• Location: Stockholmsmässan, Älvsjö
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• Organizer: European Calcified Tissue Society
• Contact person: Karl Michaëlsson
• Conference

The 2012 congress will offer a high quality and diverse scientific programme of interest to both clinical and basic scientists in the field of bone, calcium homeostasis and cartilage disease. We are expecting up to 3,000 clinicians and researchers from around the world to join us in Stockholm.

More information including the scientfic programme can be found at: http://www.ectscongress.org/2012/

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, the Library
• Lecturer: In addition to energy policy, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen's fields of expertise are natural resource and environmental policies and regional development in Russia. He has approached these themes from the perspective of human geography and power analytics. Tynkkynen has been awarded with the non-fiction Finlandia prize, with a book Russia cannot Escape its Geography. Previously he has worked as a senior research fellow at Nordregio, the Nordic Centre for Spatial Development in Stockholm. Moreover, Tynkkynen is a scholar at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence Choices of Russian Modernisation (2012-2017) led by the Aleksanteri Institute, the Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies. He is also affiliated with his alma mater, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, where he acts as an Adjunct Professor in environmental planning.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Gamla Observatoriet Seminarierummet, Kyrkogårdsgatan 8A
• Lecturer: Theodore Konstadinides is a Lecturer in European law at the University of Surrey and visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. His research focuses on EU constitutional law, especially the shift of sovereign-sensitive policy areas from the periphery towards the centre of the EU constitutional framework. His most recent publications include: 'Constitutional Identity as a shield and as a sword' (2011) Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 'Destroying democracy on the ground of defending it?' ELR (2011). He is a co-founder and member of the Surrey European Law Unit. During Spring 2011, Theodore was a visiting research fellow to the Uppsala Forum for Peace, Democracy and Justice, and the Law Faculty at Uppsala University.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Peace Democracy and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

It commences by discussing the binding status and incorporation of customary international law into EU law. It then turns to consider how principles of customary international law may be relied upon by private parties for the purposes of examination of the validity of EU secondary law. It does so by focusing on the recent conflict between international aviation law and EU emissions law in the Emissions Trading Scheme judgment of the CJEU (Case C-366/10). In particular, the focus is on the conditions under which reliance might be placed on customary international law for an individual to be able to invoke it in domestic courts and compel a national judge to use Article 267 TFEU in order to obtain a formal interpretation of EU law. The study aims to demonstrate whether customary international law is capable of curtailing the EU institutions? discretion or margin of assessment when evaluating complex when exercising their competence in the sphere of external action.

• Location: Gamla Torget 3, 1 tr., Sal 1
• Lecturer: Ervin Staub, prof. em., and founding director of the doctoral programme in the psychology of peace and violence, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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• Organizer: Hugo Valentin-centrum och Pax et Bellum
• Contact person: Tania Langerova
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Ges vid samma tillfälle som:
Feeling with the Womb: Exploring a New Language
of Healing and Reconciliation after Mass Trauma
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Cape Town
Ingår i föreläsningsserien: Reconciliation

• Location: Engelska parken Geijer Hall
• Lecturer: Associate Professor Rosalind Shaw, the Department of Anthropology, Tufts University, USA.
• Organizer: Dept of Anthropology and Ethnology and Etnograferna
• Contact person: Sverker Finnström
• Föreläsning

In her research Shaw has focused on transitional justice; the anthropology of mass violence and social recovery; child and youth combatants; culture and reconciliation; social memory; the Atlantic slave trade; and ritual and religion. Shaw´s regional focus is West Africa and Sierra Leone. Her current research includes a book project on practices of postwar memory, justice, and social recovery in Sierra Leone, tentatively titled Demobilizing memory.

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• Organizer: Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS) at the Department of English together with the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University
• Contact person: Erik Åsard
• Conference

• Location: Engelska parken Geijer Hall
• Lecturer: Associate Professor Rosalind Shaw, the Department of Anthropology, Tufts University, USA.
• Organizer: The Hugo Valentin Centre
• Contact person: Sverker Finnström
• Föreläsning

In her research Shaw has focused on transitional justice; the anthropology of mass violence and social recovery; child and youth combatants; culture and reconciliation; social memory; the Atlantic slave trade; and ritual and religion. Shaw´s regional focus is West Africa and Sierra Leone. Her current research includes a book project on practices of postwar memory, justice, and social recovery in Sierra Leone, tentatively titled Demobilizing memory.

