29.04.2025

On 27 May, 6pm, in room B130 (PER 21) our guest lecturer Dr. Jovana Dikovic will give a talk introducing her newly published book "The Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-socialist rural development in Serbia"…

15.04.2025

In her project called "Back to the Roots: Medicinal Plant Supply Chains in Post-Covid Asia" Dr. Emilia Sulek will study medicinal plant supply chains that have multiplied across Asia. A grant from Delta…

22.11.2024

Björn Reichhardt has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Ferments, Fences, Futures: Ecologies of Transformation in Rural Mongolia."

01.10.2024

Prof. Dr. David Bozzini (Professor of Anthropology at the University of Fribourg) will give a lecture on Tuesday the 8th of October.

24.09.2024

The Unit of Social Anthropology is inviting applications for a Postdoc position (50-55%) in the research project "Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure Through Time"

12.09.2024

This is a podcast on building material reuse and circular construction for those interested in a more sustainable management of our built environment and a careful handling of building materials.

21.05.2024

Adam Przywara, postdoctoral researcher at the Social Anthropology Unit, is a recipient of the Theodor Fischer Award 2024 for his PhD thesis titled "The Materiality of Ruins: Rubble, Salvaged Bricks, and…

21.03.2024

The Unit of Social Anthropology is inviting applications for a PhD Position (100%) in the research project «Digital Agriculture».

31.01.2024

Sa thèse de doctorat qui s'intitule « Les temps de la sécurité informatique : une anthropologie du soin du protocole cryptographique OpenPGP » a été soutenue avec succès le 11 janvier 2024.