Samantha Lutz, M.A.

since 04/2015           

• Master of Higher Education at the University of Hamburg, Germany

since 03/2014

• PhD Candidate at the Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany

2011 – 2013

Master in Communication and Cultural Management (Master of Arts), Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany

2007- 2011                

• Bachelor European Studies (Bachelor of Arts), University of Passau, Germany, with semesters abroad at Masaryk University (Brno) and University of West Bohemia (Pilsen) in the Czech Republic

• Digital heritage and intangible heritage
• Sustainability and sustainable development
• Discourse analysis and discourse ethnography
• Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis
• Collaborative research and cross-generational learning in Cultural Anthropology
• Urban diversity and politic

• Franken, Lina/Hansen, Lara/Lutz, Samantha/Stumpf, Teresa/Tijerina García, Alejandra/Koch, Gertraud (2019). Inquiries into Epistemologies and Ethics. Collaborative Knowledge Production in Cross-Generational Research. Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie, 10 (2019), pp. 79–97.
• Lutz, Samantha (2019). Open Knowledge als Gegenstrategie zur Ökonomisierung von Kulturerbe? Heritage-Politiken in der EU  [Open Knowledge as an Alternative Approach to the Economization of Culture in Europe. Heritage Politics in the EU]. In: Karl Braun, Claus-Marco Dieterich, Johannes Moser, Christian Schönholz (eds.). Wirtschaften. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Marburg, pp. 435–441.
• Lutz, Samantha (eds.). Special Issue {D1G1TAL HER1TAGE}, Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie, 07 (2017).
• Lutz, Samantha / Koch, Gertraud (2017). Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Culture. Diverging Concepts and Practices in Heritage Work . In: Marie-Theres Albert, Francesco Bandarin & Ana Pereira Roders (eds.). Going Beyond. Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No. 2. Springer: Wiesbaden, pp. 71–84.
• Lutz, Samantha (2017). Gelebte Traditionen. Über die nachhaltige Entwicklung von immateriellem Kulturerbe in Schleswig-Holstein und Deutschland [Living Heritage. On the Sustainable Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein and Germany], Schleswig-Holstein: Die Kulturzeitschrift für den Norden, 2 (2017), pp. 1–5.
• Koch, Gertraud / Lutz, Samantha / Stumpf, Teresa / Tijerina García, Alejandra (2014). Achieving Temporal and Local Multidimensionality: Experiments in Cross-Generational Research Collaboration, Conference Paper presented at EASA 2014: Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution (August 01, 2014). Tallinn, Estonia.
• Koch, Gertraud  / Lutz, Samantha / Stumpf, Teresa / Tijerina García, Alejandra (2014). Living Gentrification: Rethinking Displacement in Urban Redevelopment Processes from the Perspective of Berlin-Neukölln , Discussion Paper (July 31, 2019). Zenodo.
• Lutz, Samantha (2014). Endstation Neukölln oder das Paradies? Der Berliner BiOriental-Markt in Bewegung, Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, 110 (2014), pp. 31–45.

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde e.V. (dgv) [German Society of Folklore], working group ”Going digital”
• eHumanities Network of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Hamburg
• Digilab – Knowledge hub/Network for Digital Anthropology at the Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg
• Non-profit association “3rund e.V.” for bridging scientific research and social fields of practice, University of Hamburg

•  „Living Heritage: Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext des UNESCO-Übereinkommens zur Erhaltung des Immateriellen Kulturerbes [Living Heritage: Sustainability of Cultural Heritage in the Context of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage“, 42nd Biennal Conference of the German Society of Folklore 2019 [Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde] World. Knowledge. Design., Hamburg, Germany (07.-10.10.2019).

• “ECHY Studio – For the Young, by the Young: Cross-Generational Research for the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018”, with Ragna Quellmann, Julia Rausch & Olivia Stracke, Sharing is Caring 2017 Digitisation and Social Impact?, Aarhus, Denmark (19.-21.11.2017).

• “Open Knowledge als Gegenentwurf zur Ökonomisierung von Kultur in Europa? [Open Knowledge as an Alternative Approach to the Economization of Culture in Europe?]”, 41nd Biennal Conference of the German Society of Folklore 2017 [Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde] Wirtschaften, Panel „Widerstand zwecklos? Praktiken gegen Kommodifizierung und Marktfundamentalismus in zentralen Bereichen europäischer Politik“, Marburg, Germany (20.-23.09.2017).

