Nyhetsarkiv for Institutt for sosialantropologi

The concept of ‘cosmopolitanism’ has become increasingly important in academic debates on diversity, but is often criticised for being too wide and unspecific to work as an analytical concept. 21-24 June a group of scholars gather in Bergen to explore how cosmopolitanism can best be theorised in order to help us understand diversity, both in contemporary societies and historically. The conference... Les mer

The anthropological work "Legends of People, Myths of State. Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka" has been updated with contributions from anthropological scholars working on Australia and Sri Lanka.

Ørnulf Gulbrandsen's new book - "The State the Social. State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies" - is now out. Read more by clicking on the caption of the cover.

The Poverty Politics Research Group will host two international workshops in Norway in May and June 2012 -- one on the notion of trust and the other dealing with cosmopolitanism.

Together with Anne Sofie Roald, Anh Nga Longva has edited a new anthology entitled "Religious Minorities in the Middle East. Domination, Self-Empowerment, Accommodation"

A PhD course and a conference -- both co-organized by the Department of social anthropology at the University of Bergen -- will take place between 9 and 11 November

Professor Vigdis Broch-Due is guest essayist on the American Humanist Society’s Forum OnTheHuman.org with "Animal in Mind: people, cattle and shared nature on the African Savannah". Her thought-provoking essay is published 3 October 2011 and will stay open for 2 weeks for comments.

-There is no simple correlation between poverty and population growth, says Vigdis Broch-Due in this recent interview.