2024
Anthropological Insights into the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Surrounding Beijing’s Forbidden City
Open Fields Lunch: Landscape Habitats, EPFL, Switzerland, April 9, 2024.Towards a critical anthropology of the (de)creative turn in heritage
Anthropological Theory. 2024-02-26. DOI : 10.1177/14634996241227272.Intangible culture in built heritage: Practices of heritage-making at international and national scales
Future Heritage, Kernfach Master FS24, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland, 14 March 2024.Discovering common perception of Beijing 2022 Big Air Venue through photos from WeChat Channel & Weibo: A computer-assisted approach
2024-02-12.Chungking Express : Proximité physique et distance émotionnelle dans le Hong Kong des années 1990
Ecrans Urbains 2024 (Ville, architecture, paysage au cinéma), Lausanne, Suisse, 21 Février 2024.Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues
American Anthropologist. 2024-02-17. DOI : 10.1111/aman.13950.Avalanche Risk Management: from science to practice and from the ground to research
Webinar ICH and climate change, Paris, France, January 18, 2024.La gestion du danger d’avalanches en patrimoine
Formation patrimoine culturel immatériel: PCI et gestion des ressources naturelles, Garae Ethnopôle, Carcassonne, France, January 9, 2023.2023
Pluralizing creativities in heritage governance
Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions; Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2023. p. 202.The Governance of creative heritage and neo-aesthetics: between entertainment and politics in Asia
Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions; Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2023. p. 202.Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions
Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2023.Science and technology in the sustainabilization of ICH: the case of Avalanche Risk Management
2023-09-07. Special Forum on Safeguarding Living Heritage for Sustainability, UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office for East Asia and World Bank, Dunhuang, RPC, September 7, 2023.Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage
2023. 19th IUEAS-WAU World Anthropology Congress, Marginalities, uncertainties, and world anthropologies: enlivening past and envision future, New Delhi, India, October 14-20, 2023.Financialized ecological civilization and cultural consumption: Mountain area development driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
« Trait d’Urbain » seminar, UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 30, 2023.Urbanization Paradigm Shift in China’s Mountain Areas Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Financialized Ecological Civilization and Cultural Consumption
2023 RSA Annual Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 14–17, 2023.Investigateur de zones inhabitées
2023.Le repas pour recoudre l’espace public. Quai du Mont-Blanc et quartier des Pâquis
2023.SMALL – Un nouveau dispositif d’accueil d’urgence pour le Service social de Genève
2023.Entre artisanat et industrie: une manufacture à Crissier
2023.Military and Art Museum Bunkered into the Landscape
2023.The Leisure activities in community “vacant” lots: How the grassroots practices appropriate the public space in China
XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, RC21 Regional and Urban Development, Melbourne, Australia, June 25-July 1, 2023.Frictions et appropriations d’un espace patrimonial : l’Axe central de Pékin
Dynamiques contemporaines en Asie: Patrimoine architectural et urbain dans les villes en Asie, Paris, France, June 23, 2023.Introduction : Héritage et patrimoine au prisme du conjonctif et du disjonctif
Journées d’études Héritage et Patrimoine, Marseille, France, June 15-16, 2023.Culture populaire et exercice du pouvoir en Chine. Épisode 2 : Culture populaire, un outil de contrôle social ?
