Kjersti Larsen

CURRICULUM VITAE (incl. List of Scientific Publications)
Name: Kjersti Larsen
Birth: 07.02.60
Citizenship: Norwegian
Sex: Female
Education: Social Anthropologist (Ph. D)
Position: Associate Professor, University of Oslo
Work address: Museum of Culture and History, Dept. of Ethnography, University of Oslo,
P. O. Box. 6762, St. Olavs Plass, 0130 Oslo Tel. +47 22 85 99 68,
Fax +47 22 85 99 60, E-mail: kjersti.larsen@khm.uio.no.
Home address: Kirkeveien 114 A, 0361 Oslo, phone: 22 60 51 35
Specialities: African studies, Muslim societies and Islam, modernisation processes, gender, social and cultural
change, local knowledge, migration and mobility, multicultural societies, cosmology, ritual studies.
Employment Record
2001-present: Associate Professor, Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo
2001-present: Adjunct Professor, Centre for International Environment & Development Studies, Noragric
Agricultural University of Norway.
2003-2006: Head of Department, Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo
1996-2001: Associate professor, Noragric Agricultural University of Oslo
1995-1996: Lecturer / Associate Professor; Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.
1995-1996: Adviser, Immigration Department Ministry of Justice, Norway
1991-1994: Research fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.
Education:
1995 Ph.D.
Social Anthropology
University of Oslo
1989 Cand. Polit
Social Anthropology
University of Oslo
1989 Statistical methods, Faculty of Social Science
University of Oslo
1983 Cand. Mag.
Psychology, Anthropology, History University of Oslo
Guest Researcher
2005: May-June: Invited Guest researcher (one month) at Centre d’Études Africaines, École des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences
2004: Oct-Dec. Invited Guest Researcher at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern
World (ISIM), Leiden University, the Netherlands
2002: April-June: Invited Guest Researcher at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern
World (ISIM), Leiden University, The Netherlands
2000: Nov-Des. Guest Researcher, CCCRW, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
2000: Invited as Guest Researchers (one term) at Centre for Cross Cultural Research on Women, QEH,
University of Oxford
1999: Invited Guest researcher (one month) at Centre d’Études Africaines, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
1993: Research Fellow, Centre for Cross Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House Oxford
University
Board of Trustees Membership
2003-2005: Board of Trustees, ICARDA (International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas)
Aleppo, Syria
2006.2009: Board of Trustees, ICARDA (International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas)
Aleppo, Syria
Language:
Norwegian (mother tongue))
English (very good)
Swahili (very good)
French (some)
Arabic (some Sudanese colloquial)
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Fieldwork financed
1984-present: Zanzibar, Tanzania, Swahili Coast
1997-present; Bayoda desert, Northern Sudan
Research Grants/Scholarships
2004 -2005, NFR; Adaptation to climate stress as a livelihood struggle: bridging conflict and vulnerability
theory, S. Eriksen, J. Lind, L. O. Næss, K. Larsen, D. Potts; CICERO, UiO, Kings College, University of
London, UKM, UIO
2001-2004, NFR; Rural Poverty and Well-being In Countries with Internal Wars: A comparative study of
processes of impoverishment, displacement and identity construction, K. Larsen, Ruth Haug and N.
Shanmugarathnam
1997-2000, NFR; Forced migration of civil war victims, in Africa. Resource conflicts, dilemmas of return and
long term development, K. Larsen, Ruth Haug and N. Shanmugarathnam
1991-1994, NFR; Research Fellow,
1993,
NFR; Research grants (Utenlandsopphold)
1985-1986, NFR; Scholarship,
Doctoral committee
2000 - Faculty opponent: Historical-Philosophical Faculty, University of Lund, Sweden
1997 - Faculty opponent: Historical-Philosophical Faculty, University of Lund, Sweden.
