Department seminars spring 2012

Thursday, January 12th, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Astrid B. Stensrud, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen:
"Perspectives on animism, personhood and violence in the Andes"


Thursday, January 19th, 13.15-15.00
Assoc. Prof. Henrik Vigh, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen:
“On conflict, potentiality and social invisibility”

Thursday, February 16th, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Jason Sumich, Department of Anthropology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU):
"The Uncertainty of Nationalism: Alienation, the Middle Class and Narrative in Maputo"


Thursday, March 15th, 12.15-1400 (NB! An hour earlier than usual!)
Prof. Christina Garsten, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
"Think tanks and the art of bricolage in global governance"

Thursday, March 22nd, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Knut Graw, Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven:
"Divination in Times of Migration: Globalization, Subjectivity, and the Path of Travel in Senegal and Gambia"


Thursday, April 19th, 13.15-15.00
Prof. Paige West, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University:
"Accumulation by Dispossession and the Elusive Concept of 'Capacity Building' in Papua New Guinea"

Thursday, April 26th, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Nasser Abufarha, University of Wisconsin- Madison and Director of Palestine Fair Trade Association:
"Dying to live. On suicide bombing in Palestine"


Thursday, May 3rd, 13.15-15.00
Assoc. Prof. Morten A. Pedersen, Department Anthropology, University of Copenhagen:
"Detaching the Spirits in Mongolia: A Post-relational Analysis"


Thursday, May 10th, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Michael W. Scott, the London School of Economics and Political Science:
"The Wonder of Being Makiran: A Legacy of Maasina Rule in Solomon Islands"


Thursday, May 31st, 13.15-15.00
Dr. Giovanni da Col, Mongolia and Inner Asian Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge:
"The opacity of interiority and other technologies of the sense: humour and baloney in Yunnan’s Shangri-la"


All interested are welcome to all the seminars!

The BSAS series is organized by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Anette Fagertun, Kjetil Fosshagen, Christine Jacobsen and Eilin Holtan Torgersen.

For further information please contact eilin.torgersen@sosantr.uib.no.