Les Belles Heures, Montreal, Canada, June 1, 2023.Culture populaire et exercice du pouvoir en Chine. Épisode 1 : Éduquer les masses par la culture
Les Belles Heures, Montreal, Canada, May 25, 2023.Requestioning heritage narratives and the politics of storytelling
Hidden/(un)told heritage narratives and the politics of storytelling, Swiss Institute in Rome, Italy, May 15-16, 2023.Introduction : urban regeneration and industrial heritage
Urban Regeneration and Industrial Heritage, EPFL, February 23-24, 2023.Porter le temps : Mémoires urbaines d’un site horloger
Table ronde, Le Locle, Suisse, February 24, 2023.Discovering perceived images of reused industrial heritage from user-generated photos: Three mega-event reinforced industrial heritage transformation cases
2023. Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA) – 6th Edition, Pisa, Italy, December 5-6, 2022.Platform-mediated live musical performance in China: New social practices and urban cultural spaces
Geoforum. 2023-03-07. Vol. 140, p. 103723. DOI : 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103723.2022
L’art d’accommoder les ancêtres de la nation : Analyse du processus patrimonial national des tombeaux musulmans dans le Sud-est chinois (Canton, Quanzhou et Yangzhou)
University of Geneva, 2022-01-24.WeChat as an unavoidable research tool for fieldwork, and its problems
WeChat Ethnography: New Practices and Limits of an Emerging Research Method, Geneva, Switzerland, October 7, 2022.The state-led use of industrial heritage in mega-events in China
TICCIH 2022 Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montreal, Canada, August 28 – September 3, 2022.Mega-Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: The making of public space between narratives and practices
2022. TICCIH 2022 Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montreal, Montreal, Canada, August 28 – September 3, 2022.Analysis of Beijing 2022 Big Air Venue through data from WeChat Channel & Weibo
WeChat Ethnography: New Practices and Limits of an Emerging Research Method. Part 1, Geneva, Switzerland, October 7, 2022.La produzione della memoria urbana: una tavola rotonda interdisciplinare
House of Switzerland, Milan, Italy,Observatoire ornithologique de Vidy. Surélévation au cœur d’une réserve aménagée entre terre et lac, dans la partie Ouest du parc Louis Bourget à Vidy (Lausanne Sud)
2022.Colline de la Muraz à Nyon – Alternative de densification urbaine par la transposition de préceptes spatiaux japonais
2022.Vivre seuls ensemble. Une architecture à usage mixte et communautaire à la Servette
2022.Construction vernaculaire d’une auberge dans les montagnes en Chine
2022.Préventorium Le Rosaire: un espace sensible à la fragilité
2022.Mega Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: A typological matrix between narratives and practices
TICCIH 2022 Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montreal, Canada, 28 August – 3 September 2022.The resistance of stone: thick and fragmented urban collective memory in Gulou
Digitalization of Memory in China, Bonn, Germany, 21-22 September 2022.Avalanche et UNESCO : rien à voir ?
Festival International du Film Alpin (FIFAD), Diablerets, Suisse, August 13-20, 2022.China’s extended urbanization driven by the ‘consumption city’ in the context of financialized ecological civilization
Transactions in Planning and Urban Research. 2022-07-20. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 1-15. DOI : 10.1177/27541223221101720.Porter le temps: mémoires urbaines du Locle et de la Chaux-de-Fonds
The production of urban memory: an interdisciplinary roundtable, Milano, Italy, May 26, 2022.Le Locle/La Chaux-de-Fonds: Public histories and industrial heritage in contemporary cities
Open Fields Lunch–Productive habitats, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 14, 2022.Uses of Cultural Heritage: The iconic case of Shougang
Dialogue on Winter Olympic Games. From Beijing to Milan: Design Innovations for Sustainability, Virtual Event, May 12, 2022.Governance of Heritage and Creativity: an introductory framework
Governing Heritage and Creativity: frictions, avenues and questions, Rome, Italy, April 4-5, 2022.Comment les nouvelles technologies peuvent-elles contribuer à la valorisation du patrimoine culturel dans les pays émergeants ?