• Location: Gamla torget Hall 1
• Lecturer: Associate Professor Rosalind Shaw, the Department of Anthropology, Tufts University, USA.
• Organizer: Dept of Peace & Conflict and Pax et Bellum
• Contact person: Sverker Finnström
• Föreläsning

In her research Shaw has focused on transitional justice; the anthropology of mass violence and social recovery; child and youth combatants; culture and reconciliation; social memory; the Atlantic slave trade; and ritual and religion. Shaw´s regional focus is West Africa and Sierra Leone. Her current research includes a book project on practices of postwar memory, justice, and social recovery in Sierra Leone, tentatively titled Demobilizing memory.

• Location: Room X
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• Organizer: Institutionen för Medicinska Vetenskaper
• Contact person: Johan Lennerstrand
• Conference

• Location: Gustavianum
• Lecturer: Carl Fredrik Bergström, Professor of European Law at University of Uppsala; Dominique Ritleng, Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the EU and Professor of European Law at Université de Strasbourg; Lars Ährlund-Richter, Professor of Molecular Embryology at Karolinska Institutet; Bengt Domeij, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at University of Uppsala; Elisabeth Rynning, Professor of Medical Law at University of Uppsala
• Organizer: Law faculty, Uppsala
• Contact person: Alexandra Molitorisova
• Seminarium

In its recent ruling in Case C-34/10 Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace the Court of Justice of the EU concluded that scientific research entailing the use of human embryos cannot access the protection of patent law. While some people have welcomed the ruling, calling it a victory for human dignity, many scientists have become concerned that it will threaten the future of
biomedical research in Europe. Clearly, the ruling of the Court may have far-reaching implications for the development of biomedical research in Europe. The ruling also provokes considerations at a more general or, indeed, fundamental level. Will the definition in EU law of a human embryo have implications also for the understanding of this concept in other contexts, where individual states have sought to reserve a considerable margin of appreciation with regard to their protection of human rights and human dignity?

For participation register by e-mail to alexandra.molitorisova@jur.uu.se no later than 24 May.

• Location: Universitetsaulan
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• Organizer: Akademiintendenturen
• Contact person: Maria Berglöf
• Doktorspromotion

• Location: Department of Peace and Conflict Sal 1, Gamla Torget 3, 1st floor
• Lecturer: Devin K. Joshi is an Assistant Professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. A political scientist by training, his research concentrates on understanding how to build effective governments and inclusive democracies with special attention to the impact of governance on human development and the Millennium Development Goals.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Peace Democracy and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

US-led wars of aggression and the global financial crisis have discredited the so-called "Washington
Consensus", while dramatic inequality, pollution, and corruption have given the "Beijing Consensus"
limited appeal. In this supposed vacuum of ideas, however, one model does stand out as a possibly
compelling alternative to the status quo; the model labeled here as the "Stockholm Consensus".
Unlike the models associated with Washington and Beijing which are based on a more adversarial
zero-sum approach to power, the Stockholm Consensus appears to be based on the egalitarian
principle of win-win cooperation. Resting on key institutional and ideological complementarities, this
model has arguably helped to produce and sustain impressively positive domestic and foreign policy
outcomes. Furthermore, increasing consensus has been achieved over this model not only in Sweden
but across much of Northern Europe. Although not a flawless system, the Stockholm Consensus may
be a compelling alternative for achieving progress both within nations and globally, and its influence is
already quietly spreading throughout much of the developing world.

• Location: Nordic Africa Institute, Kungsgatan 38 the library
• Lecturer: Associate Professor Rosalind Shaw, the Department of Anthropology, Tufts University, USA, Associate Professor Sverker Finnström, Uppsala University, and Dr Roland Kostic, Uppsala University.
• Organizer: The Nordic Africa Institute
• Contact person: Sverker Finnström
• Seminarium

The round table will take off from the anthology Localizing Transitional Justice (Stanford UP, 2010). Co-edited by Rosalind Shaw, and with contributions by Rosalind Shaw on Sierra Leone and Sverker Finnström on Uganda, this book traces how ordinary people respond to - and sometimes transform - transitional justice mechanisms, laying a foundation for more locally responsive approaches to social reconstruction after mass violence and egregious human rights violations. Recasting understandings of culture and locality prevalent in international justice, this book explores the complex, unpredictable, and unequal encounter among international legal norms, transitional justice mechanisms, national agendas, and local priorities and practices.

Rosalind Shaw and Sverker Finnström will present their studies, and Roland Kostic will act as a discussant.

• Location: Biomedicinskt centrum, BMC
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• Contact person: Douglas Westerlund
• Conference

An essential part of the symposium is to acknowledge a scientist that has reached achievements of great importance for the science of analytical chemistry by awarding a prize - The Torbern Bergman Medal. The 2012 Medalist is Professor Richard Zare, Stanford University, USA.

In addition to the scientific and social events the congress also presents an instrument exhibition at which about 50 exhibitors will show the latest news on instrumentation and accessories for quantitative and qualitative analysis.