Upcoming seminars at the dept of Human Geography, SU

15th May 13:15 Brian Kuns half time seminar: Pathways from Collective Farming: The Landscape, Uneven Development and Farm Restructuring in Post-Soviet Southern
Ukraine

The opponent is Oane Visser, an anthropologist from the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands

27th May 10:15 African and Global Landscape History: Stockholm-Uppsala synergies (room X308)

Paul Lane has recently been appointed to a chair in Global Archaeology at Uppsala University. He has since long cooperated with Stockholm geographers in the network People and Land and Time in Africa and has successfully completed a large interdisciplinary project on Historical Ecologies of East African Landscapes. We welcome him to Sweden and take this opportunity to discuss how Stockholm-Uppsala links in the field of African and Global landscape history can be strengthened

10.15 Welcome from Karin Holmgren and Mats Widgren (Stockholm University): Platina 2.0?  Where are we`? Where are we heading?

10.30 Mats Widgren (with contributions from from Jan Risberg and Lars Ove Westerberg), Stockholm University: Exploring precolonial agriculture and intensification: the case of Bokoni, South Africa

11.15 Elin Norström and Jenny Sjöström (Stockholm University): Current and planned investigations of the Lydenburg fen and other wetlands in the Bokoni area

12.00 Lunch

13.15  Annelie Ekblom (Uppsala University): Socio-environmental history of the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique

14.00 Paul Lane (Uppsala University):  From Historical Ecologies of East African Landscapes in York to Global Archaeology in Uppsala: some reflections.

Discussions

Open for all, no registration

28th May 10:15 Martina Angela Caretta halftime seminar: Negotiating irrigated landscape. A local gender contract analysis of two small holder farming communities in the dry-land of East Africa (room X308)

The opponent is Anna-Klara Lindeborg from the Dept. of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University