Deep Reading Seminar by SAI Hey everyone, Freyja here! I am a teachers assistant at SAI, and together with Ståle Wig and Charline Kopf, have arranged Deep Reading seminars this semester. We have had good feedback and would now like to open them up for everyone studying social anthropology at UiO, that wants to join!Fortsett å lese «Deep Reading Seminar (4th of November!)»
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The Departmental Seminar Series features Jennifer Hays (Oct. 6th)
«Cattle, Churches, and Toilets: Intersecting barriers to land rights for a Namibian community» Jennifer Hays is a Professor in social anthropology at the Social Anthropology Program at the University of Tromsø. Abstract Former hunter-gatherers, today the Ju/hoansi of the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in northeast Namibia are the only San community in all of southern AfricaFortsett å lese «The Departmental Seminar Series features Jennifer Hays (Oct. 6th)»
The Departmental Seminar Series features Laura Ogden (Sep. 22)
«Loss and Wonder at the World’s End» Laura Ogden is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Abstract Laura A. Ogden will present from her new book entitled Loss and Wonder at the World’s End (Duke 2021). In the book, she brings together animals, people, and things— from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and bird song–to catalog theFortsett å lese «The Departmental Seminar Series features Laura Ogden (Sep. 22)»
Reading morning/ Lesemorgen (September 22nd)
Hello everyone!SAPU is continuing our reading sessions for the students of SAI. This week we are doing a Reading Morning for everyone. On Wednesday, September 22nd, from 8am to 12pm we will be doing some reading/socializing in auditorium 4 of SV. This week we will be serving coffee for those attending and the SV cafeteriaFortsett å lese «Reading morning/ Lesemorgen (September 22nd)»
The Departmental Seminar Series features Dr. Silvia Hirsch
«The impact of the pandemic in low-income neighborhoods of Argentina: a collaborative and virtual ethnography of structural inequality» Abstract In 2020 a month after the lockdown was declared by the Argentine government, the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in a highly over populated, low-income neighborhood. The virus rapidly spread under conditions of unmet needs in housing, accessFortsett å lese «The Departmental Seminar Series features Dr. Silvia Hirsch»
Reading night/lesekveld
Hi You’all 🙂 The return of reading night sessions in social anthropology is here!!! Students will be meeting on campus Wednesday, September 15th at 16:00 to work and socialize through the evening. SAPU will provide snacks, coffee, and soda so you don’t lose your working spirit. We hope to see you there! Every single socialFortsett å lese «Reading night/lesekveld»
Welcome to UiO’s Social Anthropology MA !!!
We want to welcome all new, and «old», MA students coming to SAI at UiO this semester. We hope that you’ll have a good time, and wish you luck with your studies 😀 If there’s anything, don’t be hesitant to contact one of our members! SAPU Orientation Week (a week to be oriented ) TheFortsett å lese «Welcome to UiO’s Social Anthropology MA !!!»
«6 perspectives on food production and pandemics» Webinar by SUM. 10th of august.
What are the connections between food production and pandemics? Pandemics are a highly relevant starting point to study the global political and economic systems related to the food industry. The Covid-19 pandemic has made governments, health organizations and citizens in general painfully aware of the entanglement of changing patterns of food production and consumption and lethal pathogens. On August 10th 18:00-19:30 six expertsFortsett å lese ««6 perspectives on food production and pandemics» Webinar by SUM. 10th of august.»
Diskusip med SAF // Gjest: Karoline Andaur!!! (09/06/21 – 19:00)
Welcome to this semester’s last diskusip with social anthropologist and general secretary in WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Karoline Andaur! She has a masters degree in social anthropology with fieldwork about quality maintenance on a salmon farming factory in Puerto Montt in the south of Chile. Karoline Andaur also has a bachelor in social psychology. JoinFortsett å lese «Diskusip med SAF // Gjest: Karoline Andaur!!! (09/06/21 – 19:00)»
The Departmental Seminar Series features Ursula Münster! (09/06/21 – 16:00)
Title of seminar: Ursula Münster: «Weedy Belongings: Living with Postcolonial Species (invasive lantana, teak, and elephants) in South India» Abstract This paper explores the co-constituted histories of Lantana camara, colonial teak and disturbed elephants in South India. I argue that in the disturbed landscapes of the Anthropocene, questions of belonging are replaced by questions of survival:Fortsett å lese «The Departmental Seminar Series features Ursula Münster! (09/06/21 – 16:00)»
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