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MARC BERDET
2013- : Marie Curie Alumnus (Anthropological Philosophy and Political Philosophy), University of Potsdam
2008- : Member of the CIERA (German Studies)
2003- : Member of the CETCOPRA (Sociology and Anthropology), University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Accredited to teach by the French Centre National des Universités (CNU)
EDUCATION
2013-2014
BIG GERMAN LANGUAGE DIPLOMA (GDS) training
FREELANCE TRANSLATOR (German/English-French)
2010-2013
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING at the Faculty of Anthropological Philosophy and Political Philosophy in
t h e University of Potsdam (DAAD/Marie Curie IEF) and at the Potsdam Graduate School
(professional skill trainings: teaching skills, presentation skills, scientifc writing, writing project and
team management)
2003-2009
PHD IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, Laboratory: CETCOPRA (University of Paris 1 Sorbonne)
Title: Social Movement and Phantasmagorias in The Arcades Project. A Ragpicker’s HistoricalSociological Reasoning [Mouvement social et fantasmagories dans Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle. La
démarche historico-sociologique d’un chiffonnier] (Summa cum laude).
Members of the jury: Alain Gras (University Paris I Sorbonne), Philippe Ivernel (University Paris 8
Vincennes), Anne Kupiec (University Paris VII Denis Diderot), Michaël Löwy (CNRS), Jan Spurk
(University Paris V René Descartes).
2003-2006
Teacher training with the Centre d’Initiation à l’Enseignement du Supérieur (CIES)
2002-2003
D.E.A. (M. SC. ) IN PHILOSOPHY, WITH A MAJOR IN SOCIOLOGY in the University of Paris 1
Sorbonne (Summa cum laude)
MAÎTRISE (BA) IN SOCIOLOGY in the University of Paris 7 Denis-Diderot (Magna cum laude)
LICENCE (BA) IN SOCIOLOGY in the University of Montpellier 3 Paul Valéry (Cum laude)
2001-2002
2000-2001
TEACHING
2014
2013
2012
2010
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2006-2010
2009
2003-2006
Lectures
“Kino und kritische Theorie” (Thomas Ebke's seminar, Universität Potsdam)
“The Dialectical Image” (Christos Lynteris's seminar, University of Cambridge)
“Le Mall of America : une fantasmagorie” (Mauricio Lissovsky's seminar, Université Fédérale de Rio)
“Fourier, l’utopie et l’architecture” (Valérie Souffron's seminar, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
“Des Expositions universelles à la ville haussmannisée » (Anne Seitz's seminar, EHESS)
“L’actualité de Benjamin pour penser les espaces marchands” (Nathalie Raoux's seminar, EHESS)
“In the Mall of America” (Roni Mukherjee's seminar, University of New York in Paris)
“La fantasmagorie des centres commerciaux” (Benoît Heilbrunn's seminar, ESCP Paris)
“Walter Benjamin in the Mall of America” (William Meyrowitz's seminar,DePaul University, Chicago)
“Les ruines du progrès” (Alain Gras's seminar, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
“Topographies de la mémoire collective” (Sophie Poirot-Delpech's seminar, Université Paris 1)
“Fantasmagories et mouvement social” (Nathalie Raoux's seminar, EHESS)
Assistant Lecturer and Temporary Lecturer, University of Paris I Sorbonne
SOCIOLOGY, THEORIES AND METHODS IN THE 20TH CENTURY, L2
“Critical Theory & Social Philosophy” / “German and French Traditions”
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, L1
“The Problem of Reifcation” / “Explicative and Comprehensives Methods”
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR PHILOSOPHERS, L1
“Study of Methodological Texts”
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL SCIENCES, L1
“Sociology and Ethnology: Authors and Texts”
Temporary Lecturer, Schools of Fine Arts Epinal & Nantes and University of Paris 1 & 7
AESTHETIC, L3/M
“Lost Paradise, Paradise Found. Slapstick’s Aesthetic by Walter Benjamin (Keaton, Chaplin, Disney)”
/ “Walter Benjamin and Parisians Arcades” / “ ‘Ce n’est pas qu’on soit bon; on est content’. Laugh
and Sadism by young Disney.”
