{"id":870,"date":"2016-01-19T22:13:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.sgs-sss.ch\/new\/en\/research-networks\/kunst-und-kultursoziologie\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:01:28","slug":"sociology-of-arts-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sgs-sss.ch\/en\/research-networks\/sociology-of-arts-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology of arts and culture (RC-SAC \/ Foko-KUKUSO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1ik506-e4f90faac2514aaf1d73631bba62327c\">\n.avia-section.av-1ik506-e4f90faac2514aaf1d73631bba62327c{\nbackground-color:#ffffff;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-1ik506-e4f90faac2514aaf1d73631bba62327c main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-870'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1emhgu-0d7d4170dfaf0f5d21292842d1af1c23\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-1emhgu-0d7d4170dfaf0f5d21292842d1af1c23{\npadding-bottom:25px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-1emhgu-0d7d4170dfaf0f5d21292842d1af1c23 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-1emhgu-0d7d4170dfaf0f5d21292842d1af1c23 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-1emhgu-0d7d4170dfaf0f5d21292842d1af1c23 av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >SOCIOLOGY OF ARTS AND CULTURE (RC-SAC \/ Foko-KUKUSO)<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column_table av-4kevq-ffaee250597970089f615da96c89c966 sc-av_one_full av-equal-height-column-flextable'>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4kevq-ffaee250597970089f615da96c89c966\">\n.flex_column.av-4kevq-ffaee250597970089f615da96c89c966{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:20px 20px 20px 20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-4kevq-ffaee250597970089f615da96c89c966 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  avia-builder-el-last  first no_margin flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-top  '     ><div  class='togglecontainer av-m0v6kx6e-525fee8668269091f279b03584f6ccc2  avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling ' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-148a0m-6535d4c6d42abffb3c852e0a8c02849e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-1' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-1' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Goals\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Goals\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Goals\">Goals<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-1' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-1' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The Research committee Sociology of Arts and Culture (RC-SAC) or CR-SAC Comit\u00e9 de recherche Sociologie des arts et de la culture in French &#8211; better known as \u201cFoko-KUKUSO\u201d (Forschungskomitee Kunst- und Kultursoziologie in German) &#8211; was created in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Foko-KUKUSO aims to build a national and international network of sociologists who work on objects such as cultural practices, artistic work, cultural industries and cultural policies.<\/p>\n<p>The field of sociology of art and culture has internationally grown considerably in the last decades with the creation of research committees within the ISA , the ESA and the AISLF , as well as the renewed dynamism of the relevant sections within national sociology associations in Germany (<a href=\"https:\/\/soziologie.de\/sektionen\/arbeitskreise-und-arbeitsgruppen\/ak-soziologie-der-kuenste\/portrait\">Arbeitskreis Soziologie der K\u00fcnste<\/a>) and Austria. In Switzerland, the Foko-KUKUSO offers to all those working in this field \u2013 and in particular to our PhD candidates \u2013 the possibility to confront their results and to deepen theoretical and methodological questions that are specific to the sociology of art and culture.<\/p>\n<p>It is always time to strengthen the dialogue as well as to enable scientific communication in this field at a national level and beyond. By its situation at the heart of Europe and its multiple languages and scientific traditions, Switzerland can become an interesting interface between the various schools of thought in the field.<\/p>\n<p>The Foko-KUKUSO counts now 50 members in Switzerland as well as in France, Germany, Austria and Great-Britain.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-yrcie-4b3236490c129201183299f90ebfd00f'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-2' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-2' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-2' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Contact\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Contact\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Contact\">Contact<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-2' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-2' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>If you work in the field of the sociology of arts and culture and wish to <strong>become a member <\/strong>of the Foko-KUKUSO or want to be inform on our activities, or for all other questions, please contact<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Olivier MOESCHLER <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President<br \/>\nLACCUS Laboratory Capitalism, Culture and Societies<br \/>\nUniversity of Lausanne<br \/>\nBatiment G\u00e9opolis, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland<br \/>\n<span class=\"baec5a81-e4d6-4674-97f3-e9220f0136c1\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">+41 79 566 70 27<a style=\"margin: 0px; border: currentColor; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: middle; float: none; display: inline; white-space: nowrap; position: static !important;\" title=\"Appeler : +41 79 566 70 27\" href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: currentColor; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: middle; float: none; display: inline; white-space: nowrap; position: static !important;\" title=\"Appeler : +41 79 566 70 27\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8\/9hAAABcklEQVR4XpXTPUvDUBTH4aR2c2hBQXGpTiIORhBcBOvgYKf0Awi+4Ggr1MVPIIrYdnEpShddHIyLi6AVXVxsRRDRwbi4KNgu4lCIv8i\/i6QRDzycy+09555LqOl5nhEUptPoJe1iDHU8oYlrlDw79m4QEbSLPexzsIc8hDRm8YBjLpj4q8EgxQdab+MNd4ghhQ2adIc1+ORAFEnWWfTDRp7GDfImlsIavKALLuqoqMGUCs4wHtagiQ5uc8kDyCOBKlP1k78QNTOZnMXCQRxWsbjl6iuskV41SQG2Gj9rikvcR1WcgKFDBa1LOEUK56hqv8BUFV3SGWkVS9JQ6Dsv4wQ1DKMPORUvkm78BhdQMI1CTa5I0yrcwSFqFD+SZ7DQesIkCG5S\/JpkHYERQRmuNsrZ7Grc+Ef8\/Bcoslkfae8Wc7CUHZ++TuAEBj86pHntjaDKXllPy6PW\/gkKFaThwp\/K87N8hDcQTTKKFTioSxqB8Q2BNX5JtAljwgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:culture@sgs-sss.ch\">culture@sgs-sss.ch<\/a> <\/strong>or <strong><a href=\"olivier.moeschler@unil.ch\">olivier.moeschler@unil.ch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Olivier MOESCHLER is bilingual French-German and communicates in English.