Events and activities

  • January 2020 – Workshop on ‘Escalated events and their remnants’ arrangeret af Birgitte Stampe Holst

  • Book publication: ”Ruptures: Anthropologies of Discontinuity in Times of Turmoil” (edited by Martin Holbraad, Bruce Kapferer, and Julia F. Sauma). Escalations co-sponsored the event on which this book is based and Anja Kublitz and Stine Krøijer are among the contributors.

  • Ethnographies of Escalation: Special issue workshop on December 2018.

  • 3 June 2018 – Anja Kublitz interviewed for Danish television (DR2, Deadline)

  • Workshop on Escalations: October 11-12

  • Workshop on Rupture at UCL
    Our project is co-sponsoring a workshop on Ruptures at UCL (London) on 13-15 February. The workshop is jointly hosted by the European Research Council research projects Comparative Anthropologies of Revolutionary Politics, based at UCL, and Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons, based at the University of Bergen.

  • Anja Kublitz awarded the 2016 Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies
    for her article “From Revolutionaries to Muslims: Liminal Becomings Across Palestinian Generations in Denmark”. The Prize recognizes outstanding scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on Middle East migration and diasporas. Read more
    November 2016

  • December 12-13 Special issue workshop on  Ethnographies of Escalation
  • October 2017 – Workshop on Escalations
  • February 2017 – Workshop on Rupture at UCL. Our project is co-sponsoring a workshop on Ruptures at UCL (London) on 13-15 February. The workshop is jointly hosted by the European Research Council research projects Comparative Anthropologies of Revolutionary Politics, based at UCL, and Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons, based at the University of Bergen.
  • November 2016 – Anja Kublitz has been awarded the 2016 Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies for her article “From Revolutionaries to Muslims: Liminal Becomings Across Palestinian Generations in Denmark”. The Prize recognizes outstanding scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on Middle East migration and diasporas. See, https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/scholarly.php
  • August 7 2017 – Stine Simonsen Puri tells about her research on price and value in India in a one hour conversation with Indian economists. Listen, https://syntalk.wordpress.com/episodes/turn-four/tpav/
  • April 21 2017 – Stine Simonsen Puri presents parts of her research on monsoon gambling at the University of Westminster, London. See: https://youtu.be/P-rDUsRILyo
  • March 2016 – Seminar on Escalations. Presentations by Vera Skvirskaya and Frank Sejersen
  • December 2015 – 'Brown bag lecture at NIAS and ADI on Escalations', Stine Puri and Lars Højer
  • November 2015 – 'Escalations: Theorizing sudden accelerating change', roundtable at the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting in Denver
  • 1-2 October 2015 – Workshop on Escalations, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
  • 21 September 2015 – Conference at the Danish Parliament about democracy in Mongolia, Lars Højer co-organizes and presents
  • April 2015 – 'ADI Academic Profiles', interview with Stine Simonsen Puri og Lars Højer
  • 15 March 2015 - Anja Kublitz interviewed for Politiken
  • 6 March 2015 – ’Apathy and Revolution: Temporal Sensibilities in Contemporary Mongolia’, paper presented by Lars Højer at University of St Andrews.
  • 21 February 2015 – Anja Kublitz interviewed for Danish television (DR1, 21-søndag)
  • 17 February 2015 – “Eksperter: Reaktion på terrorangreb udstiller kløft i samfundet”, Anja Kublitz interviewed for Berlingske
  • 21-22 January 2015 – Escalations: Project workshop in Helsingør, Denmark
  • 16 January 2015 – Escalations: Reception and project presentation at Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
  • 25 September 2014 - 'Growth, apathy and revolution: Temporal sensibilities in the emerging Mongolian mining economy', paper presented by Lars Højer at Workshop on ‘Southern Futures: Thinking Through Emerging Markets’ (University of Copenhagen)
  • 29 August 2013 - 'Escalating Crises', panel organized by Anja Kublitz and Andreas Bandak at the 4th Bi-annual PACSA conference.