Charleroi, 03/05/1987 MAIL: [email protected]

FIRST NAME: Manon
FAMILY NAME: Istasse
NATIONALITY: Belgian
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: Charleroi, 03/05/1987
MAIL: [email protected]
LANGUAGES: French (mother tongue), English (written and spoken), Spanish (bases)
Moroccan Arabic (bases in spoken and written Arabic).
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
SECONDARY SCHOOL: Degree at the l'Athénée Royal de Thuin, section Latin-Grec.
UNIVERSITY:
June 2007: BA Degree in Anthropology and Sociology, option Anthropology, at the Free
University of Brussels, mention “Highest Honours”.
June 2009: Master degree in Cultural Anthropology, at the Free University of Brussels,
mention “Highest Honours”.
Septembrer 2013: Doctor in Social and Political Sciences at the Free University of
Brussels. Dissertation titled “Living in a World Heritage site: ethnography of the medina
of Fez (Morocco)”, under the supervision of David Berliner (Free University of Brussels).
Members of the jury: Mathieu Hilgers (Free University of Brussels), Jean-Louis Genard
(Free University of Brussels), Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute in Halle), Lynn
Meskell (Stanford University).
STAYS ABROAD:
2007-2008: Erasmus at the University of Provence (Aix-en-Provence, France) for the
Master 1
June and August 2008: fieldwork for the master dissertation in Fez (Morocco).
November 2009 – February 2010: fieldwork for the Ph. D. dissertation in Fez (Morocco).
April 2010 – June 2011: fieldwork for the Ph. D. dissertation in Fez (Morocco).
July 2011: fieldwork in Romania for the Project Patrimnio – Histories and regimes of
memory. Multi-ethnic communities and heritage policies in Transylvania. in partnership
with the Institut pour l’Investigation des Crimes du Communisme et la Mémoire de l’Exil
Roumain, (IICCMER) in Bucarest, the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of
Bucarest, and the Free University of Brussels.
October 2011 – February 2012: stay at the Max Planck Institute in Halle (Germany),
under the supervision of Christoph Brumann
ACADMIA:
2004-2006: member of the BESOCAN (Student Office in Sociology and Anthropology) at
the Free University of Brussels.
2005-2007: student representative at the Department Council in Social Sciences at the
Free University of Brussels.
Since Octobre 2009: member of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes
Contemporains at the Free University of Brussels.
February- June 2012: in charge of a seminar at the Free University of Brussels, "Etude
approfondie de questions d'anthropologie sociale et culturelle II", topic "memory".
Novembre 2012: Stay of 5 days in Bucarest (Roumania) for the project Patrimonio.
Presentation during the lesson of Damaina Otoiu, "Diverses approches du patrimoine
culturel".
Février – Juin 2013: in charge of a seminar at the Free University of Brussels, "Etude
approfondie de questions d'anthropologie sociale et culturelle II", topic "food".
Mars 2013: Presentation during the lesson of Maïté Maskens, "Epistemology of
Anthropology": "Faire du terrain en milieu urbain".
CONFRENCES AND TALKS
Octobre 2009: "Institutions patrimoniales et associations locales. L’émergence de
nouveaux passeurs à Fès (Maroc) " at the conference "Passeurs de patrimoine.
Ethnologie des personnes ressource" in Montpellier (France).
June 2010: "Patrimoine Unesco et développement touristique à Fès (Maroc)" at the
conference "Sites du patrimoine et tourisme : managing le local et le global" in Québec
(University of Laval).
August 2010: "UNESCO and the daily life of cultural heritage: the case of Fez (Morocco)"
at the EASA conference “Imagination and Crisis" in Maynooth (Ireland).
14-16 September 2011: "La relation à l'autre dans les maisons d'hôtes à Fès" at the
conference "Doctoriales du Tourisme: Concepts et méthodes à la croisée des disciplines"
in Paris (France).
5-6 June 2012: "Attachment to houses heritage. From experience to justification in the
relation with houses of the medina in Fez" at the conference "Re-theorizing heritage" in
Gothenburg (Sweden).
