Join us tomorrow for the Departmental Seminar Series, this time featuring Rahul Ranjan who will present on Narratives of Loss and Disaster in the Himalayas.
2:15 pm, in person and on zoom!
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Join us later today for the departmental seminar series featuring Kristing Bergtora Sandvik, who will talk about transitional justice and terrorism. 2:15 pm, in person and on zoom!
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Our researcher Ståle Wig is going to give an online seminar on 'infrabanking' next week, be sure to check it out!

My article 'Bio-imaginaries: Biologics, Bricolage and the making of pharmaceutical knowledge' is out Med Anthro Theory special issue on The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics #biologics #rheum #anthropology OsloAnthropology SV-fakultetet UiO
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Talked with my dear colleague Kenneth Bo Nielsen OsloAnthropology on the NIAS - The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Nordic Asia podcast about my Amber Worlds project: newbooksnetwork.com/amber-worlds-t…

We are happy to announce the 2° ANTHSEAS webinar

📆15 March 2024, 5-7pm CET
Hege Høyer Leivestad (Hege Leivestad) from Universitetet i Oslo will give a talk titled 'Cargo Capitalism: the port revised'
She will discuss it with University of Michigan's Jatin Dua

Registration ⤵️
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Tomorrow the departmental seminar series continues, this time featuring Chihab El Khachab who will talk about his research with the “unknown soldiers” of commercial cinema in Egypt. Join us at 2:15pm, also on Zoom!
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Today the PORTS speaker series, organized by the ERC funded project PORTS, starts back up again with its first seminar this semester. Lucia Carminati starts it off with the talk 'An Unhappy Happy Port: Fin-de-siècle Port Said'. 3.15 pm!
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Join us in half an hour for the departmental seminar series, this time featuring Joel Robbins who will talk about religion's potential for fostering climate action!
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We're looking for a new colleague to join our department OsloAnthropology. 80% teaching position, requiring fluency in both English and Norwegian: jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillin…

Our researcher Kenneth Bo Nielsen just published a new book with Jostein Jakobsen: 'Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi’s India'. If you're curious about Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism in India give it a look! routledge.com/Authoritarian-…

📰 In this recent article about new technology and new challenges OsloAnthropology researcher Cecila G. Salinas discusses difficulties and offers strategies for anonymization in digitalized fieldwork in the face of sophisticated AI and privacy regulations.
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How do the everyday realities of gods and ghosts affect the Christian faith of people on the Epoon atoll? Find out tomorrow at our first Departmental Seminar of the semester with Ola Gunhildrud Berta at 2:15 pm, in person and on zoom!
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Despite the Cuban governement's authorization of banks in 2011 most Cubans still choose to secure capital outside of the formal banking system. Why and how you can find out in our researcher Ståle Wig's recent article! (Open access) anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/se…

New technology, new challenges! In this recent article our researcher Cecila G. Salinas discusses difficulties and offers strategies for anonymization in digitalized fieldwork in the face of sophisticated AI and privacy regulations. rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

What do Norwegians long for when they long for the countryside? Why do small farms, despite high demand on the market, sit empty and abandoned? Our researcher Tom Bratrud discusses these and other questions in three essays in Tor-Evert Grøndahl’s new book. friskforlag.no/produkt/smabru…

Five fantastic years of a 100% research postdoc OsloAnthropology is coming to an end. Went out with a bang in Gdansk for our LifeCycle of Container Ship Project with the most amazing colleagues. Looking forward to the next chapter at Dept of Cultural Anthropology Uppsala University.

Our researcher Tom Bratrud has an interview out on Sophie Chao`s Morethanhumanworlds.com where he discusses his research in Norway and Vanuatu and approaches to environmental issues and concerns. Check it out here:
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Join us for tomorrow's African Anthropology seminar to hear Ismaël Maazaz talk about how the populations of the Lake Chad basin have developed endogenous practices to face drinking water availability and access issues.
In person and on Zoom 3:15pm-5pm!

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Curious on what substances anthropological theories and metaphors and methods are based on?
Join us (online or in person at UiO) for an interesting seminar with Joe Dumit this Wednesday, 1. November, 2:15-4:00 pm!

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