2023
Faglig ansvarlig: Maka Suarez
Jasmijn Rana
"The (im)possibility of joy and playfulness: ‘non-belonging’, affinity groups and the pleasures of running"
Nov. 22, 2023
Joseph Dumit
"Substance as Method, Substance of Art"
Nov. 1, 2023
Kristina Lyons
"Memory and Mourning of Water: Rethinking the Role of Engineered Infrastructure in the Andean-Amazonian Fluvial Corridor of Colombia"
Oct. 18, 2023
Kim Fortun
"From Late Industrialism to the Environmental Injustice Global Record"
Oct. 4, 2023
Natalia Buitron
"Beyond Stockholm: An Amerindian perspective on hostage-taking as political overture"
Sep. 20, 2023
Alpa M. Shah
"When Decolonisation is Hijacked"
Aug. 30, 2023
Daniel Münster
"Cultivating Hope: Settlers, Suicides, and Symbiosis at the Agrarian Frontier in South India"
Aug. 23, 2023
Amade M'Charek
"Vital Elements and Post-colonial flows: Attending to migrant death and the possibility of life"
June 14, 2023
Alan Klima
"The Mindfulness War Machine: An Immaterial Critique"
June 7, 2023
Elizabeth Roberts
"In Praise of Addiction: Devotion and Defiance in a Damaged World"
May 31, 2023
Lenore Manderson
"Quintessence: Art, the Elements and Environmental Change"
May 10, 2023
Knut G. Nustad and Heather Anne Swanson
"Global trout: living with the ongoing effects of more-than human colonial projects"
Apr. 26, 2023
Michael Herzfeld
"Dominion in Disguise: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives on Crypto-Colonialism"
Mar. 29, 2023
Ali Kenner
"“This is how we know they’re scammers”: Making fraud legible in deregulated energy markets"
Mar. 15, 2023
Jeremy Rayner
"The common thing: property, democracy, and the challenge of collective commitment in post-neoliberalism"
Mar. 1, 2023
Ainur Begim
"Searching for Meaning and Objectivity: ESG Data and Responsible Investments in the Age of Sustainability"
Feb. 15, 2023
Sverker Sörlin
"Environing Technologies and Elemental Objects: A Contemporary History of Global Environmental Governance"
Feb. 1, 2023
Niko Besnier
"Utopia Modern: Palm Springs in the American Imaginary"
Jan. 18, 2023
2022
Faglig ansvarlig: Ingjerd Hoëm
Andrea Muehlebach
"Rights of Nature"
Dec. 14, 2022
William Mazzarella
"Political Incarnation as Living Archive: Populist Symptoms"
Nov. 30, 2022
Kregg Hetherington
"The Emergence of Composite Ethnography: Collaborative Methods for the Anthropocene"
Nov. 23, 2022
Annelin Eriksen
"Digital Immortality and the Kinning of AI: Transhumanism and Technoscience in the US"
Nov. 16, 2022
Rachel Smith
"‘Eating Money’: Consumption, Waste, and Moral Distinction in Vanuatu"
Nov. 2, 2022
Mark Goodale
"The Food That Will Feed the World: Lithium Industrialization and the Political Economies of the Green Energy Transition"
Oct. 19, 2022
Theodoros Rakopoulos
"Of guns and masks: On the painful labours of decolonising (through a Cypriot story)"
Sep. 7, 2022
Charles Stewart
"Historicity: An Anthropological Approach"
Aug. 24, 2022
Elizabeth A. Davis
"The President’s Body: Conspiracy and Political Theology in Cyprus and Beyond"
May 25, 2022
Sarah Green
"Livestock topologies: Crosslocations and the tracking of animals and their diseases across the Mediterranean"
May 11, 2022
John Postill
"The effects of media practitioners: digital anthropology, messy causality, and the formation of an anti-woke space"
Apr. 6, 2022
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
"Land Dispossession, Environmental Assessments, and the Politics of Inditement in Western India"
Mar. 30, 2022
May-Britt Öhmann
"Sámi perspectives on respect and dignity in one’s own home territories"
Mar. 23, 2022
Brit Ross Winthereik
"Experimenting with Ethnography"
Mar. 9, 2022
Sharon Macdonald and Tal Adler
"Who is ID8470? Making an artistic difference in the Humboldt Forum, Berlin"
Mar. 10, 2021
Tess Lea
"Applying Policy Ecology: Indigenous housing, health, and sustainability"
Feb. 9, 2022
Ilana Gershon
"The Pandemic Workplace: Tocqueville Revisited"
Jan. 26, 2022
2021
Faglig ansvarlig: P. Wenzel Geissler, Arnd Schneider, and Ingjerd Hoëm
Karin Ahlberg
"Under the surface of the Ever-Given drama: Migrant ecologies as an afterlife of the Suez Canal"
Dec. 1, 2021
Inga-Britt Krause
"Thoughts from the Outside"
Nov. 17, 2021
Elisabeth Schober
"Of Terraqueous Spaces and Waterborne Capitalism. Speculations in Shipbuilding and its Effects on Subic Bay in the Philippines"
Nov. 3, 2021
Lenka Budilová and Marek Jakoubek
"Why do (some) Roma groups eat dogs while it makes them polluted?"