Teaching Assistant, University of Picardie Jules Verne & University of Paris 1 Sorbonne
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY, L1
“Towards a Critical Sociology of Power and Politics”
PHILOSOPHY, L1
“Study of Methodological Texts”
2014 CV Marc Berdet 1/5
FELLOWSHIPS
2010
2010
2005
2004
2003
Marie Curie Fellowship (24 months)
Research Grant DAAD (3 months)
Research Grant Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etude et de Recherche sur l’Allemagne (3 months)
Research Grant DAAD (1 month)
Grant Offce Franco-Allemand de la Jeunesse for a German Course in Munich (1 month)
Research Grant, French Ministry of Research (36 months)
LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER SKILLS
French
English, German, Italian
Spanish, Portuguese
Computer skills
Native
Good Level
Beginner
Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Wordpress (http://hypotheses.org), Lodel (http://revues.org)
ORGANISATION OF EVENTS WITH FUNDING
2012
2011
2010
French-German Summer School, University of Potsdam (funding DFH Saarbrücken 25 000 euros)
Workshop, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris (funding project MSH WB 1000 euros)
Conference and exhibition, University of Potsdam (funding Marie Curie IEF 2000 euros)
Conference University of Paris 1 Sorbonne (funding CETCOPRA 3000 euros)
REFEREE ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
Archives de Philosophie ; Socio-anthropologie ; Revue Française de Sociologie; Trajectoires. Travaux des jeunes
chercheurs du CIERA; Temporalités. Revue de Sciences Sociales et Humaines; Urbanisme. Villes – Sociétés – Cultures
Association Française de Sociologie ( AFS); Association Internationale de Sociologie ( AIS); Centre d’Etude des
Techniques, des Connaissances et des Pratiques ( CETCOPRA, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris); Centre Interdisciplinaire
d’Etudes et de Recherches sur l’Allemagne (CIERA, Paris); Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft (Princeton, USA)
RESEARCH AREAS
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Social and critical theories applied to space, architecture, design and habitation (utopian cities, World Exhibitions,
arcades, department stores, shopping malls, themed parks, postmodern architecture, home decoration…)
19th and 20th Century German sociology and philosophy (Karl Marx, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Walter
Benjamin, Karl Mannheim, Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Frankfurt School)
20th Century French sociology and philosophy (Maurice Halbwachs, Roger Caillois, the Collège de Sociologie,
Louis Althusser)
Postmarxisms and postmodernisms (anthropological materialism, aleatory materialism, post-althusserianisms)
RESEARCH
ORGANISATION
2012
2011
2010
Organisation with Dr. Thomas Ebke, of the French-German Summer School “Anthropological
Materialism and Materialism of the Encounter. Evaluation of our Present with the help of Walter
Benjamin and Louis Althusser”, July 16-20, University of Potsdam, Potsdam and Berlin
Organisation of the workshop on “Walter Benjamin et la technique”, Nov. 21-22, Maison des Sciences de
l’Homme, Paris
Organisation of the conference and exhibition “Phantasmagorisches Berlin. Vor und nach dem
Mauerfall”, 4 and 3-8 June, Kaleidoskop Art Gallery and University of Potsdam, Berlin and Potsdam
Organisation of the workshop “Anthropologischer Materialismus und die Politik des Geschichtlichen
Zitats”, May 28, University of Potsdam, Potsdam
Organisation of the conference “Walter Benjamin et le matérialisme anthropologique”, CETCOPRA,
March 6, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
Organisation of the session “Memory, Anthropological Materialism and Social Movements”, conference
“Remembering Walter Benjamin: Justice, History and Truth. Writings on Memory”, Oct. 28-30, Haroldo
Conti Cultural Center for Memory, Buenos Aires
Organisation of the session, “Social Movement and Anthropological Materialism: Future Perspectives”,
July 11-17, World Congress on Sociology, Göteborg
2014 CV Marc Berdet 2/5
RESEARCH STAYS
2010
2006
2005
2004
University of Potsdam (36 months)
University Federico II of Naples (4 m.) / Benjamin Archives in Berlin (2 m.)