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-m0v6kp1b-d04224be5f601f34e1d68a1009b33a6e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-3' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-3' class='toggler  activeTitle av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-3' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"News\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: News\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: News\">News<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-3' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-3' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  active_tc av-title-above' style='display:block;' ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong><em>A<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>ctivities<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year the Foko-KUKUSO is involved in two conferences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is linked to the organization, by Lo\u00efc Riom of the committee and Elodie Fischer (UNIL), of the international STS-conference \u201c<strong>Les infrastructures des lieux culturels. Mat\u00e9rialit\u00e9s, savoirs et techniques<\/strong>\u201d which will take place on June 4, 2026 in Lausanne;<\/li>\n<li>The committee has also submitted a proposal to organize sessions at this year\u2019s SSA-Congress at University of Fribourg and the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Fribourg on <em>Communities and Societies in Movement<\/em> on the theme \u201c<strong>Artistic Communities and Societies in Movement: Organization, Belonging, and Attachment<\/strong>\u201d (September 2-4, 2026 in Fribourg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-r06cu-55bfc957cf03e2f100ee42b1a9995dfe'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-4' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-4' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-4' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Activities\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Activities\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Activities\">Activities<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-4' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-4' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <\/strong>The RC-SAC Research Committee Sociology of Arts and Culture (RC-SAC) \u2013 better known as Foko-KUKUSO in its German acronym \u2013 organized an international conference entitled <strong>\u201cIn the Middle of the Edge. Questioning the centre-periphery dichotomy in the arts and culture\u201d<\/strong> <strong>in Locarno and Avegno (Ticino, Switzerland) on November 20-21, 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This event was the result of a fruitful collaboration with the Accademia Dimitri and the Department of Education and Learning \/ University of Teacher Education (DFA\/ASP) of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). The scientific committee was composed of Carole Christe (HEMU), Olivier Moeschler (UNIL, president), Nun\u00e9 Nikoghosyan (UNIGE), Lo\u00efc Riom (UNIL) from the RC-SAC, Stefano Losa (ALPI\/DFA\/SUPSI) together with Veronica Provenzale and Demis Quadri (Accademia Dimitri SUPSI) on the Ticinese side. We would like to warmly thank the three colleagues for the excellent collaboration and local organisation of the event, as well as the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (ASSH) which supported the conference by a grant.<\/p>\n<p>The program was composed of 4 panels gathering 12 presentations authored by a total of 21 scholars from 6 countries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Panel 1<\/strong> \u201cThe art fields between centre and periphery\u201d (Chair: Nun\u00e9 Nikoghosyan, UNIGE) with presentations by Anouk B\u00e9langer with Martin Lussier (Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al); Tatiana Daligault (Universit\u00e9 de Limoges et Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain); Clara L\u00e9vy (Universit\u00e9 Paris 8); Clementina Casula (University of Cagliari);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Panel 2<\/strong> \u201cThe centre-periphery dichotomy of geographic and artistic fields\u201d (Chair: Stefano Losa, ALPI\/DFA\/SUPSI) with papers by Alain Quemin (GEMASS &#8211; Sorbonne Universit\u00e9 \/ Institut Universitaire de France); Ulysse Teruel (Nantes Universit\u00e9);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Panel 3<\/strong> \u201cBeing an artist in the centre-periphery\u201d (chair: Demis Quadri, Accademia Dimitri SUPSI) with talks by Veronica Provenzale (Accademia Dimitri); Marianna Lucarini (Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne-Nouvelle); Claire Tomasella (Aix-Marseille Universit\u00e9); Charlotte H\u00fcser &amp; Lilli Kim Schreiber (Zeppelin University);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Panel 4 \u201c<\/strong>The centre-periphery dichotomy of geographic and artistic fields\u201d (chair: Olivier Moeschler, UNIL) with presentations by Pierre Genard with Maxime Guebey, Mathilde Regnaud (CNRS, THALIM), Luc Robene (University of Bordeaux, THALIM), Manuel Roux (CNRS, THALIM) &amp; Solveig Serre (CNRS, CESR); Rachel Mader, Chantal Magnin (Hochschule Luzern) &amp; Pascal Steinemann (Hochschule Luzern\/Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the scientific part, the event was closed on Friday afternoon by a very stimulating presentation offered by the students from the MA of Art in Theatre of the Accademia Teatro Dimitri entitled \u201cPhysicality of an actor, Physicality of a puppet\u201d and by a very enlightening debate of the participating sociologists with the artists of Ticino is Burning, a collective engaged in the recognition of the performance artists in Ticino.