Research events

Theodoros Rakopoulos has done fieldwork on anti-mafia cooperatives that work on land that has been confiscated from the mafia in rural Sicily. His book is an ethnography of a mafia-influenced village and examines social relations in and around Sicilian Cooperatives.

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Melissa Graboyes from the University of Oregon will join us for a seminar entitled "Ignoring a Century of Failures: The Ethics of Contemporary Malaria Elimination Attempts in Zanzibar, Tanzania".

Departmental Seminar Series features Marcia C. Inhorn, the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.

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

Departmental Seminar Series features Professor João de Pina-Cabral, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent.

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

Departmental Seminar Series features Mandana Limbert, Associate Professor at Department of Anthropology, Queens College, CUNY, New York.

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

Departmental Seminar Series features Heather Anne Paxson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology, MIT Anthropology Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

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

Departmental Seminar Series features Kari Telle, Senior Researcher in the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen.

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

Katja Werthmann from Universität Leipzig, Institut für Afrikastudien will give the talk: Are Cities in Africa “Unknowable”? Anthropological Approaches to Urban Africa"

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.

Paul Gilroy is one of the world's leading postcolonial intellectuals. Since the 1980s, he has offered incisive critique of both race-thinking and racism, and has broken ground in our thinking about difference.

We are pleased to announce the following two events featuring Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature, Kings College London.

The events are free of charge, no registration required.

Departmental Seminar Series features Jenny White, Professor at  Institute for Turkish Studies, Stockholm University.

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

Departmental Seminar Series features Bodil Selmer, Associate Professor at Department of Anthropology, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University.

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

Departmental Seminar Series features Carolyn M. Rouse, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and the Director of the Program in African Studies at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.

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

Ferdinand Okwaro is a Kenyan born Medical Anthropologist who is currently working on an NRC funded research project titled "The Practice and ethics of collaboration in transnational medical research in East Africa: an ethnographic approach"

Before joining the SAI, Ferdinand was a postdoctoral research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he conducted the formative research for this current project. He previously wrote his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in Germany and his Master and Bachelor degrees from the University of Nairobi in Kenya. He has also conducted extensive research in the field of global health and policy, ritual healing and alternative medical practices, reproductive health and social marketing.