Institute of Historical and Cultural Anthropology

Sarah Ullrich, M.A.

Postdoctoral researcher

Contact 
Ludwig-Uhland-Institut for Empirical Cultural Studies | Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen | Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen
sarah.ullrichspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de
No office hours

Main Areas in Research and Teaching

  • Digital Anthropology / Digital Everyday Cultures
  • Social Media & Digital Image Cultures
  • Popular Culture Studies
  • Museums & Art

Academic Profile

Since May 2024, I have been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute. In my current project „Blickwinkel: Eine kooperative Projektinitiative zu kreativer Kunstvermittlung und digitaler Teilhabe“ funded by the Innovation Grant from the University of Tübingen, I aim to translate the research findings and ethnographic insights from my dissertation into innovative art education strategies and practice-oriented teaching units in collaborative cooperation with museum and school institutions.

From 2019 to 2023, I worked as a research associate and doctoral candidate in the DFG-funded project „Curating Digital Images: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Affordances of Digital Images in Heritage and Museum Contexts“ at the Center for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), HU Berlin and the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute. In my dissertation „Museen und Social-Media: Wie digitale Bilder und ästhetische Alltagspraktiken die Kunsterfahrung verändern“ that was published in April 2024 I examined how the boundaries between institutionalized art worlds and everyday contexts are increasingly transcended through digital aesthetics and visualization patterns.

CV

Since 2024, postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut for Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen and project lead of the „Blickwinkel: Eine kooperative Projektinitiative zu kreativer Kunstvermittlung und digitaler Teilhabe“.

Teaching

Fall 2021/2022

  • Digital ethnography (together with Dennis Eckhardt at the HU Berlin)

Spring 2020

  • On Display: Digital transformations in the field of museums & heritage (together with Christoph Bareither and Katharina Geis at the HU Berlin)

Publications

  • Ullrich, Sarah: Social-Media und Museum: Wie digitale Bilder und ästhetische Praktiken die Kunsterfahrung verändern. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 2024.

  • Bareither, Christoph/ Macdonald, Sharon/ Greifeneder, Elke/ Geis, Katharina/ Ullrich, Sarah/ Hillebrand, Vera: Digitales Bildkuratieren: Reihe Begriffe des digitalen Bildes. Hildesheim; München: Georg Olms Verlag; Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. 2023: URL: https://publishing.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/oplmu/catalog/book/131.

  • Bareither, Christoph/ Macdonald, Sharon/ Greifeneder, Elke/ Geis, Katharina/ Ullrich, Sarah/ Hillebrand, Vera: Curating Digital Images: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Affordances of Digital Images in Heritage and Museum Contexts. In: International Journal for Digital Art History (8) 2021, S. 82-99.
  • Doing History im digitalen Raum – Social Media und Kunst. In: Hypotheses Academic Blogs. 2021. URL: doingph.hypotheses.org/275.
  • Ullrich, Sarah/ Geis, Katharina: Between the Extraordinary and the Everyday: How Instagram’s Digital Infrastructure Affords the (Re)contextualization of Art-Related Photographs. In: Art and Culture International Magazine (7) 2021, S. 117-135.
  • Digitales Kuratieren der Kunst- und Museumserfahrung auf Social-Media-Plattformen.” In: Ulrich Hägele/ Judith Schühle (Hg.): Visuelle Kultur. Studien und Materialien. Band 14. Münster 2021. S. 67-77.
  • Ullrich, Sarah/ Geis, Katharina: Ethnographic Observations of Digital Museum Practices during the Covid-19 Crisis. In: CARMAH Reflexions. 2020. URL: www.carmah.berlin/reflections/digital-museum-practices/.

Talks

  • Practices of Aesthetic Meaning-Making on Social Media. Lecture as Part of the Seminar „MakerMuseum - Applied Collection Research Skills“. Humboldt University of Berlin, 06.01.2022.
  • Digitale Bildtechnologien und Kunstvermittlung. Lecture as Part of the Seminar „Museale Krisen und Zukünfte. Eine ethnographische Spurensuche“. University Vienna, 30.11.2021.
  • Praktiken des ästhetischen Meaning-Making zwischen musealem Raum und digitalen Strukturen. Workshop for Early-Stage Researchers within the DFG Priority Program „The Digital Image“. 17.11.2021.
  • Together with Christoph Bareither and Katharina Geis: ‚Kuratieren‘ als Begriff des digitalen Bildes. Workshop „Prozesse und Erkenntnisse: Begriffe des digitalen Bildes“. University Marburg, 04.11.2021.
  • Digital Mediation of Artistic Heritage through Visitor Photography and Social Media Practices. SIEF Conference 2021 „Breaking the rules? Power, participation and transgression“. University of Helsinki, 24.06.2021.
  • Digitale Ethnografie. Vortrag im Rahmen des MA Kolloquiums zum Themenkomplex „Ethnografisches Forschen im digitalen (Corona-)Zeitalter.“ Humboldt University of Berlin, 08.12.2020.
  • Together with Katharina Geis: Methoden und Methodologie der Europäischen
  • Ethnologie: Das digitale Bild aus ethnografischer Perspektive. Workshop „Das digitale Bild – Methodik und Methodologie: fachspezifisch oder transdisziplinär?“. 13.11.2020.
  • Digitales Kuratieren der Museumserfahrung auf Social-Media-Plattformen. Conference of the Commission for Photography of the dgv in Cooperation with the National Museums of Berlin „SnAppShot2020“. 20.10.2020.
  • Together with Christoph Bareither, Sharon Macdonald, Elke Greifeneder, Katharina Geis and Vera Hillebrand: Curating Digital Images: Ethnografische Perspektiven auf die Affordanzen digitaler Bilder im Kontext von Museen und kulturellem Erbe. Initial Conference „DFG Priority Program ‚The Digital Image‘“. University Munich, 18.02.2020.