Konferanser og seminarer

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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

Sigurd Hverven

Master student, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas, University of Oslo

This workshop asks how different kinds of mining encounters (seen as fields of negotiation involving various actors and stakeholders) bring about forms of accelerated change. The emphasis is on change that involves the environment, the economy, politics and/or social identity.  

Theo Rakopoulos 

Postdocoral fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen

Professor Terrence W. Deacon

Anthropology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

Dan Podjed

Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art / University of Ljubljana

Caroline Knowles

Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Nina Boy

Senior Researcher in Financial Security, PRIO

Kristian van Haesendonck

Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon

Tijo Salverda

Research fellow, University of Cologne's Global South Studies Center and a research associate of the University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Programme

Chris Hann

Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology/

Senior Researcher, Overheating project

Mobility, family life and the European citizenship: marriages between legally precarious African migrants and peripheral Europeans in the Netherlands

Globalisation and the roots of the ecological crisis

The Second International Bateson Symposium in Oslo.

University of Oslo, September 11-12, 2013

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Ecology, Flexibility and Learning in Local and Global Civilization