Burkina Faso: A well-conducted election

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).

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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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Courses in African Studies in Spring 2021 will open for late application on 15 December 2020.

Sten Hagberg writes about the presidential and parliamentary elections in Burkina Faso that were held on Sunday, November 22, 2020.

High school students in Uppsala can study anthropology during their final year. By 2019/20, it was offered for the first time for one class. But due to the subject’s popularity, it is being expanded to two classes for the next academic year.