CV

Since 03/2025

Research Associate and Doctoral Researcher in the Innovation Team A6 – “Diversity in Socio-Ecological Transformations: Migration, Demographic Change & Environment” at the Just Transition Center (JTC), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

10/2024 – 03/2025

Student Research Assistant at the Chair of Human Geography, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

2021 – 2025

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in International Area Studies – Global Change Geography (IAS-GCG), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Master’s thesis: “Assembling the Saale: Human–River Relationships in a More-Than-Human World”

2015 – 2022

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Bachelor’s thesis: “A Bridge Over Troubled Water? On Identity, Identity Construction, and the Relationship between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the Reception of the Levantinism Model of the Egyptian-Israeli Writer Jacqueline S. Kahanoff”

Projects

More-than-human geographies of transformation: Hydropolitical spaces of contamination in and around Bitterfeld-Wolfen (Eastern Germany)

How are water, pollutants, and industrial legacies in the Bitterfeld-Wolfen region politically, ecologically, and socially negotiated, and how do these negotiations shape the transformation of hydropolitical spaces?

Contact

Julia Ostertag

Research Associate/ PhD Candidate

Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie
Von-Seckendorff-Platz 4
06120 Halle (Saale)

 

Mail julia.ostertag@geo.uni-halle.de
Room H4 2.35