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