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Melina Scheuermann (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Arts Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Porto. She holds a Master’s degree in Cinema Studies from Stockholm University, (Sweden) and a Bachelor degree in Cultural Studies (Major) and Arts-Media-Aesthetic Education (Minor) from the University of Bremen (Germany). In her research, Melina Scheuermann integrates studies in visual culture, visual history of education and arts education with artistic practice. She inquires the relations of images and imaginaries of ‘nature’ in the history of education intersecting her work with decolonial, post-colonial and feminist works in visual culture. She nurtures an interest in arts-based methodologies as archival research, always linking those to pedagogy and arts education. Currently, Melina Scheuermann is associated with the Institute for Investigation in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS) and her research is funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (REF: 2022.12937.BD).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Melina Scheuermann

Citation names

  • Scheuermann, Melina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9716-E132-1E4E
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5711-6117

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts
  • Social Sciences - Educational Sciences
  • Humanities
  • Social Sciences - Educational Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
German (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Swedish Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/09 - 2025/08
Ongoing
 PhD in Arts Education (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2020/11/01 - 2021/08/31
Concluded
 Post-graduate courses in Sociology and Political Sciences (Outros)
Major in Sociology and Political Sciences
Scuola Normale Superiore - Sede di Firenze, Italy
2017/08/25 - 2019/07/02
Concluded
 Cinema Studies (Master)
Major in Cinema Studies
Stockholms universitet Institutionen för mediestudier, Sweden
"Animated Memories - A case study of the animated documentary 'Saydnaya - Inside a Syrian Torture Prison' (2016) and its potential within social memory" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/10/01 - 2017/08/24
Concluded
 Cultural Studies (Major), Arts-Media-Aesthetic Education (Minor) (Bachelor)
Major in Cultural Studies
Universität Bremen Fachbereich 9 Kulturwissenschaften, Germany
"Images of the Everyday in War. Private Photographs of German Soldiers of the ISAF Mission in Afghanistan" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/01/15 - 2016/06/05
Concluded
 ERASMUS exchange semester (Outros)
Major in Media Studies
Mittuniversitetet Avdelningen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Sweden
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/03 - 2019/06 Documentary film production - internship and freelance research LAIKA Film & Television, Sweden
2016/09 - 2017/06 Assistant social pedagogue Sozialer Friedensdienst Bremen e.V. (sfd e.V.), Germany
2015/09 - 2017/06 Project coordinator in transitional home for refugees Arbeiterwohlfahrt Kreisverband Hansestadt Bremen e.V., Germany
2013/08 - 2014/07 Assistant theatre teacher Theater Bremen, Germany
2014/05/01 - 2014/05/31 Project leader of youth editorial office 'Hart am Wind' 4th Children and Youth Theatre Festival,, Germany
2012/08/23 - 2013/08/22 Voluntary cultural year Theater Bremen, Germany
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/04/01 - 2022/12/31 CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education
EXPL/CED-EDG/0824/2021
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Scheuermann, Melina. "(Un-)Learning to see: Images of Whiteness and 'Nature' in the Picture Book Series 'A instrucção de creança' (1904/05)". In CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education, edited by Catarina Martins. Porto, Portugal: Instituto de Investigação em Design, Artes e Sociedade (i2ADS), 2023.
Conference abstract
  1. Scheuermann, Melina. "Imperial Landscapes in Visual Education: Interrogating Nationality and Race in the Landscape Imag(inari)es of a German Educational Picture Book in the late 19th century". Paper presented in XXII Coloquio de Historia de la Educación. Transnacionalidad y transculturalidad en la Historia de la Educación durante la Modernidad y la Contemporaneidad, Almería, 2024.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Scheuermann, Melina. "Educating and researching across languages.". Derivas - Research in Arts Education #7 - A forma da fala, (2023): 73-89. https://i2ads.up.pt/publicacoes/derivas-7/.
    Open access • Published
  2. Pedersen, Marcela; Andrade, Luana; Scheuermann, Melina. "Práticas de Investigação: Como fazer um terremoto?". Derivas - Research in Arts Education #7 - A forma da fala, (2023): 16-31. https://i2ads.up.pt/publicacoes/derivas-7/.
    Open access • Published
  3. Scheuermann, Melina. "Images of the Everyday in War. Private Photographs of German Soldiers of the ISAF mission in Afghanistan. [Bilder des Alltäglichen im Krieg. Private Fotografien von Bundeswehrsoldat*innen aus dem ISAF-Einsatz in Afghanistan]". Visual-History (2018): https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/1199.
    Open access • Published • 10.14765/ZZF.DOK.5.1199
Journal issue
  1. Alves, André; Andrade, Luana; Casais, Rosinda; Pedersen, Marcela; Scheuermann, Melina; Vagos, Filipe. "A Forma da Fala". Derivas, Revista do Programa Doutoral em Educação Artística da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto 7 (2023): https://i2ads.up.pt/publicacoes/derivas-7/.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Scheuermann, Melina. "Diversity as a question of survival [Diversität als Überlebensfrage]", ray Magazin, Der Österreichische Film, 2020, https://ray-magazin.at/diversitaet-als-ueberlebensfrage/.
Report
  1. Scheuermann, Melina. 2024. PerformArquivo - A Performative-Archival Practice in the History of Education. Report of an Artistic Investigation..
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Animated Memories. A case study of the animated documentary 'Saydnaya – Inside a Syrian Torture Prison' (2016) and its potential within social memory.". Master, Stockholms universitet Institutionen för mediestudier, 2019. http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1467355&dswid=4591.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. the archive that i imagine to unlearn the archive. 2024.
Theatre play
  1. 2014. Assistant theatre teacher & director of 'Bestzeit'.
Video recording
  1. Mads Brüggers; Göran Björkdahl ; Clarinah Mfengu ; Saphir Wenzi Mabanza; Mads Brüggers (Director). 2019. Researcher for the documentary of 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld'. Magnolia Pictures.
  2. Franck Edmond Yao alias Gadoukou la Star; Hauke Heumann; Eric Parfait Francis Taregue alias Skelly; Gotta Depri; Melina Scheuermann (Director). 2015. Filmmaker of ethnographic documentary 'TRANS-/LATION/CULTURE/GENDER'.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/09/12 Imperial Landscapes in Visual Education: Interrogating Nationality and Race in the Landscape Imag(inari)es of a German Educational Picture Book in the late 19th century XXII Colloquium on the History of Education: Transnationality and transculturality in the history of Education
Sociedad Española de Historia de la Educación (SEDHE) (Almería, Spain)
2024/09/05 Imperial subjects and images of ‘nature’: Tracing the travelling of a picture book series from Switzerland (1874/5) to Portugal (1904/5) ISCHE 45 - “(De)coloniality and Diversity in the Histories of Education”
International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE)
2023/06/26 (Un-)Learning to see: Images of Whiteness and 'Nature' in the Picture Book Series 'A instrucção de creança' (1904/05) CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child [Project ID: EXPL/CED-EDG/0824/2021]
Prof. Cat Martins (Porto, Portugal)
2021/06/04 Animated Memories. Potentials and Strategies of Animated Documentary Dealing with (Collective) Memory 1. International Film Studies Conference: Cinema, Aesthetics and Memory
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017 Images of the Everyday in War [Bilder des Alltäglichen im Krieg] Research Insights #4 - student research, as part of “Exploring the Practices of Academic Teaching and Learning"
University of Bremen (Bremen, Germany)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/04/26 - 2023/04/26 The workshop "The Historicization of the Creative Child: working with and against the archive" I was held with 14 international participants from the field of arts education. After communicating the base research project, small groups mobilized selected archival materials and engaged with questions that those materials were posing towards the history and present of arts education. I participated in the internal project meetings concerned with the preparation of this workshop, co-constructed the workshop materials and co-lead the activity. (2023/04/26 - 2023/04/26)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 European Educational Research Association (EERA)/ Network 29: Research on Arts Education, Germany
2022/09/30 - 2022/10/01 Assitance during two-day workshop within the project CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education (EXPL/CED-EDG/0824/2021) with invited, international researchers. (2022/09/30 - 2022/10/01)
Workshop (Other)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/06/06 - 2024/06/08 History of Education Doctorate Summer School
Other
 History of Education Doctorate Summer School (HEDSS)
European Educational Research Association, Germany

