Webpages tagged with «Anthropology»
![Monkey looking at a surveilance camera](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/oseh-lecture-series/2023/monkey-looking-at-cctv-camera-cropped.jpg?alt=listing)
In this talk, Stuart Earle Strange, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will explore the contradictions between law, sovereignty, animal agency, and the sacred in Singaporean wildlife conservation.
![Close-up photo from the side of a hill. Red clay-soils that consist of larger rocks and tree roots vining through the soils.](https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/anthropogenic-soils/reading-group/169-meulemans.jpg?alt=listing)
Welcome to the final SOILS Reading Group of the semester. In this session we are joined by anthropologist Germain Meulemans.
![Backhoe moves trash in a landfill site, pollution](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/oseh-lecture-series/2022/landfill-lesley-green-oct-22.jpg?alt=listing)
In this talk, Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Lesley Green, will draw on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and social sciences to suggest four approaches to strengthening trans-disciplinarity engagement between social and natural sciences.
![Fungy spreading its threads](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/oseh-lecture-series/2022/oyster_mushroom_(pleurotus_ostreatus)_mycelium_in_petri_dish_on_coffee_grounds-copy.jpg?alt=listing)
How has our understandings of relations between soil, plants, and fungi have changed over time? In this lecture, professor of anthropology Dr. Michael J. Hathaway will explore the role of fungal mycelium in engaging the soil matrix.
![Cardboard boxes are piled on top of each other. Words such as "chloropfyll" and "plants" are written all over the boxes.](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/lunchtime-discussions/2022/barth-eld.png?alt=listing)
![A landscape photograph portraying hills and forests. In the distance clouds are gathering.](https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/oseh/news-and-events/events/lunchtime-discussions/2022/anselmo.png?alt=listing)
In this talk, anthropologist Anselmo Matusse introduces how the Mozambican state establishes extractivism in the country and its pernicious effects on people and landscapes on the ground.