Jens Adam
Jens Adam established and directed the program department at the Edith Stein Haus where he designed and carried out programs and international meetings in the areas of political and historical education, scientific exchange and culture.
Projects by Jens Adam at the Edith Stein Haus (selection)
Jens Adam studied European Ethnology and modern history at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Leicester. He also cooperated on an anthropological study of the effects of lignite mining on culture, regional identity and the environment in the Lausitz region (the project results are published in: "Skizzen aus der Lausitz. Region und Lebenswelt im Umbruch", Böhlau Publisher Cologne, 1997) as well as on a cultural and historical research project on the formation of mass culture in the German empire (1871-1914).
He completed cultural-anthropological research on migration, local identity and communal politics in a multi-ethnic neighborhood in the inner city of Berlin, the results of which were published by LIT Publishing under the title "Kaum noch normale Berliner".
Before taking up his position in Wrocław, Jens Adam coordinated the youth art project "Kiezplakat - Keine Angst in Schöneberg" in Berlin (2001/2002) and assisted at the coordinating bureau for the youth work of the German minority in Poland "Jugendforummłodych" in Opole (delegated by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), 2002/2003).
After returning from Poland he was employed by the Dr. Gabriele Minz GmbH Project Development, management consultants in Berlin. In 2007 he accepted a research position on "political communication in Poland" with the research project "Political Communication in New Democracies" at Leeds University (UK) and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Current
He is currently writing a dissertation on the topic "Between Conflict Prevention and Cultural Dialog – Intervention Opportunities of External Cultural Policy in the 'Conflict zones’ Sarajevo and Ramallah (Zwischen Konfliktprävention und Kulturdialog – Interventionsmöglichkeiten Auswärtiger Kulturpolitik in den ‚Krisenregionen’ Sarajevo und Ramallah)" at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin. (Fellow of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since June 2008).
He has a teaching position at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Member of the research laboratory "Europe, Europeanization" at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Member of the "College for Jewish Studies" at the Humboldt University in Berlin.