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Anthropology and Sociology of Development

 

 

The Master in Anthropology and Sociology of Development is a two-year programme designed for students interested in the comparative study of global issues from below, from the margins, and across borders. It explores development in a critical and forward-looking manner as pertaining to all regions in the world including the Global South.

 

Courses in the programme equip students with analytical and methodological tools in anthropology and sociology to explore four key themes:

  • power and conflict
  • space, population and mobility
  • social movements and transformations
  • culture and identity


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ANSO Colloquium: Aditya Bharadwaj (ANSO Research Professor):

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 17:00-19:00 (Attention: changed time!), CV 342

" Corporeity: Conceptualising Corporeal Citizenship in India " in collaboration with IHEID's Programme on Gender and Global Change (PGGC).

 

 

Call for Applications: ANSO Teaching Assistants

29 April - 25 May 2013

Applications are solicited from the Anthropology and Sociology Department’s PhD students for 3 Teaching Assistantship positions. The selected candidate will be appointed as Teaching Assistant of the ANSO Department for the academic year 2013-2014 [more...]. Deadline for application: 25 May 2013.

 

ANSO Colloquium: Martin Riesebrodt (ANSO Professor, Oltramare Chair)
Tuesday 07.05 at 6:15pm - CV342 (Voie-Creuse) 3rd Floor

"Secularization and the Global Resurgence or Religion"

 

ANSO Workshop: Prof. Bharadwaj

05 May 2013: Villa Barton (10am-5pm)

Ethnographic Selves and Others: Reflections on Ethnographic Practice

 

 

PhD Students: Scholarships for Fieldwork

08 April 2013

The US-based Wenner Gren foundation offers scholarships to apply for the period of PhD fieldwork. Deadlines are 1st of May and November. [More...]

 

 

Dates for ANSO Colloquium & ANSO Movies: Spring 2013

14 February 2013

Please find here the dates for the recently launched departmental gatherings' series: ANSO Public Colloquia and movie nights.

 

 

ANSO welcomes new Adjunct Professor for the Yves Oltramare Chair "Religion and Politics in the Contemporary World"

Martin Riesebrodt joins ANSO in spring term 2013
Professor Martin Riesebrodt joins ANSO as the holder of the Yves Oltramare Chair on Religion and Politics in the Contemporary World at the Graduate Institute [More...].

Watch an interview with him by clicking on the picture:

 

ANSO Faculty welcomes new Research Professor

Aditya Bharadwaj joined the Graduate Institute as Research Professor of Anthropology and Sociology in January 2013. [More...].

Here is a fascinating interview with him:

 

 
   

Videos

Professor Shalini Randeria
(Head of ANSO 09/2012)

 

Professor Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff  

Presentation: Master in Anthropology/ Sociology of Development (09/2011)