This weekly digest is a collection of news, upcoming events and other opportunities from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University and the wider area, compiled for Graduate School students.
Writing and study sessions
The Academic Support Centre’s writing and study sessions allow you to join a study community and meet other students in the same situation.
You should bring any relevant, study-related material along to the writing and study session. You might, for instance, bring a written assignment or thesis draft that you are currently working on (or should be working on) or texts to read in preparation for your next lecture or exam. Our language and study consultants are also available to offer their advice on how to plan your study time and put that plan into practice. After a brief introduction, you have time to work towards reaching your individual goal.
As the purpose of a study session is to create a sense of community, it is important that you participate for the entire session (a full or a half-day). We offer fika (coffee, tea and snacks) during the break, which is a great opportunity to share your experiences with fellow students and form new study contacts. You will need to organise your own lunch for the day.
Date and time: 28 January 2025 09:00 to 16:00 (also possible to participate for a half-day)
Location: Genetikhuset at Sölvegatan 29B, Lund
Register by emailing us at study@stu.lu.se
For more information, visit this page
AI Lund lunch seminar: GPT in examination – experiment and lessons
Seminar
At the department of automatic control, we teach our course “introduction to automatic control” to most of the engineering students at LTH. With the giant improvements in large language models, we are of course interested in understanding how this will impact the control engineer of the future – both in terms of what tools they will need in their future work environment, and how our education should be shaped to provide them with these tools.
As an initial step towards understanding these questions, we wanted to answer the following question: How well can students handle the problems we test them on in our exams, with access to large language models?
In this talk, we will show the results from an experiment we performed in order to test this. We placed 8 engineering students in a room with access to GPT-4 through Microsoft copilot and asked them to take our exam. They had not taken the course before, but they had the required background courses. We will tell you quantitatively how they performed, but perhaps more importantly we will qualitatively discuss their interaction with the language model how they reached the answers they wrote down.
Date and time: 29 January at 12.00 to 13.00
Location: Online (Register here)
For more information, visit this page
Surviving the Apocalypse: Researching Ancient Catastrophes In SW Japan
Open lecture with Peter Jordan, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University
The Japanese archipelago is situated in the ‘Pacific Ring of Fire’, one of the world’s most tectonically active zones. With dense urban populations living in close proximity to different volcanic geohazards, living with elevated environmental risk is a core feature of Japanese life. In fact, intimate co-existence with volcanic hazards extends back into the depths of Japanese prehistory, and the long-term perspectives offered by working with historical, archaeological, and geological data, can generate detailed insights into the cultural impacts, immediate responses, and also deeper societal legacies of major catastrophes. This lecture examines the Kikai-Akahoya (K-Ah) ‘super-eruption’, one of the world’s largest ever volcanic catastrophes within the last 12,000 years. Exploding without warning out of the sea floor, this apocalyptic event devastated environments and annihilated communities across SW Japan around 7,300 years ago. The talk explores research from CALDERA, the new Nordic-Japan Programme in ‘Disaster Studies’ led by Lund University, and funded by VR, in collaboration with Japanese partners.
Date and time: 29 January 2025 15:15 to 17:00
Location: Asia Library, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Sölvegatan 18 B, Lund
For more information, visit this page
Racial Social Democracy and the Swedish Welfare State
Seminar
The Higher Research Seminar is the main collective seminar of the Department of Political Science. The research staff and invited national and international leading scholars present ongoing research and analyses of a broad range of exciting topics of relevance for Political Science. In this ocassion Michael McEachrane from Harvard University will be presenting.
Date and time: 29 January 2025 13:15 to 14:30
Location: Large conference room, Eden 367, Lund
For more information, visit this page
Lund University’s Annual Celebration 2025
Lund University welcomes all students, staff and friends to the University’s annual celebration on 31 January 2025
Lund University’s annual celebration is celebrated with a formal ceremony when undergraduate education at the University is highlighted. The annual celebration is usually held in connection with Charles’ Day, which was the day when Lund University was inaugurated in 1668.
All interested parties are welcome to attend the ceremony in the University Hall.
Date and time: 31 January 2025 16:00
Location: University Main Building, Paradisgatan 2, Lund
For more information, visit this page
Counter-Archives for Social Movements
Extra-curricular course – Spring 2025
Learn about counter-archives and acquire practical skills by creating a specific counter-archive on the student solidarity activism at Lund University during 2024.
Information meeting: 3 February 15:00 to 17.00
Course is every other Monday at 15:00-17:00, 3 February to 26 May 2025
Location: LUX:A127, Helgonavägen 3, Lund
For more information, visit this page
Comments