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 by Graduate School students.
- Africa’s Last Colony
- Innovation Research Day
- Walking the lines – Reflections on walking methods in Jordan
- CMES Seminar: “Shattered Landscapes: An Agonistic Approach to Ethnography in Palestine and Israel”
- Spring Choir Concert with the Music Teachers’ Choir
Africa’s Last Colony
Film screening & panel discussion
Welcome to a film screening of Haiyu – Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for Free Western Sahara, followed by a panel discussion with the film’s producer and Lund University researchers. The event is free of charge and open to the public.
Filmed in the Western Sahara refugee camp in Algeria, the documentary Haiyu – Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for Free Western Sahara is about Africa’s last remaining colony and the role of Mariem Hassan’s music and songs in the struggle for the Western Sahara’s right to self-determination. This event will include a screening of Haiyu, a Q&A with one of the film’s producers, Mohamedsalem Werad, and a panel discussion on the broader situation in West Sahara with Yahia Mahmoud, associate professor in Human Geography, and Maria Padrón Hernández, researcher in Social Anthropology.
This event is organised by the Critical Studies Research Node at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund university, in collaboration with Lund Academics for Palestine and Solidarity Rising.
Date and time: 22 April 2025 17:00 to 19:00
Location: LUX C121, Helgonavägen 3 in Lund
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Innovation Research Day
Conference
It is once again time for the Innovation Research Day. Last year was the first time this event was held, and it led to interesting discussions and new links between researchers from different disciplines.
The Innovation Research Day provides a platform to share and discuss new projects and initiatives, to identify potential interfaces and complementarities, and to jointly carve out ideas about the future of innovation research at Lund University.
The objective of the 2025 Innovation Research Day is to follow up on the Lund Declaration 2004, which claimed societal challenges into research and innovation policies.
Innovation research has increasingly been focused on innovation’s role, potential, and limitations in addressing societal challenges and necessary governance reforms. The Draghi report 2024 highlights innovation’s importance for sustainable growth, wellbeing, and competitiveness in Europe, while the Swedish Research Bill emphasizes innovation’s role in solving societal challenges.
In the wake of these societal calls and hopes for innovation, the participants will discuss the future avenues for innovation research, and its interlinkages to sustainability research.
Date and time: 23 april 2025 09:00 to 14:00
Location: Skissernas Museum
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Walking the lines – Reflections on walking methods in Jordan
Seminar
Olivia Mason
Olivia Mason (Newcastle University) reflects in this seminar on walking to address broader questions in political geography surrounding power, scale, mobility, embodiment, and knowledge production. Walking still remains a method and practice that has received little attention by political geographers, and this can be traced to a wider absence of discussions of methodology within political geography. Yet the embodied aspects of walking can enable a creative and critical relationship with nature, place, politics and space, reengaging key concepts in political geography such as territory, borders, and the state. Through empirical research conducted on walking trails and with walking groups in the Middle East and North Africa, this seminar explores the situated political geographies of walking and how walking can enable embodied and intimate political geographies to emerge.
The presentation will be followed by a discussion with and questions from participants.
This seminar is held on Zoom. Find the link and more information here: https://www.cors.lu.se/en/walking-the-lines.
Olivia Mason is a lecturer in Geography, with a focus on cultural and political geography. Mason’s work sits across cultural, environmental, and political geography, and is broadly centred on mobility politics and resource colonialism, and to date has mostly been focused on Jordan.
Date and time: 24 April 2025 13:00 to 14:00
Location: Online
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CMES Seminar: “Shattered Landscapes: An Agonistic Approach to Ethnography in Palestine and Israel”
Welcome to a CMES Research Seminar with Anne Lene Stein (CMES Political Science, Lund University)
Speaker Bio
Anne Lene Stein is a doctoral student at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Her PhD project is researching embodied approaches to challenging dominant systems of knowledge in everyday life in Palestine and Israel. Her focus is on the interaction between agonistic and antagonistic dimensions within epistemic struggles and embodied forms of protest. Specifically, Anne Lene Stein examines how Palestinian artists within Israel and the West Bank as well as Israeli anti-Zionist/anti-apartheid activists use embodied performances to disrupt hegemonic knowledge systems and resist various forms of violence and injustice. Her research also touches on future-oriented or utopian reimaginations of Palestine as expressed through these performances. She conceptualises the agonistic-antagonistic interplay as a performative, epistemically disruptive politics—an embodied language of dissent that opens up political spaces for the emergence of new subjectivities.
Date and time: 24 April 2025 13:15 to 14:30
Location: CMES Seminar Room (Finngatan 16)
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Spring Choir Concert with the Music Teachers’ Choir
Concert
The music teacher choir from the Malmö Academy of Music sings in the spring with traditional choral songs and new compositions and arrangements by students.
Welcome!
Date and time: 24 April 2025 19:00 to 20:00
Location: St. Mary’s Church, Nobelvägen 20 Malmö
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