David BERLINER Associate Professor of Anthropology I. PRESENT POSITION Associate Professor. Université Libre Bruxelles. Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC). Institut de Sociologie. CP 124. 44 avenue Jeanne. 1050 Bruxelles, Belgique. Email: [email protected] II. PERSONAL DETAILS Place of birth: Brussels, Belgium Date of birth: 16 February 1976 Nationality: Belgian III. AREAS of INTEREST Memory and Cultural Transmission Anthropology of Cultural Heritage Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality Epistemology and Research Methods Anthropology of Religion History of Anthropology IV. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2010 Visiting Professor. Université Toulouse Le Mirail (8-26 November). 2005/06 Assistant Professor. Central European University. Budapest. Hungary. 2003/05 Associate Researcher (Post-doctoral level). Department of Anthropology. Harvard University. 2003/05 Post-doctoral Fellow of the National Funds for Scientific Research. Université Libre de Bruxelles. Centre d’Anthropologie Culturelle. V. EDUCATION COMPLETED 2007 Summer School “Cognition and Culture” (organized by Dan Sperber). CEU. Budapest. 2002 PhD in Anthropology. La Plus Grande Distinction. Université Libre de Bruxelles. 2001-02 Visiting DPhil Student. St Cross College. University of Oxford. 2000-01 Visiting PhD Student. Department of Social Anthropology. Manchester University. 2000 Visiting DPhil Student. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. University of Oxford. 1998 Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA) in Anthropology. La Plus Grande Distinction. Université Libre de Bruxelles. 1997 Licence in Anthropology. La Plus Grande Distinction. Université Libre de Bruxelles. VI. COURSES TAUGHT VIa. MA/PhD Level : - Anthropology of Memory. Université libre de Bruxelles. - Anthropology 101 (3 sessions). University of Vientiane (Laos). - Epistemology and Research Methods in Anthropology. Université Libre de Bruxelles. - Anthropology of Religion. Université Libre de Bruxelles. - Workshops for graduate students. Université Libre de Bruxelles. - Anthropology of Religion. Central European University. Budapest. - Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality. Central European University. Budapest. - Key Issues in Social Anthropology. Central European University. Budapest. - Anthropology of Memory. Central European University. Budapest. - MA thesis workshop, CEU, Budapest. - Supervisor and second reader in PhD and MA dissertation committees. VIb. Undergraduate Level: - Anthropology of Religion. Université Libre de Bruxelles. - Anthropological Theories 2. Université Libre de Bruxelles. - Responsible for conducting workshops for undergraduate students (Anthropology of Gender, anthropology of memory). Université Libre de Bruxelles. - Supervisor and external referee in undergraduate dissertation committees. Université Libre de Bruxelles. - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, with a special focus on Objects, Art and Museum. Ecole de-Recherches Graphiques (Art School, Brussels). - Teaching Anthropology classes in High Schools, Brussels. VIc. Researchers and PhD students supervised: - Bergeaud-Blackler, Florence, Dr. (Marie-Curie Fellow, since March 2012): “Gay Muslims in Belgium and France”. - Manon Istasse (Anthropology, FNRS Doctoral Fellow) : “Habiter un site du patrimoine mondial : ethnographie de la médina de Fès (Maroc)”. - Kalufuako, Zola (History, UNILU Doctoral Fellow, co-director): “La contribution des femmes africaines lushoises à la construction de la société coloniale. 19101960”. - Bortolotto, Bortolotto, Dr. (Marie-Curie Fellow, 2011-2013, contract terminated): Intangible cultural heritage policies in Europe: what “participation” of which “communities”? This project investigates the establishment of this new heritage domain at the European level and compares how these concepts are interpreted in the implementation of the 2003 Convention in three European countries: Italy, France and Hungary. - Sepehr, Homayun (Social Sciences, ULB, external reader): “Les gardiennes des nappes d’offrance en Iran ( de la préhistoire à aujourd’hui). Awarded 2011. - Nagy, Raluca (Anthropology, ULB, external reader) : “La Marchandisation des traditions dans