Dr. VÉRA LÉON
HUMBOLDT RESEARCH FELLOW
Adress
Bürgerstr. 23
Room 102, first floor
76829 Landau
Contact information
Tel.: +49 (0)6341 280-32565
E-Mail: vera.leon@rptu.de
About
| 2015-2020 |
Phd. in Educational History / History of Contemporary Art Title of theThesis: Becoming a Photographer. Gender, Training and Jobs in France (1945-1982) Advisers | Pr. Rebecca Rogers (Sorbonne faculty/Paris Descartes Univ.) Dr. Christian Joschke |
| 2014-2015 |
CAPES in Literature CAPES is a French competitive exam to enable one to teach in secondary schools. |
| 2012-2014 |
| Master’s Degree in Photography and Contemporary Art at Paris VIII University | Summa cum laude |
| 2010-2012 |
| Master’s Degree in History at Ecole Normale Supérieure / ENS de Lyon | Magna cum laude |
| 2010-2015 |
Ecole Normale Supérieure ranked first at the entrance exam in 2010 | Major in History and Geography The Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) is a French ”Grande École”, a higher education establishment alongside the mainstream state universities, accessible after a highly competitive entrance exam. Its prestigious curriculum is pluridisciplinary. |
| 2007-2010 |
| Bachelor's degree in Arts |
| 2025-2027 |
| Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| 2025-2027 |
| External Examinator of the Contemporary Art Degree, Beaux-Arts de Valence |
| 2022-2025 |
| External Examinator of the Photography Bachelor, Technical Univ. Dublin |
| 2022 |
| Assistant professorship in Arts, Culture & Public Commitment, CY Cergy Paris Univ. |
| 2021 |
| One-year research grant, Institute for Photography (Lille) |
| 2020-2021 |
Junior Board, Paedagogica Historica Journal |
| 2018-2019 |
| Visiting Academic Photographic History Research Centre (De Montfort Univ.) + School of Education (Univ. of Birmingham) |
| 2015-2018 |
| Three-year PhD scholarship, French Ministry of Higher Education |
| 2015-2020 |
| Two-year research and two-year teaching assistantship, Paris Cité University |
| 2010-2014 |
| Four-year scholarship, ENS de Lyon |
- International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE)
- French Transdisciplinary Research Association on the History of Education (ATRHE)
- Research Network of the LabEx ICCA (Cultural Industries and Artistic Creation)
- International History of Educational Ecologies (HEC), RPTU Landau
- VISAGE
2023, Angèle Ferrere et Véra Léon, « Un féminisme visuel ? Photographie et mouvements féministes. Le cas de la revue Des femmes en mouvements (1978-1982) », Transbordeur. Photographie, histoire, société, 7 [http://journals.openedition.org/transbordeur/1244].
2022, Véra Léon, « Scolariser la formation des jeunes photographes ? Un conflit de générations (années 1950-1970) », Le Mouvement social, 281, p. 103-118 [doi.org/10.3917/lms1.281.0103].
2021, Véra Léon, « La querelle des photofilmeurs. Le tournant manqué de la professionnalisation des photographes dans l’après-guerre », Photographica, 2, p. 130-146 [https://doi.org/10.54390/photographica.468].
2021, Alice Morin et Véra Léon, « Vêtir et dévêtir des hommes : photographier les corps, révéler les masculinités. Entretien avec la photographe Laure Ledoux », Clio. Femmes, genre, histoire, 54, p. 223-232. [doi.org/10.4000/clio.20813].
2020, Véra Léon, « Orienter les filles et les garçons en fonction de leur classe sociale ? Le cas des formations aux métiers de la photographie », Agone, 65, p. 65-89.
*2020, Véra Léon, « Devenir photographe dans les années 1960, une histoire de genre et de classe ? », in Sylvie Octobre et Frédérique Patureau (dir.), Sexe et genre des mondes culturels. Publics, artistes, intermédiaires, Lyon, Ens Editions, p. 223-234. *Veröffentlichung ohne Peer-Review
2018, Véra Léon, « Clichés de photographes. L’invisible mixité des formations professionnelles », Images du travail. Travail des images, 6-7 [https://doi.org/10.4000/itti.733].
2017, Véra Léon, « (Re)politicizing Discourses on Photography », Image and Narrative, 18-2. En codirection avec Eliane de Larminat, Alice Morin, Anaïs Mauuarin [en ligne : http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/issue/view/88].
Researching Educational Ecologies of Feminist Photography
Research questions: How visual literacy (ability of reading/producing pictures) has been thought as a major pedagogical and emancipatory issue? How can feminists create different images of their issues/bodies/movements in a male-dominated visual world? What kind of pictures and histories can they transmit to new generations to make the collective practices and ideas change?
