CV

 

Professional Experience

 

2010 – Present

Faculty of Humanity and Social Sciences, Department of Education and Social Sciences, Chair: Education and Cultural Sociology, University of Cologne

 

0,5 Associate Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben LfbA 13 TV-L) teaching in Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory, Globalisation, and Migration

 

1994 – 2006

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Indonesian Language and Culture lecturer, curriculum development

 

1994 – 2006 

Insearch (ILC) Language Centre, Sydney 

Indonesian Language and Culture, adult education

 

1991 – 1996

University of New South Wales, Australia

Indonesian Language and Culture lecturer

 

1994 – 1999

Tertiary and Further Education TAFE, Meadowbank, Sydney N.S.W

Indonesian Language and Culture, curriculum development and adult education

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Education and Performance Training

 

• Doctorate of Creative Arts (DCA) thesis title: Troppo Obscura: A Peepshow of Historical Perversity, University of Technology, Sydney, 2005

• Challenges to Perform Cross-Culturally: Seeing/Feeling, Hearing/Dancing, Presenting/Writing, Reflecting/Remembering, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, 2002

• Bachelor of Arts Honors Degree at the University of Sydney, 1991

• National Australian Languages Scholarship Scheme (NALSS), one year of intensive Indonesian language at Gadja Mada University, Indonesia 1997

• Principles and Practices of Teaching and Learning, Professional Development Centre, University of New South Wales, 1996

• Contemporary Performance: 6 months Tadashi Suzuki stomping and actor training, Side Track Performance Group (1996), Movement classes with Entre’act Theatre Company (1992-1993), Movement workshops with Suprapto, Indonesia (1992-1993), and Performance workshops with Teater Sae, Budhi S.Othong (1992-1994), Theatre workshops with Benkel Teater Rendra, Jakarta,  (1986-1994).

• Indonesian dance: Topeng Losari, traditional mask dance, Cirebon (1992-1999), Jaipongan, contemporary dance, West Java (1983-1992), Kreasi Baru, contemporary dance, Yogyakarta, (1992-1994), Pendet Panyembrahma, traditional dance, Bali (1983 and 1988), Jejer Gandrung, traditional dance, East Java (1992-1994) Klana and Golek, traditional dance, Central Java (1997-1999)

 

Languages

 

English, German and Indonesian: native fluency, Dutch: near native fluency

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Selected Academic Publications 1991 – Present

 

• Postcolonial Studies (Co-Author Julia Reuter). In: Meuser, Michael/Klein, Gabriele/Gugutzer, Robert (Hrsg.): Handbuch Körpersoziologie. (pending 2020)

• Body Hegemonies 2017: An Experimental Transfer (Co-Authors Michael Lazar and Fabian Chyle). In:  Journal for Artistic Research JAR (in review, pending 2020)

• Kritik der ästhetischen Erfahrung des Wir (Co-Autor Paul Mecheril) In: Meyer Torsten/Eschment Jane/ Rodonò (Hrsg.): Arts Education in Transition: Ästhetische Bildung im Kontext kultureller Globalisierung und Digitalisation, kopaed München (S.141-150), Kunst Medien Bildung‘ (2020)

• Angst und Wut. Zur affektiven Konstruktion migrationsgesellschaftlicher Ordnung (Co-Autor Paul Mecheril) In: M. Kulucatan & H. Behr (Hrsg.): Migration, Religion, Gender und Bildung. Beiträge zu einem erweiterten Verständnis von Intersektionalität (S.157-174). Bielefeld: transcript (2020)

• Accredited Affects: Discourses on Migration and Threat (Co-Author Paul Mecheril). In: Flubacher, Mi-Cha/Hägi-Mead, Sara (eds.): Taboo and Transgression. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Migration, Integration, and Diversity (Theoretische Beiträge des Zentrums für Integrationsstudien, Band 1). (p. 25-38) Dresden: Zentrum für Integrationsstudien (2020)

