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Dr. Katarzyna Puzon

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Facility
Hermann von Helmholtz-Centre for Cultural Techniques
Collections
Sound Archives
Status group
Research Assistant
Email
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Telephone
+49 30 2093-12890
Postal address
Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Registered office
Hannoversche Straße 27 (Haus 25), 10115 Berlin

Personal details

Dr Katarzyna Puzon is an anthropologist working at the intersection of temporality, heritage, science, and art. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Europe and the Middle East and was awarded fellowships in support of her work. She co-edited Islam and Heritage in Europe: Pasts, Presents and Future Possibilities (with Sharon Macdonald and Mirjam Shatanawi, Routledge, 2021) and is committed to transdisciplinary research, focusing on the anthropology of time, critical heritage perspectives, and collaborative and participatory practices. Her work combines rigorous scholarship with creative media and interdisciplinary approaches.

As Senior Researcher on the project Towards Sonic Resocialisation, funded by the German Lost Art Foundation (“Cultural Goods and Collections from Colonial Contexts”), she examines the contentious heritage of sound and science, exploring ways to restitute sound collections and developing innovative approaches to engaging with the Lautarchiv holdings. Her current work builds on her expertise in heritage studies and her research on scientific sound collections.

•       Puzon, K. (2025) ‘Bringing in Others in a Time of Change’, Museum Anthropology 48(1) 

•       Puzon, K. (2023) Review of Katrin Sieg (2021), ‘Decolonising German and European History at the Museum’, German Historical Institute London Bulletin 45(1): 160-164

•       Puzon, K. (2022) ‘Goodbye Mshatta: Connections and Disconnections on Berlin’s Museum Island’, Review of Middle East Studies 56(1): 123-127     

•       Puzon, K. (2022) Critique of Susan Ossman (2021), Shifting Worlds, Shaping Fieldwork: A Memoir of Anthropology and Art, Routledge.Visual Anthropology Review 38(2): 320-322

•       Puzon, K. (2022) ‘i,Slam. Belonging and Difference on Stage in Berlin’, in S. Macdonald (ed.) Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin Ethnography. Bielefeld: transcript

•       Puzon, K. (2021) ‘Germans without Footnotes: Islam, Belonging and Poetry Slam’, in K. Puzon, S. Macdonald and M. Shatanawi (eds) Islam and Heritage in Europe: Pasts, Presents and Future Possibilities, London and New York: Routledge

•       Shatanawi, M., Macdonald S. and K. Puzon (2021) ‘Heritage, Islam, Europe: Entanglements and Directions. An Introduction’, in K. Puzon, S. Macdonald and M. Shatanawi (eds) Islam and Heritage in Europe: Pasts, Presents and Future Possibilities, London and New York: Routledge

•       Macdonald, S., Gerbich, C., Gram, R., Puzon, K. and M. Shatanawi (2021) ‘Re-framing Islam? Potentials and Challenges of Participatory Initiatives in Museums and Heritage’, in K. Puzon, S. Macdonald and M. Shatanawi (eds) Islam and Heritage in Europe: Pasts, Presents and Future Possibilities, London and New York: Routledge

•       Puzon, K. (2021) ‘Heritage and Policymaking in Lebanon’, in H. H. Ali and N. von Maltzahn (eds), Insights into Cultural Policies in Lebanon, Orient-Institut Studies 6 [in Arabic and English]

•       Puzon, K. (2019) ‘Saving Beirut: Heritage and the City’, International Journal of Heritage Studies 25(10): 914-925

•       Puzon, K. (2019) ‘Participatory Matters: Access, Migration and Heritage in Berlin Museums’, in H. Oevermann and E. Gantner (eds), Securing Urban Heritage: Agents, Access, and Securitization, London and New York: Routledge

•       Puzon, K. (2018) Review of Mara A. Leichtman (2015), Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa. Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal, Indiana University Press. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24 (3): 649-650

•       Puzon, K. (2018) ‘Translocality’, in Macdonald S., Forster L., Puzon K., Tinius J., M. von Oswald and C. Gerbich, Otherwise: Rethinking Museums and Heritage, Berlin: CARMAH/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

•       Puzon, K. (2016) ‘Memory and Artistic Production in a Post-war Arab City’, in D. O'Rawe and M. Phelan (eds) Post-conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory. Contemporary Performance InterActions, London: Palgrave Macmillan