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Von Theorien der Care-Ethik oder von anthropologischen Tauschtheorien wissen wir, dass Care-Arbeit nicht den marktökonomischen Prinzipien resp. jenen der Kommodifizierung folgt, sondern vielmehr eine relationale Qualität zwischen sozialer…

Moderation by Dr. Laure Sandoz

With Dr. Eda Elif Tibet

Engaged Conversations with Dr. des. Shabih Zaidi

Engaged Conversations with Dr. Susan Mossman Riva

TSANTSA SPECIAL ISSUE PANELS ON ENGAGED ANTHROPOLOGY

ROLES, CONTRIBUTIONS AND DILEMMAS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL SPHERE. (IN ENGLISH, 13:30)

"NO CULTURE NO FUTURE": L'IMPACT DU COVID-19 SUR LES ACTEURS CULTURELS À GENÈVE. (EN FRANÇAIS, 15.30)

WHY THE WORLD NEEDS…

Engaged Conversations with Dr. Mike Poltorak

GENS: Un manifeste feministe pour l'étude du capitalisme

Intervenantes : Prof. Irene Becci (UniL), Prof. Anne Lavanchy (HETS), Dr. Anne-Christine Trémon (UniL)

Re-viewing «the field»: Contemporary debates and approaches to fieldwork

During the five-day course, students will be interacting with practitioners engaged in various forms of applications of anthropological knowledge to address social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental challenges. Participants…

Social medicine is an umbrella term for a plurality of initiatives unfolding in diverse ways since the 19th century and at- tempting to solve social problems and make access to medi- cine easier and fair. In other words, social medicine has…

A Colloquium at the Cross Cultural Centre Ascona
Organised by the Interface Commission

This colloquium gathers Swiss based anthropologists engaging with partners and audiences beyond the academy. It will expand the multiple forms of…

With Aurelia Gualdo

Expertise and expert knowledge are omnipresent terms and powerful concepts in healthcare settings. From highly specialised knowledge of physicians, nurses and other health professionals to the knowledge of non-medical therapists and lay…

In recent years, health-related data and processes of datafication have received extensive academic attention. Scholarly discussions have highlighted either potential promises of datafication, such as predicting and mitigating salient…

“Give and Take – Anthropology as Exchange”

The CUSO Swiss Graduate Program in Anthropology & the Mittelbau of the Swiss Anthropological Association are co-organizing a meet-up and workshop in order to discuss career opportunities for anthropologists, inside but also outside…

Speakers:

• Doris Bacalzo, post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Lucerne, who will talk about her experience with the SAA's "Interface Commission".
• Nolwenn Buhler, post-doctoral researcher at UniSanté, University of Lausanne, who…

“Towards an anthropology for troubled times?”

The PhD meet up is an opportunity to bring the program's current participants, alumni and professors together. The meet up seizes the annual conference of the Swiss Anthropological Association as an opportunity to get involved with members…

“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”

Organizes: Dr. Esther Leemann, UZH

Speaker: Dr. Nina Khamsy, UNINE

Organisateur(s)/trice(s): Dre Sara Petrella, UNIFR

Intervenant-e-s: Dre Pauline Milani, UNIFR, Dre Raphaëlle Ruppen-Coutaz, UNIL, M. Frédéric Deshusses, Bibliothèque de Genève, Mme Nathalie Garbely, autrice et traductrice M. Lou Lepori,…

Benoît de L’Estoile (Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac)

Lecture Series in Social Anthropology, Spring Semester 2026

TILL MOSTOWLANSKY, Geneva Graduate Institute

ANSO Conversations

Gabriel Scheidecker (University of Zurich)

ANTHROPOLOGICAL CROSSROADS, Colloquium of the Institute of Social Anthropology, University Basel

author Anna Schmid (Museum der Kulturen Basel) in conversation with Friedrich von Bose (Museum der Kulturen Basel) & Zainabu Jallo (Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, University of Basel)

