Stine Simonsen Puri

Stine Simonsen Puri

PhD in Humanities

  • Karen Blixens Plads 8

    2300 København S

20092020

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Primary fields of research

My research evolves around gambling - both as a form of play and as an element of economy. My current research project "Gambling on Rains and Grains around a Desert-town of India" concerns how weather uncertainties forms the basis of various risk economies including gambling on rainfall, non-irrigated farming, and trade and hoarding of grains. The research is part of a collaborative project where we investigate the practices, imaginations and infrastructure behind different forms of escalations - of which I examine the processes of accelerating prices of commodities in gambling and in agricultural trade.

Furthermore, I am completing a book based on fieldwork at Delhi Race Club, which focus on various topics such as Hindu mythology, the history of horseracing and gambling law, perspectives on uncertainty and methods of prediction, sociality among gamblers, technologies for legal and illegal economies. The book suggests that in our approach to games we should not only focus on how games are designed and played, but how they might be played with, and the subsequent speculations that might entail.

Meanwhile, I am keeping an interest in movement, dance and embodied knowledge alive. This area of research is based on fieldwork among dancers in Delhi and research in the history of dance. As part of this research I take dance as a methodology of gaining embodied knowledge on topics such as gender and religion. Furthermore, I approach dance as an entry to the understanding of embodied cultural encounters and societal processes of change. 

Knowledge of languages

Danish, English, Hindi

Teaching

In my teaching I put emphasis on student participation, because I believe that we learn best by working with the teaching materiale ourselves. I thus integrate writing, dialogue, disussion of cases etc. which we work with on both off and online platforms, which gives the possibility for different forms of feedback.

Fields of interest

India and anthropology; Gambling, speculation, play and economy; Climate and agriculture; Hinduism, spirituality, movement and dance. 

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AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Elite Research Scholarship, The Danish Ministry of Science, travel grant.

Danish Research Council for Independent Research, 3 years full scholarship.

Indian Council of Cultural Research, 1 year full scholarship.

 

EDUCATION

2014: PhD in Humanities. Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University.

2012- : Visiting Scholar, Institute for Public Knowledge, School of Arts and Sciences, New York University.

2009- : Ph.D. Candidate, Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University.

2006: M.Sc. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University.

2004: BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Anthropology, Copenhagen University

2003-2004: Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

1999-2001: Undergraduate at Institute for Political Science, Copenhagen University.

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS & TEACHING

2018: Associte Professor, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University.

2014-2018: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University.

2013: External lecturer, Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University.

2010: Teaching course for BA and MA students, Economic Culture, Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University.

2009: Teaching course for BA and MA students, Emotions – Culture and Political Economy, Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University.

2008-2009: Research Assistant, Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University.

 

RESEARCH GROUPS

2014-2018: Escalations, Copenhagen University.

2012- :Futures of Finance, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University.

2009- :Gambling Research Network, Goldsmith College, University of London.

2009-2012: Alternative Spaces, Copenhagen University.

2008- :The Tranquebar Initiative, Copenhagen and Chennai.

 

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Anthropology
  • India
  • Economy
  • dance
  • movement
  • gambling
  • finance
  • play
  • Hinduism
  • Climate
  • agriculture

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