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China’s Belt and Road Initiative and a New Era of Transcultural Networks?
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Providence and Chance in the Age of Reason: On the Genesis of Modern Order
The lecture is part of the master's program conference "Bridging Modern and Early Modern History", History Department, Uppsala University.
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Heidegger in Ruins – a mini conference on post truth
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.
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Open lectures from the international workshop "Research Ethics Committees: Origins, Development, and Beyond"
- 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" -
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“Building a Straw Man: President Trump, the Media, and the Immigration Crisis”
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.
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Two Presentations on Constitutional Identity and Legal Pluralism in Europe’s Area of Criminal Justice
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
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The Four Stages of the Mystical Journey in the Sufism of Ibn al-Arabi and His School
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Public lecture with Jovan Byford: The Plot Thickens? The Past, Present and Future of Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories are frequently identified as a staple ingredient of contemporary politics, especially the rhetoric of populist, anti-establishment movements.
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Russia as a Food Superpower
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Introduction to R-programming
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.
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Neal King: Gendered violence by Hollywood superheroes
Open lecture.
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Jovan Byford: Saints, sins and social remembering: Denial and repression of antisemitism in Serbian Orthodox Christian culture
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"News from America A one-day seminar"
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.?
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Comparing Legal Cultures: Global Constitutional Values as a Point of Reference in National Legal Systems
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China’s Bridging Westward: The Belt and Road Initiative in Belarus and the Central Asian States
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Gotland Game Conference 2019
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.
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Open seminar and workshop on participatory methods
The politics of storytelling: Performing narratives in social research in Durban, South Africa.
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Joint seminar discussion "Mindsets in the South Caucasus: Conflicts, Victimhood, and the Velvet Revolution"
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International conference on health communication: Communication breakdown? Food and health in an age of abundance
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.
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Parliamentary Oversight in Non-Democracies: The Case of Post-Soviet Russia
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Seminar "Roles given to women or taken by women in Russia?"
Linda Cook, Professor of Political Science and Slavic Studies and Olga Kryshtanovskaya, Professor/Director Centre of Elite Studies, State University of Management, Moscow
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Seminar "Making Bad: Feminism, Gender, and Revolution in Ukraine"
Dr. Jessica Zychowicz (University of Alberta)
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Conference: Sustainable Tourism in the Digital World
International conference
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Soviet Women and the Women's International Democratic Federation Struggle for Women's Rights’
with Yulia Gradskova (Stockholm University)
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“By nature, women are better with babies than men”. The Role of Fathers in Late Soviet Russia”
with Dr. Helene Carlbäck (CBEES)
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The 2014–15 Financial Crisis in Russia and its Weak Monetary Power Autonomy
with Dr. Ilja Viktorov (Stockholm University)
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International Symposium "The utility of the “Swedish model”?"
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Dreams of a Rule without Exceptions: A Chapter from the History of Rules
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Social Cohesion and Political Developments in Contemporary Georgia
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Urban Warfare - Housing under the empire of finance
The Lecture is the ninth Uppsala Lecture in Housing and Urban Research and part of the Institute's 25th Anniversary Celebrations.
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International Symposium 2019-10-11
”The Centennial of the May Fourth Movement 1919 and the Legacy of the New Culture Movement”
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The Hans Rausing Lecture 2019 – Bruno Latour
Lecturer Bruno Latour, sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher of science, invite spectators to test the hypothesis of a parallel between the time of the astronomical revolution and ours.
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Power in Narrative, and Narratives of Power
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Ways of Seeing: Studying Early Knitting Through Art & Analysis
This lecture explores issues raised by new ways of seeing old textiles, focusing on Jane’s research into Early Modern knitted caps.
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Estlandssvenska seminarieserien ”Estlandssvenskarnas flykt över Östersjön”
med Margareta Hammerman
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Seminar: N. Katherine Hayles
Can Computers Create Meaning? A Cyber-Bio-Semiotic Perspective
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Rhythmical Entrainment: A Genealogy of Embodied Sympathy in the Nineteenth Century
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The Unknown War: Comics as Propaganda in WWII
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Seminar "Regionalism without regions: political geography new and old in nowadays Ukraine"
with Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv)
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Uppsala-Vilnius Symposium "Friends, Neighbours and Competitors within the Soviet ‘Friendship of Nations‘"
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.
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George Orwell’s Forerunners and Disciples: Anti-Utopia in Modern Russian Literature
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At the crossroads of hobby, community work and journalism: hyperlocal media in Russia
with Dr. Olga Dovbysh, postdoctoral researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
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Internationel Conference "Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2019: Orders and Freedoms"
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Demokratins hälsa idag – och imorgon?
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Enacting the Artifice: A Cognitive Approach to Literary Self-Reflection
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Alumni Day: Digital experiences from 50 years in the industry
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.
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Jubilee Lecture: Racial Banishment - The Housing Question in Postcolonial America
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.
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Seminar "The collective memory of the ‘Soviet’ in European Russia and Siberia: historical memory, identity and (a)political stances"
with Dr. Alla Anisimova and Dr. Matthew Blackburn
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Depictions of the Heavens: The Interface of Science, Religion and Art in Medieval Scandinavia
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.
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Neocolonialism and Ecological Marxism
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.
