Programme

Time: 14.15-15.45

Place: to be announced. The seminar is held in conjunction with Arkeologisk Forskningsseminar, and will also be streamed on YouTube.

Abstract: This paper examines the harvesting, processing and trade of reindeer parts - specifically antlers and organs - among Ewenki reindeer herders in north-east China. It traces the circulation of such parts within an increasingly globalised medical economy, attending to their shifting biomedical, ethical and cultural significance. Drawing on over fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the paper explores the ways that such parts move across multiple worlds: Ewenki animist ontologies, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and the emerging field of regenerative science. In doing so, it highlights the ontological frictions that arise as indigenous cosmologies intersect with state-sanctioned medical regimes and transnational biomedical networks. In the process, it challenges conventional understandings of multispecies relations and contributes to broader debates on wildlife commodification, ontological pluralism and the biopolitics of animal life.

Time: 14.15-15.45

Place: to be announced. The seminar is held in conjunction with Arkeologisk Forskningsseminar, and will also be streamed on YouTube.

Abstract to follow.

Time: 14.15-16.00

Place: Sydnesplassen 12/13, room 210

Presentation in English.

Marzena will speak to us about "Raw materials, technology, and function. Results of use-wear analysis of Middle Stone Age lithics from Blombos Cave (South Africa)".Abstract to follow.

Time: 14.15-16.00

Place: Sydnesplassen 12/13, room 210

Abstract to follow. Presentation in Norwegian.