un groupe de villages du Maramures (Roumanie). Etude de cas”. Awarded March 2009. VII. RESEARCH 2013/2016 Joint Research Program: “Currents of faith, places of history: religious diasporas, connections, moral circumscriptions and world-making in the Atlantic space” is an international HERA-funded Joint Research Project. The central foci of this program are the interconnections between religion, mobility, place and heritage in the Atlantic space. Team: Dr Ruy Llera Blanes (chair),Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Dr David Berliner, LAMC, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Prof. Birgit Meyer, Religious Studies, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Dr Ramon Sarró, Institute for the Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University, UK. Total budget: 998737 € (ULB: 150.000€). 2011/2013 Coordinator (with Damiana Otoiu) of the research and educational project (Hi)stories and Reconciling Memories. Multiethnic Communities and Politics of Cultural Heritage in Transylvania, Romania, financed by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and IICCMRE (2011), and by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research (Grant CNCS – Capacities) and Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Direction Europe Centrale, Orientale et du Sud-Est (20122013). 2008/09 Fieldwork in Laos: UNESCO and the Politics of Transmission in Luang Prabang. Funded by the National Funds for Scientific Research. 2008 Fieldwork in Laos: UNESCO and the Politics of Transmission in Luang Prabang. Funded by the National Funds for Scientific Research. 2007/08 Fieldwork in Laos: UNESCO and the Politics of Transmission in Luang Prabang. Funded by the National Funds for Scientific Research. 2007 Fieldwork in Laos: Luang Prabang and Vat Phu as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Funded by the National Funds for Scientific Research. 2003 Fieldwork in Gabon, Central Africa: Research funded by the Barbier-Mueller Museum. Collection of new data about the Kota/Ambédé arts. 2001 Fieldwork in Guinea-Conakry, West Africa: Memory, Religion and Gender among the Bulongic. Funded by the National Funds for Scientific Research. 2000 Fieldwork in Guinea: idem. 1999 Fieldwork in Guinea: idem. 1998 Fieldwork in Guinea: idem. 1997 Fieldwork in Burkina Faso: The Symbolism of a Mossi household. VIII. GRANTS and SCHOLARSHIPS 2003-2005 National Funds for Scientific Research (FNRS). Postdoctoral Grant. Brussels. 2003-2004 Belgian American Educational Foundation. Harvard. 2003-1999 National Funds for Scientific Research (FNRS). Doctoral Grant. Brussels. 2001-2002 Wiener-Anspach Grant. Oxford. 1999-1998 Barbier-Mueller Foundation Grant. Geneva. 2012-1999 FNRS grants for conferences and fieldwork. IX. EDITORIAL REFEREE - Co-editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, since 2011 (until 2015): Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale is the acclaimed Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, the major professional organization for anthropologists in Europe. While European in profile, this leading Journal has a global scope. It publishes key contributions by both established and up-and-coming anthropologists. As part of the intellectual vitality of the Journal, it also features an exciting Debate in every issue, an important Review Essay which discusses outstanding books in adjoining disciplines or in public debate from an anthropological point of view, and a thriving Book Reviews Section. - Member of editorial committee of Gradhiva. - Member of editorial committee of Terrain. - Member of Advisory Board of Religion and Society: Annual Review of Religions. - Member of editorial committee of Civilisations. - Reviewer for Current anthropology (3x). - Reviewer for Ethnic and Racial Studies. - Reviewer for the Journal of Social Archeology. - Reviewer for Focaal. - Reviewer for the University of Chicago Press. - Reviewer for Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man). - Reviewer for Gradhiva. - Reviewer for Terrain. - Reviewer for Anthropologie et Sociétés (2X). - Reviewer for la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. - Reviewer for Civilisations. X. PUBLICATIONS Xa. Books and Edited Volumes (manuscript to be submitted in 2013, with Christoph Brumann) World Heritage on the Ground. Ethnographical Perspectives. (submitted in 2013, with Olivia Angé) Anthropology and Nostalgia. London/New York: Berghahn Books. 