Events

My talk is a biography of a number. I investigate how 10% became the conventional estimate of the proportion of homosexuals in the U.S. for about 25 years.

The Higher Seminar in Literature

(NB, venue)

Transitional justice in post-liberal times
Prospects and challanges

This seminar focuses on the attempts of nation building of a short-lived Belarusian People’s Republic (Belaruskaia Narodnaia Respublika), declared on March 25, 1918, the first attempt at establishing Belarusian statehood in the modern era.

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

(NB, day and time)

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

In the post-1850 phase, the first set of exclusive literature on tribes came from the pen of colonial administrator-cum-ethnographers. The paper surveys the rise of this literature and analyses its contents. The paper shows that the substance of the traditional Hindu idea showing the Indian tribe as beastly and demonic humans crept into the present literature. Western racism colluded with the loca

In this lecture, Dr Richard Frank from the Australian National University will describe how four election-cycle characteristics (campaign length, multiple election rounds, bans, and boycotts) can precipitate violence, while also analyzing newly gathered electoral cycle data on these four election characteristics.

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

(NB, moved forward to October 4)

The Cultural Matters Group at the Department of Sociology, in cooperation with Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice, invites you to two open lectures on the theme of Dis/Connection—digital methodologies, technological societies and online cultures.

Two open lectures with Annette Markham and Adam Fish on the theory and politics of a dis/connected digitalized society.

Guest Lecture – The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture, and the Engaging Vulnerability Programme

The integration and wellbeing of new urban populations is central to building safe and sustainable cities and avoid poverty traps for migrant communities. Professor Neil Adger will give a public lecture on research on this topic. Pre-registration required by 18 September (see below)

We have the pleasure of hereby inviting you to a Roundtable discussion on the topic which will take place at the University of Uppsala on 28 September 2018. The Roundtable will primarily address the involvement of Nordic social partners in the European Semester, with a focus on Sweden and Finland. The event is a key opportunity for an exchange of views between researchers, national and European st

The purpose of the thesis is to identify, describe and interpret two series of terracotta objects from southern Ghana originally donated by Robert P. Wild to the British Museum in London between 1933 and 1936.

Confirmation bias is a tendency to selectively search for and emphasize information that is consistent with a preferred hypothesis, whereas opposing information is ignored or downgraded. This thesis examines the role of confirmation bias in criminal cases, primarily focusing on the Swedish legal setting. It also examines possible debiasing techniques.

The Amboseli ecosystem, home of Amboseli National Park, is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity, and has long drawn the attention of conservationists and ecologists hoping to safeguard the healthy functioning of this Kenyan rangeland and the pastoral traditions that have brought this landscape into being.

What was American Studies?—and where?

Lecture by George Blaustein (University of Amsterdam), "Americanists in Unexpected Places"

This thesis explores the interaction between people and technology by looking at the daily use of a business intelligence (BI) system in an automotive company’s sales process, where sellers use the system to analyze, report, and measure sales performance. The thesis is based on a single case study, and the data sources are in-depth interviews, observations, and archival data.

The Higher Seminar in Literature

(NB, venue)

Office for History of Science

A warm welcome to this Uppsala Forum guest lecture with visiting fellow Dr Adam Fabry, Postdoctoral research fellow at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Sobre Cultura y Sociedad (CIECS-CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina. Lecture title is "From the End of History to the Rise of Authoritarian Neoliberalism: The Cases of Hungary, Poland and Russia."

PhD Seminar Series

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

Truth for peace?
Learning from the Solomon Islands

The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law

The Higher Seminar

(Please note time)

The formation of successful physics students: Discourse and identity perspectives on university physics

Disputation

Disputation

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

PhD Seminar Series

Joint Seminar – The Higher Seminar in Literature and the Department of Art History

(NB, venue changed from Eng9-1017 to Eng2-1023)

International Merchant Shipping in the 21st century: Social Science Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges

Introduction to programming in the programming language R. The workshop is mainly aimed for researchers and PhD students.

Headquarters of multinational corporations are presented with a diverse range of stimuli that influences the issues that they pay attention to and ultimately get involved in. However, headquarters have to prioritize since their attention and resources are limited, and they cannot pay attention to all issues and get equally involved in all subsidiaries.

Amalia Nilsson defends her doctoral thesis: A Lighter Shade of Dark:
Exploring the Value Adding and Value Subtracting Effects of
Headquarters Attention and Involvement in Subsidiary Activities

The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law

(NB, CANCELLED)

Eran Viezel graduated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at the Bible department. He teaches at the department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Beer Sheba).

This conference brings together researchers from across Europe and North America and from a variety of different disciplines to facilitate discussion of the social, political, economic and cultural context of Latvia. The network of scholars established by this event will represent the forefront of Latvian studies.

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Literature

Transitional justice and the power of memory politics

Rational use of antibiotics–using antibiotics only when needed and in the right way–is a prioritized goal in policy aimed at preventing antimicrobial resistance. A vast body of research is devoted to understanding why unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed. However, this research tends to treat the definition of rational prescribing as an unproblematic fact, which is given by evidence.

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

This thesis closely examines the Great Copper Mine in Falun in the first two decades of the eighteenth century. It uses a micro-historical approach to investigate the economic discourse of agrarian oeconomy, a complex idea tied to the early modern agrarian society.

Designing with the Body: Somaesthetic Interaction Design

An expert panel consisting of Dr. Matthew Kott (researcher, IRES), Dr. Pēteris Timofejevs Henriksson (Umeå University), and Dr. Ryo Nakai (The University of Kitakyushu) will discuss the context, results, and possible consequences of the recent parliamentary elections in Latvia.

Internal conference for the project "Exploring Citizenship" in collaboration with the Department of Government

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

(NB, day, time and room)

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

Philip Hahn presents his paper ”’I was rather minded to go back to Ceylon than to Swabia’: Global experiences of Swabian artisans in the VOC and their reintegration back home”

David Biale is Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. He was educated at UC Berkeley, the Hebrew University and UCLA.

