Events
Humsam
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20 April, 09:15–10:00
Forgeries and the Bible: from Shappira to the Jerusalem Papyrus
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20 April, 10:15–12:00
Agnes Scholz: "What eye movements reveal about exemplar retrieval during multi-attribute inference"
The General Seminar
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20 April, 10:15
Passive voices: be-, get- and Prepositional Passives In Recent American English
The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the use and development of passive voice in American English. Empirical, corpus methods are employed in order to examine the syntactic, semantic, and stylistic preferences of three English passive constructions across time and genre in American English.
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20 April, 10:15–12:00
Doctoral Defence: Sarah Schwarz. Passive Voices: BE-, GET- and Prepositional Passives in Recent American English
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20 April, 11:15–13:00
Magnus Jedenheim-Edling: "Dietz on Group-Based Reasons"
The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy
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20 April, 13:00–15:00
Reading Group Session – Wittgenstein
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20 April, 13:00–15:00
Seminar in Computational Linguistics
Writing together: The challenging practices of co-authorship
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20 April, 15:15–17:00
Anna Einarsson: ”Kroppslighetens och situationens betydelse för sjungande och komponerande av musik”
The Open Seminar in Music Psychology
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23 April, 09:30 – 24 April, 12:00
Workshop on writing: Adaptation and Conflict
The theme for the workshop is ”Adaptation and Conflict”, and presentations will deal with situations that occur in the meeting or co-existence of different writings systems, with the subsequent diminishing of one in the favour of the other, or situations in which a script originally devised for the writing of one language is adopted, and adapted, for the writing down of another.
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24 April – 26 April
The Impact of Religion International Conference
Welcome to
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24 April, 13:15–15:00
Daniel Blackie: "Mining for meanings"
The Higher Seminar
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24 April, 13:15–15:00
Dora F. Edu-Buandoh: "The Discourse of Questioning at Thesis Proposal Defense"
Guest Lecture
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24 April, 13:15–15:00
"Hidden pedagogy in 17th century manuscripts"
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24 April, 15:15–17:00
Lecture: Resistance in the Name of Putin
Full title: Resistance in the Name of Putin: The myth of the ‘benevolent president’ and the ‘loyal folk’ in popular protests in contemporary Russia. Lecture by Dr. Natalia Mamonova (Swedish Institute of International Affairs)
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25 April, 10:15–12:00
Describing South Saami: Between archaisms and innovations
Hugo Valentin open lecture series: Combatting Language Endangerment and Death Language activism and New Speakers
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25 April, 13:15–15:00
Curious on R-programming? Step 3
Curious on R-programming? Welcome to a 3-step workshop. Follow all three steps or apply to one, according to your previous knowledge. These workshops are aimed at researchers and doctoral students. Please let us know if you have any specific requests.
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25 April, 13:15–17:00
Workshop – Philosophy of Emotions
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25 April, 16:00–17:00
Edith Hall: “Pushing the Boundaries of Operatic Convention and European Identity”
Uppsala Interdisciplinary 18th Century Seminar in co-operation with AGORA and Uppsala University
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25 April, 17:30–18:30
Fiona Macintosh: “From hearth to Hades”
Uppsala Interdisciplinary 18th Century Seminar in co-operation with AGORA and Uppsala University
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26 April, 09:30–10:30
Introduction to Mendeley
In the introductory course we will help you get started, install the software and create an account. We will cover how to create a reference library, save references to Mendeley, add PDF files to your Mendeley library, how to insert citations and create reference lists according to your chosen reference style.
