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The World With Viruses: Reminding Us How Little Control We Have

- The Corona virus is a window, enabling us to see alternative ways of organising society, says Thomas Hylland Eriksen. The Professor in Social Anthropology has been conducting research on crises in an overheated world.

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Being the Connection

Through her position as Professor II at the Department of Social Anthropology, Penny Harvey has tried to put people intellectually in touch with each other.

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An Anthropological View: Building the city from below

- How can you build out an area in the immediate vicinity to an underground station so that people will actually want to be there? asks Thomas Hylland Eriksen. The employment market is opening up for applied anthropology.

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13 May
Ilana Gershon: "The Breakup 2.1: The Ten Year Update"
2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room
20 May
Douglas Holmes:
2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room
27 May
Elisabeth A. Davis: "The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy and Context"
2:15 PM, Blindern, Eilert Sundt's house, Sixth floor meeting room
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