Danish School of Education at Aarhus University, Denmark
2023/02/16 - 2023/02/18 Activity manifested in two key moments: as promoter of the collective practice (workshop) "Desfazer, desmontar, ler e esquecer, desfigurar... modos hegemônicos de ver/inscrever/escrever a história" and through my participation in a round table discussion with the paper "Re-enactment as a critical method(ology) to unlearn the archive and the educational method 'object lesson'"
Conference
 9.º Encontro em Práticas de Investigação em Educação Artística
Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/03/02 - 2022/03/04 Participation
Meeting
 Kick-off meeting: CREAT_ED The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education (EXPL/CED-EDG/0824/2021
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal
2021/11/04 - 2021/11/06 Participation
Meeting
 IMMER # 3 International Meeting on Museum Education and Research -Rethinking Museum Theory and Practices
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2016/10 - 2017/01 Seminar on 'Qualitative Methods' Seminar on 'Qualitative Methods'
2016/10 - 2017/01 Seminar on 'Introduction to Ethnology' Seminar on 'Introduction to Ethnology'
2015/04 - 2015/08 Seminar on 'Culture and Economy' Seminar on 'Culture and Economy'
Distinctions

Award

2017 Rainer-Alsheimer-Prize for Best Bachelor Thesis in the Cultural Studies
Universität Bremen Fachbereich 9 Kulturwissenschaften, Germany

Other distinction

2019 Nominee for the "Zeitgeschichte-digital Prize" 2019
Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF) e¿V, Germany