Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series

Since its inception in 1941, the Wenner-Gren Foundation has convened more than 125 international symposia on pressing issues in anthropology. Wenner-Gren International symposia recognise no boundaries-intellectual, national, or subdisciplinary. These symposia affirm the worth of anthropology and its capacity to address the nature of humankind from a great variety of perspectives. They make new links to related disciplines, such as law, history, and ethnomusicology, and revivify old links, as between archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, for example. Each symposium brings together participants from around the world, for a week-long engagement with a specific issue, but only after intensive planning of the topic and format over the previous 18 months.

Between 2002 and 2010 Berg published 12 volumes resulting from these Symposia in the Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series, with the president of the foundation serving as the series editor, and the symposium organizers editing the individual volumes.