2013 (forthcoming) Mémoires religieuses Baga. Genève. 2013 (with Chiara Bortolotto) Patrimoine et anthropologie : L’Unesco dans tous ses états. Gradhiva. 2010 Transmettre. Terrain 55. 2009 Sexualités: Apprentissages et Performances (co-edited with Cathy Herbrand). Civilisations 59(1). 2008 Speaking of Women: Men Doing Anthropology of Women (co-edited with Douglas Falen). Men and Masculinities 11. 2007 Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches (co-edited with Ramon Sarro). Oxford/NY: Berghahn Books. Xb. Peer-reviewed Articles 2013 (forthcoming) Leave spirits outside heritage policies. Material Religion. 2013 (with Chiara Bortolotto, forthcoming). Introduction : L’Unesco dans tous ses états. Gradhiva. 2013 (with Manon Istasse, forthcoming). Les hyper-lieux du Patrimoine Mondial. Gradhiva. 2013 Le désir de participation ou comment jouer à être un autre. L’Homme 206: 151170. 2012 Multiple Nostalgias: the Fabric of Heritage in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR). JRAI 18(4): 769-786. 2011 Luang Prabang, sanctuaire Unesco et paradis gay. Genre, Sexualité et Société 5. http://gss.revues.org/index1888.html 2010 Maurice Bloch or How to Think Persistence in Religion. Religion and Society: Annual Review in Religions, 1:19-21. 2010 Lévi-Strauss and Beyond. A presentation of Philippe Descola, Par-delà Nature et Culture. Anthropological Quarterly 83(3) : 675-685. 2010 Introduction : L’anthropologie et la question de la transmission. Terrain 55 : 315. 2010 Perdre l’esprit du lieu. Les politiques de l’Unesco à Luang Prabang (Lao PDR). Terrain 55: 90-105. 2010 Introduction: Pragmatique et médiations sexuelles (with Cathy Herbrand). Civilisations 59(1): 2-10. 2008 Introduction: Men Doing Anthropology of Women (with Douglas Falen). Men and Masculinities 11: 135-144. 2008 The Anthropologist in the Middle of a Tug-of-War (Guinea-Conakry). Men and Masculinities 11 : 174-185. 2008 Transmettre la peur et la fascination. Mémoire d’une interaction initiatique en pays bulongic (Guinée, Conakry). Systèmes de Pensées en Afrique Noire 18: 105131. 2007 When the Object of the Transmission Is Not an Object. A West African Example. RES Anthropology and Aesthetics 51: 87-97. 2005 An “Impossible” Transmission. Youth Religious Memories in Guinea-Conakry. American Ethnologist 32(4): 576-592. 2005 The Abuses of Memory. Reflections on the Memory Boom in Anthropology. Anthropological Quarterly 78(1): 183-197. 2005 La Féminisation de la Coutume. Femmes Possédées et Transmission Religieuse en Pays Bulongic (Guinée, Conakry). Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines 177, 45(1): 1538. 2004 Perception des Fièvres Hémorragiques à Virus Ebola sur la Frontière CongoGabonaise. Civilisations 52(1): 117-120. 2000 Créer un espace habitable: Le Yiiri chez les Moose du Ganzourgou (Burkina Faso). Civilisations 47(1-2): 193-203. Xc. Editorials 2013 (with Mark Maguire). Editorial. Social Anthropology 21(2). 2013 (with Mark Maguire). Editorial. Social Anthropology 21(1): 1. 2012 (with Mark Maguire). Editorial. Social Anthropology 20(3): 229-230. 2012 (with Mark Maguire). Editorial. Social Anthropology 20(2): 123-124 2012 (with Mark Maguire). Editorial. Social Anthropology 20(1): 1-2. 2011 (with Mark Maguire). Editorial. Social Anthropology 19(3): 237-238. Xd. Articles in Books (submitted in 2013, with Olivia Ange) Introduction. In: Ange, Olivia and David Berliner (eds). Anthropology and Nostalgia. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books. (submitted in 2013) Are Anthropologists Nostalgist? In: Ange, Olivia and David Berliner (eds). Ethnographies of Nostalgias. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books. 2013 New Directions in the Study of Cultural Transmission. In: Arizpe, Lourdes et Cristina Amescua (eds). Anthropological Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage. Springer. 2012 The Politics of Nostalgia and Loss in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR). In: Daly, Patrick et Tim Winter (eds). Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia. Pp. 234-246. Oxon/New York: Routledge. 