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News from Graduate School & Faculty of Social Sciences

• Announcement: Opening Hours during winter break
• Pictures from Lucia celebration posted on Graduate School’s facebook page
• Research Seminar: Imagineering cities: Place branding in five Chinese mega-cities, Dept. of Strategic Communication, Helsingborg/ Jan 12
• PhD defense at Dept. of Psychology, “Word Learning in the Developing Brain – ERP Dynamics of Learning Word-Object Associations”/Jan 15
• Research Seminar - Imagining a non-political identity? Strategies and practices of nation branding, Dept. of Strategic Communication/ Jan 19
• Research Seminar: Beyond the Product - Enabling design services in small and medium sized enterprises/ Jan 20
• Panorama Day at Dept. of Sociology of Law/ Jan 20
• Reminder: Development Practitioner Seminar (DPS) series Kick-off / Jan 25
• Research Seminar: Perception of ignorance, knowledge and answerability, Dept. of Psychology/ Jan 22
• PhD defense at Dept. of Psychology, “The diversity of mind wandering: The role of individual differences and cognitive factors”/ Jan 22
• Staff news

External news/events

• Open Lecture by Eric Ringmar: “Civilizing China”: Western “liberal barbarism” in the 19th century and the consequences for China’s self-image, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies/ Jan 19
• Symposium: Nordic Research on Problem Gaming from an Everyday Perspective/ Jan 21
• Latest issue of Lund University Research Magazine

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News from Graduate School & Faculty of Social Sciences

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• Annoucement: House R (Gamla Kirurgen) opening hours during winter break

Gamla Kirurgen will be closed during the winter break. The doors to the building will be closed from Dec. 21^st through Jan. 6^th

Graduate School's offices will be closed from December 22nd through January 4th. Study Advising will also be closed during this period and will reopen on January 4^th. For urgent matters, please contact master [at] sam [dot] lu [dot] se. This email address will be continuously checked during the winter break.

For information about buildings' opening hours, see below or on specific departmental websites.

We wish you Happy Holidays and look forward to seeing you again in the New Year!

Gamla Kirurgen

Gamla Kirurgen will be closed December 18th-January 7th, 2016.

The office will be open again on January 4^th .  If you need to pick up documents or have an urgent request, please email us for an appointment and we will open the door for you.

The student reception desk will resume its opening hours on January 14^th.

Eden

Eden will be closed on the following days:

• Tuesday 24th  December, 2015.
• Wednesday 25th December 2015.
• Saturday 26th December, 2015.
• Sunday 27th December 2015.
• Tuesday 31th December 2015.
• Friday 1st January, 2016.
• Saturday 2nd January, 2016.
• Sunday 3rd  January, 2016.

The main entrance to Eden will be open to students with an LU-card on the following days:

• Tuesday 22nd  December: 07.30 – 18.00
• Wednesday 23rd December:  07.30 – 18.00
• Monday 28th December:    07.30 – 18.00
• Tuesday 29th December
: 07.30 – 18.00
• Wednesday 30th December: 07.30 – 18.00
• Monday 4th January:  07.30 – 18.00
• Tuesday 5th January: 07.30  – 17.00
• Wednesday 6th  January: 09.00 – 18.00

If you do not have an LU-card you are not allowed to be in Eden during these days.

Café Eden

Café Eden closes on December 18^th at 14.00 and will be closed until January 11^th, 2016.

From January 7th normal opening hours will resume at Eden.

• Pictures from Lucia celebration posted on Graduate School’s facebook page

If you attended the Lucia celebration on December 11th you may want to have a look at the pictures posted here and here.

• Research Seminar: Research Seminar- Imagineering cities: Place branding in five Chinese mega-cities, Dept. of Strategic Communication, Helsingborg

Speaker: Emma Björner, Stockholm Business School

Time: 13:00-15:00

Date: 12th January, 2016

Location: C324 Campus Helsingborg

For more information, see here.

• PhD defense at Department of Psychology, “Word Learning in the Developing Brain – ERP Dynamics of Learning Word-Object Associations”

PhD defense, Kristina Borgström

Opponent: Jessica Horst, University of Sussex

Grading committee:

• Prof. Carita Paradis, Lund
• Dr Caroline Junge, Univers of Utrecht
• Prof Yury Shtyrov, Aarhus Univers

Supervisor: Magnus Lindgren, Examiner: Mats Fridell

Kristina Borgström’s research

Time: 10:00-12:00

Date: 16th January, 2016

Location: Edens hörsal

• Research Seminar - Imagining a non-political identity? Strategies and practices of nation branding

Research seminar with Katja Valaskivi, School of Communication, Media and Theatre, University of Tampere, Finland. The seminar is organized by the Dept. of Strategic Communication.

Time: 13.00-15.00

Date: January 19th, 2016

Location: C324 Campus Helsingborg

For more information, see here.

