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Katerina Papadopoulou

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Research Interest:

Multimodality & Language Use

  • Dynamics of Language Use
  • Meaning and Embodiement
  • Multimodal and multimedial Meaning-Making in

a) Face-to-Face Communication

b) Audiovisual Media

  • Multimodal and audiovisual Metaphors
  • Co-Speech Gestures
  • Affectivity and Expressive Movements

 

Academic Career

since 10/2022 Doctoral Student

within the International PhD Study Programme in Social and Cultural Sciences of the European University Viadrina,
Frankfurt (Oder)

Doing Justice - media aesthetics and linguistic analysis of mediatised trials (working title)

Supervised by: Prof. Cornelia Müller (EUV), Prof. Sarah Greifenstein (EUV)

since 04/2022 Academic Research Assistant

Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller, EUV Frankfurt (Oder)
02/2020 - 03/2022 Academic Research Assistant

within the DFG-Project BEETHOVEN Classic 3 of the Polish-German Funding Initiative

Multimodal Stancetaking: Expressive Movement and Affective Stance. Political Debates in the German Bundestag and the Polish Sejm

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller (EUV), Prof. Dr. Maciej Karpinski (AMU, Posen)

10/2019 - 03/2020 Tutor for the Cultural and Social Sciences Introduction (BA)
(Tutorium zur Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften (BA)) 

Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller, EUV Frankfurt (Oder)

07/2019 - 12/2019 Student Assistant

Dr. Silva Ladewig, EUV Frankfurt (Oder)
10/2018 - 08/2019 Tutor for the Linguistics Introduction (BA)
Tutorin für die Einführung in die Linguistik (BA)

Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication,
Dr. Silva Ladewig, EUV Frankfurt (Oder)
10/2016 - 06/2017 Student Assistant in a programme supporting young researchers, EUV Frankfurt (Oder)

Viadrina Mentoring for students (MA & BA) and PhD students.

 

Academic Education

03/2021 M.A. Language, Communication und Cultures in Europe (Linguistic Research Track),
EUV Frankfurt (Oder)

Modules: Multimodality, Discouse, Media & Multilingualism and Interaction

Master Thesis: Understanding Aliens? Cinematic Metaphor in Denis Villeneuve's ARRIVAL (2016)
2017 - 2018 Mentee of the Viadrina Mentoring Program
EUV, Frankfurt (Oder)

Participation at the program for further qualification Viadrina Center for Graduate Studies (VCGS), EUV Frankfurt (Oder)
03/2015 B.A. Greek Phililogy & Language, Literature, Culture, LMU München

Bachelor Thesis: Apologia of Helena at Euripides
2010 - 2011 B.A. Political Sciences, Hamburg University
09-12/2010 Stay Abroad at King's College, University of Cambridge & Canterbury, UK

 

Project Activities

since 2020             Participation at the DFG-Projekt BEETHOVEN Classic 3 of the Polish-German Funding Initiative

Multimodal Stancetaking: Expressive Movement and Affective Stance. Political Debates in the German Bundestag and the Polish Sejm

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller (EUV, Frankfurt Oder), Prof. Dr. Maciej Karpinski (AMU, Poznań)

Academic organisational activities

12/2022
11/2022
Organisation and Execution of the International Research Colloquium

Multimodality - Discourse - Media 

(with Clara Kindler)
12/2021              Organisation of Incoming Activities for PhD students within the DAAD Ostpartnerschaften (East-Partnerships) between EUV, Frankfurt (Oder) and AMU, Poznań 
06/2021 Development and Organisation of an online workshop:

Expressive Movements - Theoretical Background, Descriptive Example Analyses, Case Study

(with Clara Kindler)
seit 2021 Introduction and Administration of the digital Newsletter

Multimodality & Language Use (in-house)
seit 2020 Maintenance and support of international exchange within the DAAD Ostpartnerschaften (East-Partnerships) between EUV, Frankfurt (Oder) and AMU, Posen 

 

Winter Term 2022/2023 B.A. "Du Drecksau" - Sprechen und Denken in Metaphern
("Filthy Pig" - Talking and Thinking in Metaphors)
Summer Term 2022 B.A. Sprache und Denken - ein Spannungsfeld
(Language and Thought)
10/2019 - 03/2020 B.A. Tutorial (Cultural and Social Sciences Introduction)
10/2018 - 08/2019 B.A. Tutorial (Linguistics Introduction)

 

05.11.2022

ZeM, Potsdam, Graduates' Conference "un:real spaces of interaction"

Workshop (60min) Analysekonzepte affektiver Asdrucksbewegungen' (Concepts for analyzing affective expressive movements)

06.07.2022

Center for Media Sciences Brandenburg (ZeM), online forum for doctoral students

Pitch-Presentation (20 min) of the disseration 'Doing Justice - media aesthetic and linguistic analysis of mediatized court cases'

Academic Articel (Publication Server EUV)

Bilgi, Özge, Anna Karelina, Vera Kohns, Katerina Papadopoulou & Dorothée Schulz-Budick (2018): „Das is doch keene Schmalspur“ – Eine Fallanalyse zur Bedeutungsaushandlung in der Face-to-Face-Kommunikation. D. Horst/L. Hotze (Hg.): Sprache im Gebrauch 1, 1-13.