This Leibniz Media Lunch Talk is hosted by the
Hamburg section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion. Dr. Jakob Hartl, researcher at the Research Institute Social Cohesion (FGZ) in Halle (Saale) and Visiting Fellow at the HBI, will explore the question of how media work and consumption contribute to remembering and experiencing cohesion in local societies.
PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt will provide the introduction. The event will be held in German.
Time
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Registration
If you would like to attend, please register in this form. We will send you the registration data for Zoom shortly before the event.
About the Presentation
According to Maurice Halbwachs, individual memories of events of strong or weak social cohesion are to be understood as objects of collective memory. If this collective memory in its relation to groups and interactions can still be understood as communicative memory, it is transformed into permanent, cultural memory through its documentation. This documentation work is carried out by memory agents, especially journalists, who thus become, among other things, actors in the politics of memory. Therefore, the question arises how media work and consumption contribute to remembering and experiencing cohesion in local societies. The Lunch Talk will approach this question with new data from the FGZ regional panel.
About the Speaker
Jakob Hartl graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in sociology, philosophy and politics and obtained a PhD from the University of Bristol in 2020 for his thesis on the political implications of young people’s experiences of precarisation. Since 2021, he is a research fellow at the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) in Halle (Saale). His research focus lies on the multi-method intersections of social structures and memory structures as well as on the politics of social inequality, particularly from a spatial perspective.
Leibniz Media Lunch Talks
At the Leibniz Media Lunch Talks, researchers present current topics, interim results from their research projects or doctoral projects in a relaxed atmosphere. You are welcome to enjoy your lunch during the talk.
