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  • Vacancies: 3 PhD Positions in Social Anthropology

    The Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK) at the University of Zurich is offering three PhD positions within a 4-year research project titled “Dealing with Institutional Volatility: Food Pro- duction, Processing and Trade in South-Eastern Qazaqstan”.

  • Zhanat Doskhozhina

    Guest at ISEK - Social Anthropology Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 - Zhanat Doskhozhina

    Zhanat Doskhozhina is a Visiting Scholar at the ISEK-Social Anthropology from September 1, 2024 to August 1, 2025.

  • Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono

    Guest at ISEK - Social Anthropology Fall 2024 - Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono

    Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono will be a Senior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum and a Visiting Scholar at the ISEK-Social Anthropology during the Autumn Semester 2024.

  • Online Lecture series “Decolonizing Anthropology: A Self-Critical Assessment of the Current State of Research and Teaching” Part 2

    The online lecture series "Decolonising Anthropology" of the German-speaking institutes is entering its second round.

  • Donnerstagskino FS 2024

    Immer am ersten Donnerstag im Monat werden im Völkerkunde?museum der Universität Zürich Filme zu ethnologischen Themen der Zeit vorgeführt. Im FS 2024 hat das Donnerstagskino das Thema «Gender, Care, Reproduction».

  • Barbara Čurda

    Lena Kaufmann wins prestigious SNSF Ambizione Grant

    Lena Kaufmann has been awarded a highly competitive Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her project titled "Digital Agriculture: Sino-European Contrasts, Correspondences, and Collaborations".

  • Barbara Čurda

    Guest at ISEK - Social Anthropology Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 - Jérémie Voirol

    Jérémie Voirol is developing at the ISEK the BNF project ‘The ethics of enjoyment: the case of Indigenous people in a globalised world’, based on his previous research projects.

  • Visit by a delegation from Universitas Gadjah Mada

    On November 2, 2023, a delegation from Universitas Gadjah Mada visited UZH.

  • Lecture series Decolonizing Anthropology

    The lecture series Decolonizing Anthropology is a collaborative weekly event organised by departments of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnologie) in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.

  • Barbara Čurda

    Guest at ISEK - Social Anthropology Fall 2023 - Barbara Čurda

    Barbara Čurda is currently a visiting fellow at the ISEK - Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. Her research interests comprise gender, corporeal practices, dance, the related question of heritage, and the intersections of the question of knowing or know-how with inequalities.

  • Annisa Hartoto

    Guest at ISEK - Social Anthropology Fall 2023 - Annisa Hartoto

    Annisa Hartoto is currently a visiting fellow at ISEK - Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Zürich, where she will take on the role of a Postdoctoral Researcher starting in 2024.

  • Bild Lehrforschung Bangladesch

    CfA Social and Cultural Anthropology: Excursion in Bangladesh/Switzerland

    The practice module involves guided field research in Bangladesh and Switzerland and is designed as a collaborative project with indigenous students from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh.

  • Molly Fitzpatrick erhält Jahrespreis 2023 der Philosophischen Fakultät

    Die Universität Zürich verleiht auf Antrag der Philosophischen Fakultät einen Jahrespreis an Dr. Molly Fitzpatrick für ihre Dissertation «Moral Becomings: The Affective Politics of Care in Midwifery Clinics in Bali, Indonesia».

  • Nazgul Baigabatova and Aliya Kashaganova

    Guests at ISEK - Social Anthropology Spring 2023 - part 2

    Nazgul Baigabatova and Aliya Kashaganova are visiting researchers at ISEK within framework of the Horizon Project «Central Asian Law: Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia» research and training project.

  • Workshop "Between Archive and Field"

    As part of the ongoing SNSF project "Digital Entanglements", on 17-18 April 2023 Prof. Dr. Monika Dommann and Dr. Lena Kaufmann will organize the interdisciplinary publication workshop "Between Archive and Field" at the University of Zurich.

  • H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize for Indira Alibayeva

    Indira Alibayeva won the H. Russell Bernard Graduate Student Paper Prize, which is given by the Society for Anthropological Sciences (a section of the AAA).

  • Jugendfilmtage 2023: Preis für Lynn Kohli

    Lynn Kohli hat für ihren Film "Endometriose: Chronisch Unsichtbar", den sie im Rahmen ihrer Bachelorarbeit am ISEK drehte, an den Schweizer Jugendfilmtagen in der Kategorie D den 3. Preis erhalten. Wir gratulieren herzlich!

  • Russell Zanca and Ahmad Wali

    Guests at ISEK - Social Anthropology Spring 2023

    Russell Zanca’s purpose in Zurich is to work with Prof. Finke and others to develop a long-term research proposal for a project in Kazakhstan focused on pastoralism and the country’s human-ecological interface given increasingly perilous climactic conditions. Ahmad Wali Ahmad Yar is currently a visiting researcher at UZH – ISEK Chair Prof. Peter Finke until mid-April and will predominantly work on the HumMingBird project on migration, where UZH – ISEK is also a partner.

  • Benin Bronzes in the Spotlight

    UZH News: Eight Swiss museums, including UZH’s Ethnographic Museum, have come together under the Swiss Benin Initiative (BIS) to work with Nigeria in investigating the provenance of their holdings from the historical kingdom of Benin.

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