University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
2025
Chanelle Adams
contact.chanelleadams@gmail.com
Education
Master, Comparative Social Science Research
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France)
Bachelor, Science and Technology Studies |
Brown University (United States)
Residencies
Danspace (New York, US)
2020
VANSA (Johannesburg, South Africa)
2019
Awards and Grants
Prize in Public Environmental History
European Society for Environmental History Bristol-Bern
2025
France
2017
Writing
Environment and History
2026
Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment (peer-reviewed publication)
2025
2025
VOLUME 66: The guide to designing with animals, plants and other critters
2024
The Right to Rest (In Peace) – Reprint
ZOO Index
2024
Der gar nicht lustige Zoo: Die koloniale Geschichte des Parc Longchamp in Marseille
Koloniale Tiere? Tierbilder im Kontext des Kolonialismus, Neofelis Verlag
2024
The Drift
2022
Adi Magazine
2022
The Audacity of Nature Docs: What Obama's 'Our National Parks' Leaves Out
The Drift
2022
Sunlight Doesn’t Need A Pipeline at Stanley Picker Gallery
2022
e-flux
2022
The Canadian Centre for Architecture
2022
Earthly Delights at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery
2022
In conversation with Luiza Prado about Haunt
Sunlight Doesn’t Need A Pipeline at Stanley Picker Gallery
2022
Danspace 2020 Platform
2021
The DJ and the Miracle Cure: The Perils of Postcolonial Medicine in Madagascar
The Drift
2020
Human x Nature
2018
Ouidah Door of No Return: Diaspora Tourism Is Tourism
The Funambulist
2018
Material Endings and Invisible Portals
Natasha Magazine
2018
The Funambulist
2017
Snapping Back, Slowing Down. The Feminist Think Piece Industrial Complex
The Media
2015
Performance
Espace 3353 (Carouge, CH)
2025
Tontolo Miaina (video) in collaboration with Miranto Rafanomezana
La Teinturerie - Association d'artistes and Fondation pour les Aires Protégées et la Biodiversité de Madagascar (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
2024
Plateforme Contemporaine (Kinshasa, DRC)
2024
Jardin d'Antaninarenina (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
2023
Kampnagel Summer Festival (Hamburg, Germany)
2023
Ausstellungsraum Klingental (University of Basel Botanical Garden, Basel, Switzerland)
2023
Les Urbaines (Musée de zoologie, Lausanne, Switzerland)
2022
A Ghost Tour of Camphor Avenue
ICA Live Art Festival (Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa)
2022
Belsunce Projects (Parc longchamps, Marseille, France)
2021
Danspace 2020 Platform (Virtual)
2020
Meditation technology towards liberation
Black Quantum Futurism, Black Womxn Time Camp 004 (Virtual)
2020
Second Spring (Trout Lake, Vancouver, B.C.)
2019
Professional Experience
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Ongoing
Teaching Assistant to Professor Kull
University of Lausanne
2020 – 2025
Program Administrator at the Office of Global Spiritual Life
New York University
2019 – 2020
Black Girl Dangerous Press
2015 – 2016
Bluestockings Magazine
2012 – 2015
Teaching
Guest Critic
Sparx Studio, Migros Culture Percentage
2025
Tutorials
CCC HEAD Geneva
2022
Teaching Assistant, University of Lausanne
Political Ecology (Bachelor), Field Work Preparation Course (Master)
2020 – 2025
Teaching Assistant, Brown University
Medical and Linguistic Anthropology, STS Senior Seminar (Bachelor)
2015 – 2016
Brown University Environmental Leadership Lab
Cultural preservation, Economic growth, and Environmental Choices (High school)
2014
Academic Panels
Becoming Ravintsara: Historical and cultural biography of Cinnamomum camphora in Madagascar
Madagascar Workshop (Columbia University and Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France)
2024
Knowledge regimes in the Madagascar herbarium collection at Marseille’s Colonial Institute
Medicinal Plants, Empires and the Industrialization of Drug Production: A Symposium Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (Mainz, Germany)
2024
Plants in African and Planetary Entanglements: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and Aesthetics
2024
Lavanilina: Exploring livelihoods, environment and governance of Madagascar's vanilla landscapes