2010 The Invention of Bulongic Identity (Guinea, Conakry). In: Knoerr, Jacqueline and Wilson Trabanho. The Powerful Presence of the Past. Pp. 253-272. Halle: Max Plancke Institute. 2009 Memories of Initiation Violence. Remembered Pain and Religious Transmission in Guinea-Conakry. In: Argenti, Nicolas and Katharina Schramm (eds). Remembering Violence: Study in Intergenerational Transmission. Pp. 79-98. Oxford/NY: Berghahn Books. 2007 On Learning Religion. In: Berliner David and Ramon Sarro (eds). Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches. Pp. 1-19. Oxford/NY: Berghahn Books. 2007 Introduction (with Pierre Petit, Joel Noret and Laurent Legrain). In: Petit, Pierre and Joel Noret (eds). Corps, Performance, Religion. Etudes anthropologiques offertes à Philippe Jespers. Pp. 9-20. Brussels : Publibook. 2007 Le Silence des Masques. In: Petit, Pierre and Joel Noret (eds). Corps, Performance, Religion. Etudes anthropologiques offertes à Philippe Jespers. Pp. 249-261. Brussels : Publibook. Xe. Other Publications 2013 (forthcoming) “Tu ne peux pas comprendre!”. L’empathie entre les sexes. Mauvaise 1. 2008 The Abuses of Secularism. A very short comment addressed to Judith Butler’s paper “Sexual politics and the Limits of Secular Discourse”. Soirées de Sophia 2006-2007. Pp. 95-97. 2007 Statue Féminine. Guinée. Baga. In : Mattet, Laurence (ed). Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie. Fleurons du musée Barbier-Mueller. Pp. 124. Genève : Musée BarbierMueller. 2007 Masque d’épaule. Guinée. Baga. In : Mattet, Laurence (ed). Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie. Fleurons du musée Barbier-Mueller. Pp. 122. Genève : Musée BarbierMueller. 2007 Tambours Féminins Baga. Arts et Cultures 8: 212-223. 2005 Women, Gender and Spirit Possession: Practices: Sub-Saharan Africa: West Africa. In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Pp. 30-32. Leyden: Brill Publishers. 2004 Guinea: After 1984. In Encyclopedia of African History. Volume 1. Pp. 604-605. London/New York: Routledge. 2004 Baga Stools. In African Seats. Pp. 78-81. Geneva: Musée Barbier-Mueller. 2004 The Mbede Today. An Exploratory Fieldwork to Franceville and Okondja. Arts et Culture 5: 166-171. 2004 (Re) Discovering Landuma Masks (Boké, Guinea-Conakry). Arts et Culture 5: 134143. Xf. Book Reviews 2011 Fabre, Daniel et Anna Iuso. 2009. Les monuments sont habités. Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Gradhiva 13 : 227-228. 2007 Cornwall, Andrea (ed.). 2005. Readings in Gender in Africa. London/ Oxford/ Bloomington: The International African Institute/James Currey/Indiana University Press. Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines 185, 47(1) 180-183. 2006 Collins, John. 2004. Occupied by Memory. The Intifada Generation and the Palestinian State of Emergency. New York: NYU Press. Critique of Anthropology 2006 26: 491-493. 2005 Shweder, Richard Allan (ed.). 2003. Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. L’Homme, 174: 279281. 2005 McCauley, Robert N. & Thomas Lawson (eds). 2002. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Social Anthropology, 12(3): 384-385. 2004 Reyna, Stephen P. 2002. Connections: Brain, Mind, and Culture in a Social Anthropology. London and New York: Routledge. Social Anthropology, 12(2): 243-244. Xf. Report/Non-published Works 2012 “Report on Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage”. International Social Science Council and International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Commission on Intangible Cultural Heritage. (with Antonio Arantes, Lourdes Arizpe, Kirstin Kuutma, Cristina Amescua). 2010 Self-evaluation report of the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains. ULB. 2009 Brabant-Wallon et identité: Entre le local et le global, une réalité composite (with Oliver Servais and Sylvie Soete). Research report for the Gouvernor of BrabantWallon (Belgium). Xg. In the press 2012 « Patrimoine Mondial et crimes de guerre », La Libre Belgique, 5/07 2011 « Ma Culture : Bien précieux ou cote d’exclusion ? », La Libre Belgique, 26/11 Xh. Interviews 2011 Interviewed at NUI Maynooth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oJAp2eFWvw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUMA_cTfmjU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SINUONrZyk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyf8QKlii-o&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4BtcMPwSGg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSjT6y-HX0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67ux7GaHdA&feature=related XI. SEMINARS and SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS XIa. Invited Lectures, Keynotes Papers and Invited Discussant 2013 Invited lecture at the Musée Barbier-Mueller. Geneva, October. 