ANTHROPOLOGICAL CROSSROADS, Colloquium of the…

Robby Kapesa and Khanyile Mlotshwa (St. Gallen Collegium)

Ethnography Talks - Transdisciplinary Conversations in Anthropology and Beyond

ASHLEY MEARS, University of Amsterdam

ANSO Conversations

Nicolas Baya Lafitte

STS-CH 25th Anniversary Event Series

Organisateur(s)/trice(s): Pre Caroline Rusterholz, UNIFR & IHEID

Intervenant-e-s: Pre Caroline Rusterholz, UNIFR & IHEID; Mme Naomi Samake-Bäckert, University of Cambridge & IHEID; Dre Sara Petrella, UNIFR; Dr George Severs, IHEID

Three Days of Workshops, Screenings, Discussions, Exhibitions, and Performances

Adeline Masqualier (Tulane University)

ANTHROPOLOGICAL CROSSROADS, Colloquium of the Institute of Social Anthropology, University Basel

Ethnographic and participatory approaches have become central to health and health care research, offering situated insights into how illness experiences, professional practices, institutional logics, and both health related inequalities…

The Swiss Human Research Act (HRA) lays the legal basis regulating research done in the health domain. As such it has important implications for anthropological research studying health and biomedicine, its institutions, practices, and…

Biao Xiang (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

Lecture Series in Social Anthropology, Spring Semester 2026

PANIZ MUSAWI NATANZI, UniBern / University of Pennsylvania

ANSO Conversations

Organizes: Dr. Faduma Abukar Mursal, UNILU, Dr. Pascale Schild, UNIBE

Speaker: Dr. Omar Kasmani, Freie Universität Berlin

VINATHI GURIJALA, Geneva Graduate Institute

DELAL AYDIN, Geneva Graduate Institute

ANSO Conversations

Diekara Oloruntoba-Oju (Harvard University)

ANTHROPOLOGICAL CROSSROADS, Colloquium of the Institute of Social Anthropology, University Basel

Mariane C. Ferme (University of California, Berkeley)

ANTHROPOLOGICAL CROSSROADS, Colloquium of the Institute of Social Anthropology, University Basel

Jessica Pidoux

STS-CH 25th Anniversary Event Series

RIDDHI PANDEY, Geneva Graduate Institute

LORENZO FELTRIN, Geneva Graduate Institute

ANSO Conversations

Mirco Göpfert (Goethe University Frankfurt)

ANTHROPOLOGICAL CROSSROADS, Colloquium of the Institute of Social Anthropology, University Basel

Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal

STS-CH 25th Anniversary Event Series

Organisateur(s)/trice(s): Mme Tina Latifi, UNIGE; Mme Agnes Kandlbinder, UNIL; Mme Maila Mertens, UNIZH

Intervenant-e-s: Prof. Nowlenn Bühler, University of Lausanne; Dr. Andrea Martani, University of Basel; Prof. Alice Margaria,…

Mikko Joronen (Tampere University)

Lecture Series in Social Anthropology, Spring Semester 2026

Willem Church (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)

Ethnography Talks - Transdisciplinary Conversations in Anthropology and Beyond

Paola Juan (University of Zurich)

Lecture Series in Social Anthropology, Spring Semester 2026

This conference brings together scholars from around the world, many of whom have a pastoralist background, to discuss the most pressing challenges pastoralist communities face today, as well as possible ways forward. I particular, we focus…

Organizes: Michelle von Dach, UZH, Kiah Rutz, UZH

Speaker: Dr. Darcy Alexandra, UNIBE

Colloque sous forme de table-ronde organisé par Marco Motta & Louis Vuilleumier de l'Université de Lausanne

Stephanie Briers & Bianca Vienni-Baptista

STS-CH 25th Anniversary Event Series

Organized by Madhurilata Basu, Jürg Bühler, and Sandra Bärnreuther

To register please contact madhurilata.basu@unilu.ch