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container ship

Research on ports financed by the EU

Elisabeth Schober has received a prestigious research grant from the EU to ethnographically explore how global capitalism plays out in four key ports across the world.

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Studies container ships to understand globalization

Most commodities in circulation on this planet are transported on container ships. But what do we know about the ships, the people who build them, work on them, and take them apart?

The bunad: More than a garment

Can anyone wear a bunad? Is it a real bunad if it is made in China? Is it a symbol of origin and roots or a nationalistic symbol? Thomas Hylland Eriksen explains the Norwegian obsession with this tradional garment.

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15 Oct.
Naomi Haynes: Concretizing the Covenant: Zambia’s National House of Prayer and the Aesthetics of Christian Nationalism
2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundts hus, 6th Floor, Room 648
16 Oct.
Hege Høyer Leivestad: ‘We are the Sons of the Port’: Cargo and Kinship at the Strait of Gibraltar"
2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room
17 Oct.
Theological politics: Debate, critique, and state power
9:00 AM, Room 647, Eilert Sundts hus
18 Oct.
Theological politics: Debate, critique, and state power
Room 647, Eilert Sundts hus
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