Department seminars autumn 2009

Program

Tuesday, 25 August, 13.15-15.00 (Note the day!)

Dr. Rebecca Bryant, George Mason University
History’s Remainders:  On Cyprus’ Incomplete Pasts

Wednesday, Sept. 2, 13.15-15.00 (Note the day!):

Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj, University of Victoria.
“Practicing globalization: Islam and the afterlife of development in Indonesia”
http://web.uvic.ca/pacificasia/faculty/Rudnyckyj.php

Thursday, Sept 3, 13.15-15.00:

Prof. Veronica Strang, University of Auckland.
“Mapping histories: cultural landscapes and walkabout methods”.
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/index.cfm?S=STAFF_vstr010

Thursday, Sept. 10, 13.15-15.00:

Dr. Jon Mitchell, University of Sussex.
“Performing statues: Material culture and popular Catholicism”
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/anthropology/profile35384.html

Thursday, Sept 17, 13.15-15.00:

Eria Olowo Onyango, Department of Social Anthropology, UoB.
“Chasing the Shadows of State: Cattle raiding, violence and disarmament in North-Eastern Uganda”
http://www.uib.no/personer/Eria.Onyango

Thursday, Sept.24, 13.15-15.00:

Prof. Don Handelman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
“Self-exploders, self-sacrifice, and the rhizomic organization of terrorism”
http://huji.academia.edu/DonHandelman

Thursday, Oct. 1, 13.15-15.00:

Dr. Tone Bringa, Department of Social Anthropology, UoB.
“Celebration and mourning: the ritual landscape of Bosnia's Muslims”
http://ugle.svf.uib.no/antro/ansatte.asp?ansatt=548&kategori=26

Thursday, Oct. 8, 13.15.00:

Prof. Christina Garsten, University of Stockholm.
The play of veils: Transparency, trust and delusion on the global market
http://www.socant.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=6215

Thursday, Oct. 15, 13.15-15.00:

Tom Mountjoy, Department of Social Anthropology, UoB.
“Anthropology and sport in modern Melanesia: The individual and collective experience of soccer in the Solomon Islands”
http://pacific.uib.no/people/mountjoy.htm

Thursday, Oct. 22, 13.15-15.00:

Dr. Dag Jørund Lønning, Nordland Research Institute.
Frå frukta til frøet! Antropologiske/prosessfilosofiske perspektiv på ny- og fellesskaping i småsamfunn
http://www.tmforskbo.no/medarbeidere/detalj.asp?id=31

Thursday, Oct. 29, 13.15-15.00:

Dr. Lars Nyre, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, UoB.
”Ei kjensle av verkelegheit. Det akustiske rommet i norsk radio”
http://www.infomedia.uib.no/ansatte.asp?ansatt=341&kategori=671

Thursday, Nov. 5, 13.15-15.00:

Prof. Bruce Kapferer, Department of Social Anthropology, UoB.
“Cinema and ritual: New perspectives through Kubrick's 2001”
http://www.uib.no/personer/Bruce.Kapferer
The night before: Showing of the film ‘2001’ in the Department. Drinks and food will be provided.

Everybody interested are welcome to the seminars which are always held in the Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Melzers Hus, Fosswinckelsgate 6.

This is the first Department Seminar autumn term 2009 which has to be held on a Tuesday; the regular day for the Department Seminars is, however, as before Thursday. A list of Departments Seminars for this term will follow shortly.
Organizers: Ørnulf Gulbrandsen and Hanna Skartveit.

All welcome!