Salon des Technologies et de l’Innovation de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2022-03-10.Rumba congolaise et enjeux de l’inscription au patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’UNESCO
Table ronde at the Black Movies Festival, Genève, 27.01.2022.Beijing Olympics as Drivers of New Places for Consumption: Promotion of New Lifestyle and Cultural Heritage
Beijing22 – Speculative Grounds: Positions on Beijing’s transformation; Zurich: tria publishing platform, Zurich–Beijing, 2022.Shougang ou la nouvelle icône du patrimoine industriel chinois
2022-03-25.JO de Pékin: l’urbanisation des montagnes par le tourisme
2022-02-07.2021
Reframing Heritage, Creativity and Innovation
Heritage, Creativity and Innovation Nexus: an international workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 4-5, 2021.Beijing from below stories of marginalized lives in the capitals center by Harriet Evans
The China Quarterly. 2021. Vol. 248, p. 1234-1236. DOI : 10.1017/S0305741021001272.Les anthropologues face aux “traditions vivantes”: l’exemple suisse
Colloque international Nommer / Normer : Approches pluridisciplinaires du patrimoine culturel immatériel, Paris, France, November 25-26, 2021.Heritage as new social engineering in China: a re-colonializing perspective
Heritage and Decoloniality: the Geneva exchanges, Geneva, Suisse, October 21-22, 2021.Places in Common: An Ethnography of Public Gatherings in China
China Perspectives. 2021. num. 3, p. 75-76.“China intends to fill the void in a world characterized by a vacuum of values”
2021-10-01.Un refuge longue durée-Les saisonniers comme nouvelle société nomade
2021.Habitat Néo Rural, Biorégion de la Calanca: construction d’un scénario d’habitat humain alternatif à partir d’un territoire rural à l’abandon
2021.La Suisse en inventaire : politiques de sauvegarde du PCI
Patrimoine culturel immatériel : Cadres international et national, réseaux, territoires, Vitré, France, 12-13 octobre 2021.Un eco-quartier dans la ville de Bukavu
2021.Part’âge: logements mixtes et évolutifs à Chêne-Bougeries (Genève)
2021.” Anomalies urbaines ” : un urbanisme d’occupation à Hong Kong et Caracas. Enquête, théorie et méthode
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022: ecological civilization as a new step for extended urbanization to enhance consumption
The 2021 annual conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development (RC21 Conference): Sensing the city, [Online edition] Antwerpen, Belgium, July 14-16, 2021.Explorer la micropolitique de transformation à Pékin : le patrimoine culturel vu à travers le prisme de la mémoire collective d’un quartier historique
Assises de l’Anthropologie des Mondes Chinois, Paris, France, Juin 16-18, 2021.Une pluralité des formes patrimoniales pour une reconnaissance sur les listes de l’UNESCO, 2002-2020
Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d’un site horologer; Genève: MētisPresses, 2021-06-11.Temporalité et savoirs urbains: une recherche située autour d’un processus patrimonial
Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d’un site horologer; Genève: MētisPresses, 2021-06-11.Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d’un site horloger
Genève: MētisPresses, 2021-06-11.Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions
People-Centered Methodologies for Heritage Conservation: Exploring Emotional Attachment to Historic Urban Places; London and New York: Routledge, 2021.Nurturing the socialist spiritual civilization: Interplay between anthropology and politics
Swiss Anthropological Association Annual Meeting Reviewing “the field”: contemporary debates and approaches to fieldwork, Ascona, Switzerland, April 22-24, 2021.Property rights redistribution and the spatial evolution of the Chinese danwei compound: a case study in Beijing
Journal Of Housing And The Built Environment. 2021-01-15. Vol. 36, p. 1585–1602. DOI : 10.1007/s10901-020-09810-z.Cultivating public space and yangge dance
Symposium XJTLU Public Space Forum, Suzhou, PRC, Live Zoom Event,2020
Developing interdisciplinary and intercultural skills in engineers through short-term field experiences
Informacios Tarsadalom. 2020-01-01. Vol. 20, num. 2, p. 9-18. DOI : 10.22503/inftars.XX.2020.2.1.Datchnikis urbains: les jardins habités de Moscou
2020.Enracinée de l’autre côté. Centre culturel arbëreshë à Hora e Arbëreshëve, Sicile
2020.Innovators in Urban China: Makerspaces and Marginality with Impact
Urban Planning. 2020-10-14. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 68-77. DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i4.3218.La mémoire collective et l’espace. Traces, récits et expériences autour d’un paysage urbain romain
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.The Social Life of Heritage-Making: Cultural Representations and Frictions
The Heritage Turn in China. The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020-06-16. p. 314.Le rôle des experts dans la création de l’inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel en Suisse
Le patrimoine culturel immatériel au seuil des sciences sociales. Actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, septembre 2012; Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2020-05-12. p. 324.Planning: from model to modules
Realtime: making digital China; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2020.Le maker, construction d’une figure politique de l’innovation en Chine urbaine
EspacesTemps.net. 2020-02-28. p. 24 pages. DOI : 10.26151/espacestemps.net-t0f8-r859.Realtime: making digital China
Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2020.Liminality, Ephemerality, and Marginality with Impact Makerspaces in the Chinese Urban Fabric: Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, and Addis Ababa
