Anna Lena Stefanides

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Name

Anna Lena Stefanides

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Organization Name

Institute of Protestant Theology

Institute of Protestant Theology

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ABS Haus 116, 05-013 August-Bebel-Str. 30

01219 Dresden

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Academic career

• Since August 2023 Research Associate at the Chair of Systematic Theology at the

  Theology at the Technical University of Dresden, Institute of Protestant Theology

  - Activities: Teaching, research, student counseling (BA)

• July 2022 to July 2023 Student Assistant at the Center for Scalable Data Analytics

  and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI), there in the field of ethics

• May 2021 to September 2022 Student Assistant at the Chair for

  Systematic Theology at the Technical University of Dresden, Institute for

  Protestant Theology

• September 2021 to May 2022 Student Assistant at the Chair of

  Religious Education at the Technical University of Dresden, Institute of Protestant Theology

Academic education

• October 2017 to July 2023 Study of Protestant Theology and English/American Studies with the degree First State Examination for Teacher Training - Secondary Schools (academic thesis entitled: "Theologies of work in the context of liberation theology - recognition-theoretical approaches to their subject matter and the freedom to say no"; award for the best final grades (GEW), nomination for the examination prize of the Saxon Teachers' Association (SLV); October 2021 to July 2023 scholarship holder of the Deutschlandstipendium (sponsorship Santander Universities and Society of Friends and Supporters of TU Dresden e. V.))

• 2015 Abitur

Research interests

• Tradition and hermeneutic potential of the concept of sin
• Theories and history of fear
• Critical social theory, psychoanalysis and existentialism

Research project

• Dissertation project 'Angst' (working title)

Commitments

• April 2022 to March 2023 Consultant for political education in the Political Education Department, StuRa TU Dresden
• December 2020 to July 2023 Employee in the Political Education Department, StuRa TU Dresden (organization and organization of the lecture series on revolution (2021), identity (2022) and aesthetics (2023))

Courses offered

S: Critique of religion
Interdisciplinary module (with Jonas Müller): Between Bible, tradition and late modernity: emotions as a topic of theological reflection - exegetical and systematic perspectives
EK: Introduction to the Study of Protestant Theology

Previous courses

S: Developing systematic theology
S: "Work"
S: Sin and fear
Ü: Dogmatic foundations
EK: Introduction to the Study of Protestant Theology

Publications

Articles (* = reviewed)

• Angst verstehen. Annäherungen an sozialpsychologische Momente eines transdisziplinären Konzepts, in: Arndt, Megan; Clement, Tillmann; Meyer, Nora, Vernetzung. Theologie im Dialog, Kohlhammer 2025. * 

Talks

• Herrschaft als Ohnmacht - Über die animistische Subjektkonstitution und ihre Renaissance inmitten der rationalen Erkenntnis (Verwoben. Subjekte jenseits von Autonomie und Auflösung, interdisziplinäre Tagung an der IPU Berlin, 25.-27.09.2025).

Science communication

• Lecture and discussion: "Das ängstliche Individuum zwischen Subjekt und Objekt. Momente einer kritischen Theorie der Gesellschaft" on 17.06.2025 for disput - Forum für kritische Theorie und Bildung e.V.
• Lecture and discussion: "Sünde und Angst" on 28.05.24 for the Ökumenischer Arbeitskreis Dresden Süd in the parish hall of the Christuskirche.