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I am a doctorate researcher in the visual-material history of arts education at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. There, I am currently associated with the Institute for Investigation in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS). My research is funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (REF: 2022.12937.BD). I hold a Master's degree in Cinema Studies from Stockholm University, Sweden, and a Bachelor degree in Cultural Studies (Major) and Arts-Media-Aesthetic Education (Minor) from the University of Bremen, Germany. In my research I endeavour to integrate visual historical research, pedagogy with performative and visual-material artistic research practices. I am inquiring the relations of images and imaginaries, asking how particular images and aesthetics shape and are shaped by our imaginaries; by our relations with the more-than-human world; by our relations with histories. From April until December 2022, I was a PhD student fellow in the research project CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education at i2ADS - Research Institute of Art, Design and Society at the University of Porto. My professional experiences outside academia are varied: I worked in documentary production at LAIKA Film & Television Sweden (2018-2019) and as an assistant theatre educator at Theater Bremen's Junge Akteur*innen (2013-2014). I did a voluntary cultural year at Theater Bremen (2012-2013) and have experience in political education and social work (2015-2017), language teaching (2020-2021) and as a careworker/assistant (2019-2020).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Melina Scheuermann

Citation names

  • Scheuermann, Melina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9716-E132-1E4E
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5711-6117

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts
  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Ethnology
  • Social Sciences - Educational Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
German (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Swedish Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/09 - 2025/08
Ongoing
 PhD in Arts Education (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2020/11/01 - 2021/08/31
Concluded
 Post-graduate courses in Sociology and Political Sciences (Outros)
Major in Sociology and Political Sciences
Scuola Normale Superiore - Sede di Firenze, Italy
2017/08/25 - 2019/07/02
Concluded
 Cinema Studies (Master)
Major in Cinema Studies
Stockholms universitet Institutionen för mediestudier, Sweden
"Animated Memories - A case study of the animated documentary 'Saydnaya - Inside a Syrian Torture Prison' (2016) and its potential within social memory" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/10/01 - 2017/08/24
Concluded
 Cultural Studies (Major), Arts-Media-Aesthetic Education (Minor) (Bachelor)
Major in Cultural Studies
Universität Bremen Fachbereich 9 Kulturwissenschaften, Germany
"Images of the Everyday in War. Private Photographs of German Soldiers of the ISAF Mission in Afghanistan" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/01/15 - 2016/06/05
Concluded
 ERASMUS exchange semester (Outros)
Major in Media Studies
Mittuniversitetet Avdelningen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Sweden
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/03 - 2019/06 Documentary film production - internship and freelance research LAIKA Film & Television, Sweden
2016/09 - 2017/06 Assistant social pedagogue Sozialer Friedensdienst Bremen e.V. (sfd e.V.), Germany
2015/09 - 2017/06 Project coordinator in transitional home for refugees Arbeiterwohlfahrt Kreisverband Hansestadt Bremen e.V., Germany
2013/08 - 2014/07 Assistant theatre teacher Theater Bremen, Germany
2014/05/01 - 2014/05/31 Project leader of youth editorial office 'Hart am Wind' 4th Children and Youth Theatre Festival,, Germany
2012/08/23 - 2013/08/22 Voluntary cultural year Theater Bremen, Germany
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/04/01 - 2022/12/31 CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education
EXPL/CED-EDG/0824/2021
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Scheuermann, Melina. "(Un-)Learning to see: Images of Whiteness and 'Nature' in the Picture Book Series 'A instrucção de creança' (1904/05)". In CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education, edited by Catarina Martins. Porto, Portugal: Instituto de Investigação em Design, Artes e Sociedade (i2ADS), 2023.
Journal article
  1. Scheuermann, Melina. "Educating and researching across languages.". Derivas - Research in Arts Education #7 - A forma da fala, (2023): 73-89. https://i2ads.up.pt/publicacoes/derivas-7/.
    Open access • Published
  2. Pedersen, Marcela; Andrade, Luana; Scheuermann, Melina. "Práticas de Investigação: Como fazer um terremoto?". Derivas - Research in Arts Education #7 - A forma da fala, (2023): 16-31. https://i2ads.up.pt/publicacoes/derivas-7/.
    Open access • Published
  3. Pedersen, Marcela; Andrade, Luana; Alves, André; Casais, Rosinda; Filipe Vagos; Scheuermann, Melina. "Editorial II: Leitura atenta como trabalho editorial em colaboração". Derivas - Research in Arts Education #7 - A forma da fala, (2023): https://i2ads.up.pt/publicacoes/derivas-7/.
