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 [...]
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October 9, 2018 PhD student and member of ERC-ARTIVISM team, Federica Moretti presented her research “Mobilizing Creativity. Carnival as political performance and means of expression” at the [...]
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 [...]
Prof. Yasumasa Sekine is the former president of JASCA, the Japanese Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology. He has lead an important project on Street Anthropology (ストリート人類学) [...]
On 27th June, Prof. Monika Salzbrunn will present the ARTIVISM project during an information event about the European Research Council. This presentation will take place at Amphimax (414) from [...]
Le carnaval et ses doubles : du « carnaval queer » au « charivari des quartiers » ou les déclinaisons de carnaval à Nice entre normes et résistances Conference of Nathalie Gauthard, Professeure [...]
Workshop VI Ethnographic student films of Carnival We were really happy to welcome Grégoire Mayor and his students from Neuchâtel to learn more about their work on carnivals in Lötschental, Nice [...]
Images and texts reproduced XIth International IAWIS/AIERTI Conference University of Lausanne (Switzerland) 10-14 July 2017 By choosing the topic of “Images and texts reproduced,” the eleventh [...]
Workshop VII on IT Security Today the team met for our 7th workshop, devoted to computer and cyber security. One of the most challenging issues the team has to cope with is how to handle personal [...]
Workshop IV 15 March 2017 University of Lausanne Evaluation of the Field of Mediterranean Carnivals 2017 Back from the exploratory-fields in Viareggio, Nice and Marseille, the ERC-ARTIVISM [...]
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
Michèle Jaccoud Ramseier
Secretary
Federica Moretti
PhD Candidate Carnival in France
Sara Wiederkehr
PhD Candidate Street art in USA
