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08.11.2022

Successful dissertation defense by Lydia Kastner

In focus: The medium of art

Celebration of a successful dissertation defense within the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network. — Celebrated the successful dissertation defense together: Lydia Kastner and Prof. Dr. Markus Huff

Lydia Kastner of the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Can Portrait Drawing Foster Socio-Emotional Skills? Development and Experimental Evaluation of Evidence-Based Visual Arts Courses in the Art Museum to Foster Adolescents' Empathy and Self-Concept". As part of her doctoral research, Kastner developed a drawing course program in collaboration with the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, Germany, in which nearly 300 adolescents between the ages of twelve and 19 participated.

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