50 years of Cooperation Bergen-Khartoum; History and Outcomes
The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen is happy to announce the upcoming half-day seminar of our Spring 2015 Department Seminars with Leif Manger, Gunnar Håland og Frode Storås (UiB); Gunnar Sørbø (CMI); Munzoul Assal, Osman M. Osman, Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed (University of Khartoum).
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The seminar will give glimpses of the long history of research and education collaboration between the Department of Social Anthropology at UiB and the University of Karthoum. Gunnar Håland asks why Sudan has been such a fertile field for anthropological theorizing, and Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed looks at how anthropologists since the 1960s have addressed issues such as ethnicity and fragmentation in Sudan.
The other participants in this “Sudan Group” will add their voices, based on their own experiences, whether in Sudan or in Norway. Taken together the seminar will not provide a unified conceptual or theoretical message, but will illustrate the particular value of this type of long durée anthropological relationships.
