I design, organize and teach courses - for businesses and business schools, governmental agencies, NGO’s, university departments, teachers, journalists, politicians, and anyone else who deals with culture-contact in practice.  My courses are concerned with a wide range of subjects, from political culture to cross-cultural gender studies. For a professional audience, I offer courses on the post-communist region (particularly Russia), on creative writing, on intercultural communication, and, more broadly, on how "culture" affects our daily lives as decision-makers and citizens.
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While the business world overflows with courses in "crosscultural cooperation", the understanding of "culture" that is purveyed in these courses is often amateurish.  Anthropologists have an unrivalled track record of intensive field research in modern and pre-modern societies, and have developed a sophisticated methodology for investigating and understanding human culture.  In an increasingly globalized world, the cross-cultural expertise of anthropologists is increasingly useful: whether for the business establishing itself in a third-world nation, the journalist reporting home from distant places, the executive enforcing immigration policies, or the grade-school teacher with a multiethnic class.
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After teaching social/cultural anthropology for more than two decades to a wide range of audiences, I have grown adept at communicating some of the less obvious insights of my discipline.  After more than two years of intensive anthropological fieldwork and close supervision of more than 30 graduate students who have themselves done fieldwork, I am very conscious of how deeply we may be affected by culture-contact, of the depth of misunderstandings that may occur in such situations, and of some "tricks of the trade", by which we may attempt to reestablish communication.
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I offer a wide range of course types, and am happy to cooperate with clients to develop course plans that are taylored to their specific needs.  Formats include lectures, seminars, workshops, intensive practical courses (IPC’s), and web-based courses.  Courses involving the participation of other anthropologists (e.g. regional experts) may be designed (my own regional expertise focuses on the post-Communist countries and the USA).  Course languages are either English or Norwegian (Danish).  Pricing is subject to negotiation, and depends primarily on the service provided.  Discounts are available for non-profit organizations.
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