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European Ethnology

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Humanities
  4. Institutes
  5. History and European Ethnology
  6. European Ethnology
  7. Chair and Assistant Professorship
  8. Team
  9. Jana Paulina Lobe M.A.

Jana Paulina Lobe M.A.

Research Assistant

Research Interests

  • Funerary Culture (Death, Dying and Bereavement)
  • Digital Anthropology
  • Religion and Spirituality
  • German-American Cultural Exchange
  • Knowledge and Expert Cultures (Inter- and Transdisciplinarity)
  • Environmental anthropology/ Discourses on Sustainability

  • Since February 2024 Social Media Management for the Chair
  • 2020-2024 Student assistant at the Chair of European Ethnology
  • 2023-2024 Tutor at the Chair of European Ethnology
  • 2019-2024 Student assistant at the Professorship for History and Culture of Late Antiquity
  • 2022-2024 Master Studies in European Ethnology
  • Master's thesis: Death with Organic Seal? Concepts of Sustainability in Contemporary Funerary Culture
  • 2018-2022 Bachelor Studies in Classics and European Ethnology
  • Bachelor's thesis: From Aeneid to 'Anneid'? A Comparison of the Ovidian and Vergilian Anna

Commitment:

Memberships:

2025

  • “Perversion Plastic Flower – Sustainable Grave Decoration in German” (panel participation) Akademie des Bistums Aachen, 26.11.2025, Academy of the Diocese of Aachen
  • “Does the Last Footprint Have to Be Green? Small Steps and Big Leaps Towards a Sustainable Funeral Culture” (Keynote), Rethinking Final Journeys – Shaping a Future-Oriented Funeral Practice Together by Initiative: Plastikfreie Stadt, 29.10.2025, Hamburg, (held in German).
  • “Responsible Teaching? Open Workshop of the Standing Committee for Studies and Teaching of the DGEKW” (with Felix Gaillinger, Olja Reznikova, and Sascha Sistenich), 45th DGEKW Congress: Surprise, Chance, Contingency. On the Indeterminate in Society and Science, 4.10. 2025, Kiel, (held in German).
  • “Mourning With or Over AI? A Discourse-Analytic Perspective on the Cultural Acceptance of Grief Technology”, RSNG Conference: Promises of AI? Being Human Between Hopes for Progress and Dystopian Threats, 27.09. 2025, Stuttgart-Hohenheim. (held in German).
  • “Death by Regulation for Nature’s Advocate? The Case of German Green Death Start-up MEINE ERDE”, DDD17 Conference: Politics of Death, 27–30.08.2025, Utrecht/Online
  • “Participant Observation at the Cemetery? From Thanatological Border-Crossings at the Beginning of Research to End-of-Life Studies”, DGEKW Doctoral Conference: Cultural Analysis as a Holistic Perspective: From Epistemological Approaches to Reflexive Research Practice in Past and Present, 9–10.07.2025, Saarbrücken, (held in German).
  • “#WeAreTheFuture – Future Concerns and Orientations of Sudeten German Youth”
    Interdisciplinary Conference: Future Orientations of Memory. The Example of Flight and Expulsion, Institute for Cultural Analysis of Germans from Eastern Europe (IKDE), 03.07.2025, Freiburg, (held in German).
  • “Imperishable Injustice or the Tombstone of Controversy – The ‘Causa Schott’ and Its Significance for Cemetery Culture”, First Interdisciplinary Summer Conference, Institute for Grief Research kleine BLUME e.V., in collaboration with the Thanatology Working Group and Galerie metavier, 14.06.2025, Hannover  (held in German).
  • “Closing the Circle? Exploring Cyclical Concepts and Circular Narratives in Contemporary Funerary Culture”, SIEF Congress 2025: Unwriting, 3 June 2025, Aberdeen/Online
  • “AI in Teaching: A Best Practices Workshop” (with Lena M?ller, Anna Weichselbraun, and Sascha Sistenich), BA/MA Conference of the DGEKW, Ludwig-Uhland-Institut, University of Tübingen, 17 May 2025, Tübingen (held in German).
  • “A #Spoonful of Critique? The #Spoonie Community’s Use of Instagram Between Self-Help and Advocacy Efforts”, STS Hub 2025: Diffracting the Critical, 11–14.03.2025, Berlin
  • “Funerary Assortments, or: You Don’t Really Need That! Spotlights on the Contemporary Funeral Market” (with Sarah Baum), Cultures of Grief and Death in History, Present, and Future, 28.02.2025, Hamburg (held in German).
  • “Okay, Employer? Contrasting Work Attitudes of Gen Z and Baby Boomers Between Physicality and Stereotypes”, 21st Conference of the DGEKW Commission on Work Cultures, 19.02.2025, Marburg (held in German).
  • “Last Honor for Creation? Questions of Responsibility in a Sustainable Funeral Culture”, Second Academic Colloquium on the Theme Creation and Responsibility, Diocese Academy of Aachen & Young Forum of the G?rres Society, 17–18.02. 2025 (held in German).
     

