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On the 11th - 12th December Tallinn University will be hosting the 1st Baltic Anthropology Graduate School (BAGS). This event will mark the opening of the pan-Baltic joint PhD programme in Anthropology. 

The event is a two day symposium that will feature keynote lectures by anthropologists based in the Baltics and practise-based workshops run by doctoral researchers based at Tallinn University. 

The theme will be „Anthropological Solutions: Problem Based Research“ - How is anthropological knowledge substantiated across different fields and mediums?

A lot of anthropology owes its roots to discovering problems, identifying discrepancies of power, and delimiting issues of exploitation. Often this seems enough. However, there is a concern that ethnographic knowledge remains on a descriptive level and does not often “speak back” to hegemony. 

This Baltic Anthropology Graduate School event will provide a space to discuss ways in which anthropology can produce knowledge that speaks directly back to its empirical sources.This school concerns itself with going over the terms of anthropological knowledge and its applications.

This school will feature speakers, presentations and workshops that address different ways in which anthropological knowledge is applied in presenting solutions to real-life situations. The school will be formatted as a two day symposium. The first day will feature lectures by staff members associated to the BAGS programme. The second will day will be structured around a series of practise-based interactive workshop designed and moderated by doctoral candidates and researchers associated to Tallinn University. 

This event will be of interest to graduate researchers and research students interested in fieldwork, business anthropology, policy, as well as in the areas of design and the creative arts.

The event is open to the public and free of charge, but registration is necessary. To register click . Deadline for registration is December 7.

Additional information .

December 11, 2015

10:00
Coffee
10:30
Welcome Address & Introduction of Participants
Patrick Laviolette  (Tallinn University)
11:30
Immanence & Transcendence: An Anthropological Problem or its Solution?
Carlo Cubero   (Tallinn University)
12:30
Anthropological knowledge for contemporary world?
Klavs Sedlenieks  (Riga Stradins University)
13:30
Lunch
14:30
Anthropology and Theatre/Film: Points of Convergence, Divergence, Agreement and Conflict
Gareth Hamilton , Ieva Raubisko & Mara Pinka (University of Latvia)
15:30
Dueling local and global conceptions of Climate Change and their Impact on the Moral Economy of Lithuanian Farmers
Victor de Munck  & Vytis Čubrinskas (Vytautas Magnus University)
16:30
General Discussion
17:00
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December 12, 2015

10:00 – 13:00
1st Session of Workshops
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 17:00
2nd Session of Workshops
17:30
Presentations of Workshop Results
19:00
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Workshops

Planning the Nation-State: Policy, Migration, and Segregation in Europe
Timothy Anderson
Does ethnography have to be linear? Experimenting with hypertext ethnography
Mikhail Fiadotau
Re-authoring patients’ problem stories for a more peopled medical anthropology
Davide Ticchi
Developing the faculties of an ethnographic listener: theoretical and practical approaches to sound recording 
Polina Tserkassova & Marje Ermel