Marlen Elders completed her MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the LMU Munich with a thesis on exploring aesthetics and sensory perception. In examining a campsite as an assemblage of force fields, affects and materialities, she experimented with creative research methods, aiming to explore new forms of ethnographic presentation. In 2017 she worked on an exhibition on Munich’s environmental (hi)stories at the Rachel Carson Center.

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Academic Biography

2017: Environmental Certificate Program in Environmental Studies, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität Munich
since 2016: Project assistant of the research group Highland Asia responsible for events and editorial management
2016: Conference planing, implementation and post processing of the conference “Sight meets Sound”, 16.-19. June, Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich
2013-2016: Master of Arts, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich
2013-2016: Tutor with teaching responsibilities (B.A. level), Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich
2014: fieldwork in Asturias, Spain on Creative Ethnography, Aesthetics and Camping (1 month)
2013: fieldwork in Sevilla, Spain on Arts and economic crisis, the artists perspectives (1 month)
2010-2013: Bachelor of Arts, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (major) and Art, Music and Theatre Studies (minor), Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich

Professional Experience Outside Academia

since 2010: Freelance event management in theatre and comedy
2009-2010: Personal Assistant of fashion designer and CEO of Samtherz GmbH, Munich

Contact:
Highland Asia Research Group
LMU, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich, Germany
martin.saxer@lmu.de | +49 89 2180 9639

Marlen Elders

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Professional Experience Outside Academia