Prof. Dr. Michaela Schäuble
Director
- Phone
- 031 631 3650
- michaela.schaeuble@anthro.unibe.ch
- Office
- S209
- Postal Address
- Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern
- Consultation Hour
- during the semester on monday 2 to 3 p.m.
Michaela Schäuble is Professor for Social Anthropology with a focus on Media Anthropology at the University of Bern (CH). She also trained as a documentary filmmaker and regularly curates film programmes for exhibitions and festivals.
From 2013 to 2014 she was lecturer at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology (GCVA) at Manchester University (UK) and from 2008-2013 lecturer (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). In 2009 she completed her PhD with a dissertation on nationalism, gender dynamics and the politics of commemoration in post-war Croatia. Her current research focuses on ecstatic religious cults and saint veneration in the Mediterranean. As head of the SNF Agora project “Tarantism Revisted” she, in collaboration with Anja Dreschke, uses film and photography as a research tool in investigating re-enactment and (religious) performances as sites of revitalising and negotiating tradition, heritage and cultural identity in Southern Italy.
Michaela has held research posts and fellowships at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University (2012/2013), the Institute of Advanced Studies in Bologna (2011/2012) and UCL University College London (2006/2007).
Research Fields
- media anthropology & audio-visual anthropology
- religion
- social memory
- gender
- space and place
- post-scocialist transformation (mainly former Yugoslavia/Balkans)
- anthropology of the Mediterranean
- nationalism
Publikationen
News
Artikel zur Forschungsübung: Feldforschung Draussen und im Netz
Vortrag und Workshop: "Trancedisciplinarity? Transgressing Global Realities“ in der Vortragsreihe „Transdisziplinarität in und mit den Künsten“ an der ZHdK
Michaela Schäuble discusses the release of the book and vinyl album Tarantismo: Odyssey Of An Italian Ritual At Last Tange in Zürich, March 6th 2020
Invited speaker Contested Heritage: Practices and Performances in the Mediterranean at the conference Material Culture in Transit, 19-20 March, University of Bern & Bernisches Historisches Museum - (wegen COVID-19 Verschoben)
Presentation in the Departmental Seminar, Faculty of Theology and Sciences of Religion, University of Lausanne - (wegen COVID-19 Verschoben)
"Tracing Tarantism - An ethnographic study of Apulian ritual between art performance and cultural heritage".
Michaela Schäuble (2019) Ecstasy, Choreography and Re-Enactment: Aesthetic and Political Dimensions of Filming States of Trance and Spirit Possession in Postwar Southern Italy, Visual Anthropology, 32:1, 33-55,
For a free download of the article, please click here
Im Rahmen der Programmreihe „Im Rausch der Sinne: Kino als Ekstase“ (https://www.rexbern.ch/programmreihe/im-rausch-der-sinne-kino-als-ekstase/) hält Prof. Dr. Michaela Schäuble zwei Vorträge und Filmeinführungen im Kino Rex.
Am Montag, den 13.5.2019 zum Doppelprogramm Jean Rouch: https://www.rexbern.ch/filme/doppelprogramm-jean-rouch/
Am Sonntag, den 19.5.2019 zu Maya Derens „Divine Horseman: The Living Gods of Haiti“ https://www.rexbern.ch/filme/divine-horsemen-the-living-gods-of-haiti/
New encyclopedia entry on "Visual Anthropology" published in The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Hilary Callan.
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
by Michaela Schäuble
Wiley Online Library: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118924396
Gastvorträge, Moderationen etc.
Projekte
Current Research Project
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Mediating the Ecological Imperative: Formats and Modes of Engagement. Lead: Prof. Dr. Peter Schneemann, PIs: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl, Prof. Dr. Michaela Schäuble, Prof. Dr. Peter Krieger
- Big Data Lives. Anthropological Perspectives on Tech-Imaginaries and Human Transformations, Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Michaela Schäuble, Dr. Darcy Alexandra, Lucien Schönenberg, Sophie Wagner
- Bewilligtes SNF-AGORA Projekt, Start des Projekts am 01.01.2018 "Tarantism Revisited. A collaborative crossmedia project on performance, cultural heritage and popular religion" - in Zusammenarbeit mit Anja Dreschke
- „Religious Rituals as Coping Strategies for Conflicts“, Teilprojekt 6 der Interfakultären Forschungskooperation IFK „Religious Conflicts and Coping Strategies“ (Gesamtleitung: Prof. Dr. Katharina Heyden) an der Universität Bern, Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Michaela Schäuble, Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Prof. Dr. David Plüss, Institut für Praktische Theologie, Start des Projektes 01.03.2018
- Forschungsplattform „Auto-Bio-Grafie. Historiografische Perspektiven auf Selbstzeugnisse in den Künsten“ in Kooperation mit Prof. Dr. Christina Thurner, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl und Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Vauthier
Past Research Project
Narrating Victimhood: Gender, Religion, and the Making of Place in Post-War Croatia
Current Book Project
“The Art of Controlled Accident”: Corporeal Cinematography in Ethnographic Films on Trance and Spirit Possession (1940s-1960s)
PhD Students
Curriculum vitae
Publications
Courses
SS2020
course reseach I
Master Colloquia
PhD Colloquia
AS2019
Seminar: Ecstasy and Madness
Auto_Bio_Grafie. Interdisciplinary Lecture Series
Master Colloquia
PhD Colloquia
FS2019
Storytelling in documentary film
Introduction to religious anthropology
Master colloquia
PhD colloquia
AS2018
Theory and History of ehtnographic films + Visionierung
Anthropologists as Novelists
Master Colloquia
PhD Colloquia
SS2018
Seminar: Sensory Ethnography
Exercise: Essay film and ethnographic film
Seminar: Marian Apparitions in Europe
Exercise: Film verORTen: Film as a social science research and communication method (introductory course)
Intensive Course (IP)
AS2017
Exercise: Ethnography and performative practices of reeenactment
CREOLE Exchange an der UAB Barcelona