Arrangementer - Side 8

How have 12 months with a Narendra Modi-led BJP government changed India? Oslo’s leading India scholars offer their analysis of the impact of the BJP’s landslide victory at the general elections in May last year on India’s politics, economy and society.

Lunch seminar with Silvia Hirsch, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires.

Mange mener det finnes to mestere innen moderne kinesisk tegnekunst: Feng Zikai og Liao Bingxiong. Der Feng holdt seg til de nære temaene, og tegnet motiver fra hverdagslivet, var Liao «det ville dyret» som illustrerte korrupsjon, maktmisbruk og forfall i samfunnet.

China's open-up reforms which begun in 1978 not only led to a relaxation of state control over the economy, also allowed the re-emergence of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). Since then the number of registered social organisations has increased from only 100 to 547,000. Who are these CSOs operating in China? What is their reason of existence and how can they work with, or around, the state?

Tre bloggere er drept i Bangladesh det siste året. De representerte sekulære meninger og var kraftige stemmer mot fundamentalisme og bruk av religion for å undertrykke progressive stemmer, fritenkere, kvinner og ikke-muslimer. De tre ble drept med kniv og øks, av fundamentalister.

China Autonomy Programme ved Senter for menneskerettigheter (SFM) og Asianettverket inviterer til seminar med tibetologen Robert Barnett fra Columbia University.

Lunch seminar with Dr. Leopoldo González Aguayo, School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Language: Spanish

I forbindelse med Ravi Sunders bokgave av Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkars samlede verk til biblioteket på Universitetet i Oslo, vil Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk (IKOS) i samarbeid med Asianettverket arrangere et seminar om kastesystemet i dagens India.

Asianettverket og Indologisk Studentforening inviterer til foredrag og filmvisning om den indiske lavkastelederen og grunnlovsarkitekten Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar.

The Network for Asian Studies invites you to a seminar with blogger-activist Roy Ngerng from Singapore: "The Singapore Model, Growth and the Freedom of Speech."

Seminar med tre norske Cuba-eksperter om konsekvenser av tilnærmingen etter mer enn femti års fiendskap.

Master i sosiologi Lot Jata Nyirenda ved Institutt for helse og samfunn vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d.): Succeeding in Crisis: immunisation delivery and utilisation in Malawi

Master i sosiologi Lot Jata Nyirenda ved Institutt for helse og samfunn avholder prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne: "Crisis as context": an analytical framework to understand vaccination in low-resource, donor dependent settings

Guest lecture with Luis Ignacio Argüero from  Belgrano University in Buenos Aires. Language: English

Seminar with three of Mexico’s most renowned experts on organized crime, law enforcement, and the relationship between politics and crime.

Lunch seminar with activists from Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Guatemala working on transparency and accountability in the extractive industries.

Lunch seminar with Norwegian and Brazilian speakers.

Language: English

Kenneth Bo Nielsen ved Sosialantropologisk institutt og Senter for utvikling og miljø (SUM) vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.:

Saving the Farmland: The Making of Popular Anti-Land Acquisition Poltics in Singur, West Bengal

Seminar with Nancy Postero from the University of California at San Diego — Unmasking the Bolivian State: Performance and Protest in the Struggle over the TIPNIS.

Comments by Norwegian researchers.

Seminar on Uruguay’s cannabis legislation: lessons, expectations and possible implications for the global drug policy regime.

Speakers: Uruguayan journalist Guillermo Garat,  who has studied and published extensively on drug policy in Uruguay;  Professor Willy Pedersen and Senior Research Fellow Ole Jørgen Røgeberg.

A seminar with Guatemala’s Human Rights Ombudsman, Jorge De León Duque.

Language: English

Seminar ahead of the 15 June run-off presidential election in Colombia.

Language: Norwegian; with two presentations in English.

Open seminar with researchers from Brazil, USA and Norway.

Language: English