Department seminars spring 2013

Thursday, January 10th, 13.15-15.00
Filip de Boeck, KU Leuven:
"Publics, public space and the politics of infrastructure in Kinshasa"

Thursday, January 17th, 13.15-15.00
Niko Besnier, University of Amsterdam:
"Transgender, Shifting Morality and the Bifocality of Culture"


Thursday, February 7th, 13.15-15.00
Keir Martin, Manchester University:
"Exchanging the future. Creative gifts in Papua New Guinea and beyond"

Thursday, February 21st, 13.15-15.00
Ismaël Moya, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris:
"Economy, ritual and urban sociality in Dakar, Senegal"


Thursday, March  7th, 13.15-15.00
Rebecca Empson, University College London:
"On Owning and Loaning: Tracing the effects of the Mongolian Wolf Economy at its borders "


Thursday, March 14th, 13.15-15.00
Carlo Severi, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris:
"The Arts of Memory: Comparative perspectives on a mental artefact"

Thursday, March 21st, 13.15-15.00
Synnøve Bendixsen, Rokkansenteret:
"The politics of belonging of irregular migrants in Norway"


Thursday, April 18th, 13.15-15.00
Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University
"How Pictures Matter. Videos, Spirits and the Popular Imagination in Ghana"


Thursday, April 25th, 13.15-15.00
Magnus Course, University of Edinburgh
"The Hill That Walked Away: the inconstancy of land in rural Mapuche life"


Thursday, May 23rd, 13.15-15.00
Isak Niehaus, Brunel University
"Anthropology and Zones of the Extraordinary"


Thursday, June 6th, 13.15-15.00
Madeleine Reeves, Manchester University
"Moskvachylyk: Spaces of favour and indifference in Moscow’s temporary housing market"

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, Thomas Mountjoy and Margit Ystanes. For further information please contact Thomas.Mountjoy@sosantr.uib.no.