News archive for Department of Social Anthropology

Makerere-coordination changes hands (08.04.2015)

Few people at the University of Bergen knows Makerere University in Uganda better than Thelma Kraft. She has facilitated collaboration and capacity building between UiB and "the Harvard of Africa" for fourteen years.

The Material and Social Intimacies of Waste Infrastructures (20.03.2015)

Maurice Bloch asked us to address the Big Questions.

Thinking Big: Maurice Bloch on 'An evolutionary approach to the beginnings of "religion" and the collapse of states' (17.02.2015)

Professor Emeritus Gunnar Håland foreleser om instituttets historie, mens Professor Emeritus Jan-Petter Blom følger nøye med.

Celebrating 50 years of social anthropology in Bergen (16.01.2015)

The 50-year anniversary of the University of Bergen’s Department of Social Anthropology will be celebrated with a special seminar series.

Norwegian energy companies abroad - Expanding the anthropological understanding of corporate social responsibility (10.12.2014)

How do Norwegian energy corporations handle corporate social responsibility when they invest abroad? A new project at the Department of Social Anthropology, led by Professor Ståle Knudsen, aims to explore this timely issue. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway and will involve partners from Christian Michelsen Institute, the University of Sussex, and others.

Dancers in a scene in "Moana: The Rising of the Sea".

Pacific Studies at the Bergen International Festival (04.12.2014)

The ECOPAS project of the university’s Department of Social Anthropology brings the climate challenges faced by the Pacific Islands to Bergen, through a new collaboration between the University of Bergen and the Bergen International Festival.

ASN Annual Convention at Columbia University in New York (27.11.2014)

Op-ed by Dr. Hege Toje on Russia's Relationship with the West (27.11.2014)

NAVIGATING COLONIAL ORDERS (21.11.2014)

Norwegian Entrepreneurship in Africa and Oceania Edited by Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

Annual meeting in Khartoum (23.06.2014)

The Department of Social Anthropology in Bergen continues its exciting collaboration projects. Read more about them here!

A Prophetic Trajectory (01.06.2014)

Ruy Llera Blanes, Postdoctor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Bergen, is out with a new book on Christianity in Africa and Europe.

ARAB SPRING: Uprisings, Powers, Interventions (24.04.2014)

Kjetil Fosshagen is out with a new book, exploring the structural dynamics underpinning popular resistance and their support or suppression during the Arab Spring. The book asks; has the revolutions since been hijacked and the uprisings already usurped by the upper classes?

2001 and Counting: Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology by Bruce Kapferer (26.03.2014)

Bruce Kapferer has recently published a new book - 2001 and Counting: Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology. Read more about it here!

Photo by social anthropologist Edvard Hviding taken during fieldwork in the Marovo lagoon of Solomon Islands in 2010 showing a fast eroding village shore.

Pacific front lines of climate change (18.12.2013)

The EU-funded ECOPAS project brings together anthropology, climate research and performative arts to highlight the challenges faced by Pacific island nations.

Embedded Entrepreneurship: (25.09.2013)

Market, Culture, and Micro-Business in Insular Southeast Asia

Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe (06.08.2013)

Edited by Ruy Blanes and José Mapril

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen joins Poverty Politics (03.10.2011)

Having started in August 2010, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen joins the research programme Poverty Politics.

International journals edited from the department (06.10.2010)

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