Program Overview

University Program Information

The University of Bremen's Institute for Art Studies Film Studies Art Education offers various programs and research areas.

Programs

• B.A. Art Media Aesthetic Education
• M.A. Art studies and film studies
• M.Ed. Art Media Aesthetic Education

Research Areas

• art science
• Film studies
• Art education

Events

The institute hosts various events, including:

• Basic course exhibitions
• Open studio week
• Lecture series Critical Porn Studies (2023)
• Lecture series Research Methods I + II
• O-week program

Lecture series Critical Porn Studies (2023)

This public lecture series focuses on artistic and queer-feminist strategies and media production and reception processes in pornography. It takes place from April 18 to July 18, 2023, on Tuesday evenings, partly in a hybrid format at the University of Bremen and at various locations in Bremen.

Program Details

The lecture series aims to work with invited experts on aesthetic-media and image-critical questions about processes of sexual normation, diverse life designs, and image production and didactics. The series will explore how concepts of power, gender, nudity, consent, and body norms are negotiated, and how self-determined and decolonized designs of sexuality are handled.

Lectures

The series includes the following lectures:

• Schaulust, pornography, art by Friederike Nastold
• Artist*talk with Guilherme Maggessi and Rafa Morusiewicz
• Men of Turkey: The Fetishization of Ethnicity in Gay Pornography between Germany and Turkey by Emre Busse
• Porn as absent-present images by Marion Thuswald
• Pornography between authenticity effects and documentary attributions by Leonie Zilch
• Performing Porn? Sexual scripts and the performances of sex by Lea-Sophie Schiel
• Flaunting, Flourishing, and Fucking: The Pleasure and Politics of Queercrip Porn by Loree Erickson
• On Relations of Class, Race and Labor in Pornography and Sex Work in the U.S. by Mireille Miller-Young
• Sexualized Nazis by Julia Noah Munier
• film:art 97: Porn Classics, a short film program curated by Christine R¸ffert

Locations

The lectures will take place at various locations in Bremen, including:

• University of Bremen, lecture hall building HS 2010
• Art and cultural association Spedition e.V.
• Kukoon
• Schwankhalle Bremen
• CITY 46 / Kommunalkino Bremen e.V.