Key Activities

The Department of Anthropology and Sociology is composed of a vibrant community, comprising a diverse tapestry of individuals, professors, researchers and students united by their passion for understanding and shaping our world.  They come together in their wish to convey this knowledge to the wider public, at the Graduate Institute, but beyond it's physical walls too.

The following section is an overview of our community’s key activities.

ANSO CONVERSATIONS | AUTUMN 2024

ANSO CONVERSATIONS is a space for scholars to share work-in-progress and research findings of relevance to contemporary anthropology and sociology. We accommodate diverse formats, from classic paper presentations to multi-modal content as well as inverted panels on previously circulated texts. The seminars are open to the public and held on Tuesdays from 16h15 to 17h30.
 

Programme

ACTIVITIES BEYOND ANSO

Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism

century-old experience in Geneva

Founded following an original idea developed by ​​Grégoire Mallard, Director of Research of the Geneva Graduate Institute

Conférence Taormina, 8-9 january 2025


Alessandro Monsutti will participate in the conference Migrazioni, spaesamento e appaesamento: letture antropologiche del nesso rituali/migrazioni organised on 8 and 9 January 2025 in Taormina by the University of Messina. With his colleague Roberta Altin, from the University of Trieste, he will discuss a collaborative cross-border project during which were collected the personal belongings left behind by migrants who had travelled across the borders between Croatia, Slovenia and Italy. Stripping oneself of these clothes and objects of everyday use before entering the urban space of Trieste may be interpreted as a rite of passage to a new stage of life and testifies the hope to move towards better futures. 
Allegra Lab

Anthropology for Radical Optimism