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About Sadie Elizabeth Hale and Sidsel Marie Henriksen
NBN Episodes hosted by Sadie:
February 13, 2026
Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland
In this episode, we speak with Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Katy Overstreet. Katy is coordinator f…
December 8, 2025
“Rurality 2.0”
In today’s episode, we talk to Tom Bratrud about his ongoing, long-term work with city-dwellers who migrate to rural parts of Norway. This research fo…
September 23, 2025
Amber, China, and Geological Anthropology
In this episode, we speak with Alessandro Rippa about amber – a fossilised resin that not only allow us a glimpse into prehistoric lifeforms and clima…
March 25, 2025
Ethnographic Poetry and Migration
In this episode, we are in company with Hans Lucht to talk about ethnographic poetry. Hans is a senior researcher, and the head of migration research …
February 24, 2025
Slavery and Genocide
Welcome to a special two-episode series of Anthropology on Air! In this and the previous podcast, you will listen to selected parts of a lecture se…
February 11, 2025
The Paradoxes of Freedom
In this and the following podcast, you will listen to selected parts of a lecture series on the subject of slavery and freedom with professor of Socio…
December 10, 2024
Journeying Anew, With or Without Knowledge
Welcome to a special episode of Anthropology on Air. In this episode you will hear the recordings of the 2024 Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture, held …
November 20, 2024
Muskoxen, Reindeer, and Performing Wilderness in Norway
In this episode, we speak with Karin Lillevold, a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and R…
November 8, 2024
Theopolitical Patchworks
In this episode we speak with Martjin Oosterbaan. Martjin is professor at the department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, with a chai…
September 13, 2024
Birdwatching and Loss in the Anthropocene
Welcome to season 4 of Anthropology on Air! With autumn on the way in Bergen, we kick off a new season with a resident of another North Sea city: dr. …
June 26, 2024
Public Affection, Morality Police, and Gendered Violence in Mumbai
In this episode, the finale to season 3, we speak with Atreyee Sen, Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenha…
June 7, 2024
Technoscience and the Limits of Life
In this episode, we speak with Martin Eggen Mogseth and Fartein Hauan Nilsen about their first edited volume, Limits of Life: Reflections on Life, Dea…
May 7, 2024
Nuclear Waste Management and the Anthropology of Infrastructures
In this episode of Anthropology on Air, we speak with Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the UK. Penny …
April 23, 2024
Masculinity, Far-Right Ideology, and Militarized Policing in Rio de Janeiro
In this special episode, we speak with Tomas Salem, a PhD fellow in our own department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. We do a dee…
April 8, 2024
Water Justice, Activism, and the Rights of Nature Movement
To kick off season three of Anthropology on Air, we speak with Andrea Muehlebach. Andrea is Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water a…
December 19, 2023
Sensing God, Doing Magic, and Kindling Anomalous Experience Through Transformative Practice
Tanya Luhrmann is Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology, and an elected member …
November 29, 2023
Rituals, Social Cohesion and the Theory of Modes of Religiosity
In this episode, you will meet professor at the University of Oxford, Harvey Whitehouse. Harvey is the director of the Centre for the Study of Social…
November 14, 2023
Contemporary Hunter-Gatherer Communities, Ju/’hoansi, Indigenous Rights and Knowledge Systems
In this episode you will meet Jennifer Hays, who is professor in social anthropology at the University of Tromsø (UiT) – the Arctic University of No…
October 24, 2023
Human Rights, Islam, Secularism and Sudan
This episode is the second of two podcasts focusing on the longstanding partnership between Bergen and Khartoum. In the episode you will meet, Abdull…
October 24, 2023
Sudan and Norway Academic Collaboration
This episode is the first of two podcasts focusing on the longstanding partnership between Bergen and Khartoum. The first episode provides a historica…
June 27, 2023
Queer Objects and Intimate Citizenship in Kenya
This episode’s guest, George Paul Meiu, is professor of anthropology and chair of the institute of social anthropology at the University of Basel and …
June 13, 2023
Water Beings, Human-Nature Relations, and the Environmental Crisis
In this episode you will meet Veronica Strang, who is a professor of anthropology currently affiliated with Oxford University. Her research focuses …
May 19, 2023
Friendship, Love, and Grief in the Moroccan High Atlas
In this episode, you will meet Matthew Carey who is associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at Copenhagen University. Matthew’s main f…
April 20, 2023
Kinship & Gender in Iraqi Kurdistan
In this episode you will meet associate professor at the University of Kentucky, Diane King. Diane’s research focuses on Kurdistan, which is the eth…