Past events

Students in Crisis: Corona Measures under Examination

Lubna Jaffery (City Councillor), Oddrun Samdal (Vice Rector for Education, UiB), Sandra Amalie Lid Krumsvik (leader of the Student Parliament), Øystein Sandven (head of Sammen Mental Health) and Simen Bø (student editor-in-chief of Katarsis UiB) in conversation with Ronya Reitan Solberg (UiB Collaboratory).

Book launch: Strategic Litigation and the Struggle for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Equality in Africa

Adrian Jjuuko discusses his new book with Frans Viljoen (University if Pretoria), Thomas M. Keck (Syracuse University), Ayodele Sogunro (University of Pretoria), and Satang Nabaneh (University of Pretoria). Siri Gloppen (UiB/LawTransform) will moderate the conversation.

Book Launch: Tax Justice and Global Inequality

Erika Siu (Editor), Krishen Mehta (Editor), Tina Søreide (NHH), and Astrid Haas (IGC) in conversation with Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (GRIP).

Tension on the Border: Refugee Flows and Clashes over Land at the Sudan-Ethiopia Frontier

Lovise Aalen (CMI), Gunnar Sørbø (CMI) og Adam Babekir (University of Gadarif).

Violent Conflicts over Indigenous Peoples’ Land

José Francisco Calí Tzay (UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) gives the 4th annual lecture on Indigenous Peoples ’ rights.

Tatiana Alfonso (ITAM, Mexico City) and Eva Maria Fjellheim (University of Tromsø) in conversation with Rachel Sieder (CIESAS, Mexico and CMI/LawTransform).

Samehets og rasisme – hvordan kommer vi videre?

Aina Madelén Nordsletta Aslaksen (Nordkalottfolket), Ivar Bjørklund (Universitetet i Tromsø), Runar Myrnes Balto (NSR/Sametinget) og Skjalg Fjellheim (Nordlys) møter Marita Monsen (Bergen sameforening).

Repeal Abortion Crime: a New Path in the Fight for Legal Abortion in Colombia

Ana Cristina González Vélez (UPB), Catalina Martínez (Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights), Mariana Ardila (Women’s Link Worldwide), Ana María Méndez Jaramillo (Universidad de Los Andes ) and Siri Gloppen (UiB).

Invisible Minority? Experiences of Young Norwegian Jews in School

Kristoffer Løkken Økland (UiB)

Academic Freedom and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective

Gökhan Sen (CMI-LawTransform), Marta Machado (Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School in Sao Paulo), Namita Wahi (Centre for Policy Research) and Péter Molnár (Central European University) in conversation with Tom Keck (Syracuse University).

Det amerikanske valget og veien videre

Gunnar Grendstad (UiB) og Hilmar Mjelde (NORCE) i samtale med Jens Kjeldsen (UiB)

Klimasøksmålet og dommen i Høyesterett

Hans Petter Graver (UiO), Marius Gulbranson Nordby (Fagbokforlaget), Eirik Holmøyvik (UiB) og Sigrid Eskeland Schütz (UiB) i samtale med Henriette Sinding Aasen (UiB).

Paths for Recognising LGBT Rights in Latin America: the Cases of Brazil, Colombia and Costa Rica

Bruce Wilson (University of Central Florida), Ana Côrtes (LawTransform, CMI) and Lívia Buzolin (São Paulo Law School).

Nagorno-Karabakh from a historical perspective

Lene Wetteland (Norwegian Helsinki Committee), Kåre Johan Mjør (UiB/HVL) and Helge Blakkisrud (NUPI) in conversation with Terje Knutsen (UiB).

Challenges in Developing and Maintaining Networks in Times of Corona

Human Rights Cities explained – why do we need them?

Gerd Oberleitner (Graz), Ulrika Dagård (Lund), Hans Sakkers (Utrecht), Lubna Boby Jaffry (Bergen) in conversation with Jostein Kobbeltvedt (Rafto).

Cessation of refugee status in the Nordic region

Gisela Thater (UNHCR), Jessica Schultz (CMI/UiB), Nik Tan (Danish Institute for Human Rights), and Peter Varga (UNHCR), with comments from Jens Vedsted-Hanse (Aarhus University) and Maria O’Sullivan (Monash University)

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