- E-mailEilin.Torgersen@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 94 52+47 938 97 182
- Visitor AddressFosswinckelsgt. 6Room832
- Postal AddressPostboks 78025020 BERGEN
Popular scientific lecture
- 2018. Klimaets uttrykksformer - Språk, musikk og dans: Klimaendringer, antropologi og Stillehavet.
Academic lecture
- 2016. En menneskelig tilpasning til lavaens konstante tilstedeværelse.
- 2015. Vernacular seismology – Language, Knowledge and Understanding during a Volcanic Eruption.
- 2014. Flesh-eating rivers - mythical creatures and boiling pots of Wailuku River.
- 2013. Pele: Fire Goddess of Hawai’i Nei.
- 2012. The Power of Dance: Hawaiian Alternative Ways of Expressing Belonging.
- 2011. Hula: a Hawaiian Cultural Heritage Education.
Masters thesis
- 2010. The Social Meanings of Hula - Hawaiian traditions and politicized identities in Hilo.
Interview
- 2019. Protester på Hawaii.
- 2018. Kilaueas utbrudd, mai 2018.
- 2018. KORLEIS LEVE VED FOTEN AV VERDAS MEST AKTIVE VULKAN.
- 2018. Intervju om Kilaueas utbrudd, mai 2018.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- 2018. Waters of Destruction: Mythical Creatures, Boiling Pots and Tourist Encounters at Wailuku River in Hilo, Hawai ‘i. 21 pages.
Poster
- 2017. Lavaland: Human adaptive strategies, cosmologies and everyday life under Kilauea Volcano.
Brochure
- 2013. ECOPAS: European Consortium for Pacific Studies. Restoring the Human to Climate Change.
Website (informational material)
- 2015. ECOPAS Newsletter no 4.
- 2015. ECOPAS Newsletter no 3.
- 2014. ECOPAS Newsletter no 2.
- 2013. ECOPAS Newsletter no 1.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
Region: Oceania, Polynesia, Hawai'i
Thematic: Landscape, traditions, cosmology, performativity, vernacular knowledge.
B.A. in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (2008)
M.A. in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (2010)
Pacific Alternatives: Cultural Heritage and Political Innovation in Oceania (2008-2010)
ECOPAS: European Consortium for Pacific Studies (2012-2015)
PhD project (2013-2016): Vernacular Seismology in the Pacific: Volatile Environments, Cosmologies and Local Knowledge in the Pacific Islands