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Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

Fluent waterscapes in the Lake Chad basin: exploring the entanglement of drinking water and flooding

Time and place: , Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts hus

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

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus, møterom 929

The Departmental Seminar Series features Joseph Dumit, Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. 

Time and place: , Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts hus

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.

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus Møterom 929 & ZOOM

Fragments of the Forest: Infrastructures of Extraction and Endangerment in the Making of a West African Hotspot

Time and place: , Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

Conference on private lives and sociality in a digital era.

Time and place: , Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts hus

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.

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

Postcolonial styles of research diplomacy (Senegal, 1970s)

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus, møterom 929

The Departmental Seminar Series features Kristina Lyons, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Time and place: , Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts hus

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.

Time and place: , Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts hus

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

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus, møterom 929

The Departmental Seminar Series features Kim Fortun, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Time and place: , Zoom (link will be provided)

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.

Time and place: , Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts hus

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.

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus, møterom 929

The Departmental Seminar Series features Natalia Buitron, Jessica Sainsbury Assistant Professor in the Anthropology of Amazonia at Jesus College, Cambridge University.

Time and place: , Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts hus

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.

Time and place: , Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts hus

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'.

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus Møterom 929 & ZOOM

Bona Vacantia

Time and place: , Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts Hus

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

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus, møterom 947

The Departmental Seminar Series features Alpa Shah, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 and on zoom

A post-industrial world in a pre-industrial landscape: generations, monuments and movements in the Congo Copperbelt

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus, møterom 929

The Departmental Seminar Series features Daniel Münster, Associate Professor at the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oslo.

Time and place: , ES-B Møterom 929 and on ZOOM

Anitha Tingira: The Maternal Referral System, Childbirth Experiences and Healthcare Providers’ Dilemmas in Usandawe, Tanzania
Fatoumata Hane: A sociohistory of disease management in Senegal: Health policies between permanency and discontinuity.

 

Time and place: , Eilert Sundts hus, møterom 929

The Departmental Seminar Series features Amade M'Charek, Professor of Anthropology of Science at The University of Amsterdam.

Time and place: , Trygve Haavelmos aud 7, Eilert Sundts hus

Keynote by Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, at the The ENPA Biennial conference 2023