Andrew Graan: International Intervention and the Performativity of Public Communication in Post-Conflict Macedonia
Jacqueline Solway: ‘Slow Marriage’, ‘Fast Bogadi’
John Postill: The rise of nerd politics
John Postill (RMIT University) delivered a talk “The rise of nerd politics: an ethnohistory of technical mediation” on November 4, 2016 in our visiting seminar.
Timo Kaartinen: Aesthetics and politics of planting trees
Timo Kaartinen, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki, visited our seminar on October 7, 2016, to give a talk entitled: “The aesthetics and politics of planting trees in West Kalimantan, Indonesia”.
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Harri Englund: “Censorship in Finland”
On September 16, 2016, Harri Englund, Professor in Social Anthropology (University of Cambridge), gave a talk titled “Censorship in Finland: Beyond Parrhȇsia in Public-Service Broadcasting” in our visiting research seminar.
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Michael Herzfeld: State, Nation, Polity
Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, delivered a talk entitled “State, Nation, Polity: Seeking Alternative Authority in Greece and Thailand” on May 20, 2016, in our visiting research seminar.
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