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.2019
Short-term field study programmes for developing interdisciplinary skills in engineering education
2019. SEFI 47th Annual Conference. European Society of Engineering Education. “Varietas delectat…Complexity is the new normality””, Budapest, Hungary, September 16-19, 2019.Ville éphémère : la Fête des Vignerons aujourd’hui et demain
Ecosystème de Lavaux. Lavaux Patrimoine mondial, Grandvaux, Suisse, November 5, 2019.Comparing habitats. Reframing comparison in the “post – disciplinary” era
Comparing habitats: Reframing comparison in the “Post-disciplinary” era; Lausanne: Contour journal for interdisciplinary research in architecture, design and planning, 2019-09-12.Comparing habitats: Reframing comparison in the “Post-disciplinary” era
http://contourjournal.org, 2019-09-12.Singularité des slums: Production de l’espace dans la ville indienne
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019.Creative Communities A Landscape of Spaces and Practices
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Global Studies Program, EPFL, Switzerland, June 11, 2019.Cultural heritage, leisure and Beijing Olympic Winter Games 2022
Workshop at the Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design , Beijing, PRC, October 28, 2019.Historic Urban Landscape as an opportunity for change? Evidence from Beijing
Globalized Heritage in Asia: regional articulations, silences, contestations, Université de Genève, Suisse, May 24, 2019.Shaping Urbanity: Politics and Narratives
The City after Chinese New Towns: Spaces and Imaginaries from Contemporary Urban China; Basel: Birkhäuser, 2019.Vous avez dit: “traditions vivantes urbaines” en Suisse?
2019-03-08. Colloque international: Une approche interdisciplinaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel, Museum Fünf Kontinente, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Deutschland, Mars 7-8, 2019.Entangled Memories in the Bell and Drum Towers in Beijing
ACC Lecture Architecture: conjectures and refutations, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, March 14, 2019.2018
Looking at Corboz from an anthropological perspective
Table-ronde Revisiting André Corboz: methods, challenges, potentials, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Accademia di Architectura, Mendrisio, Switzerland, Octobre 29, 2018.Makers in China: a model to export?
The 16th Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), Leiden, Netherlands, 22-23 May 2018.Open Innovation for Development: An Educative and Entrepreneurial Project between Shenzhen and Addis Ababa
Tech4Dev, Lausanne, Switzerland, 27-29 June 2018.Encountering cultures of making in China: narratives and practices of co-creative communities
#Chinacreative: Users, Makers, Dreamers, a Workshop on Vernacular Creativity and Beyond, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 4-5, 2018.Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions
Association of Critical Heritage Studies 4th Biennal conference, Heritage Across Boarders, Hangzhou, China, September 1-6, 2018.Inventories without archives: the list of “Living Traditions in Switzerland”
Archiving Intangible Cultural Heritage & Performing Arts – a Symposium for Living Traditions, Artlab, EPFL, Lausanne, August 6-7, 2018.Politiques de la tradition. Le patrimoine culturel immatériel
Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2018.Historic Urban Landscape in Beijing: The Gulou Project and Its Contested Memories
Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. p. 298.Comparing Habitats. International PhD Seminar
2018.Resistance to places of collective memories: A rapid Transformation Landscape in Beijing
The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography; London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 259-278.2017
Making the city: re-assembling spaces of manufacturing
2017. CHI2017.Makerspaces: politics and communities of innovation in China. Feedback from the field and discussion
Rethinking Science and Public Participation – Monthly Colloquium, University of Geneva,Memory and historic urban landscapes: An interdisciplinary research in Mexico-City, Rome and Beijing
2017
Heritage in the Making: a genealogy of successive attempts for UNESCO lists
Public Seminar Memory and the city: An ongoing collective research on the Unesco site of Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, June 27, 2017.Redéfinitions du patrimoine culturel par les marges : Résistances à la Recommandation sur les paysages historiques dans le quartier de Gulou, Beijing
Colloque International Le Patrimoine Mondial : une valeur universelle exceptionnelle ?, Centre des Monuments nationaux, Cité de Carcassonne, France, 4-5 Décembre, 2017.The thickness and fragmentation of urban collective memory: the “resistance of the stones” in Gulou, Beijing
International Symposium on Anthropology undergoing the evolution of communities, Beijing, PRC, September 23, 2017.Regards sur les politiques du PCI en Suisse
Patrimoine culturel immatériel; Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2017. p. 317-328.China’s Digital Diversity and the Sharing Economy in the New Era of National Sovereignty
World Humanities Conference, Liège, August 6-12, 2017.The Practices of World Heritage-Making: Chinese National Hegemony and UNESCO Narratives
Lecture series Master Degree in Architecture Construction City, Turin, Italy, May 17, 2017.Focus Group Discussion on Hybrid Cities How the Concept of Hybridization helps us to understand the production of urban space, architecture and urbanism in the Global South.
