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.
BUP Master Thesis Training 2025
Opportunity for Master Thesis Training
The BUP is pleased to announce the fourth edition of the Master Thesis Training (MTT). The event will take place on 24-27 March 2025 in Uppsala. The MTT is an opportunity for master students at BUP participating universities to come together in an interdisciplinary and intercultural environment within the sphere of sustainability science. The event provides an opportunity for students to gain additional supervision from an expert on their thesis, develop connections with students from all around the Baltic Sea Region and become better acquainted with academic perspectives.
The event will accept participants from BUP participating universities who are studying towards a master’s degree and are working on their thesis during the spring term of 2025. The content of the thesis should be within sustainability science and from a Baltic Sea Region perspective. The Master Thesis Training will be held with a main focus on-site in Uppsala.
Date and time: 24 – 27 March 2025
Location: Uppsala
Application Deadline: 26 January 2025
For more information and how to apply, visit this page.
The Higher Research Seminar: Successful Grant Applications
The Higher Research Seminar is the main collective seminar of the Department of Political Science.
The research staff at the Department 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 researchers from the department present their insights of successful grant applications.
Isabel Bramsen & Lisa Strömbom: ‘The United Nations as a Platform Enabling Agonistic Contestation and Engagement? (UNPEACE)’; Jonathan Polk: ‘Political Party Competition and the Transnational Cleavage in Europe’; Anders Uhlin: ‘Legitimation and Delegitimation of International Organizations: ASEAN in Comparative Perspective’.
Date and time: 15 January 2025 13:15 to 14:30
Location: Eden 367, Lund
The seminar is open to the public. Welcome to join us!
Online Book Launch: Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere
Welcome to a digital book launch event to celebrate the recent publication of “Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere: Identifying Issues, Sharing Knowledge, Building Movements”
Editors Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen (Stavanger) and Jinyan Zeng (Lund) will introduce the newly released anthology Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere: Identifying Issues, Sharing Knowledge, Building Movements (Bloomsbury Academic) and several authors will briefly discuss their chapter contributions.
The event is hosted by the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger (UiS), and co-hosted by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University.
Date and time: 16 Januari 2025 13:00 to 14:30
Location: Zoom
Register here
Documentary Screening
UPF Lund invites you to a Documentary Screening in our office, on the 4th floor of AF Borgen! After the documentary, a hangout will be organised.
Studentlund and UPF memberships are required to attend this event. Get your Studentlund membership here (valid for one semester) and your UPF membership here (valid for one full year after activation).
Date and time: January 19 2025 17:30 to 20:00
Location: UPF Office (4th floor) Sandgatan 2, Lund
Find more information here.