BA/MA-SE Transnational Relations of Care: Ukraine and beyond

  • Teaching

    Details

    Faculty Faculty of Humanities
    Domain Social Sciences
    Code UE-L37.01484
    Languages English
    Type of lesson Seminar
    Level Master, Bachelor
    Semester AS-2026

    Schedules and rooms

    Summary schedule Monday 17:15 - 19:00, Hebdomadaire (Autumn semester)

    Teaching

    Responsibles
    • Kobi Madlen
    • Ovsiiuk Oksana
    Teachers
    • Kobi Madlen
    • Ovsiiuk Oksana
    Description

    Contemporary social relations increasingly transcend national borders as people migrate in response to war, repression, climate change, economic opportunities, or intimate partnerships. This seminar examines how people sustain social, familial, and intimate relationships across national borders, focusing on the role of digital technologies, infrastructures, routines, and affective labor that maintain or disrupt long distance connections. Using socio anthropological perspectives on transnationalism and care, students explore how kinship and support systems adapt when lived across distance. Through readings, discussions, guest lectures, and collaborative Swiss Ukrainian research projects, the course offers both theoretical foundations and hands on experience studying transnational relations. The seminar is offered in collaboration between the Invisible University and the University of Fribourg and takes place primarily online.

    Training objectives

    • Students understand the key debates in the field of transnational relations and care in order to apply them in the anthropological analysis of contemporary societies

    • Students develop the ability to analyze and discuss complex societal questions

    • Students are able to plan, conduct and finalize small research projects in groups.

    • Students interact with one another transnationally through online teaching and research settings and reflect on the benefits and challenges this brings.

    Softskills No
    Off field Yes
    BeNeFri Yes
    Mobility Yes
    UniPop No
  • Dates and rooms
    Date Hour Type of lesson Place
    14.09.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    21.09.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    28.09.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    05.10.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    12.10.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    19.10.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    26.10.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    02.11.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    09.11.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    23.11.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    30.11.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    07.12.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
    14.12.2026 17:15 - 19:00 Cours
  • Assessments methods

    Seminar - AS-2026, Session d'hiver 2027

    Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure

    Seminar - SS-2027, Session d'été 2027

    Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure

    Seminar - SS-2027, Autumn Session 2027

    Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure

    Seminar - AS-2027, Session d'hiver 2028

    Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure
  • Assignment
    Valid for the following curricula:
    Contemporary History 120
    Version: SA16_BA_bi-v02
    Modules externes > Module Sciences sociales 1 > Anthropologie sociale ext. 1e année (Plan d'études 2016)
    Modules externes > Module Sciences sociales 2 > Anthropologie sociale ext. 3e année (Plan d'études 2016)

    Contemporary History 120
    Version: SA16_BA_fr_v02
    Modules externes > Module Sciences sociales 2 > Anthropologie sociale ext. 3e année (Plan d'études 2016)
    Modules externes > Module Sciences sociales 1 > Anthropologie sociale ext. 1e année (Plan d'études 2016)

    Contemporary History 120
    Version: SA16_BA_de_v01
    Modules externes > Module Sciences sociales 2 > Anthropologie sociale ext. 3e année (Plan d'études 2016)
    Modules externes > Module Sciences sociales 1 > Anthropologie sociale ext. 1e année (Plan d'études 2016)

    Contemporary History 120
    Version: SA16_BA_de_v02
    Modules externes > Module Sciences sociales 1 > Anthropologie sociale ext. 1e année (Plan d'études 2016)
    Modules externes > Module Sciences sociales 2 > Anthropologie sociale ext. 3e année (Plan d'études 2016)

    Culture, Politics and Religion in Pluralist Societies 30 [MA]
    Version: SA24_MA_P2/PS_fr_de_bi_v01
    Profils > Social Anthropology, Politics, Technology > ANTHRO 1 Politik, Macht und soziale Transformationen

    Culture, Politics and Religion in Pluralist Societies 90 [MA]
    Version: SA24_MA_PA_fr_de_bi_v01
    Options > Social Anthropology, Politics, Technology > ANTHRO 1 Politik, Macht und soziale Transformationen

    Social Anthropology 120
    Version: SA24_BA_fr_de_bi_v01
    ANTHRO 2: Aktuelle Debatten und Gebiete der Sozialanthropologie

    Social Anthropology 60
    Version: SA24_BA_fr_de_bi_v01
    ANTHRO 2: Aktuelle Debatten und Gebiete der Sozialanthropologie