<\/p>\n<p>The international conference was a full success on the scientific as well as the human level and we plan to publish the papers focusing on specific geographical terrain in a thematic issue of a sociological journal.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of this conference, the RC-SAC welcomed several new interested scholars and it now counts almost 60 members. At the end of the year, its scientific committee had to see its freshly elected member Carole Christe (HEMU) leave it, having joined after the SSA-Congress in Muttenz\/Basel in 2024. We warmly thank Carole for the collaboration in the committee\u2019s projects during the last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 SSA Congress in Muttenz, Basel (September 9-11, 2024): <\/strong>The RC-SAC Research Committee Sociology of Arts and Culture \u2013 better known as Foko-KUKUSO \u2013 organized several workshop sessions \u00a0\u201cVulnerable Societies: Risks and Responses\u201d. On the basis of a call for papers issued at the end of 2023 entitled \u201cVulnerability in Arts and Culture: Risks and Responses\u201d, 3 panels were organized.<\/p>\n<p>A proposal for a plenary session on \u201cHow Vulnerable is the Sociology of Arts and Culture?\u201d with envisaged guest speakers from Germany, France and Switzerland had been declined by the congress organizers, a refusal that can be interpreted precisely as a confirmation of the point the plenary wanted to address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 12 panel papers brought together sociologists as well as other scholars working on objects relevant in the perspective of the sociology of arts and culture, including some presentations by researchers with an artistic activity. Presenters came from France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>\u201cVulnerability in Arts and Culture: Risks and Responses\u201d (SSA-Congress 2024)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Panel 1<\/u> chair: Olivier Moeschler (University of Lausanne)<br \/>\nPresentations by Robin Casse (University of Grenoble) and Carole Christe (University of Lausanne), H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Widmann and Marc Perrenoud (University of Lausanne), Danuscia Tschudi, Veronica Provenzale and Demis Quadri (SUPSI), Lo\u00efc Riom (University of Lausanne)<\/li>\n<li><u>Panel 2<\/u> chair: Nun\u00e9 Nikoghosyan (University of Geneva)<br \/>\nPresentations by Alice Neusiedler (Copenhagen Business School), Olivier Th\u00e9venin (Sorbonne nouvelle \u2013 Paris 3), Heiwon Won (Lyon 3 University), Nataliya Tchermalykh (University of Geneva)<\/li>\n<li><u>Panel 3<\/u> chair: Guy Schwegler (University of Lucerne)<br \/>\nPresentations by Dagmar Danko (Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Freiburg), Athanasia Kontou (mdw Universit\u00e4t f\u00fcr Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), Tristan Stohellou (University of Rennes 2), Olivier Moeschler (University of Lausanne).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These panels were supported by the SAHS, whom we thank for the contribution.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A joint supper on September 9 in Basel with all the present orators allowed for the mostly young researchers to meet and network, which is one of the aims of the RC-SAC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>15 years &#8220;Apero (fairly) riche&#8221; and General assembly<\/strong>: The congress was also the occasion to celebrate the 15 years of our research committee, which was founded in 2009 in Geneva, with an \u201capero (fairly) riche\u201d at the end of our 2024 general assembly. At this occasion, the committee of the committee was reconducted, without Guy Schwegler who is now working on other objects. The committee warmly thanks Guy for his outstanding engagement in the Foko-KUKUSO activities in the past years, which culminated in the international Foko-KUKUSO colloquium organized at University of Lucerne in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 \u201cParticipation culturelle num\u00e9rique\u00a0? Promesses et innovations \u00e0 l&#8217;aube du Web 3.0\u201d (Mus\u00e9e de la main, Lausanne, June 2, 2023): <\/strong>Our research committee was involved in the organisation of a conference on digital cultural participation. This one-day conference aimed at questioning the promises of Web 3.0 and the various artefacts that accompany it (metaverses, augmented reality, blockchains), which lead to rethink the complex links between digital technologies and cultural participation in regards to both audiences and production.<\/p>\n<p>It was organised by committee member Lo\u00efc Riom in collaboration with Olivier Glassey and Olivier Moeschler (University of Lausanne) and supported by the SAGW-ASSH in the context of its series of events around cultural participation, as well as theUniversity of Lausanne, the Mus\u00e9e de la main UNIL-CHUV and STS-CH \u2013 Swiss Association for the Studies ofScience, Technology and Society:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After an introduction by Lo\u00efc Riom (University of Lausanne), the speakers of the morning sessions wereLaurence Allard (Sorbonne Nouvelle-IRCAV and University of Lille) and Jean-Paul Fourmentraux (EHESS \/ Aix-Marseille), followed by a discussion with Maria Sokhn (ARC HES-SO), Alice Aterianus-Owanga (University of Neuch\u00e2tel), Phillipe Sormani (University of Lausanne), Olivier Moeschler (University of Lausanne) moderated by Nathalie Dietschy (University of Lausanne).<\/li>\n<li>In the afternoon, the speakers were Sidonie Naulin (Sciences Po Grenoble) and Jean-Samuel Beuscart(Telecom Paris), followed by a final discussion with Sidonie Naulin (Sciences Po Grenoble), Marc Perrenoud(University of Lausanne), Guillaume Helleu (HEAD HES-SO) and Claire Balleys (University of Geneva), moderated by Samuel Coavoux (ENSAE Paris).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>\u2022 N<b>ational consultation on the Culture Message<\/b> for the years 2025-2028: <\/strong>In the wake of this consultation\u00a0set up by the Federal Office of Culture (FOC), the committee wrote a position paper. Since the federal law on cultural promotion came into force in 2012, the federal authorities have been issuing a &#8220;message&#8221; outlining their cultural policy priorities and the planned measures and budget for the 4-5 coming years. Interested parties and groups are invited to express their views as part of a national consultation on the draft.