Centro Incontri Umani

Scholars in residence - Selected residential fellows

November 2024
Dr Francoise Barbira Freedman University of Cambridge	Book project: 'Three Shamans of the Upper Amazon'
March - May 2024
Balz Andrea Alter University of Freiburg	Restitution der Würde: Dialogue observed in multimodal form
Dr Andrew Moutu University of Freiburg im Breisgau	The Lines of Being and Knowing
May - August 2023
David Nugent Emory University	Sacropolitics: Group Sacrifice and the State of Redemption in the Peruvian Andes
Balz Andrea Alter University of Freiburg im Breisgau	"Glauben Machen Lassen", a media-philosophical reflectione
June - September 2022
Tsung-Han Tsai National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan	As if an answer: Chopin in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage
David Nugent Emory University	Sacropolitics: Group Sacrifice and the State of Redemption in the Peruvian Andes
Bruno Nogueira Guimarães Balzan Fellow, University of St Andrews	Time and the ethnographic horizon in moments of crisis
February - September 2021
Giacomo Loperfido Universitat de Barcelona	A Birth of Neo-fascism: Cultural Identity, the State, and the Politics of Marginality in Italy
Father Francis Tiso Catholic Priest, Italy	Translating a Collection of Milarepa's and other early Kagyu Teachings
Ann Rosalind David University of Roehampton, London	Ram Gopal: Interweaving Histories of Indian Dance
Khushboo Jain FAU, Nürnberg, Germany	Rooms For Everything: An Ethnographic Study of Home-making on the Streets of Dehli
Tony Crook Centre for Pacific Studies, St Andrews	Time and the Ethnographic Horizon in Moments of Crisis
Bruno Nogueira Guimarães International Balzan Foundation	Time and the Ethnographic Horizon in Moments of Crisis
July - September 2020
Ann Rosalind David University of Roehampton, London	Ram Gopal: Interweaving Histories of Indian Dance
Giacomo Loperfido Department d' Antropologia Social, Universitat de Barcelona	A Birth of Neo-fascism: Cultural Identity, the State, and the Politics of Marginality in Italy.
April - June 2019
Father Francis Tiso Catholic Priest, Italy	A number of writing projects related to the topics of meditation, spirituality and aesthetics
Tsung-Han Tsai Shantou University, China	Research on Forster and Music
July - September 2017
David Nugent Emory University, USA	The Encrypted State: Delusion, Denial and Displacement in the Northern Peruvian Andes
Tsung-Han Tsai Shantou University, China	Hearing Lives: Music and Modernistic life-Writing
July - October 2016
Roland Kapferer Deakin University, Australia	The Crime of Prometheus: The Techno-Ontological Transformation of Human Being
Maria Kontis Artist, Australia	Exploring the Human Relationship between Drawings and the Photographs of Family Albums
Manoj NY Department for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University Karnataka, India	Alcohol as Object: An Anthropological Study of Alcohol Consumption in Kerala
Harry Rothman University of Manchester, UK	Meta-needs and Human Enhancement Technologies
Anne Berg Artist, UK	Illuminated Diaries
June - September 2015
Hansjörg Dilger Freie Universität Berlin, Germany	Embodying Faith and Morality in the Educational Market: New Christian and Muslim Schools in Urban Tanzania
Barbara Gerke Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin; School of Anthropology, University of Oxford	Taming the Poisonous: Transforming Mercury and Translating Toxicity in Tibetan Medical Traditions
Ying Li Haverford College, Pennsylvania; represented by Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York	Ascona Revisited, A Painting and Multimedia Project on the Landscape of Ticino and Northern Italy
Thomas Shor Independent writer and photographer - Boston, Berlin	"Ganges Lament", Book project on photographs from the ancient holy city of Varanasi, India
July - September 2014
Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Brisbane	The Role of Government in the Realization of Human Wellbeing
May - August 2013
Aurélie Biard Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po), Paris	Islam in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Local Power Adjustments and Systems of Interdependences between Religious Actors
Jim Chalmers School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide; School of the Environment, Flinders University of South Australia	The Role of Government in the Realization of Human Wellbeing
Tony Crook Centre for Pacific Studies University of St Andrews	Terms of Engagement: Anthropology, Indigenous Lifeworlds and Resource Extraction in Papua New Guinea
Ying Li Haverford College, Pennsylvania; represented by Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York	Painting project of Ascona with the surrounding landscape and water
May - August 2012
Giovanni da Col Research Associate, Mongolia and Inner Asian Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge	Cosmopolitics of the Invisible: Spiritual Landscape, Nature and Governmentality on China's Ethnic Frontiers
Mette Marie High Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, London	Dangerous Fortunes: Emerging Regimes of Value in the Mongolian Gold Rush
Francis Matambirofa African Languages Research Institute, University of Zimbabwe	Ethnicism, Tradition and Democracy: The Search for an Elusive Peace in Zimbabwe
