Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann

Researcher

Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann works as a Researcher since summer 2023 as part of the Research Depart­ment Glocal Junctions with her project Conflict and Art: The Trans­formative Potential of Aesthetic Practices. She is interested in theoretical and artistic engage­ments with political violence, focusing on decolonial perspec­tives and critically questioning the produc­tion and transfer of know­ledge in academic and artistic contexts.

Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann
fuhrmann(at)prif.org
 Press photo

CV

| since 2023
Researcher at PRIF

| 2018–2022
Research Associate, Junior Research Group “Jihadism on the Internet: The Shaping of Images and Videos, Their Appro­priation and Dissemi­nation”, Institute of Ethno­logy and African Studies

| 2014–2017
Cultural Manager and Curator, Cultural Depart­ment, Goethe Institute Khartoum

| 2012
Research for the MA Thesis, Nairobi University, Kenia

| 2012
DAAD scholar­ship holder for an intern­ship abroad at DEG in Nairobi, Kenya

| 2011–2014
MA, African Studies, Univer­sity of Cologne

| 2010–2012
Scholarship holder of the NRW Scholar­ship, sponsored by DEG Bank of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia

| 2009–2010
Semester abroad and DAAD scholar­ship holder for a semester abroad, University of Khartoum

| 2007–2011
BA, African and Islamic Studies, University of Cologne
 

Projects

Highlights

The Political Significance of Archives in Sudan

Group of people in a dark room in front of blue illuminated canvases with photos Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann curated an exhibition as part of the Hamburg Short Film Festival

Publications

  • Challenges in Digital Ethnography: Research Ethics relating to the Securitization of Islam
    | 2020
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana; Pfeifer, Simone (2020): Challenges in Digital Ethnography: Research Ethics relating to the Securitization of Islam, Journal of Muslims in Europe, 9 (2), 175– 195. DOI: 10.1163/22117954-BJA10002

  • Digitale Team-Ethnografie: Teilnehmende Beobachtung auf Instagram mit dem Account Hashtag Islam
    | 2023
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana; Pfeifer, Simone; Wiechert, Maike; Ahmad, Muna (2023): Digitale Team-Ethnografie: Teilnehmende Beobachtung auf Instagram mit dem Account Hashtag Islam, in: Stollfuß, Sven/Niebling, Laura/Raczkowski, Felix (eds), Handbuch Digitale Medien und Methoden, Wiesbaden: Springer Link, 1–24. DOI: www.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36629-2
  • Contested Chants: The Nashīd Salīl al-Sawārim and its Appropriations
    | 2020
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana; Dick, Alexandra (2020): Contested Chants: The Nashīd Salīl al-Sawārim and its Appropriations, in: Christoph Günther und Simone Pfeifer (eds), Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Aesthetics, Meanings, Appropriations, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 294–319. DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0013
  • Re-enacting Violence: Testing and Contesting Public Spheres with Appropriations of IS Execution Videos
    | 2020
    Pfeifer, Simone; Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana; Wevers, Patricia (2020): Re-enacting Violence: Testing and Contesting Public Spheres with Appropriations of IS Execution Videos, in: Christoph Günther und Simone Pfeifer (eds), Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Aesthetics, Meanings, Appropriations, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 198–221. DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0009
  • Ṣalīl al-Ṣawārim: Ein Nashīd und seine Aneignungen
    | 2020
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana; Dick, Alexandra (2020): Ṣalīl al-Ṣawārim: Ein Nashīd und seine Aneignungen, in: Zywietz, Bernd (eds), Die Propaganda des Islamischen Staates: Formen und Formate, Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag.
  • Inside the Islamic State’s Media – Eine kollaborative Videoanalyse
    | 2020
    Beese, Yorck; Zywietz, Bernd; Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana; Pfeifer, Simone; Günther, Christoph; Dick, Alexandra (2020): Inside the Islamic State’s Media – Eine kollaborative Videoanalyse, in: Zywietz, Bernd (eds), Die Propaganda des Islamischen Staates: Formen und Formate, Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag.
  • Towards an understanding of political satire in the Sudan
    | 2019
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2019): Towards an understanding of political satire in the Sudan, in: Sabine Damir- Geilsdorf and Stephan Milich (eds), Creative Resistance: Political Humour in the Arab Uprisings, Bielefeld: transcript, 171-188. DOI: 10.14361/9783839440698-007
    ISBN: 978-3-8394-4069-8

