Alexander Schindler, M.A.

Alexander Schindler, M.A. (he/him)

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Knowledge Cultures and Media Environments | Erasmus+ Coordinator European Media Studies

telephone: 0331 977 153082
E-Mail: alexander.schindleruuni-potsdampde
Web: https://wipcad-potsdam.academia.edu/AlexanderSchindler

address: Campus Am Neuen Palais
Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam
Haus 4, Raum 1.11

opening time: consulting hours
nach Vereinbarung

Alexander W. Schindler works at the University of Potsdam, Institute for Arts and Media. He is a Research Associate and Lecturer at the Chair of Knowledge Cultures and Media Environments, a PhD candidate in Media Studies, and the Erasmus+ Coordinator for European Media Studies.

His research is situated at the intersections of Media Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, History of Science, New Materialism, and Pragmatist Philosophy. The two main concepts behind his research are knowledge and media. Both are never static but constantly adapted, transformed, and co-produced. Knowledge and media are mutually dependent and embedded in practices, materials, infrastructures, technologies, relationships, and bodies that both enhance and constrain human and non-human agency.

Against this background, Alexander uses ethnographic and praxiographic methods to explore knowledge enactments in relation to social inequalities in times of ecological crisis.

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Lectures, Conferences, Workshops

April 3, 2025:
"Dringende Relationen. Neumaterialistische Fragen zu Klasse"
Lecture at Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder.
Conference title: "Who is in charge here? Konzeptionen von Natur, Kultur & Agency angesichts der ökologischen Krise"
https://www.materialismen-konf.de/

January 7, 2025:
"Hauntings in Knowledge Production"
Joint lecture at Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for European Ethnology (Institute Colloquium "Spectres and Spectrums")
Collaborators: Prof. Milena Bister, Adina Dymczyk, Jelena Grosse-Bley, Anja Klein (HU Berlin), Alexander Schindler (Uni Potsdam)

May 23, 2024:
"Finding (New) Ways with Methods: Fieldnotes"
Joint workshop at Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations, (Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for European Ethnology, Science and Technology Studies).
Organized by Anja Klein (HU Berlin), Dr. Maxime Le Calvé (HU Berlin), Alexander Schindler (Uni Potsdam)

September 29, 2023:
"Kanonische Abhängigkeiten – ein Arbeitsgespräch zwischen Medienwissenschaft und Wissenschaftsforschung"
Input lecture and panel discussion at the Annual Conference of the Society for Media Studies (GfM).
Location: University of Bonn.
http://gfm2023.de/

July 13, 2023:
"Finding (New) Ways with Methods: 'The' Vignette"
Joint workshop at Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations, (Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for European Ethnology, Science and Technology Studies).
Organized by Anja Klein (HU Berlin), Sophia Rossmann (TU München), Alexander Schindler (Uni Potsdam)

03/2023:
Experimental Science Journalism as a Living Lab? Methodological Considerations for a New Field of Research
[Orig. Experimenteller Wissenschaftsjournalismus als Reallabor? Methodologische Überlegungen für ein neues Forschungsfeld]
Conference: "Experimental Science Journalism. Between Science Scepticism and Media Change" at Forum For Cultures of Science at the University of Tübingen

09/2021:
A Swamp as Boundary Object: How to Map a Drained Wetland?
[Orig. Ein Sumpf als Grenzobjekt: Wie kartographieren wir ein trockengelegtes Feuchtgebiet? ]
Annual Conference of the Society for Media Studies 2021: "Ecologies of Knowledge" at University of Innsbruck

6/2020:
Questioning Causation: A Dialogue Between Vilém Flusser and John Dewey
Conference: "Vilém Flusser and His Languages" at University of the Arts Berlin

6/2019:
Phenomenology of Visual Depth Perception and Model-Based Imaging
33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts In Ljubljana: Metabolic Museum-University (Director: Clémentine Deliss) at Museum Of Contemporary Art Metelkova