2013 “Studying sexual subcultures in Laos, after Gayle Rubin”. Paper presented at ULB for a workshop organized around Gayle Rubin. June 19. Brussels. 2013 “L’expert nostalgique”. Invited lecture at the Culture matérielle et visuelle workshop. June 5. Lille. 2013 “PCI, transmission culturelle et anthropologie”. Invited lecture at FARO. April 23. Brussels. 2013 “Are Anthropologists Nostalgist?” Paper delivered at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. January 23. Germany. 2012 Invited discussion with Bruno Latour around his “Enquête sur les Modes d’Existence”. 29 November. Musée du Quai Branly. 2012 Invited discussant at “Shaping Heritagescapes: Processes of Patrimonialization in a Globalized World”. 26-27 August. University of Lausanne. 2012 “New Directions in the Study of Cultural Transmission”. Paper delivered for the ICH Commission of the ISSC-IUAES. Mexico. 23-27 February. 2011 “Heritage, Nationalism and UNESCO policies in Southeast Asia”. Communication at the summer school “Heritage Conserved and Contested: Asian and European Perspectives“. 19-26 June. Amsterdam. 2011 Discussant at the workshop about “Par-delà Nature et Culture” by Philippe Descola. February. Namur. 2011 “Multiple Nostalgias”. Paper delivered at the Anthropology Departmental Research Seminar. 19 April. University of Zurich. 2011 “Luang Prabang, UNESCO sanctuary and gay sexscape”. Paper delivered at the Research Center for Gender and Sexuality. 18 February. Amsterdam. 2010 “Multiple Nostalgias”. Paper given at the Anthropology Departmental Research Seminar. 8 December. University College London. 2010 “Perdre l’esprit du lieu. Les politiques de l’Unesco à Luang Prabang”. Communication at the Anthropology Departmental Research Seminar. 20 November. Toulouse Le Mirail. 2010 “Fabriquer du patrimoine en l’absence de conscience patrimoniale”. 4-5 November. Aix-en-Provence. 2010 Discussant at the PhD Marie-Curie doctoral seminar (University College London, Central European University, Goldsmith College). 30 June-3 July. Budapest. 2010 “Nostalgique et expert. Une contradiction dans les termes ?”. Communication at the workshop “Les émotions patrimoniales”. 18-19 May. LAHIC. Paris. 2010 “Perdre sa culture. Réflexions la transmission et les politiques de l’Unesco à Luang Prabang (Laos)”. Guest lecturer at Musée du Quai Branly. 17 February. Paris. 2009 “L’UNESCO et les politiques de la nostalgie à Luang Prabang (Laos)”. Paper presented at the seminar of LAHIC/EHESS. June 4. Paris. 2008 “L’anthropologie, la mémoire et la question de la transmission”. Musée du Quai Branly. March 19. Paris. 2007 Co-organizer and discussant at Judith Butler’s talk “Sexual Politics, Torture, and Secular Time”. May 25. Sofia and Université Libre de Bruxelles. Belgium. 2007 Discussant at the doctoral seminar (UCL, CEU, Goldsmith College) organized by Max Plancke Institute, April 15-19, Halle. 2007 “The Abuses of Memory”. Keynote Speech. Memory Conference. January 11-14. Tartu University. Estonia. 2006 “African Youth and the Crisis in Transmission”. Paper presented at “Youth and the Global South” Conference. October 12-15. Dakar (CODESRIA). 2006 “The Feminization of Custom. Women and Religion among the Bulongic (GuineaConakry)”. Paper presented at the Anthropology Departmental Research Seminar. November. University College London. 2006 “The Invention of Bulongic Identity (Guinea-Conakry)”. Paper presented at “The Powerful Presence of the Past” Conference organized by the research group “Integration and Conflict in the Upper Guinea Coast”. October 18-21. Max Plancke Institute. Halle. 2006 “When the Object of Transmission is not an Object. A West African Example (Guinea-Conakry)”. Paper presented at the Anthropology Departmental Research Seminar. February. London School of Economics. 