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.
From Ground Zero – Untold Stories from Gaza
A film screening
From Ground Zero – Untold Stories from Gaza (قصص غير محكية من غزة من المسافة صفر) is a 2024 anthology film directed by 22 different Palestinian directors. The film is made up of 22 short films, including documentaries, fiction, animation and experimental films about the current situation of the people of Gaza in the midst of a genocide.
Nina Gren, lecturer and researcher in Social Anthropology, will introduce the film. The screening will have a break in the middle, as the film is 112 minutes long.
Date and time: 3 december 2024 17:00 till 19:30
Location: LUX C126, Helgonavägen 3 in Lund
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CMES Seminar: UN’s Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda in the Middle East – Can Youth Participation in Peacebuilding Withstand Authoritarian Co-Optation?
Seminar with Adam Almqvist (CMES) on youth participation in peacebuilding and authoritarian co-optation.
Adam Almqvist has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2023) and is currently a Postdoc Fellow at CMES Lund. Before coming to Lund, he was a Postdoc Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Department of Political Science. His research explores the entanglements of political authoritarianism and global neoliberalism, focusing particularly on youth politics in the Middle East. His dissertation examined so-called Government-Organized NGOs (GONGOs) in Jordan that target youth, exploring changing autocratic citizenship after the abandonment of state distribution and universal welfare provisions. At CMES, he will work on a project on Political Youth and the UN’s Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda. He has published his research in Mediterranean Politics and Maghreb-Machrek.
Date and time: 5 December 2024 13:15 to 14:30
Location: CMES Seminar Room (Finngatan 16)
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The Russo-Ukrainian War through the Eyes of a Historian
CMES is now launching its annual lecture, and our first speaker is the well-known professor of Ukrainian history Serhii Plokhii from Harvard.
Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the start of the largest European conflict since the end of World War II came as a shock to the world at large. Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia managed to overcome international isolation and continues the war that undermines foundations of international order. Why did Putin start the war―and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways including the occupation of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant?
The lecture will provide answers to these and other related questions by tracing the origins of the newest European war and explaining the reasons for the return of the Cold War to the very same part of the world where it ended thirty years earlier. The presentation will be based on Plokhy’s new book, The Russo-Ukrainian-War: A Return of History, released in the US in May 2023.
Date and time: 5 december 2024 16:15 till 17:30
Location: Lund University, Aula at the Centre for Languages and Literature (building H, 1 floor)
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Come by with your text! (drop-in)
Workshop
Are you writing a thesis or an essay or something else? Are you unsure of how to quote that chapter or refer to that YouTube video, or what a Works Cited list is supposed to look like? Do you want some tips on how to make your text more academic? Do you have problems finding previous research or using it in your text? Do you have writer’s block? Or do you have any other questions about academic writing, reading, or searching for literature? Come to our drop-in workshop and get help from an academic writing expert and a librarian! You can find us in the computer room SOL:B210 on the second floor of the SOL Library, every Thursday 15–16.
Date and time: 5, 12 & 19 december 2024 15:00 till 16:00
Location: SOL:B210
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Human Rights Festival, Lund
Meet us at the Human Rights Festival in Lund on December 7th, 2024!
The Profile Area Human Rights and the Division of Human Rights Studies will be present with a booth where you can meet researchers and have a coffee while you can ask questions. Researchers from the profile area will also contribute to two events in the festival programme. Together we strengthen knowledge about human rights and create a vibrant Lund with a fantastic, exciting and inspiring festival!
Date and time: 7 december 2024 10:00 till 18:00
Location: Lund, Stadshallen
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