Nico Hoffmann, M.A.

ab 2017

• Promotion am Institut für Volkskunde/Kulturanthropologie

2013 bis 2015

• MA Social Sciences im Global Studies Programme der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, FLACSO Argentina (Argentinien) und Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)

2010 bis 2013

• BA Communication and Cultural Management an der Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen

• Social relationships and distance
• Mobile communication and connected presence
• Ethnoscapes
• Hybridity
• Multiple modernities

Publications

• Soziale Beziehungen und Distanz - Ein Beitrag zur Ethnographie von Fernbeziehungen. In: Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde (Band 109 - 2013).

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde e.V. (dgv) [German Society of Folklore], working group ”Going digital”
• International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (sief), working group “Digital Ethnology and Folklore”
• 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

• “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?]”, 42nd 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 [SL1] 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).
  
  

Teaching

• 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

PhD Research Project

• Elastic ties: On the social elasticity of being together – Practices of relating in mediated connection (Working Title)

 Supervisor

• Prof. Dr. Gertraud Koch

• ECHY 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).