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Legal Proceedings in Contemporary Russia, Migrants from Post-Soviet States and the Role of Legal Interpreters
with Dr. Elena Maslovskaya (SI RAS – FCTAS RAS, St.-Petersburg)
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4th Annual LILAe Graduate Student Symposium in Literary Studies
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
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The Swedish Literary Society's Autumn Meeting 2019
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Kampen om vården
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"The Caucasian Chalk Circle:" Georgia's Self on the East/West Nexus
with Shota Kakabadze (University of Tartu/IRES)
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Forsskålssymposiet 2019: Demokratins framtid
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Rebel Lives: The Lord’s Resistance Army as portrayed by themselves, for themselves
Assoc. Prof. Kristof Titeca, the University of Antwerpen, will show photos and present his latest book, "Rebel Lives: Photographs from inside the Lord’s Resistance Army" (Hannibal Press, 2019). After the screening Assoc. Prof. Titeca will engage in a conversation with Assoc. Prof. Sverker Finnström, Uppsala University
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Governance After the End of Borders
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Environmental Subjectivities from the Soviet North
with Dr. Andy Bruno (Northern Illinois University)
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Changing Swedish sickness insurance: Policies, institutions and outcomes
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.
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Supplies and Intra-Union Acquisitions of Goods under VAT
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Ontological Security Dynamics in Russian Foreign Policy
with Dr. Jonas Gejl Kaas (Aarhus University)
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‘The Personal is Political’ – From One’s Own Anger to the Other’s Compassion. Feminist Activism in Historical Context
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.
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War and Sympathy: Contact Zones and Conflict across the Transpacific - A Conversation on the Work of Viet Thanh Nguyen
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.
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“A Drunken Charade?”: Finding East Asian Justice in Imperial Decline and Colonial Defeat
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Lecture by honorary doctor: War, Fiction and the Ethics of Memory
A lecture by Prof. Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer, on war and the ethics of memory.
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Open lecture with Michèle Lamont
Welcome to an open honorary degree lecture with the sociologist Michèle Lamont. Find more info and report your attendande at www.soc.uu.se. The lecture will be held in English.
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Public lecture with honorary doctor Peter Wollny
"Johann Sebastian Bach and the emergence of a European style around 1730". The venue can accomodate a maximum of 137 participants.
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Discrete Archives: Untold Stories from the Past
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Old Habits Die Hard? ‘Phantom Messianism’ and Russian Imperial Nationalism
with Dr. Alicja Curanovic (University of Warsaw)
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Book release: Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics: Normative and Empirical Questions
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Analysis of Russian Disinformation Campaign against Belarus during the Integration Talks
with Dr. Vasil Navumau (IRES)
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Ancient Greek Dance Aesthetics and the Dipylon Wine Jug
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Emma Clery: "Travel Writing and Sustainable Research: A Proposal Based on Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters... (1796)"
Uppsala Travel Writing Seminar (RELS)
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Aktuell humanistisk forskning - fyra föredrag
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.
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Political Connections in Russian corporations: quantitative evaluations and mechanisms
with Dmitri Trifonov (IRES)
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The 2nd WITTROCK LECTURE - Helga Nowotny
Please note that seats are limited. Registration required by e-mail to rsvp@swedishcollegium.se no later than 1 February.
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That’s what our tradition is’: Gender-Based Violence, Honour-related Crimes and Traditional Values in the Russian Federation
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Climate Variability and Food (In)Security in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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)”.
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Lev Gumilev vs Samuel Huntington: A Soviet Theory of the ‘Clash of Civilizations'?
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.
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Tech-Fika: Introduction to text mining
Introduction to text mining
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Seminar "The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict since 2014. Its Genesis, Escalation and Prospects"
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Why Do Global History?
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Panel discussion "Anti-Gender: the Denial of Gender in Academic and Political Arenas"
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Tools for communicating research outcomes
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.
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Individualization, Subjectivity and Reform: Nicholas of Cusa and the Erfurt Carthusians in the Fifteenth Century
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POSTPONED! Our Reality and Theirs: Existential Resistance and the Path to Pluralism in Soviet Western Borderlands
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. -
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(CANCELLED) The Hägerström Lectures 2020, part 1
The three Hägerström Lectures 2020 are held, on March 18–20, by Karen Bennett, Rutgers University, on the topic "Building, Causing, and the Nonfundamental"
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(CANCELLED) The Hägerström Lectures 2020, part 2
The three Hägerström Lectures 2020 are held, on March 18–20, by Karen Bennett, Rutgers University, on the topic "Building, Causing, and the Nonfundamental"
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(CANCELLED) Michael Boyden: “Climatic Sensibility in American Travel Writing on the Caribbean”
Uppsala Travel Writing Seminar (RELS)
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CANCELLED: XVIth Hugo Valentin Lecture date set
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED! Professor Dan Stone will give the eighteenth Annual Lecture in Honour of Hugo Valentin on 19 March 2020.
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Cultural Heritage Hackaton - online edition!
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(CANCELLED) The Hägerström Lectures 2020, part 3
The three Hägerström Lectures 2020 are held, on March 18–20, by Karen Bennett, Rutgers University, on the topic "Building, Causing, and the Nonfundamental"
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Tech-Fika: Introduction to web scraping
Introduction to web scraping
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Dissertation: With Gods as Neighbours: Extra-temenal activity at Greek rural sanctuaries, 700–200 BCE
Defender: Axel Frejman