ANNIKA LEMS annika.lems@anthro.unibe.ch CURRENT POSITION Since Jan 2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow Postdoctoral researcher in the SNF-funded research project Transnational Biographies of Education. Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers and their Navigation through Shifting Social Realities in Switzerland and Turkey at the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern (2015-2018). EDUCATION 2009-2013 PhD in Social Anthropology Doctoral thesis on Being Here. Emplacement and Displacement in the Life Stories of Two Somali-Australians at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University in Melbourne. Supervisors: Klaus Neumann and Peter Browne. The thesis was examined and promoted for doctorate by the distinguished anthropologists Michael D. Jackson (Harvard University) and Ruth Behar (University of Michigan) in September 2013. 2002-2008 BA and MA in Anthropology and African Studies with a specialisation on Forced Migration at the University of Vienna/ Austria. Master thesis on Places of Non-Law. Somalian Refugees and the Production of Spaces outside of the Law in Italian Detentioncamps (supervised by Sabine Strasser from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (ACADEMIC) since Jan 2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow research fellow for SNF project Transnational Biographies of Education at the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern. 2015 Lecturer Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern Course on The Politics and Poetics of Storytelling: Narratives as Key Tools in Anthropological Meaning-Making. 2013-2014 Research Assistant for ARC Linkage Project Homelands Assistant to Prof. Sandy Gifford at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research in the last phase (writing up) of the 4 year research project Homelands. The project explored whether supporting young people from refugee backgrounds in the production of audio-visual materials for exchange with their friends, families and communities overseas could facilitate their settlement in Melbourne. 1

2011-2012 Research Assistant for Prof Ellie Rennie Assistant to Ellie Rennie, Deputy Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research in her research on ICTs and the digital divide in remote indigenous communities in Australia. 2009 Research Assistant for Prof Klaus Neumann Assistant to Prof Neumann in his research on the history of refugee resettlement in Australia. The bibliography has been published on Australian Policy Online and is updated regularly: http://apo.org.au/research/resettlement-refugees-australia-bibliography JOURNALISTIC AND MEDIA-RELATED EXPERIENCE FILM 2012 Short Film Heimweh/ Homelonging on Deportation The 20min. documentary shows the story of Gabi, an Austrian woman who got deported from the USA after 15 years of living there (together with Christine Moderbacher). Sound, Edit, Camera, Production. Jan 2012 Short Film on the Melbourne Event El Tarro An 8 min. visual journey through the performances that took place as part of El Tarro s event Summer Revolution. Founded in Melbourne in 2008 by a group of Colombian artists, El Tarro, the smallest performing space in the world, has grown to be an internationally recognised creative moving space where people come together to share and be part of new artistic ideas. The piece was commissioned by El Tarro (in collaboration with Paul Reade). http://vimeo.com/user8431548/videos 2011 Short Film An Aorta to the Imagination 10 min. observational documentary on the closure of a second hand bookstore and social meeting point at Sydney Road in Melbourne (together with Paul Reade). The film was screened at the Sydney Road Film Festival and at the Down Under Film Festival in Berlin. It was also broadcasted on Alex TV in Berlin. 2011 Assistant to Director and filmmaker David Franjic (Colour Chorus) Colour Chorus is a Melbourne based production company focused on cinematic storytelling. I assisted David Franjic in the filming of a number of short documentaries that were produced as part of exhibitions in the Melbourne Museum. http://colourchorus.com/ Feb 2007- Jan 2009 Documentary Harraga Director of the documentary harraga together with Christine Moderbacher, (supported by OKTO, University of Vienna and students council of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Vienna), Premiere: 01/2009 in Vienna. The film was screened in several countries all over the world, including Germany, Canada, Belgium, UK and Italy (Australian Premiere: 28/06/2010 at ACMI, Melbourne). Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azagoq3_kpe 2

PRINT 2007-2009 Magazine of the Austrian Young Worker s Union Editor and journalistic work for the youth-magazine Hallo! (number of copies: 60.000 per number); from June 2009- September 2009, while the chief editor was on maternity leave, I took over her role and was responsible for the planning, production, editing, layout and printing process of 3 edtitions of the magazine. 2005-2009 Studentmagazine Unique Freelance journalist for magazine from the student s representatives at the University of Vienna (Österreichische HochschülerInnenschaft Universität Wien) 2006 Magazine Progress Editor and journalistic work for youth magazine Progress 2004- Studentmagazine Groovy 2005 Journalistic and editorial work for the critical studentmagazine Groovy RADIO Dec 2007 Radio Documentary about the Trial against Seven Tunisian Fishermen in Sicily for Global Dialogues; Broadcast at Radio Orange 94.0, (together with Christine Moderbacher) at 18th of December 2007. The travel costs for this reportage were sponsored by the European Union s initiative Youth in Action online version (in German language): http://sendungsarchiv.o94.at/get.php?id=094pr2014 PUBLICATIONS Annika Lems (forthcoming 2016). Ambiguous Longings: Nostalgia as the Interplay between Self, Time and World. Forthcoming 2016 in Critique of Anthropology. Annika Lems (forthcoming 2016). Mobile Temporalities: Place, Ruination and the Dialectics of Time, in Contested Histories on the Move: Rethinking Memory through Mobility and Agency, edited by Monika Palmberger and Jelena Tosic, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Annika Lems & Christine Moderbacher (forthcoming 2016). On Being Stuck in the Wrong Life: Homelonging, Movement and the Pain of Existential Immobility. Forthcoming in Bounded Mobilities, edited by Miriam Gutekunst et al. Bielefeld: Transcript. Annika Lems, Sandra Gifford & Raelene Wilding (forthcoming). New Myths of OZ: The Australian Beach and the Negotiation of National Belonging by Refugee Background Youth. Forthcoming in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. Annika Lems (2014). Placing Displacement. Place-Making in a World of Movement. Ethnos. DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2014.931328 Klaus Neumann, Sandra Gifford, Annika Lems & Stefanie Scherr. (2014). Refugee Settlement in Australia: Policy, Scholarship and the Production of Knowledge, 1952-2013. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 35(1), 105-121. Annika Lems & Paul Reade ( 2014). Review of Lettre á Mohamed/ A Letter to Mohamed. Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia. 3

