Lisa Deml

Lisa Deml is a Midlands4Cities funded doctoral researcher at Birmingham City University. She holds degrees in Art History and Philosophy from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. Initially trained as a journalist, she subsequently worked for public cultural institutions and non-profit organisations internationally, including Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. Prior to her doctoral research, she coordinated the multi-year project ‘Afro-Sonic Mapping’ as well as assisted in the preparation and implementation of the exhibitions and accompanying publications ‘Love and Ethnology’ and ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin. Her research interests focus on visual articulations of citizenship and artistic strategies to foster transnational solidarity and resistance, particularly in the framework of documentary and new media practices in the Middle East and North Africa.