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THE Dialogue

THE Dialogue is a conversation about selected themes that Thomas Hylland Eriksen was engaged with throughout his life as a researcher. It takes place across disciplinary boundaries and is meant to be informative, entertaining, and thought‑provoking, in keeping with Thomas’s own work.

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Time and place: –, Frokostkjelleren, Gymnastikkbygningen, Karl Johans gate 47

The anthropological project has always been an exploration of what is universally human – all the things that unite us across cultures, languages, and geographical distance. But are notions of a shared humanity being displaced by rhetorics and politics of difference?