Birgitta Meurling in student radio
2020-09-15
Ethnologist Birgitta Meurling was recently interviewed by the student radio of Gothenburg University about historic body ideals. You can listen to the interview here (in Swedish).
News
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Alex Maxia in The Times
2022-06-29
Our former master student Alex Maxia now writes for The Times. In this article he is doing a cultural analysis on the Swedish Netflix series Love and Anarchy.
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Claudia Merli a new Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
2022-06-23
Claudia Merli joins the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study as one of the Fellows in residence during the academic year 2022-2023. During her time at the collegium she will be writing on political space and the body in Thailand'
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Gurbet Peker: The sheep - a Gotland symbol of sustainability
2022-06-23
The department's ethnologist Gurbet Peker is a doctoral student at the graduate school in sustainable development on Campus Gotland. She researches the everyday life of sheep farmers in the Gotland countryside.
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”Megaprojekt” nominated for book award
2022-06-23
Svenskt projektforum has nominated and awarded the prize to Project Manager's Book of the Year 2022. The jury assesses how current the books are, how easy they are to absorb and if they add something new. Susann Baez Ullbergs et al. book was one of the nominees.
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Per Brandström: Book review of Mhola - The Utopia of Peace
2022-06-13
Our longtime employee Per Brandström, now retired, has been reviewed in the Journal of Anthropological research. The review is about his book Mhola - The Utopia of Peace: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Sungusungu Movement in Tanzania, which was published last year in our series Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.
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Tiago Duarte Dias interviewed on Brazilian TV
2022-06-03
Our anthropologist and affiliated researchers have been interviewed on Brazilian TV about Swedish NATO membership, Turkey and Swedish-Kurdish relations.
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Emma Fritze: Mission Eurovision
2022-05-16
Bachelor essay writer Emma Fritze was invited to participate in a conference for this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy and decided to report on her experiences from this year's competition.
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Gösta Arvastson. Ny bok om moln, molnspanare och meteorologer
2022-05-10
Gösta Arvastson har gett ut boken Molnspanare - en meteorologisk historia. Boken handlar om det vetenskapliga arbetet som ledde fram till att molnen fick sina latinska namn och ger ett viktigt bidrag till Uppsala universitets historia ur en etnologs synvinkel.
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Now: Dr. Jacob Hjortsberg
2022-05-09
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Mats Utas celebrated 50 years with a lecture in Stavanger
2022-05-02
Mats Utas was invited speaker as the Department of media and social sciences at the University of Stavanger celebrated its 50 years anniversary. He gave a talk about ethnography and journalism in times of war.
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Helgessä från Katarina Graffman
2022-04-29
Vår antropolog Katarina Graffman har tillsammans med Haris Agic skrivit om kulturchauvinism i en essä i magasinet Opulens.
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Anthropologists talked about water
2022-02-24
On Saturday 19 February, the department's Susann Baez Ullberg and Alexander Sallstedt took part in celebrating World Anthropology Day at the the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm.
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Camilla Asplund Ingemark: Mining Legends - What does it mean to be human?
2022-02-21
Camilla Asplund Ingemark has lectured on mining legends and what it means to be human at Gotlands Humanistiska Förbunds (eng. "Gotland Humanities Association") annual meeting on Wednesday 16 February.
Annual meeting at Gotlands Humanistiska Förbund.
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Birgitta Meurling. Behind the mask: The metamorphoses of the mouth masks during the corona pandemic.
2022-02-18
Birgitta has contributed with a text that reflects on the pandemic in the journal Kulturella perspektiv. The text takes the reader through the mouth masks being or not being from medical argument to humor.
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Sten Hagberg interviewed about the situation in the Sahel region
2022-02-07
Sten Hagberg has made a number of media appearances in connection with the current situation in the Sahel region in January-February 2022.
