Research

I am pleased to invite you to the Quai Branly for a screening meeting around my work Tchamba as part of "Ethnology will surprise you" from April 9 to 10, 2022. The event is free.

"Photographing the invisible: Tchamba vodun" by Nicola Lo Calzo - Saturday, April 09, 2022 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Since 2013, the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac has honored young ethnologists, photographers and renowned researchers during a weekend devoted to ethnology. A booming science, based on fieldwork, historical, anthropological and archaeological archives, ethnology provides a better understanding of the complexity and variety of our societies and cultural forms.

At the invitation of the FOKAL foundation and within the framework of activities related to the Fund for Emerging Photography in Haiti (FPEH), I led an online methodological seminar on "critical photography" based on my photographic and doctoral research (CY Uni and ENSAPC). From December 13 to 17, 2021.

Seminar "Colonial Slavery in European Museum: Arts and representations".
Nicola Lo Calzo, (Université de Paris Cergy - ENSAPC) On the use of photography to address counter-narratives of slavery: the Cham project

I presented a text on the use of "give back" to produce a situated and decolonial photography, notably the experience of Obia exhibition produced in Saint Laurent du Maroni in 2016, by Les Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane and the CIAP

As part of the exhibition Ângela Ferreira, structures et gestes- Independence Cha Cha & #BucketsystemMustFall, the Ygrec-ENSAPC art center and the Théâtre de La Commune organize the seminar Survivances and ghosts of colonialism in contemporary societies - activism, research and artistic devices.

Nicola Lo Calzo - On the uses of photography to address the memories of slavery: The CHAM project, Bushinengue heritage and resistance bodies.

September 17-18, 2021
Théâtre de La Commune - Aubervilliers

APELA Congress, September 22-24, 2021
Queer activism and aesthetics in African literature

Nicola Lo Calzo (Université de Paris Cergy - ENSAPC) - Écritures photographiques, masculinité et corps queer en Afrique subsaharienne : l’oeuvre de Regis Samba Kounzi

L’engagement ethnographique – Observer, décrire et comprendre l’expérience humaine, a workshop organized by André Chapatte.
Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva
September 27-30, 2021.

André Chappatte, Responsable du projet
Aline Samaké, Assistante du projet
Bourahima Diomandé, Postdoctorant
Salomé Okoekpen, Doctorante
Bassirou Gaye, Doctorant
Katrin Langewiesche (Anthropologue; Mainz Universität, Allemagne)
Abdourahmane Seck (Anthropologue et historien ; Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Sénégal)
Alice Aterianus-Owenga (Socio-anthropologue ; Université de Lausanne, Suisse)
Peter Lambertz (Anthropologue ; Université de Louvain, Belgique)
Nicola Lo Calzo (Photographe, EUR Doctorant, CY-ENSAPC, Paris, France)
Christian Vium – (Socio-anthropologue, photographe & vidéaste ; Aarhus University, Denmark)

As part of the new issue of ACOMA, Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nordamericani, i wroted the text AYITI, Memorie e oblio della Rivoluzione haitiana: un approccio fotografico. Summer Issue n.18, 2020.

Ten years after the inauguration, at the Aquitaine Museum of the section "Bordeaux, Atlantic Trade and Slavery", this seventh edition of the Rencontres Atlantiques proposes to analyze the material traces of slavery and treaties in terms of semiophores. Nicola Lo Calzo is presenting "Cham. Mémoires de l’esclavage colonial : une enquête photographique, 2010-2020".


09-10 Mai, 2019
Musée d’Aquitaine - 20 Cours Pasteur. 33000 Bordeaux

I'm travelling to Sao Tomé island from 18th August in order to develop a new chapter of the Cham project.
The work will be done in collaboration with Alliance Française de São Tomé et Príncipe. I'll be available for assignments.

As part of the seminar "Slavery and post-slavery", organized by the CIRESC, Lo Calzo is invited to share a panel with the anthropologist Alessandra Brivio around our works on Tchamba vodun in Togo and Benin. Many thanks to Gaetano Ciarcia for inviting me.

March 9,  3 pm. EHESS, 105 Bd Raspail 75006, Paris

AIDES (French community-based non-profit organisatio fighting HIV/AIDS invited Nicola Lo Calzo to speak on his work as part the first Caribbean colloquium around lgbti rights and struggle against homophobia in the Caribbean: ReLOVution.

Seminar Caribbean ReLOVution
Friday 5th, Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th aPRIL 2019.
Langley Resort Fort Royal - Dehaies - Guadeloupe.

Harvard University invited Nicola Lo Calzo to present the work Regla (Cuba) during the international conference Black Portraitures IV: The Color of Silence. Many thanks to Alejandro de la Fuente.

Afro-Cuban Heritage: emancipatory practices and cultural action by Nicola Lo Calzo,  Ivor Miller and Paulette Young,
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street March 24, 2018 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm, Harvard University, Cambridge, US.

The University Paris-Est Créteil with the association "Thinking the World" organize a talk with a projection around the CHAM project , Tuesday, December 4 at 18:00 at the Amphitheater numero 1 of the campus.

UNESCO: Coalition of Artists for the General History of Africa. An international coalition involving artists in the promotion of the General History of Africa was launched at UNESCO on 7 October. The coalition will help young people use the unique instrument that the History represents in recounting the continent’s past from an African perspective.

Slavery’s legacies, black struggles & white suprematism, Panel guided by Jean-Philippe Dedieu.

With Nicola Lo Calzo, Audrey Célestine & Chrystal M. Fleming.

Monday 16th January 7pm, Columbia Global Centers - Paris.
Reid Hall, 4 rue de Chevreuse , 75006 Paris.

International colloquium of the Memorial of the Abolition of Slavery: an Architecture of Memory
June 7/8 2013 - Auditorium of the national school of architecture of Nantes
Scientific direction : Françoise Vergès