Areas of research and interest
Human-environment relations, climate change, ontologies, Oceania (Melanesia)
Contact
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU)
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich
Room:
024
Phone:
+49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 9629
Fax:
+49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 9602
Email:
desiree.hetzel@ethnologie.lmu.de
Office hours:
Winter term 2019/20: Tuesday 13:00-14:00
Work group
Research and exchange project FALAH (Family, Agriculture, Livelihoods and Health in the Pacific) – Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE), funded by EU (2020-2024), together with Arno Pascht and Eveline Dürr
Project: ‘Localising global climate change policies in Vanuatu: Reception of Knowledge and Cultural Transformations’ (2016-2019), funded by DFG
Research Trips
- 01/2019-04/2019 Vanuatu, Malekula (funded by GCCW Promovierendenförderung)
- 10/2016 – 12/2017 Vanuatu, Malekula and Efate (funded by DFG)
- 1/2015 – 4/2015 Vanuatu, Port Vila (Research Project: Perspectives on Climate Change of youn ni-Vanuatu; funded by DAAD German Academic Exchange Service)
Academic Career
- Since 2016 Researcher at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
- 2016 M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
- 2012-2015 Graduate assistant at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
- 2011 B.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Educational Science, Karl-Ruprecht Universität Heidelberg
Presentations and Publications
- 2018 Presentation: ‚Being there‘ – ‚being back‘. Universitäre Lehre nach der Feldforschung; Conference of the research group Anthropology and Education in Heidelberg
- 2018 Presentation together with Arno Pascht: “Engaging in Adaptation to Climate Change and Generation of Practice in Vanuatu““ Conference on ‘Climate Change Adaptation on Small Islands‘ in Hannover
- 2018 Presentation together with Arno Pascht: „Yam vs. Feuerholz. Klimawandel und neue Umwelt(en) auf Efate und Malekula. Ein Feldforschungsbericht aus Vanuatu“; Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology LMU
- 2017 Presentation: ‘New Strategies for New Challenges? Ideas and Practices of Adaptation in Malakula‘; ESfO Conference Munich
- 2017 together with Arno Pascht ‘Young ni-Vanuatu Encounter Climate Change: Reception of Knowledge and New Discourses’. In: Dürr, Eveline; Pascht, Arno (eds.): ‘Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses: Ontologies, Discourses and Practices in Oceania‘. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- 2016 together with Stefan Müller-Mathis: “Multi-sited”: Überlegungen zum didaktischen Umgang mit Vielstimmigkeit. Standbein Spielbein, 105.
- 2015 Presentation: ‘Crisis or Chance? Reception of Climate Change Information by Young ni-Vanuatu‘; GAA Conference in Marburg
- 2015 Presentation together with Arno Pascht: ‚Travelling Ideas of Climate Change? Knowledge Reception and Transformation by Young ni-Vanuatu‘; ESfO Conference Brussels
- 2012 Presentation together with Anna Müller: ‚Kulturdedektive. (Nicht) Erkennen des Eigenen und des Anderen‘; Conference of the research group Anthropology and Education (GAA) in Heidelberg