NAF2021
Successful NAF Conference 2021!
On 25-26 November, the annual conference of the Norwegian Anthropological Society was held in Bergen. See pictures from the conference here!
Conference Comittee Leaders, Synnøve Bendixsen and Antonio De Lauri, welcome anthropologists in a full Terminus Hall to the NAF Conference 2021.
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Registration and collecting of conference nametag, programme and bag.
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Master student and voluntary worker Tonje Sophie O. Gray is ready to help!
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Professor Leif Manger held a wonderful Honorary Lecture, where he explored polarization through his life and career first and foremost in Sudan and South Sudan. The title of the lecture was: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Polarisation as zones of ambiguities".
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Maria B. Ulvesæter
Workshop 12 - Panel discussion: The future of ethnography - i light of GDPR was one of fourteen workshops and three film screenings during the conference.
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Maria B. Ulvesæter
Panel discussion between Hilde Frafjord Johnson and Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Amongst other things they talked about academic freedom, the climate changes, pandemic and conflicts in a polarized contemporary age. Antonio De Lauri moderated the talk.
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Maria B. Ulvesæter
Conference guests receiving conference cups.
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Maria B. Ulvesæter
Book launch: Edvard Hviding (UiB) welcomes everyone to the launch of "Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations", edited by himself and Synnøve Bendixsen (UiB).
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Nils Haukeland Vedal
Halvard Vike (USN) contributed with the chapter "No direction home? Anthropology in and of Norway".
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Nils Haukeland Vedal
Fartein Hauan Nilsen, PhD candidate at UiB won beste article in Betwixt & Between 2021.
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Maria B. Ulvesæter
PhD candidates at The Dept. of Social Anthropology, UiB, Martin Eggen Mogseth and Oda Eiken Maraire, thank for the delicious food after the conference dinner.
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Conference mingling is an important part of every anthropological event, and something people clearly were longing for through the pandemic. F.l.: Ståle Knudsen (UiB), Harald Aspen (NTNU), Håkon Fyhn (NTNU), Jens Røyrvik (NTNU), Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard (UiB)
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Fl.: Fartein Hauan Nilsen (UiB), Lars Gjelstad (HVL), Martin Eggen Mogseth (UiB), Nils Haukeland Vedal (UiB) and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (UiB).
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
F.l.: New Head of Norwegian Anthropological Association, Tone Danielsen (Høgskolen i Kristiania), Thomas Hylland Eriksen (UiO) and Natalia Magani (UiT).
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
F.l.: Malin Kleppe (HVL), Oda Eiken Maraire (UiB) and Ragnhild Freng Dale (Vestlandsforsking)
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
F.l: Roel Puijk (HINN), Knut Rio (UiB) and Frode Storaas (UiB).
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
F.v.: Carmeliza Rosario (CMI) and Confference Comittee Leader Antonio De Lauri (CMI).
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Book sale of anthropological literature.
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Research assistant at the Dept. of Social Anthropology, UiB and GRIP, Maria Bakke Ulvesæter, did an amazing job with the logistics and practical side of the conference.
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Voluntary workers have also been essential in carrying out such a large event. F.l.: Tonje Sophie O. Gray, Sofie Hole, Camilla Brekken, Mari E. Nehus and Emma Louise Solheim. Not present: Jan Magne Helgesen, Maja P. Wedset, Irmelin Johansen, Susanne Christensen and Melissa Mjåtveit.
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Head of Department Synnøve Bendixsen welcomes the audience to the Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture 2021. This is the sixth in the lecture series established in 2015, 50 years after Professor Fredrik Barth founded the department.
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Professor Marianne Lien held and inspirational and appealing Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture. The title of the lecture was: "Beyond the Ethnographic Presence; Landscapes as relational archives".
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
Lien drew on Barth's never-ending joy of exploring social life and linked his experiences to her own extensive research in Finnmark.
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Synnøve Bendixsen
Synnøve Bendixsen, Marianne Lien and Fredrik Barth.
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
The annual anthropological debate, initiated by NAT. This year the following motion was put forward: "Anthropology does not need to decolonize in order to make sense of conflicts in today’s polarized world". Arguing for the motion were Samwel Moses Ntapanta (UiO) and Kjetil Knaus Fosshagen (HVL). Arguing against the motion were Carmeliza Rosario (CMI) and Cindy Horst (PRIO).
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
The debate engaged the audience also.
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Nina Bergheim Dahl
We are grateful to everyone who attended and made the NAF Conference 2021 an engaging and memorable event.
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Nina B. Dahl/Colourbox
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Updated: 03.12.2021 (First published: 29.11.2021)
The Norwegian Anthropological Association Conference is an annual event gathering anthropologists from all over Norway. Due to Covid-19 the conference was cancelled last year. The engagement and joy of meeting was therefore extra present amongst the 140 participants gathering to develop new anthropological knowledge and debate current issues.
See pictures from the conference above!
We are grateful to everyone who attended and made the NAF Conference 2021 an engaging and memorable event.
We look forward to next year's conferenve already!
NAF Conference 2021
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- See here for workshop abstract
Conference logo 2021
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