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26 April, 10:15–12:00
GaW seminarium: Kvinnfolk, karlar och könskategorier
Karin Hassan Jansson lägger fram texten "Ord och mening: könade personbeteckningar i GaW-databasen och populärkultur 1720-1830
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26 April, 13:15–15:00
Miranda Cox: PhD dissertation PM
The Higher Seminar
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26 April, 14:15–16:00
Mika Perälä: "Aristotle on Memory"
The Higher Seminar in the History of Philosophy
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26 April, 15:15–17:00
JBA Afful: "Rhetorical Analysis of Grant Recommendation Letters"
Guest Lecture
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26 April, 16:15–18:00
Governing the Uprooted: Rehabilitation of the Partition Refugees and the Idea of Indian Governance, 1947-1971
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27 April, 11:15–13:00
Christine Tappolet: "How are emotions and the self related?"
The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy
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27 April, 13:00–15:00
Karl Bergman: Section of PhD Dissertation
The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture
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27 April, 13:15–15:00
Dirk Wulff: "Two modes of learning and the description-experience gap"
The General Seminar
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28 April, 10:15
Skriftsystem i förändring: en grafematisk och paleografisk studie av de svenska medeltida runinskrifterna
The aim of this dissertation is to study the development of Swedish runic writing during the Middle Ages in terms of runic shapes and orthography. It comprises three related investigations.
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02 May, 10:00–16:00
Workshop – Nordic Network for Women in Aesthetics
Inaugural Workshop
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02 May, 10:15–12:00
The end: How a language dies
Hugo Valentin open lecture series: Combatting Language Endangerment and Death Language activism and New Speakers
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02 May, 13:15–15:00
Mona Guath – Final PhD Seminar
PhD Seminar Series
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03 May, 09:15–12:30
Symposium on language learning and use
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03 May, 10:15–12:00
Anna-Sofia Maurin, Gothenburg
The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy
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03 May, 10:15–12:00
GaW seminarium: Tidigmodern professionalism
Cecilia Candreus lägger fram texten "Embroidery, professionalism and gender. Female embroiderers in Stockholm c. 1650-1800.
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03 May, 12:30–21:00
FSMK day: Academic freedom - threats and harassment within the academy
The Swedish Association for Media and Communication Research (FSMK) and the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University are together hosting the annual FSMK Day: Academic freedom - threats and harassment within the academy.
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03 May, 13:00–17:00
Open seminar: Collaborative Digital Innovation
Welcome to an exciting seminar on the topic collaborative digital innovation. The seminar includes five presentations and a panel debate, highlighting various aspects of digital innovation in collaboration between academia and practice.
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03 May, 14:15–16:00
Oda Tvedt: PhD Dissertation Chapter
The Higher Seminar in the History of Philosophy
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03 May, 14:30–15:30
Introduction to Zotero
In the introductory course we will help you get started, install the software and create an account. You will learn how to create a reference library, save references to Zotero from article databases, library catalogues and web pages, add PDF files to your Zotero library, and how to insert citations and create reference lists in your document.
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03 May, 15:15–17:00
WIP-Seminar: First-language (L1) and second-language (L2) writing
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03 May, 16:15–18:00
Dennis Patterson: "Ronald Dworkin on Legal Positivism"
The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law
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03 May, 16:15–17:30
Reckless Ambition: Explaining Moscow's Attempts to Interfere in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
with Professor Kimberly Marten (Columbia University)
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04 May, 09:00–18:00
Conference "Russia’s Role in World Politics: Power, Ideas, and Domestic Interests"
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04 May, 09:00–17:00
Media and Communication Studies Conference: A Non-Media Centric Approach to Media Studies
The Swedish Association for Media and Communication Research (FSMK) and the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University are together hosting the Media and Communication Studies Conference: A Non-Media Centric Approach to Media Studies.
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04 May, 10:15
Bad Guys, Good Life: An Ethnography of Morality and Change in Kisekka Market (Kampala, Uganda)
Based on ethnographic data gathered over a period of almost three years, this dissertation scrutinizes the everyday lives of informal workers selling auto parts in Kisekka Market, central Kampala.
