The ongoing migration crisis in the Mediterranean has led to criticism of EU’s mismanagement of its humanitarian response. Hear Ruben Andersson, Shahram Khosravi and Peo Hansen discuss whom or what is to blame and what needs to be done to stop people from drowning.

In this episode of AnthroTalking, Mark Graham explains his concept of materiality within queer theory and talks about the intriguing relation of queerness and smells. He also gives advice on how to talk about queer topics in everyday life.

In this episode of AnthroTalking we interview Professor Gudrun Dahl on how her field of research has evolved from studying pastoralism in North-East Africa to development discourses, including notions of agency and victimization.

In this episode of AnthroTalking we interview Frida Hastrup, assistant professor at the Ethnology Department at the University of Copenhagen’s Saxo-Institute. We talk about her latest project on apples and wild berries as part of the Natural Goods? research group.

In this episode of AnthroTalking we talk to Špela Drnovšek Zorko, PhD student at SOAS, about her initial research findings on the ways in which former Yugoslav migrants living in Britain today mediate memories of Yugoslavia and how these ideas are negotiated intergenerationally. Hear Špela narrating her approach to the field and how she got to know her informants through singing in the choir, language studies and slowly unfolding conversations.

In this episode of AnthroTalking we talk to Paul Boyce who is a lecturer in Anthropology and International Development at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. For his research, Paul has done fieldwork in West Bengal, India, to study same-sex sexualities and transgender experiences in regard to modernity and social change.

In this episode of AnthroTalking we talk to Charles Woolfson, who is professor of labour studies at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University, Sweden. From a critical perspective, Charles Woolfson looks at processes of labour migration, industrial relations and working environments and is currently working on issues related to austerity programmes employed to restore and rehabilitate economic growth.

In this episode of AnthroTalking we went to Stockholm’s Museum of Ethnography to talk to the museum’s curator for Africa, Michael Barrett who has a PhD in Anthropology from Uppsala University. In this podcast he tells us about his PhD research in Zambia, how he came to work as curator for Africa at the Museum of Ethnography and explains how, as curator, he handles knowledge production around this huge continent.

In this episode of AnthroTalking we interview Carolyn Hamilton who describes herself as an anthro-historian. In the podcast she explains what the work of an anthro-historian entails, how her work aims to critically unpack the concept of ‘the archive’, the methods of an anthro-historian and the questions that arise when thinking about the archive.

In this episode AnthroTalking interviews Mats Utas. Mats has had a lot of public exposure lately in Sweden as part of the Swedish response team for the West African Ebola epidemic and we talk to him about issues of public perception and institutional mobilisation in tackling a public health crisis that has achieved surprising notoriety.

In this episode AnthroTalking interviews Ruben Andersson about his current research on the challenges of the international interventions in Mali that presently is a highly dangerous area.