Agenda for PhD Students
ISEK
Fall semester 2025
Doctoral Day
March 20, 2026, AND 5.03, 8050 Zürich
CUSO
February 6, 2026, 15:30 - 17:30 | PhD Meet Up
April 17, 2026 | Emotions and Ethical Dilemmas in Anthropological Research
June 5, 2026 | Multimodal Ethnography (I): Expanding Ethnography: Multimodal Methods for Research and Representation
July 23-24, 2026 | Across Art and Care: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Practices
September 1-3, 2026 |Ethnographic Writing Workshop and Retreat
September 9-11, 2026 |Multimodal Ethnography (II): What to Do With This Mess? Multimodal Practices in Anthropology
Beginning of October 2026 |Technologies of (Mis)Trust: Anthropological Perspectives
November 5-6, 2026 | Studying Up? How to Involve Experts and Privileged Persons in Your Ethnography
November 20, 2026 |Ethnographic Vulnerabilities: A Reflexive Workshop on Embodied and Intersectional Approaches
Supplementary Courses in the Social Sciences at UZH
Method courses and workshops (registration via doreen.spoerer-wagner@phil.uzh.ch)
- Communicating Science: PhD Seminar on Writing Quantitative Papers (Wed 2-6 p.m., every 2-3 weeks, deadline 10 March)
- Writers Workshop for Social Scientists for PhD Students (Fr 10-12 every 2-3 weeks, deadline 10 March)
- Crafting your Writing Process: PhD Writing Workshop for Qualitative Researchers (6 and 13 March, deadline 1 Feb)
- Methodological Foundations PhD (Tu 10-12 a.m., deadline 17 Jan)
- Qualitative and Ethnographic Data Analysis with MAXQDA (18 and 31 March, deadline 1 Feb)
- The Body, an Ally in Research? Somatic & Theoretical Exploration (26-27 March, deadline 1 Feb)
- Souveränes Argumentieren in kontroversen Situationen (18 and 22 May, deadline 1 April)
- Workshop Scientific English Writing (3, 10, and 17 June half-day, deadline 15 Apr)
- Mixed Methods: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research (11-12 June, deadline 1 May)
Social sciences theories course (registration via doreen.spoerer-wagner@phil.uzh.ch)
- Theories in the Social Sciences: An Advanced Course (22-23 Apr, deadline 1 March)
Democracy Studies courses and workshops
- Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies "Democracy, Inequality and Minorities" (22-26 June, deadline 31 Jan)