African Anthropology Seminar

The African Anthropology Seminar at SAI is a meeting point for scholars across disciplines with commitments to or interest in the continent. It is open to BA and MA students and faculty without registration. However, if you would like to receive a regular email invite, or if you want to participate on zoom and get a link, please let us know.

Upcoming

Time and place: , ES-B: Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

The matter of a pith helmet out of place: Reflections on an (anti-)colonial mission portrait.

Time and place: , ES-B: Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

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Time and place: , ES-B: Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

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Time and place: , ES-B: Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

“Not just focused on HIV care alone”: Reflections on the impact of ART expansion on visions of healthcare.

Time and place: , ES-B: Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

Join us for a seminar on Media Identities and Risks with Primus Tazanu

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

How sickled cells remember: Genetics as embodied history in Tanzania.

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

‘Deep Science’: Enchanting Urban Futures through Geothermal Explorations in Nakuru, Kenya

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

Fluent waterscapes in the Lake Chad basin: exploring the entanglement of drinking water and flooding

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus Møterom 929 & ZOOM

Fragments of the Forest: Infrastructures of Extraction and Endangerment in the Making of a West African Hotspot

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

Postcolonial styles of research diplomacy (Senegal, 1970s)

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus Møterom 929 & ZOOM

Bona Vacantia

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 and on zoom

A post-industrial world in a pre-industrial landscape: generations, monuments and movements in the Congo Copperbelt

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

Anitha Tingira: The Maternal Referral System, Childbirth Experiences and Healthcare Providers’ Dilemmas in Usandawe, Tanzania
Fatoumata Hane: A sociohistory of disease management in Senegal: Health policies between permanency and discontinuity.

 

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus Møterom 929 & ZOOM

Stable Jobs, Precarious Lives: Rural Public Servants in Ethiopia

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 & ZOOM

Weighting data: Hydroinformatics, drift, and the cable around the cape

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 & ZOOM

On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War

Time and place: , Møterom 450 (Faculty Board Room), Eilert Sundts Hus & ZOOM

Polarised Cityscapes: Gathering Electronic Waste and Its Malcontents in Dar es Salaam.

Time and place: , Harriet Holters hus: Seminarrom 132 & ZOOM

The Politics of DIY Urbanism on Zambia’s Copperbelt

Time and place: , SAI meeting room, Gullhaug torg 1, Nydalen, Meeting Room 512 & ZOOM

TOXICITY : Presenting the Lubumbashi Biennale 2022

Time and place: , ZOOM

African Encounters with Modernity and Development - Agriculture and Industrialisation in Southern Africa

Time and place: , probably only ZOOM

Activists Ignoring the Needs of Ordinary Citizens:  Web-Based Citizen Participation in Conserving Urban Protected Areas in Nairobi, Kenya

Time and place: , ZOOM

Labour and living conditions in the cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha, Kenya.

Time and place: , ZOOM

Fighting and fearing the Other: Notes for an anthropology of nefarious systems 

Time and place: , ZOOM

Radio, mobility, and migration. A view from Kayes, Mali.

Time and place: , ZOOM

Postcolonial Psychiatry and Memory Work in a West African Clinic.