• Postkoloniale Theorien. In: Zeller Joachim/Bechhaus-Gerst Marianne (Hrsg.): Deutschland Postkolonial? Die Gegenwart der Imperialen Vergangenheit, (S.319-336) Metropol Verlag (2018)

• Migration, Europe, and Staged Affect-Scenarios (Co-editor Paul Mecheril) In: Europe Now: a journal of research & art, Special feature on Anxiety Culture, Issue 19/ July (2018)
  https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/07/01/migration-europe-and-staged-affect-scenarios/

• Gorgobad: reflections on a German-Australian family biography. In: Entanglements: Remembering German-Australian Colonial Pasts, Postcolonial Studies Issue 21, N0 1, (2018) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13688790.2018.1437669?needAccess=true

• De-cloaking Invisibility: Remembering Colonial South-West-Africa. In: Bartels Anke/Eckstein Lars/Waller Nicole/Wiemann Dirk (eds.) Postcolonial Justice, Cross/Cultures Volume 191, ASNEL Papers Volume 22, (p. 277-295) Brill/Rodopi: Leiden/Boston (2017).

• The Gift: Singing Leichhardt, as part of the Queensland Museum virtual exhibition on Leichhardt: https://leichhardt.qm.qld.gov.au/1001+Leichhardts  (2017

• The Gift: Dancing Leichhardt, as part of the Queensland Museum virtual exhibition on Leichhardt: https://leichhardt.qm.qld.gov.au/1001+Leichhardts  (2017)

• Bedroht, angstvoll, wütend: Affektlogik der Migrationsgesellschaft (co-writer Paul Mecheril) In: Die Dämonisierung der Anderen. Rassismuskritik der Gegenwart (Hrsg.) Castro Varela María do Mar/ Mecheril Paul, (S. 119-143) Transcript Verlag (2016)

• Dancing the in-between with Homi Bhabha. Becoming Minor as a Resource and Instrument of Postcolonial Migration Research. In: Reuter Julia/Mecheril Paul (Hrsg.) Schlüsselwerke der Migrationsforschung: Pionierstudien und Referenztheorien, (S. 279-397) Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (2015)

• Culture, Language, Diversity: Questions and Answers in South Africa and Indonesia. In: The International Journal of Diverse Identities, 12(4) (p. 23-36), (2013)

• A Secret Story of Repressed Desire: Margareta Macleod. In: gang re:Publik indonesian-australian creative adventures (eds.) Alexandra Crosby/Conroy Rebecca/Piper Sue/Cornall Jan,  (p. 72-80) Gang Festival Inc. (2008)

• Ibu Sawitri and the A/Occidental Oriental. In: e-journal, Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, Special Issue: Women in Asia, Vol 3, No. 2 (https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/169 ) (2006)

• Dancing in the ‘Contact Zone’. In: e-journal, Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, Special Issue: Women in Asia, Vol 3, No. 2 (https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/168 ) (2006)

• Unlocking Australia’s Language Potential, Vol 5 Indonesian/Malay (1991)

 

Performance and Research Grants 1992 – Present

 

• Akademie der Künste der Welt NRW - Performance Laboratory and Symposium:
  Body Hegemonies 2017 – An Experimental Transfer

• SINTER (Social Inequality and Intercultural Education – University of Cologne) Grant – Workshop: Shifting Memories – Moving Histories: Remembering Postcolonial Cologne (2016)

• Research Travel Grant to Indonesia, University of Cologne - UoC Forum:
  Cultural Heritage in Africa and Asia – Discourses and Practice (2015)

• Art and Science in Motion - Wissenschaft und Kunst in Bewegung, international residency/ exchange, Visselhovede,Volkswagen Stiftung, Germany

• University of Technology, Sydney, Performance Grant:
  DCA multimedia installation/performance (2002)

• Carnivalé Multicultural Arts Festival:
  DCA multimedia installation, Development Grant, (2002)

• Asia Link Residency:
  Indonesian mask dance training & film documentation, Cirebon - Indonesia (1998)

