Biography
Dr. Lise Zurn茅 (1992) is a visual anthropologist working in the field of memory & heritage, gender, ethnography, war, and embodiment. Her PhD (2023) explored the performance of modern war history in historical reenactment. She hereby analyzed the ways in which reenactors negotiate contested histories in Indonesia and Europe, including (de/re) colonization in Indonesia, gender representation and the embodiment of suffering. Her documentary The Feel of History (2017) has been screened at various ethnographic film festivals. Recent publications additionally focus on methodological discourses and challenges, in particular in relation to gender and ethnography.
At the EUR, she coordinates the MA Thesis Trajectory and teaches courses in the field of cultural history on the BA and MA level. She has partly developed the course Historical Representation and Imagination which focusses on the role of media in processes of cultural memory. Other courses include: Migration, Citizenship & Identity; Religion, Culture and Global Encounters; Bachelor Thesis Authoritarian Lives, Master Research Workshop History, Memory and National Identity; Public History; and Making Traditions in Everyday Life.
She is co-founder of ethnovision, a collective of five visual anthropologists who provide workshops on the use of visual methods in academic research.
She also co-chairs the Working Group Safety in the Field at the LOVA network for feminist anthropologists and is member of its editorial board of the Journal of Feminist Anthropology and Gender Studies.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- zurne@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Lise Zurn茅 (2023) - - Journal of War and Culture Studies, 16 (4), 437-466 - doi: -
- Lise Zurn茅 & Loes Oudenhuijsen (2024) - - Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 27 (2/3), 171-189 - doi:
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- Lise Zurn茅 (6 April 2026) - Je wanen in historische oorlogstijd: dit is waarom mensen het naspelen
- Lise Zurn茅 (21 April 2025) - Dit komt er kijken bij het naspelen van belangrijke veldslagen (Villa VdB Themauitzending Fantasie)
- Lise Zurn茅 (20 October 2024) - Wat is het nut van re-enactment?
- Lise Zurn茅 (5 September 2024) - Meer dan acteren: de kunst van re-enactment
- Lise Zurn茅 (1 June 2024) - Soldaatje spelen voor volwassenen om dichter bij de geschiedenis te komen
- Lise Zurn茅 (12 March 2024) - Onderzoek naar het naspelen van gevoelige geschiedenis
- Lise Zurn茅 (26 January 2024) - 鈥楧e historie naspelen is educatief, maar het gaat ook om de lol鈥
- Lise Zurn茅 (20 December 2023) - Visueel antropoloog Lise Zurn茅 dook in de wereld van historical re-enactment
- Lise Zurne (1 September 2022) - Sexually transgressive behaviour during fieldwork: 鈥業t happens quite a lot, but we never hear about it鈥
- L (Lise) Zurne (20 May 2021) - De heftige reacties op 鈥楧e Oost鈥 zijn exemplarisch voor eenzijdige herinneringscultuur
- Lise Zurn茅, Sandra Manickam & Charlotte Bruns (2026) - Visual Legacies: Family and Photographic Archives (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event 鈥 Academic - Sandra Manickam, Lise Zurn茅 & Charlotte Bruns (2025) - Visual Legacies: Colonial Photographic Archives and the Self (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event 鈥 Academic - Lise Zurn茅 & Siri Driessen (2025) - Affected: Navigating emotions and dissonance in hypermasculinized research contexts (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Lise Zurn茅 (2025) - Expanding Horizons: Inclusion and Participation in History, Arts & Media (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event 鈥 Professional - Lise Zurn茅 (2025) - In Dialogue with the Living Past (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event 鈥 Academic - Lise Zurn茅 (2025) - Gendered pasts, gendered fields: Reflections on vulnerability and safety in ethnographic research. (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Lise Zurn茅 & Loes Oudenhuijsen (2024) - Uncaring Structures and Care/full Approaches (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Lise Zurn茅, Charlotte Bruns & Sandra Manickam (2024) - Race, ethnicity and the photographic archive (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event 鈥 Academic - Lise Zurn茅 (2024) - Hobby heritage: Het verleden verbeelden en ervaren in historical re-enactment (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Lise Zurn茅 (2024) - Visuele etnografie: Tradities en richtingen (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk 鈥 Academic
- Lise Zurn茅 (2025) - LIRA fund
- Lise Zurn茅 (2024) - Best Article
- Lise Zurn茅 (2024) - Nomination Best Thesis
- Lise Zurn茅 (2024) - Nomination FAME Award
- Lise Zurne (2023) - Societal Engagement Award
- Lise Zurn茅 (2023) - ESHCC Incentive Grant
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- 2025
- Course Code
- CH2202
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- BA-2, Pre-master, BA-2
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- 2025
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- CH2208
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- BA-2, BA-2
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- 2025
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- CH2227
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- BA-3, BA-3
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- 2025
- Course Code
- CH3076
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- MA, MA, MA, MA
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- 2025
- Course Code
- CH4050
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- MA
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- MA
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- 2025
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- CH4052
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- MA
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- MA
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- 2025
- Course Code
- CH4233
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- MA
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- MA
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- 2025
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- CH4242
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- MA
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- MA
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- 2025
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- CH4244
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- MA
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- MA
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- 2025
- Course Code
- CH4245