Hushållet i fokus
Maria Ågren lägger fram texten ”Open households, individuals, and intermediaries”. Texten tillgängliggörs på institutionens internweb. Seminariedeltagare från andra håll kan mejla Karin (karin.jansson@hist.uu.se) för att få texten.

'You must scare the hell out of humans': Female masculinity, action heroes, and cyborg bodies in feminist science fiction literature” and ”Att bli fri? : En intervjustudie med kvinnor som omorienterat sig från att leva heterosexuellt till att leva lesbiskt”

Exploring impacts of bottom-up processes after mass violence

The General Seminar

The Higher Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Rhetoric – Guest Lecture

Guest Lecture

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how this notion of a threatening global crisis was visualized in Swedish public media during the 1970s.

The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law and the project "Exploring Citizenship" in collaboration with the Department of Government

Disputation

PhD Seminar Series

We are going to present a short report of our recent field work in Badakhshan district (Khorog and its immediate environment) aimed at documenting Shughni as it is spoken currently. Specimens of recorded texts will be provided.

In this talk Professor Pulido shares research which compares the environmental and racist agendas of the first year of the Trump administration. She will argue argue that Trump’s spectacular racism is at least partly designed to nurture a white-nationalist base while obscuring vast regulatory changes in the environmental arena.

Fika at 14:45, Talk at 15:15

Föreläsning om den kinesiska konstens historia och dess samhälleliga betydelse.

Joint Seminar – Higher Seminar in Jurisprudence, SU, and Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law, UU

(NB, day, time and venue)

The General Seminar

Office for History of Science

(NB, moved to October 25)

The Higher Seminar in Literature

(NB, venue)

The seminar “Russia and the Western Far Right” will be based on Anton Shekhovtsov’s recently published book under the same title. The seminar will discuss relations between various Russian actors and Western (mostly European) far‐right ideologues, movements and organisations.


NB! As we expect the seminar to attract a large audience, first come-first served principle applies.

The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

Maria Ågren redogör för erfarenheter från två konferenser och inleder en diskussion om hur vi ska förhålla oss till krav på att kunna belägga forskningens ”impact”.

Welcome to an open lecture with professor Roger Chartier from Collège de France, Paris. The title of the lecture is “Materiality of the Texts and Reading Practices”. Afterwards the audience is invited to a mingle with snacks.

The role and importance of material objects in Orhan Pamuk’s works show an increasing development from his first novels onwards, culminating in The Museum of Innocence (2008). Especially in The Black Book (1990), rooms and other scenes are meticulously described down to the tiniest details; in this respect Pamuk has used French 19th-century authors such as Balzac, Flaubert and not least Proust.

Erik Smitterberg will present a chapter titled “Socio-cultural and linguistic change in Late Modern English” from his forthcoming book.

The role and importance of material objects in Orhan Pamuk’s works show an increasing development from his first novels onwards, culminating in The Museum of Innocence (2008). Especially in The Black Book (1990), rooms and other scenes are meticulously described down to the tiniest details; in this respect Pamuk has used French 19th-century authors such as Balzac, Flaubert and not least Proust.

Close Relations wishes to explore how changes in family and kin formation materialize in everyday lives, in stories, in fiction and art; how they are facilitated, contested, or hindered in cultural, political, legal, and medical contexts; how close relations play out, become closer or closed off, in specific contexts and situations.

Open lecture as part of the Close Relations conference

Open lecture as part of the Close Relations conference

Open lecture as part of the Close Relations conference

Open lecture as part of the Close Relations conference

The Higher Seminar in Rhetoric – Guest Lecture

(NB, time)

Office for History of Science

Open lecture as part of the Close Relations conference

Open lecture as part of the Close Relations conference

Disputation

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

Disputation

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

The Open Seminar in Music Psychology

Nicholas Pichwoad at the University of Arts London talks about a project that has resulted in two AR-apps, where you can browse through books in historical collections. The project was funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council, (AHRC).

Edward Long will defend his Licentiate Thesis titled “‘For God’s Sake’: Casual Oaths and Selected Discourse Markers in Early Modern English, 1560–1760”. The Opponent: Assistant Professor Ursula Lutzky (Vienna University of Economics and Business); the Examiner: Professor Nils-Lennart Johannesson (Stockholm University).

The Higher Seminar in Literature

(NB, venue)

A draft for the third article in the thesis on user participation and memory-making in cultura heritage institutions.

Recently Ukrainian authorities have been criticized by international watchdogs for the decline of freedom of speech and of the media. The issue has split Ukrainian civil society in two parts with one firmly standing for unrestrained freedom of speech, while the other tending to justify the need to protect themselves from the various actors that have increasingly learned how to use (dis)information

The Higher Seminar

In the seminar Helene Martinsson Wallin explore the concept of Cultural Heritage Management in a Pacific context. She highlights two case studies which comprise two of the margin areas in the so called Polynesian triangle.

Disputation

Oscar Erixson, PhD (Department of Economics): Estate division: Equal sharing, exchange motives, and Cinderella effects

Editor Andreas Häger (Åbo akademi) and several authors Sabina Hadzibulic (Uppsala University), David Emil Wickström (Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany) and Thomas Bossius (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) will present and discuss the volume "Religion and Popular Music. Artists, Fans, Culture" with invited commentators. More details to follow.

The affective body in a technology-mediated world

The Higher Seminar in Literature

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

Fania Oz-Salzberger is Director of Paideia and Professor of History at the Faculty of Law and Center for German and European Studies, University of Haifa. She previously also taught at Monash University and at Princeton University. Oz-Salzberger was raised in Kibbutz Hulda on modern Hebrew culture and the kibbutz movement’s creative understanding of the Jewish legacy.

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

(NB, time)

Joint Seminar – The Higher Seminar in History of Science and Ideas and The Higher Seminar in Literature

In this lecture Professor Atran explores French President Macron’s claim that society needs religion in light of rising populism and illiberalism. Can a spiritual revival of our civilizational values and rituals and their potential for eliciting commitment to defense of the common good address problems of violent extremism and radical illiberalism? What does history and research suggest?