2024

  • Lobe, Jana Paulina: Wie/Was ein Tisch #fairarbeiten muss. In: Kuckuck. Notizen zur Alltagskultur 2/24  (2024), S. 21-25.
  • Lobe, Jana Paulina: Tr?llernd wie ein (Wander)vogel. Die bewegten Anf?nge der Volksliedpflege. In: Sch?nere Heimat 113, 1 (2024), S. 15-22.
  • Lobe, Jana Paulina: Was bleibt ...Was geht? Nachhaltigkeit über den Tod hinaus. In: Stark, Luise/Einecke, Irmela/May, Pia/Waldmann, Nils (Hgg.): Was bleibt? Was kommt? Nachhaltigkeiten kulturwissenschaftlich erforschen (= Würzburger Studien zur Europ?ischen Ethnologie Bd. 16). Würzburg 2023, S. 118-143. Online: https://doi.org/10.25972/OPUS-32781.

Seminars

  • The Good Ole' Days. 'Nostalgia' from a European Ethnological Perspective (winter term 25/26)
  • Working with Academic Literature – A Reading Course (winter term 25/26, summer term 2025 and winter term 24/25)
  • European Ethnology in Schools: Dailylife.com. On the Omnipresence of the Digital and the Digitalisation of the Everyday (summer term 2025)
  • More than Frills and Frippery: Decorating as an Aestheticised Everyday Practice (summer term 2025)
  • Mother, Father, Child? Social, Medical, Political, and Cultural Dimensions of Narrating Parenthood, Kinship, Family, and Alternative Concepts. Interdisciplinary event with Florian Lützelberger, Chair of Romance Literary Studies (summer term 2025)
  • Posting, Sharing, Streaming - Discourses and Practices in Digital Everyday Life (winter term 24/25)
  • Matters of Life and Death - Historic and Contemporary Perspectives on Funeral Culture (winter term 24/25)

Practice Courses

  • Research Methods in European Ethnology. Practice Course with Portfolio (winter term 25/26, summer term 2025 and winter term 24/25)

Field trips

  • Between Wohlfahrt's Winter Wonderland and Romantic Middle Ages. An (Empirical) Nostalgia Trip to Rothenburg ob der Tauber (winter term 25/26)
  • Helau, St. Martin? A European-Ethnological Exploration of the Confluence of Customs on November 11. (winter term 25/26)
  • E(x)-Cursion. A Comparative Exploration of Physical and Digital Learning Spaces (summer term 2025)
  • A visit to the exhibition "Open Wide. Episodes of veterinary medicine in Bavaria" of the Bamberger Land Farmer’s Museum (winter term 24/25)
  • Plan B for the Funeral Profession? - A Sepulchral Cultural Exploration of (Alternative) Funeral Providers in Regensburg (winter term 24/25)

Tutorials

  • Tutorial for the Foundation Module EuroEthno (winter term 23/24, summer term 23)