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A N N A     L U I S E     K I S S      Media Studies Researcher

Conference presentations
2026

(Ost-) Berliner Kunsthochschulen im Wandel, panel participation together with Dr. Angelika Richter (KHB), Prof. Andrea Tober (HFM) and Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch (ZZF) in conversation with  Robert Ide (Der Tagesspiegel).

Without Borders? The (Im)Possible Paths of Indiana Jones Reception for Citizens of the GDR, paper at the international conference “DEFA-Grenzenlos: Mobilität und Raum” (DEFA without Borders: Mobility and Space) | University of Erfurt, March 25–27, 2026

2024

Das Filmerbe der DDR als Forschungsfeld für Bürger*innen?, lecture at the conference “Quo vadis DEFA-Forschung? Neue Perspektiven im Umgang mit dem Filmerbe der DDR” (Quo vadis DEFA Research? New Perspectives on Dealing with the GDR’s Film Heritage) and panel participation | University of Rostock

2023

Together with Konrad Wolf and Leonie Graf, input on the project Inklusion in der Lehre der Theaterkünste at the conference Zukunft ist jetzt! EUCREA-FORUM ZU INKLUSIVER KÜNSTLERISCHER AUSBILDUNG | Weißensee Kunsthochschule

The Cinematic Streetscape in Potsdam: Palimpsest – Cultural Arena – Performative Space, Paper presented at the Locating Media Industries: Cities, Spaces, Places Conference at King’s College London (UK)

2022

Panelist at the conference “Unbreak my Heart – warum wir das Theater lieben” (Unbreak my Heart – Why We Love the Theater) | Heinrich Böll Foundation, invited.

Speaker at the international conference Creative Ways into Desirable Futures, topic: innovative training formats for the professionals of tomorrow.

2021

Spazi Immaginari: Fotografia, Cinema E Architettura at the Università degli Studi di Perugia,

online by invitation

Podcasts als Forschungsinstrument, talk at the 34th FFK at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, online

Film (heritage) in the city, talk, research training group at Mersin University, Turkey, online by invitation

Film Studies as a Predestined Field for Citizen Research and Participatory Research, short talk as part of the workshop Into the Wild? Film Studies and Transitions into ‘Openness’, online

Short impulse talk on open access at art universities, workshop “Performing Open Access”, open-access.network | online, invited.

2020

Audio Visual Lockdown Works and their Communication Spaces, talk at the Dial S for Screen Studies Conference of the Sydney Screen Studies Network

Bürgerwissenschaftler*innen auf der Suche nach dem filmischen Gesicht der Stadt, talk at the 33rd Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, HBK Braunschweig

2019

Filmwissenschaft in Potsdam, talk in the series HIS WIS – Historische Seiten der Wissenschaft of the Volkshochschule Potsdam

‘Kaffe Kino’: An infrastructure of engagement with the Defa film heritage – a place of resistance against the power structures of film heritage marketing? Paper at the IAMHIST Conference Power and the Media, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Reconstructing the "Eisenstein Cabinet" in VR, paper at the NECS 2019 Conference Structures and Voices. Storytelling in Post-Digital Times, Gdansk

2018

Chair of the panel Filmgeschichte als FilmHerStory − Strategien der Sichtbarmachung weiblichen* Filmschaffens at the symposium Raus aus dem Malestream − Feministische Perspektiven im dokumentarischen Filmemachen, Filmuniversität Babelsberg / programme flyer

Words of Welcome at Docmedia – Exploring docmedia production through the lens of web-based and virtual reality technology

Chair of the panel Music and Style in Transnational Television Drama at the conference Transnational Television Drama – Tastes, Travels and Trends, Aarhus University

2017

Pathenheimer im Montagelabor. Arts-based research seminar, paper together with Susanne Foidl at the CILECT Congress, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

From Bed Sheets to the Dots Torture Room. Developing Questions on the Body Mask in Film History, paper at the NECS Conference, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris

Tracking fictional violence, paper at the IAMHIST Conference (The International Association for Media and History), University Paris 2 (CARISM)

2016

MOTIVSUCHE: Fiktionalisierte Kritik dokumentaren Filmschaffens, paper at the annual conference Kritik of the GfM, Freie Universität Berlin

Rethinking Sergei Eisenstein’s Typage theory, paper at the conference A hundred years of Film theory. Münsterberg and beyond: Concepts, Applications, Perspectives, Leipzig University

Non-professional acting in Reality-TV as "over-the-norm-acting", paper at Acting on Television. Analytical Methods and Approaches, University of Reading (UK)

Verwendungsgeschichte(n) der letzten Filmaufnahmen von Adolf Hitler, paper at the DFG workshop Verwendungsgeschichte, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Die Filmfotografin Waltraut Pathenheimer und Emotionsdarstellung im Kinofilm, talks at the Potsdam Tag der Wissenschaften, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

2015

Tarzan, the Ape Man meets the Earth Trembles: Discourses on non-actors in Classic Hollywood and Neorealist cinema, Max Kade Institute of the University of Southern California (USC)

Film introduction and Q&A moderation for Die Alleinseglerin / Filmmuseum Potsdam

2014

Béla Balázs’ theories on non-actors Paper presented at the conference Béla Balázs – Dichtung und Film, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Germany)

Reflections on Non-Actor’s Creativity in "La terra trema" and "Nicht versöhnt", paper at the NECS Conference (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan

Shaping Collective Visual Memory by Rewriting Propaganda: The Repetitive Use of the Last Film Shots of Adolf Hitler in Documentary Films, paper at the Cultural Politics of Memory Conference, Cardiff University (Wales)

2013

The diegetic room in the series "Der Forellenhof" (Germany 1965-66) and "Xanadu" (France 2011): Spacial representation of the functionality and dysfunctionality of the family myth, the whole house, paper at the 16th International Culture and Power Conference, Universidad de Murcia

Returning to the Source: The Last Shots of Adolf Hitler – Four Dimensions of Their Use in Documentary Films and the Circumstances of their Production, paper at the NECS Conference (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies), Charles University, Faculty of Arts Prague (DAAD congress scholarship)

Da war ich ein Film und eine Wochenschau – Medienkritische Reflexion in Irmgard Keuns Roman "Das kunstseidene Mädchen", paper at the 14th Early Career Researchers’ Conference of the State of Brandenburg, Fachhochschule Brandenburg 2013

Lecture Diverso da chi? (Anders als wer?) on representations of Tourette’s syndrome in narrative cinema, Università degli studi di Perugia

Film introduction to Vincent will Meer, Istituto Tedesco, Perugia

Die Vermittlung von Rollenbildern im Fernsehen (Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung), talk as part of a workshop of the Erich Pommer Institut (EPI) at the Filmmuseum Potsdam

Das ‘ganze Haus’ gestern und heute: Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion eines familiären Mythos, paper at the conference Familie in krisenhaften Zeiten, University of Cologne

2012

Xanadu – Spekuliere und Du wirst verstehen, talk at the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM) on the moments of speculation inscribed through a specific plot design in the French television series Xanadu, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main