Events
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Digitala förbindelser: Rum, riktning och queera orienteringar
NB this seminar is held in Swedish
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–20:00
The Most Consequential Election of Our Time? A Panel Discussion on the American Election of 2020
The United States faces multiple challenges and the election campaign has been extraordinary. How can we make sense of it, and what can we say about the outcome?
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ZOOM SEMINAR: Constitutional Democracy and the Corporation: From Republican Liberty to Oligarchy
David Ciepley - Global Horizons Fellow at SCAS and Associate Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville - will present a new analytical, historical, and normative framework for understanding business corporations and will address the question of whether a corporate economy can be made compatible with constitutional democracy.
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Roundtable Webinar "Ukrainian Regional Elections: post-Maidan decentralisation, Zelensky’s second year and new dynamics in Ukrainian politics"
NB! The event will be held on Zoom. To attend the event please click on the link https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/64633418424
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Gendered territoriality and the contemporaneity of colonialism in present-day Brazil
This talk explores the gendering of land in relation to modern/colonial temporalities and to a nation-state myth in which the post-colonial turns into ideological justification for continuing colonialism.
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–12:00
Tim Berndtsson – PhD Dissertation Defence
Section for Rhetoric
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Development studies at Uppsala University celebrates 50 years!
The first course in development studies at Uppsala University was offered in 1970, 50 years ago. Development studies has since grown – today it is a subject of its own in the Department of Government.
To celebrate the anniversary and to reflect on where we have come from and where we are going, Development Studies organises an afternoon seminar on Wednesday 11 November 2020, 13.15-16.45.
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Online Roundtable Discussion "Georgia’s New Parliament and the 2020 Elections: From Hybrid Regime to Fully-fledged Parliamentary Democracy? "
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Public Defence: Adaptive resistance: Power struggles over gender quotas in Uruguay
Cecilia Josefsson defends her doctoral thesis.
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Messy trans experiences in Norway and the paradox of legal gender recognition
The questions guiding this presentation are: What impact does legal recognition of one’s gender identity have on one’s sense of self? And, is the law really as progressive for trans people as it appears to be?
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Trans and Sex Change in Contemporary Iran: A Socio-legal Study of Gendered Policies and Practices
Zara Saeidzadeh completed her doctoral degree in Gender Studies at Örebro University, Sweden on June 4, 2020. In her doctoral thesis, she examines the lives of trans people who undergo sex-change surgery in Iran from a socio-legal perspective. She now teaches and works as a researcher in Gender Studies at Örebro University. She is also a research associate at Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concord
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The toxicity of industrial/breadwinner masculinities; when climate change denial and white supremacy meet
This presentation will scrutinise a particular emblematic example of how anti-environmentalism and anti-feminism today overlap; that of Greta Thunberg.