Department seminars spring 2009

Programme

Thursday 7. May, 12.15-18.00

Mini-conference: “Witchcraft, Magic and the Phantasmagoric Realities of Modernity”

12.15 - 12.45     Introduction by Prof. Bruce Kapferer (University of Bergen)

12.45 - 13.45     Prof. Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam)
Witchcraft and the Law - Issues of Evidence and Reality, Discourse and Agency

14.00 - 14.45     Ass. Prof. Nils Bubandt (Aarhus University)
Witchcraft is Always the Problem; Never the Answer: Witchcraft, Aporia, and Modernity in eastern Indonesia

14.45 - 15.30     Prof. Koen Stroeken (Research Foundation Flanders/ KU Leuven)
How Magic Initiation Prevents Witch Killing: A Sukuma (Tanzania) Case

15.45 - 16.30     Ass. Prof. Andrew Lattas (University of Bergen)
Sorcery, Capitalism and the State: Re-assembling Modernity in Rural Papua New Guinea

16.30 - 17.15     Ass. Prof. Knut Rio (University of Bergen)
Witchcraft, Media and State: New Phantasmagoric Spaces in Melanesia.

Thursday 14. May, 13.15-15.00

Prof. Sharon E. Hutchinson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Perilous Outcomes: International Monitoring and the Perpetuation of Violence in Sudan

Monday 18 May, 13.15-15.00

Ass. Prof. Stephanie C. Kane (Indiana University')
Science, the Sofitel, and the Diminishment of Nature: The Dark Eyes of Water in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

Thursday 28. May, 13-15

Prof. Harri Englund (University of Cambridge)
[Title will be announced]