Ester Cara, M.A.

Contact and Curriculum Vitae

Contact

Ester Cara, M.A.
Doctoral Candidate, Research School

Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Excellenzcluster “Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining”
Fürstengraben 1
07743 Jena

Office:
Leutragraben 1 (JenTower, 8. OG), Room: 08S01
07743 Jena

Phone: +49 (0) 3643 -
E-mail: ester.cara(at)uni-jena.de

Personal details

  • Research Areas

    •    Audiovisual media as a discursive apparatus
    •    Politics of everyday life culture
    •    Production of difference and politics of representation
    •    Popular culture and identity
    •    Music in contexts of sociopolitical transformation

  • Curriculum Vitae

    Academic Background 

    Since 2026
    Doctoral Researcher and Ph.D. candidate in the Cluster of Excellence Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    2016–2022
    Master of Arts, Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    2015–2016
    Exchange semester, New York University, USA – Coursework in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of Music (College of Arts and Science) and at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music (Tisch School of the Arts)
     
    2012–2016
    Bachelor of Arts, Cultural History and Theory / Musicology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Work Experience

    2022–2025
    Program and Project Manager, Kulturprojekte Berlin – conceptualizaton, coordination, and realization of cultural, outreach, and publication formats (e.g. 35 Years of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Commemoration of the Revolution of 1948/49, Kultursommerfestival 2023)

    2018–2022
    Freelance Democracy Educator in political youth education in Berlin schools

    2017–2019
    Freelance writer for contemporary culture, e.g. SPEX – Magazin für Popkultur 

  • Publications
  • Further Activities

    Presentations

    “Between Collectivization and Hyper-Aestheticization. On the Revenge Complex and Its Figurative Translation in the Film Parasite (KOR 2019, dir. Bong Joon-ho),” Racheabend – Symposium of the Project Seminar Revenge and Its Antidotes: Configurations in Theory, Politics, and Popular Culture, Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, July 7, 2023

    Scholarships

    2012–2020
    Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
    Study Scholarship

    2015/2016
    ZEIT Foundation Bucerius
    Arnold Heidsieck Scholarship

    2015
    Fulbright Commission
    U.S. Travel Grant