The General Seminar

The present thesis examined whether disorganized attachment is a specific risk-factor for symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or a non-specific risk factor for both types of problems.

From framing private homes as museums, to sitting for life masks and appointing biographers, new forms of self-monumentalizing emerged in the early nineteenth century. In this study I investigate the emergence and configuration of such practices in Romantic Britain.

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

In this thesis, the question of why a large number of small, modest, public baths (saunas) were built on the Swedish countryside during 1920–1949 has been analysed. The specific research question has been: How did the idea of the need for the baths, as well better personal hygiene among the Swedish population, develop?

A collaboration between the Department of Law, Stockholm University, and the Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University

Welcome to brownbag seminars hosted by the Views program at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. The seminars will be held at 12.00-13.00 at the Department. The presentations are classical 'brownbags' with a 10-20 minute presentation and subsequent discussion. The seminars are open for everyone to attend.

Introduction to programming in the programming language R. The workshop is mainly aimed for researchers and PhD students.

Office for History of Science

What has been the role of oligarchs in forming foreign policy in post-Maidan Ukraine? Come, listen and discuss with our visiting scholar Dr. Lidiya Zubytska.

The Higher Seminar in Literature

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

Bhisham Sahni: Analys av flera noveller och filmen "Tamas", baserad på Sahnis roman av samma namn

Uppsala Interdisciplinary 18th Century Seminar

Come and listen to Ulrika Dahl's inaugural lecture: "The Ivory Tower and the Dark Continent: Feminism, Femininity and Whitenes in the Academy" (in Swedish)

Tjänstefolk i övergångstid
Carolina Uppenberg presenterar sin avhandling: I husbondens bröd och arbete: kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730-1860. Vi läser valfria delar, men gemensamt s.234-254 (från rubriken ”Matmodern och pigan”). Avhandlingen finns i fulltext på http://hdl.handle.net/2077/55921

Advanced Seminar at Hugo Valentin-centrum

Joint Seminar UU and SU in the Philosophy of Science

The Higher Seminar

Guest Lecture – The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

(NB, venue)

Joint Seminar – The Higher Seminar in Literature and The Faculty of Languages

Mas(s)turbatory Readings. A Queer Analysis of Popular Romance

Joint Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy, Uppsala University and Stockholm University

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

(NB, in Swedish)

The seminar based on a PhD dissertation addresses how states’ attempts to justify their engagement in peacebuilding should be evaluated in the light of justification theory.

Aesthetics

Gail Feigenbaum, Vice Director of the Getty Research Institute, talks about the 16th Century Italian painter Annibale Carracci's painting "The Butcher's Shop". Feigenbaum is widely known as an expert on Carracci, Roman Baroque art, the history of collections and display of paintings during this period.

Tomas Axelssons will introduce the workshop with a starting point in his article: 'The Dark Night of the Soul: Art Film, Bereavement and Unsatisfied Audience Responses' and we will watch the short film 'Night'.
Open to researchers and doctoral students from all departments and disciplines.

Uppsala Interdisciplinary 18th Century Seminar

(NB, moved to spring 2019)

The lecture will center on the relation between the Mantle of Roger II and the mosaic decorations in the Norman Stanza of the Royal Palace and the Cappella Palatina in Palermo.

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

Maja Hultman is a PhD candidate in History at the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at University of Southampton, UK.

The Higher Seminar

(NB, moved to December 6)

The Higher Seminar in Literature

Disputation

The General Seminar

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

This is a thesis about expansions of consumer choice, their causal effects on political engagement, and the democratic implications that follow.

The Open Seminar in Music Psychology

Temadagen vill belysa olika aspekter av uigurernas tillvaro i Centralasien i historia och nutid. Uigurerna är ett centralasiatiskt turkfolk. Deras traditionella bosättningsområde omfattar nuvarande Uiguriska autonoma regionen Xinjiang, men också i Kazakstan, Kirgizistan och Uzbekistan. Diasporagrupper finns även i Saudiarabien, Sverige, Turkiet, USA m.fl. länder. Genom forskning och missionsverks

Uppsala Lectures in Business is a series of lectures that has been arranged annually by the Department of Business Studies since 1984. This year's speaker is Haridimos Tsoukas, Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus and Distinguished Research Environment Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.

Dr.Phil. Jussra Schröer, teaches practical Islamic theology and social work at the Centre for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen. Her Areas of research are: Qualitative social research: Islamic spiritual care and counselling in Germany and in a European context. Diversity, Gender, Professional Ethics in Counselling Practice.

Office for History of Science

(NB, moved to December 4)

The Higher Seminar in Literature

(NB, venue)

Welcome to an introduction to Python, a programming language largely used in science and technology. It is easy tp read, easy to learn and builds on a large community of users.This workshop gives an introduction to Python and time to practice. Bring your own computer.

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy in collaboration with the Institute for Future Studies

(NB, day, time and place)

Joint Seminar – Practical and Theoretical Philosophy

(NB, day and time)

PhD Seminar Series

En tidigare optimism avseende demokratins utbredning globalt har under de senaste åren förbytts i en oro för ökade spänningar, auktoritära krafter och internationell fragmentering. Vilka är hoten mot demokratin och hur allvarliga är de? Hur kan demokratin främjas och förstärkas? Dessa frågor är temat för 2018 års Forsskålsymposium.

ICH is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity during todays globalization. A sustainable management and understanding of the intangible cultural heritage of different communities help to promote social cohesion, intercultural dialogue, and encourages mutual respect for other ways of life, as well as to protect identity within diversity.

The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

Even the most obvious actions require justification. The need for justification of peacebuilding involvements is always present. This thesis argues that justification is particularly needed when there is a prevalent power asymmetry between an external state and a host community.

The General Seminar

On November 30, Ms. Ohlsson will be defending her dissertation "On the Ethics of External States in Peacebuilding – A Critical Study of Justification". Faculty opponent is Associate Prof Pamela Slotte (Helsinki University). Grading Committee: Assosiate Prof Elisabeth Gerle (Lund), Prof Helena Lindholm (Gothenburg), and Prof Ruben G. Apressyan (Moscow). Chair: Prof Elena Namli.

