Talk by Thomas Hylland Eriksen in the Futures Lecture Series at Aarhus University with the title: "Overheating: Coming to terms with accelerated change" A rapidly changing world requires new ways of thinking and acting. The Futures Lecture Series features cutting-edge speakers from the arts and social sciences whose cross-disciplinary scholarship and ground-breaking insights help all of us rethink the urgent challenges of the contemporary world.
Foredragsholder: Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor, sosialantropolog, forfatter og samfunnsdebattant
In a world of more, faster, bigger and warmer, we are overheating on both the personal level and the global level. This brilliant talk from renowned Norwegian social anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen will give you food for thought, and a perfect excuse to slow down for 10 minutes. Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a social anthropologist and author of Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (2016). Thomas is currently a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and has authored textbooks, academic monographs, polemical interventions, popular science, biographies and novels in both English and Norwegian. Born from his long-standing interest in the unintentional consequences of modernity, is a series of four books focusing on information technology, identity, happiness and waste. Thomas recently completed a five-year research project which shows how global change has accelerated in many domains, from coal exports to photography and from finance to identity politics; leading to dangerous ‘overheating effects’ and a need to slow down, or ‘cool down’ worldwide. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
In this short video Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen outlines the concept of 'overheating', at the core of his new book for Pluto Press, published June 2016. To find out more about the book go to: www.plutobooks.com.
The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal.
Gegužės 7-8 dienomis Vytauto Didžiojo universitete (VDU) lankėsi bei viešą paskaitą ir seminarą vedė Thomas Hyllandas Eriksenas – vienas garsiausių šiandienos pasaulio antropologų, Oslo universiteto socialinės antropologijos profesorius, Europos socialinių antropologų asociacijos EASA prezidentas (2015-2016), Norvegijos Mokslo akademijos narys.
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On 7-8, May, two lectures were held at Vytautas Magnus University by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, one of world's most prominent anthropologists, who is currently a professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, the President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, EASA (2015-2016), and member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Panel Debate and Q&A with Thomas Hylland Eriksen in the Futures Lecture Series following his talk "Overheating: Coming to terms with accelerated change." A rapidly changing world requires new ways of thinking and acting. The Futures Lecture Series features cutting-edge speakers from the arts and social sciences whose cross-disciplinary scholarship and ground-breaking insights help all of us rethink the urgent challenges of the contemporary world.
Gjester: Thomas Hylland Eriksen og Dag O. Hessen. Med blant annet Kristin Skogheim som vikar for Linn Skåber. TV-sendt den 14, September 2012.
Economic crisis and politics of identity in Europe, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor, University of Oslo
Sue Christoforou, policy and research manager, The Equality Trust project, One Society; policy analyst Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; novelist; author, Ethnicity and Nationalism and Globalization: the key concepts Joyce McMillan, chair, Hansard Society Working Group in Scotland; judge, 2010 Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award; theatre critic, Scotsman Brendan O'Neill, editor, spiked; author, Can I Recycle My Granny and 39 Other Eco-Dilemmas Trevor Phillips, former chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission Chair: Claire Fox, director, Institute of Ideas; panellist, BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze In his State of the Union speech this year, President Obama declared that inequality is 'the defining issue of our time'. He said everyone should get 'a fair shot', do 'their fair share' and play by 'the same set of rules'. Such fairness, such equality, was a matter beyond politics ('not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values'), something without which the very fabric of society was at risk. In the UK, too, Prime Minister David Cameron has railed against 'the incredible inequality of the modern world'. Economic debates are dominated by the spectre of dangerous inequalities. From Richard Layard's economics of happiness, with its focus on relative income and the 'paradox of prosperity', to the fashionable endorsement of The Spirit Level, a bestselling book by academics much cited by politicians of all parties, to the Occupy movement, it has become an orthodoxy that unequal societies do worse in education, mental health and social cohesion. The moral force of demands to lessen economic inequality seems to derive from the historically progressive demands for political equality. Who can object to that call for equal rights, whereby groups oppressed because of their gender, race or sexuality fought for their democratic rights? But does the fairness agenda really stand in the tradition of anti-slavery, civil rights and women's suffrage? Is demanding regulation of bankers' pay or calling for a mansion tax of the same order as the fight against Apartheid or the decriminalisation of homosexuality? Or are we in danger of confusing what we mean by equality by conflating the economic with the political? The origin of the modern idea that 'All men are created equal' lies in Thomas Jefferson's 'immortal declaration' in which equality was inalienably linked to liberty as a rebuttal against authoritarian rule. And yet demands for more equality can be used against individual freedom, religious freedom, free enterprise. Equal rights for minority groups may be progressive, but what about contemporary equal opportunity policies, such as quotas, that emphasise equality of outcomes? Talent is not equally distributed: some of us are fast, some bright, some musical. Some are not. That might not be 'fair', but there it is: we are not all born the same. Is it fair to discriminate and handicap to level the playing field? Or does such affirmative action come at too high a price in personal freedom? Do we really want economic redistribution to the level that we all have the same? Is the importance of equality more in allowing us to be different or in allowing us to be the same? What has equality come to mean today?
Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo, Norway, presents that for a politically engaged social theorist, Ernest Gellner was surprisingly uninterested in analysing the contemporary identity politics arising from migration into the West. In several of his books and essays there are hints about his attitudes to multiculturalism and the new cultural configurations, but he never began to analyse the impact of migration on European political identities. However, many of Gellner's writings provide ideas and facts which are clearly relevant for such an enterprise. His views on liberalism and romanticism, his work on the collapse of empires and the rise of nationalism, and perhaps most notably his writings about the societal foundations of ideology, offer rich and challenging input to any discussion of cultural pluralism and national (or post-national?) identities. The paper will amount to an analysis of contemporary dynamics of cultural identity in selected European societies, taking its analytic cues from Gellner's work.
This video was recorded during the “Social and Political Relevance of Gellner's Thought Today” conference organised by Dr Sinisa Malesevic and Dr Mark Haugaard, Dept of Political Science and Sociology, in the National University of Ireland, Galway. This conference was held on 21-22 May 2005. Organised at the eve of the 10th anniversary of Gellner’s death, it brought together some of the world’s most prominent social scientists whose own work, in one way or another, is indebted to the legacy of Ernest Gellner (1925-1995).
National University of Ireland, Galway
Video Production/Edition: Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez
Conference Organiser: Mark Haugaard
Conference Organiser: Sinisa Malesevic
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is among the most distinguished anthropologists of our times. He is currently Professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, and leads the Overheating project funded by the European Research Council. A prolific writer, he has authored many books and has contributed considerably to popularising social anthropology through his work. He writes and talks in many genres about the contemporary world, what it means to be human and how the world can be made a better place. When not teaching, writing, or speaking around the world, you can find him absorbed in people watching in Trinidad or Mauritius. Recorded in Brussels on 15th November 2016
The world is overheated – and we aren’t just referring to climate change. It’s too full, too fast and developments are uneven and unequal. Everything takes place faster and change is more comprehensive than ever before. “It’s globalisation, but not as we know it!” Leading Norwegian anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen discusses accelerated change and its long-term implications for us, while dissecting the three major crisis of globalisation – economy, climate, and identity. Is there any alternative to this great acceleration? Can we live slower? Can we get out of the corner into which we have painted ourselves? There is no simple answer, and yet tackling the unintentional side effects of modernity is the single most important question of our times. ABOUT Thomas Hylland Eriksen is among the most distinguished anthropologists of our times. He is currently Professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, and leads the Overheating project funded by the European Research Council. A prolific writer, he has authored many books and has contributed considerably to popularising social anthropology through his work. He writes and talks in many genres about the contemporary world, what it means to be human and how the world can be made a better place. GOOD READS Overheating: an anthropology of accelerated change (2016), Globalization, the key concepts (2014), A history of anthropology (2013), A world of insecurity (2010), Small places, large issues (2010), What is anthropology? (2004), Tyranny of the moment: fast and slow time in the information age (2001).
In the contemporary world, change has accelerated only in the last 25 years: Anything from coal exports to international trade and the number of photos taken annually has grown almost exponentially since the end ot the Cold War. I call this process overheatingh: it is a runaway growth process without a thermostat or regulator. What are the implications of this accelerated growth for belonging, identification and modes of inclusion and exclusion in complex societies? Generating heat creates frictions – which are the main frictions in contemporary societies, how have they emerged, and how can they best be understood? The lecture will take on familiar examples such as Brexit, the so-called refugee crisis and the election of the Twitter president, but it will also look for global patterns by hinting at similar overheating effects elsewhere in the world.
«Thomas Hylland Eriksen og historien om Origamijenta» er en 50 minutter lang norsk film, regissert av Dag Johan Haugerud («Som du ser meg»).
Filmens forteller sliter for å lage en politisk film, men blir mer og mer opptatt av origamijenta som i sin jakt på mening oppdager at hun har et eksepsjonelt talent for papirbretting -- alt mens Thomas Hylland Eriksen forsøker å forklare hvordan markedsliberalismen har inntatt underbevisstheten vår.
"Grammars of inclusion and exclusion: options for 21st century nations"
Given by Gregory Jusdanis Thomas Hylland Eriksen (http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/), Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
Plenary 1 at the 2014 ASEN Conference on Nationalism and Belonging
For more information, please visit http://www.lse.ac.uk/ASEN
Thomas Hylland Eriksen intervistato a Pistoia Dialoghi sull'uomo 2018 su tema: chi ha saputo rompere le regole
Australian Anthropological Society Conference 2012, hosted by the University of Queensland.
Keynote address: 'The three crises of globalisation and the role of Anthropology'
Presented by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo.
26 September 2012
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is an anthropologist and writer based at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. His fields of research include identity, nationalism, globalisation and identity politics.
The world is overheated – and we arent just referring to climate change. Its too full, too fast and developments are uneven and unequal. Everything takes place .
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Talk by Thomas Hylland Eriksen in the Futures Lecture Series with the title: Overheating: Coming to terms with accelerated change A rapidly changing world .
Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo) Wykład An overheated world: The anthropology of global crisis wygłoszony 7 października 2013 roku w .
