Objects of an Encounter – Balkan Materialities at the Mucem

Workshop cycle

Mucem – Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
March 2026 – ongoing
Co-creator, organiser

Co-leader with Oriane Girard (Aix-Marseille Université, École française d’Athènes) and Juliette Ronsin (EHESS, Mucem) of a workshop cycle developed with the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris) and Mucem (Marseille), involving researchers from Istanbul and Crete, curators and artists. The project focuses on Balkan material cultures, museum collections, object-based research, and collective methodologies for studying objects and their (institutional) histories.

Programme of the first session