The Department of Anthropology Seminar

Seminars take place on Thursdays 3-5pm in room F61 Edward Wright Building unless otherwise noted.

All welcome. Refreshments provided.

Please contact the current seminar organisers, Maggie Bolton and Andrew Whitehouse, for any further details.

7th February

Nuccio Mazzullo, University of Lapland

Between state forest mapping and local forest living: the Nellim herders case in Finnish Lapland

 

14th February

Michelle Obeid, Manchester University

Negotiating new bureaucratic border zones: personal encounters in the United Kingdom

 

21st February

Ruriko Hanahusa

Basho, as a poet, calligrapher and walker

 

28th February

Ian Harper, University of Edinburgh

Anthropology and medicines: the Nepal pharmaceutical industry and the problem of regulation

 

7th March

Susan Crate, George Mason University

A situating of knowledge and change in 21st century rural contexts

 

14th March

PhD students, University of Aberdeen

Alberto Goyena: Gravity unleashed: heritage and memory from the perspective of demolition men

Paolo Gruppuso: From marshes to reclamation: there and back again.  Contested nature, memories and practices in two wetlands of Agro Pontino.

Shomik Mukherjee: Sufic voice-work: An adaptationist reading

Zoe Todd: "It's just what we do": fishing, apprenticeship and human-environmental relationships in Paulatuuq

 

21st March

Gro Ween, University of Aberdeen

The nature of domestication: reflections on human-salmon relations

 

18th April

Veronica Strang, Durham University

Fluid consistencies: meaning and materiality in human engagements with water

 

25th April

Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro, Oulu University

Cultural and social dimensions of wind power in south-eastern Finland

 

2nd May

Marybeth MacPhee, Roger Williams University

Reflections on quality of life and community-owned land in the changing social environment of a Hebridean island.

 

9th May

Peter Collins, Durham University

Ghosts and hauntings: towards an anthropology of the imagination