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ISA IGL Program 2026

Read more about event ISA International Guest Lecture: Heidi Fjeld
Thu 26.03.
ISA International Guest Lecture: Heidi Fjeld
Shifting rural spaces in the high Himalayas: Cosmopolitics, food and future-making in rural western Bhutan
Read more about event ISA International Guest Lecture: Carole McGranahan
Thu 16.04.
ISA International Guest Lecture: Carole McGranahan
Theoretical Storytelling: Anthropology as a Way of Knowing the World
Read more about event ISA International Guest Lecture: Laurent Prodié
Thu 07.05.
ISA International Guest Lecture: Laurent Prodié
Pharmaceutical Grey Zones: Drug Life and Its Constituent Ambiguities in Cambodia
Read more about event ISA International Guest Lecture: Theresia Hofer
Thu 11.06.
ISA International Guest Lecture: Theresia Hofer
Handsigns from Lhasa: An Urban Deafnography from Tibet [provisional title]

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Picture vom Judith Bovensiepen and Martin Slama at AI Away Day.

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Die Zukunft lokaler Bautraditionen im Klimawandel
handwerkundbau.at | 01/19/26
Die Zukunft lokaler Bautraditionen im Klimawandel
In Yemen, southern power push challenges Houthi stalemate
Deutsche Welle | 12/13/25
In Yemen, southern power push challenges Houthi stalemate
Nach dem Assad-Sturz in Syrien: Jemen wird zur neuen Drogen-Drehscheibe in Nahost
Tagesspiegel.de | 12/09/25
Nach dem Assad-Sturz in Syrien: Jemen wird zur neuen Drogen-Drehscheibe in Nahost
Misbah Riaz - mein erster Einblick in die Forschung
ÖAW | Österreichsiche Studienstiftung | 11/13/25
Misbah Riaz - mein erster Einblick in die Forschung

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Institute for Social Anthropology

ISA Lectures 2026

Institute for Social Anthropology

Institute for Social Anthropology

Institute for Social Anthropology

Institute for Social Anthropology

Events

ISA International Guest Lecture: Heidi Fjeld

ISA International Guest Lecture: Carole McGranahan

ISA International Guest Lecture: Laurent Prodié

ISA International Guest Lecture: Theresia Hofer

News

FWF Esprit Grant for Dayana Lengauer

ISA Away Day on the topic of AI

Exhibition: ZOZAN | February 2026

JOB Announcement

Selected Publications

Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor-Leste

Encountering (im)probable wit: Religious puns in an Indonesian post-conflict setting

Arab Encounters – A Forum at HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Arabic Translation of "Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict"

ISA in the News

Die Zukunft lokaler Bautraditionen im Klimawandel

In Yemen, southern power push challenges Houthi stalemate

Nach dem Assad-Sturz in Syrien: Jemen wird zur neuen Drogen-Drehscheibe in Nahost

Misbah Riaz - mein erster Einblick in die Forschung

Videos

Living on Abandoned Land: Environment and Depopulation on the Azores

Die Huthis und die „Achse des Widerstandes“: Der Gazakrieg um Roten Meer