Research events

The online conference (in English) is part of the collaboration on the exhibition "North & South", which brings together, for the first time, a selection of examples of medieval altar art from Norway and Catalonia, two regions at the northern and southern edge of the continent. 

Arctic Anthropologists and the Canadian State in the 1950s

THE EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO THE PREVAILING CORONA SITUATION

Through the new website, the Santal ethnographic collection and Reverend Bodding’s documentation of the objects are for the first time available to the public in full.

Oranges and apples: Comparing urbanization and commercialization in medieval Norway and Denmark

The talk will be in Norwegian.

We are pleased to announce David W. Anthony as our second speaker for the Gutorm Gjessing Lecture Series, with the lecture "Nomads from the east: ancient DNA, migration, and the origins of Bronze Age Europe".

Capitalism as Problem-Space: Reconsidering Ethnographic Analysis of Economies at Large

The beauty of virginity. Aesthetics, adornment and symbols of sanctity in representations of virgins in Late Antiquity

Re-opening the case for human sacrifice:  distinguishing myths from reality   

Apocatastasis and Preservation

The Healer and the Psychiatrist: The Value of Video, the Efficacy of Spirits, and Social Health in Tonga

Politics and Beyond: Placemaking in Northern Ireland (and other post-conflict societies)

Pits, Pots, and Pennies: An Archaeology of Coin Hoarding in Medieval England and Wales

Looking Through Portals: An investigation into stave church portals as display object in Norwegian museum settings

Ethnographic Film Collections and a Long View of the North

Forskergruppene ved Kulturhistorisk museum gjør opp status.

We are pleased to announce Thomas Hylland Eriksen as our first speaker for the Gutorm Gjessing Lecture Series, with the lecture "Cooling down the overheated Anthropocene - Lessons from anthropology and cultural history".