Swiss Society for Anthropology (SSA)

The Swiss Society for Anthropology was founded in 1920. It is part of the Platform Biology of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT).

Close contacts are maintained with neighbouring disciplines such as palaeontology, human anatomy, zoology, ecology, anthropology, archeology, forensic science, history, social history and history of medicine.

SSA organizes an annual general meeting in Switzerland, which is followed by a scientific discussion.

The SGA/SSA agrees with the SCNAT statement and stands in solidarity with the students and academics who are peacefully demonstrating in Iran for freedom and equal rights. To the statement: https://akademien-schweiz.ch/en/current/news/academies-call-for-cessation-of-violence-by-the-iranian-government/akademien-fordern-das-einstellen-der-gewalt-durch-die-iranische-regierung/

The SGA/SSA stands in solidarity with the academics in Ukraine and endorses the notification of the SCNAT with reference to the statement of the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA). https://scnat.ch/en/for_a_solid_science/uuid/i/8f1b62e9-2efe-5760-92ab-5f6246fd12e9-Solidarity_with_Ukrainian_scientists