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04 May, 11:15–13:00
Christian Piller, University of York
The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy
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04 May, 13:00–15:00
Erik Hallstensson: Section of PhD Dissertation
The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture
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04 May, 13:15
Production in a State of Abundance: Valuation and Practice in the Swedish Meat Supply Chain
This thesis is a sociological contribution to the study of abundance. It discusses the case of Swedish meat producers and how they persist in producing pork and beef despite a lack of demand and competitive disadvantages compared with foreign suppliers. In doing so, this study answers how abundance is perpetuated in the production of a foodstuff in over-supply.
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04 May, 13:15–15:00
Research seminar
Paper on the book "Siting Michelangelo: Spectatorship, Site Specificty and Soundscape”. The seminar is part of the Early Modern Cultural History research node
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04 May, 14:15–16:00
Maja Hagerman: "I författarens verkstad"
Guest Lecture
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08 May, 13:15–15:00
Dean Moyar: "Hegel’s Philosophy of Law"
Joint Seminar – The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law, The Higher Seminar in History of Philosophy, and The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Language and Culture
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08 May, 13:15–15:00
Christoph Bonneuil, Centre Alexandre Koyre
Office for History of Science
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08 May, 13:15–14:15
Hannah Bradby and Sarah Hamed: "Challenges of studying racism in healthcare"
Forum for Medical Humanities seminar, jointly with the Welfare and Lifecourse Research Group, Department of Sociology
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08 May, 13:15–15:00
Casper Virkkula: PhD Dissertation Project
The Higher Seminar in Literature
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08 May, 13:15–15:00
Finanacial regulations and dual represenations of spatial fixity. An approach from the Spanish real estate market.
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08 May, 15:15–16:30
Ett attraktivt CV och brev - hur?
KarriärTisdag. Funderar du på hur du kan formulera ditt CV och brev inför en jobbansökan?
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08 May, 15:15–16:30
CV and Cover letter - be attractive!
CareerTuesday. A seminar on how to write your CV and Cover letter.
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08 May, 15:15–17:00
Hijacking religion in Russia: competing discourses around Russian Orthodoxy and Russian Nationalism
with Edwin Bacon (University of Lincoln)
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09 May, 10:15
Bilder och berättelser om Sankt Nikolaus: Några vitaikoner studerade mot bakgrund av text och liturgi
This dissertation concerns the pictorial language and communicative aspects of the vita icons of S Nicholas. The starting point is three vita icons of the saint of Russian origin in Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, dated to the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 17th century.
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09 May, 10:15–12:00
Defining “success” and “failure” in language revitalization
Hugo Valentin open lecture series: Combatting Language Endangerment and Death Language activism and New Speakers
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09 May, 13:15–15:00
NVivo-workshop
Let's learn NVivo together! Welcome to a workshop where we will work with NVivo, a software for qualitative data analysis. Bring your work and your problems, or just come to get a short introduction.
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09 May, 15:00–16:00
Afternoon Fika for PhD Students!
The doctoral student representatives at the Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice (Uppsala Forum) welcome all PhD students of its affiliated departments and institutions to an afternoon fika!
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11 May, 13:00–15:00
Reading Group Session – Wittgenstein
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14 May, 12:15–13:15
Excel workshop
This workshop is for you, who want to learn more about Excel. The session starts with a teoretical summary of a specific function and after that you can laborate with guidance.
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14 May – 17 May
Academic Writing: Workshops and Lectures
Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice is pleased to invite you to a series of workshops and lectures on various aspects of the academic publishing process.
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15 May, 09:00–10:00
Library Breakfast at Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library
Welcome to a breakfast at the library! We will show you how to access our resources and how you can access material that is not available at Uppsala University Library. We will tell you about our services and our support in information searching, reference management and publishing strategies.
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15 May, 09:15–12:00
Uppsala Forum Workshop: Designing Political Diversity Database
This workshop is a step towards the build-up of the Designing Political Diversity Database that aims to provide comprehensive, reliable and accessible data on formal policies designed to increase the political representation of ethnic groups and indigenous peoples around the world.
