The workshop will consist of two parts: In part I, from 18.30-20.00 professor Andrew Mathews will be giving a workshop on: "The use of natural history in anthropological field work."  

Andrew Mathews is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of the award-wining book: "Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests" (MIT Press, 2011). With a joint PhD from the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Department of Anthropology, Professor Mathews' research focuses on the culture of environmental institutions and the links between local communities and national and global levels of power and knowledge. For more information about his work, consult http://people.ucsc.edu/~amathews/andrew/Home.html

In part II, from 20.00-21.30, Peter Funch will be giving a workshop on “Animal life in acid water”.

Peter Funch is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Genetics at Aarhus University. He is a participant in the AURA project and has research interests in animal phylogeny; co-evolution of life cycles and morphology; evolutionary zoomorphology; meiofauna; molecular phylogenetics; phylogeography; polar biology and symbiosis.

For more information about Peter Funch please consult: http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/peter.funch@biology.au.dk

The workshop is unfortunately fully subscribed.