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In its position paper<\/span><\/span>, the Foko-KUKUSO (Lo\u00efc Riom and Olivier Moeschler, University of Lausanne) notes, in a nutshell, that the Message 2025-2028, while continuing the themes championed since the first Message in 2012, marks a change. See the complete <a href=\"https:\/\/serval.unil.ch\/fr\/notice\/serval:BIB_C60AE71B9EB3\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">position paper on the Culture Message 2025-2028<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on Serval (UNIL).<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 \u201c<\/strong><strong>Reinvent<\/strong> <strong>Yourself<\/strong><strong>!\u201d <\/strong>(University of Lucerne, November 4-5, 2022). In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, thisinternational conference aimed at questioning, as its subtitle suggests, \u201calignment and resistance in the arts andculture amidst societal claims for change\u201d. The two-day program included keynotes by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emilia BARNA (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)<\/li>\n<li>Marc PERRENOUD (University of Lausanne, <em>online<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Nina Tessa ZAHNER (Kunstakademie Du\u0308sseldorf \u2013 State Academy of the Arts)<\/li>\n<li>Franz SCHULTHEIS (Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, <em>cancelled<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, the conference included the following 4 panels:<\/p>\n<p>Panel 1 \u2013 \u201cCovid-Crises-Reaction\u201d with contributions by Sarah MONTERO (University Bordeaux Montaigne) and Aur\u00e9lie CH\u00caNE (University Lyon-Saint Etienne) and by Massimo ZICARI, Chiara BERNARDI, Marta PUCCIARELLI, Veronica PROVENZALE and Cinzia CRUDER of SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland), moderated by Olivier MOESCHLER (UNIL)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panel 2 \u2013 \u201cThe multiple reinventions of cultural policies of support for contemporary music\u201d with papers presented by Lo\u00efc RIOM (University of Lausanne), by Michael SPANU (CISAN \u2013 Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, online) and by Robin CHARBONNIER (Centre de Recherche en Gestion de l\u2019Ecole Polytechnique, online), moderated by Mathias ROTA (HE-ARC)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panel 3 \u2013 \u201cdocumenta: Reinvention by Default\u201d with contributions by Paul BUCKERMANN (Heidelberg University), by Sophia PRINZ (Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK) and by Aleksandra BARJAKTAREVI\u0106 (Heidelberg University), moderated by Guy SCHWEGLER (UNILU)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panel 4 \u2013 \u201cScientification of culture\u201c with papers presented by Guy SCHWEGLER (University of Lucerne), by Ju\u0308rg HUBER (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) and by Rachel MADER (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) and Pablo M\u00dcLLER (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts), moderated by Lo\u00efc Riom (UNIL)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference was organised by Olivier MOESCHLER (UNIL), Nun\u00e9 NIKOGHSYAN (UNIGE), Lo\u00efc RIOM (UNIL) and Guy SCHWEGLER (UNILU) and was supported by the SAGW-ASSH and the University of Lucerne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u2022 \u201c<\/strong><strong>Musiques<\/strong> <strong>sauvages<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong> (Museum of Ethnography Neuch\u00e2tel, June 9, 2022). The Foko-KUKUSO was associated tothe international conference on ethnomusicology organised by Lo\u00efc RIOM (UNIL) with Alice ATERIANUS-OWANGA(University of Cape Town), C\u00e9cile NAVARRO (UNINE-HESSO), Miriam ODONI (UNINE-HESSO), Robin CASSE(UNIL), Emmanuel PARENT (Rennes 2\/IASPM-bfe), Marc PERRENOUD (UNIL) and Marion SCHULZE (UNIBAS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u2022 W<\/strong><strong>orkshop on \u201cArtistic Creation\u201d (Nantes, 18 June 2021 \u2013 online)<\/strong>. Planned for January 2021, this <em>journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tudes<\/em> organised by Thibaut Menoux, Val\u00e9rie Rolle (Centre nantais de sociologie CENS, UMR 6025, University of Nantes) and Olivier Moeschler (UNIL) was finally held in June in an online format. The workshop\u2019s focus was the act of creation, an aspect relatively rarely examined from a sociological perspective. Through recent or ongoing work in France and Switzerland, several topics were discussed during this study day, such as the socialisation to the production of artistic works, their conditions of production, as well as the mechanisms relating to their consecration in the social space. Entitled \u201cCr\u00e9er. Perspectives crois\u00e9es sur la creation dans les arts plastiques et les arts de la sc\u00e8ne\u201d, the workshop confronted socio-historical perspectives on several aspects of creation in the visual and performing arts:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Artistic formation<\/em>: Carole Christe, sociology (UNIL); D\u00e9borah Laks, art history (University of Bourgogne), discussion: Olivier Moeschler (UNIL)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Work production<\/em>: Rita Freda, theatre studies (UNIL); Mathilde Legeay, art history (University of Nantes) (discussion: Bernard Lehmann, University of Nantes)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Collective creation<\/em>: Robin Casse, sociology (UNIL); Thibaut Menoux, sociology (University of Nantes) (discussion: Bernard Lehmann, University of Nantes)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Artistic consecration<\/em>: Pierre-Emmanuel Sorignet and Marc Perrenoud, sociology (UNIL); Marjorie Glas, sociology (ENS Lyon) (discussion: Val\u00e9rie Rolle, University of Nantes)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This event received a supporting grant from the SAGW-ASSH.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u2022 SSA Congress \u201cSocial Justice in Times of Uncertainty\u201d (Geneva, 28-30 June 2021 \u2013 online).