I Nyoman Darma Putra Indonesian Department, Faculty of Letters, Udayana University, Bali	New Composition in Textual-Singing Tradition. Articulation of Social Concerns and Cultural Identity in Sing-Back Radio and TV Programs in Bali, Indonesia
James Taylor School of Social Sciences, The University of Adelaide	Red for the Whole Land: State Violence and New Awakenings in Thailand
March - August 2011
Smadar Lavie Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study and Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota; and Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21), University College Cork, Ireland	Crossing Borders, Staying Put: Mizrahim, Palestine and the Racial Formations of Israeli Zionism
Christos Lynteris Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland	Destroy the Self, Cultivate the Self: Barefoot Doctors and the Contestation of the Subject in Maoist China
David Napier Department of Anthropology, University College London	Migration, Vulnerability, and Reconciliation
Tanya Maria Zivkovic Research Associate, Public Health, The University of Adelaide	In-Between Bodies: The Biographical Process of Tibetanised Lamas
February - September 2010
Paul Theodore Cohen Department of Anthropology, Division of Society, Culture, Media Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia	Drug War Symbolism, Opium and Poverty in Northern Laos
Caroline Ifeka Hon. Research Fellow Department of Anthropology, University College London	Corruption, Oligopolies and Coercionin Predatory Networks of Power, Africa and the West (1950s–2000s)
Hideko Mitsui Department of East Asian Studies, Cambridge University	Cosmopolitan Lives and Spaces in Japan
Anastasia Tasoula Vervenioti Hellenic Open University, Greece	Children in the Greek Civil War
Jörg Zutter Independent Art Historian and Museum Consultant, Geneva	In the aftermath of Gauguin’s stain in French Polynesia: Segalen, Matisse and Murnau in Tahiti
February - September 2009
Roy Dilley Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland	Imperial Lives, Colonial Contexts: Henri Gaden in French West Africa, 1894-1939
Sanjay Garg Assistant Director National Archives of India, New Delhi, India	Transcendent Tolerance Nazeer’s Message of Peace and Harmony to the Modern World
Douglas Miles Department of Anthropology, SASS/FAESS, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia	Sexist Ancestors and Daoist Sainthood: Challenges to Woman-power and to Matrifiliated-labour in Recruitment to Yao Descent Units in Pulangka and Chiengkham
July - August 2008
Morteza Khosronejad Department of Foundations of Education, College of Education and Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran	Rumi’s Tales and Peace Education
Francis Matambirofa University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Arts, Dept of African Languages & Literature, Harare, Zimbabwe	Ethnicism, Tradition and Democracy: The Search for an Elusive Peace in Zimbabwe
Massimo Rospocher European University Institute, Firenze, Italia	The Cross and the Sword: The Pope in Arms and War between Christians in Early Modern European Public Opinion
Gregory Shushan University of Wales, Dept of Theology and Religious Studies, Lampeter, UK	Universalism and Culture-Specificity in Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilisations and Near-Death Experience
October 07 - June 08
Monika Baar Teaching Fellow University of Essex, Departement of History, Colchester, UK	The Fear of Extinction: a Fundamental Anxiety of Small Peoples
Amy J. Buono University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of History of Art & Architecture	Tupi or not Tupi: Colonial Pasts and Cannibal Futures in Modern Brazilian Art and Cinema
Manuela Ciotti Dept of Social Anthropology, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK	“The sex of Indian politics”: Agency, gender and cultures of democracy in the age of globalisation
Francis Matambirofa University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Arts, Dept of African Languages & Literature, Harare, Zimbabwe	Ethnicism, Tradition and Democracy: The Search for an Elusive Peace in Zimbabwe
Marco Musillo University of East Anglia, School of World Art Studies and Museology, Norwich, UK	European and Chinese Representations of People in the Early Modern and Modern Era
July - August 2007
Mathijs Pelkmans Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany	Colored revolutions, cold repression and societal fragmentation in post-Soviet Eurasia.
October 2006 - June 2007
Agapi Amanatidis Anthropologist, Hania, Greece	Carnival Rites and the Performance of Cultures
Zeljko Jokic Research Associate Departement of Anthropology, School of Society, Culture and Performance, University of Sydney, Australia	Yanomami Shamanism
Pedram Khosronejad Junior Research Fellow The Middle East Centre, St.Antony’s College, Oxford University, UK	Anthropology of the Martyr and Martyrdom in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Nathan Porath Teaching Fellow Departement of Anthropology, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK	Psychiatry and its Articulation with Indigenous Conceptions of Self and Madness in Indonesia and Thailand
Michael Webb Roberts Adjunct Associate Professor The University of Adelaide, Discipline of Anthropology, School of Social Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Australia	Terror and Martyrdom in Comparative Perspective

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