about
I’m a multidisciplinary researcher and I am developing a research method in my doctoral thesis. Thematically, I am interested in the impact of migration of parents from former Yugoslavia on the second generation in Switzerland. Based on my concept of 'epistemic listening' I methodologically combine elements from the fields of videography, anthropology and psychoanalysis.
In addition to my funded research, I do image, sound and video experiments while often combining text and image. The outcome is always uncertain.
My research is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
publications
2024, Ethnograglimpses: Notes on the 10th edition of the Ethnografilm festival in Paris. A. Fersztand, G. Raikov, Visual Studies, 39(4), 622–624
2021, Jakub, 115110, Jake, Jacques, Jakob. Eine vorläufige Mitteilung über die Spurensuche der dritten Generation. In: Between Commemoration and Amnesia. Forms of Holocaust Remembrance in Swiss and Transnational Perspectives. Ed. M. Azaryahu, U. Gehring, F. Meyer, J. Picard, C. Späti. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
press
21/03/2022 – Interview for Beobachter (DE/CH), “Kurzfilm über Holocaust-Überlebenden”. https://www.beobachter.ch/gesellschaft/anna-fersztand-filmte-die-holocaust-erinnerungen-ihres-grossvaters-364639?srsltid=AfmBOopywHhYVNJuhch9kx4auggvsvuromKUItWdvNFJxE1TR5CsLI3M
recent lectures, presentations, workshops, COURSES
2026 „Sućica and what remains“ with Sedina Delić-Tanović REFLECTIONS, DISTORTIONS, SUBVERSIONS: INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION EXHIBITION 2026 Bridgeport Art Center, CHI
2026 Multimodal Conference at Théâtre 2.21: „Sučića et ce qu’il en reste“ with Sedina Delić-Tanović, LAU
2026 Intervention: Commémoration de la journée International des Brassard Blancs (Prijedor), GE
2026 Conference: « La mémoire des génocides: un dialogue entre héritières », (Pôle Sud LAU)
2025 Seminar in Qualitative Methods for Advanced Students: «Enter the Void. Silence, Silencing, and Gaps at the Intersections of Ethnography and Film», (ISEK, ZH)
2025 PhD Workshop with International Speakers: Multimodal Research Methods: Videographic Apparatus, it’s impact on the agency of storytelling, (University ZH)
2025 Guest Lecture at Backhouse Projects: Postmigrant Perspectives. «Staying with the research participants», BER
2025 Guest Lecture «Das Geniessen geniessen mit Lacan», (SFPA, ZH)
2024 Co-Instructor: Making Documentaries about Scientific Research, International Science Council, PAR
2023 Panel discussion: «Gespräche mit Überlebenden – Erinnerung und Trauma in biografischen Interviews», (AfZ ETH, ZH)
2023 Intervention on Film and the Unspeakable: „Making Art and seeing society in Berlin“ (Bakhaus Projects, BER)
2022 Two-part workshop on "trauma, the non-sayable and listening in social Anthropology" (Lacan Seminar, ZH)
2022 “Filming Family: stories between the private and the public'' in Dr. Coppens course (University, BE)