Events archive - Bergen Global

Past events

Tobacco: a global challenge

Bergen Summer Research School Keynote: Will vigorous promotion of electronic cigarettes and other alternative nicotine delivery devices to smokers drastically cut premature mortality worldwide?

Controls on news media and free speech

Bergen Summer Research School Keynote: The second greatest global challenge after climate change?

Nutrition and food security

Bergen Summer Research School Keynote: From grass roots initiatives to global policies.

Bergen Summer Research School Keynote: Struggles to balance the demands of feeding the world and maintaining its health while preserving its oceans and its cultural heritage make it clear that environmental ethics and struggles against gendered violence are not separate issues.

Will the ocean provide more or less food for humanity?

Bergen Summer Research School 2018 Opening Keynote: Is the ocean a natural heritage to be preserved and protected, or a ‘farm’, with produce to be harvested?

Plunging into a new civil War? Political crisis in Burundi

Valéry Buzungu (Friends of Burundi Norway), Gyda Sindre (UiB/Uni. of Cambridge) and Lise Rakner (UiB/CMI).

The voice of the African youth bulge: A democratic correction to authoritarian politics?

Introduction by Josephine Appiah-Nyamekye (Afrobarometer) and a c onversation between Jana Belschner (UiB), Justin Pearce (Cambridge University) and Eyob Balcha (LSE), moderated by Lovise Aalen (CMI).