This book investigates the argument from queerness against moral realism, famously put forward by J. L. Mackie in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977).

Queer seminar

Office for History of Science

Office for History of Science

The Higher Seminar in Literature

(NB, cancelled)

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

Uppsala University Library in collaboration with Uppsala Interdisciplinary 18th Century Seminar

Presentation of the project “The Library of Leufstabruk” by project manager Peter Sjökvist (librarian at Uppsala University Library, Special Collections) and colleagues. The project is aiming to give digital access to a 18th century library. The seminar is a cooperation with Uppsala University Library. The seminar is held mainly in Swedish.

The Department of Law in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy

Advanced Seminar at Hugo Valentin-centrum

The Higher Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

(NB, time)

Disputation

Lingshuang Kong defends her doctoral thesis: The Modern Journey to the West: Exploring Key Factors Influencing Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Emerging-market Multinationals

Disputation

Disputation

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

(NB, cancelled)

Network for Women in Philosophy (NFK)

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

(NB, day, time and venue)

The Higher Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Literature

(NB, venue)

The Higher Seminar in Literature

This dissertation evaluates and compares when the assessment of mental abilities to refuse – or consent to – somatic medical intervention is required in England, Russia and Sweden, and what criteria must be applied to assess the ability to decide about somatic medical interventions in these legal orders.

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

Tidskrifter som formare av genusdiskurser
Gudrun Andersson lägger fram artikelutkastet ”Moralising Gender in Fashion Magazines in the Early Nineteenth Century”. Mejla Gudrun (gudrun.andersson@hist.uu.se) för att få texten som ska diskuteras på seminariet.

The overall aim of this qualitative study was to explore the function of religion and volunteer workers in religious organizations in contributing to the reconstruction and development of existential meaning and psychosocial well-being regarding the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami.

The Higher Seminar

Scholars believe that at the time of the rise of Islam in the 7th century, the vast majority of the world's Jewish population lived in Iraq (Babylonia), and that with Islamic conquest of North Africa and the opportunities that conquest provided for long-distance trade, a flood of Jews moved to the Islamic countries of the southern Mediterranean.

The overarching purpose of this thesis was to improve early recognition of both disability and ability in young autistic children. Three studies were conducted in a largely overlapping sample of 3-year-old high-risk-for-ASD siblings, either with or without ASD, and low-risk-for-ASD siblings.

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

In this thesis the links between housing tenure, income and selective, segregation generating, residential mobility are explored. The development of these links is analysed against the background of housing regime changes in Stockholm between 1990 and 2014.

The Open Seminar in Music Psychology

This dissertation is a study of modern Indian philosophy.

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

Disputation

Kjell-Åke Hamrén presents a draft of his PhD project on the violin pedagogy of Sven Karpe

The Higher Seminar

PhD Seminar Series

The purpose of the study was to explore the role of religion in the development of a meaning system among Swedish adolescents by examining the interactions of their: sense of coherence (SOC), identity process (U-MICS), moral development (SRM-SF), and views on existential and religious questions.

The Open Seminar in Music Psychology

The Higher Seminar

Tjänstefolkets arbete i Stockholm 1600-1635
Paul Borenberg lägger fram avhandlingskapitelutkastet: ”Arbetsuppgifter” ur sitt avhandlingsprojekt om tjänstefolket i Stockholm åren 1600–1635. Texten tillgängliggörs på institutionens internweb. Seminariedeltagare från andra håll kan mejla Karin (karin.jansson@hist.uu.se) för att få texten.

This thesis explores the diverse consequences of transnational labour migration on individual migrants and their household members within out-migration communities in the agricultural valleys of Cochabamba, Bolivia.

The Open Seminar in Music Psychology

The Higher Seminar

Isto Huvila presents a new research project on the documentation of making and use of research data CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE),

The Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

The Higher Seminar

Joint SU and UU Seminar in the Philosophy of Science

Network for Women in Philosophy (NFK)

This dissertation examines uses of history and expressions of cultural memory in Norwegian black metal.

Higher Seminar in Literature and Rhetoric

Public lecture by Professor John Heritage, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Languages 2019, with the title Agency in Response: Polar Questions and Other Contexts.

Office for History of Science

The Research Seminar in Ethnology

Israel Bartal is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, and the former Dean of the Faculty of
Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2006-2010).

Public lecture by Professor Susan Danby, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Educational Sciences 2019, with the title Children’s interaction and social order: Reflections on lessons learned, serendipity and turning points.

Public lecture by Professor Alan Warde, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Social Sciences 2019, with the title Eating out.

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar

Public lecture by Professor Lejla Demiri, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Theology 2019, with the title Islamic Theology of the ‘Other’: A Case Study from 17th Century Damascus.

Public lecture by Professor Mary McClintock Fulkerson, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Theology 2019, with the title Lived Theology: A Challenge.

Public lecture by Sonia Haoa Cardinali, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Arts 2019, with the title Archaeology of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) – Learning from the past for the future.

Lecture with Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Georgia, United States. The event will be preceded by a free screening of the film "Denial".

Lecture with Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Georgia, United States. The event will be preceded by a free screening of the film "Denial".

On the occasion of the 2019 Winter Conferment Ceremony, the Faculty of Social Sciences invites you to mingle with our new PhD graduates, honorary doctors and award-winners.

NB! Please sign up by email to Mattias Vesterlund (mattias.vesterlund@ires.uu.se) by January 21.

Welcome!

Leos Müller, Stockholm University presents his book 'Sveriges första globala århundrade: en 1700-tals historia' (Dialogos förlag). The seminar will be held in Swedish.

The Higher Seminar in Literature

The Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

Joint Seminar UU/SU in Philosophy of Law

What happens as researchers negotiate between our own research agendas and the design and conduct of research that is respectful of diverse participants and their goals? How might we build relationships of mutuality into the research process – and what are the benefits, as well as the costs, in doing so? How is such work received, and published, in various venues?

