Bergen Anthropology Day
Chr. Michelsen Institutt og Institutt for sosialantropologi inviterer hver høst alle interesserte til Bergen Anthropology Day.
Bergen Anthropology Day er et årlig arrangement for antropologimiljøet i Bergen, og organiseres av Institutt for sosialantropologi og Chr. Michelsens Institutt. Dagen avholdes fortrinnsvis i september, og på Det akademiske kvarter.
Arrangementet søker å samle antropologistudenter, akademikere og forskere som jobber ved Bergens mange forskningsinstitusjoner. Ettermiddagen gir et innblikk i de forskjellige antropologiske forskningsmiljøene, internasjonale samarbeid, samt pågående og nye prosjekter. Alle interesserte er hjertelig velkomne.
2025 program
09:30 – 10:45 Part 1
Geir Henning Presterudstuen, Head of Department, UiB & Heidi Mogstad, Senior Researcher, CMI
-Welcome to Bergen Anthropology Day
Tom Bratrud, Associate Professor, UiB
-Rurality 2.0: Redefining Urban-Rural Divides in the Mountains of Norway
Selma Øilo Tenold, Teaching Assistant, UiB & Research Assistant, CMI
-“Machistas in Reform”: Men’s Promotion of New Masculine Identities in the Uruguayan Gender Landscape
Kari Anne Dragsland, Researcher, UiB
-Contested Knowledge and Legal Reasoning in Asylum Appeals: Preliminary Insights from Fieldwork in German Administrative Courts
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Part 2
Heidi Mogstad (Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift), Christine Jacobsen (Norsk Antropologisk Forening), Knut Rio (Kulturhistorisk Museum, UiB)
-Initiatives in Norwegian Anthropology
Marte Sandvik Haaland, Associate Professor, UiB
-Reproductive Interfaces: Politics, Power and Care in Second Trimester Abortions
Eva Johais, Post Doctoral Researcher, CMI
-#WARS - The politics of war participation in the digital age
Mona Frank, Public Health Advisor & Project Manager, Skeiv Verden
-“Border Regimes in Practice: Tracing the EU’s New Asylum Pact from Brussels to the Frontlines”
12:45 – 13:45 Complimentary Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Part 3 - Panel Discussion in Tårnsalen, Naturhistorisk Museum: Skillet mellom Natur og Kultur
Participants: Ane E. Bjune (BIO), Lise Øvreås (BIO), Tor Eldevik (Geofysisk Institutt), Rasmus Slaattelid (Senter for Vitenskapsteori), Sören Koch (Juridisk Fakultet)
Chair: Knut Rio, Professor, UiB
Tidligere program
2024
Torsdag 2. Oktober
09:15-14:00
Auditoriet Ulrike Pihls Hus
Simon Birkvad, Postdoctoral Research (UiB) and Sofie Skovfoged Gregersen, Ph.D. Candidate(UiB)
The Asyknow project: Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation in Scandinavia and Germany
Mari Norbakk, Postdoctoral Researched (CMI)
Rubble investments: the blocked, broken and redirected flows of capitals from Sudan, Co-authored by Abdelmageed Yahia.
Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif, postdoctoral researcher (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action)
Marriage, Materiality and Matrimonial Wealth in Islamic Family Law in Contemporary Malaysia.
10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45-12:15 PART 2
Marta Gentilucci, postdoctoral researcher (Marie Sklodowska-Curie, CMI)
OCEAN MINeD. How mining “gets wet”.