<\/strong> The Foko-KUKUSO organised one semi-plenary and three paper sessions within our biennial national sociological congress. The chosen topic, \u201cArts and Culture in Times of Crisis\u201d, allowed to explore the pressure put onto the world of arts and culture by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like in other societal and economic sectors, the ongoing health crisis endangers,questions, and reshapes cultural actors and industries already marked by precarious work conditions, deep inequalities, and uncertainty. These four Foko-KUKUSO sessions aimed at analyzing and discussing what is at stake for arts and culture in face of this as well as of other crises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Semi-plenary session \u2013 28 June 2021: \u201cThe Music Sector Facing COVID-19\u201d (chair: Olivier Moeschler, UNIL; Miriam Odoni, UNINE; Lo\u00efc Riom, UNIGE\/Mines ParisTech; Guy Schwegler, UNILU)\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c\u2018Diversity\u2019 in crisis: Inequalities in the classical music sector in light of the covid-19 pandemic\u201d by Kristina Kolbe (Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPrecarious Labor in COVID Times: The Case of Musicians\u201d by David Arditi (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Return of \u2018Umgangsmusik\u2019? Musical Practices During COVID-19 Lockdown\u201d by Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt\/M.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Paper session 1 \u2013 29 June 2021 (chair: Thibaut Menoux, University of Nantes)<br \/>\n\u201cWhat is art good for again? Cultural organizations\u2019 boundary work in times of crisis\u201d by Paul Buckermann (Thematic Research Network \u2018Validity of Knowledge\u2019, Heidelberg University)<br \/>\n\u201cInterdependencies \u2013 culture with active participation of older people\u201d by Magdalena Pop\u0141awska(Sociology Faculty, Adam Mickiewicz University AMU, Pozna\u0144, Poland)<br \/>\n\u201cArts and Culture in Times of Crisis in Portugal\u201d by Maria Teresa Lacerda (NOVA FCSH, INET.MD \u2013 Instituto de Etnomusicologia. Centro de Estudos em Musica e Danca, Lisboa, Portugal)<\/li>\n<li>Paper session 2 \u2013 29 June 2021 (chair: Samuel Coavoux, Orange Labs\/SENSE)<br \/>\n\u201cLa critique litt\u00e9raire en ligne, une critique incertaine\u201d by Clara Levy (Institut d\u2019Etudes Europ\u00e9ennes, University Paris 8, France)<br \/>\n\u201cFlux of control: mapping the metamorphosis of music on YouTube\u201d by Guillaume Heuguet (Laboratoire GRIPIC &amp; Laboratoire IRMECCEN, Sorbonne Nouvelle)<br \/>\n\u201cUne histoire europ\u00e9enne de l\u2019incertaine d\u00e9finition de la professionnalit\u00e9 en musique (1910-2020) by Marc Perrenoud (LACCUS, UNIL)<br \/>\n\u201cCommunity Arts Institutions Under Duress\u201d by Julia Rothenberg (Queensborough Community College, CUNY) (Note: this presentation is thematically linked to the following session)<\/li>\n<li>Paper session 3 \u2013 30 June 2021), chair: Val\u00e9rie Rolle (University of Nantes)<br \/>\n\u201cCreative workshops and access to artistic practices\u201d by Florence Schenk (Department of Social Sciences Sociology Unit, UNIFR)<br \/>\n\u201cEmbracing uncertainty? How expected and surprising actors negotiate collaboration in participatory art practices\u201d by Alice Neusiedler (Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These sessions were supported by the SAGW-ASSH.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u2022 DGS-\u00d6GS Congress (Vienna, 23-25 August 2021 \u2013 online)<\/strong>. The binational sociological congress of our German and Austrian sister associations on \u201cDie Post-Corona-Gesellschaft? Pandemie, Krise und ihre Folgen\u201d at the Wirtschaftsuniversit\u00e4t in Vienna offered another occasion to co-organize a paper session. Together with our colleagues of the AK Soziologie der K\u00fcnste of the DGS (Uta Karstein, University of Leipzig; Nina Tessa Zahner, Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf), the Foko-KUKUSO (Guy Schwegler, UNILU; Olivier Moeschler, UNIL) presented an \u201cad hoc group\u201d as a joint event. Its aim was to discuss the manifold consequences, transformations and challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic for arts and culture (\u201cKunst und Kultur im Griff der Pandemie. Transformationen, Herausforderungen und Folgen von Covid 19 f\u00fcr Kunst und Kultur\u201d).\u00a0Three online presentations were scheduled on 25 August 2021:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cTowards de-flexibilisation of the cultural work force after Covid?\u201d by Johan Kolsteeg (Rijks University of Groningen) and Lisa Gaupp (Leuphana University L\u00fcneburg)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMusikberufe in der Pandemie\u201d on music professions and the pandemic by Diana Betzler (SparsNet GmbH, Switzerland) and Dieter Haselbach (Zentrum f\u00fcr Kulturforschung, Berlin)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cClubsterben reloaded? Die Auswirkungen der Covid-19 Pandemie auf Musikclubs in Deutschland\u201d on the effects of the pandemic on German clubs by Jan \u00dcblacker (EBZ Business School Bochum), Heiko R\u00fch(University of K\u00f6ln), Katharina Huselji\u0107 and Johannes Krause (Heinrich-Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf), Niklas Bl\u00f6meke (University Paderborn)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Glauser,\u00a0A.,\u00a0Holder,\u00a0P.,\u00a0Mazzurana,\u00a0T.,\u00a0Moeschler,\u00a0O.,\u00a0Rolle,\u00a0V.,\u00a0Schultheis,\u00a0F.\u00a0(eds.) (2020),\u00a0<i>The Sociology of Arts and Markets. New Developments and Persistent Patterns<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span>Palgrave Macmillan, 432 p. &#8211;\u00a0<a id=\"LPNoLP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/gp\/book\/9783030390129?utm_campaign=bookpage_about_buyonpublisherssite&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=springerlink#otherversion=9783030390136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 The edited\u00a0book\u00a0<i>The Sociology of Arts and Markets. New Developments and Persistent Patterns\u00a0<\/i>has been published at Palgrave-Macmillan in their \u201cSociology of the Arts\u201d series, as an outcome of\u00a0the international\u00a0conference\u00a0\u201cArts\u00a0andMarkets\u201d organized by the Foko-KUKUSO at the University of St. Gallen. The book\u2019s editors Andrea\u00a0Glauser, Patricia\u00a0Holder, Thomas\u00a0Mazzurana, Olivier\u00a0Moeschler, Valerie\u00a0Rolle, and Franz\u00a0Schultheis assembled 17 contributions from both young and more senior scholars from Japan, Switzerland, France, Italy, China, the US, and UK.