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).
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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.
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African studies in English in the spring 2021
2020-10-05
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Claudia Merli in Anthropology Today
2020-10-02
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Claudia Merli on ”Gender and Culture in Southern Thailand”, 26 Sept.
2020-09-25
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Birgitta Meurling in student radio
2020-09-15
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Sten Hagberg: Rätt avsätta en president?
2020-08-26
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More about Mali
2020-08-24
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Sten Hagberg on the coup in Mali
2020-08-24
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Mats Utas on the situation in Mali
2020-08-24
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Annika Teppo in Finnish radio
2020-07-29
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Katarina Graffman in TV4
2020-07-28
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Heidi Moksnes have passed away
2020-07-28
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Sten Hagberg in Slovenian radio
2020-07-22
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Sten Hagberg interviewed by ICLD
2020-07-02
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kritisk etnografi now as hard copy
2020-06-15
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Graffman & Kurkiala discuss the crisis
2020-06-14
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Sanatoriums as a sociocultural arena
2020-06-10
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Annika Teppo on Sweden's COVID-19-response
2020-06-04
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New issue of Kritisk Etnografi
2020-05-17
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Female leadership in Burkina Faso
2020-05-12
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New book: Katarina Graffman co-author
2020-05-09