Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider

co-speaker & HU project leader


Nadja-Christina Schneider is currently professor of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region (GAMS) at Humboldt University Berlin (HU). She is RePLITO’S co-speaker and the HU project leader. Together with Julia Strutz, she is responsible for the conceptualization and management of RePLITO’s dynamic digital knowledge archive, and she is also the responsible editor of the project’s quarterly newsletter. In her RePLITO related research activities, her focus is on the role of media and journalism in debates on social cohesion and on alternative/less publicly visible actors, concepts, and practices of living together peacefully and on equal terms.

Research Interests
Media, Gender and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and Architecture, Religion and Secularity, Feminist and Queer Studies

More About Their Research

Selected Publications

  • Schneider, Nadja-Christina: Reimagining Housing, Rethinking the Role of Architects in India. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2024 (Media and Cultural Studies, Volume 5).
    https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1381
  • Schneider, Nadja-Christina. 2022. Why 'Living Together''? Introduction, Part One. In: Fritzi-Marie Titzmann/Nadja-Christina Schneider (eds.). How to Live Together? Circulatory Practices and Contested Spaces in India. Online published at https://replito.de/archive/archiveDetails?Id=74
  • Schneider, Nadja-Christina. 2022. Nari Shakti and the Nation: Visual Imagery and Mediation of 'India's New Daughters' in the Framework of Muscular Patriotism. In: Fritzi-Marie Titzmann/Nadja-Christina Schneider (eds.) (2022). How to Live Together? Circulatory Practices and Contested Spaces in India. Online published at https://replito.de/archive/archiveDetails?Id=69
  • Schneider, Nadja-Christina. 2020. Tea for Interreligious Harmony? Cause Marketing as a New Field of Experimentation with Visual Secularity in India. Working Paper Series/Multiple Secularities #20.[online]

  • THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE

    Nari Shakti and the Nation: 'India's New Daughters' in the Framework of Muscular Patriotism by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    Critical regionalism as an approach to contemporary housing in India by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    Low-Cost Housing for the People - as Projected by the Films Division of India (FDI) by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    Magazine of the Department of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region at HU Berlin
    State of Housing/A Place to Live (2018) by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    Imaginations, Narratives and Mediated Performances of Solidarity and Community. An Experimental Exercise in Collaborative Publishing Between Delhi and Berlin. An Introdution by the Editors
    Heritage Diplomacy by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    Magazine of the Department for Gender and Media Studies for South Asian Region (GAMS)
    Kabir's Bhakti by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    Critical Regionalism by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    “Why ‘Living Together’? Introduction, Part One by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    Conversation with Nagehan Uskan about an 'invisible' film.
    Minnette de Silva, or: On How (not) to Create an Archive of the ‘Forgotten Pioneer’ of Critical Regionalism in Postcolonial South Asian Architecture by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    Living Together in the Vertical City? By Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    Magazine of the Department of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region, Humboldt University Berlin
    Memory, Housing Architecture and Everyday Life by Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
    A Conversation with Prof. Dr. Shilpa Phadke (TISS, Mumbai)