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Dr. Erik Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen

Current research projects

„Philosophy of Dementia: Phenomenological, Psychopathological, and Anthropological Perspectives”

 

Short biography

Dr. Erik N. Dzwiza-Ohlsen pursued his studies in philosophy, psychology, and theology at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 2007 to 2012. He went on to complete his PhD at Julius-Maximilians-Universität zu Würzburg from 2013 to 2018 (Horizons of the Lifeworld published by Fink in 2019). Subsequent to a Suhrkamp Fellowship at the Deutsches Literatur Archiv Marbach he has been working as a research assistant alongside Thiemo Breyer since 2016. Initially, he was associated with the Research Lab of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne and, since 2022, he has been affiliated with the Husserl Archive at the University of Cologne. In 2021/2022, he held a Research Fellow position at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen. Dr. Erik N. Dzwiza-Ohlsen is a founding member of “et al. – a blog for phenomenological philosophy” (2017), editor of “Schriften zur Phänomenologie und Anthropologie” (since 2020), co-founder of the national working group “Transdisciplinary Dementia and Aging Research” and the international network “Phenomenology of Dementia and Aging” (both since 2021). Currently, Dr. Dzwiza-Ohlsen is engaged in his habilitation project titled “Philosophy of Dementia: Phenomenological, Psychopathological, and Anthropological Perspectives”

 

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