Dr. Maxime Le Calvé

Maxime Le Calvé is a Research Associate at »Matters of Activity« with a project about the crafting of digital matter in image-based surgery and virtual reality design.

He defended his PhD in November 2018 in Social Anthropology and in Theater Studies, at EHESS Paris and Freie Universität Berlin.

An Ethnographer at heart, Maxime has been conducting fieldwork in various contexts: electronic music venues, ateliers of visual artists, schools, festivals.

His writing is influenced by phenomenology and American pragmatism. He has edited a volume on phenomena of atmospheres in social situations. Inspired by artists that he could observe in action, he makes use of drawings in his own scientific work. He is inquisitive and passionate about academic writing routines, probably his favorite teaching subject so far.