The Higher Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Literature

Welcome to the Thursday seminars at the Centre for Gender Research! The Thursday seminars provide a meeting place for gender research from many different disciplines. OPEN FOR ALL! No registration required.

Welcome to the Thursday seminars at the Centre for Gender Research. The Thursday seminars provide a meeting place for gender research from many different disciplines. OPEN FOR ALL! No registration required.

The Higher Seminar in the History of Philosophy

(NB, moved to February 12)

The General Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

The primary aim of this dissertation is to gain a greater understanding of the particular vulnerabilities attached to wo/men publicly performing atheist selves on YouTube.

The Higher Seminar in Literature

Daniel Normark presents ”Mision Cientifica Sueca: Clarence Crafoord's trips to South America 1950-1965 as educational tours in thoracic surgery”.

Office for History of Science

The seminar will discuss whether or not a distinct ‘rehabilitation’ of Stalin and Stalinism has occurred and is occurring in Russia both among political elites and ordinary citizens.

The Research Seminar in Ethnology

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar

The General Seminar

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture, Dpt of Philosophy, and The Engaging Vulnerability Seminar

In recent decades, the theory of deliberative democracy has encountered multiple challenges. In this thesis, I explore the prospects of a particular type of deliberative democratic institution – deliberative mini-publics – in three essays.

The event has been postponed, more information will follow.

The Uppsala Philosophy Students' Association

Fewer and fewer university students and school pupils are choosing to study modern languages. This has already become a problem for Swedish companies in their dealings with other countries in Europe. Why are young people in Sweden rejecting languages in an increasingly globalised world? Do we need to know more languages than just English? What’s the situation elsewhere in Europe?

Joint Seminar UU/SU in Philosophy of Law

The Higher Seminar in Literature

Presentation of the PhD thesis under development Lighting candles before a headless Jesus. Enchanted heritage, disenchanted sacredness, and the journey in-between.

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

The Cross-Disciplinary Travel Writing Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

RADICALISATION
– A lecture and seminar series in collaboration with CEMFOR

RADICALISATION
– A lecture and seminar series in collaboration with CEMFOR

The Engaging Vulnerability Seminar and The Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

Welcome to the Thursday seminars at the Centre for Gender Research. The Thursday seminars provide a meeting place for gender research from many different disciplines. OPEN FOR ALL! No registration required.

RADICALISATION
– A lecture and seminar series in collaboration with CEMFOR.
Seminars open to researchers and Phd candidates with an interest in the field. (in english)

The Higher Seminar in the History of Philosophy

Welcome to this panel discussion on peace and democracy in Myanmar during Aung San Suu Kyi's time in office.

The General Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture, Dpt of Philosophy, and The Engaging Vulnerability Seminar

The Open Seminar in Music Psychology

Ancient artefacts appeared frequently in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century British fiction. Prehistoric stone circles, enigmatic potsherds, Egyptian mummies, and other such antiquities featured in everything from fin de siècle adventure narratives to the major works of High Modernism.

Draw flowers, leaves, bulbs, and tubers in the Tropical Greenhouse. Let the plants inspire you. Learn from a skilled artist.

Mats Hallenberg presents his book "Kampen om det allmänna bästa: Konflikter om privat och offentlig drift i Stockholms stad under 400 år" (in swedish)

Roger Luckhurst is an authority on zombies, mummies and aliens (in that order). Recent works include articles in the journals New Formations and Modern Fiction Studies, as well as the Cambridge Companion to Dracula. Professor Luckhurst has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and blogs for the British library.

Joint Seminar UU/SU in Philosophy of Law

Helena Bergman, Högskolan i Södertörn, presents a draft to an article: ”Mellan forskning och politik: Svensk alkoholforskning, 1940-1960-tal”. (in swedish)

Office for History of Science Seminar

This talk considers the changing meanings of 'Mesopotamia' as a name for the drainage of the rivers of the Euphrates and the Tigris from c. 2,000 BCE and until the present day.

Uppsala Interdisciplinary 18th Century Seminar

An open lecture with Prof. Clare Hemmings on feminism, violence and male authority in an age of right-wing populism.

An open lecture with Prof. Clare Hemmings on feminism, violence and male authority in an age of right-wing populism.

An open lecture with Dr Alyosxa Tudor on teaching trans/gender in the face of the rise of the global right.

An open lecture with Dr Alyosxa Tudor on teaching trans/gender in the face of the rise of the global right.

This book examines some central arguments in the debate about the value of death.

Susanna Fellman ”Hur ska vi bedöma om konkurrenslagstiftningen varit tolerant eller inte? Metodologiska reflektioner på basen av kartellregisterdata” (in swedish)

The Higher Seminar in Literature

The Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

PhD Seminar Series

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

(NB, moved to March 20)

The Higher Seminar in Literature

Thursday seminar at the Centre for Gender Research. Open for all!

The Higher Seminar in the History of Philosophy

(NB, venue)

Guest Lecture

Section for Rhetoric in collaboration with Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice, and IRES, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Guest Lecture, the Higher Seminar in Rhetoric in collaboration with the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES), and Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice.

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture and The Higher Seminar in the History of Philosophy

The overall aim of the thesis is to contribute with new and deepened knowledge about the teaching and learning of craft when the crafting activity is considered as environmental and sustainability education (ESE).

This thesis aims to develop an epistemology of rhetoric in light of the apparent contemporary post-truth condition of society. Epistemology is hereby understood as concerned with principles for knowledge production within the academic discipline of rhetoric, as well as with an understanding of knowledge production in the public realm.

Thibeaud Giddey presents a paper from his research: "The institutionalisation of the fight against white-collar crime in Switzerland, 1970-1990" (in english)

The Higher Seminar

(NB, time)

(NB, moved to March 7)

Susanne Urban, Åse Richard and Özge Altin will present and initiate the discussion.

