Past events

Human Rights and Fair Priorities in Health

Norman Daniels (Harvard University, USA) presents his keynote lecture: “Human Rights and Fair Priorities in Health”, followed by a roundtable discussion

Litigating health rights – what happened with the mega-judgments

A panel disussion with (tbc*): Alicia Ely Yamin (Georgetown University), Paola Bergallo (University of Torcuato Di Tella) and Sudhir Krishnaswamy (Azim Premji University and Center for Law & Policy Research).

Abortion Lawfare

Roundtable with Alicia Yamin (chair), (tbc*) Paola Bergallo (Di Tella University, Argentina), Máiréad Enright (Birmingham Law School). Ruth Rubio Marin (University of Sevilla); Mindy Roseman (Yale University)

Children’s Climate Litigation

A panel discussion with (tbc*) Catalina Vallejo, Esmeralda Colombo, Nicolas Orago, Conrado Hubner Mendez/Danielle Rached, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, Cesar Rodrigues-Garavito (Skype) .

Samouni Road – Life & Death on the Gaza Strip

LawTransform in cooperation with BIFF invites you to an exclusive screening of the award-winning documentary SAMOUNI ROAD (2018).

Coral Whisperers: Breathing law into life

Irus Braverman (University at Buffalo School of Law) will present her work on coral reefs, and the scientists who work with them.

Global Challenges, Uncertainty and Complexity

Bergen Summer Research School Debate: What is the right thing to do? How can we know? And who is that “we” who know and define what is right?

Business and Human Rights

Bergen Summer Research School: Security in the Food Supply Chain

Rethinking Society for the 21st Century

Bergen Summer Research School: Launch of the IPSP report

Higher Education as a Global Challenge

Bergen Summer Research School Debate: The digital age has created new possibilities for education, which makes it possible to be educated on-line – but what challenges come with this opportunity?

Challenging patriarchy on campus

Bergen Summer Research School Keynote: The dilemmas and complexities of tackling Gender-Based Harm in universities.

The Jekyll and Hyde aspects of breastfeeding

Bergen Summer Research School Keynote: Although the benefits of breastfeeding considerably outweigh potential risks, breast milk is also the source of infections transmissible to the breastfed infant.

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.

Ecocritique

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.

Bergen Global is a joint initiative between the University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsen Institute that addresses global challenges.