Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann

Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann

Researcher
Research Department:
Glocal Junctions

Contact

E-Mail: fuhrmann @prif .org

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CV

since 2023Researcher at PRIF
2018-2022Research Associate, Junior Research Group “Jihadism on the Internet: The Shaping of Images and Videos, Their Appropriation and Dissemination”, Institute of Ethnology and African Studies
2014-2017Cultural Manager and Curator, Cultural Department, Goethe-Institut Khartoum
2012Research for the MA Thesis, Nairobi University, Kenia
2012DAAD scholarship holder for an internship abroad at DEG in Nairobi, Kenya
2011-2014MA, African Studies, University of Cologne
2010-2012Scholarship holder of the NRW-Scholarship, sponsored by DEG - Bank of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia
2009-2010Semester abroad and DAAD scholarship holder for a semester abroad, University of Khartoum
2007-2011BA, African and Islamic Studies, University of Cologne

Expertise

Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann is working on the following issues:

  • Africa
  • Development policy and development research
  • Women in conflict situations and peace processes
  • Islam
  • Kenya
  • Sudan
  • Middle East
  • North Africa
  • Religion and politics, religious conflicts
  • Social movements and protest research
  • Terrorism
  • Artistic resistance

Publications

Selected publications

Contested Chants: The Nashīd Salīl al-Sawārim and its Appropriations | 2020

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana / Dick, Alexandra (2020): Contested Chants: The Nashīd Salīl al-Sawārim and its Appropriations, in: Christoph Günther und Simone Pfeifer (ed.), Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Aesthetics, Meanings, Appropriations, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 294–319.

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Challenges in Digital Ethnography: Research Ethics relating to the Securitization of Islam | 2020

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana / Pfeifer, Simone (2020): Challenges in Digital Ethnography: Research Ethics relating to the Securitization of Islam, in: Journal of Muslims in Europe, 9 (2), 175– 195, DOI: 10.1163/22117954-BJA10002.

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Towards an understanding of political satire in the Sudan | 2019

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2019): Towards an understanding of political satire in the Sudan, in: Sabine Damir- Geilsdorf and Stephan Milich (ed.), Creative Resistance: Political Humour in the Arab Uprisings, Bielefeld: transcript, 171-188.

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Re-enacting Violence: Testing and Contesting Public Spheres with Appropriations of IS Execution Videos | 2020

Pfeifer, Simone / Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana / Wevers, Patricia (2020): Re-enacting Violence: Testing and Contesting Public Spheres with Appropriations of IS Execution Videos, in: Christoph Günther und Simone Pfeifer (ed.), Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Aesthetics, Meanings, Appropriations, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 198–221.

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Mindbombs. Visual cultures of political violence | 2021

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana / Baden, Sebastian / Holten, Johann (eds), (2021): Mindbombs. Visual cultures of political violence, Berlin/Bielefeld: Kerber.

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Rhythms of Resistance: Sudanese Jazz and the Continuities of Political Expression through Music | 2023

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2023): Rhythms of Resistance: Sudanese Jazz and the Continuities of Political Expression through Music, Boy.Brother.Friend, 8.12.2023.

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Digitale Team-Ethnografie: Teilnehmende Beobachtung auf Instagram mit dem Account Hashtag Islam | 2023

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana / Pfeifer, Simone / Wiechert, Maike / Ahmad, Muna (2023): Digitale Team-Ethnografie: Teilnehmende Beobachtung auf Instagram mit dem Account Hashtag Islam, in: Stollfuß, Sven/Niebling, Laura/Raczkowski, Felix (Hg.), Handbuch Digitale Medien und Methoden, Wiesbaden: Springer Link, 1–24.

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Representations of Political Violence in Museological Spaces | 2023

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana / Mannitz, Sabine (2023): Representations of Political Violence in Museological Spaces. Decolonial Strategies, Contested Memory and Transformative Potential, Boasblog, 19.7.2023.

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„10 Sudanese Movies you need to see” | 2023

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2023): „10 Sudanese Movies you need to see”, 21.3.2023.

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Text zur Teilnahme der Künstlerin Julia Benz am Residenzprogramm von B-Murals in Barcelona, Spanien | 2022

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2022): Text zur Teilnahme der Künstlerin Julia Benz am Residenzprogramm von B-Murals in Barcelona, Spanien, 21.3.2022.

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„Mindbombs: Der künstlerische Umgang mit dem Terror" | 2022

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2022): „Mindbombs: Der künstlerische Umgang mit dem Terror", 1.1.2022.

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„Female Resistance Made in Sudan” | 2022

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2022): „Female Resistance Made in Sudan”, 1.1.2022.

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Verena Straub: Das Selbstmordattentat im Bild | 2022

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2022): Verena Straub: Das Selbstmordattentat im Bild, 1.1.2022.

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Beitrag zum Katalog über die Künstlerin Amna Elhassan | 2022

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2022): Beitrag zum Katalog über die Künstlerin Amna Elhassan, 1.1.2022.

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„Bilder der Gewalt: Künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen als pädagogischer Zugang" | 2021

Dick, Alexandra / Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2021): „Bilder der Gewalt: Künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen als pädagogischer Zugang", 1.1.2021.

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„Die Macht der Archive" | 2020

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2020): „Die Macht der Archive", 1.1.2020.

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Ṣalīl al-Ṣawārim: Ein Nashīd und seine Aneignungen | 2020

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana / Dick, Alexandra (2020): Ṣalīl al-Ṣawārim: Ein Nashīd und seine Aneignungen, in: Zywietz, Bernd (Hg.), Die Propaganda des Islamischen Staates: Formen und Formate, Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag.

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Inside the Islamic State’s Media – Eine kollaborative Videoanalyse | 2020

Zywietz, Bernd / Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana / Pfeifer, Simone / Günther, Christoph / Dick, Alexandra (2020): Inside the Islamic State’s Media – Eine kollaborative Videoanalyse, in: Zywietz, Bernd (Hg.), Die Propaganda des Islamischen Staates: Formen und Formate, Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag.

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„Protest art in Sudan’s uprising" | 2019

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2019): „Protest art in Sudan’s uprising", 21.3.2019.

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„Archiving Sudan’s past, present and future" | 2019

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2019): „Archiving Sudan’s past, present and future", 21.3.2019.

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„#sudanrevolts: contesting power & violence through art" | 2019

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2019): „#sudanrevolts: contesting power & violence through art", 21.3.2019.

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Sudan Untold/ Retold | 2019

Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2019): Sudan Untold/ Retold, Berlin: Hirnkost Verlag.

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Current Projects

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    Curator

    Selected Exhibitions:

    Amna Elhassan - DECONSTRUCTED BODIES – IN SEARCH OF HOME, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 4.11.2022-12.02.2023 

    Tadham – Eine Fotoausstellung aus dem Jemen, Soma Art Space, Berlin 03.12.2022-10.12.2022

    Mindbombs – Visuelle Kulturen politischer Gewalt, Kunsthalle, Mannheim 10.09.2021-24.04.2022 

    reCLAIM platform – art as resistance against political violence, Kuratierte Web Applikation, seit Februar 2021

    Acts of Resistance: An Anthology, virtuelle Ausstellung für das Goethe-Institut Sudan

    Habibi Funk: A Spotlight on Arab Grooves, East Wing Gallery, Dubai 21.03.-30.07.2018

    A Sudanese Triangle, Galerie Speckstrasse, Hamburg 09.06.-17.06.2018

    since 2022Member of DGSKA
    2020-2022Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the exhibition “Mindbombs – Visuelle Kulturen politischer Gewalt” at the Kunsthalle Mannheim