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The online lecture series "Decolonising Anthropology" of the German-speaking institutes is entering its second round.
In the coming autumn semester 2024, five tutors will teach scientific working techniques in the introductory year. Application deadline: April 30, 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».
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".
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.
On November 2, 2023, a delegation from Universitas Gadjah Mada visited UZH.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
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’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.
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.