Other Qualified Committees:
2006: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite): Ph.D. position, Department of Social
Anthropology, University of Oslo
2005: Qualified selecting committee, Associate Professor Position, University of Lund
2004-2005: Qualified selecting committee, Associate Professor Position, Dept. of Social Anthropology,
University of Bergen
2004: Qualified selecting committee, Associate Professor Position, Museum of Cultural History, University of
Oslo
2002-2003: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite; Research position, Univerity of
Lund
2001: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite); Associate Professor Position at Oslo
College.
2000: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite): Ph.D. position, Faculty of Social
Science, Tromsø University
1999-2001: Qualified committee reviewing the Norwegian Citizenship Law
1998-1999: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite): Associate professor, Ethnographic
Museum Bergen University
1998: Qualified selecting committee (Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite): Ph.D. position, SUM, University of Oslo
Managerial work
2007-2009: NFR: FRISAM - Div. Social Science
2003 -2006: Head of Department of Ethnography, University of Oslo
2000-2004: Responsible for PhD course in ‘Development Studies’, Agricultural University of Norway
1997-present: Member of The Noragric Research Committee, Agricultural University
1998-1999: Director of PhD Programme, Agricultural University of Norway
1996-1999: Noragric Publishing Committee
1997-1999: Board member: Norwegian Association for Development Research /NFU
1993-1999: Board member: North/South Coalition (Centre for Development and the Environment/SUM,
University of Oslo)
International Academic Network
2004 - present: French-Norwegian Africanist Research Network, MSH & UiO
2002 - present: The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), University of
Leiden, the Netherlands
2001- present: French-English Swahili Workshop/Table Ronde
1993 - present: Centre for Cross Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
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1999 - present: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Prof. José Kagabo and Researcher Jean-
Claude Penrad.
1990 - present: National Archives, Zanzibar Tanzania
Nordic academic network
Department of the History of Religion, University of Lund, Sweden Prof. Tord Olsson
The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Programme: Poverty and Prosperity in Africa.
The Indian Ocean Network, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Prof. Leif Manger
Memberships
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
European Anthropological Association (EASA)
Nork Antropologisk Forening
Publications
Knowledge, Renewal and Religion: Repositioning and changing ideological and material circumstances among
the Swahili on the East-African Coast, Kjersti Larsen (ed.). Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, forthcoming
2008
2008, Where Humans and Spirits Meet: Ritual, Identity and Everydaylife Politics in Zanzibar, Oxford:
Berghahn, forthcoming 2008
2008 ’Far from the Battlefield: Livelihood revival, settlement and modernization among the Hawawir, Northern
Sudan’, in N. Shanmugaratnam (ed.), Preparing for Peace: Between Deprivation and Livelihood Revival,
Oxford: James Currey.
2007 ‘Dialogues between humans and spirits: Ways of negotiating relationships and moral order in Zanzibar
Town, Zanzibar’. U. Demmer & M. Gaenszle (eds.) The Power of Discourse in Ritual Performance: Rhetorics,
Poetics, Transformations, Berlin: LIT Verlag
2007 Custom, Adaptability and Conflict Mediation on Arid Land: Returnees and Stayees in Wadi al Mugaddam,
Sudan, in B. Derman, R.Odegaard & E. Sjaastasd (eds), Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa, Oxford: James
Currey
2006 ’Remedies of Recreation and Multiple Sources of Knowledge: Negotiations, Sorcery and Society in
Zanzibar’, Paper presented at The Maritime Heritage and Cultures of the Western Indian Ocean in Comparative
Perspective, The British Institute of Eastern Africa, British Museum & Zanzibar Department of Archives,
Museums and Antiquities, Zanzibar 11-13. July
2006, ‘Uheldige omstendigheter, sosiale relasjoner og forandelighet. En diskusjon omkring helbredelsesritualer
og teknologiske hjelpemidler på Zanzibar’, Paper presented at Homo-Faber – Redskapsbrukeren, Årskonferanse
i Norsk antropologisk Forening, Trondheim 19-21. May
2005 ‘Women, Gender and Women Performers and Performing Groups: East Africa’, Encyclopedia of Women
and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), Leiden: Brill Publisher, forthcoming
2005 ‘Pleasures, practices and prohibitions: female initiation rituals in Swahili society’, Paper presented at Knut
Ch. Myhre & Todd Sander, Beyond Magic and Science: Sexual prohibitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, University
of Oslo, March
2004, Kulturforskning og gjenstandssamlinger – historie og utvikling, Kristin Iveland I samarbeid med Kjersti
Larsen og Arne Martin Klausen (eds.) J. Bergstøl, A.A. Perminow, A.C. Eek, Kulturhistorier i sentrum, Oslo:
Kulturhistorisk Museum, Universitetetet i Oslo
2004, ‘Women Gender and Gender Socialization: Sub-Saharan Africa’, in Suad Joseph (ed.). The Encyclopedia
of Women and Islamic Cultures vol. 2.Leiden: Brill
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2004, Multiculturalism through Spirit Possession, ISIM Newsletter, No.14 June, International Institute for the
Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden
2004‘Change, Continuity and Contestation: The Politics of Modern Identities in Zanzibar’, in Pat Caplan &
Farouk Topan (eds). Swahili Modernities Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, Inc.
