Malta Summer Field School 2010
ADVISORY BOARD


To support our field school we are setting up an international advisory board of academics and others active in the field of anthropology. They will make suggestions and comments regarding the program and will be presented research papers of the participants.

Although they are highly appreciated counselors to us, they are not responsible for the organization or program.


"I am happy to see that anthropologists are putting the European Research Area in practice - and doing that with a lot of enthusiasm. Bringing European and non-European students and researchers together in your international summer school in Malta and applying anthropology broadly by working with scientists from other disciplines, that's exactly the spirit that we want to promote in the European Union. Keep up the good work!"

Presentation of our Malta Summer School project and IMMRC to Dr. Janez Potočnik (European Commissioner for Science and Research) at the university of Leuven on his visit January 26, 2006.


Johan Leman Professor Dr. Johan Leman

Social and Cultural Anthropology Catholic University of Louvain, president of FOYER, international expert on interculturalism and ethnicity, founder of IMMRC and KOLOR (Journal on Moving Communities), diverse anthropological fieldwork in the Mediterranean e.g. in Sicily.


Christiane Stallaert Professor Dr. Christiane Stallaert

MA in Romanic Philology, MA in Portuguese Studies, MA and PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology. She has spent several research periods in Spain, Portugal and Northern Morocco, where she conducted anthropological fieldwork on ethnicity, nationalism and migration.


Robert Govers Professor Dr. Robert Govers

PhD from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Lecturer in Marketing and Strategy in the Master in Tourism at the University of Leuven and coordinating lecturer of the Master in Imagineering at the NHTV Breda University of Applied Studies. Research conducted in the area of destination image, identity and consumer experiences. Work experience in South Africa, Dubai, The Netherlands and Belgium.

Mario Buhagiar Professor Dr. Mario Buhagiar

Ph.D. (Lond.) is Head of the History of Art Programme at the University of Malta. His fields of specialisation are Paleochristian, Byzantine and medieval antiquities. His academic persuits have focused, among other interests, on the late medieval troglodytic phenomenon of the central Mediterranean regions, vernacular art and architecture, and the influence of Greek-rite monasticism on the moulding of the South Italian, Sicilian, and Maltese cultural heritage. His two latest books, The Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Malta (Fondazjioni Patrimonju Malti, Malta 2005) and Christian Catacombs, Cult Centres and Churches in Malta to 1530 (BAR International Series, Oxford 2006) are due for publication in the next few months.

Professor Dr. Midori Egawa

Ph.D. in Cross-cultural Mental Health (The University of Tokyo) is associate professor at the Department of Value and Decision Science, jointly appointed at the International Student Centre of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Interculturalism and Migration Research (Director Professor E. Roosens) at KUL and an editorial member of KOLOR. Her research interest is in the issues on “migration, culture, communication and adjustment” and her fieldwork in Brussels started in 1992.

Elise Billiard Elise Billiard

Researcher in Anthropology, master of Anthropology, Deug of Sociology. Currently finishing a Ph.D on The Maltese food and the national identity, at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (France). Passionate of Photography.


Professor Dr. Borut Juvanec

Architect, PhD, full professor on Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana University, Slovenia. Works on the theory of architecture: vernacular architecture, elements of architecture, proportion systems, very beginnings and origins (tradition and identity in architecture), identity in built heritage. Professional work: Architecture – mostly in rural landscape with traditional culture, skills and orders, close connected to the today’s architecture. Scientific and research work: lectures on several European universities, cooperation with some universities and their research units, especially on the field of origins of architecture.
An interesting site about stone shelters by Borut Juvanec.