Axes:
(Re-)Education of the Gaze
Educational dimension of feminism: how to transmit/teach/make happen the will of social changes
Combining present needs (radicality with the past) and institutionalization (make another future possible)
Visual Strategies Combining Esthetics and Politics
Constructing counter-visualities (Mirzoeff): choices btw. collective or individuals, pacifying or struggling, empathy orspectacularity, idealized vs. reel, unified vs. contradictory
Tension between professional/activist skills: pressure on seriousness & spectacularity (staged/spontaneous photography)
Cartographic memories for the present and the futures
Community need to materialize/celebrate/fix the past, grass-roots aspiration for better futures
Artistic bricolage (Levi-Strauss, 1962) between archive and fiction, history and memory, sources and silences
| 2020 |
| Expert for peer-reviewed journals in France and abroad Genre, sexualité et société; Photographica; Genre & Histoire; Revue d’histoire culturelle XVIII-XXIe siècles...); ECER Network 17 (Histories of Education); French National Committee of Books ; Presses de l'Université Laval (Canada). |
| 2020-2022 |
| Coordinator of the Online Encyclopedia of European History ehne.fr (2 axes: Education and Training - Gender and Europe) |
| 2016-2018 |
| Member of the Scientific Council of the CERLIS Center of Research |
| 2014-2018 |
| Member of the Board of the Photo/savoirs/critiques Workshop Creation of a European group project Photo/savoirs/critiques working on intersectionality questions (gender, class and race) in the History of photography |
| 2013-2017 |
Member of the Board of the ARIP Association (Research Association about Photographic Images) Scientific coordination of a monthly workshop on theories, history, discourses and practices of photography (call for paper) and creation of the research website of the association on the European platform Hypotheses (arip.hypotheses.org) |
| 2023 |
| @ Univ. CY Paris Cergy | Cultural programming |
| 2022 |
| @ École Camondo | Final degree jury in design |
| 2021 |
| @ École nationale supérieure de création industrielle | Jury (documentary) |
| 2021 |
| @ University of Amiens | Workshop: Collage and Feminism |
| 2021 |
| @ École nationale supérieure de création industrielle | Workshop: Gender and Cinema |
| 2020 |
| @ École nationale supérieure de photographie | Workshop: Research-Creation |
| seit 2015 |
| Active member @ artistic collectives [Diaph 8, Phalanstère, Maison des Artistes…] |
| 2013-2015 |
| @ International festival “Rencontres d’Arles“, photography public and private galleries |Cultural mediation in exhibitions and workshops with young people |
| 2013 |
| @ Photography Department of the Pompidou Centre | Participation in the curating of exhibitions and in the work on the collections |
| seit 2012 |
| @ véra (&) léon: cargocollective.com/veraleon | Photography, writing, performance, music, curating and sound work |
| 2025 |
| @ Théâtre Les Riches Claires FAME Festival (Bruxelles), BE 👁 @ Théâtre Les Riches Claires « Je passerai par ta bouche » (Bruxelles), BE 👄 @ Le Point Fort WeToo Festival (Aubervilliers), FR 👁 @ Maison de l'écologie (Lyon), FR 👄 @ Brasserie Flez (Drôme) [with G. Almenara and Justine Desprez], FR |
| 2024 |
| @ La Fabuleuse cantine Soirée Erotika (Lyon), FR 👁 |
| 2023 |
| @ Museum LichtenbergBerlin-DieResidenz 2022 (Berlin), DE 👁💞 @ LABservatoire « La partition des draps : désastre » (Rhône), FR 👄 |
| 2022 |
@ DieResidenz (Drôme) [with Ella Ziegler], FR 👁💞 @ Podcast Réflecteur [sounddesign by Claire-Sophie Dagnan] |
| 2021 |
@ Exposition collective en ligne J'aurais voulu être un artiste, FR 👁💞 @ Les Aires - Théâtre de Die [musique dessinée with Gustavo Almenara] 👄 |
| 2025 |
| @ Youpron.love | Writing Residency |
| 2023 |
| @ Château de Monthelon | Sound Creation Residency (Yonne) |
| 2022 |
| @ Lichtenberg Studios | Visual Arts Residency (Berlin) |
| 2021 |
| @ Geneva Art | Support for Exhibition Dissemination (Genève) |
| 2020 |
| @ Institut pour la photographie | Creative Support Program (Lille) |
| 2015 |
| @ Château de Monthelon | Performance Creation Residency (Yonne) |
| 2015 |
| @ CROUS | Support for Performance Creation (Paris) |