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Newsflash No. 16 - May 4, 2016

A collection of events, seminars, information and opportunities for master’s students in English that are being held primarily at the Faculty of Social Sciences

Contents:

 

News from Graduate School & Faculty of Social Sciences

 

• Ascension holiday opening hours at Graduate School/ May 5th-6th

• Thesis defense by  Nielsen, Tobias on Words Matter in the Woods /May 4th

• The UK and the EU - the Brexit referendum and the end of a very special relationship?/May 9th

• Seminar: Violence, extremism, and criminal careers/ May 10th

• Research seminar: Migration/ May 10th

• Seminar: Politics, History and State Making: Ann Towns/ May 11th

• Mid- seminar: Refugees Deported from Sweden? The (il-) legitimacy of deporting the illegalized asylum seeker/ May 11th

• SASNET seminar: the governing of sexuality: Indian police enforcing the anti-sodomy laws/ May 12th

• Thesis Defence: The Politics of Combat: The Political and Strategic Impact of Tactical-Level Subcultures, 1939-1995/ May 13th

• PhD Defence: The Ambiguities of Recognition - Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India (Maria Tonini)/ May 13

• Seminar: Women’s political and civic participation in counter-public spheres in Egypt/ May 17th

• Reminder: -Part of the Crip and Queer Seminar Series by the Department of Gender Studies

• SASNET seminar: Microalgal Biotechnology research in India/ May 23rd

• Seminar: The missing piece of NGO accountability: Resistance/ May 24th

• Seminar: Denial of sickness cash benefits - the plaintiffs perspective/ May 24th

• Mid-seminar: Helena Lindberg/ May 25th

• Postponed final seminar: Vanna Nordling/ May 26th

 

External news/events

 

• Seminar: Who pays for population ageing?/ May 11th

• Conference: Swedish Science and Technology Studies (STS)/ May 19th 

• Conference Museums in Times of Migration and Mobility: Processes of Representation, Collaboration, Inclusion and Social Change/ May 25th &26th

 

Opportunities

• The Geneva Challenge 2016

 

Other Events

 

• Symposium: Protein Science Day 2016/ May 11th

•  Concerts: School of Music Symphony Orchestra open rehearsal (free admission)/ May 13th- 14th- 15th

• Lunch concert at Pufendorf/ May 17th

 

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News from Graduate School & Faculty of Social Sciences in Details

 

• Ascension holiday opening hours at Graduate School

The Graduate School office will be closed May 5-6 due to the Ascension holiday, and will reopen on Monday, May 9th.

 

• Thesis by Nielsen, Tobias on Words Matter in the Woods

 

Over the past decade, avoiding deforestation has become a central element of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The focal point of this has been the incentive-based mechanism of REDD+, which stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation. A key notion in REDD+ is to establish incentives for developing countries to reduce their forest-related carbon emissions by creating and recognizing a financial value for the carbon not emitted into the atmosphere. REDD+ has changed how tropical forests are managed, but has also been the source of much contestation. The effects of deforestation go beyond carbon emissions, leading some actors to argue that biodiversity or socioeconomic factors, and not carbon, should be the priority of managing deforestation. This thesis demonstrates that words, and the way we make sense of deforestation, matter. They matter because they prioritise certain underlying ideas, notions and understandings, while neglecting others. These, in turn, shape the way we approach deforestation!

 

Date: 4th May, 2016

Time: 10:00 -13:00

Location: Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5 H, Lund

 

• The UK and the EU - the Brexit referendum and the end of a very special relationship?

Ian Manners and Ben Rosamond will discuss "The UK and the EU - the Brexit referendum and the end of a very special relationship?".

 

Date: 9th May,  2016

Time: 13:00- 15:00

Location: Ed367 Stora konferensrummet, Eden, Paradisgatan 5, hus H, Lund

Contact: ole [dot] elgstrom [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (ole[dot]elgstrom[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• Seminar: Violence, extremism, and criminal careers

 

Date:10th  May, 2016

Time: 12:00- 13:00

Location: Konferensrum 1, Sociologiska institutionen, Paradisgatan 5, Hus G, Lund

Contact: lisa [dot] eklund [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (lisa[dot]eklund[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

 

• Research seminar: Migration

Seminar with the department's research group focusing on migration and social work.

 

Date: 10th, May 2016

Time: 10:00- 12:00

Location: Room 10, Bredgatan 26, Lund

Contact: carina [dot] olsson [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (carina[dot]olsson[at]soch[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• Seminar: Politics, History and State Making: Ann Towns

Ann Towns is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Her research centers around questions of norms, power and resistance in international politics, generally with a focus on gender. She is currently conducting a large research project on gender norms in diplomacy, an inter-state institution that has long been dominated by men but where more women have entered within the past decade.

 

Date: May 11th,2016

Time: 12:00- 13:00

Location: ED367 Large Conference Room, Eden, Paradisgatan 5, hus H, Lund

Contact: linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (linda[dot]eitrem_holmgren[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• Mid- seminar: Refugees Deported from Sweden? The (il-) legitimacy of deporting the illegalized asylum seeker

Martin Joormann, PhD candidate in sociology of law, Lund University

 

Date: 11th,May 2016

Time: 13:00 (SHARP)- 16:00

Location: Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14 M, 223 62 Lund, Hus M, vån. 3, Room M331.