2004, Christian Spirits in a Muslim Society: Intercultural Exchanges and Multicultural Experiences in Zanzibar,
paper presented at The Western Indian Ocean Rim in the Longue Durée – Local Trade and Tradition, Translocal
Exchange, University of Bergen, 18-20 June,
2003, Mobility, Identity and Belonging: The Case of the Hawawir, Northern Sudan, N. Shanmugaratnam,
R Lund & K. Stølen (eds.). In The Maze of Displacement, Høyskoleforlaget, 2003
2003, ‘Christian Spirits in Muslim Societies: Multiculturalism, Religion and Identity in Zanzibar’, paper
presented at the workshop: Performing Difference: Possession, Identity and Otherness, AAA Annual Meeting,
Chicago Nov. 2003
2002, ‘Forced to Stay – Forced to Migrate: Ways and Meanings of Mobility among the Hawawir of Northern
Sudan, Paper presented at Dynamics of Displacement in Situations of Conflict, University of Oslo, December,
2002
2002, ‘Mobility, identity and Perceptions of a Good Life: The Case of the Hawaweer, Northern Sudan, UKM’s
skrifter, University of Oslo, 2002
2002, ‘Knowledge, Astrology and the Power of Healing in Zanzibar’, Afrique-Arabie: D’une rive à l’autre, en
mer Erythree, Journal des Africanistes 72 (2) 2002: 175-186, Paris, Musée de l’homme
2001, ‘Initiation Rituals, Suppression and Power: Re-searching Gender in Zanzibar’. Paper presented at the
seminar: Research as Re-vision: Practices and Theories in Cross-Cultural Gender Research, Centre for Cross-
Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, February 2001
2001, ‘Um Jawasir Project, Sudan: Irrigated Agriculture and Rehabilitation of Displaced Nomads’. Ruth Haug
& Josie Teurlings (eds). Successes in Rural Development, Agricultural University of Aas: Noragric
2001, ‘Spirit Possession as Oral History: Negotiating Islam and Social Status’, Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti
(ed). Islam in East Africa: New Sources, Roma: Herder, 2001
2001, ‘Forced to Migrate – Told to Return: The Case of the Hawaweer of Northern Sudan.’ Noragric Working
Paper No 23,
2000, ‘Curing with Water in Zanzibar’, Paper presented at CCCRW, Queen Elizabeth House, University of
Oxford, November
2000, ‘The Other Side of Nature: Expanding Tourism, Changing Landscapes and Problems of Privacy in Urban
Zanzibar’, in, Vigdis Broch-Due & Richard Scroeder (eds.) Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa. Nordiska
Afrikainstitutet,
1999,‘Land, identity and Belonging among the Hawaweer of Northern Sudan’. Paper presented at the seminar;
Forced Migration, Resource Conflicts and Development. Oslo March 17-18,
1999, ‘Women with Spirits and Women Without: Perceptions of Health and Illness in Zanzibar.’ Centre for
Cross Cultural Studies on Women, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford May
1999, ’Kosmologi og Rituelt Liv’. Finn Sivert Nielsen & Olaf Smedal (eds) Himmel og Jord: tradisjon,
tendenser og teorier i sosialantropologien, Oslo: Fagbokforlaget 1999.
