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Symposium "Representing Urban Change: Gentrification and Displacement in Literature and other Media"
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TRAIN symposium 2020
Welcome to attend the 11th TRAIN symposium. Uppsala University is a member of the TRAIN-network since January 2019 and being a new member we are happy to host the symposium and to invite you all.
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Emotionscircus seminarieserie: Molecules and Emotions Seminar 8
What shape do emotions take in different contexts and what influences what we can feel? Emotions are fascinating and elusive phenomena. Emotions have also emerged as a topic for research in a number of areas within the humanities and social sciences.
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Online International Interdisciplinary Symposium “Poetry as Political Resistance: in 20th century Eastern Europe and beyond”
This symposium will explore both the strategies of “non-political” poetic resistance as well as the meeting ground between such resistance and other forms a more active political dissent.
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MAYday for Crisis: invitation to information meeting online
MAYday for Crisis is an interdisciplinary platform at Uppsala University for dialogue and collaboration around the various challenges and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. We invite you to an information meeting to tell you more about this initiative, the interest that has been generated so far as well as the next steps to be followed.
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Casper Virkkula – Licentiate Seminar
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Post-election analysis: Belarus
NB! The seminar will be held on Zoom. More information is coming in August.
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Troy Vettese, Harvard University
The Higher Seminar
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Francesco Boldizzoni: "Foretelling the end of capitalism"
The Higher Seminar
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Higher sem: Hedvig Widmalm "Kvinnor och alkohol, 1718 - 1775"
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Linus Ljungström – Licentiate Seminar
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Internal seminar on Peer review
The thematic seminar focuses on discussion on experiences and practices of peer reviewing manuscripts for journal articles, conference papers and abstracts and books.
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Arms control talks as a means of survival in the new cold war
NB! The seminar will be held on Zoom. More information is coming in August.
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Take Off: Why societal impact?
Have breakfast with Uppsala University Innovation and at the same time build your skills to improve impact. This is the first of six breakfast seminars (9 Sep-18 Nov) in the "Take Off" series on accelerating the impact of research in society. The seminar series is open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers in all disciplines. Limited number of seats. Registration is required.
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Workshop: Post-Soviet Women – Ways to Empowerment
NB! The workshop will be held on Zoom. More information is coming in August.
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Elena Prats: PhD Dissertation Chapter Draft
The Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law
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Higher sem: Jenny Andersson "Nyliberalism i Norden"
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Basic intellectual property (IP) knowledge
This is the first seminar in a course on intellectual property and commercialisation (3 ECTS) that is provided by Uppsala University Innovation in collaboration with PRV. The course includes four seminars and is open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers in all disciplinary domains at Uppsala University.
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Take Off: How to create impact in society
Have breakfast with Uppsala University Innovation and at the same time build your skills to improve impact. This is the second of six breakfast seminars (9 Sep-18 Nov) in the "Take Off" series on accelerating the impact of research in society. The seminar series is open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers in all disciplines. Limited number of seats. Registration is required.
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Hanna Hodacs: ”Naturalists as Nordic Fashionistas"
The Higher Seminar
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Thursday semiar - two presentations, on consent law in Sweden; and maternal birth injuries
Two previous Master students at the Centre for Gender Research present their Masters' dissertations:
"Allt annat än ett ja...": En genusvetenskaplig analys av det sexuella samtyckets konstruktion i lagstiftningsprocessens publikationer (Hilda Broqvist)
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Erfarenheter av förlossningsskador: Hur genus- och sexualitetsnormer påverkar diagnostik, vardagsliv och sjukvård i Sverige (Sara Persson) -
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Finding useful information from patents
This is the second seminar in a course on intellectual property (IP) and commercialisation (3 ECTS) that is provided by Uppsala University Innovation in collaboration with the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV). The course includes four seminars and is open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers in all disciplinary domains at Uppsala University.
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Leyla Belle Drake: PhD Dissertation Chapter
The Higher Seminar and The Engaging Vulnerability Seminar
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Higher sem: Olle Jansson & Jan Ottoson: "Swedish Employment Transition Agreements as a form of Occupational Welfare"
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Death at the End of the Rainbow: Rethinking Queer Kinship, Rituals of Remembrance and the Finnish Culture of Death
Varpu Alasuutari defended her PhD in gender studies at the University of Turku, Finland on June 5, 2020. In her dissertation, she has examined death and loss as parts of queer and trans lives in Finland from the 1980s to the 2010s. Her research interests include queer kinship studies, queer death studies and feminist affect theories.
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Tools for communicating research outcomes
This is the third seminar in a course on intellectual property (IP) and commercialisation (3 ECTS) that is provided by Uppsala University in collaboration with the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV). The course includes four seminars and is open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers in all disciplinary domains at Uppsala University.
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Popular Geo- and Bio-politics at Europe's Eastern Margins
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Take Off: Plan your impact journey, part I
Have breakfast with Uppsala University Innovation and at the same time build your skills to improve impact. This is the third of six breakfast seminars (9 Sep-18 Nov) in the "Take Off" series on accelerating the impact of research in society. The seminar series is open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers in all disciplines. Limited number of seats. Registration is required.
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Unpacking the coloniality of power nexus in Indian surrogacy
This talk explores the historical legacies of colonialism to contemporary forms of reproductive labour in India.
