Guest researchers
Randall Halle
Research areas
Randall Halle holds the Klaus W. Jonas Professorship for German Film and Cultural Studies and is Director of the Center for European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Together with Timm Beichelt, he also heads the ValEUs research project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ program. Professor Halle's research interests include the critical exploration of prevailing discourses and images of Europe as well as a Low Theory of (Un)Popular Culture. Further information can be found on the website of the University of Pittsburgh.
Witold Jacorzynski
Research areas
Witold Jacorzynski is an anthropologist at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social Unidad Regional Sureste (CIESAS Sureste) in Mexico. His research interests include the history of Presbyterian religion in indigenous communities in Chiapas as well as Europe and European integration from a socio-cultural perspective. His current research project is entitled “The terror of the ‘Other’ and its political avatars in Poland”.
Duration of the guest stay: 15 April to 15 June 2024
Funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation