Spring 2023
JANUARY 2023
18 January, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Cultural Anthropology with Ana Chiritoiu
Content will be announced later.
FEBRUARY 2023
1 February, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Cultural Anthropology with Hans Tunestad
Serious Leisure Imaginaries: The Construction of Tourists, Locals, and Localities in Scuba Diving Tourism.
3 February, 09:15, Engelska parken
Rikard Engbloms dissertation defence
Dissertation defence in Ethnology
15 February, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Cultural Anthropology with Katja Uusihakala
Selectivity, silence and irreconciliation in a postcolonial apology – the case British child migration to colonial Southern Rhodesia.
22 February, 14:15–16:00
Research seminar in Ethnology with Egle Rindzeviciute
Infrastructuring the Soviet Nuclear Culture in Atomic Towns
23 February, 15:15–17:00
Seminar: World War II and the Radicalization of Academic Antigypsyism in Sweden
"World War II and the Radicalization of Academic Antigypsyism in Sweden. A Case of Uppsala University's Researchers"
An Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in Romani Studies.
MARCH 2023
1 March, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Cultural Anthropology with Andrew Canessa
Savages and Citizens: Indigenous Peoples and the Nation State from Thomas Hobbes to Evo Morales.
2 March, 14:15–16:00, Humanistiska teatern
Lecture with Prof Andrew Canessa
We are all familiar with the image of the Indigenous person in forests or mountains living close to and in harmony with the natural environment enjoyinga traditional lifestyle distant from the realities of a modern world. The reality is that a clear majority of Indigenous people today live in urban areas.
8 March, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Ethnology with Camilla Asplund Ingemark
This seminar will be in Swedish, please switch the webpage language into Swedish for more information.
15 March, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Cultural Anthropology
Return from the field with PhD student Anastasia Ulturgasheva
22 March, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research Seminar in Ethnology with Camilla Asplund Ingemark
Camilla Asplund Ingemark will present her current folkloristic research project about future genres and climate change. The seminar will be in Swedish.
29 March, 10:15–12:00
Research seminar in Cultural Anthropology with Teresa Connor
“A Land where Time Stood Still? Nostalgia and traders in the former Transkei, South Africa.”
30 March, 15:15–17:00
Cancelled: Romanian Roma Survivors' Recollections of 1942: Deportations to Transnistria with Dr.Ana Chiritoiu
The seminar is cancelled!
Dr. Ana Chiritoiu reflects on the deportation of Romanian Roma to the occupied territories of Transnistria during the Second World War, recorded by Mr.Romeo Tiberiad, and relates the deportation to later waves of displacement. Even though each of these waves of uprooting and persecution differs fromthe others, when viewed from inside family and community life, their
31 March, 13:15–15:00, Engelska parken
Final Seminar Alexander Sallstedt
Discussant is Gísli Pálsson, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Iceland and Formerly Professor II at the University of Oslo. In 2023, he is Fellow at SCAS.
Susann Baez Ullberg will chair the seminar.
APRIL 2023
4 April, 10:15–12:00
Cancelled: Open lecture with Juan M. del Nido -- New technologies and their moral economy ofknowledge
5 April, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Ethnology with Jonathan Roper
This seminar will be in English, on the topic: Dictionaries as sources of folklore.
12 April, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Cultural Anthropology with Chakad Ojani
Oceans in the sky: Conservation, infrastructure, and ecologies of fog capture in coastal Peru.
18 April, 15:15–17:00, Engelska parken
Book talk: Burkina Faso seen from below in 2023
April 18th, Uppsala University’s Forum for Africa Studies hosts a seminar with Professor Ludovic O. Kibora, Director of Institut des Sciences Sociétésin Burkina Faso, and Professor Sten Hagberg. They will talk about the English edition of their new book Security from below in Burkina Faso Citizenperceptions and perspectives 2023.
19 April, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Ethnology with Malin Stengård
This seminar will be in Swedish, please switch the webpage language into Swedish for more information.
20 April, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Engaging Vulnerability seminar on ”Against the polity prism: Tracing an African tensor”
Despite the call to decolonize African studies, remarkably little is known of internal cultural processes driving precolonial history. In the region spanningcentral and eastern Africa, precolonial kingdoms originated by bending the medicinal tradition of chiefs, who themselves were a special type of healers.
21 April, 13:00, Engelska parken
Adelaida Caballero Ph.D. Defense
Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology and the Engaging Vulnerability program Adelaida Caballero, defends her dissertation "Shortchanged. ElderlyWomen Street Vendors in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea."
26 April, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Cultural Anthropology with Lenore Manderson
To be announced
MAY 2023
3 May, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Ethnology with Åmund Norum Resløkken
”Actants, non-human actors, and translation of animism as a model for sustainability”. Language to be decided.
9 May, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Book talk – Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela
Professor of anthropological theory Moises Lino e Silva, and Ph.D. student Shen Qing invite to a book talk about Moises' book Minoritarian Liberalism:A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (The University of Chicago Press, 2022).
10 May, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Cultural Anthropology with Anais Menard
To be announced
17 May, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Ethnology with Gurbet Peker
This seminar will be in Swedish.
23 May, 16:30–18:30, Engelska parken
Open Lecture with Professor Lenore Manderson
You are warmly invited to attend Professor Lenore Manderson's Open Lecture "Quintessence: Art, The Elements, and Environmental Change" that willtake place on Tuesday 23 May, at 4.30 pm in the Humanities Theatre. After the lecture we will gather for some mingle, chats and drink reception withbuffet just outside the Humanities Theatre.
24 May, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Cultural Anthropology with Ugo Corte
Dangerous fun.
31 May, 10:15–12:00, Engelska parken
Research seminar in Ethnology with Jan Turtinen
Jan will talk about working as an analyst with a doctoral degree in Ethnology. The seminar will be in Swedish.