2005 Discussant at the PhD Seminar “Researching Politics and Culture in Local African Arenas”. 18-21 May. Uppsala University. Sweden. 2003 “Comment les Femmes Bulongic Transmettent-elles la Coutume ?”. Lecture given at the Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes, La Sorbonne, Paris. XIb. Organized panels and conferences 2012 Co-convenor (with Christoph Brumann) of “World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic Perspectives”. 11-12 Octobre. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Germany. 2012 “Luang Prabang (Lao PDR), A World Heritage Site in Danger, or How to Make Use of the Trope of Endangerment”. Paper delivered at “World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic Perspectives”. 11-12 Octobre. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Germany. 2012 Co-convenor (with Matthijs Van de Poort) of the panel “Thinking with Latour”. EASA. 12-16 July. Paris. 2011 “Multiple Nostalgias”. Communication. American Anthropological Association. 16-20 November. Montreal. 2011 Co-convenor (with Olivia Angé) of the panel “Ethnography of Nostalgia/ Ethnography as Nostalgia”. American Anthropological Association. 16-20 November. Montréal. 2010 Chair and co-onvenor (with Ramon Sarro) of “Why Roots?”. EASA. 24-27 August. Maynooth (Ireland). 2009 Chair and co-convenor (with Chiara Bortolotto) of “UNESCO and the Politics of Cultural Heritage: Anthropological Approaches”. American Anthropological Association. 01-06 December. Philadelphia. 2009 “UNESCO and the Politics of Nostalgia in Luang Prabang (Laos)”. Communication at AAA. December. Philadelphia. 2009 “Les politiques de la nostalgie à Luang Prabang (Laos)”. Paper given at the conference “Vivre du Patrimoine”. January 29-30. Université de Corse. Corte. 2009 “UNESCO and the Politics of Nostalgia in Luang Prabang (Laos)”. Paper delivered at the conference “Heritage in Asia: Converging Forces and Conflicting Values”. January 8-10. National University of Singapore. 2008 “L’UNESCO dans tous ses états. Réflexions anthropologiques sur les politiques d’héritage”. Paper presented at Congress of AISLF. July 7-11. Istanbul. 2008 (in absentia). “Why is Memory such a Sexy Concept to Anthropologists ?”. New School Interdisciplinary Memory Conference. February. NSSR. New York City. 2007 (in absentia) “Memories of Initiation Violence”. AAA Conference. November. Washington DC. 2007 “Ce Que Transmettre Veut Dire”. Paper presented at Anthropologie et Sociétés Conference. November. Québec. 2007 Chair and organizer of the panel “Authenticité, Nostalgie, Conservation: Approches Anthropologiques”. Anthropologie et Sociétés Conference. November. Québec. 2005 Chair and co-organizer (with Douglas Falen) of the panel “Speaking of Women: Men Doing Anthropology of Women”. AAA Conference. 29-03 November. Washington DC. 2005 “The Anthropologist in the Middle of a Tug-of-war (Guinea, Conakry)”. AAA Conference. 29-03 November. Washington DC. 2005 “Transmitting Fear and Fascination: An Interactive Approach to Religious Transmission among the Bulongic (Guinea-Conakry)”. Paper presented at “Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches”. 8-10 September. Lisbon. 2005 Co-organizer (with Ramon Sarro) of the international symposium “Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches”. 8-10 September. Lisbon. 2005 “Time of Crisis in the Bulongic Country (Guinea)”. AEGIS Conference. London, 29-03 July. 2004 “The Abuses of Memory. Reflections on the Memory Boom in Anthropology”. Paper delivered at the 8th European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. 8-12 September. Vienna. 2004 “When the Bulongic Were Genuine People. Crystallized Memories in a Time of Crisis”. Paper delivered at the American Ethnological Society Conference. 22-25 April. Atlanta. 2004 “The Bansonyi Headdress: New Data from the Field”. Paper delivered at the 13th meeting of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA). Boston. 2003 “How Do Young Bulongic Remember?”. Paper presented at the 46th congress of the African Studies Association. Boston. 2002 “How Do Young Remember?”. Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the EASA, Copenhagen. 