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15 May, 13:15–15:00
Research seminar
“Unspeakable Truths: The Performance of Forgiveness in South Sudan’s Transformative Justice Process”
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15 May, 13:15–15:00
Tuesday seminar
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16 May, 10:15–12:00
From attitudes to proficiency and use: Identity and language practices among New Speakers of Wymysorys
Hugo Valentin open lecture series: Combatting Language Endangerment and Death Language activism and New Speakers
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16 May, 11:00–12:30
Academic Publishing in the 21st Century: Markets and Technology, Survival and Change
An eye-opening lecture on academic publishing in the 21st century (covering the state of the market for scholarly publications, online publishing, open access and more) with opportunities for questions and discussion.
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16 May, 14:15–16:00
David Davies: “Towards a Non-aestheticist Account of Artistic Value”
The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics
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16 May, 15:15–17:00
Lawrence Klein: ”The Culture of Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
Uppsala Interdisciplinary 18th Century Seminar in co-operation with Prof. Otto Fischer, Section for Rhetoric, Uppsala University, and PhD Karl Axelsson, Södertörn University
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17 May, 09:15–16:30
Digital Humanities: Past Accomplishments, Future Directions
To honor and celebrate the contributions of Professor Hayles to the fields of literature and digital humanities, the Faculty of Languages takes great pleasure in announcing a one-day symposium on Thursday, 17 May 2018, in Humanistiska teatern, Engelska parken. The invited talks and presentations will be followed by a reception.
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17 May, 10:15–12:00
Jonathan Shaheen, Uppsala
The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy
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17 May, 13:15–15:00
Morag Ramsey: PhD dissertation section
The Higher Seminar
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17 May, 16:15–18:00
Tommaso Braida: PhD Dissertation Chapter
The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law
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18 May, 09:00–10:00
Library Breakfast at the Library for Economic Sciences
Welcome to a breakfast at the library! We will show you how to access our resources and how you can access material that is not available at Uppsala University Library. We will tell you about our services and our support in information searching, reference management and publishing strategies.
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18 May, 10:15–12:00
Bettina von Helverson: "Exemplar retrieval and cue abstraction in quantitative judgment"
The General Seminar
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18 May, 10:15–12:30
Lars Karlander defends his thesis in Constitutional Law
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18 May, 11:15–13:00
Torben Spaak, Stockholm University
The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy
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21 May, 10:15–12:00
Errol Lord, University of Pennsylvania
The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy
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22 May, 13:15–15:00
Staffan Müller-Wille, University of Exeter
Office for History of Science
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22 May, 13:15–15:00
Research seminar
”Bonifacio Graziani, musica suavissima and Jesuits in mid-seventeenth century Rome: drafting a book project”
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22 May, 13:15–15:00
Kommunala strategier för hushåll med en svag ställning på bostadsmarknaden
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22 May, 14:15–16:00
Jean-François Blanchette, UCLA
from the Department of Department of Information Studies at UCLA in California.
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23 May, 09:15–11:30
Introduction to EndNote
You will learn how to create a reference library, import reference-data from library catalogues and article databases into EndNote, collect and save PDF-files in your EndNote library, insert citations into a Word-document and create reference lists according to the reference style of choice.
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23 May, 10:15–12:00
Disappearing numeral systems in Kanashi
Hugo Valentin open lecture series: Combatting Language Endangerment and Death Language activism and New Speakers
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23 May, 13:00–15:00
Reading Group Session – Wittgenstein
(NB, a Wednesday)
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23 May, 14:15–16:00
Errol Lord: “Perceptual Expertise and the Rationality of Criticism”
The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics
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23 May, 19:00–21:00
David Davies, McGill University
The Philosophical Society in Uppsala
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24 May, 09:00 – 25 May, 15:30
Konferens "Scientific Communication and Gatekeeping in Academia in the 21st Century"
International research conference
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24 May, 10:15–12:00
GaW seminarium: Upplandsbruk som arbetsplats under 1700-talets andra hälft
Göran Rydén lägger fram ett kapitel i en kommande bok, "Ett arbete som med trohet drifves
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24 May, 11:15–13:00
Michael Zimmerman, UNC, Greensboro
The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy
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24 May, 13:15–15:00
Ludmilla Jordanova: "Secular values and the portrayal of 'men of science' in the circle of Thomas Henry Huxley"
The Higher Seminar
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24 May, 13:15–15:00
The Uppsala Law and Management Seminars
Charlotta Kronblad (Chalmers University of Technology, Dept of Technology Management & Economics) speaks on digitalization and the business of legal counseling.
