João Tziminadis

2019 – Present
Ph.D. Sociology, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt
Thesis ‘Affluent Survivalism: Prolongevity and the Reconfiguration of Human Mortality in the Biotechnological Era’ (submitted).

2016 –2018
M.A. Social Sciences, State University of São Paulo

2011 – 2016
B.A. Social Sciences, State University of São Paulo

“Further Education”:

Pre-Doctoral Study, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt (2018 – 2019)
DAAD Winterkurs, German Language and Culture, University of Freiburg (2018)

Studium Fundamentale, University of Erfurt, Winter Term (2021 – 2022)
To Philosophize is to Learn How (Not) to Die

Articles

Hollstein, B.; Tziminadis, J. Schrage (2024), ‘Learning by Doing’ In Higher Education: Empirical Insights into Education for Sustainable Development. Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação (in Press).

Tziminadis, J. (2022), Acceleration, Technology and Finitude. Redefining Mortality in the Horizon of Life Extension via Aging Intervention. In: Castalia - Revista de Psicología de la Academia, v. 1, p. 41-57.

Tziminadis, J. (2021), A domesticação técnica da morte. In: Civitas (Porto Alegre), v. 21, p. 48-58.

Silva Corrêa, D.; Peters, G.; Tziminadis, J. (2021), ‘Human beings are first and foremost resonant beings’: Interview with Professor Hartmut Rosa of Universität Jena and director of Max- Weber-Kolleg. In: Civitas (Porto Alegre), v. 21, p. 120-129.

Tziminadis, J. (2017), Modernidade dessincronizada: aceleração social, destemporalização e alienação: uma entrevista com Hartmut Rosa. In: Revista Estudos de Sociologia, v. 22, n. 43, p. 365-383.

Tziminadis, J. (2017), Para narrar o tempo da vida: um ensaio sobre a aceleração social. In: Revista Cadernos de Campo, n. 22, p. 33-53.

Book Chapters

Tziminadis, J. (2024) A Note on Lived Interdisciplinarity, in Barroso Romero, R. A. et. a. (Eds.) Doing Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Religion and Society. Berlin: De Gruyter (in Press).

Tziminadis, J.; Silva, M. F. (2018), Atividade ferroviária e urbanização em Araraquara: uma análise histórico-sociológica. In: Orsi, R. A. (Ed.). O espaço urbano produzido: atores e desafios, planos e perspectivas. Araraquara: Laboratório Editorial da FCL. Série Temas em Sociologia, n. 12.

2024 – Present
Project Coordinator, Institut of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena 
Project: Nucleus-Teilvorhaben 9 ‚Das transformative Potenzial des Teilens‘ https://www.nucleus-jena.de/teilvorhaben/Externer Link

2022 – 2023
Research Assistant, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt 
Project: Klima Netzwerk für mehr Nachhaltigkeit in Thüringen

2019 – 2022
Research Assistant, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt 
Project: International Graduate School ‘Resonant Self-World Relations’