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Prof Richard Ashby Wilson (University of Connecticut, USA) is a leading international scholar in the anthropology of human rights. He has undertaken research in Guatemala, South Africa and at international courts for war crimes. Among his publications are The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (Cambridge U.P., 2001), Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’ (Cambridge U. P. 2006), and Writing History in International Criminal Trials (Cambridge U.P., 2011). In an ongoing series in public anthropology funded by the Fritt Ord Foundation, and hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo in partnership with Fafo and Minotenk, Prof Wilson will present findings from recent and ongoing research, and engage in open conversations about his work.

It was one of the worst economic crashes in history: A conversation with anthropologist G í sli P á lsson about the meltdown in Iceland, dubious entanglements between universities and business, racist and sexist neoliberal discourses, and the need for academic activism.