Research events

Departmental Seminar Series features Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Harvard.

The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Welcome to a seminar with Guillaume Lachenal  from the Sciences Po médialab in Paris, who will give a talk entitled "Tracing epidemics in an African anthropocene. Combining molecular phylogeny and anthropology in Eastern Cameroon".

This seminar is a collaboration between SAI African Anthropology with the HELSAM-MAP Seminar and the Global Health Unpacked Series.

The seminar is open to all, including bachelor and master students. No registration is required. After the seminar, drinks and snacks will be served in our lunchroom.

Departmental Seminar Series features Didier Fassin, Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Workshop on "Theological Politics" co-hosted by Naomi Haynes (University of Edinburgh) and Matt Tomlinson (SAI).

Departmental Seminar Series features Hege Høyer Leivestad, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stokholm.

The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Welcome to a seminar with Dr. Naomi Haynes, Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. 

The seminar is open to all, including bachelor and master students. No registration is required. After the seminar, drinks and snacks will be served in our lunchroom.

Departmental Seminar Series features Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.

The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Most people are not aware of their cell phone's afterlife. Learn about the impact of Norwegian electronic waste in Tanzania.

Peter Ernest Mangesho from the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in Tanzania will join us for a seminar entitled "Knowing and unknowing of AMR among Tanzanian pastoralists: local conceptualizations about (mis)appropriations of veterinary knowledge "

The seminar is open to all, including bachelor and master students. No registration is required. After the seminar, drinks and snacks will be served in our lunchroom.

Departmental Seminar Series features Mei Zhan, Associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Departmental Seminar Series features Saiba Varma, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of San Diego.

The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Welcome to our workshop on "Curious Utopias". The keynote lecture is by Professor James Ferguson,  Stanford University and is open to the public.

Join the opening event for the new research project "Global Trout: Investigating environmental change through more-than human world systems".

Richard Rottenburg from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (SA) will join us for a seminar entitled "On techno-scientific archives and (de)colonization".

The seminar is open to all, including bachelor and master students. No registration is required. After the seminar, drinks and snacks will be served in our lunchroom.

Departmental Seminar Series features Andrea Muehlebach, Professor of  Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Departmental Seminar Series features Tarek Elhaik, Associate Professor, UC Davis Department of Anthropology, University of California.

The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Departmental Seminar Series features Michael Taussig, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, NY Columbia University.

The seminar is a collaboration with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Departmental Seminar Series features Paul Basu, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS University of London.

The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Departmental Seminar Series features Tadashi Yanai, Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Tokyo.

The seminar is followed by informal gathering, at which refreshments are served. All are welcome!

Femti år etter at antologien "Ethnic Groups and Boundaries" ble utgitt, inviterer vi antropologer fra inn- og utland til å anvende og videreutvikle denne arven etter Fredrik Barth og hans kolleger. Alle er velkomne til å høre deres innlegg!

Fifty years after Fredrik Barth's «Ethnic Groups and Boundaries» was published, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Marek Jakoubek assess its impact, importance, as well as its shortcomings.