Dual exhibition in Geneva: "Living the Squat, Countdown of an Expulsion"
Dual exhibition in Geneva: "Living the Squat, Countdown of an Expulsion"
Dual exhibition in Geneva: "Living the Squat, Countdown of an Expulsion"
Dual exhibition in Geneva: "Living the Squat, Countdown of an Expulsion"
Dual exhibition in Geneva: "Living the Squat, Countdown of an Expulsion"
Dual exhibition in Geneva: "Living the Squat, Countdown of an Expulsion"
Dual exhibition in Geneva: "Living the Squat, Countdown of an Expulsion"
25.05.2012

Dual exhibition in Geneva: "Living the Squat, Countdown of an Expulsion"

Researchers at the NCCR LIVES have documented the living of Rroms, Latinos, Spanish and Senegalese squatters expelled from Prés-de-Vidy end of March 2012 by the City of Lausanne. To see from June 15 to 29, 2012 at Uni Mail.

"Leaving the slum, it is probably escape
an unbearable misery;
is it not also abandon a world,
which one may emphasize - sometimes with regret -
certain values, after having lost them?"

Abdelmalek Sayad

Neighborhood of Vidy, Lausanne. Cosy offices that host insurance companies and research laboratories, outposts of a rich country.
Neighborhood of Vidy, Lausanne. Former gardens damaged by time and forgetfulness: here migrants have found refuge and are seeking fortune.
An insignificant little road separates these two worlds, strange neighborhood as close as ever, still remote.
At the height of winter, the vulnerability of some cannot be ignored by others. In the cold and the snow, in deprivation, the beautiful days are long awaited. The day of the eviction approach.

Researchers at the NCCR LIVES "Overcoming vulnerability: Life course perspectives" wanted to trace the social history of this urban squat. For several months, they joined the circle of friendship, family and couple relationships, to understand the reasons for being here and not be there anymore.
The exhibition is twofold. First, it reveals the social and material life of the squat at the approach of a critical event: its evacuation and demolition. It then shows the construction of an ethnographic survey, the conceptual and methodological toolbox that allow the study and understanding of life course: temporality of events, cumulative disadvantages, agency of resources, etc.
The exhibition is also double in the sense that two looks are complementary: the careful observation of a researcher meets the artistic vision of the other. Details and impressions that capture a same reality: exclusion.

From June 15 to 29, 2012
Central hall of Uni Mail, Bd du Pont d'Arve 40

Coordination of scientific work Nasser Tafferant
Exhibition design Nasser Tafferant, Emmanuelle Marendaz Colle, Raùl Burgos Paredes, Laura Bernardi, Hugues Siegenthaler
Photographs and texts Nasser Tafferant, Raùl Burgos Paredes
Scientific counselling Laura Bernardi
Photo counselling Hugues Siegenthaler
Graphics Fabrice Ducrest
Communication Emmanuelle.MarendazColle@unil.ch

23.05.2012

Measuring Vulnerability: Workshop on the Methodological Challenge

The first international workshop entirely organized by the NCCR LIVES will be held on 18 and 19 June 2012 at the University of Lausanne. It aims to forge a dialogue between specialists of different methodologies in order to seek synergies in the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.

One of the objectives of the National Center for Competence in Research LIVES - Overcoming vulnerability, life course perspective (NCCR LIVES) is to develop new methods in social sciences to survey populations in a longitudinal way and assess the vulnerability on a multidimensional basis.

The symposium will bring together specialists of the NCCR LIVES and invited speakers from UK and Germany, on the following topics:

  1. Surveying national minorities
  2. Surveying young people
  3. At adult age, documenting the complex interactions between work and family life
  4. The peculiar challenges of surveying the elderly and long life courses

It will be held on 18 and 19 June 2012 at Internef Building, University of Lausanne, room 143, from 9:00 to 17:30. See the full program below.

6 LIVES members express themselves on poverty
03.05.2012

6 LIVES members express themselves on poverty

The proceedings of the conference "Perspectives on poverty", which was held in Lausanne in fall 2010, have just been published (in French) and were presented at the Geneva 2012 Book Fair.

Under the direction of Professors Jean-Pierre Tabin, involved in the NCCR LIVES IP5, and François-Xavier Merrien, "Perspectives on Poverty" brings together contributions from scientists, heads of administration and politicians.

The symposium was organized by the Department of Health and Social Welfare of the Canton of Vaud, the University of Lausanne, the School of Social Work and Health - EESP and the IDHEAP (Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration).

Among the authors, we find Giuliano Bonoli, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Dominique Joye, Dario Spini and Robin Tillmann, who have in the meantime become members of the

National Center of Competence in Research LIVES, "Overcoming Vulnerability, Life Course Perspective".

More info on the State of Vaud's website