Curriculum Vitae
Education
2017-2021
Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern. Dissertation: “In and Out of Time: Tourism, Belonging and Inequality in the Swiss Alps”, Summa cum laude
2014-2016
MA in Anthropology of Transnationalism and the State, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
2010-2013
BA in Ethnology, History of Art and History, University of Lausanne and Neuchâtel
Professional Activities
2021-ongoing
Postdoctoral researcher at the independent Max Planck research group “Alpine Histories of Global Change: Time, Self and the Other in the German-Speaking Alpine Region”
03/2015-09/2015
Scientific collaborator in the SNSF project “Transnational Biographies of Education: Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers and their Navigation through Shifting Social Realities in Switzerland and Turkey“, University of Bern
Academic Grants/Scholarships
2021
Joséphine de Karman Stiftung Finishing Grant
2017-2021
Research grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the research project “Trapped in Paradise: Entangled Mobilities and Imaginaries of Freedom”
Fieldwork
2017-2022
Ethnographic research in the Swiss Alps with locals, migrants and tourists for dissertation and postdoctoral project
2016
Ethnographic research in the Swiss Jura mountains with refugees and locals
2013
Ethnographic research in Switzerland and Austria with „couchsurfing“ hosts and tourists
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops
Leitenberg, D. (June 2021): “Celebrating the Natives: imaginaries of locality between tourism development and social conservatism in the Swiss Alps”, SIEF 2021, Helsinki [online]
Leitenberg, D. (June 2021): “Crisis, Uncertainty and Future-Making in a Thriving Touristic Resort”, International Workshop “Trapped in Paradise”, University of Bern [online]
Leitenberg, D. (July 2020): “Balancing acts backstage: migrant hospitality workers in the Swiss Alps”, European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA), Panel of the Anthropology of Labour Network [online]
Leitenberg, D. (May 2020): “‘In and out of time: Future-making and Speculation in the Swiss Alps”, Presentation Institutes Colloquium of the Institute of Social Anthropology, University Bern [online]
Leitenberg, D. (September 2019): “Anthropology at/of Home”, Research Group ‘Alpine Histories of Global Change’ Conducting Research in Alpine Communities: Social, Ethical and Epistemological Challenges and Innovations, Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Leitenberg, D. (August 2019): “In and out of time: temporal conflicts in a touristic village in the Swiss Alps”, Finnish Anthropological Association Conference “On Time”, Helsinki
Leitenberg, D. (June 2019): “Ici, nous vivons par et pour le tourisme!: pouvoir et inégalités dans un village des Alpes suisses, Association internationale pour la recherche interculturelle (ARIC) 27th International Congress, Geneva
Leitenberg, D. (May 2019): “The mountain is our capital: Politics of future-making in the Swiss Alps”, German Anthropological Association (GAA) Conference on Rurality and Future-Making, Cologne
Leitenberg, D. (April 2019): “Stranger in Paradise: Representations of time, the mountain and displacement in the Swiss Alps”, SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) 14th Congress, Santiago de Compostela
Organization of Panels and Workshops
October 2021
Co-Organisator of the 4th Anthropology Talks with Didier Fassin, Institute for social Anthropology, University of Bern
June 2021
Organisation of the International Workshop: “Trapped in Paradise: Entangled Mobilities and Uncertain Futures” with Sabine Strasser, Janine Dahinden, Annika Lems, and Paul Reade, University of Bern
June 2019
Organisation Internal Workshop “Trapped in Paradise”: Janine Dahinden, Valerio Simoni, Sabine Strasser, Annika Lems, Paul Reade
Membership in Professional Associations
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
Schweizer Ethnologische Gesellschaft (SEG)
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)
Member of the project Silicon Mountains, University Bern
Associate Researcher of the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
Languages
French (mother tongue)
German (fluent)
English (fluent)