Annika Lems (2014). Review of "I did it to save my life. Love and survival in Sierra Leone". Social Anthropology, Volume 22, Issue 4, pages 491 492. Annika Lems (2014). A Country Big Enough to Disappear in. Inside Story, 27 May 2014. http://insidestory.org.au/a-country-big-enough-to-disappear-in Annika Lems (2011). Beyond the easy life of gods. Inside Story, 12 July 2011: http://inside.org.au/beyond-the-easy-life-of-gods/ Annika Lems (2009). The Mediterranean solution. Inside Story, 10 February 2009: http://inside.org.au/the-mediterranean-solution/ SELECTED PRESENTATIONS Annika Lems & Julia Rehsmann (2015). Uncertainties as a playground for moralities, panel convenor at Global Capitalism and the Challenge of Well-Being in the World, Annual Conference of the Swiss Ethnological Society, Bern 12-14 November 2015. Annika Lems, (2015). Displaced stories: The interplay of telling and being in the face of displacement, conference presentation at The Worlds of Violence, 9 th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Naxos-Giardini, Sicily, 23-26 September 2015. Annika Lems & Christine Moderbacher (2015). Homelonging, movement and the pain of existential immobility, workshop presentation at Im/mobilities and Boundaries, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Munich 1-9 July 2015 (invited presentation). Annika Lems & Elif Eda Tibet (2015). Transnational biographies of education: Young unaccompanied asylum seekers and their navigation through shifting social realities in Switzerland and Turkey Research ideas and gender dynamics, presentation in workshop on Gendered Regimes of Migration, Swiss Graduate Program in Anthropology, University of Zürich, Zürich 5-6 June 2015. Annika Lems (2014). Learning, making, dwelling: Reconsidering informal learning as a core existential strategy in the context of displacement, conference presentation at Social Anthropology and Global Transformations, Annual Conference of the Swiss Ethnological Society (SEG), Basel 30 October- 1 November 2014 (invited presentation, funded by SEG). Annika Lems (2014). Sketching the contours of a phenomenology of migrant nostalgia, conference presentation at 13 th EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennial Conference, Tallinn 31 July-1 August 2014 (financed by EASA scholarship for emerging scholars). Annika Lems & Christine Moderbacher (2014). Laboratory: Black and white stills: catching and placing light, workshop convened at 13 th EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennial Conference, Tallinn 31 July-1 August 2014 (financed by EASA scholarship for emerging scholars). Annika Lems & Christine Moderbacher (2014). Heimweh/ homelonging. deportation, storytelling and the lived experience of home, conference presentation at Anthropology and Enlightenment, Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Decennial Conference, Edinburgh, 19-22 June 2014. Annika Lems & Klaus Neumann (2014). On nostalgia, keynote seminar convened at Swinburne Institute for Social Research Seminar Series, Swinburne University, Melbourne 2 May 2014. Annika Lems (2013). Emplacing displacement, Conference Presentation at The Human in the World, the World in the Human, the Annual Conference of the Australian Anthropological Society, ANU Canberra, 6-8 November 2013. Annika Lems & Zoe Robertson (2013). Different ways of seeing the past, presentation as part of the Greg Dening Memorial Lecture, 8 August 2013, University of Melbourne (invited presentation). 4

Annika Lems (2013). Ways of seeing the past (as present), presentation as part of workshop Materials and Making with distinguished Prof. Tim Ingold, 17 October 2013, University of Queensland, Brisbane (sponsored by a studentship from the Australian Anthropological Association). Annika Lems & Christine Moderbacher (2012). Homelonging in an age of movement, conference presentation at Migration, Memory and Place, 5-7 December 2012, University of Copenhagen (funded by scholarship from Swinburne University). Annika Lems (2012). Taking roots in an uprooted world, conference presentation at Place and Displacement, 21-23 November 2012, Victoria University, Melbourne. Annika Lems & Paul Reade (2011). Deportation, storytelling and the anthropological gaze, Conference presentation at Knowledge and Value in a Globalising World, the Annual Conference of the Australian Anthropological Society, 5-8 July 2011, University of Western Australia, Perth (funded by scholarship from Swinburne University). Annika Lems (2011). The value of visual narratives in contemporary forced migration studies, Workshop convened for the Migration and Mobility Research Network, 25 November 2011, RMIT University. 5