Annual Reports

Members 2024 :

Kylian Henchoz-Manitha (Unil - Sion), Baptiste Aubert (Unine), Björn Reichhardt (Unifr), Jean Bacchetta (Unine), Sara Wiederkehr (Unil), Miriam Saada Elabed (Völkerkunde Museum Uzh), Michèle Dick (Zürich), Grégoire Mayor (MEN, Unine), Francis Mobio (Unil), Dr. Pierrine Saini (Genève), Dr. Michaela Schäuble (Unibe), Dr. Clotilde Wüthrich (Lausanne), Andrea Bordoli (Unibe), Dr. Darcy Alexandra (Unibe), Dr. Cornelia Hummel (Unige), Amélie Ward (University McGill), Adrien Canto (Unine)

New members

• Amélie Ward (University McGill)
• Adrien Canto (Unine)

Demission

After several years of commitment to the CAV, including as president, Laura Coppens has decided to leave the SAA and is therefore no longer a member of the CAV. We thank her for her work.

President

Kylian Henchoz-Manitha is president of the commission since autumn 2023.

Description

The Commission is made up of representatives from the institutes of ethnology and anthropology that are collective members of the SAA, as well as specialists in the field of visual anthropology. The Commission’s objectives are :

• Archiving and expanding the audiovisual collection of the SAA. This collection comprises more than 500 titles. The list can be consulted on the Swisscovery catalogue. They are at the disposal of university institutes and collective members of the SAA.
• Promoting the use of audiovisual methods in the social sciences through projects in visual anthropology, the organization of an 'audiovisual' panel at the annual colloquium of the SAA, and a regular workshop for students at Swiss universities.
• Theoretical research into audiovisual methods. The Commission seeks to strengthen regular exchanges between researchers at Swiss and foreign universities who conduct research and teaching using audiovisual methods.

Events 2024

• The usual film research activities. 17 films have been bought until today and other are in negotiation and will still be acquired this year.
• Organization of a panel for the SAA annual meeting.
  - Title: “Perspectives for audiovisual in academic research, knowledge sharing and teaching? “
  - Convenor : Kylian Henchoz-Manitha
  - Panelists: Laine Chanteloup, Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Baptiste Aubert
• Co-organization of a symposium for the 10th anniversary of the Ethnographic Mediaspace in Bern
• Camera obscura: Faced with the dematerialization of media and the arrival of digital files, the members of the CAV are creating an online platform in collaboration with Nanoo TV to offer our institutions access to films for research, teaching or free university screenings.
  - Initial meetings with various web design professionals.
  - Meetings to conceptualize the platform with some of the committee members since November 2023.
  - Creation of a trial version of the site in spring 2024
  - Two discussions with Beat Immenhauser from the General Secretary of the SAGW to strengthen the project and discuss of its financing.
  - Collaboration with Nanoo TV for a more sustainable project.

Pour la CAV :
Kylian Henchoz-Manitha
Sion, le 01.05.2025