Research events

The Ports speaker series features Sharryn Kasmir, professor of anthropology at Hofstra University.

The Departmental Seminar Series features Elizabeth A. Davis, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University.

African Encounters with Modernity and Development - Agriculture and Industrialisation in Southern Africa

The Departmental Seminar Series features Sarah Green, professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki.

Activists Ignoring the Needs of Ordinary Citizens:  Web-Based Citizen Participation in Conserving Urban Protected Areas in Nairobi, Kenya

Master Edwin Ambani Ameso at the Department of Anthropology (Aarhus University) and the Department of Social Anthropology (University of Oslo) will be defending the thesis Navigating Care:
Realities of Health insurance and social protection in Kenya for the degree of Ph.D.

The Departmental Seminar Series features John Postill, Vice-Chancellor Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communications, aligned to the Global Cities Research Institute.

The Departmental Seminar Series features Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology.

The Departmental Seminar Series features May-Britt Öhmann, Researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism at Uppsala University.

On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War

The Departmental Seminar Series features Brit Ross Winthereik, Head of the Center for Digital Welfare at the IT University of Copenhagen. 

Labour and living conditions in the cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha, Kenya.

The Departmental Seminar Series features Tess Lea, professor at the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney

The Ports speaker series features Martin Danyluk, assistant professor of geography at the University of Nottingham.

Master in Visual Anthropology Gudrun Rudningen at the Department of Social Anthropology will be defending her thesis: Never-ending Now: Practices of News Work in Digital Transition

The Departmental Seminar Series features Ilana Gershon, Ruth N. Hall Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University.

Fighting and fearing the Other: Notes for an anthropology of nefarious systems 

The Ports speaker series features Jatin Dua, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan.

Radio, mobility, and migration. A view from Kayes, Mali.

Postcolonial Psychiatry and Memory Work in a West African Clinic.

Claiming the territory – and retreating. The Bong Mining project and its histories.

Speculative Presences and Temporal Disjunctures: Exploring Landscapes for Truffles, Water, and Gas in the Kalahari Desert

M.Sc.Eng. Anna Zadrożna at the Department of Social Anthropology will be defending the thesis: Crafting Familiarity: "Ours" from Post-Ottoman Lands, Their Migration to Turkey, and Affective Encounters with Environments and the Past

Master Mikkel Vindegg at the Department of Social Anthropology will be defending the thesis: Power to the People: The energy anthropology of a Nepali town.