• Australia-Indonesia Institute (AII):
  Development Grant, Indonesian mask dance/research, Cirebon - Indonesia (1998)

• Australia Council of the Arts:
  Performance Grant (1996)
  Individual Development Grant, traditional mask dancing and making in Yogyakarta and Cirebon - Indonesia (1992)

 

Organisation and Staging of Conferences and Workshops:

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• Body Hegemonies 2017: An Experimental Transfer – Symposium und Performance:
  Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Concept/Organisors: Dr. Monica van der Haagen-Wulff und Dr. Fabian Chyle (Akademie der Künste der Welt NRW), 04. November 2017

• Global Cities as a Challenge for Education
  University of Cologne, International Perspectives in Teacher Education, Organiser: Dr. Monica van der Haagen-Wulff and Dr. Michael Lazar (Artist/Scientist – University of Haifa, Israel), 15.-17. August 2017

• Workshop: Shifting Memories - Moving Histories: Remembering Postcolonial Cologne:
  Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, 11.-13. May 2016

• IDA-NRW Conference: Das vom Anderen heraufzunehmende Gespräch – Über die Vermittlung von Theorie und Praxis in rassismuskritischen Kontexten, Köln, 2.-3. Dezember 2016

• IDA-NRW Conference: Zum Theorie-Praxis-Verhältnis in der Rassismuskritik „Es gibt nichts Praktischeres als eine gute Theorie.“ „Das ist zwar theoretisch richtig, taugt aber nicht für die Praxis.“, Hattingen, 7.-8. November 2015

• Workshop: Fictocriticism - writing the in-between
  Herbstwerkstatt: Centre for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies, Graduierten Schule 3GO, Universität Oldenburg, 16.-19. September 2014

 

Conference Papers and Public Lectures

 

• Body Hegemonies: An Experimental Transfer between Academia and Art and Activism
  Breaking Boundaries: Academia, Activism and the Arts, University of Lisbon 25.-26. 9.2019

• Securing Privilege: Historico-Political Narratives of Dangerous Bodies
  a.r.t.e.s. forum 2019: Politics of Sensemaking, University of Cologne, July 5. 2019

• Affective Communication in Schools of the Migration-Society
  International Workshop on the Anxiety Cultures Project Profile and Research Strategy: Living and Learning in a World of Anxieties, Kiel university, November 15.-17. 2018

• Colony Camp Border: Migration 2040
  Multimedia performance-lecture, presented at the Workshop “Shaping the Future: The Emergence and Impact of Future-Visions and Processes of Societal Transformation”, as part of the panel Migration 2040 at the Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg 6-7. September 2018
  Video installation: https://vimeo.com/288773573/7b18184de8

      Performance Lecture:

      https://www.blog.wizegg.uni-oldenburg.de/colony-camp-border/#anfang

• Un-Using Colonial Pasts: Remembering Colonial South-West-Africa
  Lecture Series: Heritage, Conflict and Belonging, Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Cottbus 13. December 2017

• Un-Uses of Colonial Pasts in the Cityscapes of Cologne, Oldenburg and Cottbus
  Conference: Materialities of Postcolonial Memory – University of Amsterdam, 7.-9. December 2017

• Accredited Affects: Discourses on Migration and Threat
  International conference Taboo and Transgression. The Power of the (Un)Told in Postmigrant Society, Centre for Integration Studies, Technical University, Dresden 22. June 2017

• Einverleibung: Eine Postkoloniale Reflektion
  Symposium: Decolonising Arts Education, Institut für Kunst und Kunsttheorie, Universität zu Köln, 28-29. April 2017

• Dancing the in-between: Reflektionen zu Migrationsbewegungen und transnationalen Lebenswelten, Lecture-Performance, Bonn, 18. März 2017 https://vimeo.com/458720001/3c65571d93

• Discursive (Con)-structions of Threat-Scenarios in Migration Societies
  Symposium: Educational Responsibility in Times of Social Crisis, Centre of Humanities in Education (ZeBiG) Kiel University (Co-Author Prof. Dr. phil. Paul Mecheril Carl Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg) 23. June 2016

