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22 april 2010
promotie van dhr. Nguyen Tuan Anh (Vietnam) om 13:45 uur in de aula van de Vrije Universiteit.
De titel van zijn proefschrift is "Kinship as Social Capital: Economic, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Changing Kinship Relations in a Northern Vietnamese Village".
Promotor: Prof.Dr. O.J.H.M. Salemink
30 maart 2010
The War Within
A Seminar on Students and Social Activism in Kashmir
Locatie: Metropolitan Gebouw / Vrije Universiteit / kamer Z-009
Aanvang: 15:00-18:00 uur
5 maart 2010
Promotie Tijo Salverda, locatie: Vrije Universiteit, Aula, om 11:45 uur.
Na afloop is er een lunch in Z-009
Meer informatie
Seminar: Making Fences
4 maart 2010
Seminar Making Fences: Differences and similarities in shaping inclusion and exclusion in elite and non-elite neighbourhoods
Sprekers: Thomas Eriksen, Manuel Aalbers, Vinesh Hookoomsing, Marja Spierenburg, Harry Wels, Peer Smets
Locatie: Metropolitan Gebouw / Z-009 / 13.15 - 17.00 uur
19 en 20 februari 2010
Glopent Conference / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Titel: Geographies of Conversion
Sprekers: Simon Coleman, Thomas Csordas, Rijk van Dijk, Martha Frederiks, Paul Freston, Gertrud Huewelmeier, Kim Knibbe, Kristine Krause, Ruth Marshall, Ramon Sarró en Guy Thomas.
Zie voor meer informatie de GloPent site
Voor vragen m.b.t. de conferentie kunt u contact opnemen met geographies.of.conversion@gmail.com
9 Februari 2010
Promotie van W. Reedijk om 11.45 uur in de aula van de Vrije Universiteit
Titel: Roots en Routes. Identity, Construction and the Jewish Christian Muslim Dialogue
Promotoren: Prof.dr. A.F. Droogers en Prof.dr. H.M. Vroom
10 december 2009
Bijeenkomst Anthropology of Children Seminar o.l.v. Cilel Smith (Institute of Education, University of London)
Titel: The Global Classroom: Introducing new arrivals, refugees, and travellers children to school settings in the United Kingdom
Locatie: Vrije Universiteit / Metropolitan Gebouw / first floor, kamer Z-113
Aanvang: 10.00 - 13.00 uur.
Meer informatie: zie poster
14 december 2009
Promotie B. Tasew / 13.45 uur / aula Vrije Universiteit
Op maandag 14 december zal B. Tasew, promovendus bij bijzonder hoogleraar prof.dr. Jan Abbink (vanwege het Afrika Studiecentrum), promoveren op een onderzoek naar metaforen voor vrede en geweld bij de bewoners in Zuidoost Eritrea. De verdediging vindt plaats om 13.45 uur in de aula van de VU.
24 november 2009
Gastlezing door Prof. Whitehouse gevolgd door discussie
titel: “Explaining Religion”
Locatie: Vrije Universiteit / Hoofdgebouw Room 4A-05
Aanvang: 15.30 - 17.00 uur.
De gerenommeerde antropoloog Harvey Whitehouse is een van de belangrijkste hedendaagse denkers binnen de cognitieve antropologie. Hij is hoogleraar sociale antropologie in Oxford en directeur van de Centre for Anthropology and Mind.”
19 november 2009
Oratie dr. P. Nyiri, getiteld "Foreign consessions: the past and future of a form of shared sovereignty
Locatie: Aula van de Vrije Universiteit
Aanvang: 15.45 uur
Na afloop receptie
27 oktober 2009
Africa Thesis Award 2009
De winnares van the Africa Thesis Award 2009 is Miranda Poeze (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) met haar thesis "In search of greener pastures: the case of boat-migrants
from Senegal to the Canary Islands". Op dinsdag 27 oktober presenteert zij haar master thesis tijdens de Afrika Studie Avond.
27 oktober 2009
Recent Developments in Global History in China and the West
By Dominic Sachsenmeier (Duke University. Currently, Humboldt University, Berlin.)
Tijd: 11.00 tot 13.00 uur
Vrije Universiteit, Hoofdgebouw, De Boelelaan 1105, kamer 10A-31
You are welcome to bring your lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided.
