Seminars in Challenging the State Programme

2006

May 2006

Monday 29 May , 13.15-15.00.
DR. NILS BUBANDT, University of Aarhus:
“Ghosts with Trauma. Witches, ‘science-scapes’, and post-conflict memory in eastern Indonesia”.
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June 2006

Friday 2 June , 13.15-15.00.
DR. JOEL ROBBINS, University of California – San Diego:
“Continuity Thinking and the Problem of Christian Culture: Belief, Time and the Anthropology of Christianity”.

Group seminar: Transnational religious movements

2005

April 2005

Monday 4 April, 2005, 13.15-15.00.
PROF. NEERA CHANDHOKE, University of Delhi:
”The Political Consequences of Ethnic Mapping”.

Monday 11 April, 2005, 13.15-15.00.
PROF. NEERA CHANDHOKE, University of Delhi:
“On Democracy, Welfare and Equality”.

Tuesday 12 April, 2005, 14.15-16.00.
PROF. NEERA CHANDHOKE, University of Delhi:
“Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society”.

September 2005

Wednesday 7 September, 2005, 14.15-16.00.
PROF. ANNE NORTON, University of Pennsylvania:
"The School of Baghdad: Neoconservatives and American Empire".

Wednesday 21 September, 2005, 14.15-16.00.
DR. DIONISO BABO SOARES, University of Dili:
“East Timor : Reconciliation and Reconstruction”.

2004

March 2004

Friday 5 March. 14.15-16.00.
PROF. ANDRE ITEANU, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris: "The Status of the Foreigner: How Societies View Their Position in the Cosmos".

Friday 12 March. 10.15-12.00.
PROF. JOS PLATENKAMP, University of Münster:
"Changing Models of Sovereignty in South East Asia".

Friday 12 March. 14.15-16.00.
PROF. JOS PLATENKAMP, University of Münster:
"Political Change and Ritual Tenacity: The New Year's Ritual of Luang Prabhang, Laos".

Friday 26 March. 14.15-16.00.
PROF. THOMAS BLOM HANSEN, University of Edinburgh:
"Sovereigns beyond the State. Legality and Authority in Urban India".

April 2004

Friday 23 April. 14.15-16.00.
PROF. ANDREW LATTAS, University of Newcastle, Australia:
"The Utopian Promise of Government".

September 2004

Friday 24 Sept. 14.15-16.00.
DR. P.J. CHERIAN, Director, Kerala Center for Historical Research:
"Pre-Kingdom to Modern Kerala: An Overview of State, Agents and Social Structures".

October 2004

Friday 1 Oct. 10.15-12.00 (Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies).
DR. ANH NGA LONGVA, UIB:
"Gramsci in Lebanon: Hegemony, Civil Society and the Weak State".

Friday 8 Oct. 14.15-16.00.
PROF. ROGER JUST, University of Kent:
"Nationalism in a Post Nationalist World".

Tuesday 12 Oct. 14.15-16.00.
PROF. DON NONINI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
"Clearing Ground: 'Epistemic Murk' and the False Rigors of Post Structuralist Concepts of 'the State' in Anthropology".

Thursday 14 Oct. 12.15-14.00.
PROF. DON NONINI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
"Going Forward: Revitalizing an Anthropological Heuristics of 'the State', with Comparative Reflections on south East Asia and North America".

Friday 22 Oct. 14.15-16.00.
PROF. EDVARD HVIDING, UIB:
"Rescuing the Rural, Replacing the State: Transformations of Political Economy in Solomon Islands".

November 2004

Friday 5 Nov. 14.15-16.00.
PROF. BRUCE KAPFERER, UIB:
"State Formations, State-Effects and Novel Patterns of Sovereignty".

Wednesday 10 Nov. 14.15-16.00.
PROF. ARIF DIRLIK, University of Oregon:
"The End of Colonialism? The Colonial Modern in the Making of Global Modernity".

Friday 12 Nov. 14.15-16.00.
PROF. ARIF DIRLIK, University of Oregon:
"Modernity as History: Post-Revolutionary China, Globalization, and the Question of Modernity".