OPENING
CONFERENCE
MONIKA SALZBRUNN
University of Lausanne
September 1st, 2026
Aula Romeros
12:00 p.m.
Monika Salzbrunn, Full Professor of Religions, Migration, Arts at University of Lausanne and associated researcher at CéSOR/Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris, is principal investigator of the ERC project on ARTIVISM –Art and Activism. Creativity and performance as subversive means of political expression in super-diverse cities. She was Emmy Noether grantee of the German Research Foundation (DFG), invited research professor at the universities of Tokyo, Kwansei Gakuin and Genoa, invited Arts & Science senior fellow at the Istituto Svizzero Roma, and principal investigator of the projects “(In)visible Islam in the City” and “Undocumented Mobility and Digital-Cultural Resources after the ‘Arab Spring”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Monika Salzbrunn has published numerous articles and books in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese and written several documentary films.
Monika Salzbrunn’s profile at the University of Lausanne
Resisting though artivism. Researching and filming the performance of multiple belonging in everyday life and on stage?
In a context of decreasing participation in elections, alternative political expressions through artivism are on the rise. Art in activism and activism in art are creative forms of resistance, often performed in a joyful way. Those artivistic practices, namely performances within public space, are particularly insightful to study the complexity of societal interactions and power relations. In the frame of the ERC-funded ARTIVISM project, we have researched various innovative forms of resistance through artivism with audio-visual methods from a multi-sensory perspective across three continents.