Past events

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.

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).

Motley`s Law: A New Age of Legal Representation

A lecture by Kimberley Motley

Pobreza, derechos y desarrollo sostenible

A lecture by Jorge Paz, National University of Salta, Argentina

Fight Rages Over Land Reform in South Africa: What will happen?

Elling N. Tjønneland (CMI) and Aron Spitzer (UiB) in conversation with Bheki Dlamini (Lawtransform)

Who is gay “enough” ? Norwegian immigration authorities and sexual minorities asylum seekers

Andrea Grønningsæter (UiB) in conversation with Deniz Akin (NTNU).

Kva nå, Midtausten? Ein atomavtale utan USA

Knut S. Vikør (UiB) og Marianne Bøe (UiB) i samtale med Åse Gilje Østensen (Sjøkrigsskolen)

Israel forklart

Marte Heian-Engdal (NOREF) i samtale med Kjersti G. Berg (UiB/CMI)

Antisemittisme forklart

Christhard Hoffmann, professor i historie (UiB) forklarer antisemittisme

SSB – Kva handler diskusjonen om?

Hans K. Mjelva (BT) innleier

Data visualisation: How to show what you know

Lecture by Elin Monstad (University of Bergen)

Enemies of the state? How women activists fight for gender equality in the Arab world

Samia Nihar (University of Khartoum), Liv Tønnessen (CMI) and Ingrid B. Rosland (Rafto Foundation) in conversation with Lisa-Marie Selvik (UiB)

Who is afraid of a watchdog for human rights?


Anine Kierulf (Research Director at NIM) in conversation with Eirik Holmøyvik (Professor of Law, UiB) and Siri Gloppen (Professor of Comparative Politics, UiB).

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