Séminaire Anthropologie à Bruxelles – Brussels Anthropology (ABBA) - Calendar 2019-2020
In September 2013, LAMC post-doctoral students launched the Anthropology in Brussels research seminar. Open to all, the seminar aims to be a
bilingual forum (French-English) where young Belgian and foreign researchers present and discuss the results of their recent work.
The seminar seeks to provide a space for theoretical, epistemological and methodological elaboration, bringing together professors, post-doctoral
and doctoral researchers, and students. Three thematic axes per academic year are chosen, with three sessions dedicated to each theme.
Additionally, and outside of these thematic foci, internal sessions of the ABBA seminar offer doctoral or post-doctoral researchers
the opportunity to present their current work.
The coordinators of the seminar are Lisa Richaud, Mimy Keomanichanh and Van Minh Nguyen.
The three axes choosen for the academic year 2019-2020 are:
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Thema "Mobility" (coordinator Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot)
The sessions offer varied perspectives on the concept of "mobility" as used across the social sciences, which allows us to understand the different forms of movement and their meanings in the contexts of dance, circulation, and migration.
Session 1. Julien Debonneville et Alice Aterianus-Owanga : Danses, corps et mobilités (23 October 2019)
Session 2. Pierre Lannoy, Maxime de Formanoir, Minh Van Nguyen et Lisa Richaud : Epistémologie du concept de mobilité (11 December 2019)
Session 3. Laurence Noël, Angelie Marilla et Noémie Marcus : Femmes et mobilité(s) en contextes migratoires : dialogue entre jeunes chercheures en anthropologie (7 February 2020)
Session 4. Olivia Vieujean : Des entrepreneuses de territoire : migrations féminines, politiques sociales et travail gratuit (27 March 2020)
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Thema "Attachment and Detachment: Accumulation et Abjection in Anthropological Perspective" (coordinator Alexander Newell)
Les objets matériels produisent souvent des attachements personnels qui nous rendent leur abandon difficile, même lorsqu'ils n'ont plus de valeur d'usage, ou lorsqu'ils sont la cause de réactions sociales de dégoût, de peur ou d'enlèvement de force. Comme le contenu matériel de nos vies sociales s'accumule au cours de celles-ci, divers registres de valeur (lien familial, valeur d'échange, mémoire personnelle, potentialité future, documents publics) en viennent à se mêler de manière désordonnée et déconnectée, devenant plus difficiles à contenir.
Nous examinons la relation entre les humains et leurs accumulations - la lutte pour leur garder une place ou les renvoyer vers l'extérieur, ainsi que les jugements collectifs dirigés vers la mobilisation et l'immobilisation des objets de valeur et des non-objets de valeur.
Session 1. Anna Bohlin :There to be used: Material vitality, care and the ongoingness of second-hand objects (6 March 2020)
Session 2. Thierry Bonnot : Title to be confirmed (15 May 2020)
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Thema "Uses of the Past" (coordinators Pierre Petit et Ksenia Pimenova)
This area of the seminar focuses on the social uses of memory and of the past "beyond memory". We will explore the hypothesis of the malleability of the past that becomes a resource in contemporary socio-political transformations, and that allows for social reconciliation, affirmation and transformation of identities. The presentations address two particular aspects of this broad question: ways of managing difficult memory and daily relations with the material remains of the distant past.
Session 1. Gertjan Plets : Exceptions to authoritarianism : Cultural heritage politics and corporate statecraft in the Altai Republic (Siberia) (4 octobre 2019)
Session 2. Isabelle Charleux : L’empire Hünnü/Xiongnu, nouvel âge d’or des Mongols ? Imaginaire, nationalisme, mode et marketing en République de Mongolie (15 November 2019)
Session 3. Rosalie Stolz : « Where there is forest now ». Traces of past lives among the Khmu of upland Laos (27 February 2020)
Séance 4. Paul Sorrentino : Title to be confirmed (23 April 2020)
The ABBA seminar held place every two weeks, on Fridays from 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm in the Room Doucy, on the 12th floor of the Institut de Sociologie (ULB), with some exceptions.