• Dancing the in-between: reflections on the (im)-possibilities of embodied academia
  Lecture-Performance: Kunstvolle Praxis - interkulturelle ungleichheitsanalytische Perspektiven auf Routine und Kreativität, FIST Forschungsstelle für interkulturelle Studien, Universität zu Köln,
  14. Januar 2015

• Performative postkoloniale Migrationsforschung
  Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Julia Reuter und Dr. Monica van der Haagen-Wulff, Internationale Konferenz: Performigrations an der Universität Klagenfurt am 30. Juni 2015

• De-Cloaking Invisibility: Remembering Colonial South-West-Africa
  Postcolonial Justice: Reassessing the ‘fair go’ Joint Conference of ASNEL and GAST in Potsdam and Berlin 29.-31. May 2014

• Infiltrating the Domestic Fortress: The Resistance of Mas Marco Kartodikromo
  Conference: Resistance. Subjects, Representations, Contexts, Oldenburg University, November 6.-8. 2014

• Lecture-Performance, Vortragsreihe „Migration - Geschichten Bewegen Grenzen“, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in Kooperation mit der Universität Oldenburg, Juli 2013

• Dancing in the Contact Zone: Eine Reflexion über die (Un-) Möglichkeit der Begegnung
  Lecture-Performance, Vortragsreihe „Migration - Geschichten Bewegen Grenzen“, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in Kooperation mit der Universität Oldenburg, 29. Mai 2013

• Origin – Transit –Destination (OTD). Diskontinuitäten in einer interkulturellen Kollaboration Veranstaltende:  Prof. Dr. Eva Sturm, Fak. III Institut für Kunst und visuelle Kultur Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril, Center for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC), Universität Oldenburg, 01 Juli 2013

• Troppo Obscura: A Peepshow of Historical Perversity
  Images of Social Life, Visual Sociology Association Conference at the University of Southampton, UK 2003

• White Body: Asian Moves
  Institute for International Studies (IIS) Annual Conference: Women and Radical Change at the University of Technology, Sydney 2002

• Boxing the Colonial
  Visiting Scholars Program Challenges to Perform Cross-Culturally, organised by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University 2002

 

Selected  Performances

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• Body Hegemonies 2017: An Experimental Transfer, University of Cologne (2017)

• – Teater Kita Makassar & APE –Sally Sussman, Sulawesi (2012)

• The Tangled Garden, Bandung, Jakarta, Darwin Festival and Sydney (2007)

• Troppo Obscura: A Peepshow of Historical Perversity, multimedia Installation, Carnivale Multicultural Arts Festival, Sydney (2002)

• Girt by Sea, a marathon outdoor performance installation, Sydney (2002)

• , hybrid dance performance, Karlsruhe, Leiden (2000)

• People Eat Food, Cars Eat Petrol and Spirits Eat Incense, solo dance, Sydney (1999)

• The Horned Matriarch, Sumatran hybrid folk theatre, Sydney (1998)

• Prima but not a Ballerina, solo dance, Sydney (1997)

• Badai Pasir, site specific performance installation/collaboration, Yogyakarta (1997)

• , intercultural theatre production, Sydney (1996)

• Plane Truth, theatre performance with Sidetrack Performance Group, Sydney (1996)

• Sand Storm, performance installation, Sydney (1996)

• , theatre production with Sidetrack Performance Group, Sydney (1996)

• , solo mask dance performance, Sydney (1995)

• Lines of Descent, dance performance, Balai Ensemble, Performance space, Sydney (1995)

• Full Circle, solo mask dance ‘Asian Theatre Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney (1994)

• Full Circle documentation on SBS News Extra National Television (1994)

• Ini Bukan Saya, solo mask dance, Belvoir St Theatre ‘Open House’ (1994)

• , a collaborative dance performance, Jakarta Cultural Centre (1993)