12 oktober 2009
The Anthropology of Children SeminarLocatie: Vrije Universiteit, Metropolitan gebouw, Z-113
Aanvang: 09.30 - 13.00 uur
6 oktober 2009
Symposium Samen Leven, Samen Botsen
Tijd: 17.00 ‐ 20.00 uur
Plaats: MediaXperience | VU Hoofdgebouw | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam
Toegang: € 15,00 inclusief gratis exemplaar van Samen Leven, Samen Botsen
29 september 2009
Afscheidsrede Maurice Bloch
met als titel: Reconciling cultural and cognitive appraches to the self and the person
Locatie: In de Aula van de Vrije Universiteit. Aanvang: 15.45 uur. Na afloop is er een receptie.
29 september 2009
Symposium: "Imagination, the crossroad of the cognitive sciences and antrhopology"
Locatie: VU Universiteit Amsterdam, Metropolitan gebouw, Z-009
Aanvang: 09.00 uur.
28 september 2009
Expert meeting Achtergelaten en remigrantenkinderen
Locatie: Vrije Universiteit, Metropolitan gebouw, zaal Z-009
22 september 2009
Pasts in the Present, seminar with title: The Islam of Anthropology by Christopher Houston, Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney
Tuesday
Date: 22nd of September, 15.00 hours. Location: VU University, Metropolitan Building, Room Z-113.
Juni
18 juni 2009: Research Seminar 'Gender pluralism and religious authority in Southeast Asian histories'. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Hoofdgebouw, zaal 07A06. Aanvang 15.15 - 17.15 uur.
9 Juni 2009
13.30 - 17.15 in het Metropolitan gebouw, room Z-009
International Symposium on
'The Military between the Public Sphere and Internal Dynamics'
April
29 april 2009: Pasts in the Present, seminar at 29th of April, met als titel: Past Indefinite: The Longing for Authenticity among Russian Orthodox Pilgrims:
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, zaal Z-009 van 15.00 tot 17.00 uur.
For more information: please go to the online version.
Abstract Lecture
South Africa has in recent decades gone through a wrenching transformation from a labor-scarce society to a labor-surplus one.
Labor scarcity through most of the 19th and 20th centuries led to forms of social solidarity and social personhood that had significant continuities with the pre-colonial past (continuities that are obscured by conventional narratives that emphasize the rise of capitalism as a complete and comprehensive break with the past). In recent decades, though, economic restructuring has radically reduced demand for low-skilled, manual labor, and mass unemployment has become a durable structural feature of South African society. This new situation is more radically different from the past than is generally recognized, and calls for new ways of thinking about social membership, work, "dependency", and social assistance. It is suggested that the South African experience reveals, in an extreme and clarifying form, a set of processes that are occurring in many other parts of the world. Better understanding such processes may help us to find our way past some of the current impasses in progressive poltics.
Februari
Dinsdag 17 februari 2009: Metropolitan, Z-113, 15.00-16.30.
lecture by Dr. Peggy Levitt , entiteld Constructing Religious Selves as Conservation - Toward a Transnational view of the religeous lives of the second generation.
Dr. Peggy Levitt is Willy Brandt Guest Professor (MIM, University of Malmo, Sweden, Spring 2009), Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Wellesley College, and Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University
Abstract lecture
By Peggy Levitt (with Nancy Khalil, and Melissa Barnett ( Wellesley College and Harvard University))
Migration scholars now recognize that many people maintain ties to their countries of origin at the same time that they become integrated into the countries that receive them. Immigrant incorporation and enduring transnational practices are not antithetical but simultaneous processes that mutually inform each other. Many predict, however, that transnational attachments will only last for a generation. The children of immigrants are not likely to engage in their ancestral homes with the same intensity and frequency as their parents nor will they be as influenced by homeland values and practices.
While we agree that the children of immigrants will not participate in their ancestral homes in the same ways and with the same regularity as their parents, we argue that the strong potential impact of being raised in a transnational social field cannot be overlooked. This paper examines religious identity construction among second generation Hindu and Muslim Indian Americans. Using a transnational lens to explore the religious lives of the second generation illuminates aspects of everyday lived religious experience that are often obscured. While it is immigrants who initially bring new religious traditions to the countries where they settle, it is their children who invent a receiving-country version of that tradition to fit into the new socio-cultural context. They do so not only in conversation with their co-religious peers, but with their native-born counterparts, as well as their relatives and friends in their ancestral homes. The local spaces in which they live are intimately connected to other places, networks, and global values packages far away. Using a transnational lens to study religion, and the careful attention to time, place, and scale that such an optic implies, brings to light aspects of the second generation experience that are frequently overlooked.
Januari
13 january 2009 10:00 – 14:00 (including lunch)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Metropolitan building. Room Z009
Neoliberal Conservation – Promise or Peril?
International symposium organised by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the VU University Amsterdam and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
RegistrationParticipation is free of charge. Please send an e-mail to Annet Bakker (JME.Bakker@fsw.vu.nl) or Marleen Stieger (mjay.stieger@fsw.vu.nl) of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University, to confirm attendance (preferably before 12 January 2009).
