Konferanser og seminarer

Professor Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is appointed honorary doctor by the Rectorate of the University of Oslo, and will give a lecture on that occasion.

Professor Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing utnevnes til æresdoktor av rektoratet ved Universitetet i Oslo, og vil i den anledning holde forelesningen The sociality of birds: reflections on ontological edge effects.

Tom Bratrud launches his new book Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

Arnd Schneider discusses his book Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image with anthropologist Theodor Barth at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo.

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

Christian Krohn-Hansen launches his new book Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic: Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods.

In this second of two special lectures organized by SAI, SAPU and Asianettverket, Dr. Phil Øyvind Jaer revisits themes from his book Karchana.

In this first of two special lectures organized by SAI, SAPU and Asianettverket, Dr. Phil Øyvind Jaer revisits themes from his book Capital and Karma in a dialogue with Dumont’s Homo Hierarchicus

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

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

Camelia Dewan launches her new book Misreading the Bengal Delta.

Hva har vi vært opptatt av det foregående tiåret? Hva bør vi diskutere mer? Hvordan har Norge og verden forandret seg? Går vi i retning mer inkludering og tillit eller mer utenforskap og mistenksomhet?

Workshop on "Theological Politics" co-hosted by Naomi Haynes (University of Edinburgh) and Matt Tomlinson (SAI).

Most people are not aware of their cell phone's afterlife. Learn about the impact of Norwegian electronic waste in Tanzania.

Registration is now open for the international conference 'GLOBAL TRACES: Art Practice, Ethnography, Contested Heritage',  at the University of Oslo, 7- 8 February 2019.

PhD student Hugo de Carvalho Ferreira, the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, Europa-Universität, Viadrina

Ghassan Hage

Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne

Drawing upon Lévi-Strauss’s notion that food is good to think with, we seek to use the study of food to explore issues of contemporary life, transformation, and Overheating.

Meet two of the world’s leading scholars on the relation between biological and cultural evolution - David Sloan Wilson, SUNY Binghamton and Terrence W. Deacon, UC Berkeley. Subsequent panel discussion with Kalle Moene, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Henrik Sinding-Larsen and the audience.

In this workshop, we will explore the interfaces of climate change and capitalism, and discuss how climate change and environmental crisis intersect with difference, inequality and claims for justice.

Ulrika Persson-Fischier

Doctoral student at Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology and lecturer at Department of Engineering Sciences, Industrial Engineering & Management at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Oscar Hemer is Professor of Journalistic and Literary Creation at Malmö University. He holds a Dr. Philos. degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo (2011).

Home ownership and debt culture: the tragedy of the future that will never come

Sílvia Gómez Mestres

Associate professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Autonomous University of Barcelona