und ritualwissenschaftlichen Analyse "neuer" Rituale, Bielefeld: transcript 2012, 97-124.