Claudia Sandberg

Claudia Sandberg is a Senior Lecturer in Technology in Culture and Society at the University of Melbourne. A film historian, her work examines migration and marginality in cinema, socialist/Third cinema dynamics, and technology's ethical intersections with film art.

• Key Themes: Europe-Global South cultural-political relations, engineering's ideological implications in media, and audiovisual memory of dictatorships.
• Projects: Author of Peter Lilienthal. A Cinema of Exile and Resistance (2021), co-editor of Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Resisting Neoliberalism? (2018) and The German Cinema Book (2020).

Research Focus: Analyzes how films across eras and cultures depict technology, with particular attention to inclusion/exclusion dynamics in engineering projects. Explores Argentine, German, and global media landscapes through political allegory and resistance narratives.

Recent Work includes analysis of Netflix's The Eternaut (top non-English series in 24 countries) and AppleTV+'s Murderbot, connecting sci-fi narratives to real-world social justice movements and ethical dilemmas.

Academic Leadership: Coordinates the annual Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Film Festival, which explores intersections between cinema, engineering, and technology through screenings and academic discussions.