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.
Research Seminar in Sociology of Law: Imperialism and Constitutional Law
The Sociology of Law Department arranges research seminars inviting local and international social scientists to present state-of-the-art research within various areas of law and society.
This seminar will discuss, in broad terms, how the social effects of imperialism have formed constitutional law. It addresses the formation of constitutional law in a series of settings, historical and contemporary, to explain how (a) constitutional law was traditionally forged because of military needs; (b) up to 1945, constitutions tended to reproduce imperialist policies in domestic societies; (c) changing patterns of constitutional law have been decisively shaped by international security architectures, linked to the transformation of imperialism; (d) the traditional imperialist emphasis of constitutional law is currently re-appearing in new form.
Date and time: 18 December 2024 13:15 to 15:00
Location: Room M331, 3rd floor, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 18 (House M), Lund
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CMES Seminar: A Tale of Three Brothers – Ezra, Meir and Hayyawi Sawda’I and the History of an Iraqi Jewish Cinema Business
Seminar with Pelle Valentin Olsen (University of Bergen) about Iraqi Jewish cinema.
Pelle Valentin Olsen is Associate Professor of History. He is a cultural, social, and transnational historian of the modern Middle East. His research and teaching focus on the history of leisure, labor, gender, sexuality, popular culture, and cultural production. He focuses specifically on Iraq, but simultaneously explores transregional and transnational connections, highlighting everyday perspectives and voices often left out by traditional political and state-centered histories. He received his PhD with honors from the University of Chicago in 2020. He came to Bergen via the University of Oslo, where he worked as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow on a project about the history of cinema in Iraq.
He is currently preparing a book manuscript entitled Idle Days and Nights: Leisure, Time, and Modernity in Iraq. The book argues that leisure in twentieth century Iraq became one of several frontiers upon which the individual and citizen came into contact with, confronted, and interacted with new ideas about gender, sexuality, class, time, labour, and discipline. Examining the new institutions, practices, and distractions of leisure that took up increasing space and time in the life of Iraqis, the book explores uncharted aspects of both modern Iraqi and Middle Eastern history.
Date and time: 19 December 2024 13:15 to 14:30
Location: CMES Seminar Room (Finngatan 16), Lund
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Short film screening at Panora
On the shortest day of the year, we will screen eight short films made by students at Malmö Art Academy. The event is part of the Short Film Day at Panora.
Free admission with advance booking. Tickets are booked in advance via Panora’s ticketing system and must be collected at least half an hour before the performance. If you are unable to attend, we ask you to cancel your ticket. You can do this yourself in the booking system or by calling the box office.
Date and time: 21 December 2024 16:00 to 18:30
Location: Biograf Panora, Friisgatan 19 D, Malmö
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Julsångsafton
Christmas concert
Welcome Christmas with a concert filled with Christmas spirit and where we together sing Christmas’s beloved hymns and songs. The program offers a series of classic Christmas melodies that welcome the approaching Christmas.
Free entrance
Date and time: 22 December 17.00 to 18:00
Location: Lunds Allhelgonakyrka, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 1, Lund
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Ice rink on Stortorget
Winter activity
The ice rink at Stortorget is a popular meeting place during the winter. Here the lending of skates and helmets is offered. Also music flows from the speakers when there are employees on site. It is a small space, therefore no hockey or bandy sticks are allowed. The ice rink is run by Visit Lund in collaboration with Lund municipality and with the support of De lekande barnens fond.
Date and time: 29 November – February 16 (Check the below website for opening hours)
Location: Stortorget, Lund
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