Prof. Dr. Victoria Hegner

Professorin für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft/Kulturanthropologie

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Victoria Hegner, Prof. Dr

Victoria Hegner
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  • Vita

    Studium

    •  1992-1999 Studium der Europäischen Ethnologie und Neuesten Geschichte an der Humboldt-Univ. zu Berlin, Duke-University, Durham und University of Toronto

    Wissenschaftliche Abschlüsse

    •  2018 Habilitation: Kulturanthropologie/Europäische Ethnologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

    Thema: Hexen der Großstadt

    •  2008 Dr. phil., Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Thema: Die russischsprachige jüdische Migration in Berlin und in Chicago – ein urbanethnologischer Vergleich  

    •  1999 Magistra Artium in Europäischer Ethnologie und Neuester Geschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Thema: Die Settelementbewegung in London, Chicago und Berlin: Ein sozialreformerisches Experiment Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts

    Beruflicher Werdegang

    •  Ab 2024 Professur für Empirische Kuturwissenschaft/Kulturanthropologie
    •  2022-2024 Heisenberg-Stelle
    •  2021-2022 Vertretung einer Professur (W2), Kulturanthropologie/Europäische Ethnologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
    •  2020 Vertretung einer Professur (W3), Kulturanthropologie/Europäische Ethnologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    •  2017-2018 Vertretung einer Professur (C4), Kulturanthropologie/Europäische Ethnologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
    •  2016-2021 Hauptamtliche Gleichstellungsbeauftragte, Phil. Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
    •  2012-2016 DFG, eigene Stelle, Kulturanthropologie/Europäische Ethnologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Thema: Moderne Hexen der Großstadt
    •  2009-2012 Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben, Kulturanthropologie/Europäische Ethnologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Forschungsschwerpunkte
    •  Stadtforschung
    •  Neue Religiöse Bewegungen
    •  Geschlechterforschung
    •  Wissen(schaft)sgeschichte, insbesondere zur Umbruchsituation nach 1989
    •  Methode der Ethnografie
    •  Medienanthropologie
    •  Sinnliche Ethnografie
  • Aktuelle Drittmittelprojekte

    2022-2027: Heisenberg-Förderung

    •  The Politics of Equality: An Ethnography of Gender Equality Work in Academia (Main Project)

    The project places university administration and academic management at the centre of its analysis. It focuses on gender equality work as a firmly institutionalised form of agency charged with reducing social and gender-based inequalities in academia and in the production of knowledge, and thus with bringing about “equality”. The project is guided by the proposition that gender equality work provides an especially revealing ethnographic lens through which to trace the profound transformation universities are currently undergoing: a transformation driven by an intensification of competition and, at the same time, by heightened moral expectations concerning equality of opportunity.

    •  Spiritual Ecologies

    The question of how humans relate to nature is fundamental to religious frameworks of interpretation and experience. In light of current developments, this relationship is being negotiated with increasing urgency at both theological and practical levels. In this context, some religious actors advocate a more sustained practice of “spiritual ecology”. The research project examines the contemporary formation of such a spiritual ecology through the example of the Jewish Renewal movement in Germany and the United States, approaching the two contexts both comparatively and as closely entangled. Its aim is to demonstrate how, in response to profound changes in environmental conditions, the relationship between nature and religion is itself being recalibrated. By focusing on Jewish Renewal, the project foregrounds the innovative role that new religious currents within established religious traditions play in shaping spiritual ecology.

    2022-2025: Postcards and Postcarding Culture in Germany and Israel 1960-2000: Addressing an Ambivalent Habitual Object in Times of Historical Upheavals

    •  In cooperation with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Dr. Dani Schrire

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