14 january 2009:Promotie Bram Büscher
On 14 January 2009, 10:45 in the Aula of the VU University Amsterdam, Bram Büscher will defend his PhD dissertation entitled 'Struggles over Consensus, Anti-Politics and Marketing. Neoliberalism and Transfrontier Conservation and Development in Southern Africa'. You are most welcome to attend this public event. For more information:
http://www.fsw.vu.nl/en/news-agenda/agenda/2008/dissertation-buscher.asp
November
28 november, 17.00u
(gang Z1, afdeling Sociale en Culturele Antropologie)
Opening Foto-expositie
Pentecostalisme in Mozambique, Angola, Nederland, Japan en Zuid-Korea
Cultureel Antropologen en Theologen van de Vrije Universiteit hebben onderzoek gedaan naar de mondiale groei van de Pinksterbeweging. Aanstaande vrijdag 28 november, om 17 uur, wordt een fototentoonstelling van deze onderzoeken geopend. De belangrijke rol van verschillende media zoals televisie, het uitdrijven van kwade geesten, kerkdiensten en persoonlijk levens zijn allemaal in beeld gebracht, met de hulp van fotograaf Rufus de Vries.
Anthropologists Day: The Organization of Ethics
VU University
21st November 2008
The Anthropologists Day is an annual event for students and faculty of the departments Social and Cultural Anthropology and Culture, Organization and Management at the VU University Amsterdam to critically engage with the impact of anthropological knowledge for its students, its practitioners and for society as a whole.
Keynotespeaker: dr. Eduard Nazarski, directeur van Amnesty International Nederland
September
Interdisciplinary Conference
African Children in Focus: A Paradigm Shift in Methodology and Theory?
18 & 19 September 2008
Organised by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (VU University, Amsterdam) and NVAS (Netherlands African Studies Association)
Where: Leiden
Description:
From the late 1990’s onwards, the research of children and childhoods has gradually become a topic of study in the social sciences. Children have increasingly come into the limelight as culture makers and not just as extensions to the study of adults. At the same time, African children have remained in the margins of such studies despite the fact that over forty percent of Africans are under the age of fifteen. African children are commonly depicted as victims of war, poverty and illness. This conference aims to provide a platform for qualitative studies on African children, paying attention to children’s own perspectives, agencies and interdependencies. The conference query centralises around methodological approaches and theories and wishes to initiate discussions on the following questions:
A) What (interdisciplinary) methodological approaches are best suited to research with children?
B) What theoretical innovations and perspectives emerge from the study of children?
Papers of case studies with African children are welcome, but a reflection on the above questions is required. A selection of papers will be published. The conference is organised by the Netherlands African Studies Association.
E-mail:Conference.Children@gmail.com
Call for Papers
Juni
Conversion and Time: a lifelong 'live' experience
Een conferentie georganiseerd door de onderzoeksgroep Conversion Careers and Culture Politics in Global Pentecostalism
11 - 13 juni 2008
Waar: Arent Jansszoon Ernststraat 302 Amsterdam
(gebouw Pinkstergemeente Amsterdam)
Mei
vrijdag 16 mei
Afscheidsrede prof.dr. H.A. Sutherland
Imposing identities: self, community and the state. Makassar as microcosm, 1660-2008
om 14.30 uur precies, in de aula van de universiteit,
De Boelelaan 1105.
De afscheidsrede wordt voorafgegaan door een korte lezing van prof. dr. H. Schulte Nordholt, getiteld Geschiedenis, antropologie en het dagelijks leven in “koloniaal Indonesië”.
Vanaf 16.30 uur receptie in het Metropolitan,
Buitenveldertselaan 3, Amsterdam.
April
17 april
Verdediging van het proefschrift van Martijn de Koning getiteld:
Zoeken naar een 'zuivere' islam. Geloofsbeleving en identiteitsvorming van jonge Marokkaans-Nederlandse moslims
De lezing wordt voorafgegaan door een lezing van Prof. dr. Eugeen Roosens, emeritus hoogleraar culturele antropologie van de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, getiteld:
Hernieuwde vraag om 'Eigen taal en cultuur'. Moslims uit Vlaanderen en Brussel
Tijdstip: 11.00 uur (inloop met koffie vanaf 10.30 uur)
Plaats: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan gebouw, naast de halte van tramlijn 5 en Metro lijn 51), zaal Z 009
Prof. dr. Eugeen Roosens is emeritus hoogleraar in de antropologie aan de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Hij was gasthoogleraar in de Verenigde Staten, Canada en Japan. Hij heeft talrijke publicaties op zijn naam staan, onder meer over de multiculturele samenlevingen van Canada en België, identiteit en interetnische verhoudingen.
