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Queer seminar: Queer lives. Shared stories across differences
What events from their lives do people highlight when they talk about themselves as queer?
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ZOOM SEMINAR: Dictionary Craze: Transforming Knowledge across Early Modern Europe
Linn Holmberg, SCAS and Stockholm University, gives a seminar on "Dictionary Craze: Transforming Knowledge across Early Modern Europe". The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
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Digital Book Launch "Superfluous Women: Feminism, Art, and Revolution in 21st Century Ukraine"
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Basic intellectual property knowledge
This seminar will provide an introduction to different types of intellectual property and how they are relevant to academic research. You will get an overview of the international systems relevant for patents, trademarks, copyright and industrial design. In addition we will discuss how to protect a product or idea using various types of IP. Register by 26 February.
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Thursday seminar: Chemistry or service?
How is ’sugar daddies’ desire for sugar dating arrangements to be based on mutual interest and pleasure played out in a commercial context that is constructed to bypass the requirement of such mutuality?
Welcome to the Thursday seminar: Chemistry or service? Sugar daddies’ quest for mutuality within the confines of commercial exchange
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Public Defence: Statebuilding through diaspora recruitment?
Anna Ida Rock defends her thesis "Statebuilding through diaspora recruitment? - The role of capacity, norms and representation for legitimacy in Somaliland and Liberia".
The external reviewer is Professor Isabell Schierenbeck, The School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
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Public Defence: Wealth and the economic vote
Anton Brännlund defends his thesis "Wealth and the economic vote. How assets and liabilities shape election outcomes".
The external reviewer is Associate Professsor Andreas Bergh, Department of Economics, Lund University. -
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ZOOM SEMINAR: The Ethics of Individuals' Greenhouse Gas Emission
H. Orri Stefánsson, SCAS and Stockholm University, gives a seminar on "The Ethics of Individuals' Greenhouse Gas Emission". The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
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"Soviet Daughter" - Graphic narrative as a legitimate medium of expression
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Uppsala Health Summit: Managing Antimicrobial Resistance through Behavioural Change
All aspects of this Uppsala Health Summit will be digital, but our goal remains the same; to bring together a multisectoral group of experts and practitioners for a discussion around how we change behaviours and organizational cultures to keep our medicines working. A theme more relevant than ever!
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ZOOM SEMINAR: Pax Universalis et Perpetua: Empire, Anarchy, and the Invention of International Order, c. 1500-2000
Christopher Meckstroth, SCAS and University of Cambridge, gives a seminar on "Pax Universalis et Perpetua: Empire, Anarchy, and the Invention of International Order, c. 1500-2000". The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
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BOOK LAUNCH - WEB EVENT: French Romance, Medieval Sweden and the Europeanisation of Culture
Sofia Lodén, SCAS and Stockholm University, presents her new book "French Romance, Medieval Sweden and the Europeanisation of Culture". Comments by Paula Henrikson, Uppsala University. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
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Ash Amin: "Framing Community: Xenophobic Nationalism, Social Democracy, and Everyday Cohabitation in Europe"
Guest Lecture
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ZOOM SEMINAR: Transnational Encounters - Translational Practices: Swedish-Finnish Cultural Influences in Emergent Finnish Literary Practice
The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
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Presentation of Katarina Pirak Sikku's artwork Agálaččat bivttastuvvon sohkagotti ivnniiguin
The artist Katarina Pirak Sikku presents the artwork Agálaččat bivttastuvvon sohkagotti ivnniiguin at Carolina Rediviva in Uppsala, and meets the curator Natalie King for a conversation.
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Public Defence: The socialization of intergroup attitudes: The problem of generations
David Ekstam defends his thesis "The socialization of intergroup attitudes: The problem of generations".
The external reviewer is Mikael Hjerm, Professor, Department of Sociology, Umeå University. -
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Queer seminar: Who's laughing now? Feminist tactics in social media
Why and how does a politics of pleasure matter in our time?
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ZOOM SEMINAR: Race, Slavery, and the Perils of Gift-Giving: Rereading The Liberty Bell and Cassey's Album
Alexandra Urakova, SCAS and Russian Academy of Sciences, gives a seminar on "Race, Slavery, and the Perils of Gift-Giving: Rereading The Liberty Bell and Cassey's Album". The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
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Open Lecture with Karin Kvist Geverts: Sweden and the Holocaust. Challenges and possibilities for Holocaust research today
Speaker: Associate Professor Karin Kvist Geverts, Institute for Holocaust Research in Sweden (IHRS)
Discussant: Associate Professor Tomislav Dulić, Director of The Hugo Valentin Centre at Uppsala University.
Photo: Jann Lipka/KB – National Library of Sweden.
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Lunch Seminar: Labor Market Integration Policies for Highly Skilled Refugees in Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands
Micheline van Riemsdijk is an Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University. Her research agenda is defined by the governance of international migration, labor market integration, and the workplace integration of highly skilled migrants.
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BOOK LAUNCH - WEB EVENT: Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects
Linn Holmberg, SCAS and Stockholm University, and Maria Simonsen, Aalborg University, present their new book "Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects". The event will be followed by a Q&A session.
David Dunér, Lund University, and Jeff Loveland, University of Cincinnati, will comment on the book. -
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SINAS Seminar: "The Tiger Cages and the American War in Vietnam"
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ZOOM SEMINAR: When and Where Birth Spacing Matters for Offspring Outcomes: An International Comparison
Kieron Barclay, SCAS and Stockholm University, gives a seminar on "When and Where Birth Spacing Matters for Offspring Outcomes: An International Comparison". The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
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Guest Lecture by William Haltom. His First 100 days: Can Biden’s Relational Politics Overcome Trump’s Transactional Politics?
The talk addresses the distinction between “transactional” politicking—communication adapted to “winning” 24-hour news cycles with little or no concern for tomorrow, let alone any long-range—from “relational” politicking—communication adapted to at least addressing and perhaps even solving problems over some years by means of compromises, negotiations, and relationships among politicians.
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Public Defence: Don’t Mention the War
Lars Wikman defends his thesis "Don’t Mention the War: The forging of a domestic foreign policy consensus of the Entry, Expansion and Exit of Swedish Military Contributions to Afghanistan". The external reviewer is Johan Eriksson, Department of Social Sciences, Södertörn University.