Visiting scholar in the University of Alabama (1 m.) / Benjamin Archives & FU Berlin (4 m.)
German Summer School in the Goethe Institut of Munich (1 m.)
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Since 2014
2011
Since 2010
2010
2009
Since 2009
2008
2006
Editor of the Journal of Social Research Anthropology + Materialism: www.am.revues.org
Co-coordinator of the special issue “Confit et confictualités” for Trajectoires n° 5
Editor of the Notebook anthropologicalmaterialism.hypotheses.org
Co-coordinator of the special issue “Postkolonial” for Trajectoires n° 4
Co-coordinator of the special issue “Mondes en narration / Erzählte Weltern” for Trajectoires n° 3
Member of redaction committee of a review of social sciences, Trajectoires. Travaux de jeunes
chercheurs du CIERA (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur l’Allemagne):
http://trajectoires.revues.org
Proofreading of Antoine Berman, L’âge de la traduction. Un commentaire de La tâche du traducteur
de Walter Benjamin, Paris, Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2008
Proofreading of Domenico Jervolino’s French article: “Le long dialogue de Ricœur avec la
psychanalyse freudienne”, in Phenomenology 2010, vol. 3, Ion Copoeru (dir.), Paperback, 2011
Proofreading of Domenico Jervolino: Ricœur. Herméneutique et traduction, Paris, Ellipses, 2007
PRESENTATIONS
LECTURES
2014
2013
2012
2010
2009
2008
“Fantasmagories et mouvement social”, EHESS, June 27
“Utopie et architecture chez Charles Fourier”, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, March 21, Paris
“Fantasmagories modernes. Le Paris haussmannien”, EHESS, Feb. 18, Paris
“L’actualité de Walter Benjamin pour penser les espaces marchands”, EHESS, April 5, Paris
“In the Mall of America. Phantasmagoria of the Shopping Center”, University of NY in Paris, April 4
“La fantasmagorie des centres commerciaux”, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, 12 mars, Paris
“Walter Benjamin in the Mall of America”, October 9, De Paul University, Chicago
“Walter Benjamin au Mall of America” (with the artist Brian Bixby), French-German Summer School
“Anthropologischer & Aleatorischer Materialismus”, July 16-20, University of Potsdam, Potsdam / Berlin
“Walter Benjamin et le cinéma”, Januar 15, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
“Modernes topographies de la mémoire collective. Walter Benjamin versus Maurice Halbwachs”, May
31, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
“Les ruines du progrès industriel. Walter Benjamin, l’anthropologie et l’histoire”, March 8, Université
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
“1830-1848: la double clôture de l’utopie”, Jan. 22, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(EHESS), Paris
“Fantasmagories et mouvement social. Walter Benjamin, le chiffonnier de Paris”, Jan. 6, Centre de
Recherches Interdisciplinaires pour l’Allemagne (CRIA), Paris
“Paradis perdu, paradis retrouvé. L’esthétique du slapstick d’après Walter Benjamin (Keaton, Chaplin,
Disney)”, Dec. 14, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Epinal
“Les affnités électives de Max Weber à Walter Benjamin. De quelques ethos du capitalisme moderne”.