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24 May, 15:15–16:30
External Security Threats and Gender Inequality in Politics
Welcome to an Uppsala Forum Guest Lecture entitled "External Security Threats and Gender Inequality in Politics" with Visiting Fellow Alice J. Kang, Associate Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
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24 May, 16:15–18:00
Guilherme Marques Pedro: PhD Dissertation Chapter
The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law
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25 May, 10:15–12:00
Stefanie Hoehl: "From oscillations to interactions"
The General Seminar
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25 May, 10:15
Annelie Drakman – PhD Dissertation Defence
The Higher Seminar
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25 May, 10:15–12:30
Sabina Hellborg defends her thesis in Civil Law
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25 May, 15:15–17:00
Thomas Jacobsen: “Feel! On the psychology of aesthetics and its emotions”
The Open Seminar in Music Psychology
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29 May, 00:01
Hallvard Stette: PhD Dissertation Chapter
The Higher Seminar in the History of Philosophy
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29 May, 13:15–15:00
Ylva Söderfeldt: "Knowing and being known”
The Higher Seminar
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29 May, 13:15–15:00
The violin pedagogy of Sven Karpe
Presentation of material from PhD project on the violin pedagody of Sven Karpe.
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29 May, 13:15–15:00
Research seminar
Presentation of material from PhD project
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29 May, 13:15–15:00
Tuesday Seminar
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30 May, 10:15–12:30
Jon Bergman defends his thesis in Civil Law
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30 May, 14:15–16:00
Anna Christina Ribeiro, Texas Tech
The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics
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31 May, 10:15–12:00
Andreas Stokke, SCAS/Uppsala
The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy
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31 May, 13:15–15:00
Linnea Tillema: "Sensuella kvinnor och total orgasm"
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31 May, 16:15–18:00
Kenneth Winston: "Lon Fuller on Legal Positivism"
The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law
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01 June, 10:00–15:00
Whole-day Seminar on PhD Dissertations
The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture
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01 June, 11:15–13:00
Karl Ekendahl – Final PhD Seminar
The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy
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04 June, 13:15–15:30
EndNote Advanced Workshop
This workshop will include hands-on exercises and is aimed at those who have taken the introductory course and/or are already using EndNote Desktop.
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05 June, 08:30 – 06 June
Gotland Game Conference 2018
Uppsala University - Campus Gotland have been teaching game development since 2001. The Gotland Game Conference (GGC) is an annual public evaluation of our work. International industry, academia and press are invited to help scrutinize our output, hone our process and celebrate our results.
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05 June, 10:00–17:00
Stockholm June Workshop in Philosophy 2018
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05 June, 13:15–15:00
Disseminate your research with Wikipedia
Disseminate your research and improve Wikipedia! Wikipedia is one of the largest encyclopedias in the world, and articles from Wikipedia are often among the top results in search engines like Google. Therefore, improving or adding articles and references to Wikipedia can be a good way of making research more visible.
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05 June, 13:15–15:00
Steven Shapin: "Why Was ‘Custom a Second Nature’ in Early Modern Medicine?"
Office for History of Science
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05 June, 13:15–15:00
Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief
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05 June, 15:15–16:30
CV and Cover letter - be attractive!
CareerTuesday. A seminar on how to write your CV and Cover letter.
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05 June, 15:15–16:30
Ett attraktivt CV och brev - hur?
