Research Projects
Ongoing
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Agora, Abacus, Calculer c’est jouer, https://www.panoply.org.uk/palamedes-games-master, Exhibition De la case au pixel. Archéologie du jeu video, at the Swiss Museum of Games, 2024 https://museedujeu.ch
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) COST CA19131 Europe through Textiles, Fashion in the West: Bodies, Dress, and Identities in Apulian Iconography (5th – 3rd centuries BC), 2022-2025.
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) 01.05.2020-30.4.2024: Greek and Roman Jointed Dolls (10th cent. BC.- 7th cent. AD): Archaeological and Anthropological Approaches, CHF 804’566.-
Past research projects
1) 1.10.2017-30.9.2022 : European Research Council (ERC) Advanced grant, Locus Ludi. the Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity (€ 2’494’305).
2) SNSF CoRe 2016-2019, with Bern University, Forensic Institute, To be a Child in Roman Aventicum (1st-3rd c. AD): Evidence on Health, Disease and Feeding Practices from Bioarchaeology, c. 408’946 € (with related exhibition).
3) SNSF Sinergia 2013-2016, Universities of Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Lactation in History: a Crosscultural Research on Suckling Practices. Representations of Breastfeeding and Politics of Maternity in a European Context, c. 1’384’483 € (with related exhibition).
4) SNSF Agora 2013-2016, Veni, vidi, ludique, Games and Toys in Antiquity, dissemination activities with exhibition in 3 Swiss Museums, c. 142’439 € (with related exhibition).
5) SNSF 2012-2016, Early Childhood in Ancient Greece (8th–4th c. BC): Written, Iconographic and Archaeological Evidence, c. 165’105 €.
6) Sciex 2014-2015, with E. Loránd University, Budapest, The Fable and its Representation in the Antiquity, c. 142’822 €.
7) SNSF 2009-2012, Medicine, Hygiene and Health in the Roman World, c. 137’987 € (with related exhibition).
8) SNSF 2007-2011, Melampous, On Prodigies and Signs, ed., transl. comm. c. 300’279 €.
9) 2007-2008, Germaine de Staël (CH) and Egide (FR) research programme, Pour une sémiologie du corps antique: recherches sur la physiognomonie gréco-romaine c. 10’000 €.
10) SNSF 2004-2006, The Representation of the Human Embryo, c. 155’081 €.
11) Antiquit@s, A Web-Based Ancient History Learning Course, Swiss Virtual Campus (2001-2004) c. 797’000 €.https://nte-unifr.github.io/ancien-site-nte-2023/nte/fr/services/projets-et-activites/anciens-projets/antiquitas.html
12) SNSF 1996-1999 (Athena grant), Twins in Greek and Roman Antiquity c. 352’000.- €.
13) SNSF, British Council, Berrow grant 1984-1988, Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece, c. 150’000.- €.
Advisory Boards: main current positions
2023-: Swiss MC COST Action 22145, 2023-2026, GameTable. Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage, Membre pour la Suisse du Management Comitee (PI E. Piette, Louvain). https://gametable.network/
2020- : Swiss MC COST Action 19131, 2020-2024, Euroweb. Europe through Textiles Network for an Integrated and Interdisciplinary Humanities (PI Agata Ulanowska, Warsaw). https://euroweb.uw.edu.pl/
2019- : Cluster The Past for the Present (Universities of Bologna, Cambridge, Fribourg, Munich, Warsaw)
2019- Steering committee, Paris, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art; 2023 – , vice-president https://www.inha.fr/fr/l-institut/missions-et-gouvernance/organisation-et-instances.html
2018- : Advisory board, ERC Consolidator Digital Ludeme, 2018-2023, Maastricht university (PI Cameron Brown)
2015- : Advisory board, Paris, History of Art Festival, Fontainebleau Paris.
2014-2023 : Steering committee, Festival International du Film d’Archéologie de Nyon-CH.