•       Research Seminar: Beyond the Product - Enabling design services in small and medium sized enterprises

While the design industry is moving into new domains, it seems that potential customers do not always understand how the designer can contribute beyond the aesthetically appealing product. The overall purpose of this thesis is to expand our understanding of design as an enabling service in the context of small and medium sized enterprises. An enabling design service has the potential to result in organizational learning and change. The co-creation of new knowledge and competencies can in turn enable the customer organization to become more innovative and able to deal with an ambiguous environment.

Time: 13:00-15:00

Date: 20th January, 2016

Location: Akvariet, Campus Helsingborg

More information can be found here.

•       Panorama Day at Department of Sociology of Law

The purpose of the Panorama Day is to introduce the department's students to the subject Sociology of law and at the same time show our current research. The day will begin with a general presentation of the Sociology of Law Department made by Reza Banakar. After that the department's researchers with make short presentations (of about ten minutes each) introducing their research.

The Panorama day is primarily for enrolled students but is also open to the public depending on space.

Time: 09:00-12:00

Date: 20th January, 2106

Location: Department of Sociology of Law

More information can be found here.

•     Reminder: Development Practitioner Seminar (DPS) series Kick-off

During the spring term Graduate School organizes a seminar series with development practitioners. The series is held every second Monday at  one of the Graduate School rooms. The first seminar begins on soon with Secil Coker on her career path from the UNHCR to the ICC in The Hague. These events are included in your schedules, but we would like you to sign up to help us with planning.

For more on the series, including how to  sign-up, see here.

Kickoff: 25 January, 15-17, Secil Coker,   International Protection, The Hague: "From UNHCR to ICC" 

8 February, 15-17, Daniel Taras, Director of the German Agency for International Cooperation’s (GIZ) Emerging Market Sustainability Dialogues (EMSD) Programme, Berlin, "Global governance and emerging economies - new avenues of cooperation"

22 February, 15-17, Josipa Bicanic, Program Manager, Danish Forestry Extension, Copenhagen, "Working in forest and natural resource management in a small organization and through local partnerships - experiences form project implementation close to the ground and reflections on how these are reconciled with the donor agenda and requirements."

7 March, 15-17, Madelene Eichhorn, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund

Separate email invitations will be sent out with information about location and sign-up, or you can sign up to the individuals seminars through the link above.

•      Research Seminar: Perception of ignorance, knowledge and answerability, Department of Psychology

Seminar with Carl Martin Allwood.

Time: 10:00-12:00

Date: 22nd January, 2016

Location: M123

More information can be found here.

•      PhD defense at Department of Psychology, “The diversity of mind wandering: The role of individual differences and cognitive factors”

Opponent: Professor Andreas Moskowitz

Supervisor: Etzel Cardeña, Hans Bengtsson

Examiner: Mats Fridell

Time: 13:00-16:00

Date: 22nd  January,  2016

Location: Palaestre Nedre

More information can be found here.

•     Announcement: The Application period to one of Graduate School’s three master’s programmes is open through January 15^th

The application period to study at Lund University in Sweden is open now. Read more about Graduate School's interdisciplinary master's programmes here

•      Staff News

Shoshana Iten, Programme Coordinator, will be on leave of absence from 10th January, 2016 through 15th  March 2016. Her replacement will be Tove Hernaeus Ekstrand.

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External News

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• Open Lecture by Eric Ringmar “Civilizing China”: Western “liberal barbarism” in the 19th century and the consequences for China’s self-image

The lecture is based on his recent book, Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China, that describes the destruction in 1860 of the Chinese imperial palace Yuanmingyuan by British and French troops. The palace, which held one of history’s greatest art collections, had been the pride of the Chinese Emperor.  The brutal violence employed by Western powers in the destruction of Yuanmingyuan seems to contradict their liberal image and the aim of "civilizing” China. Why did they choose such ruthless tactics? What consequences did the attack on the imperial palace have on the Chinese self-image? What can we learn from this historical example?

Erik Ringmar is professor of political science at Lund University. He is the author of numerous books covering international relations theory, history, and cultural and economic sociology. The latest book Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China was published by Palgrave in 2013.

For more information about this event see here and for more information about Prof. Ringmar see http://www.svet.lu.se/en/erik-ringmar

Time: 13:15-15:00

Date:  19th January,2016

Location: Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Scheelevägen 15, Room Alfa 1010

• Symposium: Nordic Research on Problem Gaming from an Everyday Perspective

What is the problem in problem gaming?

Problem gaming is a field rapidly gaining in academic and popular interest. A large body of the mainstream international research on the topic is still dominated by medical, psychological and discourse studies of game addiction. However, recent research conducted in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, share a different critical perspective sprung from everyday-, user-oriented, humanities and media-sociological frameworks. Several of these perspectives are represented at the Symposium and enhanced by further insights from representatives from the fields of practice and policy.

Registration: To attend the symposium you must register by the 13th of January 2016. You register by sending an email to mia [dot] krokstade [at] cors [dot] lu [dot] se. There is a limited number of seats, so be sure to register as soon as possible.

For a detailed programme and more information, see here.