2-6 July 2012: "Incertitude et attachement: vivre dans un site du patrimoine mondial" a
the AISLF conference "Penser l'incertain" in Rabat (Morocco)
10-13 July 2012: organisation of a workshop "W109. Quelles perspectives pour une
anthropologie des émotions? Les approches pragmatiques dans l'analyse des
mobilisations en contexte d'incertitude" at the EASA conference "Incertainty and
disquiet" in Paris-Nanterre (France).
27-28 August 2012: "Challenging heritage in the medina of Fez (Morocco)" at the
conference "Shaping Heritage-scapes. Processes of Patrimonialization in a globalized
world” at the University of Lausanne (Switerzland).
11-12 October 2012: "After the Departure of the Unesco: nostalgia in the old city of Fez"
at the conference "World Heritage on the Ground : ethnographic perspectives" at the
Max Planck Institute in Halle (Germany).
11 February 2013 : organisation of a workshop "Du réel à l’image : regards transversaux
sur la narration visuelle", at the Free University of Brussels.
PUBLICATIONS
2008:
Book review: "Christy VODDEN et Ian DYCK, Un Monde en soi. 150 ans d’histoire du Musée
canadien des civilisations. Gatineau, Musee canadien des civilisations, 2005, 104 p., photogr.,", in
Anthropologie et Sociétés, Vol. 32, n. 3 : 267-268
Master Dissertation in Anthropology: "Transmission et patrimoine. Approche
anthropologique d'un chantier international de jeunes volontaires ", under the
supervision of David Berliner, Deparmtent of Economic, Politic and Social Sciences, 118
p.
Book review: : "CALAME François, Jean-Pierre CASTELAIN et Pierre SCHMIT (dir.),
2007, La mémoire orale. Rencontres ethnologiques de Rouen. Mont-Saint-Aignan,
Publications des universités de Rouen et du Havre, 215 p., photogr., réf. ", in
Anthropologie et Sociétés, 2009, revue en ligne.
2011:
"Unesco World Heritage and Tourist Development in Fez, Morocco", in BOURDEAU L. et
CHASSE S., in Actes du Colloque Sites du patrimoine et tourisme : managing le local et le
global, Presses de l'Université de Laval, Québec : 645-656
"Relation à l'autre et préservation du patrimoine dans les logements touristiques à Fès
(Maroc)" in, GRAVARI-BARBAS Marie, COUSIN Saskia et JACQUOT Sébastien, in Actes des
Premières Doctoriales du tourisme de la Chaire Unesco "Culture, Tourisme,
Développement: 423- 435
on http://www.univ-paris1.fr/fileadmin/doctoriales-tourisme/FINAL-light_2012-0210%20Doctoriales.pdf
Article: "Circulation et rencontre du patrimoine et du tourisme dans la médina de Fès.
De l'investigation de diverses formes patrimoniales", in Téoros, 30 (2) : 37-46
2012:
Book review: "Inhabiting and creating heritage: French approaches", in Social
Anthropology, 20: 196-200
2013:
Chatper: "Dynamique de requalification des médinas et préservation du patrimoine :
étude en acte dans la médina de Fès", in Miller Catherine, McGuinness Justin et Colsado
Elsa, Médinas Immuables ?, Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat
Forthcoming:
BERLINER David et ISTASSE Manon, "Les fruits de l’Unesco. Une ethnographie des
hyper-lieux du patrimoine mondial" in Gradhiva
DOCTORAL TRAINING
Attend to conferences and seminars at the LAMC (ULB).
Paper presented at the LAMC seminar the 13 November 2009: "Local, global et
globalisation".
Paper presented at the LAMC workshop with Nathalie Heinich at the Free University of
Brussels the 11 May 2011: "Après sa fabrique, qu'arrive-t-il au patrimoine? De
l'utilisation quotidienne d'un élément du Patrimoine Mondial à Fès (Maroc)".
Paper presented at the LAMC seminar the 16 April 2012: "Une investigation du
patrimoine culturel en médina de Fès : de l'attachement aux maisons à la circulation
d'un réfèrent circulant".
Organisation of a workshop the 11 février 2013: "Du réel à l’image : regards
transversaux sur la narration visuelle".
VOLUNTEERING:
July 2006: project of reforestation in Partago (Benin).
July 2007: summer work camp in Nîmes (France).
August 2010: management of a guest house in Fez during 15 days.
January – March 2011: management of a guest house in Fez