Oct. 27, 2021
Susana Narotzky
"Agricultural day Labor in Spain: The logics of (pandemic) capitalism"
Oct. 20, 2021
Jennifer Hays
"Cattle, Churches, and Toilets: Intersecting barriers to land rights for a Namibian community"
Oct. 6, 2021
Laura Ogden
"Loss and Wonder at the World’s End"
Sep. 22, 2021
Silvia Hirsch
"The impact of the pandemic in low-income neighborhoods of Argentina: a collaborative and virtual ethnography of structural inequality"
Sep. 15, 2021
Jon P. Mitchell
"MIMETIC ANIMATION: Reflections on Life, Death and the Crucifixion"
Sep. 8, 2021
Casey Golomski
"Mandela's Nurse"
Sep. 1, 2021
Ursula Münster
"Weedy Belongings: Living with Postcolonial Species (invasive lantana, teak, and elephants) in South India"
June 9, 2021
Dace Dzenovska
"Emptiness: a historical formation, a heuristic device, and a concept"
May 19, 2021
Paul Stoller
"The Art of Ethnography"
Mar. 24, 2021
Sharon Macdonald and Tal Adler
"Who is ID8470? Making an artistic difference in the Humboldt Forum, Berlin"
Mar. 10, 2021
Anand Pandian
"'A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times"
Feb. 10, 2021
Tarek Elhaik
""Alboran": Cogitations on the Nature of a Marine Reserve in the Alboran Sea"
Feb. 3, 2021
2020
Faglig ansvarlig: Matt Tomlinson
Tilmann Heil
"Concepts Between Romaticism and Realism: The Case of Conviviality"
Dec. 2, 2020
Elisabeth Engebretsen
"Invisible Women in 'Woman-Friendly' Norway: An Ethnohistory of the Lesbian Bus Campaign, 1988"
Nov. 25, 2020
Tone Bringa
"Beyond 'Ottoman Half-Lives': The Case of Turkey's Bosniak Muhajirs"
Nov. 11, 2020
Zdenka Sokolíčková
"Melttown: Overheating in the High Arctic"
Nov. 4, 2020
Catherine Alexander
"The Simple Bare Necessities: The Practices, Rhetoric, Scales and Paradoxes of Thrift on a London Housing Estate"
Elisabeth A. Davis
"The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy and Context"
Ilana Gershon
"The Breakup 2.1: The Ten Year Update"
May 13, 2020
Axel Rudi
"'Without the Leader There is No Life': Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurdish Movement, and the Resurgence of Sacred Kingship"
Feb. 19, 2020
Lorenzo Cañas Bottos
"Performances and Palimpsests. The shades of Argentine Cosmopolitanism"
Jan. 29, 2020
2019
Arrangør: Department of Social Anthropology
Hans Steinmüller
"Sovereignty as Care: Patronage and Protection in the Wa State of Myanmar"
Nov. 27, 2019
Michael Herzfeld
"Subversive Archaism: When Local Communities Defy State Culture"
Nov. 13, 2019
Didier Fassin
"Those Obscure Objects of Prison Worlds An Inquiry Into Carceral Materiality"
Oct. 23, 2019
Hege Høyer Leivestad
"‘We are the Sons of the Port’: Cargo and Kinship at the Strait of Gibraltar"
Oct. 16, 2019
Naor Ben-Yehoyada
"A Sea of Scales: Fishing and Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II"
Oct. 9, 2019
Zhan Mei
"Into the Woods—making things and worlds through 'wuxing'"
Sep. 18, 2019
Saiba Varma
