As a part of the AMBER project, Yayi Zheng attended the 9th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber in Xi’an, China, as well as visiting potential field sites in preparation for her fieldwork in 2025.
On May 13 the AMBER team organised a small workshop with Sarah Møller Christensen and SAI colleagues to watch and discuss the film "Land of Amber" and brainstorm Sarah's film project on Chiapas amber.
As a part of the AMBER project, Alessandro Rippa carried out some preliminary fieldwork in and near Catania, in Sicily, where amber has a long, but largely forgotten, history.
Alessandro Rippa held a research seminar at Stockholm University Monday the 25th regarding China's striking absence from ethnographic perspectives.
On March 14-15 the AMBER team convened for an internal kick-off workshop with two days of extensive discussions about the project.
Alessandro Rippa was recently interviewed about the Amber Worlds project on the Nordic Asia Podcast.
Applications are invited for 1 PhD position in social anthropology, to be based at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. The position will be part of the project “Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene (AMBER)” led by Associate Professor Alessandro Rippa, and funded by the European Research Council. The contracts will commence in spring 2024, run for 3-to-4 years (see below), and the location of employment is Oslo, Norway.
DEADLINE 03.09.2023
Applications are invited for 2 post-doctoral positions in social anthropology, to be based at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. The positions will be part of the project “Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene (AMBER)” led by Associate Professor Alessandro Rippa, and funded by the European Research Council. The contracts will commence in spring 2024, run for 3-to-4 years (see below), and the location of employment is Oslo, Norway.
DEADLINE: 03.09.2023
