Miriam Meissner
Biography:
Miriam completed a Bachelor's degree in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Düsseldorf and just received her Master's degree in Cultural Analysis (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam. In September 2011, she started a PhD at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis with the working title "Narratives of the 2007-Present Financial Crisis as a Mythology of the 21st Century Global City". Miriam is affiliated with the Department for English Literature and a member of the ASCA Cities Project.
ASCA Cities Project
Research:
Miriam's PhD project is about the narrativization of the late 2000s financial crisis in different media (film, literature, journalistic crisis reports). In particular, the project explores the role of cities and urban aesthetics in narratives of the global financial crisis. It thereby focuses on the question how both the dynamics of early 21st century globalization and the complex functionality of contemporary finance capitalism are articulated in relation to urban places, imaginaries and forms of perception. The concept of myth is used as an analytical tool referring to the structural and stylistic qualities, and the ideological implications of different financial crisis narratives.
Conferences/ Projects:
This year, Miriam has presented her work at the 2011 ASCA International Workshop "Practicing Theory: Imagining, Resisting, Remembering" and at the Workshop "Prekarität Beschreiben" in Düsseldorf (Germany). She will also participate at the conference "Krise, Cash & Kommunikation – Analysen zur Darstellung der Finanzkrise in den Medien" in Nov. 2011 in Mannheim (Germany).
Together with Pedram Dibazar, Christoph Lindner and Judith Naeff, Miriam is currently organizing the conference "Questioning Urban Modernity" which will take place on the 18th of May 2012 at the University of Amsterdam.
ASCA International Workshop 2011 (Amsterdam)
Workshop "Das Prekäre Beschreiben" (Düsseldorf)
Conference "Krise, Crash&Kommunikation" (Mannheim)
Conference "Questioning Urban Modernity" (Amsterdam)