Department seminars Spring 2010

Programme

Thursday, 21 January, 14.15-16.00 (NOTE THE TIME!)
Dr. Debra McDougall, University of Western Australia:
‘“We are one in the spirit of God”? Religion, public culture, and village politics in Solomon Islands.’

Thursday, 28 January, 13.15-15.00:
Dr. Frode Storås, University of Bergen:
‘If the vagina had teeth. Chassuka, Mosambique.’
Seminar on a film by Liivo Niglas and Frode Storaas

Thursday, 4 February, 13.15-15.00:
Prof. Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen
‘Louis Dumont and a holist anthropology.’

Thursday, 11 February, 13.15-15:
Dr. Kjetil Fosshagen, University of Bergen:
‘Towards an understanding of Islamic sacrifice in Turkey: Ritual, secularism and a transforming state.’

Thursday, 18 February, 13.15-15.00:
Dr. Knut Chr. Myhre, The Nordic African Institute, Uppsala:
‘How to butcher an animal: Reflections on normativity and relationality among the Chagga of Kilimanjaro.’

Thursday, 25 February, 13.15-15.00:
Dr. Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard, University of Bergen:
‘Ambiguous spaces for citizenship: Indigenous socialities and state policies in processes of urbanization, Peru.’

Thursday, 4 March, 13.15-15.00:
Dr. Anette Fagertun, University of Bergen:
‘Localizing Global dynamics through Labour: Class as a new regime of value in Bali, Indonesia.’

Friday, March 12, 13.15-15.00 (NOTE THE DAY!):
Prof. Don Kalb, Central European University, Budapest, and Utrecht University:
‘The return of the repressed: on class and neonationalism in contemporary Europe.’

Thursday, 18 March, 13.15-15.00:
Dr. Hogne Øian, Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning (NINA), Lillehammer:
’Å drepe fisk, eller ikke drepe...? Kontroverser rundt regulering av fiske og fangst i noen vassdrag på indre Østlandet.’

Thursday, 25  March, 13.15-15.00:
Prof. Ann-Kristin Ekman, Institutionen för stad och land, Uppsala:
’Social komplexitet och førandring: Om betydelsen av interna och externa relationer för utvecklingen i en utkantsby över tid.’

Thursday, 22 April, 13.15-15.00:
Prof. J. Terrence McCabe, University of Colorado, Boulder:
‘Risk, intensification, change, and complexity: Competing flows of ideas and capital in northern Tanzania.’

Thurday, 6 May, 13.15-15.00:
Research fellow Hanna Skartveit, University of Bergen:
‘“You don’t put on weight on Shabbat”: Notions of food and health in the Buenos Aires Kabbalah Centre.’

Thursday, 3 June, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Marion Berghahn, Berghahn Books:
‘Scholarly publishing in troubled times.’


The seminar series is organized by Ørnulf Gulbrandsen and Hanna Skartveit
Everybody interested are welcome to the seminars which are always held in the Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Melzers Hus, Fosswinckelsgate 6.
There will be an informal encounter after each of the seminars in the Corner Room where, as usual, beverage will be served.

All interested are welcome!