Forgetting Jewellery Événement, Conférence / Colloque

Jean Claude Bologne, philologist and writer, is a specialist in the history of emotions and behaviours (love, couples, modesty  …). He published A Story of  Masculine Elegance (Perrin,

2011).

Catherine Gonnard, a specialist in the history of women artist, co-authored with Elisabeth Lebovici Women artists/artists women, Paris, from 1880 to present. Both of them are currently

working on the visual culture of “lesbians” in the 50’s and 60’s, particularly as they appear on French television.

Elizabeth Fischer is a professor in charge of the Fashion, Jewelry and Accessories Design Department of the Art and Design HEAD School in Geneva. Her field of research, teaching and

publication focuses on the cultural history of the ornament in a broader sense -fashion, jewelry, accessory and corporal ornament.

Jorunn Veiteberg has a PhD in art history from the University of Bergen, Norway. She has worked as a curator at Hordaland Art Centre in Bergen and Gallery F15 in Moss, and as Head of Arts at

the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation – Television. After moving to Denmark in 1995, she has been an independent writer and researcher. Veiteberg has written several books and many

articles on a range of art historical topics, but as visiting professor at Bergen Academy of the Arts, Oslo Academy of the Arts and the Academy of Design and Crafts at Gothenburg University

she has mainly focused on craft theory and contemporary craft practises. Veiteberg has led Arts Council Norway’s committee for research and development since 2014 and been a member of the

council since 2016. Veiteberg is a collector of contemporary art jewellery, and her collection will be exhibited at the National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Nordenfjeldske

Kunstindustrimuseum) in Trondheim, Norway from Sep 22 – Nov 18 2018. 

François Piron is an art critic and a freelance contemporary art curator. He is in charge of the post master program at the Lyon National School of Fine Art, and he co-runs the Paraguay’s

editions of Paris. He is the author of two books published in 2017: Complete theater of Guy de Cointet, and French spirit : Counter-cultures 1969-1989. He curated several exhibitions (Palais

de Tokyo and Maison Rouge in Paris, the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, the Serralves in Porto and the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo). He was the curator of the Biennale of Rennes in 2016.

Roberta Shapiro is a sociologist at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology, at the School for Advanced Social Studies (EHESS) in Paris. Her work focuses on the social

changes in art and culture, through the idea of artification, namely the transformation process of non-art into art. She co-directed the book Artification. Investigation on the Transition to

Art, Paris, EHESS, 2012.

Betony Vernon is a designer, author and sexual anthropologist based in Paris. Her works in precious metal, marble and other noble materials are inspired by the human body, eroticism and

sexual well-being. Vernon is known for creating luxurious, durable and body safe Jewel-Tools as a response to the sex toy industry. Rizzoli International published Vernon’s first book The

Boudoir Bible - The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today, the tome is now available in 7 languages and reached bestseller status in France in 2017. Vernon’s pioneering work in both fields of

design and sexology put her at the forefront of the sexual well-being movement of the 21st century. She coined the term Sado-Chic in 1992 to name her first erotic collection, laying down the

foundation of the BV heritage that celebrates 25 years of Paradise Found this year.

Etienne Armand Amato is a lecturer in information and communication sciences at the UPEM (University of East Paris Marne-la-Vallée / DICEN-IDF research lab), and a researcher on contemporary

 eroticism and its media coverage, using methods stemming from semiology, sociology and Game studies. He for instance co-directed the issue n. 69 of Hermès focusing on “Sexualities” in 2014

and contributed in 2017 to the Medusa exhibition catalogue (essays “Erotica” and “Spike”).