Dr. Edda Willamowski
SFB 1171 Affective Socities
Research Associate
Project at CRC Affective Societies "The New Vietnamese Berlin (head of project)
Room JK 30/210
14195 Berlin
Publications
Forthcoming. (Willamowski, Edda).Unbehagen. In Doris Kolesch (ed.), Affekte – Diagnosen der Gegenwart. Berlin: neofelis.
Under Review. (Müller, Max and Thi Quynh-Nhu Tran, Edda Willamowski, Nora Stumpfögger, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Eric Hahn, Anita von Poser). Vietnamese Carescapes in the Making – Looking at Covid-19 Care Responses in Berlin through the Affective Lens of Face Masks. Southeast Asian Studies Journal.
2023a. (Willamowski, Edda). Über Krisen, Schweigen und engagiertes Forschen. Zugehörigkeiten und „offene Türen“ in der psychosozialen Versorgung im vietnamesischen Berlin. In Thomas Stodulka, Anita von Poser, Gabriel Scheidecker and Jonas Bens (eds.), Anthropologie der Emotionen: Affektive Dynamiken in Kultur und Gesellschaft. Berlin: Reimer. 263–273.
2023b. (Stumpfögger, Nora and Max Müller, Thi Quynh-Nhu Tran, Edda Willamowski). Working through Affects. Transforming and Challenging Psychosocial Care for Vietnamese Migrants. In Sandra Calkins, Millicent Churcher and Jan Slaby (eds.): Affect, Institutions, Power. London, New York: Routledge. 244-258.2023c.
2023c. (Willamowski, Edda und Max Müller). Über ohnmächtige Wut und den Elefanten im Raum. Ein engagierter Zwischenruf. In Affective Societies Blog, Blogpost, 31. März.
2021a. (Ta, Thi Minh Tam and Anita von Poser, Max Müller, Edda Willamowski, Thi Quynh-Nhu Tran, Eric Hahn). Umkämpfte Gefühle und diverse Zugehörigkeiten in vietnamesischen Carescapes Berlins. In Hansjörg Dilger and Matthias Warstat (eds.), Umkämpfte Vielfalt. Affektive Dynamiken institutioneller Diversifizierung. Frankfurt/M, New York: Campus Verlag. 116–138.
2021b. (Nguyen, Main Huong and Jörg-Christian Lanca, Anita von Poser, Edda Heyken, Eric Hahn, Katja Wingenfeld, Ronald Burian, Albert Diefenbacher, Thi Minh Tam Ta). Migration-related emotional distress among Vietnamese psychiatric patients in Germany: An interdisciplinary, mixed methods study. Transcultural Psychiatry. 58(6). 772–788.
2020. (von Poser, Anita and Edda Willamowski). The Power of Shared Embodiment: Renegotiating Non/belonging and In/exclusion in an Ephemeral Community of Care. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (44). 610–628.
Awarded the 2021 Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology
2019a. (von Poser, Anita and Edda Heyken, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Eric Hahn). Emotion Repertoires. In Jan Slaby and Christian von Scheve (eds.), Affective Societies. Key Concepts. New York: Routledge. 241–251.
2019b. (Mattes, Dominik and Omar Kasmani, Marion Acker, Edda Heyken). Belonging. In Jan Slaby and Christian von Scheve (eds.), Affective Societies. Key Concepts. New York: Routledge. 300–309.
2019c. (Heyken, Edda and Anita von Poser, Eric Hahn, Thi Main Huong Nguyen, Jörg-Christian Lanca, Thi Minh Tam Ta). Researching Affects in the Clinic and Beyond. Multi-perspectivity, Ethnography, and Mental Health-Care Intervention. In Antje Kahl (ed.), Analyzing Affective Societies. Methods and Methodologies. New York: Routledge. 249–264.
2019d. (Heyken, Edda). Unravelling Silence from a Psychological Anthropological Perspective. In Ana Dragojlovic and Annemarie Samules (eds.), The Anthropology of Silence, Blogpost, February 28th.