Alessandro Corso, Postdoctoral Researcher (Marie Sklodowska-Curie, CMI)
Fishers of Corpses: First reflections from the Field
Edyta Roszko, Research professor (CMI)
Thinking Beyond the research projects: Reflections on global history in times of climate change
Heidi Mogstad, Postdoctoral researcher (CMI) and Marry-Anne Karlsen, Associate Professor (UiB)
Interventions for Palestine in Bergen and beyond
12:15-13:00 LUNCH
13:00-14:00 BOOK PRESENTATIONS
Fartein Hauan Nilsen, Ph.D candidate (UiB) and Martin Eggen Mogseth, Ph.D candidate (UiB)
Limits of Life: Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the age of Technoscience
Thomas Salem, Ph.D candidate (UiB)
Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of War and the Far-Right
2023
Torsdag 9. November
10:00-16:00
Auditoriet, Ulrike Pihls Hus
Håkon Larsen, PhD Candidate (UiB)
Contested Seascapes
Daniel Paulsen, PhD Candidate (UiB)
Navigating Risks in Arctic Maritime Operations
Carmeliza Rosario, Postdoctoral Researcher (CMI)
Women in informal and customary leadership in Mozambique
Ola Gunhildrud Berta, Postdoctoral Researcher (UiB)
Tuna diplomacy: Mutual Aid and Affinity Geopolitics among PNA’s Big Ocean States
Axel Rudi, Postdoctoral Researcher (UiB)
Sovereignty without the state: governance in Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan
James Wintrup, Senior Researcher (CMI)
Fragmented Visions: Salvation, Technocracy, and Health for All in Rural Zambia
William Dawley, Postdoctoral Researcher (UiB)
Cryonics 2.0: The Mainstreaming of Transhumanism and the Rationalist Turn
Marry-Anne Karlsen, Associate Professor (UiB)
Contested knowledges in and through asylum litigation
12:30 – 13:30 Complimentary Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Roundtable: Multifaceted relationships in ethnographic work.
Tord Austdal (UiS), Annelin Eriksen (UiB), Eva Johais (CMI), Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme (UiB)
15:00 – 16:00 The Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture 2023: Harvey Whitehouse. Against Interpretive Exclusivism.Egget, Studentsenteret.
2022
Torsdag 9. September
11:00-15:30
Tivolisalen, Kvarteret
11:00-12:00 Ideas
Sadie Hale, PhD Candidate, UiB
Northern Neighbours: Whale-Human Relations and Multispecies Commoning in the Anthropocene Arctic
Stefan Samuel Madabe Heimstad Ogedengbe, PhD Candidate, UiB
Breathing with Asthma in South Africa’s Urban Energy Hubs
Amanda Tallis, PhD Candidate, HVL
Migrant Women and Their Aspirations in the Welfare State Kaja Skoftedalen, PhD Candidate, UiB Trust, Care and Reproductive Health
12:00-12:45 Complimentary Lunch
12:45-15:15 Projects
Arne Strand, Senior Researcher, CMI
Can China’s Development Peacebuilding Approach Make a Difference?
Heidi Mogstad, Postdoctoral Researcher, CMI
The Seduction of War: Norwegian Soldiers’ Quest for Adventure, Thrill, and Self-Realization
Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, Associate Professor, UiB
Environmental Sustainability, Marine Economics and Gendered Socio-Economic Inequalities (ENMARINE): A Norway-Brazil Partnership in Research and Teaching
Hang Zhou , Postdoctoral Researcher, CMI
Moving beyond a single story of Chinese distant-water fishing in West Africa
Kefiloe Sello, Postdoctoral Researcher, UiB
Ethnographies of Thirst
Ann Cathrin Corrales-Øverlid, Postdoctoral Researcher, UiB
At the Margins if the Nordic Model? Experiences of Precarious and Informal Work in Norway
2021
Dette året ble Bergen Anthropology Day planlagt til samme tid som årets NAF konferanse som ble holdt i Bergen.
Torsdag 25. November
09:00-11:45
Grand Hotel Terminus
09:05-10:00 Idéer
Miriam Ladstein (UiB)
Assembling Oceanic Futures: Youth engagement at the intersection of cultural heritage and climate
Karine Jansen (CMI)
Epidemic and environmental entanglements: Living with mosquitos in Mauritius
Martin Eggen Mogseth (UiB)
Conceiving Ontology: Donor Conception and the Reality of Genetic Heredity
Fartein Hauan Nilsen (UiB)
Ghosts in the Machine: A study of “digital immortality” technologies and their effects on conceptions of personhood, kindship, and life after death in the US
10:00-11:00 Nye Prosjekter
Mari Norbakk & Sarah Tobin (CMI)
The Invisible Ceiling: Muslim Immigrant Entrepreneurs Navigate Norway’s Financial Environment
Carmeliza Rosario (CMI)
The sights of women in the new Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique
Cecilie Ødegaard and Marianna Betti (UiB)
Automation shift in the maritime sector of the oil and gas industry: assessing risk and safety, protecting labor (ASMOG)
Jon Henrik Remme (UiB)
How Climate Change Transforms Human-Machine Temporalities
2019
13. September
12:00-16:10
Tivolisalen, Kvarteret
12:00-13:00 Complimentary lunch in Tivoli (1st floor, Kvarteret)
13:00-13:10 Welcome and introduction: Ståle Knudsen (UiB)
13:10-13:30 “Mare Nullius? Sea Level Rise and Maritime Sovereignties in the Pacific – An Expanded Anthropology of Climate Change” - Edvard Hviding (UiB)
13:30-13:50 “Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple Mobilities in and Out of the South China Sea” – Edyta Roszko (CMI)
13:50-14:10 Break
14:10-14:30 “The Rise of the Enclave and the Death of the City as We Know It” - Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (UiB)
14:30-14:50 “Negotiating Humanitarian Aid: Principles, Diplomacy, Compromise” - Antonio De Lauri (CMI)
14:50-15:10 Musical performance – “Antro-på-scene” coffee and cake
15:10-16:10 Panel “Anthropology and the Sustainable Development Goals” On SDGs in teaching, future project ideas and anthropology in the debate on SDGs.