"Demanding Gratitude: Rescue, Abandonment and Hospitality in Indian-controlled Kashmir"
Sep. 11, 2019
Andrea Muehlebach
"A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe"
Aug. 21, 2019
Michael Taussig
"The Wasp and the Orchid: Tales of Metamorphic Sublimity"
June 5, 2019
Paul Basu
"Museum Affordances: Activating West African Ethnographic Archives and Collections through Experimental Museology"
May 22, 2019
Tadashi Yanai
"Anthropology of Images, between Flashbacks and Flash-forwards"
May 15, 2019
Matt Tomlinson
"God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Anthropology and Theology in the Pacific Islands"
Apr. 10, 2019
Paul Hockings
"Documentary film, commercial cinema, and the slow growth of ethnographic filming"
Mar. 25, 2019
Arthur Kleinman
"Anthropology’s Critique and Defense of Humanitarianism"
Mar. 20, 2019
Ruth Prince
"Public Goods and Private Markets: new forms of welfare, social protection, and citizenship in Kenya"
Mar. 14, 2019
Christopher Wright
"A Life More Photographic"
Feb. 27, 2019
Petra Rethmann
"Right-Wing Populism as Wound: Germany, Russia, Trauma, Nation"
Feb. 6, 2019
Brenda Chalfin
"Excremental Experimental: Human Waste as Laboratory for Capital in Urban Ghana"
Jan. 16, 2019
2018
Arrangør: Department of Social Anthropology
Cristina Grasseni
"Food Citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale"
Dec. 5, 2018
Anastasia Piliavsky
"Hierarchical justice in an unequal world"
Nov. 21, 2018
Jan Blommaert
"Durkheim and the Internet: how the online-offline nexus changes our views on integration"
Nov. 7, 2018
Valeria Siniscalchi
"Money, calculation and value(s): the economic and political spaces of activism"
Oct. 24, 2018
Kathleen Stewart
"Worldly Thinking"
Oct. 17, 2018
Fida Adely
"Becoming Breadwinners? The mixed effects of women's labor migration in Jordan"
Oct. 10, 2018
Cris Shore
"The Crown as Metonym for the State? Opening up the ‘Black Box’ of Constitutional Monarchy in Postcolonial Societies"
Sep. 26, 2018
Marcia C. Inhorn
"The Egg Freezing Revolution? Gender, Feminism, and Reproductive Waithood"
Sep. 5, 2018
João de Pina-Cabral
"Things into Objects: Care and Activism in Austerity"
Aug. 29, 2018
Mandana Limbert
"Prayer, Passports, and the Politics of Indian Ocean Travel"
June 6, 2018
Heather Anne Paxson
"Safe Passage or Risky Transit? Moving Perishable Foods across the U.S. Border"
May 23, 2018
Paul Gilroy
"The Value of Anti-racism"
Apr. 18, 2018
Jenny White
"Spindle Autocracies: Patterns of Polarization and Inter-Group Hostility"
Apr. 11, 2018
Bodil Selmer
"Inheritance and concepts of family in life and law in Denmark"
Apr. 4, 2018
Carolyn M. Rouse
"Mediated Populism: How media threatens modern democracies"
Mar. 21, 2018
Andreas Bandak
"Life and Story: Imitation, Co-exemplification, and the Question of Ethical Projects among Syrian Christians"
Webb Keane
"Divine Text, National Language, and Their Publics: Arguing an Indonesian Qur’an"