Anna Lorena Schaeben holds a Master of Education in Art and Spanish and has been a doctoral researcher since 2025 in the DFG-funded Research Training Group 2661 “Connecting – Excluding: Cultural Practices Beyond Global Connectivity” at the University of Cologne. Her dissertation is supervised by Prof. Dr. Wolfram Nitsch (University of Cologne) and Prof. Armando Octavio Velázquez Soto (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and examines migration, transit spaces, play and imagination, and the formation of cultural identity in the literature of Valeria Luiselli.

In 2025, she presented a paper on loneliness and anonymity in Tokyo—based on her artistic-research project from her time living in Tokyo—at the APARN 2025 conference and has since been a member of the Asia-Pacific Artistic Research Network. As part of the transdisciplinary research training group, her work aims to enrich literary analysis with methodological approaches from artistic research. Her research interests include contemporary Latin American literature, migration and childhood studies, cultural theory, and artistic practices as modes of knowledge production.

Anna Lorena Schaeben

Kollegiatin
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2661 anschließen – ausschließen
aschaeb1@uni-koeln.de

Global South Studies Centre (GSSC)
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PhD Project

Impression of APARN 2025 (Thailand)

Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network Conference 2025

An International Platform for Artistic Research and Collaboration

APARN 2025 is a vibrant international gathering of artists, scholars, and researchers committed to advancing artistic research across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. This year’s conference (2025) was hosted by Chulalongkorn University in the heart of Bangkok. This global conference explores the transformative power of art in shaping our future.

Link: Part of my Presentation

Confernece Vienna Winter 2025

Impression of APARN 2026
(Singapore)

Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network Conference 2026

An International Platform for Artistic Research and Collaboration

Under the Title “Who speaks? Authorship, Authority and Authenticity” the conference was exploring questions of how artistic research and practice research can unpack the question of who speaks, how they speak through their artistic and practice research, and why these voices must be heard.This year’s conference (2026) was hosted by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. This global conference explores the transformative power of art in shaping our future.
Anna Lorena Schaeben exhibited her work “Se venden alegrías” and spoke about how artistic practice and literature studies unfold and treat the community shared discurse question about the redistribution of authorship.

A PhD is a marathon not a sprint.

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