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Education

Decolonizing Curatorial and Artistic Practices, Node Center Curatorial Studies, Berlin, 2022.

Master Degree, Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London, 2010. 

Master Degree Module, Practical Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking, University London, 2008. 

Undergraduate Master Degree, Science of Education, University of Bologna, 2003.

Relevant collaborations with Academies

“Wir erinnern! 3.0“ – Die dritte Generation erzählt”. Documentary director and field research, EVZ Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft, Albanischer Studenten und Alumni e.V., Humboldt University; North Macedonia-Kosovo-Albania — 2022-2023

“‘We might fall through’ Stuck in the Abyss of the Past” by Snežana Stanković and Linda Paganelli. Presentation, BASEES the British University Association of Slavists, and the National Association for Soviet and East European Studies; UK — 2023.

“No Place Like Home. Return Films in Southeastern Europe” at the International Academic Week 2022 “Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeastern Europe”. Curatorial work for a film event and presentation, Südosteuropa- Gesellschaft e.V. (SOG); Germany — 2022

“LILAB: Linguistic Landscape of the Cultural Region Banat in Diachrony and Synchrony (Participation)”. Field research and visual production, Friedrich Schiller University Jena; DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V.); Serbia — 2022

Introduction, screening and Q&A of “Imprinted” during the Hybrid Workshop “Semiotic Landscapes in Multilingual Border Regions”. Presentation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art; Germany — 2022

Introduction, screening and Q&A of “Empty Desert” at the Second Sunday Culture Films. Presentation, Penn Museum, CLALS University of Pennsylvania, the Middle East Center, and AL Bustan; USA — 2021

“Visual Anthropology, Borders and Migration in Digital Times”. Workshop mentor, Viadrina Center B/ORDER IN MOTION summer school, Viadrina University; Germany — 2021

“Imprinted”, video production as part of the research project “Ruptures in Memoryscapes. Holocaust and Romani genocide on Southeast Europe”. Selected at 19 Film Festivals (twice semi-finalist) and presented at many academic conferences. Field research and documentary director, DAAD, Viadrina Center B/ORDER IN MOTION, Viadrina University; Serbia, Croatia — 2019-2020

“The Relationship between Filmmaker and Subject”. Workshop mentor, filmArche e.V.; Germany — 2019

“Filmmaking and Visual Art”. Workshop mentor, International Academy of Art Palestine; Palestine — 2017. 

“Art in Anthropology – Ethnographies on the Move of People in Queer, Gender and Feminist Studies”. Workshop mentor, LOVA International Summer School, University of Amsterdam; Nederland — 2016

Pubblications

Lumnije Jusufi / Linda Paganelli. Durch die Linse. Ein Fotoessay über Kultur- und Sprachtransfer im Kontext von Migration,  Germany 2023.

„Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeastern Europe“, Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch (Southeast Europe Yearbook), published by the Southeast Europe Association in association with the Peter Lang Publishing House (Berlin), Germani 2023.

“The green colour of grief. A spider-human meditation”, Lateral – Journal of the Cultural Studies Association; Netherlands — 2021. https://csalateral.org/forum/corona-affects-effects/the-green-color-of-grief-spider-human-dreams-stankovic-paganelli/

“Journey of Waves” is part of “Forced Migration” with Snežana Stanković, Jonas Ecke, and Elizabeth Wirtz, Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Selected Grants

Stiftung Humboldt-Universität (2022-2023).

[moskito] Fach- und Netzwerkstelle gegen Rechtsextremismus – für Demokratie und Vielfalt (2023).

House of Resources Berlin (2023).

Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (2023).

EVZ Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (2022-2023).

Awards of Open Space in Stadtmuseum Berlin (2022-2023).

Integrationsbüro Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (2022).

Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst (2021).

DaMigra e.V. & Bezirk Neukölln (2021).

DAAD (2020).

DaMigra e.V (2019).

Relevant collaborations with Galleries, Museums, Associations

“Wir bleiben! Gentrifizierung und Widerstand in Berlin“. Multimedia art work and documentary for Berlin Global, Stadtmuseum Berlin in Humboldt Forum; Germany — 2022-2023

“Macht Sichtbar*”. Itinerant installation art work and workshop leader, NaiMo – Nachbarschaftstreff im Moselviertel; Germany — 2022

“Re-Moti”, video production for a research laboratory on stage movement on a zoom platform. Creative editing, Fisiomorfica; Italy — 2021-2022

“I Nature”. Curatorial work and exhibition mentoring, GlogauAIR; Germany — 2022

“ZuHause”. Curatorial work and creative workshop mentor, Polyrama – Museum für Lebensgeschichten, Integrationsbüro Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf; Germany — 2022

“The green colour of grief. A spider-human meditation”. Photographs and video production, Lateral – Journal of the Cultural Studies Association; Germany — 2021

“We need to learn to rest while moving”. Workshop mentor and curator, Museum Viadrina, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Viadrinicum, Viadrina University; Germany — 2021

“Neukölln ist auch mein Platz!”. Installation art work in a U-Bahn station, DaMigra e.V., ReteDonne e.V., BVG; Germany — 2020-2021

“Macht Sichtbar*”. Itinerant installation art work, DaMigra e.V., ReteDonne e.V., Bezirksamt Neukölln, — 2021

“LongingBelonging”. Curatorial work and exhibition mentoring, GlogauAIR; Germany — 2021

“Longing for Home”. Curatorial work and exhibition mentoring, DaMigra e.V., ReteDonne e.V., Chokofabrik e.V.; Germany — 2019

“Journey of Waves”. Selected at 4 Film Festivals, and presented at many  academic conferences. Documentary, referenced at Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Anthropology, Oxford University Press; United Kingdom — 2018

Relevant collaborations with NGOs, Newspapers, Production Companies

Freelancer at Agence France-Presse, Middle East EYE, Al Jazeera Documentaries, La Stampa TV, TELESUR, Nordic Media House, Dartmouth Films Ltd, TVE Spanish TV, STUDIO. TV. FILM Produktionen für Film und Fernsehen, TeleSUR TV.

“DisAbility”. Documentary director and field research, EducAid Onlus; Gaza — 2015-2017.

“Empty Desert”. Documentary director and field research , ESPLORARE LA METROPOLI production company; Israel — 2014-2017.

“Nameless”. Documentary and field research, G.V.C. NGO; Afghanistan — 2012.