2025

• Other presentation
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2025) The Feast of the Piglet Stew / La Fiesta del Guarrito. Etnografisk Filmseminar
• Other presentation
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2025) The Feast of the Piglet Stew / La Fiesta del Guarrito. Umistelig - Norsk Antropologisk Forenings konferanse 2025
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2025) Opening speech: Process film. Umistelig - Norsk Antropologisk Forenings konferanse 2025, Arbeidsgruppe: Process Film

2024

• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2024) Open Science and GDPR from the perspective of a researcher. Open Access Week: FAIR, GDPR and qualitative data: Respecting personal data vs respectable research

2023

• Conference lecture
  Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo; Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2023) Un triángulo de cerdos, encinas y humanos. La emergencia del cerdo ibérico en la España moderna. Congreso Internacional de Antropología, Spanish anthrpological association
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2023) «Spekeskinkens dag»: Ritualisering, identitet og næringsutvikling i Badajozprovinsen, Spania. Norsk Antropologisk Forenings årskonferanse 2023
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2023) A Triangle of Pigs, Oaks, and Men: The Emergence of the Iberian Pig in Modern Spain. Relations and beyond: conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society
• Feature article
  Myhre, Knut Christian; Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo; Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2023) Stans reformkåtheten ved SU-fakultetet.
• Feature article
  Myhre, Knut Christian; Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo. (2023) Krisemaksimering ved NTNU?.

2022

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2022) From nature to culture and back: The identity politics of Iberian ham and cultural notions of the dehesa forest pastures in Spain. Departmental Seminar Series
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2022) Nigel goes to Trondheim: On the emancipation of a local methodological individualism. Emeritus Seminar Nigel Rapport at St Andrews, Lower College Hall
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2022) Fieldwork Methods over Time and Traditions. Scottish Programme of Advanced Training for Social Anthropology PhD Students
• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Chen, Shuhua. (2022) Encounters between Barth and Rapport's methodological individualism. Department seminar
• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2022) Personopplysningsloven, unntak og datalagring. Fagdag

2021

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Syvertsen, Astrid. (2021) Digital lectures and restless learning conditions. Teaching and Learning Anthropology during the Pandemic. Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2021) “Who is going to look after us now?” Ageing, survival, and ambiguity in a poor township in Lusaka, Zambia. Instituttseminaret

2020

• Interview
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2020) The Nelly Boum Show for Worldwide FM.
• Contribution to radio or TV
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2020) Moon symbolism among Mambwe-speaking people University of the Underground The multiverse programme: Moon bar.
• Interview
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2020) Personvernregler skaper antropologiproblemer. Magasinet Forskningsetikk (3)20, Desember 2020, 20-21.

2019

• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2019) Forskningsetikk: GPDR og deltakende observasjon. Norsk antropologisk forenings fagdag 2019: Framtidens antropologi
• Interview
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Meland, Svein Inge. (2019) Hvordan en svart gris skapte en hel industri.
• Interview
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Meland, Svein Inge. (2019) Hvorfor er spansk spekeskinke så svinedyr?.
• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2019) Is ethnographic material legal? On legalizing ethnographic field research, ethical dilemmas and epistemological hypochondria. Faglig Lunch
• Interview
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Meland, Svein Inge. (2019) How a black pig created an entire industry.
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2019) The pigs’ paradise: The industrialisation of Iberian pork and the cultural reconfiguration of the oak grove pastures in South-Western Spain. Instituttseminaret
• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2019) Panel 3: The editor – what kind of articles are surviving the review. Publiseringsseminar for Ph.d.-kandidater ved SU-fakultetet
• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2019) Kvinnelige overgangsritualer i Zambia. Women Conversation Club Trondheim
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2019) Prospects for vernacular cosmopolitan networks. The Biennial Trondheim Colloquium in Social Anthropology: Cosmopolitan Networks