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Moeschler,\u00a0O.,\u00a0Nikoghosyan,\u00a0N.,\u00a0Riom, L.,\u00a0Sahakian, M.,\u00a0Schwegler, G. (eds.) (2020).\u00a0<i>Sustainability through Art: The Role of Art In and Towards Sustainable Changes. SCORAI Europe Workshop Proceedings<\/i>, Sept. 24-25, 2020, Geneva, 36 p. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/scorai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress\/SCORAIWorkshop_SutainabilitythroughArt.pdf\">link<\/a><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u2022 On 24-25 September 2020 the Foko-KUKUSO organized an international conference on \u201cSustainability through Arts\u201d in Geneva at Les Saules building, financed by seed funding granted by the SAGW aiming to promote scientific contributions to the UN 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The scientific and organising committee was composed of Marylene Sahakian, Nun\u00e9 Nikoghosyan and Lo\u00efc Riom (University of Geneva), Guy Schwegler (University of Lucerne) and Olivier Moeschler (University of Lausanne).\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Over 30 scholars from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, UK, Japan, and Switzerland gave 14 online presentations, with a world caf\u00e9 and two keynote presentations by Karin M. Ekstr\u00f6m (University of Bor\u00e5s) and by Nicolas Nova (HEAD Gen\u00e8ve) and Fran\u00e7ois Ribac (University of Burgundy-Franche-Comt\u00e9)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"> \u2022 <\/span>Foko-KUKUSO was associated in the organisation of a panel on music, infrastructure, and fragility at the conference <em><strong>Multiple Matters:\u00a0From neglected things to arts of noticing fragility<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>organized by the Swiss STS association at University of Lausanne (7-9 September 2020 \u2013 postponed to 15-17 February 2021). Set up by Lo\u00efc Room, the panel included Swiss and French researchers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Founded in 2009, the Foko-KUKUSO celebrated its 10 years of existence with\u00a0no less than 3 workshops (including 7 sessions and 24 presentations in all) labelled \u201cFoko-KUKUSO\u201d at the SSA-congress 2019 \u201cThe Future of Work\u201d at University of Neuchatel (September 2019): 1)\u00a0<strong><em>Art and Artists: the Future of Work?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(Olivier Moeschler, UNIL; Andrea Glauser, UNILU; Michael Gautier, Bern) with 2 sessions and presenters from France, Hungary, UK, Austria and Spain; 2)\u00a0<em><strong>Artistic Work in an Entrepreneurial Regime<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(Thibaut Menoux and Val\u00e9rie Rolle, University of Nantes) with 3 sessions and presenters from France, Canada, UK and the USA; 3)\u00a0<em>Producing Concerts, Working in Live Music\u00a0<\/em>(Alexandre Camus, EPFL &amp; Mines ParisTech and Lo\u00efc Riom, Mines ParisTech and UNIGE) with 2 sessions and presenters from France, Canada and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <span lang=\"EN-GB\">An\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">ongoing \u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">activity\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">was\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">the\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">finalisation of\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">the\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">book\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">resulting\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">from\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">the\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">international\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">conference\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Arts\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">and\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Markets<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201d organised \u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">at the University of St. Gallen\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">at the end of 2016.\u00a0<\/span>To assemble, review, and correct the contributions in English of initially around 25 mostly young authors all around the world again turned out to be no small matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In 2019, the Foko-KUKUSO has also renewed its scientific committee. Andrea Glauser, one of the founding members, left the committee after having been appointed Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In parallel, several young researchers have joined the scientific committee of the Foko-KUKUSO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Organisation of a Journ\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9tudes on <strong><em>Emergence, Recognition and Consecration in the Performing Arts<\/em><\/strong> on 9 November 2018. This event was also the mid-term conference of the CR18 Sociologie de l\u2019Art et de la Culture of the AISLF (Association internationale des sociologues de langue fran\u00e7aise) and the first colloquium to be organised by Marc Perrenoud and Pierre-Emmanuel Sorignet (LACCUS Laboratoire culture, capitalisme et soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, University of Lausanne) in their new SNF-research project \u201cConsecrating Talents: An Inquiry on Performing Arts\u201d, which whom the Foko (Olivier Moeschler, Nun\u00e9 Nikoghosyan) was glad to collaborate, with\u00a0presentations by Laurent Fleury (University of Paris Diderot), Val\u00e9rie Rolle (University of Nantes), Jo\u00ebl Laillier (University of Toulouse), Miriam Odoni (University of Neuch\u00e2tel &amp; LAMECC), Nun\u00e9 Nikoghosyan (University of Geneva), G\u00e9rard Mauger (CESSP-CNRS) and with a grant from the\u00a0Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Another activity which still kept us busy 2018 was the continuing work on the book that will result from the international congress \u201cArts and Markets\u201d the Foko organised at the end of 2016 at UNISG.