Le Parfum de la vanille, Journée d'étude (MSH at Grenoble Alpes University, France)
2024
Ravintsara: To and From the Malagasy Highlands
American Association of Geographers
2024
Volatile Oils in Madagascar
Political Ecology Network: POLLEN (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
2023
Decolonial and anti-racist feminist geographies in Switzerland
The Swiss Association of Geography (ASG) Feminist Geographies Thematic Event (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
2022
Politique post-coloniale de la médecine 'traditionnelle' à Madagascar
Obervatoire Terre Monde (Paris, France)
2022
Empirical Aims, Empire Gains | Panel on Natural History Collections and Empire
History of Science Society at Harvard (USA)
2021
Covid-Organics: A local Malagasy remedy for a global virus | Panel on Infrastructures of Recovery
Gradute Student Research on STS at Harvard Kennedy School (USA)
2021
Healthy Skepticism: French Colonial Medicine, Distrust and Appropriation | International Symposium On Suspicion and the Contemporary
Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (South Africa)
2018
Madagascar's Traditional Health Marketplace On The Move | Régulations, Marchés, Santé interroger les enjeux actuels du médicament en Afrique
GlobalMed International Symposium (Bénin)
2018
Paradise in Peril: 19th Conservation Narratives to Contemporary Claims on Nature | Moving Beyond Paternalism: Supplicants, Saviors and Politics of Anti-Slavery and Anti-Trafficking in Africa
University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
2017
Invited Talks
Mangrove Ecologies (Switzerland)
2025
Rietveld & Sandberg Library (Netherlands)
2024
On "Worldmaking" Kapwani Kiwanga (Zurich Art Prize 2022) | Roundtable
Museum Haus Konstruktiv (Switzerland)
2022
The Emergence of Colonial Tropical Medicine and Botany and Organoleptic workshop | Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
The Power Of Tropical Plants (Germany)
2022
The Dose that Makes the Poison | Podcast Episode with Samir Boumediene
TBA21 on st_age (Spain)
2022
Taking Museums to the Orchards
Sunlight Doesn’t Need A Pipeline at Stanley Picker Gallery (UK)
2022
Coronavirus Multispecies Reading Group
Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University (Australia)
2022
Examining African Contributions to Global Health (MOOC)
University of Basel (Switzerland)
2022
Constellations for futures: Stories on Ecology, Kinship and Sciences | Caring is/in the future
La Loge x Goethe Institute Brussels Caring is/in the future (Belgium)
2021
Marseille, Madagascar, Medicinal Plants | Botanic Fictions - On the political narratives of Plants
Goethe Institute (Greece)
2019
Weeding Gardens of Colonial Imagination: Narrativizing the dispossession of Malagasy plant materials in the herbarium of the musee colonial de Marseille | The Global Condition II Symposium
Performing Arts Forum (France)
2018
The politics of pharmacie-gasy in Madagascar | Podcast Episode
The Funambulist (France)
2017
Thinking Otherwise: Sustained Consideration in a Climate of Immediacy | Dialogue with Dr. Ralph Rodriguez
Stanford University Division of Literatures, Cultures and Language (USA)
2016
Translation
Black Plumes, White Ink by Marie Ranjanoro
The Funambulist
2024
Turn the Walls Back to Dust by Meryem-Bahia Arfaoui
The Funambulist
2024
Quartiers populaires and banlieues by Mathieu Rigouste
The Funambulist
2023
Bondy Forest: Resistance from the Wooded Margins" by Feda Wardak and Romain Rampillon
The Funambulist
2023
Time and the Colonial State by Meryem-Bahia Arfaoui
The Funambulist
2021
Fear of a Black Feminist Planet by Fania Noel
The Funambulist
2020
Dispatch from Brussels: A City of Resistance by Khadija Senhadji
The Funambulist
2019
The City of Marseille Rises Up In The Face Of Collapse by Rafik Chekkat
The Funambulist
2019
Arable, a monologue in two voices
Karima El Kharraze
2019
Present and Futures of Afro Activism in France by João Gabriell
The Funambulist
2018
Coming Out as a Deaf Cyborg by Kengné Téguia
The Funambulist
2018
How to re(Exist) in Enemy Territory by Fabiana Ex-Souza
The Funambulist
2018
A Beautiful Ghetto by Devin Allen, translation consultant
Éditions Syllepse
2018
Rumor Has It: Neighborhood Revolts In Morocco by Soraya El Kahlaoui
The Funambulist
2018