1998, ’From Nomadism to Farming: The Case of the Hawaweer of Northern Sudan.’ Paper presented at the
Workshop on Human Adaptation in African Drylands, Khartoum 7-11 December 1998.
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1998, ‘Spirit Possession as Historical Narrative: The Production of Identity and Locality in Zanzibar Town’, in,
Lovell (ed.) Locality and Belonging London: Routledge 1998.
1998, ‘Morality and the Rejection of Spirits: A Zanzibari Case’, Social Anthropology Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press 1998.
1998, ‘To Feel the Spirits - To Suffer the Spirits’, in Impuls, Tidsskrift for psykologi 1, Department of
Psychology, University of Oslo
1995, Where Humans and Spirits Meet: Incorporating Difference and Experiencing Otherness in Zanzibar
Town, Ph.D. thesis, University of Oslo
1994, ‘Religious Innovation and the Role of Women: A Zanzibari Case’. The Nordic African Institute,
Christians and Muslims in Contemporary Africa: Religious, Social and Political Perspectives, Uppsala, August
25-28
1993, ‘Knowledge, Gender Identity and Social Change: Different forms of knowledge in Zanzibar Town’, Norsk
Antropologisk Tidsskrift 1, 1993
1991, ‘Female Initiation Rituals in Zanzibar Town: Reflections on Gender Identity and Processes of Social
Change’, in A. Stølen (ed.) Gender, Culture and Power in Developing Countries, vol 1.Centre for Development
and the Environment (SUM) University of Oslo,
1990, Unyago - From Girl to Woman: The Formation of Female Gender Identity in the Light of Initiation
Rituals, Religiosity and Processes of Modernisation’, Occasional Papers in Social Anthropology, no. 22,
University of Oslo
Invited International lectures
2008, ‘Regime Change, TV, Video Films and Ethnicity in Zanzibar’, Ethnicity and Identity Seminar, Institute of
Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, 1
st
February.
2005
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Female initiation rituals in Swahili society, Centre d’Africaines’, Centre d’Études Africaines, École des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May.
2005, Culture, Cosmology and Islam on the East African Coast, Centre
d’Africaines, Centre d’Études Africaines, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June , 2005.
2004, ‘The Power of Ritual Language, International Institute for The Study of Islam in the Modern World,
Leiden, November 2004
1999, ‘Spirit Possession as Historical Narratives: Identity and Locality in Zanzibar Town’, Centre d’Études
Africaines, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris,June 1999.
1999, ‘Forced to Migrate – Told to Return: Land, Identity and Belonging among the Hawaweer of Northern
Sudan’, Centre d’ Études Africanes, St. Denise University, Paris, June 1999.
1998, ‘Economic Growth, Expanding Tourism and Local Discourses on Culture: The Case of Zanzibar’,
Department of Development Studies. NTNU, University of Trondheim, November 1998
1998, ‘Islam, Spirit Possession and Trance in Zanzibar’, Centre d'Etudes Africaines, École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales, Paris, January 1998
1998, ‘Identity, Locality and Notions of Place: The case of Zanzibar’, Centre d'Etudes Africaines, École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, January, 1998
1996, ‘On the Dichotomy of Mind and Body: Some African Examples’, Department of the History of Religion,
University of Lund October 1996
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1995, ‘People, Spirits, and Tribes: Conceptualising Difference in Zanzibar Town’, Department of the History of
Religion, Lund University, March 1995.
