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RAI - Norwegian Anthropology Day

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Norwegian Anthropology Day at the Royal Anthropological Institute

Friday 30 October 2015

 

Venue: The British Academy, Carlton House Terrace (off The Mall)

09:00-10:00 Registration

10:00-10:15 Opening remarks by Prof. Edvard Hviding, Univ. of Bergen

10:15–13:00 PRESENTATIONS (25 minutes each including short Q & A)

10:15-10:40 Social anthropology in Norway: a nutshell history (Prof. Olaf H. Smedal, Univ. of Bergen)

10:40-11:05 The fieldwork tradition (Prof. Signe Howell, Univ. of Oslo)

11:05-11:30 No Direction Home? Anthropological constructions of familiarity, and some experiences from Norway (Prof. Halvard Vike, Univ. of Oslo)

Coffee/tea break 11:30-11:45

11:45-12.10 Anthropology, Development, and North-South Cooperation (Dr. Gunnar Sørbø, CMI)

12:10-12:35 The unbearable lightness of being a public anthropologist in Norway (Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Univ. of Oslo)

12:35-13:00 Disagreement, illuminations and mystery: a brief ethnography of Norwegian anthropology today (Dr. Synnøve K.N. Bendixsen, Univ. of Bergen)

13:00-14:00 Lunch (on site)

14:00–17:00 PANEL DISCUSSION (5-7 min. each, followed by internal and plenary discussion; integrated coffee & tea break)

Moderators: Prof. Annelin Eriksen and Prof. Christine M. Jacobsen, Univ. of Bergen

                Prof. Penny Harvey, Univ. of Manchester

                Prof. Unni Wikan, Univ. of Oslo

                Prof. Sidsel Saugestad, Arctic Univ. of Norway

                Dr. Martin Thomassen, Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology

                Prof. Marit Melhuus, Univ. of Oslo

                Prof. Vigdis Broch-Due, Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian

                Academy of Science and Letters

                Mr. Tord Austdal, PhD candidate, Univ. of Bergen

                Ms. Kaja Berg Hjukse, MA student, Univ. Of Oslo

                Ms. Annicken Lundgård, Save the Children

                Dr. Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Univ. of Aberdeen

                Prof. Ingjerd Hoëm, Univ. of Oslo

17:00 Closing discussant: Prof. Marilyn Strathern, Univ. of Cambridge