From February 5-7, 2026, social anthropologists from Switzerland and beyond will be gathering in Fribourg for an inspiring exchange of ideas, research, and community at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Association, supported by the Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften and the Fonds d’Action Facultaire of the Faculty of Humanities.

Conference topic:
“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”

Keynote:
Prof. Christina Schwenkel from the University of California, Riverside. “Reuse and Repair as Matters of Urban Care: Shapeshifting in a Time of Climate Crisis.”

Programme & registration: 
https://www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-meetings/annual-meeting-2026