Department seminars autumn 2011
This is a comprehensive presentation of the seminars that are organized by the Department of social anthropology during the autumn of 2011.
Thursday, August 25th 13.15-15.00
Professor Andrew Strathern and Dr. Pamela Stewart, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh:
“Aesthetics and Dynamics of Violence and Peace: Beyond the Triangle”
Thursday, September 8th 13.15-15.00
Dr. Nicolas Argenti, Department of Anthropology, Brunel University:
“Things of the Ground: Children’s Medicine, Motherhood and Memory in the Cameroon Grass Fields”
Thursday, September 22nd 13.15-15.00
Dr. Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Global Political Studies, Malmö University:
“Cosmopolitanism in situ: daily urban sociabilities in Malmö”
Thursday, October 6th 13.15-15.00
Dr. Thomas Solomon, Griegakademiet, University of Bergen:
"The Girl’s Voice in Turkish Rap. Vocality and the Patriarchal Bargain in the Life and Music of Ayben"
Tuesday, November 1st 13.15-15.00 NB! Please note day of the week!
Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh, Anthropology Department, Indiana University:
“Sociocide as a Replacement for the Old-fashioned Genocide (The case of Palestine)”
Friday, November 11th 13.15-15.00
André Iteanu, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris:
"Disappearing world"
Thursday, November 17th 13.15-15.00
Professor Rane Willerslev, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo:
"‘The New as Always the Same’: Yukaghir Hunting Adaptations to Climate Change"
Thursday, November 24th 13.15-15.00
Dr. Martin Holbraad, University College London:
“Can the thing speak? Anthropology and pragatology”
Thursday, December 1st 13.15-15.00
Dr. Thomas Michael Walle, Norsk Folkemuseum:
"Beyond stigmatisation: Some thoughts on how ethnicity obscures gender, and why an ethnography of cricket is an answer"
The seminar series is organized by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Anette Fagertun, Christine Jacobsen and Eilin Holtan Torgersen. Please contact eilin.torgersen@sosantr.uib.no to receive further updates and announcements.
Unless otherwise stated, all seminars are held at the Department's Seminar Room, floor 8, Meltzers hus, Fosswinckels gate. 6. Following the presentation, there will be an informal encounter in the Department's Corner Room where drinks will be served.
All are welcome!
Sist endret: 23.3.2012