9:00-12:00
10:00-10:20
10:20-11:20
11:20-12:00
12:00-13:30
12:00-15:00
13:30-14:30
13:30-15:30
Registration
Opening of Conference
Helena Wulff, Chair of SANT
Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Vice Rector
Bengt. G. Karlsson, Head of Department
Keynote 1 :
Birgit Meyer, Utrecht University
Mediation: Forms and Formats of World-Making
Chair: Helena Wulff, Stockholm University
Sandwich Lunch
Roundtable 1: Publishing
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine
Mark Graham, Stockholm University
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo
Chair: Helena Wulff, Stockholm University
Documentary Film Screening
Organizers: Maple Razsa, Colby College
All filmmakers in attendance.
12:30 What Keeps Them Moving , The Netherlands,
2011 (29min) by Fedor Ikelaar
13:15 Beauty Factor , Sweden, 2011 (15 minutes) by
Thais Machado Borges (anthropologist), Stockholm
University, and Veronica Alkmim Franca (artist)
13:45 Roman Restaurant Rhythms , USA, 2011 (38 minutes) by Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University
Doktorandmöte
Medieantropologi og medienes antropologi
Organizers: Jo Helle-Valle, SIFO och Thomas Hylland
Eriksen, Universitetet i Oslo
13:30 Gro Stueland Skorpen, journalist og kommunikasjonsarbeider
Internettkaféenes sirenesang: Feltmetode i og like utenfor det digitale rommet
Main Entrance
Main Hall
(Hörsal) Right
Ingång C+D
Main Hall
(Hörsal) Right
Ingång C+D
Galleriet
Spelbomskan
William
Olssonsalen
Geovetarhuset
(Green building across lawn)
Kungstenen
Spelbomskan
1

14:00-15:30
14:00-17:30
14:00 Paula Uimonen, Stockholms universitet
Digital Drama: A Multisensory Exploration into
Digital Anthropology
14:30 Ilana Gershon , Indiana University
Selling Your Self-Brand: How People Try and Fail to
Inhabit Corporate Agency
15:00 Jorun Bræck Ramstad, Universitetet i Tromsø
Urfolksmedia – et inntak til mediefeltet og medieantropologi
Mediering og funksjonshemning
Organizers: Hilde Haualand, FAFO 10 och Camilla
Hansen, Universitetet i Oslo
14:00 Camilla Hansen, Universitetet i Oslo
“We too are Disabled”: Funksjonshemming og fattigdom i Sør-Afrika
14:30 Hilde Haualand, Forskningsstiftelsen Fafo
Bildetolking – mediert kommunikasjon og mediert politikk
15:00 Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Örebro University
Mediation and a Third Position in Deaf Research:
Studies of Languaging and Subject Positions
NATUR-lig intervensjon og naturens politikk? miljøkonflikter og mediering
Organizers: Gro Ween, Universitetet i Oslo och Rune
Flikke, Universitetet i Oslo
14:00 Rune Flikke, Universitetet i Oslo, Knut Nustad
(Universitetet i Oslo og NUPI), og Cato Berg,
Universitetet i Bergen
Naturlig intervensjon — naturlig konflikt?
Aurlandselva som hjemsted, strømkilde og sportsfiske Eldorado
14:30 Gro Ween, Universitetet i Oslo
En fjellrev til besvær: Vern av biologisk mangfold og genetisk kontaminasjon i den norske fjellheimen
Polstjärnan
Mimer
2

15:00-17:30
15:00 Astrid L. Kalvemo, Røyrvik kommune
Hvem bor i villmarken? Om rein og rovdyr i Nord-
Trøndelag
15:30 Wera Grahn, Linköping University
Intersektionalitet och mediering av norskhet i samtida kutlurminnesförvaltning
16:00 Steffen F. Johannessen, Handelshøyskolen BI
Limuria’s retur: Miljø versus Menneskerettigheter i
Nykolonial Diskurs
16:30 John Mcneish. Norwegian University of Life
Sciences
Deliberating Nature? Routes to Rethinking Contests over Oil, Energy and Modernity in Latin America
17:00 Bjørn Bjerkli, Universitetet i Tromsø
Lokale forventninger og forhandlinger om rettigheter relatert til Finnmarkskommisjonens arbeid
Asian Mediations I: East and Southeast Asia
Organizers: Johan Lindquist, Stockholm University and Kari Telle, Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI),
Bergen
15:00 Jörgen Hellmann, University of Gothenburg
Messages from the Past: Contested Borders in
Indonesian Politics
15:30 Johan Lindquist, Stockholm University
Mediators of Insecurity: Labor Brokers and the Rise of Indonesian Transnational Migration
16:00 Alexander Horstmann, Max Planck
Institute/RILCA, Mahidol University
Images of Suffering in Karen Media
16:30 Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University
Polite Noises in a Bangkok Oasis
17:00 Eren Zink, Uppsala University
Mediating Climate Change in Vietnam
Bergsmannen
3