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Sten Hagberg in Rektorspodden about African Studies
2022-02-03
Listen to a conversation between Uppsala University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Anders Hagfeldt and Forum for Africa Studies’ Director, Professor Sten Hagberg. The conversation in swedish is about research in different African countries and how Forum for Africa Studies works to strengthen research collaboration with African universities and research institutes.
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Carina Johansson: The women behind the camera on Gotland 1860-2021
2022-02-01
A new project will highlight a completely unwritten story about women behind the camera. Carina Johansson with others have opened the door to the photo magazine to write about this new field. The project is called The women behind the camera on Gotland 1860-2021.
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Susann Baez Ullberg: Access to water – also a future issue in Sweden
2022-01-27
There is enough water on Earth. Just not everywhere – and for everyone. Now researchers at Uppsala University and the Uppsala University Sustainability Initiatives (UUSI) network want to spotlight injustices surrounding the world’s water. And how we in Sweden need to approach this matter. Susann Baez Ullberg is a part of the network UUSI.
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Charlotta Widmark in newly published anthology
2022-01-21
The book, edited by the departments Charlotta Widmark together with Susanne Carlsson and Henrik Widmark is about urban encounters in Rome and traces both historical and contemporary Rome. The main theme is Heritage and Traces, and is divided into three sub-themes, namely I. Urban identity and Design, II. Space and History, III. Urban Heritage.
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Katarina Graffman: Saying and doing are two different things
2022-01-20
Katarina Graffman writes in her recently published column under Uppsala University News about her thoughts on people's desire to live more environmentally conscious and sustainable and the opposite of continuing to live unsustainably and consume. "People say one thing, but do something entirely different."
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Göran Nygrens dissertation is published as an article by the Swedish National Agency for Education
2022-01-04
The Swedish National Agency for Education compiles and disseminates knowledge about the results of research in the field of education. Göran Nygren's dissertation I want good grades: An ethnological study of lower-secondary schools results and lower-secondary school pupils practices has been published as an article by the Swedish National Agency for Education (in swedish): Hemmiljön viktig för elevers studiestrategier
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Elisa Maria Lopez on national TV about her dissertation on the Kiruna move
2022-01-04
Elisa Maria Lopez defended her dissertation in December Transforming Kiruna – producing space society and legacies of inequality in the swedish ore fields. Her work is being noticed in SVT Nyheter Sámpi (in swedish/english/sami).
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Susann Baez Ullberg in podcast about crises and collective memories
2022-01-03
Susann Baez Ullberg participated recently in the podcast of the Swedish civil association Folk och Försvar [Society and Defence] to talk about social crises and social memory.
You are welcome to listen to the podcast episode (in Swedish).
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Katarina Graffman develops the supply of skills in the metal industry
2021-12-07
The research group KOMPET has received research funding from Vinnova to implement initiatives that strengthen the Swedish metal industry's social sustainability. The department's successful Katarina Graffman is part of the group.
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Susann Baez Ullberg in hearing about Covid-19 and the future
2021-11-22
Susann Baez Ullberg participated on November 18 in the hearing The future and Covid-19 - How do we live with and handle the virus in 12-24 months?
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Katarina Graffman participates in P3 Dystopia
2021-11-01
Wherever we turn, we see different advertising messages and the exposure areas increase in line with accuracy. How does advertising affect society - today and in the future?
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Susann Baez Ullberg and Framtidsakademin - an open lecture on when the worst has happened
2021-10-27
Welcome to an open lecture (in swedish) “When the worst has happened. Memory, oblivion and morality after disasters” with Susann Baez Ullberg, Associate senior lecturer, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University!
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Göran Nygrens omtalade forskning
2021-10-26
Since his dissertation in June, Nygren and his research have been mentioned in the media frequently.
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Katarina Graffman and others: "The climate is not saved with consumer information" (in Swedish)
2021-09-27
Despite the lack of scientific support for changing private consumption by informing consumers about the sustainable properties of products, such methods dominate, write Cecilia Solér, Robin Bankel, Katarina Graffman and Jacob Östberg (editorial translation).
