Univ.-Prof. Dr. Margit Kern
Photo: P. Feuerböther
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- Art of the early modern era and late Middle Ages
- the double coding and resemanticization of signs, transcultural processes of negotiation in visual cultures
- the history of art conceived as entangled histories
- art of the 19th and 20th centuries in Ibero-America and Spain
- the history of photography
- Difficult Heritage
- visual scepticism
Subproject 1: Visual Scepticism
Vita
Studied art history, theatre studies, and philosophy in Erlangen, Vienna and Berlin. 1998: PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin for “Tugend versus Gnade. Protestantische Bildprogramme in Nürnberg, Pirna, Regensburg und Ulm” (Virtue Versus Grace: Protestant Image Programs in Nuremberg, Pirna, Regensburg and Ulm) – Martin-Luther-Preis, 2000. 1998-2002: research associate, 2002-2009: research assistant with the Department of Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin. 2006: establishment of a working group on “Spanish and Ibero-American Art History”. 2010: Habilitation at the Freie Universität for “Transkulturelle Imaginationen des Opfers in der Frühen Neuzeit. Übersetzungsprozesse zwischen Mexiko und Europa” (Transcultural Imaginations of Sacrifice in the Early Modern Era: Translation Processes between Mexico and Europe). 2009-2011: assistant professor of art history in the early modern era with a special focus on the history of theology with the Department of Theology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 2011-2012: W2 professor for the history of art in Spain and Latin America at the Freie Universität Berlin. 2011/2012: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research stay at Yale University. Since October 2012: professor for art history with the Department of Art History at the Universität Hamburg; Summer semester 2020: Fellow at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies/Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations (FOR 2779)”, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt. Since 2021: ERC Advanced Grant Horizon 2020: “Visual Scepticism: Towards an Aesthetic of Doubt”.