14:30-18:00
16:00-17:00
Himmel eller helvete? Antropologiska perspektiv på religion och politik
Organizers: Sindre Bangstad, Universitetet i Oslo,
Johanna Gullberg, Stockholms universitet och Annika
Rabo, Stockholms universitet
14:30 Sindre Bangstad, Universitetet i Oslo
Which Road to Enlightenment? On The Impasses of
Secularist Absolutism In Relation to Anthropology in Contemporary Norway
15:00 Johanna Gullberg, Stockholms universitet
Fransk sekularism, laïcité, och reducerandet av varat – feministisk och antirasistisk aktivism in
Paris norra förorter
15:30 Erik Nilsson, Stockholm University
To Believe in Something: Faith and Politics in the
U.S.Heartland
16:00 Kjetil Fosshagen, Universitetet i Bergen
Striden om islamsk ofring i Tyrkia
16:30 Arvid Lundberg, Stockholms universitet
Jordansk utbildningsfilosofi: Det islamistiska arvet och dess motståndare
17:00 Aje Carlbom, Malmö Högskola
Transnationell offentlighet: islamisk rådgivning på Internet som politisk och religiös verksamhet
17:30 Syna Ouattara
Divergence between Science and Religion on the
Depictions of a Mask in Côte d’Ivoire: The Emblem of the University of Cocody-Abidjan Accused of
Crimes against Humanity
Biomedicine, Technology and the Law
Chair: Marit Melhuus, Universitet i Oslo
16:00 Marit Melhuus, Universitet i Oslo
To Know or Not to Know: Issues of Biotechnology,
Law and Ethics
16:30 Corinna Kruse, Linköping University
The Social Life of Forensic Evidence
Kungstenen
Polstjärnan
4

9:30-11:30
11:30-12:30
11:30-12:30
12:30-13:30
18:00-19:00
Reception
Hosted by Department of Social Anthropology
Joint Keynote 2+3:
Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine
Culture, Value, Technology: Virtual Interchanges (part 1)
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine
Culture, Value, Technology: Virtual Interchanges (part 2)
Chair: Johan Lindquist, Stockholm University
Roundtable 2:
Forskningssamarbeten Sverige-Norge:
Erfarenheter och nya möjligheter
Chair: Halvard Vike, Universitetet i Oslo
Christina Garsten, Stockholms universitet
Marianne Lien, Universitetet i Oslo
Annika Rabo, Stockholms universitet
Hva har produksjon av film og still-bilder å bidra med i antropologisk forskning og formidling?
Organizers: Bjørn Arntsen, Universitetet i Tromsø och Ulf
Johansson Dahre, Lunds Universitet
11:30 Halvdan Haugsbakken, NTNU
Deling og organisering av kunnskap i klasserommet med bruk av «web 2.0» teknologi
12:00 Bjørn Arntsen, Universitetet i Tromsø
Observasjon og deltagelse gjennom og utenfor kameralinsa.
Et møte med fiskere ved Tsjadsjøen i film og tekst
Sandwich Lunch
Main Entrance
Main Hall (Hörsal) Right
Ingång C+D
Bergsmannen
Polstjärnan
Galleriet
5

