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 :
- 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. 1910-
1960”.
- 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 (2012-
2013).
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).