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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.

Warns against explosive changes

Ever-increasing rapid changes create powerlessness, resentment and opportunities. Through the Overheating project, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and his colleagues have studied how globalisation is changing our homes, workplaces and plans.

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04 Sep.
On techno-scientific archives and (de)colonization
2:15 PM, Rom 648, Eilert Sundts hus
05 Sep.
Project Opening: An Aquatic Anthropocene? The domestication of fish and rivers
4:00 PM, Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka: Auditorium 7, Blindern Campus, University of Oslo
06 Sep.
Curious Utopias: Large and Small Blueprints for Human Society
9:00 AM, Georg Sverdrups hus
07 Sep.
Curious Utopias: Large and Small Blueprints for Human Society
Georg Sverdrups hus
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