1994, ‘To Feel the Spirits - To Suffer the Spirits: Self, Body and Spirits in Zanzibar Town’, Department of
Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, May 1994
1993, ‘Gendered Spirits - Gendered Persons: A Case Study from Zanzibar Town’, Goldsmith College, University
of London, November 1993
1993, ‘Women, Men and Gendered Spirits in Zanzibar Town’, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies on Women,
University of Oxford, October, 1993
1993, ‘Spirits and the Concept of Personhood: Methodological Problems Studying Spirit Possession in Zanzibar
Town’, Department of History of Religion, University of Lund, June 1993
1992, ‘Masheitani and Ngoma ya Sheitani in Zanzibar Town: A ritual analysis’, Department of History of
Religion, University of Lund, April 1992
Book Review:
1997, Finn Sivert Nielsen (ed). 1996, Nærmere kommer du ikke.... Håndbok i antropologisk feltarbeid. Oslo:
Fagbokforlaget. Anmeldt i; Nytt Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift nr. 1
2006, Allison Shaw & Shirley Ardener (eds). 2005, Changing Sex and Bending Gender, Norsk Antropologisk
Tidsskrift, no 3-4,
Conferences/seminars attended:
1990: Nordic Symposium on Gender and Social Change in Developing Countries. Granvolden, Norway.Oct.11-
14
1991: National Research Seminar for Social Anthropologists, Bergen, Norway, May 2-3
1991: Religious Rituals. Donnerska Institutets Symposium, Åbo, Finland. Aug. 14-16
1992: Social Anthropology in a Changing World. European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA),
Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 28-31
1993: ASA IV Decennial Conference, St.Catherine’s College, Oxford, England July 26.-30
1994: Perspectives on Moralities, Knowledge and Power. EASA Conference, Oslo,
Norway, June 24-27
1994: Christians and Muslims in Contemporary Africa: Religious, Social and Political Perspectives. Uppsala,
Sweden Aug. 25 -28
1996: Conference on African Politics. Centre of Development and Environment, Oslo University, Norway
March 25-26
1996: Gender relations in Development. The North/South Coalition, Norway, May 14
1996: Culture and Economy: Conflicting Intrests, Divided Loyalties, 4
th
Biennal EASA Conference Barcelona
Spain. July 12-15
1996: Political Islam in North Africa and The Middle East, The North/South Coalition, Oslo, Norway. 8.
November
1996: National Conference in Social Anthropology. Sundvolden. Norway November 25-27
1997: Agricultural Development: productivity, Distribution and Environment, March 11-12, Asker, Norway.
Arr.: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NORAD, Noragric, Agricultural University of Norway.
1997: Betydningen av å bo i lokale hushold/familier/bofellesskap under feltarbeid. Seminar: Dept. of Social
Anthropology, University of Oslo. Lysebu 18 - 19 May
1997: The Politics of Poverty and Environmental Interventions. Nordic African Institute 22 – 25, May
1997: People, Food and the Environment. 200 Years after Malthus, Norwegian Association for Development
Research. Centre for International Environment and Development Studies, Agricultural University of Ås, June
12-13
1998: Development Ethics, The Norwegian Association for Development Research (NFU) Organised by the
University of Oslo, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), Oslo June 5-6.
1998: The Politics of Anthropology: Conditions for Thought and Practice, 5th Biennial EASA Conference.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, September 4-7
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1998: Organisation for social science research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA): Workshop on Human
Adaptation in African Drylands, Khartoum 7-11 December.
1999: Forced Migration, Resource Conflicts and Development. Seminar organised by the Norwegian Research
Council (NFR). Oslo, Soria Moria, March 17-18
1999: International Colloquium: Islam in East Africa: New Sources. Conference organised by University of
Roma, La Sapenza and Tor Vergata. Roma, December 2-4.
2000: Migration and Reconstruction of Livelihoods and Identities. The Centre for Development and the
Environment, Oslo University, Hurdalsjøen, Norway – March 23-26.
2000: 6
th
Biennial EASA Conference – Krakow, 26-30 July. Crossing Categorial Boundaries: Religion as
Politics/Politics as Religion.
