Institute of Historical and Cultural Anthropology

Sarah Ullrich, M.A.

Contact 

sarah.ullrichspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Research Interests

  • Digital Anthropology, Digital Everyday Cultures, Museum Studies, Visitor Studies, Popular Cultures

Vita

  • Since 2021 research associate at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen
  • From 2019 to 2021 research associate and member of the 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
  • 2016 to 2019 M.A. Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tübingen and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er Scheva (Israel)
  • 2012 to 2016 B.A. Ethnology and Sociology
  • During studies student assistant at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut and the Institute for Sociology (University of Tübingen)

Current PhD Studie

Practices of aesthetic meaning-making between museum space and digital image technologies (working title)

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 and Talks

Publications

  • 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.