Events

Upcoming events

English
Cityscape Malaysia

Lawless intimacy and inconsistencies in Malaysian Islamic law

07.11.2024 14:15 – 15:30

State attempts to regulate access to “halal” intimacy may not be as airtight as it seems due to legal ambiguities and loopholes in Islamic law.

Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif

English

Scandinavian strategies for Africa

12.11.2024 08:30 – 09:30

What are the similarities and differences between Scandinavian policies on Africa?

Lise Rakner Elling Tjønneland Anne Mette Kjær Jan Pettersson

English
Black man smiling on the street in Stockholm

Youth, autocracy and illiberalism: perspectives from Africa and Europe 

13.11.2024 08:30 – 09:30

In both Africa and Europe youth are underrepresented in politics and disproportionately affected by unemployment and limited future prospects.

Lovise Aalen Dina Wahba Hamid Kalafallah Simbarashe Gukurume Jana Birke Belschner

English
Map of the Jews of the Persian Gulf

Jews of the Persian Gulf: The making of a modern oceanic network

15.11.2024 13:00 – 14:30

Can the Gulf, which is mostly known for its oil resources and Islamic conservatism, also be home to a transnational Jewish past?

Eirik Kvindesland Pelle Valentin Olsen

Norsk
Statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre og den palestinske statsministeren Mohammad Shtayyeh.

Hvem er hvem i Midtøsten: Norge, Israel og Palestina

28.11.2024 11:30 – 12:30

Hvordan ser fremtiden ut for norsk støtte til en palestinsk stat? Hvordan har Gaza-krigen bidratt til å forme norsk politisk debatt?

Kjersti G. Berg Jørgen Jensehaugen Pelle Valentin Olsen

Past events

Maduro’s Venezuela – hope for democracy and justice?

After 11 years as president, Nicolás Maduro claims victory in Venezuela’s election this summer. But so does the opposition.

The US presidential election

The US is heading to the ballot boxes on 5 November. What will it take to capture the undecided and mobilise those who usually do not take part in elections?
Video

Georgia’s defining moment

Georgians head to the polls on 26 October in an election some frame as a choice between war and peace, and a future with Europe or with Russia.

Film seminar: I am the river, the river is me

Sacred rivers, legal persons and sustainability in the twenty-first century.
People on MRT Kuala Lumpur

Sexualised Joking and Polygamy in the Malay Corporate Workplace

Gender and power relations, and Islamic understanding of marital and sexual politics in Malaysian Islam, have significantly changed in the past few decades.
The European Court of Human Rights

Children and Rights to Identity at the European Court of Human Rights

How has human rights law and the European Court of Human Rights developed the right to personal identity?
Video
Sudan map

Who’s Who in the Middle East: War and Humanitarian Disaster in Sudan

For the people of Sudan, nowhere is currently safe.

Palm oil and the struggle for land and citizenship in Indonesia

Welcome to a guest lecture on the conflicts between palm oil companies and rural Indonesians.
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