Info Session: Explaining the WissZeitVG to Brazilian Researchers

Claudia Seldin is an urban theorist, researcher and lecturer at the Center for Metropolitan Studies and the Urban Management Program of the Technische Universität Berlin (Germany). She is a former IRS Leibniz visiting fellow (2022) and Alexander von Humboldt postdoc fellow (2019-2022).

Kathrin Meißner is an urban historian and human geographer based in Berlin with stays in Budapest, Leicester and Lisbon. Her research focuses on the (re)construction of narratives and (visual) discourses of Berlin's urban society in the 20th and 21st centuries and related dynamics of media change and communication processes in the context of planning culture. She is currently completing her dissertation at Technische Universität Berlin.

Britta Ohm is a media anthropologist and teaches at the Institute for Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany. From the 1990s onward, she has been researching the fast changing media landscapes in India and Turkey with an evolving focus on postcolonial formations, neo-liberalization, religious nationalism/fascism, and narratives of truth. Since 2016, she is a member in the coordination group of the Network for Decent Labour in Academia (NGAWiss) and increasingly active in raising attention to imbrications of precarity and academic freedom on an international level (as founding member of the Precarious International-Initiative and co-organizer of the Academic Freedom Space (AFS) at the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Leiden/Netherlands).

Aslı Vatansever is a sociologist of work and social stratification with a focus on precarious labor and labor activism in academia. Currently, she is a research fellow at Bard College Berlin. Her work on academic labor activism has appeared in prominent outlets in the field of labor studies such as Work, Employment and Society.