Dec. 11, Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur l’Allemagne (CIERA), Paris
“Walter Benjamin et les passages parisiens”, Oct. 22, Passage des panoramas, University of Paris VIII
Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Paris
“ ‘Ce n’est pas qu’on soit bon ; on est content’. Rire et sadisme chez le jeune Disney (1928-1929)”, March
31, Ecole des Beaux-arts, Nantes
2014 CV Marc Berdet 3/5
PAPERS
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
“Fantasmagories du capital”, 4th International Congress of the Nucleo Walter Benjamin “Fantasmagoria”,
Sept. 17-20, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
“Trapero contra fâneur. Construcciones y posiciones del Passagenarbeit de Walter Benjamin”,
conference “Pasajes del pensamiento Walter Benjamin”, Ap. 22-25, Universidad Autónoma de México
“Petite histoire de la photographie de Sebastiao Salgado”, conference “Penser l’émancipation”, Feb. 1922, University of Nanterre, Paris
“Les perspectives d’Haussmann ou la naissance de la ville capitaliste, policière et fantasmagorique”,
conference “Ville et architecture en perspective”, Dec. 19-20, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris
“Le concept de fantasmagorie d’Adorno à Benjamin”, conference on “Adorno et Benjamin : affnités
électives ou épreuve critique ?”, Nov. 7, University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris
“Walter Benjamin’s ‘Stupefying’ Materialism”, 36th Annual German Studies Association Conference,
Oct. 4-7, Milwaukee
“L’Ecole de Francfort critique le Collège de Sociologie. Un différend anthropologique”, conference on
“Le Collège de Sociologie”, Sept. 12-14, Institut Mémoire Editions Contemporaines / Université de
Caen, Caen
“Between Anthropological Materialism and Dialectical Materialism”, 5th International Critical Theory
Conference, May 7-9, Rom Center of Loyola University Chicago, Rom
“Anthropological Materialism or Aleatory Materialism?”, introduction to the French-German Summer
University “Anthropological Materialism and Materialism of the Encounter”, July 16-20, Potsdam/Berlin
“Against the Collège de Sociologie, and beyond. The ‘Negative Anthropological’ Dimension of the
Frankfurt School”, workshop “Transdisciplinary Texts. Dialectic of Enlightenment a n d Capitalism and
Schizophrenia”, AHRC project on “Transdisciplinarity in the Humanities: Concepts, Problems, Histories,
Methods”, March 22-23, French Institute, London.
“Les fantasmagories contemporaines à la lumière de Walter Benjamin”, conference on “Culture:
epistemological and critical challenges”, Nov. 24, University of Paris 7, Paris
“Les ornements de la technique postmoderne”, workshop on Walter Benjamin and technique, Nov. 21-22,
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris
“Wie hat sich die Phantasmagorie entwickelt? Anhand moderner und postmoderner Architektur in
Berlin”, conference on “Phantasmagorisches Berlin vor und nach der Mauerfall”, July 4, University of
Potsdam, Potsdam
“Remnants and Power in Modernity. Phantasmagoria between Anthropology and History”, conference
on “Anthropology of Violence”, June 10-12, University of St Andrews, St Andrews
“La Massenkultur chez Walter Benjamin et Theodor W. Adorno”, conference on “La culture (de masse) et
la constellation de l’Ecole de Francfort”, March 17, University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris
“Phantasmagorias of the Capital”, conference “Crisis and Critique”, 7th Historical Materialism Conference,
Nov. 11-14, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
“Phantasmagoria, Social Movement and Anthropological Materialism by Walter Benjamin”, III
International Seminar on the Politics of Memory, “Remembering Walter Benjamin: Justice, History and
Truth. Writings on Memory”, Oct. 28-30, Haroldo Conti Cultural Center for Memory, Buenos Aires
“Beyond Phantasmagoria. Profane Illumination through Urban Surfaces”, conference “Walter
Benjamin: Convergences of Aesthetics and Political Theology”, Oct. 25-27, Universidade del Chile,
Santiago du Chili
“La résolution fantasmagorique du confit. Penser le confit avec Walter Benjamin”, séminaire “Confit
et confictualités”, Sept. 7-11, CIERA, Moulin d’Andé, Normandie
“Some provisionary Theses on Phantasmagoria”, Workshop on Critical Theory, REH
