Members of the Research School Cultures of the Alps are working on an academic qualification (doctorate or habilitation) that is related to the program of the Institute Cultures of the Alps. The Research School Cultures of the Alps offers researchers a structured training and supervision program and is led by an interdisciplinary faculty. There are regular internal supervision meetings and peer-to-peer feedback, colloquia, workshops and institute days. On the one hand, they promote the individual projects and their resonance in a broad public, and on the other hand, the exchange and synergies between the researchers and their specific competencies.
In the context of the transdisciplinary orientation of the institute, the involvement of practitioners and artists is also possible, creating synergies between academic and practice-oriented expertise. Institutionally, the qualifications are primarily anchored at the University of Lucerne, although other connections are also possible. The members regularly take part in workshops, colloquia, mentoring and peer-to-peer feedback and also participate in events and mediation formats as part of the forum.
Junior Research Fellow
Lisa Lee Benjamin is a curator and former landscape designer. She holds a Dr. des. from UNILU and is in the midst of publishing her book Barns Barning. She holds a master's degree in transdisciplinary arts with a focus on alpine cultures, a degree in plant and soil science (UVM), and a degree in permaculture design (CRMPI). She currently runs the Relationscape Lab and is an integral part of the Alpine Futures Literacy project. Her current work focuses on poetic practices that intra-actively correspond and syncopate with the Alpine region in sensory perception, transforming curation from a noun to verb.
Junior Research Fellow
Nils Widmer is writing his dissertation on skiing from a social and gender-historical perspective. From 2015 to 2021, he studied History and German Philology at the University of Basel. He worked as a research assistant at Swiss Sports History, as an assistant at the Department of History at the University of Basel, as a freelancer at Radio SRF and in educational projects.