Jun.-Prof. Dr. Meike Lettau
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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Meike Lettau holds a Junior Professorship in Cultural and Media Policy Studies at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany. Her research interests include foreign cultural policy, international cultural relations, artists as agents of change, cultural activism, sociopolitical transformation processes and culture in conflict regions, among others.

She is currently leading the DAAD-funded project تواصل [Tawasol] Cultural Production and Policy Network, which investigates the socio-political dimensions of artistic formats between the WANA region and Germany, with 20 fellows from Germany, Tunisia and Lebanon.

Previously, she was academic associate at the Institute for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, and coordinator of the Graduate School ‘Performing Sustainability: Cultures and Development in West Africa’ which is implemented in cooperation with the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, and the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She has worked for various cultural institutions in Germany and abroad (Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Pune, KHOJ International Artists’ Association, ARThinkSouthAsia, Cultural Innovators Network (CIN), Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Internationale Gesellschaft der bildenden Künste (IGBK), German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ)).