Johannes Müske Curriculum Vitae

Johannes Müske
Curriculum Vitae (09/2014)
Universität Zürich, Institute for Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies – Popular Culture Studies – Affolternstrasse 56, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland; Phone +41 (0) 44 634 4087, johannes.mueske@uzh.ch, www.ipk.uzh.ch/aboutus/people/Mueske.html
Education
11/2012
Dissertation in Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich: Klänge und Töne als Cultural
Property?" ("Sounds and Tunes as Cultural Property? A sensory ethnography on soundscapes,
sonic heritage, and the cultural appropriation of the sound world"; publication in preparation)
2008–12
Doctoral student, University of Hamburg (Germany), University of Zurich (Switzerland); advisors:
Thomas Hengartner (Zürich), Regina Bendix (Göttingen); project was part of the Research
Group on Cultural Property, University of Göttingen
12/2007
University of Hamburg: Magister Artium (M.A.) in Folklore/Cultural Anthropology
03/2004
University of Hamburg: Baccalaureus Artium (B.A.) in Folklore/Cultural Anthropology
2003–04
Universidad de Sevilla (Spain): 2-sem. study abroad (Erasmus) in Antropología Social y Cultural
and Historia de América
2000–07
University of Hamburg: Studies of Folklore/Cultural Anthropology (major), Business Admin., Law,
Museum Management (minors)
1998
Elisabeth-Gymnasium, Halle/S. (Germany): Abitur (A-levels)
Academic Experience
since 12/2012
University of Zurich, Institute for Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK), postdoctoral
researcher and project co-ordinator with the research group "Broadcasting Swissness",
Basel/Lucerne/Zurich (Switzerland); sub-project B: "Institutional politics of Swissness through
sound: Re-thinking archives and the genesis, transmission, and significance of sound collections
in their societal context" (www.broadcasting-swissness.ch)
2012
University of Basel, researcher with the research group "Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Midas
Touch?", Basel/Neuchâtel (Switzerland); Yearlong research project on the history of Folk
medicine research, with Sabine Eggmann (Basel): "Knowledge systems and the research on
intangible culture: the archive of the Swiss Folklore Society"
2011–12
Fellow at Isa Lohmann Siems-Stiftung, Hamburg; yearlong research project: "Klangchiffren.
Archivalien und die Aushandlung kultureller Bedeutungen am Beispiel der Klangwelt der
Automobilität"
2010–12
University of Zurich, research associate (Assistent) at ISEK
2008–10
University of Hamburg, research associate at Institute for Folklore/Cultural Anthropology
since 2005
Member of Forschungskolleg Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung, now at the ISEK,
University of Zurich (formerly University of Hamburg, head: Thomas Hengartner)
Teaching
Spring 2014
Culture Theories, seminar, University of Zurich
Spring 2013
Meat, seminar, University of Zurich, with Thomas Hengartner, Sibylle Künzler, Tobias
Scheidegger, and others
Fall 2012
Qualitative Research Methods, basic seminar, University of Zurich
Fall 2011
Qualitative Research Methods, basic seminar, University of Zurich
Winter 2010/11
History of work and labour studies, seminar, University of Hamburg
Summer 2009 and
Winter 2009/10
Maritime Soundscapes: 2-semester exhibition project seminar: Hafen - Klang - Landschaft
(Flensburg Harbour Soundscape, Flensburg Maritime Museum), with Thomas Hengartner
(Hamburg) and Thomas Overdick (Flensburg)
Selected Publications
Katharina Hoins, Thomas Kühn, Johannes Müske (eds.) (2014): Schnittstellen: Die Gegenwart des Abwesenden. Berlin:
Reimer.
Johannes Müske (2014): Klangchiffren: Klänge und Medienarchivalien als Bedeutungsträger und Quellen für die
kulturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung der Klangwelt. In: Hoins, Katharina/Kühn, Thomas/Ders. (Eds.): Schnittstellen:
Die Gegenwart des Abwesenden. Berlin: Reimer, 195–219.
Rudolf Müller/Johannes Müske (2013): Vagabundierende Klänge: die institutionelle Inwertsetzung von VolksmusikSammlungen und die Entstehung von Cultural Heritage. In: Ruth-E. Mohrmann (ed.): Audioarchive: Tondokumente
digitalisieren, erschließen und auswerten. Münster: Waxmann, 75–84.
Thomas Hengartner/Johannes Müske (2012): Klangspeicher und die Aneignung von Kultur: Medienarchive und die (Nicht)Konstituierung von Cultural Property. In: Info 7, 27/1, 3–8.
Johannes Müske (2012): Maritimes Erbe und die akustische Aneignung des städtischen Raums: das Beispiel der
Klanglandschaft Flensburger Hafen. In: Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde 108/2, 189–197.
Johannes Müske (2010): Constructing Sonic Heritage: The Accumulation of Knowledge in the Context of Sound Archives. In:
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 4/1, S. 37–47. [http://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/4]
Johannes Müske/Thomas Overdick (eds.) (2009): Hafen – Klang – Landschaft: Ein Hörspaziergang (= Vokus Themenheft,
19/2, online: http://www.fbkultur.uni-hamburg.de/de/vk/forschung/publikationen2/vokus/vokus200902/).
Gerrit Herlyn/Johannes Müske/Klaus Schönberger/Ove Sutter (eds.) (2009): Arbeit und Nicht-Arbeit: Entgrenzungen und
Begrenzungen von Lebensbereichen und Praxen. München/Mering: Hampp.
Member of SIEF, German Folklore Society, Swiss Folklore Society