The Association's next conference will be held in Lucerne in June 2024 (https://www.sagw.ch/seg/tagungen-der-seg/jahrestagung-2024). Bettina Beer is a social anthropologist interested in intergroup relations and social categories. She is currently researching conflicts and ruptures in kin relations. In addition to her extensive ethnographic work in social anthropology, she contributes to the history of anthropology. Her engagement in this field underlines her commitment to an understanding of anthropology, in terms of its historical foundations, its theoretical development and its contemporary applications; all of which inform her vision and objectives as the president of the Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA). She is co-editor of the influential social science journal Sociologus and chair of the European Society for Oceanists; her latest book publications include the Wampar-English Dictionary (2021, with Hans Fischer) and Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea (2022, with Tobias Schwoerer).