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The ERC-ARTIVISM team went to Marseille to participate in the interdisciplinary meeting “Migrations, nos voix, nos chemins de traverse”, organized by Lucie Bacon, Amandine Desille and Noémie [...]
Extracurricular Conference and Meeting between artists, scientists and activists The ERC ARTIVISM team is participating in a conference of artists, scientists and activists in order [...]
Together with Prof. Nathalie Gauthard (University of Nice) and Dr. Blodwenn Mauffret (University Sorbonne Nouvelle), Prof. Monika Salzbrunn (University of Lausanne) and the ERC ARTIVISM project [...]
Together with ERC filmmaker Pascal Bernhardt, ERC ARTIVISM PI Monika Salzbrunn has realised the first ARTIVISM short film, « Defilé Maddalena La Superba à Gênes ». Following the ARTIVISM [...]
Reviving the anti-colonial archives. 2nd International School of Filmic and Visual Sociology Genoa 11th-15th June 2018 The ARTIVISM researchers lecture and participate in the 2nd International [...]
Prof. Monika Salzbrunn invited to speak about African Performances at Musée d’Aquitaine Bordeaux During the closing symposium of the research programme « Contemporary African artistic [...]
ARTIVISM team has followed a feminist Messa Partigiana during Italian National Day 25th April 2018, held in the ruins of Santa Maria in Passione in the old town of Genova. The event commemorated [...]
On the 1st of May, the Santa Capelina is celebrated on the most photographed spot in Nice, the Rauba Capeu. The event gathers, around a fish-soup and a cortège, people wearing hand-made hats. [...]
On the 24th March, the carnival ateliers participate at the Carnaval de Printemps organized in Châteauneuf-Villevieille, a village in Nice’s countryside. The grosses-têtes previously assembled [...]
ARTIVISM
Exploring new artistic forms of political expressions in multicultural cities, ARTIVISM investigates artistic resistance in times of crisis and/or in oppressive conditions. ARTIVISM seeks to understand how social actors engage artistically in order to bring about social, economic and political changes.
Monika Salzbrunn, principal investigator
Monika Salzbrunn
Monika Salzbrunn, the project’s principal investigator, holds a full professorship in „Religions, Migration, Diasporas“ at Lausanne University. Her fields of expertise include art and activism, festive events, carnival, visual anthropology, transnational social spaces, Sufi brotherhoods, undocumented migration, urban spaces, West Africa, (Senegal), North Africa (Tunisia), United States, Europe and Japan
Raphaela von Weichs
Senior researcher
Comics in Cameroon
Maura Soupper
Secretary
Federica Moretti
PhD Candidate
Carnival in France
N.N.
Film-Maker
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