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Anna Fersztand

Anna Fersztand, MA

  • PhD candidate in the SNSF Doc.CH Research Project «Postmigrant Perspectives»
Room number
AFL-G-220

Research Interests

  • Subjectivity
  • Postmigrant Perspectives
  • Silence, Trauma and the Unspeakable
  • Ethnography and transgenerational Storytelling
  • Audio-Visual Anthropology
  • Psychoanalysis

Portrait

  • Since 2024   University of Zurich, PhD at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK) with a Doc.CH SNSF Grant supervised by Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher, Dr. Greg Scott (DePaul Chicago) and Dr. Erik Porath (Berlin)
  • 2019 - 2022   MA Social Anthropology and Sociology, University of Bern
  • 2013 - 2018  BA Sociology and Media, University of Basel
  • 2007 - 2011   Baccalauréat & Abitur (Abibac) — Lycée Jean Mermoz, Saint-Louis, France

Academic Work

Lectures and Podiums

  • 2026    Ausstellung: „Sućiča et ce qu’il en reste“ mit Sedina Delić-Tanović REFLECTIONS, DISTORTIONS, SUBVERSIONS: INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION EXHIBITION 2026 Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago. 
  • 2026    Multimodale Konferenz im Théâtre 2.21: „Sučića et ce qu’il en reste“ mit Sedina Delić-Tanović https://oblo.ch/events/2026-04-10-18-00, Lausanne
  • 2026    Intervention: Commémoration de la Journée International des Brassard Blancs (Prijedor), Genf
  • 2026    Conference: « La mémoire des génocides: un dialogue entre héritières » https://polesud.ch/evenement/la-memoire-des-genocides-un-dialogue-entre-heritieres/, Lausanne
  • 2025    Seminar at ISEK University Zürich in Qualitative Methods for Advanced Students: «(Mit) Abwesenheiten umgehen? Stille, (Ver-)Schweigen, Lücke an der Schnittstelle von Ethnographie und Film» / «Enter the Void. Silence, Silencing, and Gaps at the Intersections of Ethnography and Film», Zürich
  • 2025    PhD Workshop with International Speakers: Multimodal Research Methods: Videographic Apparatus, it’s impact on the agency of storytelling, Zürich.
  • 2025    Guest Lecture at Backhouse Projects: Postmigrant Perspectives. «Staying with the research participants», Berlin.
  • 2025    Guest Lecture at Studentisches Forum der Psychoanalyse Zürich «Das Geniessen geniessen mit Lacan», Zürich
  • 2024    Co-Instructor: Making Documentaries about Scientific Research, Paris, International Science Council
  • 2023    Panel discussion ETH-Archiv: «Gespräche mit Überlebenden – Erinnerung und Trauma in biografischen Interviews», Zürich
  • 2023    Intervention on Film and the Unspeakable in an Art-Gallery: „Making Art and seeing society in Berlin“ Berlin
  • 2022    Two-part workshop on "trauma, the non-sayable and listening in social Anthropology" at the Lacan Seminar in Zurich
  • 2022    The Night of Research in Bern
  • 2022    “Filming Family: stories between the private and the public'' in Dr. Coppens course at the University of Bern

 

  • Advisory Board Member for the Swiss Memorial (Schweizer Memorial für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus), St. Gallen
  • Jury member at Ethnografilm, Paris
  • Board Member of Lacan Seminar, Zürich