Libuše Hannah Vepřek, Dr.
Postdoctoral researcher
Contact
Ludwig Uhland Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology | University of Tübingen | Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen
+49(0)7071/29-78392
Main Areas in Research and Teaching
- Digital Anthropology
- Science and Technology Studies
- Anthropology of technology
- Cultures of Artificial Intelligence
- Moral anthropology and Ethics of technology
- Memory Cultures
Academic Profile
Since October 2023, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Uhland Institute, developing my habilitation project at the intersection of digital anthropology, anthropology of technology, and Science and Technology Studies. My current research focuses on digital everyday life and human-technology relations in sociotechnical systems. I am particularly interested in how new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence are shaped and negotiated by different actors, while simultaneously transforming the practices of actors and their perceptions of these in their everyday lives. Additionally, my work involves further developing ethnographic methods for analyzing digital data and algorithmic phenomena.
After completing my studies in Cultural Anthropology and Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, I worked as a research associate at the Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis from 2019 to 2023. There, I completed my doctoral studies in September 2023 as part of the DFG-funded project "Spielend in the Loop" (DFG – 464513114, led by Prof. Dr. Johannes Moser) with my dissertation titled "At the edge of Artificial Intelligence: Intraversions in Human Computation Systems."
In addition to teaching, my responsibilities at the Ludwig-Uhland Institute include coordinating the International Study program and the Digital Anthropology Lab, as well as managing the IT infrastructure.
CV
Since October 2023: Postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Uhland Institute of Historical and Cultural Analysis |
| 2023: Dr. Phil, dissertation “At the Edge of Artificial Intelligence. Intraversions in Human Computation Systems,“ LMU Munich (summa cum laude) |
October 2022 to November 2022: Research intern with the Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
September 2022: Computer Science Master’s degree thesis: “Towards more collaborative and adaptive ethical review platforms. With the example of the ethical review of human computation-based citizen science projects" |
2022 Best poster award for “Assembling Spheres: Aligning human computation systems in citizen science” of the topic “Making Technology Work for Citizen Science” at the Engaging Citizen Science Conference, Aarhus University |
2021 – 2023: Researcher with the DFG project "Playing in the loop: New Human-Software Relations in Human Computation Systems and their Impacts on the Spheres of Everyday Life” (funded by the German Research Foundation) |
August 2021 – October 2021 Scholarship holder of the DAAD program "IFI – Internationale Forschungsaufenthalte für Informatikerinnen und Informatiker (Doktoranden), 2019-2022 (57515303)" |
2019 to 2023: Research associate at the Institute of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at LMU Munich |
2019 to 2023: Doctoral student in the international PhD Program “Transformations in European Societies“ |
2019: Honory Award of the Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich |
2019: Award of the City of Munich for University graduates (Hochschulpreis der Landeshauptstadt München für die LMU) |
March 2019: Cultural Anthropology Master’s degree thesis: "Ludwigsfeld: The (Non-)simultaneities of a Munich city district. Struggles for recognition and power of interpretation over a space between former concentration camp, residential estate for ‘Heimatlose Ausländer’ and urban living in the countryside |
2018 to 2020: Freelancer at ARGUS! Kultur&Kommunikation, Munich |
2017 to 2019: Participant at the Advanced Study Program for Social Sciences of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation); workgroup "Digitization, Ethics and Society: An Integrative Analysis” |
2018 to 2022: Master’s degree studies of Computer Science at LMU Munich |
May 2017 to August 2017: Internship at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich |
| Since September 2015: Member of the editorial board of the journal “Kuckuck. Notizen zur Alltagskultur“ |
October 2014 to January 2015: Internship at the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam in the department for group visits |
October 2014 to September 2018: Scholarship holder of the Max Weber-Program of the State of Bavaria |
2012 to 2019: Studies of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis at the University of Regensburg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München |
Current and former posts
| Erasmus coordinator at the Ludwig Uhland Institute of Historical and Cultural Analysis, University of Tübingen (since October 2023) |
| Speaker of the DGEKW [German Society for Cultural Anthropology] commission “Digital Anthropology“ (since September 2022) |
| Member of the Ständiger Ausschuss für Forschungsethik und Forschungsdaten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW) (since 2021) |
| Member of the editorial board of the journal “Kuckuck. Notizen zur Alltagskultur“ (since September 2015) |
Academic Memberships
American Anthropological Association (AAA) |
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW) |
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) |
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) |
Münchner Vereinigung für Volkskunde (MVV) |
Kommission Digitale Anthropologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW) |
| Cultural anthropological network "Alltag und Technik", University of Klagenfurt |