Department seminars autumn 2012

Thursday, September 6th, 13.15-15.00
Joost Fontein, University of Edinburgh:
"Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe"


Thursday, September 20th, 13.15-15.00
Anh Nga Longva, University of Bergen:
"Unspeakable 'I', unspeakable 'you'. Pronoun avoidance, selfhood, and the construction of the Vietnamese social world"

Thursday, September 27th, 13.15-15.00
Laura Rival, University of Oxford:
"Encountering nature through fieldwork experiments: Indigenous knowledge, local creativity and modes of reasoning"


Thursday, October 4th, 13.15-15.00
Halvard Vike, University of Oslo:
"Egalitarianism, Autonomy, Market and State"


Thursday, October 18th, 13.15-15.00
Giovanni da Col, University of Oxford:
"The Way of the Begu: Bullshitting and the Opacity of Interiority in Tibetan Borderlands"

Thursday, October 25th, 13.15-15.00
Victor de Munck, SUNY New Paltz:
"A Selective Survey of Theories of Culture: the Collective-Individual; Particulate-Distributive Conundrums"


Thursday, December 6th, 13.15-15.00
Soumhya Venkatesan, University of Manchester:
"Material affordances: challenging through 'back and forth ethnography"

Thursday, December 13th, 13.15-15.00
Nicholas de Genova , Goldsmiths, University of London
"This New Religion of Whiteness": Some Reflections on Nationalism, Postcoloniality, and the European Question


All interested are welcome to all the seminars!

The BSAS series is organized by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Anette Fagertun, Kjetil Fosshagen, Lars Gjelstad, Christine Jacobsen and Eilin Holtan Torgersen. For further information please contact eilin.torgersen@sosantr.uib.no.