KarriärTisdag. Funderar du på hur du kan formulera ditt CV och brev inför en jobbansökan?
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07 June, 09:00–17:00
Workshop – On the Philosophy of Poetry
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07 June – 09 June
Oral narration in Iranian Cultures
A conference in honour of professor Bo Utas on his 80th birthday
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07 June, 13:15–15:00
Dagmar Schmitz, Aachen University
The Higher Seminar
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07 June, 16:15–18:00
Julieta Rabanos: "Approaching Authority"
The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law
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08 June, 11:15–13:00
Eden Lin, Ohio State University
The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy
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08 June, 13:00–15:00
Reading Group Session – Wittgenstein
(TBC)
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08 June, 15:15–17:00
Michael Spitzer: “A very short history of fear in music”
The Open Seminar in Music Psychology
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11 June, 13:00–15:00
Brush up your information seeking skills
This workshop is aimed at those who wish to update their information searching skills. During this workshop, we will focus on Social Sciences and/or Law.
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12 June, 13:00–15:00
(MOVED) Sebastián Reyes Molina: Mid-term PhD Seminar
The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law
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12 June, 13:15–15:00
Weronika Bela och Ivar Hagren: "Fotografins och meteorologins historia"
The Higher Seminar
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13 June, 10:15–12:00
NVivo-workshop
Let's learn NVivo together! Welcome to a workshop where we will work with NVivo, a software for qualitative data analysis. Bring your work and your problems, or just come to get a short introduction.
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13 June, 13:15–16:00
Chris Thompson: Slutseminarium
Granskare: Rasmus Fleischer
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14 June, 13:00–15:00
Brush up your information seeking skills
This workshop is aimed at those who wish to update their information searching skills. During this workshop, we will focus on Social Sciences and/or Law.
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14 June, 13:15–15:00
Helena Franzén: PhD dissertation section
The Higher Seminar
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15 June, 09:15–11:30
Introduction to EndNote
You will learn how to create a reference library, import reference-data from library catalogues and article databases into EndNote, collect and save PDF-files in your EndNote library, insert citations into a Word-document and create reference lists according to the reference style of choice.
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15 June, 11:15–13:00
Iwao Hirose, McGill University
The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy
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18 June – 20 June
International Conference on Historical Cryptology
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27 June – 29 June
European Network for Housing Research - ENHR 2018
The annual housing conference, European Network for Housing Research (ENHR), will be held in Uppsala in the summer of 2018.
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27 June – 29 June
European Network for Housing Research - ENHR 2018
The annual housing conference, European Network for Housing Research (ENHR), will be held in Uppsala in the summer of 2018.
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08 August, 09:00 – 10 August, 17:00
Conference – Philosophy of Death
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30 August, 09:00 – 31 August, 17:00
The National STS Days 2018
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05 September, 13:00–16:00
European Junior & Graduate Careers VCF
Join the Virtual Career Fair for new and soon-to-be graduates and find the right junior position to kickstart your career in 2018/19.
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06 September, 13:15–15:00
Björn Billing: "Utsikt från en bergstopp – Jean-Jacques Rousseau och naturen”
The Higher Seminar
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18 September, 09:00–17:00
Temadag: Karriären efter disputationen
The Higher Seminar
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20 September, 15:00–17:00
About the Report and Conditions for State Support to Religious Communities
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20 September, 16:00–18:00
Sebastián Reyes Molina: Mid-term PhD Seminar
The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law
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25 September, 09:00 – 26 September, 17:00
International Workshop – Evaluations of Life
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03 October, 09:00 – 05 October, 17:00
Konferens – Vem är arbetarförfattaren?
Nordisk arbetarlitteratur VI, 2018
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10 October – 12 October
Visby Maritime Symposium
International Merchant Shipping in the 21st century: Social Science Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges
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06 November, 13:00–15:00
Religion and Popular Music - Book Release
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30 November, 13:00
Victor Moberger – PhD Dissertation Defence