Univ.-Ass. Dr. Nina Rabuza, BA MA

Vita

• Since 2022 University Assistant LuF Social Inequality and Political Education
• 2017 - 2022 Dissertation project at the Freie Universität Berlin in philosophy; doctorate (Dr. phil.)
• 2010 - 2013 Master's programme in Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin
• 2006 - 2010 Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Political Science at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Scholarships

• 2017-2021 Doctoral scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation
• 2007-2013 Study scholarship from the Cusanuswerk

Further professional activities

• 2022 Lecturer at the Munich University of Applied Sciences
• 2021 - 2022 Research assistant in the project "Subcamps of the Auto-Union in history education" at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial Site
• 2013 - 2017 Educational assistant at the Max Mannheimer Study Centre in Dachau

Lectures (selection)

• Unrestrained Experience. Walter Benjamin's Pedagogy of Play. Panel lecture at the conference "Southern Benjamin. Mourning, Play, Revolution" of the International Walter Benjamin Society, University La Sapienza Rome, 19.09.2025.
• "Everything clean and tidy". Concentration camp memorials between safeguarding, transmission and loss of memory. Public lecture at the Institute of Education at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 24 July 2025.
• Resignification of the past. Der rechte Kulturkampf gegen die Erinnerung an den Nationalsozialismus, workshop at the summer school "Rückschritte in Gesellschaft und Bildung" of the DSP-Kolleg "macht.bildung.gesellschaft" at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg, 26 June 2025.
• The Critique of Family Relations in the Works of Benjamin and in the Studies on Authority and Family. Panel lecture at the 17th International Critical Theory Conference in Rome, St. John's University Rome Campus, 13 May 2025.
• Commemorating the dead in (beautiful) nature? The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial 1950/1960/2014. Presentation at the workshop "Visual Scepticism in Landscape Architecture? Historical green design as a difficult legacy and how to deal with it today", University of Hamburg, 11.04.2025.
• "Nothing indicates that people were murdered here because they belonged to the Jewish religion."- The thematisation of anti-Semitism in historical-political education at concentration camp memorial sites. Panel presentation at the 8th Annual Conference on Migration Research in Austria of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Educational Science at the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 19 September 2024.
• The necessity of half-education. Adorno on class and education (with Daniel Burghardt). Panel lecture at the conference "Adorno's sociology", organised at the University of Innsbruck, 6.07.2024.
• Das Subjekt des Erinnerns - eine antisemitismustheoretische Kritik der Erinnerungspädagogik (with Daniel Burghardt). Panel presentation at the conference "Ticketdenken. Socio-critical perspectives on antisemitism and education of the "Network of Young Academics against Antisemitism", organised at Justus Liebig University Giessen, 9 April 2024.
• Objectified memory. Reflections on a critical analysis of memorials at concentration camp memorial sites. Panel presentation at the conference "Geschichte als Kritik" of the Chair of History Didactics at Bielefeld University, 19 March 2024.
• Memory after Auschwitz. Problems and limits of (collective) remembrance of National Socialist terror and the Shoah. Evening lecture at the "Colloquium Alpinum. Political Phenomenology", in Obergurgl, 31.01.24.
• Extinction of Future. On the Extinction of Utopia in Social Critique (with Daniel Burghardt). Lecture at the annual conference "Zukunft - zwischen Öffnungen und Schließungen" of the Commission on Philosophy of Education of the DGfE, Innsbruck 21-23 September 2023.
• Something is missing? On Utopia in Adorno (with Daniel Burghardt), lecture at the philosophical café in Innsbruck, 21 June 2023.
• On the Anthropology of the Bourgeois and the Proletarian Child. Walter Benjamins Schriften zur Pädagogik, lecture at the conference "Proletarische Pädagogik. Historical Experiments, Controversies and Receptions (1872-1933)", Giessen 12-13 May 2023.
• Education at concentration camp memorials. Genesis and tasks using the examples of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial and the Buchenwald Memorial, lecture as part of the seminar "Conservatism and Authoritarianism" of the Hans Böckler Foundation, Weimar, 5 May 2022.
• The Crematory Area as a "Garden of Memory" - Landscape Gardening and Meaning at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. Lecture at "From Centre to Periphery and Beyond - 24th Workshop on the History And Memory of the National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites", Salzburg, 24 October 2020.
• "How far humanity gets when it no longer believes in the Lord God" - the Todesangst Christi Chapel in Dachau. Lecture at the Forschungskolleg kritische Theorie, Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 21 February 2020.

Publications

Monographs

• Spatialised memory. The limits of the representation of National Socialist violence using the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial as a model, Frankfurt/Main: Campus 2023.
  Review by Charlotte Trottier: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-139924
  Review by Ingolf Seidel: https://www.hagalil.com/2024/04/verraeumlichte-erinnerung/Review by Alexandra Klei in: Historische Zeitschrift, 2024 (1), Vol. 319, pp. 230-231.
  Review by Peter Steinbach in: Das Historisch-politische Buch 2024 (1), Vol. 72, pp. 54-55.