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong><span lang=\"DE-CH\">Ducret A., Glauser A., Moeschler O., Rolle V. <\/span><span lang=\"DE-CH\">(eds.)<\/span>, \u00ab\u00a0Art, Work and (De-)Regulation\u00a0\u00bb, special issue,\u00a0<i>Swiss Journal of Sociology<\/i>, 2017, issue 43, n. 2<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 The special issue of the Swiss Journal of Sociology (SJS) on \u201cArt, Work and (De-)Regulation\u201d guest edited by the Foko-KUKUSO came out.\u2022 The Research Committee Sociology of Arts and Culture (RC-SAC) organised a workshop at the Swiss Sociological Association (SSA) Congress 2017 \u201cCommon Good and Self Interest\u201d under the auspices of Olivier Moeschler (UNIL), Val\u00e9rie Rolle (SNSF and UNIL), Michael Gauthier (UNIBE) and Nun\u00e9 Nikoghosyan (UNIGE) at the\u00a0University of Zurich, 21-23 June 2017, on the theme <strong><em>Art Collectives and Collective Art<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On 24 November 2017 Olivier Moeschler (UNIL), Val\u00e9rie Rolle (Universit\u00e9 de Nantes), Andrea Glauser (UNILU) organized with\u00a0Franz Schultheis, Thomas Mazzurana and\u00a0Patricia Holder (UNISG) at the Institut f\u00fcr Soziologie of the University of\u00a0St. Gallen an international\u00a0workshop on <strong><em>Creative Economies. An International Paradigm in European Cities<\/em><\/strong> with presentations by Ilja Van Damme (University of Antwerpen), Janet Merkel (City, University of London), Elsa Vivant (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall\u00e9e) and Christoph Weckerle (ZHdK, Z\u00fcrich) moderated\u00a0by\u00a0Dave O\u2019Brien (University of Edinburgh), aided by the\u00a0Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>2016<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Four members of the committee \u2013 Andre Ducret (UNIGE), Andrea Glauser (UNILU), Olivier Moeschler (UNIL) and Val\u00e9rie Rolle (London School of Economics and UNIL) \u2013 co-edited a special issue of the Swiss Journal of Sociology (SJS) on \u201cArt, Work and (De-)Regulation\u201d (publication in Summer 2017).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Olivier Moeschler with Andrea Glauser and Val\u00e9rie Rolle co-organised in collaboration with Franz Schultheis, Patricia Holder and Thomas Mazzurana at the Institute for Sociology of the University of St. Gallen an international colloquium on <strong><em>Arts &amp; Markets. Alienation or Emancipation?<\/em><\/strong> (17-18 November 2016), with more than 25 scholars from Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Singapore and three keynotes by Ulf Wuggenig and Steffen Rudolph (Leuphana University of L\u00fcneburg), Alain Quemin (University Paris-8) and Nathalie Moureau (University Paul-Val\u00e9ry \u2013 Montpellier 3). This event took place at the Milit\u00e4rkantine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.militaerkantine.ch\/\">www.militaerkantine.ch<\/a>) and UNISG with a grant from the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Founding member Andre Ducret (UNIGE) retired on September 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Several members were engaged in the organisation of the 2015 SSA-Congress at University of Lausanne on 3-5 June 2015 \u201cCollective Dynamics, Social (De-)Regulations and Public Spheres\u201d. Its President, Olivier Moeschler, was in the organising committee, and Valerie Rolle (UNIL), Marc Perrenoud (UNIL), Andr\u00e9 Ducret (UNIGE) and Olivier Moeschler (UNIL) set up four workshop sessions with a total of 12 presentations on <strong><em>Artists between Deregulation and Self-regulation<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The RC-SAC also started to co-organise an international meeting on art markets with colleagues of the UNISG and a grant from the SAGW.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong><span lang=\"FR-CH\">Danko\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"FR-CH\"><strong>D., MoeschlerO<\/strong>., SchumacherF. (eds.)<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"DE-CH\"><strong>, <i>Perspektiven der Kunstsoziologie II. Kunst und \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/i>(Reihe \u201eKunst und Gesellschaft\u201c), Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2015, 384\u00a0p. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/de\/book\/9783658018337\">link<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>\u2022 The (expanded) proceedings of the international congress 2012 in Freiburg in Breisgau came out. Edited by Dagmar Danko, Florian Schumacher (both Freiburg in Breisgau) and Olivier Moeschler (University of Lausanne), the book \u201cKunst und \u00d6ffentlichkeit\u201d (\u201cArt in Public\u201d), which includes several graphics and photographs, came out at Springer Verlag (Wiesbaden) in autumn (dated 2015).<\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Several members were engaged in the organisation of the SSA-Congress 2015 in Lausanne.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2013<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 A plenary session and a workshop on the theme <strong><em>From democratisation to integration? The arts and cultural policies in mutation<\/em><\/strong> have been set on by the Foko-KUKUSO at the 2013 SSA Congress\u2028 on \u201cInequality and Integration in Times of Crises\u201d, University of Berne (26-28 June 2013), by Andr\u00e9 Ducret (UNIGE), Lisa Marx (UNIGE), Olivier Moeschler (UNIL), Miriam Odoni (UNIGE), Val\u00e9rie Rolle (UNIL), and Natalie Schwarz (UNIL). In the plenary session, Tasos Zembylas (University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna), Hans-Peter Meier-Dallach (cultur prospectiv \/ World Drives Association and IB-Hochschule Berlin) and Olivier Moeschler (UNIL) made talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The year was also dedicated to the editorial work on the proceedings of the Freiburg colloquium of 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Several members of the RC-SAC participated in the international congress of the AISLF, which takes place every 4 years and was held in Rabat (June 2012).