(RaumErweiterungsHalle), Aug. 25-26, Selbstorganisierte Universität, Berlin
“The Sociologist as a Ragpicker”, Research Committee RC07 “Future Research”, Jul. 11-17, World
Congress on Sociology, Gothenburg
Moderator to Carlos Perez-Lopez, “Moyens purs, anarchisme et grève révolutionnaire dans la Critique de la
violence. Révision de la pensée politique de W. Benjamin”, June 1, Maison de l'Amérique Latine /
Université de Paris 8, Paris
“Siegfried Kracauers Phantasmagorie der Angestellten”, workshop “Anthropologischer Materialismus
und die Politik des Geschichtlichen Zitats”, May 28, Potsdam University, Potsdam
“Topographies légendaires et fantasmagoriques. Formes et politiques de la mémoire chez Maurice
Halbwachs et Walter Benjamin”, conference “Repenser Halbwachs : perspectives sur la mémoire sociale”,
org. Sté Fçaise d’Etudes Durkheimiennes, May 21, University of Chicago, Paris
“Entre matérialisme anthropologique et matérialisme dialectique”, presentation at the conference
“Walter Benjamin et le matérialisme anthropologique”, Jan. 11, University of Paris 1 Sorbonne, Paris
“ ‘In Europe there are positions to defend’. 1930s Walter Benjamin’s Jewish arks”, presentation at the
conference European (Ex)Changes, Dec. 18-19, University of Alessandria, Italy
“What is Anthropologial Materialism ?” and “The Ragpicker’s Anthropological Materialism”,
presentations at the conference At the Crossroads of Magic and Positivism: Walter Benjamin and
Anthropology, Sept. 1-3, Worcester College, Oxford
Marc Berdet CV 4/5
2008
2007
2006
2005
“La Barcelone de Gaudi, une utopie architecturale. Une introduction à la sociologie de l’utopie de
Walter Benjamin”, symposium of sociology and anthropology on Utopia in the Spanish-speaking worlds,
Feb. 28 – March 1, University of Lyon II, Lyon
“La relation base-superstructure chez Walter Benjamin”, Marx International Vth Congress, Oct. 3-6,
University of Paris XII-Nanterre, Paris
“La tâche de l’artiste en régime démocratique”, Sept. 3-13, European Summer University of the ARCHES
University Babes-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj (Roumania)
“Vers un pluralisme méthodologique ? L’épistémologie critique de l’identité de Walter Benjamin”,
XXXIt h e Congress of the Association des Sociétés de Philosophie de Langue Française, Aug. 29-Sept. 2,
University ELTE, Budapest
“Kitsch ou double ? Mickey, Filmed Dream of Hilarious Collective”, colloquium “’Eggs laids by tiger.’
Dada and beyond”, Jul. 5-8, University of Wales, Swansea
“Grandville by Benjamin: The Political Function of the Caricature in France” , Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth-Century Studies International Conference, Jul. 2-9, St Chad’s College, Durham
“Representations of History and History of Representations by Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project”,
congress of the Nineteenth Century French Studies, Oct. 27-30, University of Austin, Texas
“Rêve de ville et ville de rêve. Penser la ville avec Walter Benjamin”, Summer School of Social
Geography, Sept. 1-3, CNRS/University Paul Valéry, Montpellier
PUBLIC OUTREACH
Radio
France Culture (“L’imagination de la ville capitaliste moderne” in “Les nouveaux chemins
de la connaissance”, programme from Philippe Petit, the 12.04.2013)
France Inter (“Passages et rues-galeries” in “Quand on arrive en ville”, programme from
Manuelle Calmat, the 23.03.2013)
Aligre FM (“La ville marchandise” in “Homo Urbanicus”, programme from Eric Dotter, the
11.03.2013).
Bookshops
Presentation in bookshops for Fantasmagories du capital : Textures (Paris) the 10.04.2013,
La Friche (Paris) the 11.04.2013, Envie de lire (Ivry-sur-Seine) the 23.05.2014 (online).
Festival
Participation to the festival Esprits libres, at the Maison de l’architecture en Île-de-France
(Paris 10) organised by the bookshops from the Parisian East on the question of the City :
participation to a round table, “Les liaisons dangereuses de la ville et du capital” with Anne
Clerval, Stephen Graham and Didier Lapeyronnie and to a café des libraires, “Dans les pas de
Walter Benjamin” with Jean-Christophe Bailly, the 19.10.2013.
Popular University
Conference for the Citizen University of the Blanc-Mesnil (near Paris) on “The origin of
the modern capitalist city”, forum du Blanc-Mesnil the 05.09.2013
Marc Berdet CV 5/5