Political Imagination Laboratories

Our Political Imagination Laboratories aim to explore and interrogate the shifting political imagination of contemporary social movements. Inspired by both visual and ethnographic fieldwork about activism, each Political Imagination Laboratory brings together anthropologists, filmmakers and activists in a small, collegial gathering to a mix of film screenings, roundtable discussions and work-in-progress expositions. 

All past Political Imagination Laboratories took place at University of Perugia, Italy, and have been organised by the team of the ‘Peasant Activism Project,’ in cooperation with the network ‘Anthropology and Social Movements’ of the European Association of Social Movements (EASA) and ‘Controsguardi – International Festival of Anthropological Cinema.’

Past Events and Background

Please see our homepage for the programs of past events:

https://www.peasantproject.org/political-imagination-lab

Who is Who

Organizing Committee

Christine Hämmerling, University of Göttingen

Alexander Koensler, University of Perugia (coordinator)

Marion Näser-Lather, University of Innsbruck

Advisory Board of the Laboratory

• Stefano Boni, University of Reggio Emilia, Modena
• Konstantina Bousmpoura, Ethnofest - Athens
• Piotr Goldstein, German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) and the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin
• Cahal McLaughlin, Queen’s University Belfast
• Paula Serafini, Queen Mary University of London
• Sarah Ruth Sippel, University of Münster
• Timothy D Weldon, University of Münster
• Siobhán Wills, Ulster University
• Filippo Zerilli, University of Cagliari