SANT 2025 Schedule

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01. Roundtable: Applying for Research Grants: Dis/Comfort in a Nutshell 
Don Kulick, UU; Camelia Dewan, UU, Shahram Khosravi, SU; Kristina Göransson, LU; Mirko Pasquini, GU; Helle Rydström, LU

02. Discomforting Swedish academia: Political engagements and student protests for Palestine 
Annika Rabo, SU, Nina Gren, LU, Nina Gren, Victor Nygren, SU, Maria Padron, Björkåfrihet, Hossam Sultan, LiU

03. Roundtable: The Dis/comfort of Teaching Anthropology 
Corinna Kruse, Johanna Dahlin, Karin Skill, LiU

04. Violences
04-1. Morality, myths and (dis)comfort: Understanding silences of sexual harassment in the Chinese workplace. Lisa Eklund
04-2. Understanding sexual harassment resilience in a patri-authoritarian state - voices from the Chinese #MeToo movement. Yuchen Viveka Li, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
04-3. Troubling Testimonies: Gendered Ways of Knowing War. Annika Björkdahl
04-4. “Everyone decided to declare war on the forest”: Between territorial peace and pacification in the Colombian Andean-Amazon. Juan A. Samper, LUCSUS, LU

04. Violences (continued)
04-5. Violent Crises: Gendered Workplace Harassment in Vietnam’s Global Industry. Helle Rydström, LU
04-6. Concerning Violence? With Fanon in Uganda. Sverker Finnström, UU
04-7. ”I dreamed of, want to, yet also do not want to recall them”: Lives with Dis/Comfort after Chinese Internment Camp. Huai-Tse Yang , UU

04. Violences (continued)
04-8. Normalised and Differential (Dis)Comfort in Spaces of Humanitarian Care. Bronte Alexander, Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
04-9. Dis-comforting encounters: Reverberation of violence in the aftermaths of the Russian annexation of Crimea. Natalia Volvach, SU
04-10. Beyond Identity Politics: post-Ottoman conviviality, resilience and belonging in Burgaz Island. Deniz Neriman Duru, LU

05. Climate Change and the Discomfort of Uncertainty
05-1. Water scarcity and water concerns. An ethnographic analysis of drought in the productive waterscape of Esteros del Iberá. Matias Menalled, UU
05-2. What if… the future comes? Metztli Hernandez, UU
05-3. Rocks hosting uncertainty: Ontologies of the subterranean in Swedish nuclear waste management. Martin Edström, Université de Fribourg, Schweiz
05-4. The Gold Curse and Extraction in the Cryosphere, Anastasia Ulturgasheva, IRES, UU

05. Climate Change and the Discomfort of Uncertainty (continued)
05-5. Cows, Climate Change and Uncertainty in Tiwanaku (Bolivia). Juan Fabbri Zeballos, UU, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés
05-6. Games of Discomfort: Radical Game-Making in the Age of Climate Crisis. Ossian Nordgren, UU.
05-7. A Discomforting Outlook: A Conversation About the Future for the Next Generation of Swedish Farmers. Sebastian Carlsson, SLU Alnarp

06. Un/doing Comfort, Dis/comforting Bodies
06.01. Care or Complicity in Censorship? Negotiating Adolescent Vaccination in Community Clinics. Ben Kasstan, University of Edinburgh, LSHTM
06.02. Between Medical Evidence and COVID-19 Denial: Mistrusts, Discomfort and Improvising medicine within the Italian Primary Care during the Pandemic. Mirko Pasquini, GU
06.03. Doing anthropology in health facilities in Mozambique. Márcia Manhique, UU

07. Comfort and discomfort during fieldwork in unstable contexts (starts at 09:30)
07-1. Tears on the sand: when research causes discomfort. Maria Padrón Hernández, Björkåfrihet; LU
07-2. Fieldwork that breaks your heart open again and again. Nina Gren, LU
07-3. Epistemic discomforts of familiar oddities: notes from ethnographic research on Belarusian borderlands. Roman Urbanowicz, University of Helsinki

07. Comfort and discomfort during fieldwork in unstable contexts (continued)
07-4. “You’re one of the guys”; discomfort, emotions and relations during and after ethnographic fieldwork in Syria and Sudan. Josepha Ivanka (Joshka) Wessels, Malmö University
07-5. Border Hostipitalities. Mahmoud Keshavarz, UU

08. My body is a cage: Anxious encounters and antagonistic socialities in fieldwork (starts at 09:00)
08.1. Anxiety as an inherent emotion in multisited ethnographic research. Ketevan Lapachi, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, Malmö University
08.02. “Is That An iPod?”: Lessons from the field in a Cyborg Type one Diabetic Body. Rachel Runesson, University of Gothenburg
08.03. No retreat, no surrender. I am Van Damme. I can dance. Sverker Finnström, UU
08.4. Caged Tensions: Ethnographic Encounters with Recovering Male Abusers in Bangladesh (digital presentation). Tahmid Hasan, Alumni, University of Helsinki; Umma Sumaya, University of Rajshahi
08.5. Density, discomfort, and antagonistic socialities in Mumbai’s lifeline: An autoethnography of urban commuting. Proshant Chakraborty, University of Gothenburg