2002 “Women Transmitting Ritual among the Bulongic (Guinea, Conakry)”. Paper presented at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Work-inprogress seminar). University of Oxford. XIc. Member of Conference Scientific Committees 2013 “II European Geographies of Sexualities Conference”. 5-7 September. Lisbon. 2012 “Shaping Heritagescapes: Processes of Patrimonialization in a Globalized World”. 26-27 August. University of Lausanne. 2012 “Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norm”. October 25-27. Tervuren, Brussels, Leuven. 2012 “Local vocabularies of heritage”. 8-10 February. Universidade de Évora. Portugal. 2011 “European Geographies of Sexualities Conference”. 8-10 September. Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel. 2011 “Pour une anthropologie de l’enfance et des enfants”. 9-11 March. Liège. 2010 “Sensory Meetings: The Senses in Social Sciences”. 23-25 September. ULB-ULG. XII. UNIVERSITY SERVICE XIIa. Speakers brought to ULB: - Co-founder and co-organiser of “Cycle de Conférences en Anthropologie”. Invited speakers since 2006: Peter Geschiere (Université d’Amsterdam), JeanPierre Oilvier de Sardan (SHADYC), Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University), Michael Lambek (University of Toronto), Ann Cassiman (KUL), Ramon Sarro (Université de Lisbonne), Don Kulick (New York University), Birgit Meyer (University of Amsterdam), Henry-Pierre Jeudy (EHESS), Maurice Bloch (LSE), Jennifer Cole (University of Chicago), Rijk Van Dijk (University of Leyden), Laurent Berger (Musée du Quai Branly), Anne Allison (Duke University), Ruwen Ogien (CNRS), Corinne Cauvin-Verner (EHESS), Harvey Whitehouse (Oxford University), Julien Bonhomme (Musée du Quai Branly), Ulf Hannerz (University of Stockholm), Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam), Adam Kuper (Brunel University), Philippe Descola (Collège de France), Henrietta Moore (Cambridge), Nathalie Heinich (CNRS-EHESS), Adeline Masquelier (Tulane University), AnneChristine Taylor (Musée du Quai Branly), Nathalie Heinich (EHESS), Gerard Lenclud (Collège de France), Matthew Engelke (LSE), Christoph Brumann (Max Plancke Institute), Olivier Morin (CEU). - Co-founder and co-organiser of “Genre et Sexualités” seminar. Invited speakers since 2006 : Nicolas Thirion (ULg), Marie-Blanche Tahon (Université d’Ottawa), Jean-Michel Chaumont (FNRS/UCL), Eric Fassin (ENS Paris), Florence Degavre (ULB/UCL), Fabrizio Cantelli (ULB/FUSL), Marta Roca I Escoda (Université de Genève), Ioana Cirstocea (Institut d’Etudes Sud-Est Européennes de Bucarest, ULB), Joz Motmans (Universiteit Antwerpen & Universiteit Limburg), Christelle Taraud (Columbia University), Gert Hekma (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Mylène Botbol-Baum (Université catholique de Louvain), Jeffrey Weeks (London South Bank University), Frédéric Jorgens (Institut universitaire européen/University College London), Eléonore Lepinard (ISP - ENS Cachan), Anne Cadoret (GRASS, CNRS), Alexis Dewaele (Consortium Universiteit Antwerpen), Didier Eribon, Jennifer Cole (University of Chicago), Ruwen Ogien (CNRS), Catherine Deschamps (Laboratoire d’Anthropologie sociale), Chia Longman (Universiteit Gent), Don Kulick (New York University), Joseph Lévy (Université du Québec à Montreal), José Ignacio Pichardo Galán (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Henry Abelove (Wesleyan University), Catherine Jacques (ULB), Josephine Hoegaerts (KULeuven), Louis-Georges Tin (Université d'Orléans), Nadia Monacelli (Università di Parma), Corinne Cauvin-Verner (EHESS), Joan Scott (Princeton), Yodit Herman (EHESS, Marseille). XIIb. Events organized at ULB: - 2011 Co-organizer of the workshop “La Fabrique du patrimoine. Discussion avec Nathalie Heinich”. 