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Prof. Dr. Monika Salzbrunn

Full Professor for Religions, Migration and Arts at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

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Tag: Urban Spaces

Posted on 28 August 2026

Opening Keynote speech at AIBR Congress Burgos/Spain

Monika Salzbrunn was invited to give the Opening Keynote Speech on “Resisting though artivism. Researching and filming the performance of multiple belonging”. during the Antropólogos Iberoamericanos En Red (AIBR) Congress, Universidad de Burgos/E, 9.26 https://2026.aibr.org/inaugural/

Posted on 28 August 2026

Invitation to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phoenix, on behalf of the ERC

On behalf of the European Research Council, Monika Salzbrunn was invited to present her resarch on “Art and Activism: Creativity and Performance in Super-Diverse cities”, in the panel “Tales of the City: Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Spaces” featuring the research of three ERC grantees at the 2026 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference, 12-14 February 2026 in Phoenix (US).

Posted on 23 September 201423 August 2016

Introduction

Monika Salzbrunn holds a full professorship in “Religions, Migration, Diasporas” at Lausanne University. She is currently director of the Research Institute for Social Sciences of Contemporary Religions (ISSRC) and leader of the projects “(In)visible islam in the city: material and immaterial expressions of muslim practices within urban spaces in Switzerland” and “Undocumented Mobility (Tunisia-Switzerland) and Digital-Cultural Ressources after the ‘Arab Spring'”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Continue reading “Introduction”

Fields of specialization

- Transnational Social Spaces
- Sufi Brotherhoods (Tijâniyya, Murids)
- Festive Events, Carnival
- Urban Spaces
- West Africa (Senegal), North Africa (Tunisia), United States, Europe, Japan
- Art, Music, Theatre and Visual Anthropology

Social Sciences of Contemporary Religions
Anthropole 5067
CH-1015 Lausanne
monika.salzbrunn@unil.ch

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