2001: Gender, Islam and Human Rights in Africa and the Middle East. Norfa workshop: The Carsten Niebuhr
Institute, Copenhagen, April
2001: Fifth Anglo-French Swahili Workshop. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, September
2002
:‘
Civil Society and the Public Sphere in Muslim Societies’, ISIM and the KNAW research group, Friday 26
April, Amsterdam
2002: Dynamics of Displacement in Situations of Conflict Centre for Development and the Environment,
University of Oslo
2003: American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting Chicago 17-21. November
2004: The Western Indian Ocean Rim in the Longue Durée – Local Trade and Tradition, Translocal Exchange,
University of Bergen, 18-20 June
2004: Adaptation and Climate Change in African Drylands, Dept. of Geography, Kings College, University of
London, 10. September
2005: Pleasures, practices and prohibitions: female initiation rituals in Swahili society, paper presented at a
workshop at University of Oslo 30. April, Knut Ch. Myhre, Beyond Magic and Science: Sexual prohibitions in
Sub-Saharan Africa
2005: Organizer and Convenor of, The 6
th
Swahili workshop/Table ronde: Knowledge, Renewal and Religion,
Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo 30. Mars - 2.April 2004
2006, Convenor of Workshop: Ritualer og Redskaper, Homo-Faber – Redskapsbrukeren, Årskonferanse i Norsk
antropologisk Forening, Trondheim 19-21. mai
2006, The Maritime Heritage and Cultures of the Western Indian Ocean in Comparative Perspective, The
British Institute of East Africa, Zanzibar 11-13. July
Teaching, supervision and exam committees
1998 -present: Sakkyndig bedømmelseskomite (qualified selecting committee) for Ph.D. positions, posdoc
fellowship, associate professor positions in Norway, Sweden, Denmark
1998-present: PhD working seminars, courses, Doctoral dissertation committees.
1996 -present: Social Anthropology, Management of Natural Resources and Sustainable Agriculture,
Agricultural University of Norway.
1991- present: Supervision. At present I supervise student at all levels including Ph.D.
1991- present: Exam related work at all levels at Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo and
Agricultural University of Norway.
1996: Course in Anthropology. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
1996–1995: Educational Officer, Gender and Society, Faculty of Social Science, University of Oslo.
1990-1994: Part time lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.
1993-1996: Lecturer, Prio's Peace Research Course at International Summer School; The University of Oslo and
The International Peace Research Institute, on the following themes: Rituals and Identity, Engendering
Anthropology, Women and Social Conflict
1985: Prepared and carried through a seminar on the Problems of Development at the Department of Social
Anthropology, University of Oslo, together with fellow students
1984: Prepared and carried through a seminar on Women and Development, at the Department of Social
Anthropology, University of Oslo in co-operation with a fellow student.
Curriculum development
2005-2006: Sosialantropologiske perspektiver på materiell kultur: Representasjon og sosial hukommelse i en
museumskontekst, Sos.ant.2000, Sosialantropologisk institutt, UiO
2004: Gender, Tradition and Modernity, sosant2240, UiO, in cooperation with Elisabeth L’orange Furst
1997-present: Course in Development Studies at Ph.D. level. Centre for International Environment and
Developments Studies, Agricultural University of Norway, Ås
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1996 - present: Course in Social Anthropology at Management of Natural Resources and Sustainable
Agriculture, Agricultural University of Norway, Ås.
1996 -1995 Semester courses in Gender and Society, Faculty of Social Science, University of Oslo
1996: Semester course in Anthropology, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo.
1996: Course in; Gender, Rituals and the Body. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.
