Events

The lecture is part of the master's program conference "Bridging Modern and Early Modern History", History Department, Uppsala University.

This mini-symposium brings scholars together to discuss two different but overlapping themes: Richard Wolin presents his new book addressing the antisemitism as newly unearthed in Heidegger's 'Black Notebooks'. Further, we will discuss Steve Fuller's assumption in his latest book that scientific knowledge has an ethical component and how this may or may not have repercussions for academic freedom.

- Adam Hedgecoe, Cardiff University, UK: "Local autonomy versus centralised ethics: Policy disputes and the development of research ethics review in the UK"

- Noortje Jacobs, Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, Netherlands: "Ethics by Committee. Governing Human Experimentation in a Liberal Democracy, 1945-2000"

The lecture by Jesús Velasco will discuss the immigration policy of the current administration and how different media have portrayed the "immigration crisis" at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Welcome to this seminar with Uppsala Forum Visiting Fellow Valsamis Mitsilegas, Professor
of European Criminal Law and Global Security at Queen Mary University of London, and
Giovanni Piccirilli, Assistant Professor in Constitutional Law at LUISS Guido Carli University
of Rome.

Conspiracy theories are frequently identified as a staple ingredient of contemporary politics, especially the rhetoric of populist, anti-establishment movements.

Welcome to an introduction to R with RStudio. We introduce the foundations of programming and a selection of recipes for modelling, automation and visualisation in R.

Open lecture.

How do Swedes get their information about the U.S.? What role do Swedish correspondents in the U.S. play? How does the news reporting shape our understanding of the United States? What has the changing media landscape of recent years meant? How does the news reporting relate the general Swedish image of the U.S.?

Program and registration information is available via the link "website" above.

Uppsala University - Campus Gotland have been teaching game development since 2001. The Gotland Game Conference (GGC) is an annual public evaluation of our work. International industry, academia and press are invited to help scrutinize our output, hone our process and celebrate our results.

The politics of storytelling: Performing narratives in social research in Durban, South Africa.
Open seminar and workshop on participatory methods.

You can now register to the international conference on health communication. Thanks to a grant from the Swedish Research Council, we have created an exciting program with distinguished international experts on media communication, health psychology, sociology, anthropology, dietetics, sensory sciences, marketing and consumer science.

Linda Cook, Professor of Political Science and Slavic Studies and Olga Kryshtanovskaya, Professor/Director Centre of Elite Studies, State University of Management, Moscow

Dr. Jessica Zychowicz (University of Alberta)

with Dr. Helene Carlbäck (CBEES)

with Dr. Ilja Viktorov (Stockholm University)

The Lecture is the ninth Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research and part of the Institute's 25th Anniversary Celebrations.

”The Centennial of the May Fourth Movement 1919 and the Legacy of the New Culture Movement”

med Margareta Hammerman

Can Computers Create Meaning? A Cyber-Bio-Semiotic Perspective

with Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv)

Thirteen researchers within the field of Soviet social and political history will discuss horizontal ties between Soviet Republics, and the concept of the Soviet druzhba narodov both at the political and social levels. This symposium brings together scholars from Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, the US, the UK, Moldova, Georgia and Russia.

with Dr. Olga Dovbysh, postdoctoral researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.

The alumni society at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University – IM Alumn – and the student associations Uppsala Systemvetare, Uppsala Medievetare and MKIT Student Association welcome you to the IM alumni day 2019.

A jubilee Lecture to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF). The audience is invited to mingle after the lecture. The lecture will be held in English.

with Dr. Alla Anisimova and Dr. Matthew Blackburn

Vi har fått möjlighet att ta emot Dr. Christian Etheridge, post. doc vid Nationalmuseet i Köpenhamn, specialiserad på medeltiden, renässansen och på numismatik. Han föreläser om vetenskap och bildgestaltning i Skandinavien under medeltiden och är specialinbjuden gäst till Konstvetenskapliga institutionen för denna gästföreläsning.

Föreläsningen hålls på engelska. Öppet för alla.

Please join The Global Economy class (CEMUS) as we welcome Alf Hornborg from Lund University. During this lecture, Alf will focus on the political ecology of the money-energy-technology complex, its links to neocolonialism and structural barriers to development in the Anthropocene.

with Dr. Elena Maslovskaya (SI RAS – FCTAS RAS, St.-Petersburg)

Graduate students specializing in literature will present their research
Keynote lecture “Once again -- the Humanities...: Is there anything to add? Yes, there is!”
by Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
For more information, please see the attached program

with Shota Kakabadze (University of Tartu/IRES)

with Dr. Andy Bruno (Northern Illinois University)

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to welfare state theorising by analysing changing risk protection in Swedish sickness insurance and demonstrate how the understanding of such, and its implications, can be enhanced by strategic methodological choices.

with Dr. Jonas Gejl Kaas (Aarhus University)

Welcome to the Thursday Seminar at the Centre for Gender Research. The Thursday Seminars provide a space for discussions on gender related topics from different diciplines. Open for all. No registration required.

LILAe invites you to a roundtable discussion on issues related to the work of Viet Thanh Nguyen, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies & Ethnicity, at the University of Southern California, who will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Languages, Uppsala University.
No sign-up required. All are welcome!

"Johann Sebastian Bach and the emergence of a European style around 1730". The venue can accomodate a maximum of 137 participants.

with Dr. Alicja Curanovic (University of Warsaw)

with Dr. Vasil Navumau (IRES)

Uppsala Travel Writing Seminar (RELS)

We hereby invite you to join us for an afternoon of four presentations within different areas of research in the humanities. The lectures will be held in Swedish and English, and both languages may be used for questions and discussion.

with Dmitri Trifonov (IRES)

Please note that seats are limited. Registration required by e-mail to rsvp@swedishcollegium.se no later than 1 February.

The lecture will summarise Prof. Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist's preliminary findings from two forthcoming articles, both part of his interdisciplinary project “Disentangling socio-political and climatic factors for food insecurity in early modern Europe (c. 1500–1800)”.

The seminar will compare two different “civilizational theories”:
"clash of civilizations" idea promoted by the Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington with the theory of “superethnos” proposed by the Soviet historian, ethnographer and geographer Lev Gumilev.

Introduction to text mining

This is the third seminar in a course on intellectual property (IP) and commercialisation (3 ECTS) that is provided by Uppsala University in collaboration with the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV). The course includes four seminars and is open to PhD students and employees from all disciplinary domains at Uppsala University.

The seminar is postponed due to a COVID-19 outbreak. More info is coming.

Were the Baltics and Western Ukraine, Soviet Union's most western outposts, in any way different from their eastern counterparts? If so, in what way and how has this legacy influenced their transition to democracy and market economy? Professor Li Bennich-Björkman presents her perspective on the issue.

Uppsala Travel Writing Seminar (RELS)

(NB, cancelled. New date TBA.)

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED! Professor Dan Stone will give the eighteenth Annual Lecture in Honour of Hugo Valentin on 19 March 2020.

Introduction to web scraping

Defender: Axel Frejman