Moderator: Edvard Hviding
Panelists:
Anwesha Dutta (CMI) “SDGs and Environmental Anthropology”
Nora Haukali (UiB) – “Thoughts on SDGs and Teaching”
Salla Turunen (CMI) – “SDGs: In the Search of Balance between Practice and Research”
Marianna Betti (UiB) – “The Role of Religious Missions and Faith in the Achievement of SDG”
2018
14. September
12:00-18:00
Storelogen, Kvarteret
12:00-13:00 Complimentary lunch in Halvtimen (3rd floor, Kvarteret)
13:00-13:10 Welcome and introduction: Ståle Knudsen (UiB)
13:10-14:10 Panel: “Ethnography in/of Danger” - Exploring the different dimensions of risk and danger in ethnographic work
Introduction to panel: Antonio De Lauri (CMI)
Sarah Tobin (CMI) “Researching (Under) Scrutiny – Ethnography among Syrians in Jordan”
Tomas Salem (UiB) “On Warfare, Mountaineering and the Gendered Dynamics of Danger”
Tone Bringa (UiB)
14:10-14:30 Coffee
14:30-16:10 Presentations
14:30-14:50 “Local, Regional and Global: Three Projects on Forced Displacement” - Are John Knudsen (CMI)
14:50-15:10 “How Water Scarcity Shapes Political Belonging in Cape Town” - Kerry Chance (UiB)
15:10-15:30 Coffee, cake and fruit
15:30-15:50 “Reflections on the (Ir)relevance of Anthropology for the Study of Poverty” - Inge Tvedten (CMI)
15:50-16:10 “Carbon in the Creation of Chinese Ecological Civilization” – Charlotte Bruckermann (UiB)
16:20-onwards Musical performance and mingling
2017
15. September
12:00-17:00
Tivolisalen, Kvarteret
13.00-13.10 Ståle Knudsen (UiB) Introduction and practical information
13.10-13.40 Don Kalb (UiB) “Frontlines: Class, Value, and Social Transformation in 21st Century Capitalism”
13.40-14.10 Gunnar Sørbø (CMI) “Applying Anthropology: Glimpses from the Departmental Past and Current Relevance”
14.10-14.30 Break
14.30-14.45 Anette Fagertun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) “Multicultural workforce in Nursing Homes: Contemporary challenges, opportunities and potentials for the future in the Norwegian municipal care sector (MULTICARE), 2016 – 2020”
14.45-15.05 Astrid Blystad (UiB) and Haldis Haukanes (UiB) “Global-national-local dynamics in studies of gender, health and the body. Examples of research collaboration between anthropologists on the margins”
15.05-15.20 Antonio De Lauri (CMI) Presentation of the new journal Public Anthropologist
15.20-15.40 Break (cakes and coffee)
15.40-16.05 Knut Rio, Mari H. Korsbrekke and Axel Rudi (UiB) Presenting the project ‘Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons’
16.05-16.20 Sarah A. Tobin (CMI) “Islam and the Economy: Anthropological Perspectives”
16.20-16.45 Ståle Knudsen, Ingrid Birce Müftüoglu and Siri Lange (UiB) Presenting the project ‘Energethics - Norwegian energy companies abroad’ with focus on two case studies - Statkraft in Turkey and Statoil in Tanzania