This seminar will discuss the script to the anthology "Förtrollning och avförtrollning". The authors Ingemar Pettersson and Annelie Drakman, Uppsala University (in swedish)

(with short presentations from all participants on their favourite research methods)

The Research Seminar in Ethnology

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

The Engaging Vulnerability Seminar

PhD Seminar Series

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar

Design Thinking is a practical method to encourage creative solutions to practical issues during a design process.

Welcome to this Uppsala Forum Guest Lecture, celebrating International Women's Day with a Panel Session on Soviet Women's Emancipation and its Legacies.

By exploring representations of place, this thesis treats practices of spatial stigmatisation in the context of segregated Swedish cities. In three papers, different aspects of stigmatisation and place-making are discussed and analysed, where the overarching ambition is to identify and critically deconstruct the ideology behind stigma as well as suggest ways of making representation positive.

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

Risk-taking is an important topic in Africa, as access to financial institutions and social security is scarce. Data on risk attitudes in Africa is limited and the available data collected might not be reliable.

In connection with Marc Tang’s defense in linguistics on March 9, we have the pleasure of inviting you to a series of lectures on linguistics and language technology with leading experts in the field. Participation is open to all interested and no registration required.

Sean Kenny, University of Lund presents "Predictors of Bank Distress: The 1907 Crisis in Sweden" (in english)

Institutionalized Cultural memory - changes, continuities and consequences

Author: Eva Mörk

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

The General Seminar

RADICALISATION
– A lecture and seminar series in collaboration with CEMFOR

The Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

RADICALISATION
– A lecture and seminar series in collaboration with CEMFOR.
Seminars open to researchers and Phd candidates with an interest in the field. (in english)

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.

PhD Seminar Series

Welcome to Uppsala and to the 15th annual new institutionalism workshop (NIW). This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and academic systems who share an interest in pushing forward theoretical and/or empirical frontiers of institutional research.

The Higher Seminar

Welcome to the Thursday seminar at the Centre for Gender Research. The Thursday seminars are a place where gender studies from different disciplines meet. OPEN FOR ALL! No registration required.

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

(NB, time)

The Uppsala Philosophy Students' Association

The General Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

Old Irish manuscripts on first glance present a rather homogeneous view of Old Irish as a language. However, as with any language, accents and dialects would have varied from speaker to speaker, and it is the task of scholars such as Ariana Malthaner of Trinity College Dublin to study the evidence for such variation in the manuscripts.

Jenny Andersson presents her article ”No limits. The OECD and the Interfutures project, 1975-1978” (in swedish)

Housing and Society seminar
Author: Roger Andersson and Emma Holmqvist

(University of Tampere) will present ongoing research work.

The Research Seminar in Ethnology

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

The Cross-Disciplinary Travel Writing Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar

This book studies how domestic courts and commercial arbitration institutions impact the scope of arbitral tribunal jurisdiction in investment treaty disputes.

This research explores how entrepreneurship interacts with feministic political commitments and praxis. It shows that this interaction is intimately shaped by its spatial setting, in this case Möllevången in the city of Malmö, Sweden.

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

Jeremy presents 'Boston, New York, and Philadelphia in Global Maritime Trade, 1700-1775' (in english)

Presentation of PhD project

Author: Kristina Boréus

This seminar with Dr. Susanne Wengle (SCAS/University of Notre Dame) focuses on an unprecedented influx of capital to the agrifood system that has taken place over the last fifteen years in Russia, its causes and consequences.

This international conference seeks to study the rhetoric, media, and information networks 18th-century naturalists used to spread their ideas about the natural world and how their exchange informs ideas of both nation-building and a transatlantic imaginary.

The Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

The Engaging Vulnerability Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

Author: Brett Christophers

Welcome to the Thursday seminar at the Centre for Gender Research. The Thursday seminars are a place where gender studies from different disciplines meet. OPEN FOR ALL! No registration required.

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

(NB, moved forward to May 3)

Martin Andersson discusses his doctoral thesis "Migration i 1600-talets Sverige" (in swedish)

Work-in-progress seminar

The Higher Seminar in Literature

Author: Özlem Celik

Jenny Andersson presents a project titled "Co-production and the management of future value orders". (in swedish)

Office for History of Science

The Research Seminar in Ethnology

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar

The General Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

This thesis concentrates on two questions: What beliefs do ministers have of appropriate steering in the Swedish core executive Regeringskansliet (RK)? Do they believe that RK is a politically steered organization as it is usually described, or as a throughout political organization, as some political scientists have recently depicted it?

Cecilia Kahn - "Preference attainment as measurement of interest group influence – a method test"

Office for History of Science

Author: Sara Westin

The Higher Seminar in the History of Philosophy

(NB, day, time and venue)

Network for Women in Philosophy (NFK)

(NB, new date)

Comments from: Prof. Inger Furseth, University of Oslo, Norway
Prof. Hans-Georg Ziebertz, University of Würzburg, Germany
Prof. Riho Altnurme, University of Tartu, Estonia

The Higher Seminar in the History of Philosophy

(NB, day, time and venue)

The Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

The Uppsala Philosophy Students' Association

The Higher Seminar

PhD Seminar Series

The aim of this study is to explain why human geography in Sweden became a planning science during the postwar period. Human geography had developed a sophisticated use of abstract models. The proliferation of models within in the social sciences was an international phenomenon during the postwar period.

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

Half time seminar

The Open Seminar in Music Psychology

Jan Ottosson on how to get scientific articles published in journals and magazines (in swedish)

Author: Olle Hammar

The Higher Seminar in Rhetoric

Joint Event UU/SU in Philosophy of Law

The Higher Seminar in Literature

(NB, day and venue)

Housing and Society seminar
Author: Tim Holappa

The Uppsala Philosophy Students' Association

RADICALISATION
– A lecture and seminar series in collaboration with CEMFOR

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar in the History of Science and Ideas and the Engaging Vulnerability Programme

RADICALISATION
– A lecture and seminar series in collaboration with CEMFOR.
Seminars open to researchers and Phd candidates with an interest in the field. (in english)

Uppsala Interdisciplinary 18th Century Seminar jointly with The Higher Seminar in Literature

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

(NB, moved from April 24)

Welcome to this Uppsala Forum Guest Lecture on national movements.