    Open access • Published
  4. Scheuermann, Melina. "Images of the Everyday in War. Private Photographs of German Soldiers of the ISAF mission in Afghanistan. [Bilder des Alltäglichen im Krieg. Private Fotografien von Bundeswehrsoldat*innen aus dem ISAF-Einsatz in Afghanistan]". Visual-History (2018): https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/1199.
    Open access • Published • 10.14765/ZZF.DOK.5.1199
Magazine article
  1. Scheuermann, Melina. "Diversity as a question of survival [Diversität als Überlebensfrage]", ray Magazin, Der Österreichische Film, 2020, https://ray-magazin.at/diversitaet-als-ueberlebensfrage/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Animated Memories. A case study of the animated documentary 'Saydnaya – Inside a Syrian Torture Prison' (2016) and its potential within social memory.". Master, Stockholms universitet Institutionen för mediestudier, 2019. http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1467355&dswid=4591.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. the archive that i imagine to unlearn the archive. 2024.
Scenography
  1. Junge Akteur*innen Theater Bremen; Christiane Renziehausen (Writer / Producer). 2016. Collective stage design for 'Lady Liberty'.
Theatre play
  1. 2014. Assistant theatre teacher & director of 'Bestzeit'.
Video recording
  1. Mads Brüggers; Göran Björkdahl ; Clarinah Mfengu ; Saphir Wenzi Mabanza; Mads Brüggers (Director). 2019. Researcher for the documentary of 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld'. Magnolia Pictures.
  2. Franck Edmond Yao alias Gadoukou la Star; Hauke Heumann; Eric Parfait Francis Taregue alias Skelly; Gotta Depri; Melina Scheuermann (Director). 2015. Filmmaker of ethnographic documentary 'TRANS-/LATION/CULTURE/GENDER'.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/06/26 (Un-)Learning to see: Images of Whiteness and 'Nature' in the Picture Book Series 'A instrucção de creança' (1904/05) CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child [Project ID: EXPL/CED-EDG/0824/2021]
Prof. Cat Martins (Porto, Portugal)
2021/06/04 Animated Memories. Potentials and Strategies of Animated Documentary Dealing with (Collective) Memory 1. International Film Studies Conference: Cinema, Aesthetics and Memory
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017 Images of the Everyday in War [Bilder des Alltäglichen im Krieg] Research Insights #4 - student research, as part of “Exploring the Practices of Academic Teaching and Learning"
University of Bremen (Bremen, Germany)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/04/26 - 2023/04/26 The workshop "The Historicization of the Creative Child: working with and against the archive" I was held with 14 international participants from the field of arts education. After communicating the base research project, small groups mobilized selected archival materials and engaged with questions that those materials were posing towards the history and present of arts education. I participated in the internal project meetings concerned with the preparation of this workshop, co-constructed the workshop materials and co-lead the activity. (2023/04/26 - 2023/04/26)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 European Educational Research Association (EERA)/ Network 29: Research on Arts Education, Germany
2022/09/30 - 2022/10/01 Assitance during two-day workshop within the project CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education (EXPL/CED-EDG/0824/2021) with invited, international researchers. (2022/09/30 - 2022/10/01)
Workshop (Other)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/02/16 - 2023/02/18 Activity manifested in two key moments: as promoter of the collective practice (workshop) "Desfazer, desmontar, ler e esquecer, desfigurar... modos hegemônicos de ver/inscrever/escrever a história" and through my participation in a round table discussion with the paper "Re-enactment as a critical method(ology) to unlearn the archive and the educational method 'object lesson'"
Conference
 9.º Encontro em Práticas de Investigação em Educação Artística
Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/03/02 - 2022/03/04 Participation
Meeting
 Kick-off meeting: CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education (EXPL/CED-EDG/0824/2021
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2021/11/04 - 2021/11/06 Participation
Meeting
 IMMER # 3 International Meeting on Museum Education and Research -Rethinking Museum Theory and Practices
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2016/10 - 2017/01 Seminar on 'Qualitative Methods' Seminar on 'Qualitative Methods'
2016/10 - 2017/01 Seminar on 'Introduction to Ethnology' Seminar on 'Introduction to Ethnology'
2015/04 - 2015/08 Seminar on 'Culture and Economy' Seminar on 'Culture and Economy'
Distinctions

Award

2017 Rainer-Alsheimer-Prize for Best Bachelor Thesis in the Cultural Studies
Universität Bremen Fachbereich 9 Kulturwissenschaften, Germany

Other distinction

2019 Nominee for the "Zeitgeschichte-digital Prize" 2019
Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF) e¿V, Germany