Lydia Haustein
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Lydia Haustein studied art history, ethnology and classical archeology. She is currently Associate Professor at the Academy of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Visiting Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and head of the advisory board to the jury at the Ludwig Boltzmann Society in Vienna, Austria. Apart from being committed to teaching and lecturing extensively in Europe, Africa and Asia, she has conducted numerous research projects in Asia, Africa, South America and elsewhere. In 2000 she published a comprehensive overview on video art. She was head of the science department at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, where she was appointed acting director in 2005. At the House of World Cultures she was also the director of the interdisciplinary China Festival and of a cultural programme featuring South East Asia. For over 10 years she was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute of Theatre and Cultural Studies in Vienna, and was head of the Advisory Board for Cultural Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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Lydia Haustein studied art history, ethnology and classical archeology. She is currently Associate Professor at the Academy of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Visiting Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and head of the advisory board to the jury at the Ludwig Boltzmann Society in Vienna, Austria. Apart from being committed to teaching and lecturing extensively in Europe, Africa and Asia, she has conducted numerous research projects in Asia, Africa, South America and elsewhere. In 2000 she published a comprehensive overview on video art. She was head of the science department at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, where she was appointed acting director in 2005. At the House of World Cultures she was also the director of the interdisciplinary China Festival and of a cultural programme featuring South East Asia. For over 10 years she was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute of Theatre and Cultural Studies in Vienna, and was head of the Advisory Board for Cultural Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
December 20, 2012