MARTHA-CECILIA DIETRICH
Date of birth: 20.02.1983, Vienna
Nationality: Austria/Peru
EDUCATION and Academic Qualifications
09.2010-01.2015
University of Manchester
PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media
Scholarship: Research Impact Scholarship (Alumni Fund/University of
Manchester)
09.2008-10.2009
University of Manchester
MA in Visual Anthropology (Ethnographic Documentary and Sensory
Media pathway).
Grade: Distinction
Scholarship: ÖAD/BMWF (Austrian Government)
10.2002-01.2008
University of Vienna
Magister in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Scholarship: KWA (University of Vienna)
Grade: 1st
09.2003-01.2006
Austrian Latin America Institute (LAI)
Academic Degree in Latin American Studies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE in teaching, filmmaking and
broadcast
04-10.2013
KEO Productions, UK
Assistant Producer for the BBC commissioned Programme “I bought a
rainforest”. To be released in Spring 2014
Presenter: Charlie Hamilton James
Director: Gavin Searle
07.2013
University of Manchester and Futureworks
Co-tutor for the Filmmaking for Fieldwork short course
02.2013 & 14
04. -05.2012
University of Manchester
Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Digital Filmmaking
Tambo Productions, Peru
Onsite Production Assistant for the Documentary film Girl Rising
Director: Richard Robins
http://10x10act.org/girl-rising/
Ethnocineca Film Workshops (Projektwerkstatt), Vienna
Workshop facilitation and project supervision in the production and postproduction of anthropological short films
19. - 29.05.2011
03. - 09.2010
University of Vienna
Temporary lectureship teaching undergraduate seminars
01.2007-06.2008
University of Vienna
Teaching Assistant
LANGUAGES
German
Native speaker
Spanish
Native speaker
English
Excellent
Portuguese
Fair
French
Basic
FILMS
Take me to a place outside. 6min, 2009 Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology
Premier: Anthropology and Performance: A Critical Conversation, Manchester, UK, 16.
April 2010
Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, 10-16 May 2010
IVSA International Conference, Bologna, Italy, 20th-22d July 2010
EASA film screenings, Maynooth, Ireland, 24-27 August 2010
No perfor(man)ce’s land? Lisbon University, Portugal, 15-17 April 2011
UBC Anthropology Graduate Student Conference: Explorations in Practice 2011
Midlife changes. 17min, 2011 Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology
Entre Memorias (Between memories) (PhD film) 34min, 2015 Granada Centre for Visual
Anthropology
Premiere: Ethnocineca, Vienna, 5. May 2015
Submissions on-going
PUBLICATIONS
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia. (2015 forthcoming). When truth goes to court: the shifting role of
testimonies in post-conflict Peru. In: Open Security Projects: https://www.opendemocracy.net/
Dietrich, Martha and Harvey, Penny (2014) Activist Objects and the Disappeared. In: Curating
the activist Object http://activistobject.wordpress.com/ June 2014
Dietrich Ortega, Martha-Cecilia. 2010 Indigene Repräsentation im neuen venezolanischen
Fernsehen. ISBN 978-3-639-21943-2. Saarbrücken: VDM
Dietrich Ortega, Martha-Cecilia. 2009. Insights to Indigenous Media. In: Die Maske,
Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie.
Dietrich Ortega, Martha-Cecilia. 2008. Indigenous Representation in the „new“ Venezuelan
Television“ In: ASSA (Austrian Studies of Social Anthropology)
Dietrich Ortega, Martha-Cecilia. 2006. „Überlebensfrage - Indigene Mitbestimmung“
(„Indigenous co-determination - a question of survival?“) In: Panorama, Lateinamerika Anders,
Nr. 6/2006
Tiefenbacher, Kerstin/Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Ortega. 2008. Ethnographische Beobachtungen.
Feldforschung in Leitersdorf. Feldforschung in Leitersdorf. In: Hosted. Ein Dorf als
Performance-Raum - als begehbare Installation. p. 332-339
PEER Reviewer for:
Antropologica
since March 2015
CONFERENCES, LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS
19.04.2013
“The Art of Ethnographic writing” at Manchester University
Conference Co-organiser, convenor and workshop discussant
11.04.2013
Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)
Paper: No right to be seen. (In)visibilities and notions of agency in postwar
Peru
26.05.2012
Australian Anthropological Society (AAS)
Paper: Recent works of the GCVA and the future of Visual Anthropology
10.05.2012
Pontificie Universidad la Catolica del Peru
Semana de homenaje a Carlos Ivan Degregori
Discussant and Q&A of documentary Guerillas de la Memoria by Javier
Corcuera
15.03.2012
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP)
Grupo Memoria
Discussant of Alonso Quinteros text: Aproximaciones al Cine Ayacuchano
European Association for Social Anthropology (EASA)
Maynooth
Paper: Take me to a place outside: a study into the bodily and imaginative
aspects of imprisonment.
24. - 27.08.2010
16.04.2010
Anthropology and Performance: A Critical Conversation
Paper, photographic exhibition of Take me to a place outside.
26. - 27.04.2007
Days of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of
Vienna
Paper: Anthropology of Media. Indigenous Representation in
Contemporary Media – a Venezuelan case study
01. - 04.03.2007
Latin Americanist Congress in Vienna
Paper: Visual Anthropology. Indigenous Representation in Venezuelan
Television