17 Mai – ULB. - 2009 Co-organizer of the workshop “Genre, sexualité et islam : regards croisées, entre ici et là-bas”. May 28 – ULB. - 2008. Co-organizer of the conference “Hétérotopies sexuelles. Formes et pratiques du désir d’ailleurs”. October 23-25 – ULB. XIIc. Service for the Department of Anthropology: - Co-founder (with Pierre Petit) of the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains (LAMC). http\\:lamc.ulb.ac.be - ULB responsible for the International Network “Anthropologie et Histoire des Arts” hosted at the Musée du Quai Branly. Partners are : le musée du quai Branly, CNRS, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Université de Paris X-Nanterre, Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Université de Provence AixMarseille I, Collège de France, Ecole Normale supérieure ; University of East Anglia ; University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH) (Mexico), University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde (Germany). XIId. Service for the University: - Member of the Ethics Committee (since 2011). - Member of the Extension of ULB (2009-2011). - Team leader for the scientific evaluation of LAMC (2010). XIIe. Scholarships obtained: - National PhD grants (FNRS: Adeline Remy, Manon Istasse; MINI-ARC: Anais Rotsaert). - National postdoctoral grants (FNRS: Laurent Legrain). - International PhD grants (CUIF – with Université of Lubumbashi: Emilie Zola). - Marie-Curie postdoctoral grants (2012, Florence Bergeaud-Blackler ; 2010, Chiara Bortolotto). - Wiener-Anspach grants (Oxford: Olivia Ange; Cambridge: Laurent Legrain). XIII. EXPERT MISSIONS and EVALUATIONS 2013 Nominated as a MC Member [IS1206 BE] to COST Action IS1206. Femicide across Europe. http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1206. Until 2015. 2013 Research Planning Meeting. Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée. April 2. Marseille. 2013 Evaluation of research projects for Université Paris-Descartes (France). 2013 Research Planning Meeting. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. 21-25 January. Germany. 2012 Evaluation of research projects for the Agence National de la Recherche (Paris, France). 2012 Research Planning Meeting for the IUAES Commission on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mexico (Cuernavaca). 23-27 February. Brainstorming on the theoretical and methodological challenges in anthropological research related to intangible cultural heritage (ICH). With: Antonio Arantes, Brazil; Christoph Brumann, Germany; Kristin Kuutma, Estonia; Shigueyuki Miyata, Japan; Mary Louise Pratt and Renato Rosaldo, USA. 2010 Brainstorming on the development of a collaborative research project about “heritage-making in Asia” with Prof. Tianshu Pan. Fudan University. August. Shangai. 2009 Evaluation of research projects for the Research Council for Research in Human Sciences of Canada (CRSH). 2009 Evaluation of PhD proposals for the Musée du Quai Branly. 2008 Evaluation of Summer Schools. Central European University. Budapest. 2008 “Brabant-Wallon et identité : Entre le local et le global, une réalité composite”. Research on identity in Brabant-Wallon, in collaboration with UCL (Olivier Servais and Sylvie Soete). 2007 Development of a cursus in Anthropology at Université Nationale du Laos. June. XIV. SERVICE TO SOCIETY 2013 Interviewed by Le Soir about Femen actions in Belgium. April. 2013 “Un véritable boom du patrimoine mondial”. Interview for the magazine Textes et documents pour la classe (TDC). 2011 “Le genre”. Interviewed by Radio Panik. 8 December. 2011 “Le patrimoine”. Summer meeting of the Ecological Party. 28 August. 2011 Roundtable “Passeurs et contrebandiers”. Festival du Théâtre Jeune Public Ottokar iii. 18 March. Ath. 2011 “Le vintage”. Interview on La Première Radio. 23 February. 2011 Roundtable “Etudier les sexualités, ici et là-bas”. Foire du livre de Bruxelles. 21 February. 2011 Roundtable on cultural transmission. Salon du livre de Sciences Humaines. Paris. 5 February. 2011 Roundtable on cultural transmission. Théâtre Océan-Nord. Brussels. 4 February. 2010 “Transmettre”. Interview on France Culture. 24 September. 2010 “Le féminisme aujourd’hui”. Journal Le Soir. 2010 “Heritage in Luang Prabang”. Interview in The Wall Street Journal. 24 June. 2008 “Les 100 ans des Claude Lévi-Strauss”. Interview on La Première Radio. 2008 “Sexualité”. Interview in the Journal de la Jeunesse Francophone JEF 2008 (5). 2005 “Excision”. Interview on La Première Radio. XIV. REFERENCES - Herzfeld, Michael. Department of Anthropology. Harvard University. 33 Kirkland Street, William James Hall, Cambridge, MA 02143. Email: [email protected] - Parkin, David. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. 51 Banbury Road, OX2 6PE, Oxford, UK. Email: [email protected]