13:00-17:00
13:30-17:00
13:30-15:30
Working on the Edge: Dynamic Anthropology in the
Making : A Tribute to Those who Know Things and
Have Taught us Wisdom
Workshop chaired by Anna Kirah (Steria) and Mona Paulsrud
(Riksrevisjonen)
“Borta bra men hemma bäst”? Innebörder av hus och hem
Organizers: Nina Gren, Københavns universitet, Hilde Lidén,
Universitet i Oslo och Karin Norman Stockholms universitet
13:30 Karin Norman, Stockholms universitet
Hoppet om ett hem – repatriering och innebörden av hus, egendom och släktskap i Kosovo
14:00 Nina Gren, Københavns universitet
Svensk-palestinska hus på Västbanken: Nöjet i att dricka thé på verandan
14:30 Espen Helgesen, Universitetet i Bergen
"Vi bor egentlig to steder": Hus og hjem i barns transnasjonale narrativer
15:00 Hilde Lidén, Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Oslo
”Det handler vel om fellesskap, om å bo sammen.” Unges erfaringer med delt bosted etter foreldrenes skilsmisse
15:30 Hege Høyer Leivestad, Stockholms universitet
Hjem på Hjul
16:00 Christian Sørhaug, Universitetet i Oslo
Et nymaterialistisk perspektiv på husholding
16:30 Marie Larsson, Stockholm University
Between Domesticity and Labor: The Home-Based Workers in the Philippines
Asian Mediations II: South Asia
Organizers: Francis Cody, University of Toronto and Per
Ståhlberg, Södertörn University
13:30 Staffan Appelgren, University of Gothenburg
Politics of Private Preservation: The Case of the
Marunouchi District in Tokyo
Aula Magna
Spelbomskan
Mimer
6

14:30-17:00
14:30-16:30
14:00 Francis Cody, University of Toronto
Tamil Newspapers and Street Politics
14:30 Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Örebro University
“Scaffolding Identities and Learning at Construction sites”:
Literacies and Representations as Mediation across Time and Space in an Indian NGO
15:00 Per Ståhlberg, Södertörns Högskola
On a Key Symbol: The Mobile Phone in India
Tiden, feltarbeidet og antropologisk teori: et panel til Aud Talles minne
Organizers: Gudrun Dahl, Stockholms universitet och Signe
Howell, Universitetet i Oslo
14:30 Signe Howell, Universitetet i Oslo
Multitemporaert feltarbeid: Noen metodiske og etnografiske betraktninger
15:00 Karin Norman, Stockholms universitet
Att dölja och att avslöja – flyktingskapets och fältarbetets oklara gränser
15:30 Benedicte Ingstad, Universitetet i Oslo
Medisinsk antropologi og fler-lokalisert feltarbeide i et tidsperspektiv
16:00 Anne Kathrine Larsen, NTNU
Et feltarbeid på langs
16:30 Gudrun Dahl, Stockholms Universitet
Tiden, de ”tredje” och fältarbetet
Debt, Sin and Tax: Money as Mediator of Sociality
Organizers: Lotta Björklund Larsen, Linköping universitet and
Emil A. Røyrvik, SINTEF Teknologi og samfunn,
Arbeidsforskning
14:30 Emil A. Røyrvik, SINTEF Teknologi og samfunn,
Arbeidsforskning
The ‘Stock Options Carnival’
15:00 Juan Velasquez, Stockholm University
Barrio Women, Volunteer Work and Politics of Emotion for an Alternative Community Building
Kungstenen
Polstjärnan
7

14:00-15:30
15:30-17:00
15:30-17:00
15:30 Benedicte Brøgger, The Work Research Institute
A Conversation with Gudeman
16:00 Lotta Björklund Larsen, Linköping University
Cash is King – No More: What does the Decreasing
Circulation and Usage of Cash in Contemporary Sweden
Mean for our Perception of Money?
Finding Form: Appearances, Emergences, Essences
Chair: Mattias Viktorin, Stockholm University
14:00 Marianne Rugkåsa, Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus
Det nasjonale som universelt, det universelle som nasjonalt:
Dugnad og likestilling i Norge
14:30 Mattias Viktorin, Stockholm University
Remediating Art and Anthropology
15:00 Maria Frederika Malmström, University of Gothenburg
Creating Proper Men: Masculinities, Embodiment and
Agency in the West Bank
Big Pictures: Anthropologies of Past, Present and
Future
Chair: Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University
15:30 Oscar Jansson, Uppsala University
Du Contrat Spécial: Kinship, Mediation and the Fate of
Independent Ruling Classes
16:00 Akihiro Ogawa, Stockholm University
Risk Management by a Neoliberal State:
Construction of New Knowledge through Lifelong Learning in Japan
16:30 Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University
Playing with Maps
New Books/Dissertations
Chair: Gabriella Körling, Uppsala University
Paula Uimonen Digital Drama: Teaching and Learning Art and
Media in Tanzania (2012, Routledge)
Bergsmannen
Bergsmannen
Mimer
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17:00-18:30
17:00-18:30
18:30-20:00
20:00-23:30
Silje Lundgren Heterosexual Havana: Ideals and Hierarchies of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Cuba (2011,
Uppsala University)
Katja Sarajeva Lesbian Lives: Sexuality, Space and Subculture in Moscow (2011, Stockholm University)
Gabriella Körling In Search of the State: An Ethnography of
Public Service Provision in Urban Niger (2011, Uppsala
University)
Årsmöte SANT
Årsmöte NAF
Dinner
Dancing to Little King Blues Band
Cash Bar
Spelbomskan
Bergsmannen
Galleriet
Entrance floor
9:00-12:00
Fieldwork as Mediation: The Anthropologist as Medium and Mediator
Organizers: Ivana Macek, Uppsala University and Nerina Weiss,
Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark
9:00 Ivana Macek, Uppsala University
“Being There” – A Psychodynamic Look at Anthropologist as Medium
9:30 Fernanda Soto, Visiting scholar, Stockholm University
About Writing and Teaching to Write
10:00 Marianne Öberg Tuleus, Örebro universitet
Ethical and Methodological Considerations within the Field of
Ethnographically oriented Studies - on Validity and Quality
10:30 Cecilie Nordfeldt, University of Oslo
The Sensual Social Scientist
Polstjärnan
9