Focus Group Discussion on Hybrid Cities How the Concept of Hybridization helps us to understand the production of urban space, architecture and urbanism in the Global South., Anna University, Chennai, India, January 24, 2017.In the [Big] Hybrid Cities. How the Concept of Hybridization helps us to understand the production of urban space, architecture and urbanism in the Global South
2017
Urban Scars, Ghosts and Collective Memories : Heritage and Resistance to Patrimonialization in Beijing and Mexico City
School of Architecture / Anna University, Chennai, India, January 27, 2017.Urban Scars: From invisible to visible – In Beijing and Mexico City
2017. V Congreso Internacional Cidades Criativas, Porto, PORTUGAL, January 25-27, 2017. p. 257-268.Where is my place? Native home and culture in Iranian immigrants’ homemaking
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017.2016
Tourisme et patrimoine dans la ville de Malacca, Malaisie: un couple bien assorti?
Ethnologies. 2016. Vol. 38, num. 1-2, p. 83-105. DOI : 10.7202/1041588ar.Cartographier les mémoires collectives à Gulou ou la difficulté d’allier les volontés politiques et les voix populaires dans le centre historique de Pékin
Séminaire de l’Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS-Lyon, France, Novembre 17, 2016.Architecture and Resistance: Theory, Methods and Projects
Chinese New Towns (project), Torino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, June 15, 2016.Beijing Danwei: from the Memory of the City to New Regeneration Plans
Forum Architecture in China and Italy: From Ancient Towns to Low-Carbon Towns, Firenze, Italy, March 18, 2016.2015
Introduction to the Gulou case study: coordiantion, local teams and associated members
Mapping Controversial Memories project – Beijing, Beijing, CHINA, September 25-29,2015.Theoretical framework: conceptualizing historic urban landscape and collective memory from a multidisciplinary perspective
SNIS project kick-off meeting, Rome, ITALY, February 18-20, 2015.Hutongs-Transformations: A Battle between memories
2015.China: current social issues
Conference, Master degree in Architecture Construction City: Designing collective place in a Chinese new town, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, May 11, 2015.Zhangjiakou sustainable projects for 2022 Winter Olympic Games: a critical overview from anthropological perspective
Review of the Joint studio Tsinghua PoliTO 2015: Zhangjiakou sustainable projects for 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Castello del Valentino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, June 15, 2015.China: from modernization to reforms
Conference, Master degree in Architecture Construction City: Designing collective place in a Chinese new town, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, April 20, 2015.Chengdu’s history and social organizations
Conference, Master degree in Architecture Construction City: Designing collective place in a Chinese new town, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, March 25, 2015.Gulou communities between the historical Drum and Bell Tower square
International workshop Architecture and Resistance, Lasur (ENAC), Iags (CdH), EPFL, Switzerland, December 14-15, 2015.The architectures of Expos
Public Forum, The House of Switzerland, Expo Milano 2015, Italy, October 21, 2015.Discussants on Beijing Danwei: Industrial Heritage in the Contemporary City (Berlin, Jovis, 2015) edited by Michele Bonino and Filippo De Pieri
Launch Book, Beijing Design Week, Relay Factory, Dashilar, Beijing, China, September 25, 2015.Process of patrimonialisation and collective memories in Gulou communities
International workshop: Mapping controversial memories project in Beijing, Beijing Design Week, BaiTaSi ReMade, Beijing, China, September 25-28, 2015.Generating space both by and for the human body
Beijing Design Week: Forum Bai Ta Si Rethinking Old Town Redevelopments, Tsinghua University (World Architecture Magazine), Beijing, China, September 27, 2015.Mapping collective memories in Beijing: emerging controversies within Gulou communities
International conference Cultural heritage in China: Contested Understandings, Images and Practices, Lund University, Sweden, June 17-18, 2015.Identifying ‘living traditions’ in Switzerland