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Michael Boyden: “Climatic Sensibility in American Travel Writing on the Caribbean”
Uppsala Travel Writing Seminar (RELS)
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Higher sem: Joachim Voth ”From Finance to Fascism: The Real Effect of Germany's 1931 Banking Crisis”
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Commercialisation of research outcomes
This is the fourth and final seminar in the course on intellectual property (IP) and commercialisation (3 ECTS) that is provided by Uppsala University Innovation in collaboration with the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV). The course is open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers in all disciplinary domains at Uppsala University.
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Anchoring the nation in the past: history textbooks and nation building in Eurasia
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Motherhood and Mothering in Literary, Medical and Media Narratives
Interdisciplinary Symposium
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PRIS Conference 2020: Bridging Research and Policy
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Book Event: Militant Democracy and its Critics: Populism, Parties, Extremism
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Higher sem: Mats Morell ”Den agrara revolutionens när var hur. Med data från Mälardalen”
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Take Off: Plan your impact journey, part II
Have breakfast with Uppsala University Innovation and at the same time build your skills to improve impact. This is the fourth of six breakfast seminars (9 Sep-18 Nov) in the "Take Off" series on accelerating the impact of research in society. The seminar series is open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers in all disciplines. Limited number of seats. Registration is required.
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Children and child-centeredness as social mechanisms in father-to-father relations during parental leave
This presentation explores, from a feminist and critical realist perspective, whether and how children and child-centeredness function as social mechanisms in father-to-father relations.
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Hembygd: Lokalt, regionalt och globalt i litteraturen
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Higher sem: Göran Ulväng: ”Att konservera godsen vid släkten: Fideikommiss i Sverige 1643-2020
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Digitala förbindelser: Rum, riktning och queera förbindelser
(NB this seminar is held in Swedish)
Evelina Liliequist disputerade i etnologi 24 april 2020 vid Umeå universitet. Sedan maj 2020 anställd som förste forskningsassistent på Humlab, Umeå universitet. Nuvarande forskningsprojekt kommer handla om hur hbtq-personer uppvisar/gör familj och släktskap på Instagram med utgångspunkt i två tematiska hashtags. -
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Karolina Enquist, Stockholm University
Guest Lecture – Section for Rhetoric
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Take Off: Package and fund your impact
Have breakfast with Uppsala University Innovation and at the same time build your skills to improve impact. This is the fifth of six breakfast seminars (9 Sep-18 Nov) in the "Take Off" series on accelerating the impact of research in society. The seminar series is open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers in all disciplines. Limited number of seats. Registration is required.
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Gendered territoriality and the contemporaneity of colonialism in present-day Brazil
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Higher sem: Arvand Mirsafian, PhD thesis chapter
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International Research Conference: The Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions
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Preparing for the Neoliberal Turn: Consumption, Class and Gender in late Soviet Popular Culture
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Take Off: Impact stories
Have breakfast with Uppsala University Innovation and at the same time build your skills to improve impact. This is the final of six seminars (9 Sep-18 Nov) in the "Take Off" series on accelerating the impact of research in society. The seminar series is open to PhD students, postdocs and researchers in all disciplines. Limited number of seats. Registration is required.
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Nordic Interdisciplinary Interaction Discourse
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Forskarna på slottet: demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter
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CAPTURE and URDAR
The seminar comprises project presentations and preliminary results discussions stemming from two ongoing research projects on archaeological research data at Uppsala University -- CAPTURE and URDAR.
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Higher sem: Henric Häggqvist "Market structure and profitability in the Swedish beer industry, 1890-1990".
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Messy Trans Experiences in Norway and the Paradox of Legal Gender Recognition
The questions guiding this presentation are: What impact does legal recognition of one’s gender identity have on one’s sense of self? And, is the law really as progressive for trans people as it appears to be?
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Higher sem: Simon Hallberg: PhD thesis chapter
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Trans and Sex Change in Contemporary Iran: A Socio-legal Study of Gendered Policies and Practices
Zara Saeidzadeh completed her doctoral degree in Gender Studies at Örebro University, Sweden on June 4, 2020. In her doctoral thesis, she examines the lives of trans people who undergo sex-change surgery in Iran from a socio-legal perspective. She now teaches and works as a researcher in Gender Studies at Örebro University. She is also a research associate at Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concord
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Empire of civilization? The imperial imaginary of the Russian Federation
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The toxicity of industrial/breadwinner masculinities; when climate change denial and white supremacy meet
This presentation will scrutinize a particular emblematic example of how anti-environmentalism and anti-feminism today overlap; that of Greta Thunberg.
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Higher sem: Elisabeth Lindberg: PhD thesis chapter
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Russian and Ukrainian Politics of Memory around WWII: History as a Hybrid Warfare Tool
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Symposium - Literature and investigative journalism
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Digital Existence III: Living with automation – call for papers
We are happy to announce Digital Existence III: Living with automation – a conference about artificial intelligence (AI), biometrics and the human condition. The conference will be held at The Sigtuna Foundation 31 May – 1 June 2021.
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National Conference on History of Technology and Science on the theme Medical humanities and social sciences
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The 14th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE) “Rights and Recognition in the Baltic Context”