Spring 2021

JANUARY 2021

28 January, 14:00–18:00

Webbinarium West African Dynamics

Join our Webinar on West African Dynamics on Thursday 28 January 14.00-18.00 (Central European Time) with two round-tables focusing on theprospects for peace, democracy and gender equality; and on the relevance of African Studies in a globalized world. Free of charge. No registration.

1 February, 10:15–12:00

Master students' joint monthly seminar

FEBRUARY 2021

3 February, 10:15–12:00

Uppsala Research seminar no1 in Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, Spring 2021

The pandemic as optic: Anthropologies of urgency and COVID-19

17 February, 10:15–12:00

Research seminar no2 in Cultural Anthropology: The crime-terror nexus revisited: How Muslimsinvolved in street life and crime oppose jihadism

MARCH 2021

3 March, 10:15–12:00

Research seminar no3 in Cultural Anthropology. Agency of plants and a theory of connectedbodies. Evidence from Western Amazonia

17 March, 13:15–15:00

Research seminar no4 in Cultural Anthropology. Sex and the Temple: Cross-gender practices in Spirit Possession Rituals in Vietnam

24 March, 10:15–12:00

Research seminar no1 in Ethnology: Autoethnography as an ethnological method (in Swedish).

31 March, 10:15–12:00

Research seminar no5 in Cultural Anthropology. Blind spots in global health: Lassa Fever, Science and the making of neglect in Sierra Leone.

APRIL 2021

14 April, 10:15–12:00

Research seminar no6 in Cultural Anthropology. Frack it Now, Frack it Later: Temporality and Aspiration in a Murky Setting

21 April, 10:15–12:00

Research seminar no3 in Ethnology

Britt-Inger Johansson och Birgitta Meurling present a project application under preparation on the theme "The sanatorium as a socio-cultural arena c: a1891–1960" (in Swedish)

28 April, 10:15–12:00

Research seminar no7 in Cultural Anthropology. Mixed blessings: Race, faith, and moralboundaries among Afrikaners in the post-apartheid era

MAY 2021

5 May, 10:15–12:00

Research seminar no4 in Ethnology

Inger Lövkrona presents her Elin Wägner research (in Swedish).

12 May, 10:15–12:00

Research seminar no8 in Cultural Anthropology. Deadly Matters. Spectacular materiality at(Maritime) Museums

19 May, 10:15–12:00

Research Seminar no5 in Ethnology

To be announced later

26 May, 10:15–12:00

Research seminar no9 in Cultural Anthropology. Cannibal talk: From Uganda to Burma, from the King’s African Rifles to the Lord’s Resistance Army

JUNE 2021

2 June, 10:15–12:00

Research Seminar no6 in Ethnology

Karin S. Lindelöf and Annie Woube present their ongoing research project "Super-extra-mega-ultra-races: Participation in extreme sports races as a cultural phenomenon" (in Swedish).