International conference Das Immaterielle Kulturerbe in Österreich. Interaktionen von Kultur, Politik und Ökonomie, Museum für Volskunde, Institut für Kultur and Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien, Austria, June 10-12, 2015.Teahouse in Chengdu: public spaces and Chinese society
Lectures of Architecture Construction City, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, March 23, 2015.Eduquer les masses par la culture: l’exemple de la danse du yangge
Conférence, cours Enjeux sociaux en Chine contemporaine, Université de Genève, Suisse, Mars 17, 2015.Introduction à la société chinoise
Conférence, Module Social inclusion and elderly care, Lausanne, Suisse, March 9, 2015.The mapping controversial memories (MCM) project
Kick-off meeting of the Mapping controversial memories in the historic urban landscape: a multidisciplinary study in Beijing, Mexico City and Rome, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Italy, February 18-20, 2015.Jeux de pouvoirs, jeux d’échelles, jeux d’images: trois terrains, une ligne d’horizon
Mélanges en l’honneur de Mondher Kilani; Lausanne: BNS Press, 2015. p. 43-58.2014
Mapping collective memories in Beijing: emerging controversies within and between local communities
International conference Citizen Civil Society and Cultural Policies of Heritage-Making in East and Southeast Asia, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, December 11-13, 2014.Breathing new life into Beijing public spaces: an ethnography of neighbourhood community life
Doctorate research in Architecture: history and project – New perspective on urban heritage, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, October 24, 2014.Mapping Controversial Memories in the Historic Urban Landscape: A Multidisciplinary Study in Beijing, Mexico City and Rome
Launch workshop of the SNIS 2014 funded projects, Graduate Institute of International and Development studies, Geneva, October 9, 2014.Tourism and Heritage
Conférence, Minor in Area and Cultural Studies, EPFL, July 15, 2014.Patrimoine tangible et intangible en Chine
Conférence, Maîtrise pluridisciplinaire en études asiatiques (Master-Asie), IHEID, Genève, Suisse, Février 17, 2014.Cultural discourses on Heritage in China: an anthropological perspective
Conference, Innovation and Organization of Cultural and the Arts (GIOCA): Heritage, History, and the Issue of Managing, University of Bologna, Italy, January 23, 2014.Patrimoine culturel: constitutions, conflits et conventions
Zürich: Tsantsa, 2014.Challenging the notion of Heritage? Introduction
Tsantsa. 2014. Vol. 19, p. 8-18.Projet ENAC : Shipbreaking : a status report on the Alang-Sosiya Yard
2014.Asian Theatres at work. Circulation, expression, politics
Anthropos. 2014. Vol. 109, num. 1, p. 267-268.Théâtres d’Asie à l’oeuvre. Circulation, expression, politique par Hélène Bouvier et Gérard Toffin (éds)
Anthropos. 2014. Vol. 109, p. 267-268.Traditions vivantes, une catégorie bonne à penser ? Le cas de la Suisse
Les vocabulaires locaux du patrimoine. Traductions, négociations et transformations; Münster/Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2014. p. 123-144.Relocaliser les discours du “patrimoine”
Les vocabulaires locaux du patrimoine. Traductions, négociations et transformations; Münster/Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2014. p. 9-31.Les vocabulaires locaux du patrimoine. Traductions, négociations et transformations.
Münster/Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2014.2013
Anthropen, dictionnaire on line
Présentation et lancement du dictionnaire d’anthropologie en ligne Anthropen, Université de Lausanne, Suisse, Février 25, 2013.Performing the ‘harmonious society’ in Huangling, Shaanxi Province. Chinese New Year Celebrations to ‘serve the people’ (wei renmin fuwu)
International workshop: Disorder, Action and the Public Good in China, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, December 6-7, 2013.Comment Luca Zan paper – Nationalism in China and Historical Buildings
International Workshop: The State and Historic Buildings: Preserving ‘the national Past’, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, November 8-9, 2013.Cultural Heritage Discourses and Contestations in China
Minor in Area and Cultural Studies, Lausanne summer school, Module Society, EPFL, July 17, 2013.Tourisme et patrimoine à Malacca. Un couple bien assorti ?