This thesis investigates the complex relationship between residential segregation and social integration. The dominant discourse in Sweden and Europe sees residential segregation as hindering socioeconomic and cultural integration, creating parallel societies and even threatening the social cohesion of European societies.

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

(NB, moved forward to autumn 2019)

Queer seminar at the Centre for Gender Research.

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

The Higher Seminar

Thursday seminar at the Centre for Gender Research.

The Higher Seminar in Literature

The General Seminar

Joint Seminar between The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law and The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

The present thesis took a developmental and individual differences approach to understanding action perception and processing in infancy. The overarching aim was to understand the development of action perception and how individual differences contribute to the perception and processing of actions.

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

Workshop on Cultural Memory Studies

Ann-Kristin Bergquist's seminar paper address key barriers to business sustainability discussed at a multidisciplinary conference held at the Harvard Business School in 2018.

The seminar is the first in the Uppsala University network “National interfaces in transformation”, studying how nation brands, public diplomacy, cultural exchange and soft power are connected to mediated globalization.

We will have a look at the skills and attitudes of statistical thinkers and how
incredibly beneficial they are in today’s world, where innovation is prized and objective critical thinking is a must.

Work-in-progress seminar

Definiteness is a category that is not marked in written standard Persian. However, both spoken Persian and a number of other Iranian languages have markers of definiteness. It is also marked in written Kurdish. This seminar will discuss marking of definiteness in a number of New West Iranian languages.

The Higher Seminar in Literature

Author: Christoffer Berg

David Dellstig present a chapter from his doctoral thesis. (in swedish)

The Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

Research proposal on Swedes using English in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

RADICALISATION
– A lecture and seminar series in collaboration with CEMFOR

The Engaging Vulnerability Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

In connection to the Phd Workshop on Monograph Publishing, an open, public lecture on the topic will also be held, since the material covered in the Workshop also applies to academic publishing in general, discussing factors that will affect researchers throughout their publishing careers.

RADICALISATION
– A lecture and seminar series in collaboration with CEMFOR.
Seminars open to researchers and Phd candidates with an interest in the field. (in english)

Office for History of Science Seminar

(NB, moved to September 26)

Uppsala Interdisciplinary 18th Century Seminar and The Higher Seminar in Literature, Dpt of Literature

Network for Women in Philosophy (NFK)

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

(NB, moved froward to May 17)

The Higher Seminar in the Philosophy of Language and Culture

(Cancelled due the Phalén Picnic)

Solutions and thoughts about sustainability are presented in a creative and inspiring fashion! The theme of the event is “Letters to my Grandchildren”. The theme is open for interpretation, as long as you can connect your submission to the subject of sustainability you can apply with whatever your imagination allows.

The world needs to be more sustainable, and everyone needs to be in on it. Want to know how you can be a part of it? During the day there will be workshops and seminars that will explore the diversity of sustainability along with students from many different backgrounds!

The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law – Guest Lecture

Kathryn Gary discusses her doctoral theis on women's wages in early modern Sweden (in english)

In this talk I shall provide a review of my professional career, with its various themes, detailing the key research topics addressed, theoretical bodies assumed, research methods utilized and research contributions produced.

The Higher Seminar in Literature

Author:Terence Fell

Staff meeting at the Department of Musicology

A conference on the alleged characteristics and policy expressions of the discourse of the World Class University (WCU).

The conference focuses on the alleged characteristics and policy expressions of the discourse of the “World Class University” (WCU).

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

(NB, cancelled)

Open Lectures and Film Screening

Guest Lecture held on the Course “Corporate Communication” but everyone is welcome.
Michel J. Papa is Guest Professor at the Department of Informatics and Media during April-May 2019.

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

Thursday seminar at the Centre for Gender Research.

The mobilization of alternatives to our current petroleum-based energy system that the threat of climate change demands, is perhaps the fundamental political and social challenge contemporary society faces. But this mobilization is only possible through an imaginative act – that of imagining a future alternative energy system.

Eka Tchkoidze (Erasmus+ fellow at the Department of History) gives a seminar on Georgian Hagiography (structure, motives and connections with Byzantine hagiography).

Eka Tchkoidze is Associate Professor of History, School of Arts and Sciences, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Two of her main areas are Georgian and Byzantine hagiography and the history of the Black Sea during the 19th c.

The Higher Seminar in the History of Philosophy

(NB, venue)

Ventilering av kandidatuppsatsen om Archna Painulis novellsamling "Highway E 49" (Hindi)

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy (Double Seminar)

Disputation

This study gives an in-depth insight into ways that ordinary Christians in a multireligious context think about religious plurality. It examines how Indian Protestants reflect upon other religions and upon the situation of religious diversity.

This dissertation studies the efficacy and effects of coercive policies in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The four composite essays investigate the impact of Israel’s practice of house demolition and construction of a separation barrier on Palestinians’ conflict preferences and use of violence, as well as the broader consequences of these policies for Palestinian communities.

Disputation

The LanGIS (GIS for Language Study) network invites you to its Inspirational seminar with Prof. William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., University of Georgia, University of Oulu.

The Higher Seminar in Literature

Mikael Holmqvist presents his study "Handels. Maktelitens skola"

Housing and Society seminar
Author: Ida Borg

Collecting the present with crowdsourcing

Guest Lecture

Disputation

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.

The Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

The Higher Seminar in Aesthetics

Open lecture

Thanks to the “Africa, the cradle of human diversity” conference
https://africathecradleofhumandiversity.com/ organized by the Human
Evolution department we have some distinguished specialists on African
linguistics visiting Uppsala. So we have taken the opportunity to
organize a Mini-Workshop on African linguistics in the afternoon of
Wednesday the 22 May 14.15-16.

The Engaging Vulnerability Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

Joint Event UU/SU in Philosophy of Law

Brown Bag Seminar
Author: Hannu Ruonavaara

The Higher Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Literature

(NB, time)

The General Seminar

(NB, new venue)

Guest Lecture

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

The lecture is part of the master's program conference "Bridging Modern and Early Modern History", History Department, Uppsala University.

