2011/03/03
17 March, Maj-Britt Theron -”Women and conflict”
Maj-Britt Theron is a former member of the European parliament-Chairperson of the Committe on Women’s rights and Equal Opportunity. Theorin has been involved in disarmament, social justice and the advancement of women. The lecture is going to be about women in conflict situations and the support for women’s leadership in reconstruction and peace-building after conflicts.
2011/03/03
26 april, kl 15.15, Hörsal A, Lindellhallen, Kurdo Baksi – ”Varför är vi så rädda för slöjan?” (Lecture in Swedish)
Kurdo Baksi is a Swedish public debater and author of several books on human rights, and a lecturer on immigration and integration. In 1987 Baksi started the anti-racist magazine “Svartvitt” (Black and white). Kurdo Baksi received Dagens Nyheter Jörgen Eriksson prize in 1995, Industrifackets prize on cultural racism in 1999 and Olof Palme prize in 2000.
2011/03/03
11 April, kl 15.00, Hörsal A, Lindellhallen, Gunnar Wetterberg – ” FÖRBUNDSSTATEN NORDEN – Världens 10:e största ekonomi med 25 miljoner invånare” (Lecture in Swedish)
Gunnar Wetterberg is a swedish historian and SACO(The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations) public policy manager. The lecture will be about the benefications of the nordic countries joining forces. According to Gunnar Wetterberg a Nordic federal would give the Nordic countries an international powerful position; A Nordic Union would be the world’s tenth largest economy and the Nordic countries would have a place at the major International Council Act.
2011/03/03
10 Maj, kl 16.15, Hörsal A, Lindellhallen, Irka Cederberg – ”Romerna-Europas mest förföljda minoritet” (Lecture in Swedish)
Cederberg is an author, social worker and journalist. She has followed the situation of the Romani people for two decades and reported to newspapers, radio and television. In 2006 she was appointed “freelance of the year” for her commitment to the history of the Romani people and their painful alienation.
2011/03/03
April, Abebech Tekleab – ”Genital mulitation”
Abebech Tekleab is a chairman of the association RISK(National association to stop femal genital multilation or Riksföreningen stoppa kvinnlig könsstympning). The lecture will be about genital mulitation and how to prevent it, in Sweden.
2011/03/03
26 May, Hanna Navier och Balder Klett Sarmentero - ”Right to my own body”
Hanna Navier and Balder Klett Sarmentero, were in autumn 2010 in Nicaragua, to portray young people who challenged others and their own conception on sex and sexuality. They are going to show a short film and talk about their meetings with organizations and activists fighting for the nicaraguenses right to control their own body. Nicaragua is one of the countries that has the thoughest abortion law. The country has high maternal mortality, due to unsafe abortion and complication during childbirth. The law has affected the work with sexual education, Hiv-prevention and the perception on sexual rights.
2011/03/03
(TBA) Lars Edman - ”Blybarnen”
Lars Edman is a director of the documentary film and will be showing his film ”Blybarnen”. The documentary is about how toxic waste from a mining company in Boliden, ended up in northern Chile and how badly it has affected hundreds of inhabitants of city Arica and their children.
2011/03/03
2 March, Marianne Eriksson – ”Trafficking”
Marianne Eriksson is a former member and vice president of the European Parliament’s women’s committee. She has been working against trafficking and prostitution by high lighting how the sexindustry works, by drawing attention and awareness to how prositution and pornographi inreaces the number of trafficking victims among women and children
2011/03/03
16 February, Hans Corell – ”Will the UN be able to live up to the Organization´s Purposes? A perspective.”
Hans Corell is a former Under-Secretary-General for legal affairs and the legal counsel of the United Nation. The United Nation has done much good things, many peacekeeping operations have been successful and the Organization has a very important role to play globally, but over the last few years there has been an debate and criticism against the Organization. The lecture will be about the UN’s role and future in the global context. (Lecture in English)
2011/03/03
14 February, Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation
12.15-13.15, Lecture hall A, Lindellhallen.Gunilla visits Umeå and UPF for an exclusive lunch lecture, the main topic is: Aid challenges in a digital reality. There will be room for diskussion and many questions from the audience. (Lecture in Swedish)
2011/03/03
11 February, Lecture Hall B Lindellhallen at 3.15pm, Christopher Córdova – ”Earthsummit 2012 in Rio de Janeiro”
Christopher Cordova will be talking about the ongoing international effort towards achieving sustainable development of the planet’s natural resources, globally; What has evolved in the public policy between the first and the second Earth summit (the first one was in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and the second one will also be in Rio de Janeiro in 2012); What has evolved in the same time in the field of civil society; What is the prospective to the implications of the Eart summit; Some trends in civil society towards the Earth Summit and the possibilities of further integration of NGO agendas for event. (Lecture in English)
2011/03/03
25 January, Karin Aggestam – The peaceprocess in the Middle East- Endless negotiation
Karin Aggestam is an Associate professor in Political Science and Director of Peace and Conflict Research at Lund University. She has publiced books like War and Peace in Transition. Changing Roles of External Actors, Diplomacy in Theory and Practice and TIPH: Preventing Conflict Escalation in Hebron? Her lecture will be about the Peace Process in the Middle East, with the focus on Israel and Palestine. Will it be an endless negotiation?
