Centre d`Anthropologie Culturelle

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 :
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Anthropology of Memory. Université libre de Bruxelles.
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Anthropology 101 (3 sessions). University of Vientiane (Laos).
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Epistemology and Research Methods in Anthropology. Université Libre de
Bruxelles.
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Anthropology of Religion. Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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Workshops for graduate students. Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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Anthropology of Religion. Central European University. Budapest.
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Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality. Central European University. Budapest.
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Key Issues in Social Anthropology. Central European University. Budapest.
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Anthropology of Memory. Central European University. Budapest.
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MA thesis workshop, CEU, Budapest.
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Supervisor and second reader in PhD and MA dissertation committees.
VIb. Undergraduate Level:
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Anthropology of Religion. Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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Anthropological Theories 2. Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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Responsible for conducting workshops for undergraduate students (Anthropology
of Gender, anthropology of memory). Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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Supervisor and external referee in undergraduate dissertation committees.
Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, with a special focus on Objects, Art and
Museum. Ecole de-Recherches Graphiques (Art School, Brussels).
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Teaching Anthropology classes in High Schools, Brussels.
VIc. Researchers and PhD students supervised:
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Bergeaud-Blackler, Florence, Dr. (Marie-Curie Fellow, since March 2012): “Gay
Muslims in Belgium and France”.
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Manon Istasse (Anthropology, FNRS Doctoral Fellow) : “Habiter un site du
patrimoine mondial : ethnographie de la médina de Fès (Maroc)”.
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Kalufuako, Zola (History, UNILU Doctoral Fellow, co-director): “La contribution
des femmes africaines lushoises à la construction de la société coloniale. 19101960”.
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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.
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Sepehr, Homayun (Social Sciences, ULB, external reader): “Les gardiennes des
nappes d’offrance en Iran ( de la préhistoire à aujourd’hui). Awarded 2011.
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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
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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.
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Member of editorial committee of Gradhiva.
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Member of editorial committee of Terrain.
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Member of Advisory Board of Religion and Society: Annual Review of Religions.
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Member of editorial committee of Civilisations.
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Reviewer for Current anthropology (3x).
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Reviewer for Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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Reviewer for the Journal of Social Archeology.
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Reviewer for Focaal.
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Reviewer for the University of Chicago Press.
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Reviewer for Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man).
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Reviewer for Gradhiva.
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Reviewer for Terrain.
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Reviewer for Anthropologie et Sociétés (2X).
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Reviewer for la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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).
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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:
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2011 Co-organizer of the workshop “La Fabrique du patrimoine. Discussion avec
Nathalie Heinich”. 17 Mai – ULB.
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2009 Co-organizer of the workshop “Genre, sexualité et islam : regards croisées,
entre ici et là-bas”. May 28 – ULB.
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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:
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Co-founder (with Pierre Petit) of the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes
Contemporains (LAMC). http\\:lamc.ulb.ac.be
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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:
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Member of the Ethics Committee (since 2011).
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Member of the Extension of ULB (2009-2011).
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Team leader for the scientific evaluation of LAMC (2010).
XIIe. Scholarships obtained:
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National PhD grants (FNRS: Adeline Remy, Manon Istasse; MINI-ARC: Anais
Rotsaert).
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National postdoctoral grants (FNRS: Laurent Legrain).
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International PhD grants (CUIF – with Université of Lubumbashi: Emilie Zola).
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Marie-Curie postdoctoral grants (2012, Florence Bergeaud-Blackler ; 2010, Chiara
Bortolotto).
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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
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Herzfeld, Michael. Department of Anthropology. Harvard University. 33 Kirkland
Street, William James Hall, Cambridge, MA 02143. Email: [email protected]
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Parkin, David. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. 51 Banbury Road, OX2
6PE, Oxford, UK. Email: [email protected]