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The Departmental Seminar Series features Professor Valentina Bonifacio, Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University in Venice

In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.

The Departmental Seminar Series features Ola Gunhildrud Berta, MSCA Postdoctoral fellow, SEAS programme, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen

How sickled cells remember: Genetics as embodied history in Tanzania.

Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace.

Book presentation with Alessandro Rippa. 

The Ports speaker series features Jon Schubert, Assistant Professor in Urban Studies at University of Basel.

Alessandro Rippa joins the "Lifetimes Friday seminar" to share some preliminary reflections regarding time and temporality from his recent fieldwork in amber mines in Mexico.

With a poet’s eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress

Alessandro Rippa and Dan Seng Lawn (Kachinland Research center) present and discuss their paper "Trading in troubled times: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry" at the workshop Rural-Urban Lives, Locations, and (Dis)Connections during Covid and Beyond, at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 

Neptune Frost is a 2021 science fiction romantic musical film co-directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, and starring Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo and Kaya Free.

Conference on private lives and sociality in a digital era.

The Land Beneath Our Feet follows a young Liberian man uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia's past.

Through the eyes of Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, Survivors presents an intimate portrait of his country during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical turmoil that lies in its wake.

Elephant's Dream is a portrait of three state-owned institutions and their workers in DR Congo.

Master Franziska Klaas at the Department of Social Anthropology will be defending the thesis Persistent Organic Pollutants becoming Multiple: An ethnography of encountering pollutants in science, policy, and waste incineration for the degree of PhD.

Atlantique is a 2019 internationally co-produced supernatural romantic drama film directed by Mati Diop, in her feature directorial debut. The film is centered around a young woman, Ada, and her partner, Souleiman, struggling in the face of employment, class, migration, crime, family struggles, and ghosts.

Legend has it that the capoeira player Besouro Mangangá summoned Bahia’s full magical power to seal his body from harm. Neither bullet nor knife could pierce his skin anymore.

Congo Calling is a patient, empathetic but clear-sighted if not disillusioned film about three people of European and American origin, who work in Eastern Congo in the present. The main character is a young US American social science PhD student, which makes the film particularly relevant for us.  The film invites us to discuss the concept of 'Africa', and critically engage with European (and US American, and other privileged) modes of imagining and acting in 'Africa'.

Rafiki (Swahili for ‘friend’) is a Kenyan drama, made for popular audiences by filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu.