Registration is now open for the 15th International Burma Studies Conference, which will take place from June 9 - 11, 2023.

We are pleased to announce that in June of 2023 another SEG-Interface Commission Summer School will take place in Ascona with Zurich participation, this time under the title "Critical Sustainability Engagements: Anthropological Perspectives on Theory and Practice".

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.

This two-day conference will explore the theme of decolonisation through different modalities of learning from and generating knowledge with marginalised communities located in former colonies of the Global South.

UZH-News: In der «Benin Initiative Schweiz» haben sich acht Schweizer Museen zusammengeschlossen, um im Austausch mit Nigeria die Herkunftsbiografien ihrer Sammlungen aus dem Königreich Benin zu untersuchen. Vertreten ist auch das Völkerkundemuseum der UZH.

Die nächste «International Burma Studies Conference» findet vom 9. Bis 11. Juni 2023 an der Universität Zürich statt – organisiert vom ISEK, dem Myanmar-Institut und der Burma Studies Group.

Michèle Dick hat am Dies Academicus 2022 der Jahrespreis der Philosophischen Fakultät für ihre Dissertation "Capturing the Elusive - Filing Anthropology", die sie im Juni 2021 abgelegt hat, verliehen bekommen.