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• 25 jan 2019

  Zurich

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

  Vacancy PhD position in Social Anthropology at the University of Zürich

  We are looking for a doctoral student to be part of the research project “Visions of the Social: The Transformation of State Planning in Postcolonial India” which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.  The PhD student will examine local implications of financialized forms of social service provision in North India.  We offer employment for four years with a competitive salary as well as a dynamic and innovative research setting in a lively department with a motivated faculty interested in collaboration and academic exchange.

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• 01 mai 2018

  Zurich

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  No country for anthropologists?

  Contemporary ethnographic research in the Middle East

  Many parts of the contemporary Middle East are confronted with war, sectarianism, transnational interferences, uprisings, and a comeback of authoritarian regimes. This brings about various difficulties for ethnographic research as a practice of knowledge production based on the immersion of researchers in given social contexts and the subsequent writing up and publishing of texts. The international conference No country for anthropologists? Contemporary ethnographic research in the Middle East explores the obstacles to do ethnography in the Middle East and take them as the starting point for reflection upon the role of anthropology with a view to the Middle East of today.

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• 07 avr 2017

  Zurich

  Miscellaneous information - Education

  Teaching Gender. Theory and society in the classroom

  Now more than ever, gender as an analytical concept is being heavily contested from diverse quarters inside as well as outside academia. The panel discussion addresses key questions of how to teach gender as  critical theory in the light of current societal and political tensions on the one hand and institutional constraints inside the university on the other hand. How can we teach “critique”? What does teaching gender mean in terms of methods and topics? And how can we engage in critical research and teaching while responding to societal expectations as to relevant output and knowledge transfer?

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• 07 avr 2017

  08 avr 2017

  Zurich

  Study days - Sociology

  Concepts that Matter! Terminologies of women and gender in transnational perspective

  The Department of Gender Studies and Islamic Studies of the University of Zurich is organizing the first workshop of the Gender in University and Society (GENiUS) network on “Concepts that Matter! Terminologies of Women and Gender in Transnational Perspective”. GENiUS is an informal Swiss-Arab Network of academics specialized in the field of Gender Studies in and on the Arab region that aims at fostering scientific exchange on the levels of research, teaching and institution building.

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• 05 jui 2014

  06 jui 2014

  07 jui 2014

  Lausanne

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Sexual causes

  Sexualities and collective mobilisations

  De la prostitution au mariage homosexuel, en passant par le harcèlement sexuel ou l’avortement, nombreuses sont les questions sexuelles ayant suscité des mobilisations au cours des dernières décennies. En effet, depuis le phénomène de « libération sexuelle » observé principalement dans les pays occidentaux durant les années 1970, les « causes sexuelles » se sont multipliées partout dans le monde. Ce colloque est ainsi consacré aux mobilisations relatives à la sexualité et au genre dans différents pays d’Europe, d’Amérique du Nord, d’Afrique et du Proche-Orient.

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• 16 jui 2013

  Carouge

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Economy

  Assistant HES (Doctoral student) at Geneva School of Business Administration

  The Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG-Geneva) offers a Research Assistant (Doctoral student) position for three years starting from 1^st September 2013.The doctoral student will participate to the project « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic », financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He or she will be in charge of the research components dedicated to costing around H1N1. This comparative study will involve qualitative fieldwork in three countries, namely Switzerland, the United States and Japan. He or she will collaborate with a post-doctoral fellow focusing on issues related to organization and communication. He or she will have to write a PhD thesis on H1N1 costing issues and will be supervised by Prof. Nathalie Brender. The project is funded for three years.

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• 31 mai 2013

  Geneva

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  A three year post-doc position in the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva (80%)

  Le/la post-doc que nous recrutons sur un poste à 80% participera durant 3 ans au projet financé par le fonds national Suisse de la recherche scientifique (dirigé par la prof. Mathilde Bourrier): « Organizing, Communicating, and Costing in Risk Governance: Learning Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic ». Il/Elle travaillera plus particulièrement sur les deux composantes du projet portant sur les facteurs organisationnels et communicationnels de la gestion de la pandémie, en Suisse, aux États-Unis et au Japon. La personne recherchée a obtenu son doctorat en sociologie ou en anthropologie depuis moins de 3 ans, d'excellentes capacités à mener des terrains de recherche dans plusieurs pays, et d'un intérêt marqué pour les questions de santé globale (global health).

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