Voor deze lezing kunt u zich aanmelden door een email te sturen naar het secretariaat van de Afdeling Sociale en Culturele Antropologie van de Vrije Universiteit:
sca.secretariaat@fsw.vu.nl
Geef duidelijk uw naam, adres, telefoonnummer en emailadres aan in deze e-mail. Reservering verloopt op volgorde van binnenkomst van uw inschrijving. U ontvangt een bevestiging per e-mail.
Maart
Anthropology of small-scale gold mining and development: Cultural, social, and economic readings of the opportunities of a natural resource
An international workshop
28-29 March 2008
Where: Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Metropolitan Building, room Z009
Buitenveldertselaan 3 Amsterdam (opposite tram-stop VU-campus)
Description: In this expert workshop the focus is on the encounter of different images of ‘development’ that are held by the many actors involved in the gold rushes and gold mining generally. These actors vary from local dwellers to national and migrant gold diggers, urban entrepreneurs, to foreign companies and technicians and (representatives of) national states. We want to discuss the cultural and economic construction of local gold fields and the (imagined) benefits of mining, by ethnically, politically, and socially different actors. The aim of the meeting is to assess discussions on development in the specific case of this much-valued natural resource and how these relate to the quest for human security and the agendas of local actors, their material needs and cultural aspirations. By bringing together scholars who work in different regions and cultures, theories and analyses can be tested and compared across multiple cultural, political and social contexts.
Speakers include: Eleanor Fischer (lecturer in International Development, Swansea University), Marieke Heemskerk (anthropologist, ACT Suriname), Tilo Grätz (lecturer at Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig), Marjo de Theije (lecturer dep. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam), Bonno Thoden van Velzen (emeritus professor of Anthropology), Jeannette Graulau (Assistant Professor dep. of Political Science, City University of New York), Gavin Hilson (lecturer in Environment and Development, University of Reading), Sabine Luning (lecturer dep. of cultural anthropology/development sociology, Leiden University), Jerry Jacka (Assistant Professor dep. of anthropology and sociology, North Carolina State University).
Registration: please send an email to gold.development@gmail.combefore March 3 with your name and affiliation.
This workshop is set up as an intensive expert seminar, with a limited number of speakers and participants. It therefore would be appreciated if participants were able to attend the entire conference, both Friday and Saturday.
e-mail Marjo de Theije or Judith Kolen at
gold.development@gmail.com
Telephone: +31205986705
Format of the expert workshop
Presentations
Call for Papers Gold
Januari
Anthropology of Elites
Methodological and Theoretical Challenges
24-25 January 2008
Where: Metropolitan Building, room Z009
Buitenveldertselaan 3 Amsterdam (opposite tram-stop VU-campus)
Conference description:
How do structures of power shape our society? This question lies at the core of many of the social sciences. Within anthropology, an understanding of power is central to many theories; however, the study of those groups which hold significant power (i.e. elites) is far less central within the discipline. Our conference explores anthropological approaches to studying elites. We wish, with your assistance, to create a platform of discussion to further our ethnographic knowledge and deepen methodological and theoretical debates on elites.
If you are interested, please fill in the attached form and send it to Tijo Salverda, t.salverda@fsw.vu.nl. Due to the need of arranging various logistic matters, we would like to encourage you to register before the date of January the 19th.
Registration for the conference is free, apart from a possible 5 euro contribution if you intend to join us for lunch.
Conference Programme
Registration Form
2007
November
Anthropology symposium, Organized by SCA/COM
Wanneer : 27 november 2007:
10.00 – 12.00 uur - panel-debate
12.00 – 13.00 uur - Lunch
13.15 - 16.30 uur - Workshops
16.30 uur - Drinks
Waar : Metropolitan Building, room Z007/ Z009,
Buitenveldertselaan 3 Amsterdam (opposite tram-stop VU-campus)
Spreker : Thomas Eriksen
Thema : Beyond Relativism
Anthropology festival - november 27th
Oktober
De nieuwe jaargang van de Context MasterClass Draagvlakversterking is weer van start gegaan.
Wanneer : woensdag 3 oktober 2007: - lecture 9.00 – 11.30 uur - werkatelier 12.00 – 15.00 uur (inclusief lunch)
Waar : Mammoni, Mariaplaats 14 te Utrecht
Sprekers : Greetje Lubbi (voorzitter Greenpeace Nederland), tweede spreker wordt nog bekend gemaakt.
Thema : Duurzaamheid en de relatie met het draagvlak voor internationale samenwerking
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