2018

• Conference lecture
  Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo; Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Crawford, Peter Ian. (2018) From Acorns to Ham. Notes on the production of Iberico "Pata Negra" Pigs. Kult Lunch Seminars
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Crawford, Peter Ian; Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo. (2018) Reimagining Pata Negra. The future of a food icon. Staying - Moving – Settling: 15th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo; Crawford, Peter Ian. (2018) Pigs, people, and land: The politics of food identity in south-western Spain. NTNU Sustainability seminar: The History and Culture of Environments (HCE)
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Crawford, Peter Ian; Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo. (2018) The cultural significance of the Iberian so-called blackfoot pig, the pata negra. The 38th NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2018) Discusant: Film as Ethnography: Stories from the Danube Delta. Special Local Screening: Film and Anthropology in Cluj.Documentaries Produced after 1989 by Filmmakers Affiliated with Academia. The 38th NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival

2017

• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Cañás Bottos, Lorenzo. (2017) People, pigs, and land. Departmental Seminar
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2017) Branding pork: Re-imagining the dehesa forest pastures. The Visual Anthropology of Food

2016

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2016) Returns to the earth wombs: Notions of spatial and temporal movements in a cosmology of shifting cultivators. The Potential Value of Mobility as an Analytical and Methodological Perspectiv
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2016) Chisungu girl’s initiation rituals and Uwinga marriage rituals among Mambwe-speaking people of Zambia. Department Seminar
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2016) Introduction to panel debate: Ethical challenges of using photos and videos on the Internet. Nordic Anthropological Film Association Conference and Festival 2016

2015

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2015) The Value of Children’s Drawings in Ethnographic Explorations. CREOLE Intensive Programme 2015 - ALTERNATIVES: Anthropological Knowledge for Changing World
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2015) Uwinga: Mambwe Marriage Rituals and their Urban Transformations. INESOR Seminar Series
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2015) Audrey Richards’ mobile feltpraksis. Norsk Antropologisk Årskonferanse 2015
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2015) For fellesskapets beste: Moralske forpliktelser, interveneringer, og etiske dilemmaer på feltarbeid. Norsk Antropologisk Årskonferanse
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2015) Om å jage og pleie ånder: Nyliberalisme, spirituell helbredelse og konkurrerende kunnskapstradisjoner i Zambia. Norsk Antropologisk Årskonferanse 2015

2014

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2014) Publishing ethnographic films electronically and publication credit systems, a view from Norway. The 34th NAFA Film Festival and Symposium
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2014) Ethical challenges filming rituals: Perspectives from anthropology. Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource (REDO) workshop 3

2013

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2013) Comments to Graham Harvey's “The dynamic interplay between ritual and performance at Riddu Riddu and at the Origins festival”. Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as Cultural Resource (REDO) workshop 2
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Stien, Kari Mjaavatn. (2013) Market saturation and mobility: A case study of responses to the entrance of Chinese traders and goods at a market in Lusaka, Zambia. The Biennial Trondheim Colloquium in Social Anthropology
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2013) Kinship and mobility in urban Zambia. The Biennial Trondheim Colloquium in Social Anthropology
• Conference lecture
  Holtedahl, Lisbet; Ginsburg, Faye; Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Djesa, Rachel Issa. (2013) Presentation, filmscreening and discussion: "A Castle in Africa, A Muslim industrialist in Northern Cameroon". Representasjoner
• Conference lecture
  Holtedahl, Lisbet; Ginsburg, Faye; Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Fylkesnes, Torgeir Knag; Jensen, Knut Erik; Djesa, Rachel Issa; Arntsen, Bjørn; lundberg, liv. (2013) Save Visual Cultural Studies: Visuelt mingletreff. Norsk Antropologisk Forenings Årskonference

2012

• Conference lecture
  Smørholm, Sesilie; Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2012) Beyond Words: the Value of Childrens Images in Etnographic Explorations. Children, Young People and Local knowledge in Ethiopia and Zambia
• Conference poster
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2012) Play and games in girl's initiation ceremony in Zambia. Children, Young People and Local knowledge in Ethiopia and Zambia

2011

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2011) Resilience through play? Game-elements and testing in ritual and play among girls in Zambia. The Association for the Study of Play 2011 Annual Conference Play and Health