9:00-12:00
9:30-12:00
11:00 Anna Berglund, Lunds Universitet
Peasants and Elites in Rwanda
11:30 Nerina Weiss, Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims,
Denmark
Torture, Performance and Catharsis
States, Patronage and Power
Organizers: Olav Eggebø, NTNU and Jason Sumich, NTNU
9:30 Olav Eggebø, NTNU
The Implementation of Participative Democracy in Nicaragua
10:00 Gabriella Körling, Uppsala University
Studying the State, Politics and Decentralization in West African
Municipalities
10:30 Vladislava Vladimirova, Uppsala University and Tromsø
University
Citizenship and Morality in the North: The Play of Representations in
Russian Sápmi Political Life
11:00 Jason Sumich, NTNU
Socialism, Democracy and Citizenship in Mozambique
Organizational Ideoscapes: Rationality, Faith, and Emotion
Organizers: Lorenzo Canas Bottos, NTNU and Christina Garsten,
Stockholms universitet
9:30 Renita Thedvall, Stockholm University
Representations of Fair Trade. Mediating Ideals of Fair Markets through Standards Documents
10:00 Aina Landsverk Hagen, University of Oslo
Abused by equality: Silenced and Sound as Affective Strategies in
Times of Creativity and Crisis
10:30 Torbjörn Friberg, Malmö Högskola
Symbol(re)produktion på högskolepedagogiska kurser: Om universitetslärares nya professionella beteende
Kungstenen
Spelbomskan
10

10:00-11:30
10:00-11:30
12:00-13:00
13:00-13:15
13:15-14:00
11:00 Hans Tunestad, Stockholm University
“Behave Yourself into Success!”: The Mediation of Managerial
Knowledge
11.30
Halvard Vike, Universitetet i Oslo
The Instrumental Gaze of Public Sector Organizations: The Case of
Municipal Reorganization
Photography as Mediation
Organizers: Anna Laine, Högskolan Dalarna and Thera Mjaaland,
Universitetet i Bergen
10:00 Anna Laine, Högskolan Dalarna
Visual Mediations: Interrogating Photographic Practices and
Representations within Anthropology
10:30 Staffan Löfving, Stockholm University
Imperfect Shots: Thoughts on Emerging Authenticities in Ageing
Images
11:00 Thera Mjaaland, University of Bergen
Traversing Art and Science: Examples from Photographic Practice
Roundtable 3:
Är det så att där lagen går in går etiken ut?
Diskussion om etikprövningar, fältarbeten och studenters ”etik-oro”.
Samtalet inleds av:
Mia Forrest, Stockholms universitet
Sabine Gruber, Linköpings universitet
Karin Norman, Stockholms universitet
Annika Rabo, Stockholms universitet
Keynote 4:
Marianne E. Lien, University of Oslo
Domestication as Mediation: Fieldnotes from the “City of Fish”
Chair: Lotta Björklund Larsen, Linköping University
Conclusion and Thanks
Sandwich Lunch
Mimer
Bergsmannen
Main Hall
(Hörsal) Right
Ingång C+D
Main Hall
(Hörsal) Right
Ingång C+D
Galleriet
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