  • Mindbombs. Visual cultures of political violence
    | 2021
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana; Baden, Sebastian; Holten, Johann (2021): Mindbombs. Visual cultures of political violence, Berlin/Bielefeld: Kerber.
    ISBN: 978-3-7356-0806-2

  • Sudan Untold/ Retold
    | 2019
    Wad Albaih, Khalid; Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2019): Sudan Untold/ Retold, Berlin: Hirnkost Verlag.

  • Sudans humanitäre Katastrophe: die Rolle von Zivilgesellschaft und Kunst als Zeugen
    | 2024
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2024): Sudans humanitäre Katastrophe: die Rolle von Zivilgesellschaft und Kunst als Zeugen, PRIF Blog.
    Publication
  • Rhythms of Resistance: Sudanese Jazz and the Continuities of Political Expression through Music
    | 2023
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2023): Rhythms of Resistance: Sudanese Jazz and the Continuities of Political Expression through Music, Boy.Brother.Friend.
    Publication
  • Representations of Political Violence in Museological Spaces
    | 2023
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana; Mannitz, Sabine (2023): Representations of Political Violence in Museological Spaces. Decolonial Strategies, Contested Memory and Transformative Potential, Boasblog.
    Publication
  • „10 Sudanese Movies you need to see”
    | 2023
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2023): „10 Sudanese Movies you need to see”: Schirn Magazin.
    Publication
  • Text zur Teilnahme der Künstlerin Julia Benz am Residenzprogramm von B-Murals in Barcelona, Spanien
    | 2022
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2022): Text zur Teilnahme der Künstlerin Julia Benz am Residenzprogramm von B-Murals in Barcelona, Spanien.
    Publication
  • „Mindbombs: Der künstlerische Umgang mit dem Terror"
    | 2022
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2022): „Mindbombs: Der künstlerische Umgang mit dem Terror": Kunsthalle Mannheim Blog.
    Publication
  • „Female Resistance Made in Sudan”
    | 2022
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2022): „Female Resistance Made in Sudan”: Schirn Magazin.
    Publication
  • Verena Straub: Das Selbstmordattentat im Bild
    | 2022
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2022): Verena Straub: Das Selbstmordattentat im Bild, Bielefeld: transcript 2021.
    Publication
  • Beitrag zum Katalog über die Künstlerin Amna Elhassan
    | 2022
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2022): Beitrag zum Katalog über die Künstlerin Amna Elhassan, in: Köttering, Martin; Baden, Sebastian (eds).
    Publication
  • „Bilder der Gewalt: Künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen als pädagogischer Zugang"
    | 2021
    Dick, Alexandra; Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2021): „Bilder der Gewalt: Künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen als pädagogischer Zugang".
    Publication
  • „Die Macht der Archive"
    | 2020
    Klöckner, Laura; Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2020): „Die Macht der Archive": Goethe-Institut.
    Publication
  • „Protest art in Sudan’s uprising"
    | 2019
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2019): „Protest art in Sudan’s uprising".
    Publication
  • „Archiving Sudan’s past, present and future"
    | 2019
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2019): „Archiving Sudan’s past, present and future".
    Publication
  • „#sudanrevolts: contesting power & violence through art"
    | 2019
    Fuhrmann, Larissa-Diana (2019): „#sudanrevolts: contesting power & violence through art".
    Publication

Further Activities

| since 2022
Member of DGSKA

| 2020–2022
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the exhibition “Mindbombs – Visuelle Kulturen politischer Gewalt” at the Kunsthalle Mannheim

Selected exhibitions: