Department of social anthropology seminar with Maja Povrzanović Frykman

The Department of Social Anthropology has the pleasure to invite you to a seminar with Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Associate Professor in Global Political Studies at Malmö University. She will present the following paper:

"Cosmopolitanism in situ. Daily urban sociabilities in Malmö"

Abstract
Former research suggests that the enlarged presence and everyday interaction of people from all over the world leads to multiple cultural competence and to cosmopolitan orientations and attitudes. It is also widely accepted that the interrelated processes of increased connectivity and cultural contact intensify the consciousness of the world as a whole, and facilitate insights and understandings that reach beyond a national perspective. Yet, methodologies need to be established, towards comparative understanding of the concrete dynamics and effects of socio-cultural processes. Offering examples from the ‘postindustrial’ and ‘aspiring cosmopolitan’ city of Malmö in Sweden, this paper discusses potential theoretical and methodological venues of research on cosmopolitanism in situ, understood as a potential outcome of daily urban sociabilities, circumstantially induced by living in a city marked by the presence of migrants.

Bionote
Frykman holds a PhD in Ethnology (University of Zagreb), is Associate Professor in the field of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) as well as being Senior Lecturer in Ethnology at Peace and Conflict Studies Programme at the Department of Global Political Studies (GPS), Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University. Research Coordinator at GPS from July 2011 to June 2012. Previously she worked as Research Coordinator at Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), Malmö University, from January 2007 to December 2010. She has also edited a Willy Brandt Series of Working papers in IMER (2001-2007) and is currently member of the editorial boardss of Current Themes in IMER Research and Nordic Journal of Migration Research. She also holds memberships for the board of Nordic Migration Research organisation (NMR) and the Croatian Science Foundation, Scientific Committee for Social Science and Humanities (2011-2014). Her major publications include the books Transnational Spaces: Disciplinary Perspectives (edited by Frykman, Malmö: Malmö University, 2004), Beyond Integration: Challenges of Belonging in Diaspora and Exile (edited by Frykman, Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2001) and War, Exile, Everyday Life: Cultural Perspectives (edited by Renata Jambrešić Kirin & Maja Povrzanović, Zagreb: Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Research, 1996).

All interested are welcome!

Best regards
BSAS Comittee