Heike C. Spickermann M.A.
CEDITRAA Project Part Mainz, Coordinator
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Heike C. Spickermann is acting Research Coordinator for the Georg Forster Forum (GFF) at Mainz University, where the Mainz part of the project is hosted. Along with organizing conferences, workshops, and meetings, her focal points are conceptual research consulting, reporting, evaluation, strategic PR, networking of scientists, internal and external communication. She also served as Managing Editor for the publication series Intercultural Studies. As part of her work for the Georg Forster Forum she is coordinating the Mainz Part of the project CEDITRAA besides.
My CEDITRAA story
“What is especially fascinating for me are insights into global developments. Studies showing developments of something called the ‘Global South’ have the potential to reveal that the assumption of trendsetting and complete dominance of the so-called ‘West’ is already an illusion. Models of centre and periphery are not only misaligned in new cultural production, there is also a proud awareness of a new centring in many areas of the world. These phenomena mirror a compelling global change.”