Department seminars spring 2009
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Programme
Thursday 7. May, 12.15-18.00
Mini-conference: “Witchcraft, Magic and the Phantasmagoric Realities of Modernity”
12.15 - 12.45 Introduction by Prof. Bruce Kapferer (University of Bergen)
12.45 - 13.45 Prof. Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam)
Witchcraft and the Law - Issues of Evidence and Reality, Discourse and Agency
14.00 - 14.45 Ass. Prof. Nils Bubandt (Aarhus University)
Witchcraft is Always the Problem; Never the Answer: Witchcraft, Aporia, and Modernity in eastern Indonesia
14.45 - 15.30 Prof. Koen Stroeken (Research Foundation Flanders/ KU Leuven)
How Magic Initiation Prevents Witch Killing: A Sukuma (Tanzania) Case
15.45 - 16.30 Ass. Prof. Andrew Lattas (University of Bergen)
Sorcery, Capitalism and the State: Re-assembling Modernity in Rural Papua New Guinea
16.30 - 17.15 Ass. Prof. Knut Rio (University of Bergen)
Witchcraft, Media and State: New Phantasmagoric Spaces in Melanesia.
Thursday 14. May, 13.15-15.00
Prof. Sharon E. Hutchinson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Perilous Outcomes: International Monitoring and the Perpetuation of Violence in Sudan
Monday 18 May, 13.15-15.00
Ass. Prof. Stephanie C. Kane (Indiana University')
Science, the Sofitel, and the Diminishment of Nature: The Dark Eyes of Water in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Thursday 28. May, 13-15
Prof. Harri Englund (University of Cambridge)
[Title will be announced]