Anca Claudia Prodan, Ph.D.

Areas of research

• Heritage Studies
• Theories of Digitality; Software Studies and Critical Digital Humanities 
• Information Philosophy and Media Theory
• Philosophy of Science and History of Science

Research projects

• Sorbian Digital Worlds: Explorations of Culture and Technology in the 21st Century

CV

• since 2023 Scientific Staff, Sorbian Institut
• since 2022 Assistant Professor, Brandenburg Technical University (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg, Chair of Technoscience Studies
• since 2020 Visiting Professor, Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, Latvia
• 2019–2022 Project Manager, Institute Heritage Studies at the Internationale Akademie Berlin (INA) gGmbH
• 2013–2019 Scientific Staff, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Chair Intercultural Studies/ UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies
• 2010–2014 Doctoral Candidate, International Graduate School Heritage Studies, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
• 2007–2010 Master Studies, World Heritage Studies, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
• 2000–2004 Bachelor Studies, Anthropology-Philosophy, Avram Iancu University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Memberships

• Studiolab. Arbeit an Arbeit, “Arbeitskulturen” Kommission in der DGV
• Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)
• Network of Corresponding Members of the Sub-Committee for Education and Research (SCEaR) of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme
• Editorial Advisory Board of the “Heritage Studies” Series, Springer International Publishing AG

Lectureship

• Lecturer at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
• Visiting Professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture

Publications

Books

• 50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation (co-edited with M-Th. Albert, R. Bernecker, C. Cave und M. Ripp). Cham: Springer, 2022.
• The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme: Key Aspects and Recent Developments (co-edited with R. Edmondson und L. Jordan) (2020). Cham: Springer, 2020.

Articles

• Prodan, A. C. (2020). Memory of the World, Documentary Heritage and Digital Technology: Critical Perspectives. In: R. Edmondson, L. Jordan, und A. C. Prodan (Eds.), The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme: Key Aspects and Recent Developments, Cham: Springer, pp. 159-174.
• Prodan, A. C. (2017). The Sustainability of Digital Documentary Heritage. In: M.T. Albert, F. Bandarin, and A. Pereira Roders (Eds.). Going Beyond: Perceptions of Sustainability in Heritage Studies No. 2. Cham: Springer, pp. 59-69. 
• Prodan, A. C. and Albert, M.-Th. (2016). Memory of the World in Transition: Some Thoughts on the Preservation of Documentary Heritage in the Digital Age. In: H. Schmid and C. Fröhlich (Eds.). Jahrbuch für Politik und Geschichte, Vol. 6, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 15-28.

Presentations

• Lausitzer Tagebaufolgelandschaft als Weltkulturerbe? (with Lea Brönner and Jenny Hagemann), Seniorenakademie BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, 11.01.2023, Senftenberg.
• Documents as Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities for Integrating Documentary Heritage into Culture, Education and Science, Project closing conference of the National Library of Latvia, The role of documentary heritage research in creating synergies between research and society, 25-26.11.2021, Riga, Latvia.
• Preserving Digitality: Ruminations about Digitally Based Heritage Transmission, 5th Biennial Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference 2020 ‘Futures’, 26–30.08.2020, London, UK
• Theory and Theoretical Gaps in Heritage Studies, Worlds of Cultural Heritage(s): History and Politics, 7–8.02.2019, Coimbra, Portugal

Reviews

• Practical Considerations for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, Michelle L. Stefano, Routledge (2023), ISBN 978-0-367-47226-9. In International Journal of Intangible Heritage, Vol. 19 [in Press]