Dr. Judith Albrecht
Judith Albrecht is a social anthropologist, visual ethnographer, and curator whose work lies at the intersection of science and committed public anthropology. With gender as her central analytical lens, she explores power structures and knowledge production across diverse contexts. Her interdisciplinary research encompasses gender and social movements, migration and diaspora, care work, trauma, violence and memory, transcultural media- and filmwork.
She is a founding member and spokesperson of the AG Public Anthropology within the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology, and the founder and editor of the quadrilingual multimedia project Encounter (Arabic, Farsi, German, English). This initiative brings together collaborative workshops, exhibitions, film productions, and publications, aiming to foster critical, creative, and multilingual engagements with urban space, migration, gender and digitalization.
Albrecht’s methodological approach is multimodal, participatory, and deeply reflexive. Her ethnographic research has addressed transnational relationships and diasporic identities among Iranian women activists, as well as the transnational dynamics of women’s movements in Iran and Libya. In her forthcoming contribution to the anthology Hierarchies of Citizenship, she examines the intersections of trauma, intersectionality, and citizenship in migration and care systems.
Since 2016, she has conducted long-term ethnographic research in Germany with family members of femicide victims, exploring the entanglements of trauma, language, and institutional responses to violence. Her work—undertaken in courtrooms, prisons, police stations, and victim support networks—advances critical feminist and embodied approaches to ethnography, including the use of multisensory methods and her concept of "respiratory ethnography".
Judith Albrecht’s documentaries and fictional shorts have been featured internationally at filmfestivals, conferences and exhibitions.
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https://www2.hu-berlin.de/multimodalappreciation/team/judith-albrecht/
Membership:
German Society of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA)
Spokesperson of the GASCA Working group: Public Anthropology
European Network of Social Antrhopology (EASA)
European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA)
EASA Mutlimodal Network