2017a. (von Poser, Anita and Jörg-Christian Lanca, Edda Heyken). „Endlich darüber reden können“. Psychiatrie als affektiver Artikulationsraum und die Formierung transkultureller Emotionsrepertoires im Migrationsprozess. In Bengü Kocatürk-Schuster et al. (eds.), UnSichtbar. Vietnamesisch-Deutsche Wirklichkeiten. edition DOMiD – Migration im Fokus, 256–273.
2017b. (von Poser, Anita and Jörg-Christian Lanca, Edda Heyken, Main Huong Nguyen, Eric Hahn und Thi Minh Tam Ta). Annäherungen an das Unsagbare. Artikulationen des Affektiven und die Formierung transkultureller Emotionsrepertoires im Vietnamesischen Berlin. Working Paper Series SFB 1171 Affective Societies, 03/2017. 1–32.
2014. (Heyken, Edda). Erinnerungen an den Bosnienkrieg – Fluchterfahrungen, Identität und Zugehörigkeit von Bosniern in Berlin. Weißensee Verlag: Berlin.
2014. (Heyken, Edda). „Das ist ein Traum, der fast zwanzig Jahre dauert.“ Über die Suche nach individuellen Erinnerungsformen bosnischer Frauen und Männer in Berlin zum Umgang mit den Erfahrungen von Krieg, Flucht und Unsicherheit. Südosteuropäische Hefte 3 (1). 72–85.
Presentations at conferences and workshops
2023a. Doing Psychological Anthropology in Times of „Contested Knowledge”. DGSKA-Konferenz, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, Germany (chair).
2023b. An Engaged Approach to Silence, Care, and Solidarity, DGSKA-Konferenz, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, Germany.
2023c. A Touch of the Past. Phenomenological Observations of Butterflies and Evaporating Silences. Workshop at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
2023d. Tracing Diasporic Silence through Phenomenological Go-alongs, Biennial Meeting of the SPA, San Diego, USA.
2022a. Sustainable Discomfort (with M. Lindsay-Pérez). Una Europa Workshop, Universität Krakow, Polen und Universität Bologna, Italy.
2022b. Eine psychologisch-anthropologische Linse auf das Schweigen, Universität Tübingen, Germany (guest talk).
2021. Navigating the Changing World: Generational Relations as Resource and Challenge in Times of Crises. co-organisation of the panel (with Victoria Kumala Sakti), GAA-Conference “Worlds. Zones. Atmospheres. Seismographies of the Anthropocene“.
2019a. Imaginations, Silences, and Embodied Knowledge. German Anthropological Association Conference "The End of Negotiations?", Konstanz.
2019b. Silence, Vulnerabilities, and Embodied Memories as Part and Parcel of an Affective Life. Biennial Meeting of the Society of Psychological Anthropology (SPA), co-organization of the panel “Approaching Affective Lives through Multi-perspectivity in the Clinic and Beyond” (with Jörg-Christian Lanca), New Mexico, USA.
2019c. Emotional Narratives in Vietnamese Berlin: Diverging Conditions of Settling and Shared Experiences of Exclusion? (with Jörg-Christian Lanca). Conference “Representations of Migration and Emotions of Exclusion” at the Center for History of Emotions, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
2018a. Unprocessed Affects - The urge to voice versus the protection of silence in the life of South Vietnamese Refugees in Berlin. Working Group Meeting AG Psychological Anthropology at Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Berlin, Germany.
2018b. Out of the Box: De-/Constructing Affective Arrangements in Vietnamese Berlin (with Main Huong Nguyen & Jörg-Christian Lanca). Symposium “Affective Arrangements in Mental Health Care Settings” at Freie Universität Berlin.
2018c. Silence as Affective Action – Cases from a Vietnamese Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic. 15th Biennial EASA Conference “Staying, Moving, Settling“ at Stockholm University, Sweden.
2017. Affektive Anstrengungen der Migration. Vietnamesische Boatpeople in Berlin und Bewältigungsstrategien im Spannungsfeld zwischen vergangenen und gegenwärtigen Belastungssituationen. Working Group Meeting AG Medical Anthropology: Social Anthropology of ‚Well-Being‘ – Prekäres Leben: Krieg, Flucht und Migration, at Institute of Ethnology, Münster, Germany.