The Higher Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy

(NB, day)

This mini-symposium brings scholars together to discuss two different but overlapping themes: Richard Wolin presents his new book addressing the antisemitism as newly unearthed in Heidegger's 'Black Notebooks'. Further, we will discuss Steve Fuller's assumption in his latest book that scientific knowledge has an ethical component and how this may or may not have repercussions for academic freedom.

- Adam Hedgecoe, Cardiff University, UK: "Local autonomy versus centralised ethics: Policy disputes and the development of research ethics review in the UK"

- Noortje Jacobs, Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, Netherlands: "Ethics by Committee. Governing Human Experimentation in a Liberal Democracy, 1945-2000"

Open lectures part of the international workshop "Research Ethics Committees: Origins, Development, and Beyond"

The lecture by Jesús Velasco will discuss the immigration policy of the current administration and how different media have portrayed the "immigration crisis" at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Joint Seminar UU/SU in Philosophy of Law

Draft of the doctoral thesis

Welcome to this seminar with Uppsala Forum Visiting Fellow Valsamis Mitsilegas, Professor
of European Criminal Law and Global Security at Queen Mary University of London, and
Giovanni Piccirilli, Assistant Professor in Constitutional Law at LUISS Guido Carli University
of Rome.

Conspiracy theories are frequently identified as a staple ingredient of contemporary politics, especially the rhetoric of populist, anti-establishment movements.

Welcome to this seminar with Uppsala Forum Visiting Fellow Valsamis Mitsilegas, Professor of European Criminal Law and Global Security at Queen Mary University of London, and Giovanni Piccirilli, Assistant Professor in Constitutional Law at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome.

Barbara Gallina is Senior Lecturer at School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Division of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås

A collage of comments, ideas and case-studies concerning memory, memorials and monuments.

The Research Seminar in Ethnology

From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding State Socialist Television

In this seminar I will present my transcription and translation of a 16th century Konkani manuscript about the birth of Rama. The text is a part of a version of Ramayana in Konkani, which was written down in Latin script and studied by Catholic missionaries in Goa in order to learn to use the literary style and develop an adequate religious terminology.

Open lecture.

The Cross-Disciplinary Travel Writing Seminar

Viktor Persarvets presents his doctoral thesis manuscript: "Tariffs, Trade and Economic Growth in Sweden 1858-1913”. Opponent: professor Magnus Lindmark, Umeå University. (in swedish)

Morality and Modality

How do Swedes get their information about the U.S.? What role do Swedish correspondents in the U.S. play? How does the news reporting shape our understanding of the United States? What has the changing media landscape of recent years meant? How does the news reporting relate the general Swedish image of the U.S.?

Program and registration information is available via the link "website" above.

The Higher Seminar

Presentation of: ”Tekniska lösningar som svar på föränderliga hotbilder inom det ekonomiska försvaret 1928-2002.” (in swedish)

The Higher Seminar in Literature and Rhetoric

Author: Ivana Socoloff

The overall aim was to describe characteristics and health issues that insti-gate help seeking behavior among frequent attenders and to piece together a treatment program addressing heterogeneous health problems with the pur-pose to reduce psychological distress, enhance quality of life and reduce visiting rates at general practitioners.

Presentation of ongoing research work.

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.

The politics of storytelling: Performing narratives in social research in Durban, South Africa.
Open seminar and workshop on participatory methods.

The Higher Seminar

(NB, day)

Network for Women in Philosophy (NFK)

The Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy

(NB, day)

Mudassir Imran Mustafa U-CARE co-worker and joint PhD student at the Department of Informatics and Media, and Department of Women's and Children's health Uppsala University, is defending his dissertation "Sustaining the Usefulness of eHealth Research Software - Lessons Learned in Action Design Research" on June 10 13:00 at Ekonomikum Hörsal 2, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, 751 20 Uppsala.

PhD Seminar Series

Mudassir Imran Mustafa will defend his doctoral thesis “Sustaining the Usefulness of eHealth Research Software: Lessons Learned in Action Design Research”.

This thesis examines archaeological approaches to burials and changing mortuary practices during the Late Iron Age (c. 500-1100 AD) in central Eastern Sweden. Understanding the change in mortuary practices is fundamental to the study of the Late Iron Age.

Author: Marcus Knutagård
Housing and Society seminar

Welcome to this Uppsala Forum Guest Lecture with visiting Fellow Charles Crabtree on the backlash to international refugee law.

Ventilering av kandidatuppsatsen om en jämförande analys av utvalda noveller av Jayprakash Kardam och Ajay Navariya (Hindi)

CANCELLED

The Higher Seminar

Peter Ek defends his doctoral thesis: Managing Digital Open Innovation with User Communities: A Study of Community Sensing and Product Openness Capabilities in the Video Game Industry

Disputation

Disputation

Peter Ek defends his doctoral thesis: Managing Digital Open Innovation with User Communities: A Study of Community Sensing and Product Openness Capabilities in the Video Game Industry

Disputation

The aim of this dissertation is to shed light on the institutional categorization process involving persons with mental ill-health in two interrelated areas of welfare settings: primary healthcare and sickness insurance.

Disputation

Disputation

Sirkku Setänen presents "Motor development and concurrent brain MRI findings in very preterm born children at 12 years of age, LOVIS Study" followed by an after work for those who wish.

You can now register to the international conference on health communication. Thanks to a grant from the Swedish Research Council, we have created an exciting program with distinguished international experts on media communication, health psychology, sociology, anthropology, dietetics, sensory sciences, marketing and consumer science.

The Higher Seminar

The Higher Seminar

The Higher Seminar in Literature

The Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

Join us to learn more about and discuss perspectives from different faith traditions on living sustainably and how we can contribute to meeting the challenges at global, national and local levels.

The Higher Seminar

Adam Mitchell presents "Application of mediation analysis" followed by an after work for those who wish.

The Higher Seminar

(NB, Time)

The Higher Seminar in Literature