Kathleen Lotze has been working for media-related research projects since 1999 at different Universities in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, amongst which Cinema Context, Enlightened City and CREATE: Creative Amsterdam – An E-Huminaties Perspective. For her PhD project Antwerp Cinema City she focuses on changes in film exhibition and experiences of cinemagoing in Antwerp between 1945-1995. Next to her expertise in local cinema histories in the Belgium and the Netherlands, Kathleen also has profound knowledge of local film cultures in, and film history of, the former German Democratic Republic. Results of her work have been presented on international conferences and have been published in several peer-reviewed journals and books.