Christina Woolner's guest appearances

Christina Woolner

Camthropod

Michael Puett

Tanya Luhrmann

Anna Tsing

Ilana Gershon

Patrick O’Hare

Oliver Balch

David MacDougall

Rafael Dernbach

Harsha Balasubramanian

Ryan Davey

Carl Packman

Jonathan Woolley

Hugh Williamson

Richard Werbner

Joe Philp

OwlTail

Opened in 2014, Hiddo Dhawr is Somaliland’s first and only live music venue to operate since the 1988 civil war, which decimated the capital Hargeysa, and displaced the artistic community.  In this episode, social anthropology PhD candidate Christina Woolner visits Hiddo Dhawr – which specializes in the performance of acoustic music popular before the war – to explore what it means to sing, and particularly about love, in contemporary Hargeysa. Conversations with the venue’s founder Sahra Halgan, reflections from some young patrons, and an evening taking in the music reveal the many meanings of love songs, and offer insight into the social and political climate of life in a post-war, unrecognized state.

5. Hiddo Dhawr: Singing Love in(to) Somaliland, by Christina Woolner

Corinna Howland

Anna Tsing visited our department to give the Marilyn Strathern lecture for CUSAS in 2015. Corinna Howland took the opportunity to sit down with her to discuss her classic book Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, and to find out a bit more about her thinking on issues of globalization, scale, environmental politics, and capitalism.

4. An Interview with Anna Tsing, by Corinna Howland and Christina Woolner