Fall 2018
Research seminar in Ethnology
Schedule version 1, updated 2018-08-31
Locations: Uppsala: EP 3-2028 Campus Gotland: CG B10
September 5: 10.15-12.00 Camilla Asplund Ingemark and Dominic Ingemark ”Människoätande demoner, känslofilosofioch familjevärden i detantika Rom”. Seminar without text distribution
September 12: 13.30- Teacher meeting Etno
September 19: 10.15-12.00 Tora Wall. PhD student in folklore studies, Åbo Akademi University. Her project concerns narratives and contemporary imaginary worlds in tourism.
October 3: 10.15-12.00 Owe Ronström: "Remoteness and Islandness. An essay on Remotedness, how it is produced and what it produces."
October 10: 13.30 Teacher meeting Etno
October 17: Research seminar is canceled. Full day at the institution on Diversity and Racism.
October 31: free time (and fall break for schools)
November 14: 10.15-12.00 Evelina Liljequist, PhD student in ethnology in Umeå: ”Digitala förbindelser. Hbtq-personers meningsskapande i relation tillsociala medier, identitet och plats i norra Sverige."
November 28: soon ready
December 12: 13.30- joint teacher meeting for the Department.
Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
Schedule, fall 2018
Day and time:Wednesdays at 10.15-12 (uneven weeks)
Venue:Uppsala: 3-2028; Visby: B10
Video conference:Facilities available for all seminars
Language(s):Swedish or English; follows the program
Seminar Organizers:Susann Baez Ullberg (susann.baez.ullberg@antro.uu.se) & Don Kulick (don.kulick@antro.uu.se)
September 12Thaïs Machado Borges, Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University: Gender Troubled? Culture Wars on Sexuality, Gender,Religion, and Politics in Contemporary Brazil – Preliminary thoughts about a new research project.
September 26Sverker Finnström, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University: "I Claim the Right Not to Be Part of This!" Political Agency, Civilian Refusal and War in Uganda, 1998-2005.
October 10Johan Lindquist, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University: Beyond Digital Sweatshops and North-South Divides: Preliminary Notes on Indonesian Click Farming.
October 24Örjan Bartholdson, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: Brokers – A Weapon of the Weak:The Impact of Bureaucracy and brokers on a Community based Forest Management Project in the Brazilian Amazon.
November 7 Cris Shore, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths University: From Metricised Management to the Quantified Self: Performance Indicators, Big Data and the New Subjects of Power.
November 21Maris Gillette, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University: Sweden's burka ban?
December 5 Helle Rydström, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University: TBA.