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A joint international colloquium has been organised in Freiburg-in-Breisgau with the German colleagues of the Arbeitskreis f\u00fcr Soziologie der K\u00fcnste, by Dagmar Danko and Florian Schumacher (University of Freiburg in Breisgau) with Andr\u00e9 Ducret (University of Geneva) and Olivier Moeschler (University of Lausanne), totalising almost 20 presentations on the theme <strong><em>Art in Public<\/em><\/strong>. The publication of the proceedings was started (publication in 2014, dated 2015).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The research committee met at the 10th ESA- Congress \u201cSocial Relations in Turbulent Times\u201d (September 2011). It organised joint sessions with the ESA RN n. 2 Sociology of the Arts on <strong><em>Artistic and cultural professions<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ducret\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">A., Moeschler O. (eds.),\u00a0<\/span><i>Nouveaux regards sur les pratiques culturelles. Contraintes collectives, logiques individuelles et transformation des modes de vie<\/i>, L\u2019Harmattan, Paris, 2011, 247\u00a0p. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editions-harmattan.fr\/index.asp?navig=catalogue&amp;obj=livre&amp;no=35383\">link<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 The proceedings of the Geneva 2009 plenary session and panels were edited at L\u2019Harmattan: Andr\u00e9 Ducret, Olivier Moeschler (ed.), Nouveaux regards sur les pratiques culturelles (2011).<\/div>\n<p><strong>2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The RC-SAC has held its second scientific meeting, which took place by the end of May 2010 at the University of Bern, under the responsibility of Andrea Glauser and Olivier Moeschler, to discuss ongoing projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The editing of the proceedings of the 2009 SSA congress were continued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The research committee held its first scientific meeting at the SSA Congress \u2013 Geneva, 7-9 September 2009 \u2013 where Andr\u00e9 Ducret and Olivier Moeschler organised a plenary session on \u201cCultural practices and audiences\u2019 identity\u201d, followed by two panels, both entitled <strong><em>Sociological analysis of \u2018cultural practices\u2019: collective constraints, individual rationale and transformations in lifestyle<\/em><\/strong>. The proceedings were then edited in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><em>More details on the activities of the Foko-KUKUSO can be found in the annual reports of the committee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These activities benefit from selective and welcome aids (among others, from the SAGW Swiss Academy of the Humanities and Social Science). The committee is entitled, if it decides to do so, to ask for an annual fee or for other types of financial contributions by its members.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-mtbsu-ceab462590f8bc429772359c4e40170b'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-5' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-5' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-5' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Scientific committee\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Scientific committee\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Scientific committee\">Scientific committee<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-5' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-5' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Olivier Moeschler (University of Lausanne), President<br \/>\nCarole Christe (University of Lausanne)<br \/>\nNun\u00e9 Nikoghosyan (University of Geneva)<br \/>\nLo\u00efc Riom (University of Lausanne and Mines ParisTech)<br \/>\nVal\u00e9rie Rolle (University of Nantes)<br \/>\nGuy Schwegler (University of Lucerne)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-ga0cm-7a9bb436d36739b01545f7b9adc42714'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-6' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-6' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-6' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Founding members\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Founding members\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Founding members\">Founding members<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-6' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-6' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>As of the 15th of May, 2009, the founder members of the RC- SAC were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andr\u00e9 DUCRET, Nadia CAPUZZO DERKOVIC, Magali DUBEY, Miriam ODONI, D\u00e9partement de sociologie, University of Geneva<\/li>\n<li>Andrea GLAUSER, Institut f\u00fcr Soziologie, University of Bern<\/li>\n<li>Olivier MOESCHLER and Val\u00e9rie ROLLE, University of Lausanne<\/li>\n<li>John W\u00c4FLER, Soziologisches Seminar, University of Lucerne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every member of the SSA and everyone invited by the persons in charge of this research committee may take part in its activities.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-aez4m-f76f74c2a7a87281c0c0f2ba96a5675d'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-7' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-7' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-7' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Twitter\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Twitter\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Twitter\">Twitter<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-7' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-7' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong> Follow the Foko-KUKUSO now also on Twitter!<\/strong><br \/>\nOur research committee now has its own Twitter account, with the username\u00a0<strong>@foko_kukuso<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Foko_Kukuso\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Foko_Kukuso<\/a>), in order to facilitate the spreading of information, announcements, calls, and other news in sociology of arts and culture, or related fields, from Switzerland and elsewhere. Should you have any messages to distribute on the network, please don&#8217;t hesitate to contact us directly on Twitter, or by email (<a href=\"mailto:nune.nikoghosyan@etu.unige.ch\">nune.nikoghosyan@unige.ch<\/a>)!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. 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