RAI - Norwegian Anthropology Day
Hovedinnhold
Norwegian Anthropology Day at the Royal Anthropological Institute
Friday 30 October 2015
Venue: The British Academy, Carlton House Terrace (off The Mall)
09:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:15 Opening remarks by Prof. Edvard Hviding, Univ. of Bergen
10:15–13:00 PRESENTATIONS (25 minutes each including short Q & A)
10:15-10:40 Social anthropology in Norway: a nutshell history (Prof. Olaf H. Smedal, Univ. of Bergen)
10:40-11:05 The fieldwork tradition (Prof. Signe Howell, Univ. of Oslo)
11:05-11:30 No Direction Home? Anthropological constructions of familiarity, and some experiences from Norway (Prof. Halvard Vike, Univ. of Oslo)
Coffee/tea break 11:30-11:45
11:45-12.10 Anthropology, Development, and North-South Cooperation (Dr. Gunnar Sørbø, CMI)
12:10-12:35 The unbearable lightness of being a public anthropologist in Norway (Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Univ. of Oslo)
12:35-13:00 Disagreement, illuminations and mystery: a brief ethnography of Norwegian anthropology today (Dr. Synnøve K.N. Bendixsen, Univ. of Bergen)
13:00-14:00 Lunch (on site)
14:00–17:00 PANEL DISCUSSION (5-7 min. each, followed by internal and plenary discussion; integrated coffee & tea break)
Moderators: Prof. Annelin Eriksen and Prof. Christine M. Jacobsen, Univ. of Bergen
Prof. Penny Harvey, Univ. of Manchester
Prof. Unni Wikan, Univ. of Oslo
Prof. Sidsel Saugestad, Arctic Univ. of Norway
Dr. Martin Thomassen, Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology
Prof. Marit Melhuus, Univ. of Oslo
Prof. Vigdis Broch-Due, Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian
Academy of Science and Letters
Mr. Tord Austdal, PhD candidate, Univ. of Bergen
Ms. Kaja Berg Hjukse, MA student, Univ. Of Oslo
Ms. Annicken Lundgård, Save the Children
Dr. Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Univ. of Aberdeen
Prof. Ingjerd Hoëm, Univ. of Oslo
17:00 Closing discussant: Prof. Marilyn Strathern, Univ. of Cambridge