Department seminars spring 2011

Thursday, February 3rd, 13.15-15.00
Prof. Dr. Frode Storås, Bergen Museum, University of Bergen:
"Visual anthropology, a different kind of anthropology?" [Presentation of two of his recent ethnographic films, "Kissed and kissed again – the miraculous icon of Tinos, Greece" (2010) and "Friends" (2010)].

Thursday, February 3rd, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Ståle Knudsen, Department of social anthropology, University of Bergen:
"How to account for patterns, trends and shifts? The political ecology of biodiversity and the management of introduced species."


Thursday, February 17th, 13.15-15.00
Prof. Susanne Kuechler, Department of Anthropology, University
College London:
"Bodies, Tubers and Artefacts. Figuration, Physiology and Empathy in Eastern Polynesia and Island Melanesia."

Thursday, February 24th, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Brian Silverstein, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
"The Discipline of Others: Making Islam a Religion in Turkey."

Thursday, March 3rd, 13.15-15.00
Prof. Diane Nelson, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University:
"Accounting For and Counting On: Pyramids, General Equivalents, and the End’s of War in Guatemala."

Thursday, March 17th 13.15-15.00
Dr. Dennis Rogers, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester:
"Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? Contrasting views from Chicago and Managua."


Thursday, March 31st, 13.15-15.00
Prof. Edvard Hviding, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen:
"But the Words Remain": Revelations of Knowledge and the Politics of Loss in Solomon Islands


Tuesday, April 5th, 13.15-15.00 Please note day!
Dr. Gracia Clark, Anthropology Department, Indiana University:
Representing Everyday Islam in a West African City on the Web


Thursday, April 7th, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Charles Hirschkind, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley:
"Is there a Secular Body?"


Thursday, April 14th, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Rune Flikke, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo:
"Natural possession? Wind, weather, and occult experiences among Zulu Zionists."


Wednesday, April 27th, 13.15-15.00 Please note day!
Prof. Caroline Humphrey, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Kings College, London:
The political logic of Buryat national outrage

Thursday, May 5th, 13.15-15.00
Dr. John Schoeberlein, Davis Center, Harvard University:
"The Meanings of Re-Islamization in Post-Soviet Central Asia."


Thursday, May 12th, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Philippe Peycam, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Netherlands:
Sketching an Institutional History of Academic Knowledge Production in Cambodia (1863-today)


Thursday, May 26th, 13.15-15.00
Prof. Steven Feld, Professor of Anthropology & Music at University of New Mexico and Prof. II at Department of Musicology, University of Oslo:
Jazz cosomopolitanism in Accra

Thursday, June 9th, 13.15-15.00
Prof. James Leach, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen:
The Death of the Slit-Gong. Abstraction/Connection on the Rai Coast

The seminar series is organized by Cato Berg, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Ketil Fosshagen, 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!