Jan Lorenz
I hold an MA in Ethnology from Adam Mickiewicz University and PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media from the University of Manchester.
My ethnographic research, writing, and creative work encompass a wide spectrum of topics, but boil down to fundamental questions about the human (and non-human) condition within and beyond its specific instantiations. Most recently, my ongoing research has been focused on robots, automatons and AI as sociocultural phenomena and the materiality of religion, with a particular focus on the ontology of religious manifestations and ritual objects.
Another field of my inquiry and output, close to my methodological commitment to multi-modal anthropology, is the interrelated topics of sensory perception, materiality, and corporeality. In that respect, I conducted research and wrote about experimental media art and engaged with these dimensions of existence and experience in my ethnographic films and audio-visual projects.
Much of my previous in the last decade explored transitions between states of being, subjectivities, and the boundaries of otherness. I have written about self-formation in communal and personal projects of religious conversion and ethnoreligious “revival” and explored how people adopt and adapt to ethical and legal obligations in attempts to transform themselves. A substantial part of my postdoctoral ethnographic research focused on people embracing or converting to Judaism in Poland.
If you would like to contact me, please write directly to my university email address: janlor(AT)amu.edu.pl
Address: Collegium Historicum, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7, Poznan, Poland
My ethnographic research, writing, and creative work encompass a wide spectrum of topics, but boil down to fundamental questions about the human (and non-human) condition within and beyond its specific instantiations. Most recently, my ongoing research has been focused on robots, automatons and AI as sociocultural phenomena and the materiality of religion, with a particular focus on the ontology of religious manifestations and ritual objects.
Another field of my inquiry and output, close to my methodological commitment to multi-modal anthropology, is the interrelated topics of sensory perception, materiality, and corporeality. In that respect, I conducted research and wrote about experimental media art and engaged with these dimensions of existence and experience in my ethnographic films and audio-visual projects.
Much of my previous in the last decade explored transitions between states of being, subjectivities, and the boundaries of otherness. I have written about self-formation in communal and personal projects of religious conversion and ethnoreligious “revival” and explored how people adopt and adapt to ethical and legal obligations in attempts to transform themselves. A substantial part of my postdoctoral ethnographic research focused on people embracing or converting to Judaism in Poland.
If you would like to contact me, please write directly to my university email address: janlor(AT)amu.edu.pl
Address: Collegium Historicum, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7, Poznan, Poland
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https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau5.2.017
Documentary films by Jan Lorenz
In September 2022, Akasaka Hikawa Festival in Tokyo was organized for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The film itself is focused on a fragment of the last day of the festival when the portable shrine, the temporary dwelling of the enshrined kami, was paraded around the neighbourhood by the parishioners.
https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau5.2.017
In September 2022, Akasaka Hikawa Festival in Tokyo was organized for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The film itself is focused on a fragment of the last day of the festival when the portable shrine, the temporary dwelling of the enshrined kami, was paraded around the neighbourhood by the parishioners.