See you at World Anthropology Day?

Every year on the third Thursday in February, World Anthropology Day is celebrated to raise public awareness of what anthropology is and what relevance it has to society.

This year, the Swedish Anthropological Association (SANT) is organising an event in Stockholm on the theme From Planet to Plate: anthropological perspectives on food and taste to mark the day. On February 19, you can hear our associate professor Camelia Dewan speak in the panel discussion Planetary Flows and Infrastructures of Food.

This will be followed by workshops on sensory and practical experiences of food. Aliaksandra Shrubok, who defended her doctoral thesis at the department last semester, will lead one of the exercises, which invites discussion on how cultivation can serve as a place for community, sustainability and resistance.

-We invite you to participate in our Plant Exchange. Do you have a plant that has witnessed your life's ups and downs? A cutting from a mother plant that has been in your family for years? Or perhaps a "stolen" leaf that thrived against all odds? Bring a plant or a cutting that you are ready to pass on. Tell its story. We will help you document its "Social Biography" – who it was to you and what it needs from its next human partner. Enter into a new relationship by adopting a plant brought by someone else. Don't have a plant to bring? Come anyway! We will have "companion plants" waiting to start their social journey with you, says Aliaksandra.

The event will be held at the Folkkulturcenter in Hjorthagen, subway station Ropsten. Time: 18-20.

More information and full program at SANTs website.