Colloque international Médiation et créativité en tourisme et en patrimoine. Acteurs, modalités et enjeux, Musée de la mémoire vivante (Saint-Jean-Port-joli), Université Laval, Québec, Mai 12, 2013.Sociology meets Architecture
Séminaire doctoral Politechnico de Turin, Turin, 9-10.09.2013.Travelling sur le processus d’exclusion de l’inventaire des traditions vivantes en Suisse : enjeux et raisons d’un (out)casting
Hors-champs; Neuchâtel: Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel, 2013. p. 112-118.2012
Analyser l’engagement scientifique dans le contexte de l’inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel en Suisse
Décade de Cerisy: Le patrimoine culturel immatériel, Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle, France, Septembre 24-29, 2012.Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and making heritage in Malaysia: a view from the historic cities of the Straits of Malacca
International Symposium: Shaping Heritage-Scapes: Processes of Patrimonialization in a Globalized World, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, August 27-28, 2012.Heritage, Conservation and Civil Society
Minor in Area and Cultural Studies, Lausanne summer school, Module Society, EPFL, July 17, 2012.Heritage and Democracy
Association of Critical Heritage Studies Inaugural Conference : Re-theorisation of heritage, University of Goteborg, Sweden, June 5-8, 2012.Modelling a national folk festival in heritage policy: The case of the Mountain of the Marvellous Peak (Miaofeng shan) near Beijing
Association of Critical Heritage Studies Inaugural Conference : Re-theorisation of heritage, University of Goteborg, Sweden, June 5-8, 2012.Le manifeste de Lausanne
Conference, cours Histoire de la mondialisation, Université de Lausanne, Suisse, Mai 3, 2012.Traditions vivantes, une catégorie bonne à penser? Le cas de la Suisse fédérale
Local Vocabularies of “Heritage”: Variabilities, Negotiations, Transformations, University of Evora, Portugal, February 8-10, 2012.Per un’antropologia non egemonica. Il Manifesto di Losanna
Milano: Elèuthera, 2012.George Town (Penang) Malaisie. Une capitale régionale consacrée ‘ville du patrimoine mondial’
Capitales et patrimoine à l’ère de la globalisation/ Capital Cities and Heritage in the globalization Era; Québec: Presses de l’Université de Laval, 2012. p. 161-189.Identifying ‘living traditions’ in Switzerland: Re-enacting federalism through the application of the UNESCO Convention
Heritage Regimes and the State; Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2012. p. 303-325.Inventorier les ‘traditions vivantes’. Approches du patrimoine culturel immatériel dans le système fédéral suisse
Ethnographiques.org. 2012. num. 24.La danse du yangge. Culture et politique dans la Chine du XXe siècle
Paris: La Découverte, 2012.Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and making heritage in Malaysia: a view from the historic cities of the Straits of Malacca
International Journal Of Heritage Studies. 2012. Vol. 18, num. 6, p. 605-623. DOI : 10.1080/13527258.2011.609997.2011
Identifying ‘Living Traditions’ for the UNESCO Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage : A new Storytelling of Swissness?
Colloque annuel de la Société Suisse d’Ethnologie: Approaching Political Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, November 25-26, 2011.What perspectives are there for a non-hegemonic anthropology?
