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.
- Clothes Swap Day
- Welcome to the Sacrifice Zone(s): Fear and Militarism in Okinawa
- Human Rights Lunch Online: Work-related stress and ill health – on the relationship between special exposure to stress and ethnicity, skin color, and religion
- CMES Seminar: “Gaza’s Cycle of Destruction and Rebuilding: Understanding the Actors, Dynamics, and Responses”
Clothes Swap Day
Welcome to Clothes Swap Day on Campus Helsingborg, arranged by the Fashion Studies Study Council
Clothes Swap Day is a day when to swap clothes with each other! It is a simple, fun and sustainable way to renew your wardrobe without buying new ones. Bring clothes you no longer use and swap them for something new for you!
How does it work?
Hand in clothes – For each garment you hand in, you get a ticket.
1 garment = 1 ticket
10 garments = 10 tickets (max 10 garments per person)
Exchange tickets for clothes – On Clothes Swap Day you can use your tickets to take as many garments as you have handed in.
Handing in opportunities:
We have two opportunities where you can hand in clothes before the Clothes Swap Day itself:
Date & Time:
20th: 11-13
24th: 9-10, 12-14
Location: Moderummet, E1, to the right of the elevators, at the far end.
You can also drop off clothes on the Clothing Exchange Day itself:
March 25th 10:00 – 12:00 U2
Questions? Contact us at: romalhanif@gmail.com
Welcome to Clothing Exchange Day – a smart and sustainable way to update your wardrobe!
Date and time: 25 March 2025 10:00 to 16:00
Location: U2, Campus Helsingborg
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Welcome to the Sacrifice Zone(s): Fear and Militarism in Okinawa
Open lecture with Marius Palz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Japanese Studies, University of Oxford
American and increasingly Japanese militarism is an ever-present feature of people’s daily lives in Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa. Being located closer to Taiwan than to Tokyo, these islands have been of strategic importance for the US presence in East Asia since the end of the Pacific War. With the People’s Republic of China’s increasing economic and military power and a potential conflict with Taiwan on the rise, the Japanese and American governments have continuously emphasised the necessity for Okinawa’s military installations. However, this omnipresent militarism comes with severe problems: noise pollution by military airplanes and helicopters, accidents such as helicopter and V-22 Osprey crashes, high numbers of sexual and gender-based violence by military personnel against civilians, toxic spills, ground water contamination, and environmental degradation.
Being trapped between the negative side effects of a militarism that is supposed to stabilize the region on the one hand and fear of a potential large-scale conflict on the other hand, this talk will try to explore different aspects of Okinawan’s life adjacent to military sacrifice zones. How do people in Okinawa experience the increasing tension in the region? How do different actors try to influence the discourse around justification of military presence? How do Okinawan’s conceptualise and navigate this landscape of fear?
Date and time: 26 March 2025 15:15 to 17:00
Location: Asia Library, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Sölvegatan 18 B, Lund
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Human Rights Lunch Online: Work-related stress and ill health – on the relationship between special exposure to stress and ethnicity, skin color, and religion
Seminar
Martin Wolgast and Sima Nurali Wolgast, both from the Department of Psychology, will present their report for the Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertise on special exposure to work-related stress and ill health based on ethnicity, skin color, and religion. They will share insights from literature on this relationship in Sweden and internationally, discuss preventive measures, and highlight the knowledge and experience of relevant actors. Finally, they will identify knowledge gaps and reflect on how systematic work environment efforts and preventive measures can minimize these risks.
Date and time: 28 March 2025 12:15 to 13:00
Location: Online, Zoom
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CMES Seminar: “Gaza’s Cycle of Destruction and Rebuilding: Understanding the Actors, Dynamics, and Responses”
Welcome to a CMES Research Seminar with Ghassan Elkahlout (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) on the destruction and rebuilding of Gaza.
Speaker Bio
Ghassan Elkahlout is the Director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. He is an Associate Professor in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action at the Doha Insitute for Graduate Studies. His specialized experience covering three decades of professional work includes the areas of humanitarian response, post-war early recovery, and capacity building. Dr Elkahlout received his PhD in post-war reconstruction and development studies from the University of York, United Kingdom, in 2001.
Prior to joining the Doha Institute in 2016, Dr Ghassan Elkahlout led a distinguished and varied career as a humanitarian professional. This involved working for international organizations including the United Nations, the International Federation of Red Crescent Societies, and Islamic Relief Worldwide. He served as a member of a wide range of emergency humanitarian response teams and has extensive field experience in conflict and disaster-affected contexts including but not limited to Palestine, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Libya, and Jordan.
Date and time: 27 March 2025 13:15 to 14:30
Location: CMES Seminar Room (Finngatan 16), Lund
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