As a part of the AMBER project, Alessandro Rippa carried out some preliminary fieldwork in and near Catania, in Sicily, where amber has a long, but largely forgotten, history.
On March 14-15 the AMBER team convened for an internal kick-off workshop with two days of extensive discussions about the project.
Alessandro Rippa was recently interviewed about the Amber Worlds project on the Nordic Asia Podcast.
Applications are invited for 1 PhD position in social anthropology, to be based at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. The position will be part of the project “Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene (AMBER)” led by Associate Professor Alessandro Rippa, and funded by the European Research Council. The contracts will commence in spring 2024, run for 3-to-4 years (see below), and the location of employment is Oslo, Norway.
DEADLINE 03.09.2023
Applications are invited for 2 post-doctoral positions in social anthropology, to be based at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. The positions will be part of the project “Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene (AMBER)” led by Associate Professor Alessandro Rippa, and funded by the European Research Council. The contracts will commence in spring 2024, run for 3-to-4 years (see below), and the location of employment is Oslo, Norway.
DEADLINE: 03.09.2023