110th Annual meeting of the l’American Anthropological Association (AAA): Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies, Montreal, Canada, November 16-20, 2011.Quelles perspectives pour une anthropologie non hégémonique ? Le manifeste de Lausanne
1er congrès de l’Association française d’Ethnologie et d’Anthropologie (AFEA) Connaissance No(s) Limit (es), EHESS, Paris, France, Avril 17-21, 2011.Posture de l’anthropologue et statut de l’expertise dans le processus d’inventaire des ‘traditions vivantes’ en Suisse
1er congrès de l’Association française d’Ethnologie et d’Anthropologie (AFEA) Connaissance No(s) Limit (es), EHESS, Paris, France, Septembre 21-24, 2011.Identifying ‘living traditions’ in Switzerland: Re-enacting federalism through the Application of the UNESCO Convention
working conference DFG Research Group 772 “The Constitution of Cultural Property”: Heritage Regime and the State: Nomination, Implementation, Regulation, University of Göttingen, Germany, June 17-19, 2011.Loisirs et pratiques sociales en Chine contemporaine: l’exemple du yangge et du qigong
Conférence, cours SHS Mondes asiatiques: enjeux contemporains, EPFL, April 6, 2011.Making Swiss Intangible Cultural Heritage: tensions between the centre and its peripheries
Colloque international de la Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF): People make places – ways of feeling the world, Université Libre de Lisbonne, Portugal, April 17-21, 2011.La Svizzera : una buona allieva nel processo di inventorio del PCI ? (La Suisse : bonne élève du processus d’inventaire du PCI ?)
Identificazione partecipativa del patrimonio culturale immateriale transfrontaliero; Milano: ASPACI, 2011. p. 124-138.Patrimoine
Le Manifeste de Lausanne. Pour une anthropologie non-hégémonique; Montréal: Liber, 2011. p. 103-106.Musée d’ethnographie
Le Manifeste de Lausanne. Pour une anthropologie non-hégémonique; Montréal: Liber, 2011. p. 96-98.Culture
Le Manifeste de Lausanne. Pour une anthropologie non-hégémonique; Montréal: Liber, 2011. p. 53-55.Manifeste de Lausanne. Pour une anthropologie non hégémonique
Montréal: Liber, 2011.The Lausanne Manifesto. For a Non-Hegemonic Anthropology
The Lausanne Manifesto. For a Non-Hegemonic Anthropology; Montréal: Liber, 2011. p. 11-36.What’s the origin of the Struggle between China and its minorities? A Case Study on Tibet
2011.The role of recruitment agencies in Filipina migration to Hong Kong
2011.Idiosyncrasies of the 1997 Hong Kong: Emigration Phenomenon
2011.2010
Les anthropologies non hégémoniques
Forum International des Anthropologues (FIA), Université de Lausanne, Suisse, Avril 15-17, 2010.Applying the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage paradigm : national variations on a ‘universal’ theme
Colloque annuel de la Société Suisse d’Ethnologie: L’anthropolgie en Suisse aujourd’hui, Université de Berne, Suisse, Novembre 12-13, 2010.Intangible cultural Heritage
Colloque annuel de la Société Suisse d’Ethnologie: L’anthropolgie en Suisse aujourd’hui, Université de Berne, Suisse, November 12-13, 2010.Patrimonialisation d’une ville du Sud-Est asiatique (Penang, Malaisie)
Maîtrise pluridicsiplinaire en études asiatiques (Master Asie), IHEID, Genève, Suisse, April 21, 2010.De la marge au centre. La promotion des Chinese Clan Jetties de Penang (Malaisie) au titre de patrimoine universel
Colloque international Patrimoine culturel et désir de territoire : vers quels développements ?, Université de Nîmes, France, February 25-27, 2010.Et après la ratification de la Convention de l’UNESCO pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel? Entretien avec David Vitali
Museums.ch. 2010. num. 5, p. 22-25.La patrimonialisation des Chinese Clan Jetties de Penang : de la marge au centre
From Palermo to Penang: A journey into Political Anthropology – Festschrift for Christian Giordano/ De Palerme à Penang: Un itinéraire en anthropologie politique – Mélanges offerts à Christian Giordano; Münster/Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2010. p. 311-329.2009
George Town, Penang, Malaisie. Une capitale régionale consacrée ville du patrimoine mondial
Colloque international Capitales et patrimoine au XXIe siècle, Université de Laval, Québec, November 5-7, 2009.Politique internationale de l’UNESCO : recomposition des pratiques culturelles et communautés locales
Colloque internationale Canadian Anthropology Society-Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie: Anthropologies transnationales : Convergences et divergences au sein de réseaux disciplinaires mondialisés, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada, May 13-16, 2009.Recherche sur l’état de la situation du patrimoine culturel immatériel en Suisse
2009