Essays

• The Misery of Equality and Inequality inthe Dialectic of Enlightenment, in: Paragrana. International Journal of Historical Anthropology, (2025), Vol. 34, Issue 1, pp. 96-109.
• They are (not) gone. Why it is Necessary to Recognize the Dead in the (Post) Colonial Re-Reading of Recognition Theory (with Gabriele Fischer), in: Jahrbuch für Tod und Gesellschaft / Annual Review of Death and Society (2025), vol. 4, pp. 134-152.
• Right-wing attacks on memorial sites and the role of survivors' organisations from the 1960s to the present day - the example of Dachau (together with Katharina Ruhland and Michael Sturm), in: Reimann, Sabine/ Sturm, Michael/ Killguss, Hans Peter (eds.): Positionierte Orte. Impulses for dealing with right-wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism in Nazi memorials and places of remembrance. Commissioned by the NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne and the Alter Schlachthof memorial site at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. Cologne: NS-DOK, 2025, pp. 26-31. download
• Objectified memory. Reflections on a critical analysis of memorials at concentration camp memorial sites, in: Philipp McLean/ Jörg van Norden: History as Critique. Frankfurt/Main: Wochenschau-Verlag 2025, pp. 382-400.
• The Anthropology of the Proletarian Child. Walter Benjamin's writings on childhood and pedagogy, in: Christina Engelmann/Tobias Haberkorn/ Ingrid Miethe: Proletarische Pädagogik. Relational determinations, historical experiments and controversies of socialist educational concepts, Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt 2025, pp. 61-77.
  open access: https://www.klinkhardt.de/newsite/media/20250328_9783781561625.pdf
• "Marxist, though not Marxism." Adorno's philosophy as materialist critique, in: Krüger, Doris Maja (ed.): Karl Marx in der Geschichte. The Emergence and Reception of Marx's Critique, Bielefeld: transcript 2025, pp. 205-221.
• Between extreme right-wing hostility and state appropriation. Memorials, the AfD and the "firewall" against the "right" - a look at Bavaria (with Katharina Ruhland and Michael Sturm), in: Mense, Thorsten/ Goetz, Judith: Rechts, wo die Mitte ist. Die AfD und die Modernisierung des Rechtsextremismus, Münster: Unrast 2024, pp. 174-193.
• The"secret signal of what is to come". Pädagogische Zeitverhältnisse in Walter Benjamin's 'Programm eines proletarischen Kindertheaters', in: Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung (2024), Volume 29, Focus: Temporalities. On the History of the Relationship between Education, Time and Times, Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, pp. 93-112.
  open access: https://www.klinkhardt.de/verlagsprogramm/2644.html
• "A Landscaped American State Park" - The Dachau Crematory Area as a Garden of Memory, in: Bazani, Agathi/ Loeffler, Ulrike/ Obermair, Bastian et al (ed.): Between Centre and Periphery and Beyond. Papers from the 24nd Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Extermination Sites, Berlin: Metropol 2024, pp. 257-283.
• Representations of Suffering - Memorials at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, in: Benini, Erika/ Eusterschulte, Anne (eds.): Critique(s) of Suffering, Berlin: Neofelis 2024, pp. 278-300.
• "More than a marginal note". Displaced Persons as a Topic of History Education at the Max Mannheimer Study Centre (with Steffen Jost), in: Borggräfe, Henning/ Jah, Akim/ Ritz, Nina/ Jost, Steffen (eds.): Freilegungen. Rebuilding lives. Child Survivors and DP Children in the Aftermath of the Holocaust and Forced Labour, Göttingen: Wallstein 2017, pp. 211-223.
• Gay patriots and queer jihadists. Jasbir Puar's concept of "homonationalism", in: L'amourLaLove, Patsy (ed.): Bite Reflexes. Critique of Queer Activism, Authoritarian Desires and Speech Bans, Berlin: Querverlag 2017, pp. 203-206.
• Empowerment or excessive demands? - International youth work on marginalisation and discrimination at National Socialist memorial sites (with Steffen Jost), in: Lernen aus der Geschichte 2015, No.1, URL: http://lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de/Lernen-und-Lehren/content/12205
• The Dialectic of the Subject in Critical Theory (with Martin Mettin), in: Köppl Susann/ Lang, Johanna/ Koch, Karen: Spannungsverhältnis Subjekt?, Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin 2014, pp. 59-79.
  

Reviews and miscellanies

• The other beginning. The debate between the philosopher of religion Klaus Heinrich and Martin Heidegger, in: Jungle World, 10.08.2023.
• David Rousset. Das KZ-Universum, Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag 2020, in: sehepunkte 20 (2020), no. 9; URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2020/09/34472.html
• Case study: The debate about "pinkwashing" in the LGBTI scene, in: Amadeu Antonio Foundation: "Man wird ja noch Israel kritisieren dürfen...?!". On legitimate criticism, Israel-related anti-Semitism and educational interventions, Berlin n.d., pp. 29-33.

Memberships

• DGfE German Society for Educational Sciences
• DGPhil German Society for Philosophy