Bernard MULLER

Bernard Müller is a researcher/lecturer in social anthropologist (PhD 2000) and scientific/cultural program designer.

His research focuses on the relationship between art and ethnology, especially through the lens of performance and entertainment. Since 2003, he directs a seminar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), member of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux, a laboratory for interdisciplinary research in social sciences (IRIS=UMR 8156 - CNRS-Inserm-EHESS-Université Paris 13). He has collaborated with such personalities as the writer Wole Soyinka (Nobel Prize for Literature 1986), the artists Yinka Shonibare and Daniel Spoerri, and with various cultural institutions (Musée du quai Branly, Centre George Pompidou, Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration-CNHI, la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris&Saint-Denis), Prins Claus Foundation, Fondation Dapper, l’Institut National de Recherches en Archéologie Préventive-INRAP, Musée en Herbe, Musée Vodou, etc..). He has published several books, essays and articles. Recently, he co-directed the catalogue "Vodou/Voodoo- around Arbogast Collection" editions Loco, 2013.

Beside his research, he designed various cultural and scientific programs: exhibitions, lecture series, multimedia programs and coordinates the activities of CURIO (www.curioweb.org), an autonomous transdisciplinary research lab.

Certification as a Senior Lecturer in the 18th (Social Anthropology) and 20th section (Theatre and Aesthetics).

Born in 1966, Franco-German, he spent his childhood in Togo and lives in France since 1983.