Seminario dottorale
Introduction
Marco Russo: Conflicting Memories. The Making of Cultural Heritage
Lecture
Riem Spielhaus: More Than Illustrations: The Role of Images in School Textbooks
Respondents: Armando Bisogno e Giuliana Regnoli
Coordinator: Francesca Dell’Acqua
BIO
Riem Spielhaus heads the Department of Knowledge in Transition at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig and is Professor of Islamic Studies, with a focus on education and cultures of knowledge, at the University of Göttingen.
She studied Islamic Studies and African Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, where she also received her PhD. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for European Islamic Thought at the University of Copenhagen and a research fellow at the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Her current research examines the representation of religious minorities, sexual diversity and migration in school textbooks. She investigates not only what education media say about but also how images and visual symbols shape understandings of religion, diversity and thus, of the (national) self.