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Summer School: Anthropology of Development & Social Dynamics
2021-09-13
Between Wednesday 15 Sept. and Friday 17 Sept. 2021, the 13th European Summer School for the Anthropology of Development and Social Dynamics will be hosted by the Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, and the Forum for Africa Studies at Uppsala University.
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Parental support crucial for better school performance
2021-09-09
Göran Nygren’s dissertation, shows how privileged pupils with a large array of resources at hand benefit from today’s school system and how others are disadvantaged. Nygren has examined how lower-secondary school pupils achieve high grades at schools that also have above average performance.
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Seminar: The office of the future - bubbles and people
2021-07-02
How can working life put people at the center? How can we avoid polarization? How can we create social sustainability?
Within Almedalen Week, the Stockholm School of Economics is organizing a seminar in swedish where you will meet two researchers who have looked at this.
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Inauguration of an international conference
2021-06-17
On Wednesday 16 June 2021, Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University, Professor Anders Hagfeldt, inaugurated the International Conference Beyond Crisis and Insecurity: Cultural Creativity, Popular Struggle and Social Change in West Africa.
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Mats Utas participates at the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development conference
2021-05-05
He is on a research panel with Sweden’s permanent representative to the UN, Anna Karin Engström, and Liberia’s Minister of Finance, Samuel Tweah, among others.
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Interview with Susann Baez Ullberg on the Argentinian National Radio
2021-04-30
On the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the catastrophic flood that hit the city of Santa Fe in Argentina on April 29, 2003, Susann Baez Ullberg was interviewed in live broadcast on the Argentinian National Radio about her research on memory and oblivion after this disaster.
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NEW BOOK (in Swedish): Megaprojects: Critical perspectives on large-scale infrastructures
2021-04-30
The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) publishes a yearbook in Swedish called Ymer. Gabriella Körling (Stockholm University) and Susann Baez Ullberg at this department are the editor of this year's edition, which deals with megaprojects.
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Kritisk etnografi 2020 vol 3 is now released
2021-04-12
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Susann Baez Ullberg talks in webinar about disaster myths
2021-03-29
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Symposium with Claudia Merli: Evidence in Virulent Times
2021-03-24
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Mats Utas talks about the school kidnappings in Nigeria
2021-03-19
Plan International Sweden fights for a fair world that strengthens children's rights and girls' equal opportunities. Despite the worldwide involvement of #BringBackOurGirls, armed groups continue to abduct children in Nigeria and its neighbors.
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JUST PUBLISHED: Mhola – The Utopia of Peace
2021-03-18
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Mats Utas om kidnappningarna i Nigeria i SVT Nyheter
2021-03-15
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How does migration sound? Owe Ronström och Dan Lundberg
2021-02-10
New book! How does migration sound? What significance does music have for migrants - and for those who already live in the country? How does music affect integration and community building?
Such issues are discussed by a group of Nordic music ethnologists in the book Sounds of Migration. Out now!
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New publication by the Forum for Africa Studies
2021-02-09
Uppsala Papers in Africa Studies 6
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Ella Johansson about sharing the bill
2020-12-11
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Time for late applications in African Studies
2020-12-09
Courses in African Studies in Spring 2021 will open for late application on 15 December 2020.
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Susann Baez Ullberg leads the way to a new research area
2020-12-04
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Burkina Faso: A well-conducted election
2020-12-01
Sten Hagberg writes about the presidential and parliamentary elections in Burkina Faso that were held on Sunday, November 22, 2020.
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Premiär för podcasten Graffman & Nordström!
2020-11-24
Katarina Graffman startar en samhällspodd tillsammans med Daniel Nordström.
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Professor Sten Hagberg on developments in Burkina Faso
2020-11-19
Professor Sten Hagberg was interviewed in Global Podd #38 about developments in Burkina Faso. Now he is publishing an analysis about Burkina Faso that might be a democratic model in West Africa.
About 20 minutes into the podcast you can hear Sten.