2010

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Smørholm, Sesilie. (2010) Ritual and play: Modalities of teaching and learning in the upbringing of children in Zambia. the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) Congress
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Smørholm, Sesilie. (2010) Ritual and play: Modalities of teaching and learning in the upbringing of children in Zambia. Afrikaseminaret
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2010) Ritual and play: Modalities of teaching and learning in the upbringing of children in Zambia. Etnografisk Seksjons Forskningsseminarrekke

2009

• Interview
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Flikke, Rune. (2009) Motstandskamp og fag: Et intervju med Axel Sommerfelt.

2008

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2008) Engagements with disease in Chisungu female initiation ceremony. Religious engagements with AIDS in Africa. Conference of The International Network on Religion and AIDS in Africa
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2008) Om ånder og glokalisering. Instituttseminaret
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2008) Engagements with disease in the Chisungu female initiation ritual. Analytical Abstractions, Lived Realities: Politics, Law and Economy in Africa

2007

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2007) Chisungu revisited. Baraza -- Center for African Studies
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2007) Kristne strømninger i Zambia. Tid, sted og rom: Meningsproduksjon og rammer for kommunikasjon
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2007) Female initiation rituals in contemporary Zambia. Honors Anthropology of Modern Africa
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2007) Ritual, image, words, knowledge. Sound and Image: Nordic Anthropological Film Association 27th International Conference in Visual Anthropology
• Interview
  Bajoghli, Sæba; Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2007) Innsyn: Fornuft eller følelser? Arrangert kjærlighet.
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2007) The revival of the Mambwe-Lungu umutomolo first fruit ceremony in Zambia. Biennial Trondheim Colloquium in Social Anthropology
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2007) Brought into being in the world: Proposal for an ethnography of infants in contemporary Zambia. International workshop in childhood studies
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2007) Mambwe Cisungu. PS240 Psychology of adolecense

2006

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2006) When does an analysis stop?. "The analytical process: From empirical chaos to theoretical clearity" Nordic PhD/reserach course in social anthropology.
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2006) Innledning arbeidsgruppen Ritualer og Redskaper. Homo Faber: årskonferansen i Norsk Antropologisk Forening
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2006) Ritualer som redskap for fornyelse og gjenskaping. Homo Faber: Årskonferanse i Norsk Antropologisk Forening
• Interview
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2006) "Nestor blant antropologer" v/Rolf Rolfsen.
• Interview
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2006) "Trangbodd på Dragvoll" v/Svein Inge Meland.

2005

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2005) Høvdingritualer som politisk arena. Antropologien og Staten. Årskonferanse i Norsk Antropologisk Foreneing
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2005) Visual Culture. Methodology in Child and Childhood Research

2003

• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2003) Utfordringer i utdanningssektoren i Zambia. Studentenes og Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond (SAIH), Vårsamlingen Jordbrukshøgskolen i Ås
• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2003) Barn og AIDS. Studentenes og Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond (SAIH), FN-Sambandet Trondheim
• Lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2003) Some social and cultural consequences of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. International Student Festival in Trondheim

2002

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2002) Hva kan sosialantropologisk forskning bidra med i kampen mot HIV/AIDS. Norges Forskningsråd, Dagsseminar med Aidsnett – Lokalsamfunn og mestring: Hvilke forskningsbehov har vi?
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2002) The impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on agricultural societies. Development Fund (Utviklingsfondet)
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2002) Children, Communities, and Coping Strategies. Children, AIDS, and Communal Coping Strategies, Research Workshop and Conference at University of Fort Hare
• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2002) HIV/AIDS epidemien og afrikanske lokalsamfunn i endring, Forelesning Sosialantropologisk Institutt, NTNU. utenTitteltekst

2001

• Conference lecture
  Simonsen, Jan Ketil. (2001) From Cold to Hot; From Dry to Wet: One Possible Cultural Rationale Behind "Dry Sex". Social Constructions of Female and Male Sexualities, Nordic Africa Days, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet