Julia Demirdizen M.A.
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Julia Demirdizen M.A.
Julia Demirdizen studied Social and Cultural Anthropology and Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and Boğazıcı University Istanbul. In addition to her studies, she was a student assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Affective Societies’ at Freie Universität. Following her master's degree, she was given a teaching position at the Institute of Medical Sociology at Charité Berlin. She also worked as a project collaborator in the public health sector for the ‘Poverty and Health’ congress.
Since July 2025, she has been working as a research associate in the DFG research group ‘Medicine, Time and the Good Life’.
Her research interests include concepts and terms from affect and emotion theory, care ethics, ageing research and paediatric palliative care.
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| Since 07/2025 | Research associate at the Division of Ethics in Medicine in the DFG research group ‘Medicine Time and the Good life’ |
| 12/2024– 06/2025 | Project assistant at the Congress on Poverty and Health at Gesundheit Berlin Brandenburg e.V. |
| 10/2024– 09/2025 | Lecturer at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute for Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Sciences |
| 09/2024 | M.A. - Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin |
| 09/2020 | B.A. - Social and Cultural Anthropology, Political Science FU Berlin |
Research Focus
- Affective age(ing) in post-migrant lifeworlds
- Psychological anthropology
- Intergenerationality and generativity in the life course
- Care ethics
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Conference contribution
Demirdizen, J. (2024): "It's more about living than dying" - Volunteers' perspectives on childhood, death and care in Berlin. Talk at the Vienna Anthropology Days, September 2024.