Contact: reza [dot] banakar [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se

 

• SASNET seminar: the governing of sexuality: Indian police enforcing the anti-sodomy laws

Together with the Global Gender Matters, Department of Gender Studies, SASNET organizes a seminar with focus on criminalization of homosexuality in India. The speaker is Jyoti Puri, Professor and chair of Sociology at Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts. Professor Puri is an interdisciplinary scholar who writes and teaches at the crossroads of sociology, sexuality and queer studies, and postcolonial feminist theory. The seminar is entitled “(Un)Making Sexual States: Antisodomy law and racialization in India”  and will focus on the criminalization of homosexuality in India, this presentation argues that governing sexuality helps constitute states. Drawn from fieldwork among police in Delhi, it explores how enforcing the antisodomy law is mediated by radicalized discourses. 

 

Date: 12th May,2016

Time: 15:00- 17:00

Location: Department of Gender Studies (M221), Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14, Hus M, Lund.

Contact: Andreas [dot] johansson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Andreas[dot]johansson[at]sasnet[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

 

• Thesis Defence: The Politics of Combat: The Political and Strategic Impact of Tactical-Level Subcultures, 1939-1995

 

Date: 13th,May 2016

Time: 10:15- 12:15

Location: Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5, hus H, Lund

Contact: tony [dot] ingesson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se

 

• PhD Defence: The Ambiguities of Recognition - Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India (Maria Tonini)

 

Date: May 13th, 2016

Time: 13.15

Location: Kulturen, Hörsalen

Contact: Camilla [dot] Lekebjer [at] genus [dot] lu [dot] se (Camilla[dot]Lekebjer[at]genus[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

 

• Seminar: Women’s political and civic participation in counter-public spheres in Egypt

Date: 17th May,  2016

Time: 12:00- 13:00

Location: Konferensrum 1, Sociologiska institutionen, Paradisgatan 5, Hus G, Lund

Contact: lisa [dot] eklund [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (lisa[dot]eklund[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• Part of the Crip and Queer Seminar Series by the Department of Gender Studies

Lina Palmqvist is a doctoral student in Gender Studies at the University of Gothenburg, where she investigates critical perspectives on gender, class, ethnicity/nationality, disability and care.

The scenery of this dissertation project is a “welfare society in transition.” Starting from the experience of people engaged in the care relationship, Lina Palmqvist studies how elderly care as an expanded and fragmented institution asserts itself, and how it in that process brings new and old challenges to light.

 

Date: May 18,  2016

Time: 15:15- 17:00

Location: Room 226, Department of Gender Studies, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14M, Lundd

Contact: jens [dot] rydstrom [at] genus [dot] lu [dot] se (jens[dot]rydstrom[at]genus[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• SASNET seminar: Microalgal Biotechnology research in India

Dr V.Sivasubramanian, Director of Phycospectrum Environmental Research Centre (PERC) and Professor N Thajuddin, Head, Department of Microbiology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli holds a SASNET lecture at Lund University on Monday 23 May 2016, 13.15–14.00. The seminar, organized in collaboration with Deptertment of Technology and Society, at Lund University, is entitled ”Microalgal  Biotechnology and Phycoremediation technology research in India”. Venue: Seminarierummet, Miljö- och energisystem, V-huset second floor , entrancde G2, John Ericssons väg 1, Lund.

 

Date: May 23,2016

Time: 13:15- 14:00

Location: Seminarierummet, Miljö- och energisystem, V-huset second floor, entrancde G2, John Ericssons väg 1, Lund.

Contact: andreas [dot] johansson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (andreas[dot]johansson[at]sasnet[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• Seminar: The missing piece of NGO accountability: Resistance

Suzanne Dovi, University of Arizona (organized together with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute), "The missing piece of NGO accountability: Resistance".

 

Date:  May 24,2016

Time: 13:00- 15:00

Location: Ed367 Stora konferensrummet, Eden, Paradisgatan 5, hus H, Lund

Contact: ole [dot] elgstrom [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (ole[dot]elgstrom[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• Seminar: Denial of sickness cash benefits - the plaintiffs perspective

 

Date: May 24,2016

Time: 12:00- 13:00

Location: Konferensrum 1, Sociologiska institutionen, Paradisgatan 5, Hus G, Lund

Contact: lisa [dot] eklund [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se (lisa[dot]eklund[at]soc[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• Midseminar: Helena Lindberg

Midseminar Helena Lindberg: Promises at the research frontier. How prospects of natural resource exploitation block off alternative social visions for the future, inhibiting environmental and social sustainability in the Arctic region.

 

Date: May 25, 2016

Time: 13:00- 15:00

Location: ED367 Large Conference Room, Eden, Paradisgatan 5, hus H, Lund

Contact: ole [dot] elgstrom [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (ole[dot]elgstrom[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• Postponed final seminar: Vanna Nordling

Vanna Nordlings Final seminar within the PhD programme is postponed. Please check back later for more information on a new date.