09. Living with dis/comfort in the wake of ecological restoration
09-1. Capturing Discomfort: Human and Other-than-Human Experiences of Marine Mammal Restoration, Revitalization, and Maintenance in Modern American Culture. Kathryn M. Hudson, Carmen N. Self, Eckerd College, University at Buffalo
09-2. Muddy terrains of environmental expertise: Ethnographies of changing and competing knowledge of wetland restoration in times of climate change. Jenny Lindblad, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
09-3. Ecological restoration in the shadow of everyday eradication: The conundrum of become a ‘City in Nature’ and preventing disease in Singapore. Tomas Cole, SU

10. Upsetting the old in old age-related research
10-1. Flourishing in Neglect: Older Women and Their Plants in the Belarusian Countryside, Aliaksandra Shrubok, UU
10-2. Desirable Aging, Playful intimacies, and Collective Care among Elderly Chinese Gay Men in Online Chat Groups, Shen Qing, UU
10-3. Existential vulnerability, social injustice, and moral obligations: Notes toward an ethics for working with older persons in Equatorial Guinea, Adelaida Caballero, UU / Institució Mila i Fontanals CSIC, Barcelona
10-4. Nordic care crisis from below: Understanding abuse/neglect in nursing homes through the use of hidden cameras, Hahonou E.K. (and Ramsøy I.J.), Roskilde University

11. Dis/Comforting Perspectives on Political Reconfigurations in Africa 
11-1. Understanding Geopolitics from below in the Sahel: Dis/comforting anthropological perspectives on decolonization, and sovereignty. Sten Hagberg ,UU
11-2. Becoming King in Benin and Nigeria: Identity, Politics & Religion. Jennifer Lorin, UU
11-3. Municipal governance in practice: Street vendors and market commissions in the city of Beira, Mozambique. Book Sambo, UU
11-4. The Conflicts of Interest Between the Two Public Authorities Over Mining Resources in the Moatize District of Mozambique. Paulo Mahumane, UU
11-5. Understanding changing military-civilian relations in Niger through popular songs. Gabriella Körling, the Swedish Defense Research Agency,
11-6. Niger and the regional realignment of the Western Sahel. Eric Komlavi Hahonou

12. The Discomfort of Identity Thinking
12-1. The identity politics of anthropologists: The spectre of 'positionality'. Steven Sampson, LU
12-2. The Discomfort of Decolonizing aid. Marianne Mosebo, University College Copenhagen
12-3. No Longer at Ease in Côte d’Ivoire: Writing about ethnic reification in West Africa, Jesper Bjarnesen, The Nordic Africa Institute
12-4. Whites like me – discomfort as heuristic, ambivalence as outcome. Carolina Valente Cardoso, GU
12-5. ’Everything everywhere all at once’- Vera Skvirskaja, Copenhagen University
12-6. The comfort of the private: fleeing the political in a post-Soviet city. Denys Gorbach, LU

13. Vicissitudes of Discomfort and Disembodiment (MA-students)
13-1. Dis/comfort as a tool for Dis/obedience: Navigating embodied resistance in queer activism. Cosmo M. Esposito, UU
13-2. Politics of Post-soviet Girlhood: Discomfort, Disembodiment and Digital Affection. Salome Berdzenishvili, UU
13.3. “Samba’o na cara da sociedade”: A Quare Linguistic Account of Brazilian Portuguese (digital presentation). Andraya Amadi Osondu Nnaji Yearwood, Columbia University, US
13.4. Discomfort Makes Progress: How Life Dissatisfaction Shapes Swedish Chinese Immigrants' Future Aspirations. Zekai Xu, LU

13. Vicissitudes (continued)
13.5. Understanding Flourishing: Exploring Everyday Discomfort and Disembodiment among Bangladeshi Students in Finland (digital presentation). Tahmid Hasan, University of Helsinki
13.6. The Mark of a True Actor: The Valorization of Discomfort and Suffering in the Theatre. Hannah Meredith Gardner
13.7. Going Native in the Global North. Rodrigo Thurler Nacif, LU

14. Technological discomforts
14-1. Translation Tasks: Culture, Language and the Role of AI. Helena Wulff, SU
14-2. AI and the New Face of Love: What Happens to Human Connection? Isabelle Fioroni, UU
14-3. Exploring Mobility Work: Aspects of Bus Driving Beyond Scientific Analysis. Aina Backman, SU

14. Technological discomforts (continued)
15-4. Embracing the messy side of things: living with the discomfort of worn and aging household items. Staffan Appelgren, University of Gothenburg
15-5. Dis/comfort and domestic maintenance: How the Swedish practice of “pyssla” negotiates material transformation in the home. Anna Bohlin, GU

15. Embodied emotions 
15-1. Structure and agency in Bolivian middle class food practices: Transitioning from the comfort of privilege to the discomfort of sufficiency? Sarah Kollnig, Wiener Neustadt, Austria, Rodrigo Alvaro Quispe Condori, Cochabamba, Bolivia
15-2. Exploring Ukrainian Identity and Collective Memory Through Soundscapes. Olena Kulish, SU
15-3. Discomfort as Catalyst: The Decision to Wear or Not Wear the Hijab Among Muslim Women in Sweden. Nasrin Salehabadi, UU
15-4. State-Sponsored Life: Aspiration, Apprehension, and Adaptation of Educated Young Adults in China. Song Jing, UU

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