Thomas Hylland Eriksen er forsker i prosjekt WAIT. Her forklarer han hvilke problemstillinger prosjektet belyser, og hvordan tid og venting blir forstått og behandlet.
The masochism of the West: Pascal Bruckner and Thomas Hylland Eriksen in conversation about european identity and the future of europe
Litteraturhuset, Oslo, 2011.06.06
Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo) Wykład "An overheated world: The anthropology of global crisis" wygłoszony 7 października 2013 roku w Instytucie Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej UJ.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is among the most distinguished anthropologists of our times. He is currently Professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, and leads the Overheating project funded by the European Research Council. A prolific writer, he has authored many books and has contributed considerably to popularising social anthropology through his work. He writes and talks in many genres about the contemporary world, what it means to be human and how the world can be made a better place. When not teaching, writing, or speaking around the world, you can find him absorbed in people watching in Trinidad or Mauritius.
Intervju med Martha Grønning, deltaker på Europakonferansen 2014
Læreverket FOLK dekker faget sosiologi og sosialantropologi innen programfaget politikk, individ og samfunn.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen intervistato in esclusiva a Pistoia Dialoghi sull'uomo sul tema: Rompere le regole.
Part 4 of Internasjonale seminar Tromsø - Thomas Hylland Eriksen talks about urban diversity in the complex urban space
Professor at the University of Oslo Who to blame and who to trust: Risk management at a risky time
"Overheating: The Anthropology of Accelerated Change" is a Bachelor's degree course in social anthropology given at the University of Oslo based on the Overheating research project.
For more information on the project, see: here
The full course syllabus is available here
The literature related to each lecture can be found here
Thomas Hylland Eriksens innlegg på Rajas dialogmøte 2/5/2010
Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen of the Department of Social Anthropology, the University of Oslo, gives the introduction lecture of the Overheating course, aimed at undergraduate students of social anthropology
Kronprins Haakon leder panelsamtale ved Universitetet i Oslo i forbindelse med Kronprinsens besøk 19. januar 2015. I panelet er professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor Karen O’Brien, medisinstudent Usman Ahmad Mushtaq og rektor Ole Petter Ottersen. Samtalen fulgte etter foredrag ved de fire paneldeltagerne. Temaet for foredrag og samtale var universitetets tverrfaglige respons på globale utfordringer. Se foredragene her:
Film og produksjon: Unimedia ved UiO
Thomas H. Eriksen (University of Oslo) Beyond dualism: On the possibilities for a new synthesis between anthropology and biology.
Intervju med biolog Dag O. Hessen og sosialantropolog Thomas Hylland Eriksen om klimakrisen. Intervjuer: Anne Kristine Haugestad
Thomas Hylland Eriksen i samtale med Halvor Finess Tretvoll, en av forfatterne bak biografien "Alene blant de mange" om Sigurd Evensmo. I biografien forteller journalistene Stian Bromark og Halvor Tretvoll for første gang hele historien om Evensmos dramatiske liv.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen takes you on a guided tour of his research site in Australia, part 6
Thomas Hylland Eriksen takes you on a guided tour of his research site in Australia, part 5
Thomas Hylland Eriksen takes you on a guided tour of his research site in Australia, part 8
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hylland Eriksen report "Instantaneous communication and slow thinking" from the conference "Communication and Information Sciences in Network Society: Experience and Insights. II" 19 06 2014
In this theory seminar, Thomas Hylland Eriksen presents his new research project, which combines studies of globalization and anthropology. He shows how the processes of globalization now allows comparative anthropological studies across different continents. He argues that "overheating" is an apt metaphor for understanding global crises, discusses the need for shared 'traffic rules' and looks at three important problem areas within transnational policy making.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen gav tilbakemeldinger på Carl Fredrik Normanns bok Tidløs Medisin på Litteraturhuset 9. juni 2015.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen takes you on a guided tour of his research site in Australia, part 4
Thomas Hylland Eriksen takes you on a guided tour of his research site in Australia, part 1
Panzerpappa playing the first half of Bati la takton at the University of Oslo with Thomas Hylland Eriksen on saxophone.
Introduction to the talk "Overheating: Coming to terms with accelerated change" given by Thomas Hylland Eriksen in the Futures Lecture Series. The introduction is given by Nils Bubandt, professor at Aarhus University.
A rapidly changing world requires new ways of thinking and acting. The Futures Lecture Series features cutting-edge speakers from the arts and social sciences whose cross-disciplinary scholarship and ground-breaking insights help all of us rethink the urgent challenges of the contemporary world.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen takes you on a guided tour of his research site in Australia, part 7
Thomas Hylland Eriksen takes you on a guided tour of his research site in Australia, part 3
Thomas Hylland Eriksen gæstede Institut for Kultur og Samfund på Aarhus Universitet i efteråret 2015 som foredragsholder i The Future Lecture Series. Professor Nils Bubandt introducerer i videoen den norsk forsker.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen takes you on a guided tour of his research site in Australia, part 2
"Overheating: The Anthropology of Accelerated Change" is a Bachelor's degree course in social anthropology given at the University of Oslo based on the Overheating research project.