 

Contact: carina [dot] olsson [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (carina[dot]olsson[at]soch[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

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External News & Events in Details

 

• Seminar: Public seminar: Who pays for population ageing?

This seminar presents results from the EU-funded AGENTA project, which aims to explain the past and forecast the future of taxes, public transfers and services in light of demographic change in the EU. This public seminar is organized by Lund University School of Economics and Management.

 

Sign up by: May 5, 2016

The seminar will be followed by an informal reception. Please notify Madeleine Jarl at madeleine [dot] jarl [at] ed [dot] lu [dot] se (madeleine[dot]jarl[at]ed[dot]lu[dot]se) if you plan to attend the seminar and the reception by May 5.

 

For details: http://www.lu.se/event/public-seminar-who-pays-for-population-ageing

 

Date: May 11th,2016

Time: 16:15- 18:00

Location: Crafoord Lecture Hall, Holger Crafoords Ekonomicentrum EC1, Tycho Brahes väg 1, Lund

Contact: madeleine [dot] jarl [at] ed [dot] lu [dot] se (madeleine[dot]jarl[at]ed[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• Conference: Swedish Science and Technology Studies (STS)

The conference seeks to bring together scholars working in Sweden and Scandinavia from diverse research disciplines within fields related to social studies of technology and science (STS). We define STS  broadly as research on the nature and practices of science and technology (S&T) and further studies that concerns itself with the impacts and control of science and technology. The conference will be a great opportunity for scholars to present their ongoing research projects and to engage in discussions and networking. 

 

For more information and registration click here: www.ism.lu.se/en/sts-2016

 

Date: 19th to 20th May, 2016

Time: 09:30 to 15:30

Location: Campus Helsingborg

Contact: christer [dot] eldh [at] ism [dot] lu [dot] se

 

• Conference Museums in Times of Migration and Mobility: Processes of Representation, Collaboration, Inclusion and Social Change

Migration has, across time, contributed to the development and reshaping of societies and urban spaces. Today, migration movements have become a global phenomenon, where the number of countries affected – socially, economically and culturally – by migration is continually increasing. As in past times, the reasons why people move are varied and often intertwined. Sometimes it is about people fleeing poverty, war, ethnic conflicts, environmental disasters or different forms of persecution – for example religious. However, people also move for other reasons, such as work and studies in other countries, or out of curiosity and a sense of adventure.

 

Date: 25th-26th May  ,2016

Location: Malmö University, Orkanen building, D 138

For more information about the time  click here: https://www.mah.se/english/research/Centers/Malmo-Institute-for-Studies-of-Migration-Diversity-and-Welfare/News/Events/Museums-in-Times-of-Migration-and-Mobility/

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Opportunities:

 

• The Geneva Challenge 2016

In 2016, the contest is to discuss The Challenges of Urbanisation.

The idea is to gather contributions that are both theoretically grounded and offer pragmatic solutions to a relevant international development problem stemming from an interdisciplinary collaboration between 3 to 5 enrolled master students from anywhere in the world.

They invite teams of students to: 

 

                             identify a challenge stemming from urbanisation;

                             construct an interdisciplinary analysis on how it affects different aspects of development in a specific (but transposable) context;

                             propose innovation at the policy, practice, process or technology levels turning the challenge into development opportunity.

 

For more details, please visit here: http://graduateinstitute.ch/TheGenevaChallenge

 

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Other Events in Details

 

• Symposium: Protein Science Day 2016

Registration (full name and affiliation to be written on name badge) and dietary preferences should be sent to malin [dot] zackrisson [at] fkem1 [dot] lu [dot] se (malin[dot]zackrisson[at]fkem1[dot]lu[dot]se) no later than 5rd of May.

 

For more information click here: http://www.lu.se/event/protein-science-day-2016

Date: 11th May,2016

Time: 09:00- 18:00

Location: Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, Lund University

Contact: malin [dot] zackrisson [at] fkem1 [dot] lu [dot] se (malin[dot]zackrisson[at]fkem1[dot]lu[dot]se)

 

• Concerts: School of Music Symphony Orchestra open rehearsal (free admission)

Concert with the Music School Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Leif Segerstam

 

Concerts

Friday,  13th May, 2016  at 18:00 | Malmö Academy of Music, Rosenberg Hall (Open dress rehearsal, free admission) 

Saturday,14th May, 2016 14 at 15:00 | Helsingborg Concert Hall 

Sunday, 15th May at 15:00 | Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen

 

• Lunch concert at Pufendorf

On Classicum it's high ceilings. Once a month we invite you to the concert, bring your own lunch and come and listen!

 

Free entrance.

 

Date: 17th May ,2016

Time: 12:15

Location: 2nd Floor of Pufendorfinstituet

Contact:  gisela [dot] ferre_aramburu [at] pi [dot] lu [dot] se

 

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If you have events or information that you would like to include in this newsflash, please contact master [at] sam [dot] lu [dot] se (master[at]sam[dot]lu[dot]se) .