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60 Years Anniversary

The Department of Social Anthropology celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, and we are pleased to invite you to celebrate with us. The day will be filled with institutional knowledge, ethnographic stories, music, and experiences of sharing anthropological knowledge outside the university. All interested in anthropology are welcome!

60 Years Department og Social Anthropology
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10:00 Music
by Drangsland & Børsheim

10:15 Greetings from Rector Margareth Hagen

Welcome, Synnøve Bendixsen, Head of Department

10:30-11:15 Department Decades: A Personal Account (Prof. Edvard Hviding)

11:15-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:15 Ethnographic Stories: Tales from the Department (by Prof. Emeritus Leif Manger, Prof. Vigdis Broch-Due, Prof. Knut Rio, and Solveig Holm)

12:15-13:15 Lunch (included)

Music by Drangsland & Børsheim

13:30-14:30 60 years of Bergen Anthropologists Engaging their Knowledge beyond the University (Chair: Prof. Tone Bringa, with Prof. Synnøve Bendixsen, PhD candidate Sadie Hale, and Assoc. Prof. Geir Henning Presterudstuen)

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-15:45 Ethnographic Stories: Tales from the Department (by Prof. Munzoul Assal, Prof. Haldis Haukanes, and Prof. Emeritus Olaf Smedal)

15:45-16:00 Closing remarks

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