• “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Germany”, invited keynote at the Information Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Germany organized by the association Schleswig-Holsteinischer Heimatbund, the Ministry of Justice, Culture, and Europe of the Federal State Schleswig-Holstein, and the German UNESCO Commission, Kiel, Germany (19.03.2017).

• “Sustainability and Culture. Diverging Concepts and Practices of Heritage Work in the Digital Age”, SIEF Digital Folklore Conference Towards Digital Folkloristics, Riga, Latvia (14.-16.09.2016).

• “Big data in den ‘sozialen Medien‘. Qualitative Forschungsstrategien und ihre informationstechnischen Herausforderungen am Beispiel von Twitter [Big Data on ‘Social Media’. Qualitative Research Strategies and their Information Technology Challenges Using the Example of Twitter]”, with Gertraud Koch & Roman Knipping-Sorokin, Forschungsdaten in den Geisteswissenschaften (FORGE 2015) [Research Data in the Humanities], Hamburg, Germany (17.09.2015).

• “Neukölln in Bewegung: Stadtpolitische Diskurse, Netzwerkstrukturen und (Um-)Wege der Integration”, with Teresa Stumpf & Alejandra Tijerina García, Workshop Fokus Neukölln I, Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany (19.06.2015).

• “Qualitative Data Analysis of Social Media”, with Gertraud Koch & Roman Knipping-Sorokin, Social Media Week Hamburg 2015 Upwardly Mobile: The Rise of the Connected Class, Hamburg, Germany (27.02.2015).

• “Achieving Temporal and Local Multidimensionality. Experiments in Cross-Generational Research Collaboration”, with Gertraud Koch, Teresa Stumpf & Alejandra Tijerina García, 13th EASA Biennal Conference 2014 Collaboration, Intimacy and Revolution Conference, Panel “Ethnography as collaboration/experiment”, Tallinn, Estonia (31.07.-03.08.2014).
  
  

• Undergraduate seminar “Sustainability in Culture? On the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in Europe”, Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
• Undergraduate seminar “Introduction to Scientific Methods”, Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
• Undergraduate seminar “Digital Heritage”, Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
• Lecture series “D1G1TAL HER1TAGE”, Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
• Undergraduate seminar “Research Practice: Discourse Analysis”, Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
• Undergraduate seminar “Research Practice: Grounded Theory and Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis with MAXQDA”, Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
• Co-Teaching “Research Practice: Discourse Analysis” with Prof. Dr. Gertraud Koch, Zeppelin University, Germany

• Sustainability in Culture? An Ethnographic Discourse Analysis of Digitization Projects and Practises of Reuse of Cultural Heritage in Europe (Working Title)

Sustainability has gained growing global recognition as a key concept of international and local governance approaches and, more recently, has been introduced in the field of cultural politics (e.g. UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage, European Cultural Heritage Year 2018, eCulture Agenda 2020 of Hamburg). However, the meaning of sustainability in the context of culture remains open. These developments and their relevance for the field of heritage management and memory work have not yet been scientifically explored.

In recent decades, European memory institutions (e.g. libraries, archives, and museums) have attempted to integrate digital technologies into their memory work, raising questions of the status and impact of digital technologies on both European heritage work and everyday practices of remembering. In light of an increasing number of digitized heritage and born-digital cultural materials, questions about the meaning and significance of our past legacy for contemporary and future heritage designs, as well as practices of world-making are becoming ever more important.

The research project addresses this research gap through a discourse ethnography of meta-cultural productions (Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 2004) in the European heritage regime, analysing imaginations, governance technologies, material frameworks and regulations as well as safeguarding practices on how to ‘sustainably’ maintain and circulate cultural heritage in the present and future digital times.

Supervisor

• Prof. Dr. Gertraud Koch

• Young heritage studio – cross-generational knowledge hub for the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018, Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology, Hamburg, Germany.
• Conference Sharing is Caring – Hamburg Extension 2018 Opening Up! Building Connectivity through Cultural Heritage, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg & the Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology, Hamburg, Germany (20.-21.04.2017).
• 10th dgv-Doctoral Student Conference #inprogress for the German Society of Folklore (dgv), HafenCity University Hamburg and Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology, Hamburg, Germany (17.-19.09.2015).