Consultancy:
2007, Facilitating Board meeting, Sudan Dry-land Co-ordination Group, Khatoum, May 2007
2005, Facilitating Board meeting, Sudan Dry-land Co-ordination Group, Khatoum, Dec. 2005
2003, Facilitating workshop on, ‘Gender and Rural Development’, Dry-land Co-ordination Group and ADRA
Sudan, Sudan 2003
2002, Study on Perceptions of Sedentarization of Nomads. The case of the Hawawir in Um Jawasir in Northern
Sudan, Drylands Coordination Group, Head of Mission Team, Sudan, September, 2002
2001, Perceptions of Knowledge and Coping Strategies in a Nomadic Community in Northern Sudan, A Study
on behalf of the Dry-land Co-ordination Group, July-August, 2001
2000, Facilitating workshop on ‘Gender and Rural Development’, Dry-land Co-Ordination Group and CARE-
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, February
1998, Case Studies on Gender Issues and Development of an Improved Focus on Women in Natural Resource
Management and Agricultural Projects, Sudan, The Dry land Co-ordination Group. Head of Mission Team,
Ethiopia September 1998
1998, Case Studies on Gender Issues and Development of an Improved Focus on Women in Natural Resource
Management and Agricultural Projects, Sudan, The Dry land Co-ordination Group. Head of Mission Team,
Sudan August 1998
1997, Review of The Um Jawasir Project in Sudan: The SSE Program. Mission Team in Sudan, June 1997
1997, Mid-term Review, Norad founded Programme for Management of Natural resources and Environmental
Planning in Tanzania (TAN 092). Member of Mission Team in Tanzania January-February 1997
Reports
1997 Sandlund, T, Bryceson,I, Larsen,K Maro,W.E& Kulindwa,K : Management of Natural resources and
Environmental Planning in Tanzania (TAN 092). Mid-term Review. NODE Norwegian Consortium for
Development and Environment & The Economic Research Bureau (ERB) University of Dar-es-Salaam (ISBN
82 - 426 - 0814 -8.
1997 F.H. Johnsen & K. Larsen: Second Review of the Um Jawasir Project, Sudan. Noragric, Agricultural
University of Norway
1998 Kjersti Larsen & Manal Hassan: Review of Um Jawasir Environmental Rehabilitation and Development
Project, Implemented by Adra, Sudan. A Case Study on gender Issues and Development of an Improved Focus
on Women in Natural Resource Management and Agricultural Projects, Sudan, August
1998 Kjersti Larsen & Simon Rye: Review of Wag Environmental Rehabilitation and Development Programme,
Implemented by Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), Ethiopia. A Case Study on Gender Issues and Development of
an Improved Focus on Women in Natural Resource Management and Agricultural Projects, Ethiopia, September
1998 Trond Vedeld & Kjersti Larsen: Small Farmers, Gender and Access to Land and Natural Resources in
Africa. Centre for International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric. Agricultural University of
Norway
2000, Gunnvor Berge, Kjersti Larsen & Simon Rye: Gender Issues and Development of an Improved Focus on
Women in Natural Resource Management and Agricultural Projects. Synthesis Report and Four Case Studies,
Dry Lands Co-ordination Group, Noragric Agricultural University of Norway
2000, Lov om erverv og tap av norsk statsborgerskap (Statsborgerloven), NOU, Norges offentlige utredninger.
Statens forvaltningstjeneste. Informasjonsforvaltning.
2001, Kjersti Larsen & Manal Hassan: Perceptions of Knowledge and Coping Strategies in a Nomadic
Community in Northern Sudan, A Study, Dry-land Co-ordination Group, Noragric Agricultural University of
Norway
2002, Kjersti Larsen & Manal Hassan: Study on Perceptions of Sedentarization of Nomads. The Case of the
Hawawir in Um Jawasir in Northern Sudan, Drylands Coordination Group, Noragric, Agricultural University of
Norway
Other Administration/Management
2003-2006, Administration according to the general regulation of Head of Department, Univ. Oslo
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2001-present, Administration according to the general regulation of Associate Professor Positions, Univ. Oslo
1996-present, Administration according to the general regulation of Associate Professor Positions at NLH
1995 -1996, Adviser, Immigration Department; Norwegian Ministry of Justice
1990
Executive Officer, Immigration Department, Oslo Municipality
1981-1988, Centre for Abused Women, Krisesentergruppa i Oslo
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