Research events

The Departmental Seminar Series features Paul Stoller, Professor of Anthropology at the Westchester University.

Making Friends and Playing the Game. Tanzanian Indians Negotiating Distance and Belonging through Practices of Bribery

The Departmental Seminar Series features Sharon Macdonald, Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of European Anthropology, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Tal Adler, artist and researcher at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage.

Master Athithan Jayapalan at the Department of Social Anthropology and the Museum of Cultural History will be defending the thesis: Constructing Dhammadipa: Cultural heritage, archaeology and Sinhala Buddhist hegemony in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province.

Master Mónica Amador Jiménez at the Department of Social Anthropology will be defending the thesis Making Ciénaga: Amphibious Entanglements in a Body of Water in Colombia for the degree of Ph.D.

Negotiating families

The Departmental Seminar Series features Anand Pandian, Professor of Anthropology at John Hopkins University. 

The Departmental Seminar Series features Tarek Elhaik, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.

Living in hype: Tanzanian technologists and health for all in an era of techno-optimism

The Departmental Seminar Series features Tilmann Heil, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne.

The Departmental Seminar Series features Elisabeth Engebretsen, Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Stavanger.

Blind spots in global health:  Lassa Fever, Science and the making of neglect in Sierra Leone. 

The Departmental Seminar Series features Tone Bringa, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen.

The Departmental Seminar Series features Zdenka Sokolíčková, Guest Researcher at SAI, University of Oslo.

Between the lab and the field:  Plants and places of evidence in a Ugandan-Australian research collaboration

The Departmental Seminar Series features Catherine Alexander, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham.

East Germans in Mozambique: Negotiating Solidarity and the Everyday

The Departmental Seminar Series features Edvard Hviding, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen.