• Location: Stockholmsmässan, Älvsjö
• Event URL:
• Organizer: European Calcified Tissue Society
• Contact person: Karl Michaëlsson
• Konferens

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.
• Event URL:
• 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.
• Event URL:
• 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.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Hugo Valentin-centrum och Pax et Bellum
• Contact person: Tania Langerova
• Föreläsning

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.

• Location:
• Event URL:
• 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
• Konferens

• 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: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, the Library
• Lecturer: Matthew Kott is an historian. His research interests focus on the contemporary history of the Baltic states (particularly Latvia), but extend to include the modern history of the entire Baltic Sea region. Central to his research is the question of how systems of ideas (e.g. national socialism, fascism, communism, racial biology, civil society) are internalised and reproduced by individuals and whole societies. He has co-authored with Terje Emberland Himmlers Norge: SS og det storgermanske prosjekt (Aschehoug, forthcoming 2012). The seminar is based on findings from his doctoral dissertation on the demise of civil society in Latvia during the 1940s.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

By employing a version of the concept of civil society, it is argued that it is possible to compare and contrast how society changed under these regimes in a meaningful way. The resulting questions raised include whether a civil society is necessarily democratic, and whether it would be fruitful to posit an updated, reformulated theory of totalitarianism.

• 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
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Institutionen för Medicinska Vetenskaper
• Contact person: Johan Lennerstrand
• Konferens

• 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
• Event URL:
• 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.
• Event URL:
• 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: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, the Library
• Lecturer: Stefan Hedlund is Professor and Research Director at UCRS. He has published extensively on matters ranging from institutional theory to Russian economic reform and development, and on the influence of Russian historical legacies on current decision making. He is presently working to complete a book about "Russia as an Energy Superpower," which will be published by Lynne Rienner late in 2012.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Biomedicinskt centrum, BMC
• Event URL:
• Contact person: Douglas Westerlund
• Konferens

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.

• Location: Gamla Torget 3 3rd floor, the Library
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

"About a Village"
Director: John C. Swanson
Type: Documentary Feature
Length: 68 Minutes

Where is one´s true home? For Elsa Koch and her circle of friends this question is more complicated than for most of us. Born in a German-speaking village in southern Hungary, they were forced to leave after the Second World War, still children.

Although they eventually succeeded in building their lives in post-war Germany, the transition was not easy. Having been expelled from Hungary as Germany´s measure sanctioned by the Allies in 1945 they were regarded as outsiders in Germany as well, often referred to as "Hungarian Gypsies." They had to suddenly become adults when they did not yet feel ready for it.

No wonder that the small Hungarian village keeps occupying a special place in their hearts. They yearn for the uncomplicated world of their childhoods, where their lives were mapped out by the village streets and nothing could penetrate their sphere of joy and playfulness, not even the cruelties of war and politics.

Is that world gone forever or have they managed to hold onto it throughout the past six decades? Is it in fact a physical place or more of an inner landscape? The viewer is free to reply to these questions or leave them unanswered. The characters in the film tell the story and express their occasionally conflicting views in their own words, leaving room for interpretation. This is a film about people who were affected by historical events and not a film about history.

• Location: Blåsenhus
• Lecturer: Dr Annamaria Pinter UK, Dr Sharon Ahlquist Sweden, Torill Hestetræt Norway, Dr Réka Lugossy Hungary Dr Bo Lundahl Sweden, Gun Lundberg Sweden, Dr Kevin McDermott Ireland, Cecilia Nihlén Sweden, Dr Pia Sundqvist Sweden, Dr Anna Uddén Sweden, Declan Whelan Ireland, Samaneh Zandian UK.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Fortbildningsavdelningen för skolans internationalisering: Maria Allström
• Contact person: Maria Allström
• Konferens

Ett led i detta arbete är seminariedagen i Uppsala 19 juni 2012. Vi kommer att inbjuda forskare och lärarutbildare från svenska och utländska universitet och högskolor samt företrädare för Skolverket och ämnesdidaktiker i engelska med expertis från olika områden. Seminariet vänder sig till lärarutbildare och forskare inom fältet English for Young Learners, samt praktiserande lärare som undervisar i engelska från förskolan till årskurs 6.

Fokus sätts på: undervisning och lärande i engelska utifrån referensramen (GERS) och Lgr 11
engelska för yngre åldrar i ett internationellt perspektiv
kunskapskrav och bedömning
aktuell forskning om lärande och undervisning i språk
valbara workshops: genre, storytelling, learningstyles, drama? m.m.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, the Library
• Lecturer: Mykola Riabchuk is a Senior Research Associate at the Ukrainian Centre for Cultural Studies in Kyiv and a recurrent lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and University of Warsaw. He published a number of books translated into other languages, including De la 'Petite Russie' à l'Ukraine (L?Harmattan, 2003), Die reale und die imaginierte Ukraine (Suhrkamp, 2006), and Ukraine on Its Meandering Path between West and East (Peter Lang, 2009, co-edited with Andrej Lushnycky). His last book Gleichschaltung: Authoritarian consolidation in Ukraine, 2010-2012 (K.I.S., 2012 http://kis.prom.ua/p5489222-mykola-riabchuk-gleichschaltung.html) will be presented at the seminar (sample pages are available here: http://libra.in.ua/gleichschaltung-authoritarian-consolidation-ukraine-2010-2012)
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Polhemsalen
• Lecturer: Several lecturers from CERN including Professor Richard Brenner from Uppsala University.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: CERN, eSSENCE, and UPPMAX
• Contact person: Ingela Nyström
• Konferens

There will be a series of interesting lectures, given in Polhemsalen at Ångströmlaboratoriet by distinguished lecturers, ranging from data management technologies to cutting edge HPC technologies for software development security, networking, hardware architecture and challenges, especially for the high-energy physics community, but also of interest for other communities.

The lectures will be open for everyone (as long as there are seats available in Polhemsalen). Lectures are marked with "L" in the schedule https://csc.web.cern.ch/csc/2012/This_year_school/Schedule/Schedule_2012-N.htm

• Location: Gamla Torget 3, 1st floor, Hall 1 (Aug 15) and Musesum Gustavianum (16 and 17 Aug)
• Lecturer: Keynote speakers: Helena Goscilo, Inessa Medzhibovskaia and Igor Sutyagin
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Konferens

• Location: Universitetsaulan
• Contact person: Jakob Nissen
• Konsert

Programme:

For orchestra: Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1.
Debussy - Rhapsody for alto saxophone and orchestra.

For choir and orchestra:
Andriessen - Te Deum.

For choir:
Sweelinck - Tu as tout seul.
Diepenbrock - Wanderers Nachtlied.
Voormolen - Wanderers Nachtlied.
Wagenaar - Musiciens qui chante.
Waelrant - Musiciens qui chante.
Dresden - Daar was e wuf.
Stenhammer - Stemning.
Peterson-Berger - Stemnig.
Stenhammar - Kung Liljekonvalje.
Nystedt - Immortal Bach.

• Location:
• Event URL:
• Contact person: Jonathan Schalk
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Engelska parken Eng 4-1020
• Lecturer: Jonathan Hall, forskare vid Hugo Valentin-centrum
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Hugo Valentin-centrum
• Contact person: Tania Langerova
• Seminarium

Ingår i nätverket TRAST seminarieserien.

• Location: Geocentrum CEMUS Library
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development
• Contact person: Isak Stoddard
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Room X
• Lecturer: Niclas Hällström Magnus Tuvendahl
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development
• Contact person: Isak Stoddard
• Föreläsning

• Location: Norrlands Nation Västra Ågatan 14
• Lecturer: Professor Patricia Hill Collins, University of Maryland USA - 5 september kl. 17.00 Professor Irene Molina, Uppsala universitet - 6 september kl. 08.00
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Hugo Valentin-centrum
• Contact person: Tania Langerova
• Konferens, Föreläsning

• Location: The Svedberg-salen (BMC) and Rudbecksalen (Rudbeck Laboratory)
• Lecturer: Robert A Weinberg , MIT, Cambridge Kai Simons, MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Ulf Pettersson, Uppsala universitet Mathias Uhlén, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm Dan Littman, Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine Peer Bork, EMBL Heidelberg Stephen Cusack, EMBL Grenoble Göran Akusjärvi, Uppsala universitet Da-Neng Wang, Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine Alex Schier, Harvard University Eileen Furlong, EMBL Heidelberg Francesca Peri, EMBL Heidelberg Steve Burden, Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine Mart Saarma, Helsinki Biocenter Björn Vennström, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Ulf Pettersson, Uppsala universitet; Ruth Lehmann, Skirball Institute; Iain Mattaj, EMBL Heidelberg; Kai Simons, Max Planck Institute, Dresden; Björn Vennström, Karolinska Institutet
• Contact person: Elisabeth Sandberg
• Konferens

The conference also aims to strengthen the bonds between four outstanding international research centers, Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet, EMBL, and the Skirball Institute in New York and to promote collaborations and exchange between these centers.

The conference will be held to honor Professor Lennart Philipson who was an extraordinary scientist with a scientific vision of exceptional breadth. His work and interests spanned wide areas of research, including virology, bacteriology, chemical biology, developmental biology and neurobiology, to name a few. He had an outstanding scientific career as an experimentalist as well as a scientific community builder and administrator. He was one of the founders of molecular biology in Sweden and as director of EMBL and the Skirball Institute he reshaped the research organizations of these institutions. Hence the conference will build on his spirit and vision. We hope that this conference will open new ways to increase our understanding of biological complexity and foster exchange across programmatic fields of modern biology.

• Location: Skytteanum Gyllenhielmska biblioteket, Valvgatan 4
• Lecturer: Keith G. Banting is Professor of Political Science at Queen's University, School of Policy Studies, Canada. His research interests focus on public policy in Canada and other western nations. He is the author of "Poverty, Politics and Policy" (Macmillan 1979) and "The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism" (McGill-Queen?s University Press, second edition 1987). Banting's current research focuses on ethnic diversity, multiculturalism and the welfare state. In this field, he is co-editor (with Will Kymlicka) of "Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies" (Oxford University Press, 2006), and co-editor (with Thomas Courchene and Leslie Seidle) of "Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada" (Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2007).
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Peace Democracy and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

In this lecture, Banting challenges this view. Drawing on an updated version of the Multiculturalism Policy Index, Banting presents an index of the strength of multicultural policies for European countries and several traditional countries of immigration at three points in time (1980, 2000 and 2010). The results paint a different picture of contemporary experience in Europe. While a small number of countries, including most notably the Netherlands, have weakened established multicultural policies during the 2000s, such a shift is the exception. Most countries that adopted multicultural approaches in the later part of the twentieth century have maintained their programs in the first decade of the new century; and a significant number of countries have added new ones. In much of Europe, multicultural policies are not in general retreat. As a result, the turn to civic integration is often being layered on top of existing multicultural programs, leading to a blended approach to diversity. Banting reflects on the compatibility of multiculturalism policies and civic integration, and argues that more liberal forms of civic integration can be combined with multiculturalism but that more illiberal or coercive forms are incompatible with a multicultural approach.

• Location: Blåsenhus Lilla matsalen
• Lecturer: Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Frankrikes ambassadör i Sverige
• Organizer: Fortbildningsavdelningen för skolans internationalisering
• Contact person: Veronique Simon
• Föreläsning

• Location: Geocentrum CEMUS Library
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development
• Contact person: Markus Nyström
• Utställning

Over the past year, Cemus has put together an anthology called Glimpsing Paths. The writers and artists range from students to senior researchers, and the theme they explore in the book is ‘being and acting in times of (un)certainty’. The 7th of September is the date for the release party. Come and meet the writers, artists and committee members behind this broad and diverse Cemus publication!

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Siegbahnsalen
• Organizer: Svante Svensson, Professor in Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Contact person: Svante Svensson, professor i fysik
• Prisutdelning

Uppsala University welcomes the recipient of this year's Kai Siegbahn Prize, Dr Claudio Masciovecchio, researcher in Condensed Matter Physics at Elettra Synchrotron Light Laboratory, Trieste, Italy.

The prize ceremony, which will also include some brief lectures, will be introduced by Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson.

All interested are welcome to the prize ceremony - no pre-registration.

Welcome!

The ceremony is coded for streaming and can be followed at http://media.medfarm.uu.se/live4


Programme:
Prof. Eva Åkesson, Vice chancellor of Uppsala University
Welcome and opening

Prof. Fulvio Parmigiano, Univ of Trieste and ELETTRA laboratory
"Behavior of the coherent radiation from the FERMI@Elettra free electron laser: status report and first experiments"

Prof. Ingolf Lindau, Stanford University and Lund University
"X-ray Free electron lasers"

Prof. Olle Björneholm, Uppsala University
"A superficial look at water"

Prof. William A. Barletta, Director, US Particle Accelerator School Coordinating Editor, Nuclear Instruments & Methods
A presentation of the prize and the winner

Dr. Claudio Masciovecchio, The prize winner
"Very high resolving power inelastic scattering spectroscopies"


Refreshments outside the Lecture Hall and demonstration of the exhibition "Kai Siegbahn and ESCA"


An interview with Dr Masciovecchio is found here (in Swedish)

• Location: Ekonomikum Hörsal 3
• Lecturer: Alan AtKisson
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development
• Contact person: Isak Stoddard
• Föreläsning

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Dr. Christopher S. Swader is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the National Research University ? Higher School of Economics. Trained in interdisciplinary social sciences and sociology, his research centers on problems of individualization, modernization, and normative regulation. He has written extensively on post-socialist economic-cultural change and the link to social-psychological transformation (e.g. The Capitalist Personality, forthcoming 2012, Routledge). In addition to this and the Russian dating project, he is currently researching: normlessness in connection with modernization processes in post-socialist societies, the determinants and effects of loneliness in large cities, the implementation of 'broken windows theory' in Moscow, sociological understandings of shame in relation to the display of the body, and post-socialist elites.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Uppsala Forum on Peace, Democracy and Justice
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

This talk explores how gift-for-sex exchanges are practiced and understood in contemporary Russia and situates them in relation to Russia's post-socialist transformation to market economic culture. Gift-for-sex barters are a niche practice conceptually located between romantic gift-giving (such as giving flowers), the everyday material support often found within stable partnerships, and commercial sex (prostitution). As such, we can ask to which extent everyday 'dating' becomes pulled in a more commercialized direction. Some critics call such ?compensated dating? a form of ?undercover prostitution,? but this ignores important distinctions, such as the use of, and insistence upon, the gift form instead of a 'payment,' the absence of intimate and emotional borders frequently found within commercial sex relationships, the greater selectivity of partners, the absence of middlemen, and so on. My claims are based on the signals used in online dating profiles of people self-identified as involved in compensated dating, the inter-subjective meanings of these signals in Russia based on blogs and discussion fora, and qualitative interviews with self-identified dating 'sponsors'/'sponsees' contrasted with non-'sponsored' individuals. The four most important features for understanding these exchanges are Russia's polarized gender roles and inter-gender conflicts, the use of economic jargon ('sponsorship,' 'investment,' women as 'goods,' men as 'start ups'), the link between luxury consumption and sexuality, and understanding the function of gift-giving and the flexibility of 'generosity' self-claims and partner preferences. I argue that gift-for-sex barters are a hybrid exchange form capable of both being contractual (as a barter) and transmitting emotional and romantic (i.e. 'intimate') content (as a gift). This simultaneously makes these exchanges more and less commodified: more commodified because emotions are traded and protective boundaries removed, making more of the participant 'inter-changeable,' and less commodified because such relationships are chosen, even desired, because they simulate the 'non-traded' relationship.

• Location: Engelska parken Eng 4-1020
• Lecturer: Timofey Agarin, lecturer in Politics of Ethnic Conflict at the Queens University in Belfast, UK.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Hugo Valentin-centrum
• Contact person: Tania Langerova
• Seminarium

Timofey Agarin is especially interested in
ethnic politics in the countries of Central Europe and is the authorof "A Cat?s Lick. Democratisation and Minority Communities in the post-Soviet Baltic" (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2010) as well as the
editor (with Malte Brosig) of "Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Ethnic Diversity and Equality" (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009).He is a founding board member of the UACES-funded international collaborative research network "Romanis in Europe:Probing the Limits of Integeration".

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3 floor
• Lecturer: Lia Kalinnikova is a researcher at the UCRS; she is also Associate Professor of the Chair of Social Work of the NARFU named after M.Lomonosov in Arckhangelsk, Russia. Originally Lia belongs to one of the most controversial and strong theoretical platform among sciences - defectology - aiming to study and develop the human being. She has a PhD from the Research Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR, Moscow (currently - the Institute of Correctional Pedagogy of the Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences). Her current research interests include: disability social history, disability policy and human rights before the face of poverty, exclusion and deprivation.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

The seminar discusses the fragments of Vygotsky’s scientific creation and consists of three parts: the discussion of the intellectual and personal biography in the context of the intellectual history of the early Soviet period; the discussion of Vygotsky’s inventions in applied branches of psychology and the discussion of Vygotsky’s written methodological style and dialectics.

• Location: Universitetsaulan
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Magnus Wikmark
• Konsert

• Location: Universitetshuset, sal IV
• Organizer: Indologi, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi - Forum för Sydasienstudier
• Contact person: Heinz Werner Wessler
• Konsert

Regional Languages, English, Modern Standard Hindi and its Dialects

Heinz Werner Wessler

Uppsala University

The Constituent Assembly of India had adopted Hindi written in Devnagari script as the Official Language of the Union on 14th September 1949. This is the reason why the 14th September is celebrated as Hindi Day (Hindi Diwas) in India and among Hindi speakers worldwide. Besides, the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution provides the status of ‘national languages’ to altogether 22 languages and of course, there are many more written and spoken languages and dialects. Beyond that, India’s elite usually speaks English. The original idea of the fathers and mothers of India’s independence to replace English by Hindi as an instrument of the de-colonization of the mind is not forgotten, but has for practical reasons been dismissed. India has accepted English as part of its cultural heritage and continues to produce some of the most prolific authors in English, while the modern literatures written in regional languages are often suffering from neglect, and particularly from bad or non-existing translations.

Garhwali and the history of Indo-Aryan: some observations

Claus Peter Zoller

Oslo University

George Abraham Grierson had suggested a division of the New Indo-Aryan languages into Inner Languages (Middle Ganges Valley) and Outer Languages (to the West, South and East of the Inner Languages). This suggestion was not accepted for a long time until more recently Franklin Southworth took it up again and tried to support it with additional linguistic arguments. Both scholars, however, ignored the linguistic position of the Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the mountains between Nepal and Afghanistan. Claus Peter Zoller will modify this old suggestion and argue that that the Indo-Aryan languages in the mountains, including Garhwali, constitute a distinct branch which is closely related with the Outer Languages but less related with the Inner languages located in-between.

Central Himalayan Oral Literature

Ram Prasad Bhatt

Hamburg University

The socio-cultural unity of Garhwal is essentially reflected by the fundamental framework of oral culture of this central Himalayan region and the Garhwali language unifies and defines the region Garhwal more than any other single factor. The multifaceted role of oral tradition in the life of Garhwali’s that are both benefactor and beneficiary is considered to be the real lifelines of the social groups and a dynamic force of their cultures. The oral tradition of this region has preserved incredible continuity of handing down the knowledge, culture, religion and ideas from generation to generation by word of mouth that in general is a strong experiential dimension of the transmission of cultures and fulfils diverse functions in the life of the society. In this talk an effort will be made to analyse the socio-cultural and political functions of Garhwali oral literature and the subtle, suggestive power of words and the elegance of expression in Garhwali.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies The UCRS-library, Gamla torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Dr Timofey Agarin is a lecturer in Politics of Ethnic Conflict at the Queens University in Belfast, UK. He is especially interested in ethnic politics in the countries of Central Europe and is the author of "A Cat's Lick. Democratisation and Minority Communities in the post-Soviet Baltic" (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2010) as well as the editor (with Malte Brosig) of "Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Ethnic Diversity and Equality" (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009). He is a founding board member of the UACES-funded international collaborative research network "Romanis in Europe:Probing the Limits of Integration".
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Peace Democracy and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

Starting with the discussion of patterns of minority protection to be found across the post-communist Eastern European states, the chapter proceeds to compare interpretations alongside the two alternative perspectives - the "legacies of the past" and "imperatives of liberalization". Albeit different, the two have shaped paths along which the legacies and the inheritance of the years of Leninist rule have shaped management of ethnic diversity and minority protection. The chapter further outlines the conceptual framework for comparative assessment of first, post-communist institutional dynamics, second, the context of the emergent European minority rights regime and finally, the interaction between the actors shaping the two. The chapter construes conceptual, methodological and theoretical challenges for understanding Eastern European developments in the area of minority protection from a comparative historical institutionalist perspective. In summarizing these findings, the chapter evaluates post-communist institutional development as being determined by the impact of past structural legacies no the one hand, and the modalities of transformation politics and international influences upon actors' choices on the other.

• Location: Blåsenhus Betty Pettersson-salen (14:031)
• Lecturer: Prof Timo Mäntylä, Stockholm University
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• Organizer: Institutionen för psykologi
• Contact person: Peter Juslin
• Seminarium

• Location: Engelska parken 16-0054 (the entrance nearest Thunbergsvägen/Villavägen, ground floor)
• Lecturer: Prof. dr. Lambert Schomaker Scientific Director Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering University of Groningen The Netherlands
• Organizer: SALT, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Centre for Image Analysis
• Contact person: Mats Dahllöf
• Föreläsning

Abstract: In recent years, important progress has been made in the area of computer-based processing of handwritten-manuscript images, both in terms of identification of 'the hand' and in retrieval of keywords or text passages. The first part of the presentation concerns writer identification and verification. Rather than pushing a humanities researcher out of the loop, handwriting-comparison software can be used to interactively support paleographic analysis. Part of the bargain is that users accept and get accustomed to the probabilistic rather than deterministic statements which can be derived from computer-based writer-identification systems. Furthermore, it is important to realize that the necessary statistics cannot be derived from a scan of a single questioned document image alone nor from reference data by a single study on a limited manuscript collection at one particular institute. Rather than putting faith in a black-box system from a laboratory, it is more conducive to incorporate a computer-based system into the daily operating procedures and share the data with colleagues. By collecting samples with ground truth and by tallying the adequacy of decisions taken, the actual reliability of, e.g., 'likelihood ratios', can be calibrated over the years. In this presentation, the background and rationale of three writer-identification algorithms developed at the University of Groningen will be summarized. The second part of the presentation will be concerned with retrieval of handwritten samples on the basis of keywords or other examples. The MONK system is a large-scale ongoing effort for continuous training and word spotting in large handwritten collections. The diversity of handwriting styles, the contractions and styled abbreviations make traditional character-based ('OCR') approaches very cumbersome. We have shown that word-image based approaches can yield very interesting results, and bootstrapping of collections, ranging from A.D. 1400 to 1900 was fairly easy. The current system contains about 27 books of ~1000 pages each, 43 books are 'waiting' and there is an increased interest from international archives. Finally, a new project on style-based dating of manuscripts is sketched, which will ultimately be incorporated into the MONK system. Given the current results, it is expected that possibility will stimulate desire, and desire will generate new types of funding in order to implement a very large 'European Google' for the access to handwritten image collections.

• Location: UCRS, Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Oleg Budnitskii is Professor of History and Director, Center for the History and Sociology of World War II at the National Research University Higher School of Economics; he is also senior research fellow at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the editorial board of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the annual Arkhiv evreiskoi istorii (Archive of Jewish History) and author or editor of over 200 publications (including 18 books) on the history of Russia and Russian Jewry in the second half of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.
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• Organizer: UCRS, Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Different venues in Uppsala
• Lecturer: Carole Crumley, Anneli Ekblom, Dolly Jorgensen, Mahesh Rangarajan, Ulrika Persson-Fischier, and Lasse Berg.
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• Organizer: CEMUS - CSD Uppsala
• Contact person: Karin Östman
• Föreläsning

• Location: The Law Faculty Fakultetsrummet, Trädgårdsgatan 1
• Lecturer: Jason J. Czarnezki is a Professor of Law in the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, home to one of the nation's leading environmental and natural resources law and policy programs, and Faculty Director of the U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law. His book, "Everyday Environmentalism: Law, Nature and Individual Behavior," was published in 2011, and his co-authored book "Agricultural Policy, Food Systems, and the Environment: History, Law, and Proposals for Reform" is forthcoming in 2012. He is also working on a series of projects about natural resources law in China, and U.S. government involvement in Chinese environmental policy.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Peace Democracy and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

Background information: In efforts to promote environmental interests and help local economies, American states can pass legislation to encourage, and in some case require, public institutions to purchase products produced in the state (i.e., a geographic preference) due to the market-participant exception. The use of a market participant exception to allow for geographic preferences may face stiff legal challenges under European Union (EU)...law. Despite the existence of the exception under U.S. law and it's likely lack of viability in Europe, American states and Member States may be able to use public procurement to encourage or require the purchase of environmentally friendly goods, defined through any of a variety of measures, or might pass legislation to apply to all products sold within the state.

• Location:
• Lecturer: Kåre Johan Mjør is a PostDoc research fellow at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He holds a PhD from the University of Bergen, Norway (2009), and is the author of 'Reformulating Russia: The Cultural and Intellectual Historiography of Russian First-Wave Émigré Writers' (Brill, 2011). He is currently doing research on the Russian philosophical canon and its historiography.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

While at times heavily criticised by outside observers for being neither about history, nor about Russia, nor about philosophy, the field retains its position in post-Soviet Russia, to which the publication boom, in particular during the last decade, of textbooks entitled 'History of Russian Philosophy' testifies. In this seminar Dr. Mjør will examine these texts more closely in order to show how a Russian philosophical tradition is maintained in them, and discuss the assumptions (historical, institutional, ideological, hermeneutical) that make this history possible. He also intends to situate the Russian quest for a philosophical, national past in a wider context by looking at how the issue of national (or local, or regional) philosophical traditions has been debated globally.

• Location: UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor Uppasala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Lecturer: Dr. Karin Grelz is research fellow at the Royal Institute of Letters, History and Antiquities. Karin Grelz received her doctoral degree in Slavic languages, with special focus on Russian and Russian Literature. Areas of his research interests include Russian literature, Marina Tsvetajeva's authorship, Lidija Ginzburg's writings, ethics and aesthetics and the poet's death in the Russian modernism.
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• Organizer: Uppasala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Ekonomikum A114
• Lecturer: Markus Dolder, Responsible of HR Promotion at ICRC.
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• Organizer: Enheten för studie- och karriärvägledning
• Contact person: Per-Erik Pettersson
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Uppsala slott Rikssalen
• Lecturer: Tord Ekelöf, professor of elementary particle physics at Uppsala university
  Fabiola Gianotti, Spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment at CERN, Honorary Doctor at Uppsala University
  Janet Conrad, professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize in Physics, professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Organizer: Uppsala Universitet
• Contact person: Anneli Waara
• Föreläsning

So what is the Higgs particle? How was it discovered? Why did it take so long and why is it important? Find out for yourself! Join us at Uppsala Castle on the 27 September.

Apart from two interesting 30-minute lectures about the new discovery, a seven year old bet between world-leading physicists will be settled.

The symposium is open to university employees, students and the general public. Admission is free.


Programme
(All given in English)
'Higgs and Uppsala University'
Introduction by Tord Ekelöf, professor of elementary particle physics at Uppsala university

'How the great discovery was made at CERN'
Talk by Fabiola Gianotti, Spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment at CERN, Honorary Doctor at Uppsala University

'Congratulations'
Interlude by Janet Conrad, professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

'What the great discovery means and why it is so important'
Talk by Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize in Physics, professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

• Location: Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) UCRS, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Konferens

After the fall of the Berlin wall the integration of institutes for higher education and learning in the former DDR became a delicate task, which can be described in more than one language-game. It can be seen as a merge, which in the natural sciences went rather smoothly and as it seems mutually beneficial, while in the humanities and social sciences the process sometimes is described as a Western colonization. The various accounts for events indicate that the truth lies in the eye of the observer and competing truths are 'interest-driven'. So, what actually did happen and what was the proximate and historical context? Moreover: why is that of retrospective interest?

This is in focus for a one day symposium taking place on 1 October 2012, organized by Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and funded by the Forum för Tysklandsstudier.

Symposium organizers: Sven Eliaeson and Li Bennich-Björkman

The symposium is open to researchers and PhD-students with an interest in questions of research and higher education in Germany.

If you wish to attend the workshop, please sign up by e-mail to Sven Eliaeson (sven.eliaeson@ucrs.uu.se). Registration deadline is 25 September 2012. The number of seats is limited; the 'first come, first served' principle applies.

• Location: Centrum för Rysslandsstudier UCRS library, Gamla Torget 3, 3 tr
• Organizer: UCRS and Forum för Tysklandsstudier
• Contact person: Sven Eliaeson
• Seminarium

It can be seen as a merge, which in the natural sciences went rather smoothly and as it seems mutually beneficial, while in the humanities and social sciences the process sometimes is described as a Western colonization. The various accounts for events verify that the truth lies in the eye of the observer; we have a problem of value intrusion. So, what actually did happen and what was the proximate and historical context? Moreover: why is that of retrospective interest?

This is in focus for a one day symposium organized by UCRS and with Forum för Tysklandsstudier as main sponsor.

• Location: Biomedicinskt centrum, BMC A3:117a
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• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Charlotte Nordgren
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Dr. Maria Khotimsky holds a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. Her dissertation 'A Remedy for Solitude: Translation in the Works of Russian Poets during Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras' addresses the interrelationship between translation and creative writing in the works of several major twentieth-century poets. Her research interests include the history of literary translation in Russia, Silver Age of Russian Literature, and contemporary Russian literature. She currently holds a position of Lecturer in Russian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies the Library, UCRS, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Konferens

Those interested in attending can sign up by sending an email to Ausra Padskocimaite: ausra.padskocimaite@ucrs.uu.se.

Workshop organizers are
Julie Hansen (julie.hansen@ucrs.uu.se) and Susanna Witt (susanna.witt@ucrs.uu.se).

For a complete programme, please visit the website www.ucrs.uu.se

• Location: Engelska parken ENG 7-0042
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Hugo Valentin-centrum
• Contact person: Tania Langerova
• Konferens

Thursday 4 October, 2.30-4.00 pm
Lecture: Decolonizing voices: Sami literature in the context of Nordic literature
Prof. Vuokko Hirvonen, Samiska högskolan, Norge

Thursday 4 October, 4.30-6.00 pm
Föreläsning: Multi-Ethnic Slang in Swedish Literature – a Postmonolingual Perspective
Prof. Wolfgang Behschnitt, Ghent University, Belgium

Friday 5 October, 11.15 am to 12.45 pm.
Lecture: Queering the canon of Nordic literature, or 'What is a Girl to do now?' Advice for a damsel in post-queer distress.
Dag Heede, Syddansk universitet, Danmark

• Location:
• Lecturer: Vadim Volkov is affiliated with the European University at St. Petersburg, where he is Professor at the Department of Political Science and Sociology, Head of the Research Institute for the Rule of Law, and Vice-Rector for International Affairs. Dr. Volkov received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 1995. His research interests include Economic Sociology, Mafia in Comparative Perspective, Contemporary Western Social Theory, Historical Sociology, Social Theory of Practices. He is the author of Violent Entrepreneurs: The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002 and of articles in Social Research, Politics and Society, and Europe-Asia Studies.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Universitetsaulan
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Magnus Wikmark
• Konsert

• Location: Musicum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 4
• Lecturer: Paul-André Bempéchat
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Magnus Wikmark
• Föreläsning

• Location: Musicum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 4
• Lecturer: Paul-André Bempéchat
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Magnus Wikmark
• Konsert

• Location:
• Lecturer: David Smith is Professor of Baltic History and Politics at the University of Glasgow and currently a visiting researcher at UCRS. He has written extensively on issues of ethnopolitics and integration in the contemporary Baltic. His latest book (with the late John Hiden), Ethnic Integration and the Nation-State: National Cultural Autonomy Revisited, examines how non-territorial understandings of nationhood and minority rights - inherited from the former empires - were applied in the context of the Baltic Republics and the wider 'New Europe' of the 1920s, and how these understandings have again informed debates on state and nationhood in a post-Cold War setting.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

My own paper focuses on the concept of liberal pluralism, arguing that this is not just a recent western phenomenon for 'export' to the new democracies, but something that has well-defined historical roots within Central and Eastern Europe, not least in the Estonian and Latvian republics of the 1920s. The applicability of this paradigm in today's post-Cold War setting, however, remains the object of much debate, and my paper explores this question with reference to contemporary Estonia and Latvia and their declared goal of integrating ethnically diverse elements within a unitary nation-state framework.

• Location: Universitetshuset, sal IV
• Lecturer: Åsa Virdi Kroik, PhD candidate, History of Religion, Department of Theology, Uppsala University
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• Organizer: Centrum för genusvetenskap
• Contact person: May-Britt Öhman
• Seminarium

• Location: Engelska parken In the Centre's lunch room. English Park Campus, Thunbergsvägen 3H, Uppsala, house 3, floor 1.
• Lecturer: Kimberly Tallbear, Ass. Professor of Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy at the Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Centrum för genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet
• Contact person: Ester Ehnsmyr
• Seminarium

• Location: Universitetshuset, sal IV
• Lecturer: Dr. Kimberly Tallbear, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Centrum för genusvetenskap
• Contact person: May-Britt Öhman
• Föreläsning

This paper draws on ethnographic and archival research to investigate the roles of indigenous bioscientists and their collaborators in the U.S. and Canada as agents in the ?democratization? of bio-scientific fields. Democratization in this case means three related things: 1) that the research priorities and rights of subjects are privileged along with those of researchers. Such rights include indigenous jurisdiction or ?sovereignty? over research on indigenous lands and regarding indigenous knowledges. 2) Second, that diverse knowledges and ethical practices inform bio-scientific research questions, methods, and ethics, thus making the sciences more multi-cultural. 3) Third, that we seek greater ?distributive justice? in research, meaning that both subjects and diverse scientists access a fairer share of the benefits of scientific knowledge production, often (re)defining what counts as research benefit. The central hypothesis in this work is that diverse scientists, in this case Native Americans, will democratize the bio-sciences. The alternative hypothesis is that greater Native American inclusion in scientific fields will result simply in a ?browning of the laboratory,? with no real change in concepts and approaches. Ultimately, this research disrupts an entrenched conceptual binary, that of ?indigenous? or ?traditional knowledge? versus ?science.? It shows that indigenous people and scientists possess and cultivate knowledges that cannot be adequately understood within such a dualism. This ultimately has implications for how we define what counts as good science.

• Location: Blåsenhus Betty Pettersson-salen (14:031)
• Lecturer: Galle Villejouburt, Kingston University, England
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Institutionen för psykologi
• Contact person: Neda Kerimi
• Seminarium

• Location: Blåsenhus Betty Pettersson-salen (14:031)
• Lecturer: Andreas Glöckner, Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Institutionen för psykologi
• Contact person: Peter Juslin
• Seminarium

• Location: Universitetshuset, sal IV
• Lecturer: Liselotte Wajstedt, Sámi artist and film maker
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Centrum för genusvetenskap
• Contact person: May-Britt Öhman
• Utställning, Seminarium

The performance is part of the Uppsala Second Supradisciplinary Feminist TechnoScience Symposium "RE:Mindings - Co-Constituting Indigenous/Academic/Artistic Knowledges and Understandings of "Land-, Water-, Body-, and Lab-scapes"

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Gilles Favarel-Garrigues holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (2000) from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP). He joined the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po in 2001. He conducts research on the international mobilization against the criminal threats and on the transformation of the penal policy in Russia. He has recently published "Policing Economic Crime in Russia. From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatisation" (Hurst / Columbia UP, 2011).
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Centrum för genusvetenskap Lunchrummet
• Lecturer: Linda Blum, associate professor, department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University, US
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Centrum för genusvetenskap
• Contact person: Fredik Palm
• Seminarium

• Location: Institutionen för informationsteknologi ITC 2246, Polacksbacken (Lägerhyddsvägen 2) Uppsala
• Lecturer: Margarida Martins da Silva
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Institutionen för informationsteknologi
• Contact person: Torbjörn Wigren
• Licentiatseminarium

Abstract:

The effect of anesthetics in the human body is usually described by Wiener models. The high number of patient-dependent parameters in the standard models, the poor excitatory pattern of the input signals (administered anesthetics) and the small amount of available input-output data make application of system identification strategies difficult. The idea behind this thesis is that, by reducing the number of parameters to describe the system, improved results may be achieved when system identification algorithms and control strategies based on those models are designed. The choice of the appropriate number of parameters matches the parsimony principle of system identification. The three first papers in this thesis present Wiener models with a reduced number of parameters for the neuromuscular blockade and the depth of anesthesia. Batch and recursive system identification algorithms are presented. Taking advantage of the small number of continuous time model parameters, adaptive controllers are proposed in the two last papers. The controller structure combines an inversion of the static nonlinearity of the Wiener model with a linear controller for the exactly linearized system, using the parameter estimates obtained recursively by an extended Kalman filter. The performance of the adaptive nonlinear controllers is tested in a database of realistic patients with good results.

• Location: Ekonomikum Hörsal 2
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Per-Erik Pettersson
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Victor Sinev is professor and director of the Institute of Special Pedagogy and Psychology at the National Pedagogical University named after M.Dragomanov; honorous Lawyer of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the President of the Ukrainian association of Special Pedagogy. Prof. Sinev is the author of several monographs and methodological study books, for instance, "The basis of special didactics"; "Introduction into the specialty "Defectology"; "Workbook of the penitentiary psychologist" etc.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Blåsenhus
• Event URL:
• Organizer: CEMUS
• Contact person: Isak Stoddard
• Utställning, Konsert, Akademisk högtid

• Location: Nannaskolans aula
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Musicum
• Konsert

• Location: Gästrike-Hälsinge nation
• Event URL:
• Organizer: CEMUS
• Contact person: Isak Stoddard
• Akademisk högtid

Please join us for this evening of celebration where you will have the chance to reconnect with old friends and meet many others that have studied, worked and contributed to CEMUS. A three course vegetarian dinner and live music is on the menu. The banquet begins at 18:30. Registration required. Cost: 250 SEK

You can also choose to join us at 22.00 when the banquet transitions over to a party - with more live music, dancing and good times.

• Location: Universitetsaulan
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Magnus Wikmark
• Konsert

Soloist: Markus Kindlund.
Guest conductor: Rei Munakata.

20th of october, the university aula at 15:00

Tickets: 120kr / 80kr for students.

Tickets are bought from: https://www.ticnet.se/event/hostkonsert-med-kungliga-akademiska-kapellet-biljetter/235643 or in the aula entrance on the day of the concert.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Terry D. Clark is Professor of Political Science at Creighton University (USA). He specialises in Comparative Politics. Dr. Clark has published four books and numerous articles in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Public Choice, PS: Political Science and Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Slavic Review, and EEPS: Eastern European Politics and Societies, among others.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Polhemsalen
• Event URL:
• Contact person: Erik Ullerås
• Seminarium, Föreläsning

A central purpose is to provide an update and hands on experience of molecular tools and their application in diagnostics. The event is, together with a practical workshop Oct 24-26, organized within the framework of the EUFP7 projects DiaTools and BioMaX.

All interested researchers and students are welcome to participate.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: The panel participants are: Terry D. Clark - Professor of Political Science at Creighton University (USA), David Smith - Professor of Baltic History and Politics at Glasgow University (UK) and visiting researcher at UCRS and Vaida Obelene - a post-doctoral researcher at the UCRS.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Universtitetshuset, sal IX
• Lecturer: Professor Kapil Raj from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Avd. för vetenskapshistoria
• Contact person: Ulla-Britt Jansson
• Föreläsning

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS bibliotek
• Lecturer: Susanna Rabow-Edling is a Research Fellow at UCRS. She received her PhD from Stockholm University, has taught at Stockholm and Uppsala University, and been a visiting scholar at Cornell University and at Stanford University. She is the author of "Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism", SUNY Press, New York, 2006 as well as several articles about Russian nationalism, most recently in Nations and Nationalism. She is currently writing a book about women and empire focused on three governors' wives in Russian America.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Rudbecklaboratoriet Dag Hammarskjölds väg 20
• Contact person: Erik Ullerås
• Utbildning, Föreläsning

A central purpose of this workshop is to give PhD students, PostDocs and researchers hands on experience of molecular tools and technologies, such as Padlock Probes and Proximity Ligation Assays, that have been pioneered by Ulf Landegren, Mats Nilsson and their coworkers at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University.

Application/registration: By mail to erik.ulleras@igp.uu.se, before 10th of October.
State your name, job title, affiliation and a few lines about why you would like to participate.
The number of participants is limited, priority will be given to BiaMaX and DiaTools fellows
Course fee: Free for BioMaX and DiaTools fellows €500 for external participants.

All participants will be expected to pay their own travel and accommodation.
Please also note that you are most welcome to attend the open international symposium "Technologies for Diagnostics" which will be held in Uppsala on October 22nd. Information and registration for the symposium is available at http://www.igp.uu.se/Seminars/technologies-for-diagnostics

Registration via email to erik.ulleras@igp.uu.se

• Location: The Department of Peace and Conflict Research Sal 2, Gamla torget 3
• Lecturer: Speakers: Daniel Druckman is Professor of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, USA. Among his recent books are Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis (Sage, 2005) and, with Paul F. Diehl, Evaluating Peace Operations (Lynne Reinner, 2010). Cecilia Albin is Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, and a Steering Committee member of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program based at Clingendael in The Hague. Commentators: Eva Erman is Associate Professor of political theory and a Pro Futuris fellow at Uppsala University and chief editor of Ethics & Global Politics. Bo Kjellén is Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute, and former Chair of several United Nations negotiations on sustainable development and climate.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Peace Democracy and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

Vivid examples are found in areas as diverse as negotiations to end civil war, climate change negotiations, arms control and nonproliferation talks (e.g., under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) and multilateral trade negotiations (the current Doha Round).

Drawing on over 60 cases of negotiations over the environment, arms control and trade, this seminar discusses relationships between two types of justice - procedural justice and distributive justice - and the effectiveness of outcomes in international negotiations. It evaluates the impacts of these types of justice on negotiation effectiveness. The results clearly demonstrate that justice plays a central role in contributing to effectiveness, but the variations and nuances are many. The implications of these findings in terms of advice for negotiators and the future research agenda are also discussed. This work is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Dr. Arja Rosenholm is Professor of Russian Language and Culture, University of Tampere, Finland. She is Director of the B.A. and M.A. programmes in Russian Language, Culture and Translation, Director of the Russian Studies Programme, and Member of the Board of the Master's Degree Programme for Russian and European Studies at the University of Tampere. She is director of the interdisciplinary research project "Water as Social and Cultural Space: Changing Values and Representations" funded by the Academy of Finland (2012-2016). Her focus is on representations of water and fluidity in the Russian and Soviet cultural texts from the 19th century through the present.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

It argues that the process of meliorisation, which is the topic of the novel, does not only apply to the natural environment, but is akin to that of a violent channelling of human fluidities - both fantastic and corporeal - in the making of the new Soviet hero. Along with the history of water metaphors, we can follow the paradigmatic turns and repeated recurrences in the history of Russian modernization, where the liquid tropes play such a significant role. The narratives use the water construction (u-)topos for mapping the topography of Soviet modernization. It is also by these (early) water narratives that we can understand why such works as Rasputin's Proscanie s Materoj (1978) grew so influential, since they communicate within the very paradigm of hydro-culture, yet, redirecting the gaze from the constructor to the losses, simultaneously take along obvious inter-textual elements from earlier water fiction.

• Location: Blåsenhus Betty Pettersson-salen (14:031)
• Lecturer: Professor Helge Frieling, Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany
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• Organizer: Institutionen för psykologi
• Contact person: Ata Ghaderi
• Seminarium

• Location: Uppsala universitets myntkabinett Universitetshuset, Biskopsgatan 3, entrance in the corner of Övre Slottsgatan / S:t Olofsgatan
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• Organizer: Uppsala University Coin Cabinet
• Contact person: Hendrik Mäkeler
• Utställning, Familjeaktivitet

• Location: Evolutionsmuseet Paleontologi, Norbyv. 22
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• Organizer: Evolutionsmuseet
• Contact person: Karolina Larsson
• Familjeaktivitet

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Gamla torget 3, 3tr UCRS library
• Lecturer: Fredrik M. Sjoberg is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University (New York City). He specializes in electoral politics in authoritarian states. In 2011 his doctoral dissertation (Uppsala University) was published titled "Competitive Elections in Authoritarian States". He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Central Asia and South Caucasus and has also worked as a statistician and an election observer for the OSCE. In 2008-09 Dr. Sjoberg was a Fulbright Fellow at The Davis Center, Harvard University. More information can be found on his website (https://sites.google.com/site/fredrikmsjoberg/)
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

The results also confirm that all regimes are not equally sensitive to such interventions. For the first time new fraud forensics techniques are used to examine observer effects. I argue that a reduction in detectable fraud forces authorities to engage with the electorate more directly, instead of focusing their efforts on bureaucratically manipulating the outcome. It is suggested that when faced with monitoring, autocrats substitute election fraud with other forms of manipulation, in the form of vote buying and intimidation. This in itself constitutes a perverse form of empowerment of voters, perverse since the process continues to be both un-free and unfair.

• Location: Universitetsaulan Biskopsgatan 3, Uppsala
• Lecturer: Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness, University of California Santa Cruz
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• Organizer: Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University in association with The Critical Cultural Theory Platform at Södertörn University
• Contact person: Tora Holmberg
• Föreläsning

This lecture begins with art activism projects that involve the co-participation of critters of different species, situated in complex historical worlds. Urban racing pigeons and their people and technologies will loft us into the first encounters with the pressing questions of how to rebuild flourishing living and dying in concrete, fleshy ways after (and in the ongoing grip of) the disasters of genocides, environmental destruction and its unevenly distributed suffering, and rampant killing of kinds as well as individuals. 'Staying with the Trouble' insists on working, playing, and thinking in multispecies cosmopolitics in the face of the killing of entire ways of being on earth that characterize the age cunningly called 'now' and the place called 'here'. Working homing pigeons will lead us into needed knots of SF?string figures, science fiction, speculative fabulation, speculative feminism, so far.

Donna Haraway is a world-leading scholar of feminist theory, science and technology studies and animal studies, as well as one of the founders of posthumanities. Aside from her much read and cited essays "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1985) and "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspectives" (1988) are a number of ground-breaking books, including Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989); Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991); Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium_FemaleMan©Meets_Onc?oMouse?: Feminism and Technoscience (1997); The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003); The Donna Haraway Reader (2004); When Species Meet (2008).

• Location: The Department of Peace and Conflict Research Sal 1, Gamla Torget 3, 1st floor
• Lecturer: Håvard Hegre, PhD in Political Science (University of Oslo 2004) is Professor of Political Science at University of Oslo. He is also adjunct Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and working group leader at PRIO´s Centre for the Study of Civil War which is funded under the Research Council of Norway?s `Centre of excellence´ program.
• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Peace Democracy and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

Systematic research on the causes of conflict strongly suggest several factors that are associated with lower risks of conflict. These are economic development, characterized by economic diversification, changes in demographic composition, improvements in public health, improved education, and more competent and capable governments.

Other factors lead to higher risks of conflict, such as oil extraction, recent conflicts in the country or the neighborhood, and large and heterogenous populations. We know something about likely future trajectories for most countries for many of these factors. It should consequently be possible to forecast the future incidence of conflict, and roughly where they will occur. The lecture discusses the basis for such projections, their uncertainty, and some purposes for which they have potential value.

• Location: Engelska parken Sal 1-1060, Thunbergsvägen 3 A
• Lecturer: Arun Bandopadhyay
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• Organizer: Forum for South Asia Studies
• Contact person: Ferdinando Sardella
• Föreläsning

For the requirement of the British Raj in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was necessary to create professional people in the fields of various engineering services, medical and survey operations. Bengal Engineering College (hereafter B.E. College) was a pioneer institution (the subcontinent?s second oldest, only next to Roorkee Engineering College) which provided professional people in various engineering branches. Founded in 1856, B.E. College had great impact on the social, political, economic and cultural realms and on other science institutions in the country.

However, engineering education in India in the late nineteenth century was directly related to "the colonial expansionist programme" and was imposed from above without any educational demand for it at that point in time. Both the quantitative and qualitative growth was very limited in the late nineteenth century. Secondly, the colonial context of engineering education in India in the second half of the nineteenth century is specially made clear by some extant materials on the origin and operation of B.E. College during the period. The close relationship of the development of technical education in Roorkee Engineering College and B.E. College in the beginning and with Cooper's Hill College in England later is clear from these materials. The colonial context of the engineering education in India and England is thus highlighted. The history of technical education in India during the periods 1856-1886 and 1886-1908 is to be especially studied in this context. The present paper makes an attempt to focus on the nature of multiple colonial connections in the very limited development of engineering education in India in the late nineteenth century.

Arun Bandopadhyay is currently Nurul Hasan Professor of History and formerly Dean of the Faculty Council for Post-graduate Studies in Arts at the University of Calcutta. He previously taught at Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi and Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan and served as Visiting Fellow in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris and Uppsala University. His research interest covers a wide range of areas: agrarian history, business history and history of science and environment. He is also the Executive Editor of The Calcutta Historical Journal. He was the Secretary of the Indian History Congress during 2009-2012.

• Location: Biomedicinskt centrum, BMC C8:301
• Lecturer: Lynn Kamerlin
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• Contact person: Lynn Kamerlin
• Docentföreläsning

In fact, the ability to efficiently control and redesign the catalytic activities of enzymes is perhaps the best proof that we have finally been able to answer the key question: how do enzymes really work? However, despite over a century of intense research effort, the answer to this question remains elusive, and one of the Holy Grails of biochemistry. This lecture will first introduce enzymes as catalysts, outlining the chemical and physical basis for their biological role. This will lead to a discussion of several hypotheses that have been put forward to rationalize their catalytic efficiency, presenting the relative merits and weaknesses of different proposals. Finally, an example of how a better understanding of enzyme catalysis can lead to the ab initio rational design of novel biological catalysts will be presented.

Representative of the Docenture Committee: Gunnar Johansson, Chemistry at BMC

Please note that this docenture lecture will be held in English.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) UCRS, Gamla torget 3, 3tr, UCRS bibliotek
• Lecturer: Sergiy Kurbatov is a researcher at UCRS and senior researcher at Institute of Higher Education, National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Ukraine. During last five years he has been actively involved in the process of ranking of Ukrainian universities and has numerous publications in this area.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

How are rankings (both national and international) influencing the situation in Post-Soviet countries and Ukraine in particular? Is it possible to understand the process of ranking as a powerful tool for reformation of university education in these countries? Could we identify ranking as an innovative technology for further development of Ukrainian education?
An attempt to find answers on these and other questions would be the subject of my presentation.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

Invited well-acknowledged scholars along with project participants, including doctoral students will present ongoing research based on their field work from different regions in Russia: Nizhny Novgorod, Archangelsk, Saratov, Karelia and the Russian North. By having the workshop open we hope to increase both the knowledge about and interest in poverty in Russia, while also providing an opportunity for fruitful discussions where everybody is welcome to take part.

• Location: Ekonomikum A144
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• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Per-Erik Pettersson
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Polhemsalen
• Lecturer: Jiefang Zhu
• Contact person: Jiefang Zhu
• Docentföreläsning

In chemistry, photocatalysis is the acceleration of a photoreaction in the presence of a catalyst. Photocatalysis has attracted intense attention due to its wide applications, including conversion of water to hydrogen, self-cleaning, disinfection of water, oxidation of organic contaminants, conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons, sterilization of surgical instruments and removal of unwanted fingerprints from sensitive electrical and optical components, antifouling painting, decomposition of crude oil, etc.

The docent committee representative for this lecture will be Prof. Gunnar Johansson.

The lecture will be chaired by Prof. Kristina Edström.

The lecture will be given in English.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Markku Kivinen has been the director of the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki since 1996. During his leadership the institute has become the largest research institute in Western Europe on Russian issues as well as a dynamic and creative research community. He has been leading several comprehensive projects and directed the graduate school of more than ninety Ph.D. students. Kivinen's major sociological interpretation of Russia: "Progress and Chaos - Russia as a Challenge for Sociological Imagination," has inspired several review-articles in major sociological and philosophical journals both in Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Since the beginning of 2012 he is also the director of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies: Choices of Russian Modernisation.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Engelska parken sal 2-0023
• Lecturer: Christiane Schaefer
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• Organizer: Forum for South Asia Studies
• Contact person: Ferdinando Sardella
• Föreläsning

Christiane Schaefer is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. Her research interests are mainly in the field of Vedic linguistics and literature, Tocharian, and language contact in Central Asia.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Timothy Blauvelt is Country Director in Georgia for American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS and also Associate Professor of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Per Eklund was the European Union's Ambassador to Georgia from November 2006 to November 2010. Giga Zedania is professor at Ilia State University and director of the Institute for Modernity Studies there.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Christofer Berglund is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the Department of Government (Uppsala University). He is affiliated with UCRS. His dissertation project aims to increase the understanding of the boundaries of democratization by identifying the mechanisms through which conflicts over political inclusion are being managed in the multi-ethnic state of Georgia. In this context, he regularly carries out field research in the Republic of Georgia and its ethno-regions. As part of the Minor Field Study Committee, he also administers scholarships from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

Rather than opting for a standard seminar arrangement, this will essentially be a feedback-oriented seminar. Participants are encouraged to read Christofer's chapter prior to the seminar and prepare their comments in advance. The number of places is limited which is why we would kindly like to ask you to confirm your participation in advance by e-mailing to michal.smrek@ucrs.uu.se

• Location: Blåsenhus Betty Pettersson-salen (14:031)
• Lecturer: Professor Kristina Höök, Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholms universitet, KTH
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• Organizer: Institutionen för psykologi
• Contact person: Neda Kerimi
• Seminarium

• Location: Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum Ekmansalen, Norbyvägen 14
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• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Per-Erik Pettersson
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget 3, 3 vån, UCRS bibliotek
• Lecturer: Associate Professor Ann-Mari Sätre is an economist specialised in the structure and performance of the Soviet/Russian economy. She is a senior lecturer/researcher at UCRS. Together with Ildikó Asztalos Morell she has been awarded a five year research grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR) to the comparative study of rural marginalization processes in Russia and Hungary. Her main research interest within this project is to study the processes producing and reproducing poverty in rural Russia. She is also currently leader of a project on poverty and survival strategies in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, financed by the Swedish Institute.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Polacksbacken ITC 1211
• Lecturer: Palle Raabjerg
• Contact person: Palle Raabjerg
• Licentiatseminarium

Both extensions preserve the purity of the psi-calculi semantics; the standard congruence and structural properties of bisimilarity are proved formally in Isabelle. The work going into the extensions show that depending on the specific extension, working out the formal proofs can be a work-intensive process. We find that some of this work could be automated, and implementing such automation may facilitate the development of future extensions to the psi-calculi framework.

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 80101
• Lecturer: Scott Holcombe, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala university
• Organizer: Inst för fysik och astronomi
• Contact person: Scott Holcombe
• Licentiatseminarium

There is a continuous need in the nuclear industry to characterize irradiated nuclear fuel rods and assemblies, both for fuel performance and for safeguards purposes, and consequently
there are various destructive and nondestructive measurement techniques available to meet this need. Gamma spectroscopy is one such nondestructive technique, which has been extensively used for a variety of fuel characterization applications. Furthermore, gamma
tomography - a combination of gamma spectroscopic measurements and tomographic reconstruction - has in recent years been demonstrated as an efficient technique for characterization of irradiated nuclear fuel assemblies on a rod-by-rod basis without the need to dismantle the fuel. This thesis comprises four scientific papers in which novel applications of these two techniques have been developed and evaluated.
The major part of this work has been performed at the Halden Boiling Water Reactor (HBWR), where a gamma tomography measurement system is currently under construction, as presented in this thesis. The methods and evaluations presented in this work are based on
the conditions at the HBWR.
Based on gamma spectroscopy, a novel nondestructive method for determining fission gas release which occurs over short irradiation sequences has been developed, comprising the measurement and analysis of short lived isotopes in individual fuel rods. The method has been demonstrated based on gamma-ray spectra recorded from an experimental fuel rod irradiated in the HBWR.
Based on gamma tomography, a novel method for identifying failed fuel rods within a nuclear fuel assembly has also been developed. The method comprises the measurement of gamma rays emitted in the decay of selected fission gas isotopes in the gas plenum region of
a fuel assembly, tomographic image reconstruction of the internal source distribution and subsequent analysis of the resulting image in order to determine if any of the fuel rods in the assembly has unexpectedly low activity, indicating that it is a leaking fuel rod. Simulation studies performed for HBWR fuel show highly promising results for gamma rays emitted in the decay of two selected fission gas isotopes.
The methods will be further investigated at the HBWR, by performing dedicated gamma spectroscopy measurements and by using the tomographic measurement system currently under construction.

Reviewer of the thesis is Dr. Guido Ledergerber, KKL, Switzerland
Chairman is Prof. Ane Håkansson, Uppsala University

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 80101
• Lecturer: Scott Holcombe, Inst för fysik och astronomi, Uppsala universitet
• Organizer: Inst för fysik och astronomi
• Contact person: Scott Holcombe
• Licentiatseminarium

There is a continuous need in the nuclear industry to characterize irradiated nuclear fuel rods and assemblies, both for fuel performance and for safeguards purposes, and consequently there are various destructive and non-destructive measurement techniques available to meet this need. Gamma spectroscopy is one such non-destructive technique, which has been extensively used for a variety of fuel characterization applications. Furthermore, gamma tomography - a combination of gamma spectroscopic measurements and tomographic reconstruction - has in recent years been demonstrated as an efficient technique for characterization of irradiated nuclear fuel assemblies on a rod-by-rod basis without the need to dismantle the fuel. This thesis comprises four scientific papers in which novel applications of these two techniques have been developed and evaluated.

The major part of this work has been performed at the Halden Boiling Water Reactor (HBWR), where a gamma tomography measurement system is currently under construction, as presented in this thesis. The methods and evaluations presented in this work are based on the conditions at the HBWR.

Based on gamma spectroscopy, a novel nondestructive method for determining fission gas release which occurs over short irradiation sequences has been developed, comprising the measurement and analysis of short lived isotopes in individual fuel rods. The method has been demonstrated based on gamma-ray spectra recorded from an experimental fuel rod irradiated in the HBWR.

Based on gamma tomography, a novel method for identifying failed fuel rods within a nuclear fuel assembly has also been developed. The method comprises the measurement of gamma rays emitted in the decay of selected fission gas isotopes in the gas plenum region of a fuel assembly, tomographic image reconstruction of the internal source distribution and subsequent analysis of the resulting image in order to determine if any of the fuel rods in the assembly has unexpectedly low activity, indicating that it is a leaking fuel rod. Simulation studies performed for HBWR fuel show highly promising results for gamma rays emitted in the decay of two selected fission gas isotopes.

The methods will be further investigated at the HBWR, by performing dedicated gamma spectroscopy measurements and by using the tomographic measurement system currently under construction.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget 3, 3 vån, UCRS bibliotek
• Lecturer: Yevheniy Kuzmyenko, journalist and parliamentary observer of "OBKOM" Internet newspaper (http://obkom.net.ua/), Igor Slisarenko, Associate Professor at National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" and Diplomatic Academy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, who is also the columnist at weekly "2000"( http://2000.net.ua/), and Sergiy Kurbatov (UCRS).
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

What were the specific features of this election campaign in comparison to the previous ones? What was the role of the mass media in this political battle? How was the voting process conducted? What were the most typical falsifications during the process of calculation of votes? Could we identify the possible scenarios of further development of political situation in Ukraine after this election? We will be looking for answers to these and other questions in the process of an open discussion

• Location: Evolutionsmuseet Paleontologi Norbyvägen 22, 75236 Uppsala
• Lecturer: Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki Stephen Poropat Benjamin Kear
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• Organizer: Evolutionsmuseet / Everything in English
• Contact person: Evolutionsmuseet
• Familjeaktivitet

The programme will run from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

Dinosaur Day, a collaboration between the Museum and the company Everything in English, is being held for the sixth consecutive year.

For more information visit the museums web page http://www.evolutionsmuseet.uu.se/program/dinosaurday2012p.html

• Location: Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 H425, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
• Lecturer: Prof. Simon Lindgren: Simon Lindgren is Professor of Sociology at Umeå University, Sweden. His research is concentrating on digital culture with a focus on how new media audiences navigate the border landscape between the new potentials for participation and activism on the one hand, and the risks for exclusion and exploitation on the other. Simon is actively taking part in developing theoretical as well as methodological tools for analyzing discursive and social network aspects of the emerging new media landscape. He has published internationally on themes like hacktivism, digital piracy, citizen journalism, subcultural creativity, popular culture and visual politics. More information can be found at www.simonlindgren.com
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• Organizer: Institutionen för informatik och media, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
• Contact person: Christian Fuchs
• Föreläsning

A large amount of literature is extremely optimistic in praising the revolutionary potential of digital media as a means for democratisation and rebellion. On the opposite side, there are accounts of commercialisation, brainwash and control. The debate is, in fact, not entirely different from the mass culture debate some 100-150 years ago when mass culture critics feared the new culture would mobilise the working class to overthrow capitalism, while the Frankfurt school warned that the same culture would simply dumb down and control the public. What was needed then, and what is needed now, is a more nuanced perspective that acknowledges the large potential of the new platforms, while not losing sight of power relations and the fact that actors will have different resources and skills to begin with. The presentation will start from the classic subcultural theory of Hebdige and move on to discussing the critique of it in terms of the fragmentation of culture as a homogenising concept. The work of Jenks, and other scholars within the post-subcultural field will be addressed. The overarching aim of the presentation, which will draw on a set of empirical examples of online engagement from the author's ongoing research into this area, is to arrive at a revised theoretical perspective on resistance. This perspective will learn from literature on participatory culture (Jenkins), networked publics (Varnelis), smart mobs (Rheingold) and peer-production (Benkler), but resist throwing the baby out with the bath water. Classic (sub)cultural theory (Hall; Hebdige; Bourdieu; Thompson; Foucault) has a critical sensibility, as regards class, gender etc., that some cyberculture scholarship lacks. Retaining the critical edge of classic cultural studies and critical theory while updating it to accommodate more complex social and spatial relations, the presentation introduces the notion of disruptive spaces. Disruptive spaces are virtual nexuses of innovation, engagement and activism from which disruptive currents emerge that interfere with hegemony in any given field, or several fields at once. The paper will argue for the development of a theory of disruptive spaces that is based on (classic) cultural sociology. It will introduce a combination of concepts from Foucault, Bourdieu, Hall, Hebdige and Melucci, as a toolbox for critically approaching the potential and limitations of digital spaces as sites of audience activism and mobilisation. Claiming that the advent of digital technology automatically leads to ground-breaking and amazing possibilities for people to make their voice heard would be to oversimplify things. Reality is of course more complicated than that. Not only because there are significant class-based, gendered and generational differences as regards the access to ? and the knowledge of how to operate ? digital media. But also since these participatory tools are often used in unexpected and innovative ways. Such resourcefulness and creativity come about for a number of reasons that undeniably demand refined theoretical tools ? grounded in historical experience ? if we are to better understand contemporary as well as future forms of cultural and political involvement.

• Location: Blåsenhus 11:128
• Organizer: Department of Education and CSD Uppsala - Cemus
• Contact person: David O. Kronlid & Eva Friman
• Seminarium

Sustainable development research is a key issue for Uppsala's two universities. Basic and applied research on e.g. education, landscape architecture, cultural geography, history, ethics, language and literature, economy, urban and rural development, medicine and science and technology related to sustainable development is currently being conducted throughout various disciplinary domains in Uppsala.

The Uppsala Transdisciplinary Seminar in Sustainable Development is a new initiative from scholars from the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University to coordinate a scholarly environment for researchers and PhD students who conducts monodisciplinary and various forms of crossdisciplinary sustainable development research.

The purpose of the Uppsala Transdisciplinary Seminar in Sustainable Development is to increase internationalisation of sustainable development research, generate new interfaces, research projects and international publications in collaboration with existing actors in the field. In addition, the seminar aims to coordinate and organise national and international conferences and workshops. The seminar invites researchers and PhD-students from all faculties. Both English and Swedish are used.

Docent David O. Kronlid at the Department of Education and Dr. Eva Friman at CEMUS - Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development will initially lead the Uppsala Transdisciplinary Seminar in Sustainable Development.

• Location: Engelska parken Eng2-1077 & Eng 2-K1028
• Lecturer: One-day workshop about archeology and the planned dam projects on the Middle Nile in Sudan.
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• Organizer: nsitutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet och Forum för Afrikastudier
• Contact person: Gabriella Körling
• Konferens

Rescue of the cultural heritage in the middle Nile Valley is a hot topic. Sweden contributed in the rescue activity of the Nubian cultures with the construction of the High Dam at Assuan (Egypt, 1961-1964). Now 50 years later, action is again needed, because of at least two new dam constructions on the Nile in the Northern Sudan. The aim of the workshop is to address these issues from a broad range of perspectives addressing mainly one overall question: what should be the role of archaeology in this process? Should archaeologists initiate and conduct rescue excavations or not?

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Polhemssalen
• Lecturer: Prof. Anna Krylov, University of Southern Califonia, Los Angeles, CA, US and Prof. Spiridoula Matsika, Tempel University, Philadelpha, PA, US
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Roland Lindh
• Contact person: Roland Lindh
• Seminarium

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Polhem Lecture Hall
• Lecturer: Anna Krylov, University of Southern California , LA, USA
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Institutionen för kemi - Ångström
• Contact person: Roland Lindh
• Föreläsning

• Location: Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum Ekmansalen (Norbyvägen 14)
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Per-Erik Pettersson
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Polhem Lecture Hall
• Lecturer: Spiridoula Matsika, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Institutionen för kemi - Ångström
• Contact person: Roland Lindh
• Föreläsning

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget, 3 floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Vladislava Vladimirova is a researcher at UCRS and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University. She has worked in the larger fields of anthropology and indigenous people. Her interests include questions in the spheres of economy: traditional economy, transformation of post-Soviet economy, land and natural resource use, tourism, work ethic and morality, and the intersection between economy and ethnicity; ethnicity: indigenous identities in the making, the indigenous movement in Russia in interaction with the Russian state and international forces, cross-border indigenous processes.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

The Sami, an indigenous group in the North of Russia, work to establish better political, economic and social positions. Sate legislation's vague formulations and arbitrary administrative practices together with controversial Western influence inspired by alien reform ideologies have brought fragmentation in the Sami community instead. The representativity of Sami political organizations is contested, while economic organizations are blamed for misappropriation of funds allotted for traditional economy. Sami cannot obtain their rightful fish quotas because of bad coordination, and reindeer herding cannot play the revitalizing role which it does for other indigenous groups because of the irrevocable changes which Soviet time caused. External efforts to raise tourism as Sami economy are accepted with enthusiasm by few people, because of bad infrastructure. The grasp of evolutionary theory that Soviet ethnography imposed and contemporary anthropology and public culture sustain, enforces upon the Sami the image of an "underdeveloped" people. These developments tear apart the Sami community inflicting identity fragmentation and feeling of decay on individual and group levels. The Russian Sami Parliament, following the model of the Fennoscandic Sami, has been recently created as a response to this crisis. It is grounded in alleged continuity with pre-Soviet Sami organization, thus laying the foundation for unity of all Russian Sami. By analogy with Fennoscandia, it aims to extend over the Sami of Russia a sense of stability and of a more equal and respectful position of an ethnic minority in a multi-ethnic democratic state, and hereof, of a more just social order.

• Location: Room X
• Lecturer: JAKOB ZINSSTAG, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute JOHAN GIESECKE, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) SIV ANDERSSON, SciLifelab, Uppsala University BALGANESH TANJORE, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Govt. of India, New Delhi ÅSA ROSENQUIST, Medivir AB, ANDERS TEGNELL, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (SMI) FERNANDO BAQUERO, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid HAJO GRUNDMANN, University of Groningen JOAKIM LARSSON, Gothenburg University OTTO CARS, ReAct, Uppsala University XIAO YONGHONG, State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University CHANTAL MOREL, London School of Economics and Political Science CHRISTINA GREKO, National Veterinary Institute, Sweden
• Event URL:
• Organizer: SciLifeLab, UU, SLU, SVA, ReAct, IEE
• Contact person: Maria Sörby
• Konferens

• Location: Engelska parken Eng16/0043
• Lecturer: Hanna Stenström Susanne Carlsson Cecilia Wassén Gunnel Ekroth
• Organizer: AGORA
• Contact person: Moa Ekbom
• Föreläsning

'Dirty and bad or pure and shining like the Sun'
Female imagery in the Book of Revelation.
Hanna Stenström

'Twice as disgusting? On female autoeroticism in ancient Greece'
Susanne Carlsson

Coffee

'Impure and rejected? Women's Impurity in the Dead Sea Scrolls'
Cecilia Wassén

'Whores or housewives? Modern struggles to make sense of spinning women on Attic vases of the 5th century BC'
Gunnel Ekroth

• Location: Blåsenhus Betty Pettersson-salen (14:031)
• Lecturer: Professor Ulrike Hahn, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Institutionen för psykologi
• Contact person: Peter Juslin
• Seminarium

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget 3, 3 vån, UCRS bibliotek
• Lecturer: Mikhail D. Suslov is a post-doctoral fellow of the Swedish Institute, visiting researcher at UCRS and a Senior Research Fellow at the Russian Institute for Cultural Research (Moscow). In 2009 he defended a PhD dissertation in history at the European University Institute (Florence) on geopolitical utopianism in Russia. His recent research is focused on political imagination and ideology of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

On the one hand, as the Pussy Riot affair demonstrated, the language of emotions is being instrumentalized by the Church officials, who attempt to "translate" the religious and theological notion of blasphemy into the secular rhetoric of the "insult against religious feelings". On the other hand, the recent evolution of the model of religious emotions shows the tendency to cultivate and nurture feelings rather than to control and subdue them. Appealing for emotionality as the last refuge of individuality vis-à-vis the alienating modern world, the Church enters into the twisted relations with the processes of modernization cum Westernization in Russia and opens new perspectives for conceiving the modern subjectivity.

• Location: Universitetshuset, sal VIII
• Lecturer: Professor Judyth Sachs Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost Macquarie University, Australia
• Organizer: THE QUALITY COMMITTEE AT UPPSALA UNIVERSITY
• Contact person: Anna Liv Jonsson
• Föreläsning

Professor Sachs has led reviews of both Undergraduate and Postgraduate curricula and Student Administrative Services, and has established the University´s Quality Enhancement Framework.

Professor Sachs publishes in the area of teacher professionalism and professional development, women and leadership, and higher education policy. She is currently involved in three Australian Learning and Teaching Council grants, including the Teaching Standards Framework project.

Professor Sachs is an accredited auditor for AUQA, the New Zealand Higher Education Quality Agency and the Oman Accreditation Council.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget 3, 3 vån, UCRS bibliotek
• Lecturer: Mark R. Beissinger is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and Director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is author or editor of four books: Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power (Harvard, 1988); The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society (Westview, 1988); Beyond State Crisis? Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia Compared (Johns Hopkins, 2002); and Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge, 2002). Beissinger's recent writings have dealt with such issues as the spread of the "colored revolutions" in the post-communist region, the relationship between ethnicity and democratization, non-violent civil resistance movements, the persistence of empire as a category of politics in Eurasia, historical legacies of communism, revolutionary coalitions, and the changing relationship between violence and revolution.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

This presentation uses two unusual surveys taken during and immediately after the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine to examine who participates in urban civic revolutions and how revolution participants differ from those who support revolution but do not participate, who mobilize in support of the incumbent regime, who oppose revolution but do not mobilize, and who remain apathetic in the midst of revolution. The findings show that most Orange Revolution participants had a weak commitment to democratic values and mobilized primarily against the incumbent regime rather than for a common set of goals, values, or policies. This negative coalitional quality to the revolution was largely a product of the need to generate the large numbers necessary for successfully challenging the incumbent regime. The surveys also show that strong identities, shared symbolic capital, and weak network ties were more important in structuring participation than selective incentives or strong network ties. These patterns reflect what might be called the "illusion of 'democratic' revolution": whereas elite-articulated master narratives and mobilizing demands revolve around attaining civil and political freedoms and free-and-fair elections, and media accounts tend to interpret these revolts as struggles for democracy, the vast majority of participants are propelled not by a desire for democracy but by their extreme dislike of the incumbent regime, often for reasons that have little to do with democratic change. As a result, a significant degree of post-revolutionary instability and authoritarian drift seem built into urban civic revolts and the processes that underpin their success due to their reliance on a rapidly convened negative coalition of hundreds of thousands, distinguished in particular by fractured elites, lack of consensus over fundamental policy issues, and weak commitment to democratic ends.

• Location:
• Lecturer: Hosts: Joachim Ekström & Lina Solander
• Contact person: Joachim Ekström
• Studentevenemang

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• Location: Ekonomikum A122
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Charlotte Nordgren
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Geocentrum Hambergssalen, Villavägen 16
• Lecturer: Paul Nadasdy, Cornell University Katharine Farrell, Humboldt University Frank van Laerhoven, Utrecht University
• Organizer: CSD Uppsala
• Contact person: Eva Friman
• Föreläsning

The lectures will be followed by a common discussion.

The lectures are open for all interested, and there is no signing-up procedure.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget 3, 3 vån, UCRS bibliotek
• Lecturer: Pär Gustafsson (M.Phil., D.Phil., Oxford) is a sociologist, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the State-and-Market Programme at Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Recently, he was appointed as Senior Associate Member of the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, St Antony's College, Oxford (academic visitor, September 2012).
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Engelska parken Room 16-2043
• Lecturer: Folke Tersman, Department of Philosophy; Christina Linqvist, Department of Modern Languages and Ylva Falk, Department of Scandinavian Languages; Daniel Ogden, Department of English; Torsten Pettersson, Department of Literature
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Engelska institutionen
• Contact person: Alexander Ringholm
• Seminarium

The Department of English invites you to a symposium on the topic of "What is Language?" The idea behind the symposium is to invite researchers from all across Uppsala University to give talks on what "language" means to them, from the perspective of their own research fields, in order to promote cross-disciplinary research. The symposium will be followed by a series of seminars during next semester, featuring speakers from the departments inside- and outside of the faculty of languages, whose perspectives are rarely considered when it comes to the concept of language. The symposium will take place on the 5th of December. A detailed program with titles and blurbs from the speakers can be found on our website: www.engelska.uu.se. The event will be followed by a lunch in Matikum, which is free of charge for all participants and speakers. If you want to participate in the lunch, please sign up for the event using the following form no later than the 29th of November: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDBoWmlfVHRTOVA2WF9qc0RQR3VYZEE6MQ

• Location: Gustaf Vasa kyrka, Stockholm
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Musicum
• Konsert

• Location: Universitetsaulan
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Musicum
• Konsert

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla torget 3, 3 floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Alexander Bogomolov graduated from St. Petersburg State University, Oriental Department in 1986. He holds a Ph.D. in Arabic linguistics from the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is President of Kyiv-based Association of Middle East Studies; and Head of Modern Orient Department, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Science of Ukraine. Alexander's primary interests include Arab and Ukrainian political discourse, Middle Eastern politics, post-Soviet frozen conflicts and regional security, post-Soviet nationalisms and Muslim activism, community mobilization/self-organization among the Crimea Tatar repatriates and ethnic Russians in Crimea, and Ukraine's emerging political identity, including its relations with Russia and Europe.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

For Russia, maintaining influence over Ukraine remains more than a foreign policy priority. The values and ideas as embodied in the old national myths appear to be not simply the means but often the very end of newly devised projects intended to bind Ukraine in a "common future" with Russia and other post-Soviet states. For both countries their inability to rationally re-assess their shared past remains a major nuisance.

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Siegbahnsalen
• Lecturer: Prof. Serge Haroche och Dr. David J. Wineland
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala University
• Contact person: Anna Liv Jonsson
• Föreläsning

• Location: Biomedicinskt centrum, BMC The Svedbergsalen
• Lecturer: Prof. Shinya Yamanaka och Sir John B. Gurdon
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala University
• Contact person: Anna Liv Jonsson
• Föreläsning

• Location: Ekonomikum Hörsal 3
• Lecturer: Prof. Alvin E. Roth
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala University
• Contact person: Anna Liv Jonsson
• Föreläsning

• Location: Universitetsaulan
• Lecturer: Prof. Robert J. Lefkowitz
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala University
• Contact person: Anna Liv Jonsson
• Föreläsning

• Location: Gustavianum
• Event URL:
• Contact person: Henri Sprimont
• Utbildning

The route to sustainability is a very complex one involving an in depth understanding of all processes and environmental impacts involved. The vision has to encompass the whole cycle: from cradle-to-cradle or from primary resource availability to ecodesign and efficient recycling. This two day seminar is targeted towards a broad audience bringing together some essential industrial and academic partners from Sweden and Belgium (Wallonia-Brussels) to set the basis of further cooperation.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) and The Department of Peace and Conflict Research The UCRS-library and sal 2, The Department of Peace and Conflict Research
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Konferens

Monday, December 17
Venue: The UCRS-library
9.00-10.45 Panel 1. Understanding the Kyrgyz Regime: Parties, Elections, Corruption

Shairbek Juraev (OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
Political Parties and the Changing Patterns of Power Legitimacy in Kyrgyzstan

Fredrik Sjöberg (Colombia University, New York)
Understanding Elections in Kyrgyzstan 1990-2011

Johan Engvall (UCRS, Uppsala)
Making Sense of Corruption in Kyrgyzstan: The State as Investment Market

10.45-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.45 Panel 2. Performing State Functions: Security, Stability, Education
Erica Marat (American University, Washington, D.C.)
Reforming Police Forces in Kyrgyzstan: Looking for Order in Chaos

Neil Melvin (SIPRI, Stockholm)
Understanding Conflict and Ethnicized Violence in Kyrgyzstan)

Sébastien Peyrouse (IERES, George Washington University, WashingtonD.C.)
Changes and Challenges of the Education System in Kyrgyzstan

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Panel 3. Actors of Social Mobilizations: Elites, Middlemen, Business Circles

Scott Radnitz (University of Washington, Seattle)
Strongmen in Weak States: The Case of Southern Kyrgyzstan

Asel Doolotkeldieva (Exceter University, UK)
Regional Networks of the Opposition Prior to and after April 2010

Regine Spector (SmithCollege)
Business Mobilization in Predatory States: The Origins of Traders' Unions in Kyrgyzstan
Tuesday, December 18
Venue: sal 2, Department of Peace and Conflict Research
9.00-10.45 Panel 4. Social Changes: New Rural and New Urban Kyrgyzstan, Migrants

Elmira Satybaldieva (University of Eastern Finland)
The Stratified Nature of Contemporary Kyrgyzstani Society and its Implications for Politics

Emil Nasritdinov (AmericanUniversity of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan)
Myths and Realities of Bishkek Novostroikas

Madeleine Reeves (University of Manchester, UK)
Making and Moralizing Homes and Homelands at a Time of Migration
10.45-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.45 Panel 5. Identity Repertoires: Nationhood, Clans, Sovereignty

Marlene Laruelle (IERES, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
Framing the Nation and the Sociology of Academia in Kyrgyzstan

Svetlana Jacquesson (American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan)
Between Corruption and Tradition: The Two-Dimensional Clan

David Gullette (University of Central Asia, Bishkek)
The Neurosis of Sovereignty: Fear, Violence and Spectral Visions in Kyrgyzstan

13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.45 Panel 6. Factoring Islam: Politics and Social Participation

Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University, Washington, D.C.)
Islam and State Sovereignty in Kyrgyzstan

Alisher Khamidov (Newcastle University)
The Guns that did not Fire. Explaining Religion's Timid Role in Central Asian Politics

David Montgomery (University of Pittsburgh)
Islam beyond Democracy and State in Kyrgyzstan
15.45-16.15 Coffee break
16.15-17.00 Concluding remarks
*If you wish to participate please register with Johan Engvall (johan.engvall@ucrs.uu.se) or Jevgenija Gehsbarga (jevgenija.gehsbarga@ucrs.uu.se) before December 14.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Leonid Polishchuk is an Economics Professor at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), where he heads the Laboratory of Applied Studies of Institutions and Social Capital. His research interests include political economy, institutional reform, and the role of culture, social networks and norms in economic development, political processes, and government performance. His present and recently completed research projects deal with Russian institutional performance; the role of social capital in government accountability and public service delivery; economics of post-secondary education and the impact of institutions on the allocation of talent; historical roots of norms and values in the Russian society; self-organization of urban and rural communities; and the role of political institutions for property rights protection.
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

Russia did not witness mass public protests since Perestroika and a few turbulent years that followed. The society was content to relegate politics to the elites while being preoccupied by adjustment to the new realities and later enjoying a degree of economic prosperity. However the fifteen years period of political tranquility suddenly ended when tens of thousands took to the streets in Moscow and other major Russian cities to protest alleged electoral fraud and demand democracy and the rule of law. This was a clear-cut departure from the heretofore predominant coping strategy of finding private alternatives to non-performing public institutions, a shift from "exit" to "voice".
The rallies manifested a significant cultural change in the Russian society which is a predictable outcome of economic development and accumulation of human capital. The process of value change remained latent (although detectable by surveys and affecting accountability and performance of local governments) until the political "shock" of a grand electoral fraud which sparked a massive spontaneous reaction. Participation in political collective action has developed features of a social norm and was sustained by powerful peer pressure.
The protests have signaled increased strength of the Russian civil society and its ability to resolve the political collective action problem and form coalitions across the social and political spectrum in support of democracy, rights and freedoms, and accountable public sector governance. This credible signal of a value shift will be a long-lasting factor of Russia?s political development, affecting expectations and ultimately actions of masses and elites alike.

• Location: Missionskyrkan
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Musicum
• Konsert

• Location: Polacksbacken, Lägerhyddsvägen 2, 752 37 Uppsala 2446
• Lecturer: Andreas Sembrant
• Organizer: Andreas Sembrant
• Contact person: Andreas Sembrant
• Licentiatseminarium

Most applications have time-varying runtime phase behavior. For example, alternating between memory-bound and compute-bound phases. Nonetheless, the predominant approach in computer research has been to categorize an application based on its average runtime behavior. However, this can be misleading since the application may appear to be neither memory nor compute bound.

In this thesis we introduce tools and techniques to enable researchers and software developers to capture the true time-varying behavior of their applications. To do so, we 1) develop an efficient technique to detect runtime phases, 2) give new insight into applications' runtime phase behaviors using this technique, and, finally, 3) explore different ways to exploit runtime phase detection.

The results are ScarPhase, a low-overhead phase detection library, and three new methods for exploring applications' phase behaviors with respect to: 1) cache performance as a function of cache allocation, 2) performance when sharing cache with co-running applications, and finally, 3) performance and power as a function of processor frequency. These techniques enable us to better understand applications' performance and how to adapt different settings to runtime changes. Ultimately, this insight allow us to create new faster and more power efficient applications and runtime systems that can better handle the increasing computation demands and power constraints of tomorrow's problems.

• Location: Universitetsaulan
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Akademiska Kammarkör
• Contact person: Anders Eriksson
• Konsert

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Lyudmila Igumnova is an Associate Professor and Director of Fernand Braudel Centre for International and European Studies at Irkutsk State University (Russia). Between January and June 2013, she is also a visiting scholar at UCRS. Among her research interests are: foreign and security policy of the European Union, European foreign policy identity, European foreign policy concepts, normative power of Europe and European Union's image in Russia.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Centrum för genusvetenskap Lunchrummet, Thunbergsvägen 3H, Hus 3, våning 1
• Lecturer: Jill Trenholm, doctoral student at the Department of Women's and Children's Health; International Maternal and Child Health and at the Centre for Gender Research.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Centrum för genusvetenskap
• Contact person: Cecilia Brenner
• Seminarium

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Professor David Shearer teaches at the University of Delaware, USA, and specializes in Soviet and twentieth-century European history. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. His publications include Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934 (Cornell University Press, 1996/1997), Policing Stalin?s Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953 (Yale University Press, 2009), and articles on Soviet historiography and social history of the 1920s and 1930s. He is currently compiling and editing a collection of Soviet political police documents from the 1930s, and he is working on a new monograph length research project: the history of Russian and Soviet exploration in Central Asia. More generally, Professor Shearer has an interest in the changing notions of modernity. In addition to other courses, he leads a graduate seminar on this topic.
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

This talk examines the different ways that Stalin used violence against the Soviet population: how and why Stalin employed violence, and when, and in the ways that he did. Looking at the cycles, types, and changing functions of violence can tell us much about the nature of Stalinism and why the 1930s was a particularly violent decade. Such an analysis also allows us to draw some conclusions about the character of Stalinism, and the forms of social governance in the early Soviet state.

• Location: Blåsenhus Room 21:137 (Lilla matsalen)
• Lecturer: Brigitte Le Roux
• Event URL:
• Organizer: SEC (Sociology of Education and Culture)
• Contact person: Donald Broady
• Föreläsning

Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) is a family of statistical methods for quantitative analysis of qualitative data. Most well-known among these methods are different variants of correspondence analysis, frequently used in, i.a., the sociological tradition inaugurated by Pierre Bourdieu.

Brigitte Le Roux is a mathematician, for many years with a position at the Laboratoire des mathématiques appliquées, Université René Descartes, Paris, and today mainly active as a research fellow at the Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po, Paris. She is a renowned world leading specialist in GDA.

• Location: Blåsenhus Sal Bertil Hammer
• Organizer: Fakulteten för utbildningsvetenskaper
• Contact person: Anna Sonnevi
• Föreläsning

15.15
Associate professor Lia Karsten, University of Amsterdam.
Childhoods and cities: on the changing relationships between street, school and children's consumption spaces.
Presentation av Katarina Gustafson, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier


16.00
Professor Brigitte Le Roux, Université René Descartes, Paris.
Two applications of Geometric Data Analysis: in a study of possible plagiarism in Sholokhov's "And Quiet Flows the Don", and in a study on gifted students at Stanford

Presentation av Donald Broady, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

• Location: Engelska parken Ihresalen
• Lecturer: Deborah Frieze
• Event URL:
• Organizer: CEMUS
• Contact person: Isak Stoddard
• Utbildning

Open lecture and Semester Kick-off with author, entrepreneur and social activist Deborah Frieze, joined by upcycling artists and urban farmers Aerin Dunford and Sergio Beltran! Deborah, Aerin and Sergio will share stories of people from all over the that have walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities. The lecture will be followed by a discussion and a book signing.

More information about Deborah Frieze and her work can be found at: www.walkoutwalkon.net

The lecture will be held in Ihre-Salen at Engelska Parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H in Uppsala.

Warmly welcome!

• Location: Universtitetshuset, sal IX
• Lecturer: Pavel Tjikov
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

The lecture will be given in English.

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
• Lecturer: Professor Frank Wilczek
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Contact person: Antti Niemi
• Föreläsning

Frank Wilczek is the 2004 Nobel Prize winner in Physics. He is also a 2013 Honorary Doctor at Uppsala University. Wilczek is a frequent visitor to Uppsala, and spent part of his sabbatical during Fall 2007 at the Division of Theoretical Physics. In this lecture Frank Wilczek will guide us through the past and present achievements of particle physics, and describe his visions what the future might bring from his own personal perspective.

• Location: Ihre-Hall Thunbergsvägen 3H
• Lecturer: Maria Malmström and Amany Abouzeid
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Forum för Afrikastudier & Riksföreningen Stoppa Kvinnlig Könsstympning
• Contact person: Sten Hagberg
• Föreläsning

Anthropologists Ms. Amany Abouzeid, Tamasi/The Arab Collective for Independent Arts, and Dr. Maria Malmström, Nordic Africa Institute/Gothenburg University, present findings on body politics and the FGM as embedded practice in Egypt. The workshop seeks to engage in a debate on politics and women's reproductive health
in Egypt and how to support the struggle against FGM. The presentations will be followed by discussion with opportunities learn more about FGM.

For more information about the workshop, see this pdf flyer.

• Location: Universitetshuset, sal IV
• Lecturer: Lena From, EURES Adviser, Arbetsförmedlingen.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Per-Erik Pettersson
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Igor Torbakov
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

"I am going to suggest that the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the Russian secular establishment might differ in their appraisal of various episodes of the country's past. Specifically, I intend to explore the divergent perspectives of church and state on the Soviet past and analyze how the conflict over historical interpretations might affect the attempts to forge societal cohesion through the construction of a new (post-Soviet) Russian national identity. The paper will demonstrate that the ROC doesn't have a unified and consolidated position on how to treat the controversial past. Rather, there are several church subcultures whose historical interpretations tend to clash."

Igor Torbakov is a Research Fellow at the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University. A trained historian, he specializes in Russian and Eurasian history and politics. He was a Research Scholar at the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow; a Visiting Scholar at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC; a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University; a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University; a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden; Senior Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki; and a Visiting Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. He holds an MA in History from Moscow State University and a PhD from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

• Location: Universtitetshuset, sal IX
• Lecturer: Susan Hegeman, University of Florida
• Organizer: SINAS/Engelska institutitionen
• Contact person: Dag Blanck
• Föreläsning

Susan Hegeman is an associate professor of English and her work has focused on the concept of culture, modern literature, and the history of the social sciences in the U.S. Among her publications are Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture (1999) and The Cultural Return (2012).

The lecture is based on an ongoing project on indigenous peoples and indigeneity. American Indians and other native peoples have long been seen as both savage opponents and romantic alternatives to Western modernity. This talk will focus on native people in the romantic imagination: as figures through which moderns have attempted to imagine historical and social alternatives.

• Location: Centrum för genusvetenskap Thunbergsvägen 3, Engelska parken, house 2, level 1 room 3-1028 (Lunch room at the Centre)
• Lecturer: Jenny Bergenmar (University of Gothenburg), Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist (Umeå University) & Ann-Sofie Lönngren (Uppsala University), Cecilia Åsberg (Linköping University).
• Organizer: Organizers: The Humanimal research Group at Center for gender research, Uppsala university
• Contact person: Jacob Bull, Ann-Sofie Lönngren
• Seminarium

10.15-11.45 Jenny Bergenmar (University of Gothenburg), Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist (Umeå University) & Ann-Sofie Lönngren (Uppsala University): De-humanizing and animalizing - autism and normativity in self-biographical and literary narratives

11.45-13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 15.45 Cecilia Åsberg (Linköping University): Bodies Out of Order - translations of Alzheimer's Disease across sciences, cultures and posthumanist gender studies

No registration, no fee. Everybody is most welcome!

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Michael Jonsson is a Ph.D candidate at the Department of Government (Uppsala University). He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Georgetown University and his research is focused on the political economy of civil wars and post-conflict reconstruction. Mr Jonsson has published widely on his area of expertise, including in journals such as Survival and the China-Eurasia Forum Quarterly. He has also lectured on his areas of research i.a. at the World Bank, NATO, the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the International Monetary Fund and the Swedish Defense Headquarters. "The Political Economy of Conflict in Eurasia", which he has co-edited with Dr. Svante Cornell, is his first book publication.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

In "The Political Economy of Conflict in Eurasia", the extensive debate on the economic aspects of civil wars and organized crime is revisited and critically re-examined. Specifically, the book analyzes not only how the political economy of conflict impacts conflict on-set and duration, but also how it creates lasting legacies for the post-conflict society and its governing institutions. The book is outlined as a medium-n structured, focused comparison, with a joint theoretical framework and concluding chapter, and eight in-depth case-studies all following the same structure (on Bosnia-Hercegovina, Kosovo, Transnistria, the Northern Caucasus, Georgia, Tajikistan, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan). Theoretically, the study makes several points, mainly criticizing the previously dominant greed-or-grievance school of research, in pointing out its inability to explain the on-set of conflicts in post-communist Eurasia. But it also ventures into new territory, by extending the focus beyond conflict termination, examining how in the post-conflict phase political actors came into power which have maintained extensive connections to organized crime groups who supported them during the conflict. Empirically, the in-depth case-studies presents new data on several of the conflicts studied, often including field research and primary sources from central actors. The aim of the book is to be of interest to both scholars interested in the political economy of civil wars and area specialists focused on the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Matthew Kott is a researcher at UCRS. Among his interests are: contemporary history, history of ideas, Baltic Sea Region, Baltic states, Scandinavia, Germany, Russia/Soviet Union, civil society, ideologies and political movements, occupation regimes, political mass violence, Romani minorities, majority-minority relations, historical memory, and public history.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

The presentation will offer an overview of different types of political extremism that have become an increasingly normalised part of politics in Latvia, particularly since the economic crisis hit this Baltic country hard in 2008. The four main brands of extremism identified are:
Latvian radical nationalism; radical nationalism amongst the Russophone population; homophobia; and internet-based conspiracy theory milieux. In particular, the presentation will focus on the trend towards radicalisation of the Russian-rights movement, which has become highly topical since the referendum initiatives of 2012, and the heretofore understudied world of internet fora and blogs, where various radical and extremist ideas cross-fertilise and radicalise participants, often without creating traditional, formalised political movements. The presentation will expand upon the recent article "Rumsrena extremister", published in the Swedish magazine Expo, no. 2012/4.

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Häggsalen
• Lecturer: Zhibin Zhang
• Organizer: Department of Engineering Sciences
• Contact person: Zhibin Zhang
• Docentföreläsning

Abstract:
Three-dimensional carbon structures belong to one of the most studied families of materials. During the latest few decades, carbon structures of lower dimensions have been discovered and synthesized. These new crystalline forms are buckyballs (0-D), hollow cylindrical carbon nanotubes (1-D) and graphene sheets (2-D). These new members of the carbon family share one thing in common: the honeycomb structure of carbon atoms. Owing to their various unique and exceptional properties, carbon nanotubes and graphene have attracted tremendous attention in the scientific and industrial communities. Indeed, the expectations in what these materials could deliver have been very high and the competitions in researching around them are therefore sizzling.


The Lecture will be given in English and is aimed at a broad academic audience, primarily undergraduate students.

The Docent Board of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University, will be represented by Prof. Marcus Lindahl.
The Lecture will be chaired by Prof. Shili Zhang.

• Location:
• Lecturer: Thomas Lavelle (Lecture in Modern Languages, Handelshögskolan, Stockholm), Eva Erman, Assoc. professor, Department of Political Science, Uppsala Universitet), Lars M. Andersson (Lecturer at the Department of History, Uppsala Universitet)
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Seminarium

Publish, Perish or Simply Persist?
Workshop in Academic Publishing

Lectures
February 6 13.15-15.00 Room 4-2007, Engelska parken
General introduction Britt-Inger Johansson SALT/Anna Jonsson Cornell UF
Getting street wise in the world of academic publishing
Victoria Babbitt, Taylor & Francis

February 7 10.15-12.00 Room 4-2007, Engelska parken
How to find the right journal for your article
Katarina Franzén and her colleagues at the Karin Boye
Library

April 24 13.15-15.00 Room 4-2007, Engelska parken
Copyright in the publishing world
Sofie Wennström, Taylor & Francis

May 15 13.15-15.00 Room 4-2007, Engelska parken
Receiving and giving peer reviews
Britt-Inger Johansson, SALT
2013-01-28

Workshops
February 7 13.15-15.00 Dag Hammarskiöld Library
Data/undervisningssalen
Practical guidance to journal selection led by Karl-Oskar Göransson and colleagues at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and Law Library.

February 25 10.15-16.00 B611, Gamla Torget 6, vån. 6
Academic English I Thomas Lavelle

March 8 10.15-16.00 Hyllan, Riddartoget
Academic English II Thomas Lavelle

March 20 13.15-15.00 TBA
Writing for publication Eva Erman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political
Science, Chief editor of Ethics and Global Politics

April 10 13.15-15.00 Room 4-2007, Engelska parken
Writing a scholarly review Lars M. Andersson, Dept. of History

May 22 10.15-12.00 TBA
Feedback on manuscripts Anna Jonsson Cornell

May 23 10.15-12.00 TBA
Feedback on manuscripts Anna Jonsson Cornell

• Location: Swedish Embassy, London
• Organizer: Uppsala University
• Contact person: Sarah Schütz
• Seminarium

The University is now expanding the network and our ambition is to found an alumni chapter in the United Kingdom, with headquarters in London.

Are you interested in meeting other alumni from Uppsala? Would you like to contribute to the establishment of an Uppsala University Alumni Chapter in London and to support Uppsala University in research exchange, student recruitment and fundraising?

If all goes according to plan, the alumni chapter will be officially launched at a reception at the ambassador's residence on Tuesday 5 March.

Register here for the lunch meeting.

• Location: Ekonomikum A114
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Per-Erik Pettersson
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Universitetsaulan
• Lecturer: Professor Rosling, Karolinska Institutet, is on Time Magazine´s list of the 100 most influential people in the world 2012, due to his front line years of public health in Africa and his use of Gapminder to change people's perceptions of the world.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Forum för Afrikastudier och Uppsala Afrikagrupp
• Contact person: Sten Hagberg
• Föreläsning

The lecture will be given in English.

• Location: Engelska parken Ihresalen
• Lecturer: Professor emeritus Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary.
• Organizer: SALT och AGORA
• Contact person: Moa Ekbom
• Föreläsning

• Location: Engelska parken Geijersalen
• Lecturer: Keith Sidwell, professor emeritus, University of Calgary.
• Organizer: SALT och AGORA
• Contact person: Moa Ekbom
• Föreläsning

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla Torget 3, 3 vån, UCRS bibliotek
• Lecturer: Prof. Elena Namli och Prof. Sverker Gustavsson
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Engelska parken 2-1024
• Lecturer: Noreen Humble, Associate Professor, University of Calgary.
• Organizer: SALT och AGORA
• Contact person: Moa Ekbom
• Föreläsning

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Andrzej Szeptycki, Ph.D. - political scientist, assistant professor at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Warsaw, in 2005-2009 research fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), currently columnist at the bimonthly "Nowa Europa Wschodnia". His research interests include foreign policy of Poland and Ukraine, international relations in the post-Soviet area, selected aspects of the European integration, in particular EU Eastern policy.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Centrum för genusvetenskap Lunchrummet, Thunbergsvägen 3H, Hus 3, våning 1
• Lecturer: Cecilia Rodéhn, PhD in ethnology at the Centre for Gender Research.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Centrum för genusvetenskap
• Contact person: Cecilia Brenner
• Seminarium

• Location: Biomedicinskt centrum, BMC The Svedbergsalen (B8)
• Lecturer: Prof. William J. Dally Prof. Gene Myers
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Faculty of Science and Technology
• Contact person: Gunnar Ingelman
• Föreläsning

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14.00 Celsius lecture: The Challenge of Future High-Performance Computing Prof. William J. Dally Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research, NVIDIA Professor of Engineering, Stanford University.

The development of increasingly faster computers has revolutionized research and society. Future information systems, from cell phones to supercomputers, depend on dramatic improvements in energy efficiency and parallel programming. To build the next generation of supercomputers, at Exascale with a thousand-fold increased computational power, the energy per operation must be reduced by a factor 100. Cell phone, server, and embedded processors require similar improvements. Only a factor 4 of this reduction is expected to come from improved semiconductor technology. The remaining factor 25 must come from more efficient architecture and circuits. Because most energy in modern computers is spent moving data, improvements in data locality and in the efficiency of data movement are particularly important. Because conventional single-thread computing performance is no longer improving at previous rates, the bulk of future computing performance will come from parallelism. We expect an Exascale system to require applications with 1010-fold parallelism and even cell phones and personal computers will require 104-fold parallelism. Incremental approaches to parallel programming are difficult and inefficient. However, with appropriate hardware mechanisms, locality-aware, fine-grain parallel programming can be made both efficient and productive. Such advances in computer science may within this decade facilitate new research problems to be solved and have far-reaching impact on society.

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15.30 Linnaeus lecture: Molecular Cell Biology via Bio-Image Informatics Prof. Gene Myers, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

Now that the sequencing of an organism's genome is routine, we have entered a period where we can systematically alter animals genetically so that any given protein or its expression pattern can be observed in a targeted set of cells. Combined with new modalities of light microscopy, this allows us to observe molecular mechanisms within the cell, observe the developmental trajectory of growing organs, and to map the cellular anatomy of organisms and organs such as a fly brain, a zebra-fish heart, or the stem of a plant. Moreover, such observation-based approaches are essential for truly explaining the behavior of cells and cellular collections in molecular terms, as it is increasingly becoming apparent that molecular interactions alone are insufficient, but rather physical effects, such as force, fluid flow, and phase transitions are operative. All of these developments increasingly require computation to either extract information or to quantitatively measure an effect in the vast sea of images produced by such explorations. This is creating the growing sub-field of bio-image informatics in which the speaker has been engaged for the last ten years. He will illustrate the trend with a number of examples and close with a vision for his new work in Dresden towards mapping in vivo developmental trajectories in order to hopefully contribute to a deeper understanding of how, in molecular and physical terms, a collection of cells form a tissue of a given shape and size.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Andrzej Szeptycki, Ph.D. - political scientist, assistant professor at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Warsaw, in 2005 - 2009 research fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), currently columnist at the bimonthly "Nowa Europa Wschodnia". His research interests include foreign policy of Poland and Ukraine, international relations in the post-Soviet area, selected aspects of the European integration, in particular EU Eastern policy.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Universtitetshuset, sal IX
• Lecturer: Ambassador Paul Johnston
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

Ambassador Paul Johnston has been the British ambassador to Sweden since August 2011. Before coming to Sweden the ambassador served as Director for International Security at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, responsible for policy on the UN, NATO and European Security. He was previously Head of Chancery at the UK Mission to the UN in New York. As Head of the Kosovo policy team he took part in the UK delegation to the Kosovo Rambouillet negotiations.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Philip Hanson is an associate fellow of the Chatham House Russia and Eurasia Programme. He was formerly a Professor of the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern Europe at the University of Birmingham. He has also worked for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the UN Economic Commission for Europe and Radio Liberty, and been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at the universities of Michigan, Harvard, Kyoto and Sodertoern. His books include The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy (2003) and (co-edited with Michael Bradshaw) Regional Economic Change in Russia (2000). In 2011 he was awarded the OBE for services to Soviet and Russian studies.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Johan Matz is Researcher at the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Acting Senior Lecturer at Department of Government, Uppsala University.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Room 80127
• Lecturer: Tobias Fredlund
• Event URL:
• Contact person: Tobias Fredlund
• Licentiatseminarium

• Location: Blåsenhus Betty Pettersson-salen (14:031)
• Lecturer: Professor Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck College University of London UK
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Institutionen för psykologi
• Contact person: Peter Juslin
• Seminarium

• Location: Ekonomikum A156
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office Uppsala
• Contact person: Charlotte Nordgren
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Engelska parken
• Lecturer: Professor Carole Crumley. Visiting Professor at the Centre for Biodiversity, Swedish Agricultural University (SLU), Uppsala and at the Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient History. Professor Lars Rönnegård. Dalarna University, Section of Statistics, School of Technology and Business Studies. Professor Paul Sinclair. Uppsala unviersity, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History. Dr Nick Winder. Newcastle University, Principal Research Associate Institute for Policy & Practice.
• Organizer: Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient History and Dept. of Social and Economic Geography
• Contact person: Kim von Hackwitz
• Seminarium

The seminar series is framed by the Rethinking Human Nature initiative, which aims to develop humanistic cross-disciplinary research with a focus on GIS and landscape.

Register for the workshop by sending an e-mail to kim.vonhackwitz@arkeologi.uu.se, no later than 20 February. (Maximum 20 participants.)

• Location: Centrum för genusvetenskap Lunchrummet, Thunbergsvägen 3H, Hus 3, våning 1
• Lecturer: Endla Lõhkivi, PhD, Associate professor in philosophy of science, Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Centrum för genusvetenskap
• Contact person: Cecilia Brenner
• Seminarium

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Nino Kemoklidze is a visiting PhD researcher at the UCRS until December 31, 2013. She is here on the Swedish Institute?s Visby Program fellowship. Nino is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is working on the issues concerning nationalism and ethnic violence in Georgia. She has recently guest-edited Special Issue on "Many Faces of the Caucasus" for Europe-Asia Studies (2012, 64/9).
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

The post-Stalinist period in Georgia was characterized with a series of upheavals across the country beginning in March 1956 when pro-Stalin demonstrations in Tbilisi were violently dispersed by the Soviet authorities causing civilian casualties. Soon afterwards information emerges about petitions and protest rallies in Abkhazia in 1957, 1967, and 1977-78. What were the reasons behind the Abkhaz protests and what role these protests played in the development of the Abkhaz nationalism will be some of the questions addressed in this paper. Those wishing to receive Nino's draft paper are welcome to request it in writing: nino.kemoklidze@ucrs.uu.se

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) The UCRS-library, Gamla torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Panellists: - Ada I. Engebrigtsen (NOVA, Oslo) - Jan Grill (Manchester University) - Raluca Roman (St Andrews University) - Timofey Agarin (Queen's University Belfast) - Matthew Kott (Uppsala University), moderator
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Seminarium

• Location: The Department of Political Science The Svedelius-room, Gamla torget 6, plan 3
• Lecturer: Enzo Nussioholds a PhD degree in International Affairs and Governance from the University of St.Gallen and a license in History from the University of Basel. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Ben Oppenheim is a dissertation fellow with the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. He holds masters degrees from UC Berkeley and the London School of Economics.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

• Location: Engelska parken 6-0031 (house-room), Engelska Parken, Thunbergsgatan 3H, Uppsala
• Lecturer: Anna-Pya Sjödin. She has a PhD in Indology from Uppsala University 2007. Junior Research Fellow in philosophy at Södertörn University since 2008. Currently working with the project: "The little girl who knew her brother would be coming home: knowledge and cognition in Nyaya-Vaisheshika". Sjodin's research is centered on the understandings and conceptualizations of knowledge and cognition, especially intrasubjective cognition, within the commentarial tradition of Vaisheshika-sutra. She furthermore works on the position of Indian philosophy within European academic philosophy.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Forum for South Asia Studies
• Contact person: Ferdinando Sardella
• Föreläsning

The Brhad as an upanishadic text bears traces of discussions and speculations that were formulated within a culture of sacrificial ritual. At the same time it points to a widening of the possibility to think sacrificial agency in terms of general agency. Sjödin's main interest here concerns in what way thinking the sacrifice orders thinking the human being and thinking knowledge. The presentation will begin with outlining key concepts and presuppositions and then proceed to the topical analysis of the text and then towards the end it will relate this to later philosophical discourses on the self.

• Location: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Dr. Julie Hansen is a researcher at UCRS specializing in Russian literature. Her seminar paper is part of a book project, funded by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, on the theme of memory in depictions of the Communist period in recent prose fiction from Central and Eastern Europe.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS)
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Engelska parken 16-1058 (house-room), Engelska Parken, Thunbergsgatan 3H
• Lecturer: Shimon Lev. Lev is currently completing his Doctoral Studies in the Hebrew University on the topic "The cultural and political meeting between the Jewish world and the Indian World - A comparative research in the light of the development of the Indian and Zionist national movements". His last book "Soulmates: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach" (2012) was published by Orient BlackSwan Publishing House, India.
• Organizer: Forum for South Asian Studies, in collaboration with the Institute for Linguistics and Philology and the Hugo Valentin Center
• Contact person: Ferdinando Sardella
• Föreläsning

On November 1938 Gandhi published an article about the two questions that most preoccupied the Jewish world, Nazi Germany and the conflict between the Arabs and Jews in Palestine. The article disappointed many of his Jewish friends and admirers. Gandhi used the Harijan newspaper as a stage for presenting his rather demanding suggestion to the European Jews to adopt his Satygraha (Non- Violence) strategy in order to resist the Nazi type of racist violence. This harsh demand raised a wide variety of responses among the Jewish political and intellectual community, the most famous ones being from Martin Buber's, Judea Magnes' and Haim Grinberg's. In their responses, Buber and Magnes claimed that the Jewish concept of "Kidush Hasem" is a kind of Non-Violence doctrine. The Holocaust raises the question of whether non-violence in the emphatic sense in Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy has any meaning in the confrontation with extremely malicious doctrines. In light of Buber's and Magnes' responses, it will also focus on Gandhi attitude to Zionism and on the similarities and differences between "Kidush Hashem" and Satyagraha.

• Location: Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum Ekmansalen (Norbyvägen 14)
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Per-Erik Pettersson
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Rudbecksalen
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Dept of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology
• Contact person: Richard Rosenquist
• Konferens

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Polhemsalen
• Lecturer: Senad Apelfröjd
• Contact person: Senad Apelfröjd
• Licentiatseminarium

• Location: UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Sutides UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Geoffrey Swain is a graduate of the London School of Economics and, after previous teaching posts at universities in Cardiff and Bristol, was appointed to the Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2006. He has written extensively on the revolutionary history of Russia and communist Eastern Europe, but his most recent writings focus on Latvia and the sovietisation of that country. His publications include the book Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46 (Routledge, 2004) and the articles: ?Divided We Fall: Division within the National Partisans of Vidzeme and Latgale, Fall 1945? Journal of Baltic Studies vol. 38, no. 2, June 2007; "Latvia's Democratic Resistance: a Forgotten Episode from the Second World War", European History Quarterly, no. 2, 2009; "Before National Communism: Joining the Latvian Komsomol under Stalin " Europe-Asia Studies no. 7, 2012.
• Event URL:
• Organizer: UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Sutides
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

Certainly the clampdown on the Latvian Komsomol in 1952 was prompted by the fear that "bourgeois nationalists" had gained the upper hand as, for the first time, significant numbers of young Latvians joined the Komsomol. All the leaders of the Komsomol at that time later went on to become leading figures in the national communist movement, so a reconsideration of the events of 1959 seemed a logical place to pick up the story. The paper the seminar is based on gives a brief summary of the affair, and then concentrates on how the forces opposed to national communism mobilised themselves, with the support of allies in Moscow; such was their strength that, when Khrushchev decided to leave the matter to the Latvians, far from the national communists benefiting, it was their opponents who triumphed.

• Location: Engelska parken Ihre Hall
• Lecturer: Professor William Beinart
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Forum for Africa Studies
• Contact person: Jesper Bjarnesen
• Föreläsning

William Beinart has been Rhodes Professor of Race Relationsat at the University of Oxford since 1997. The position was established in 1953 to research and teach on 'race relations' with special reference to southern Africa. He was chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Southern African Studies (1992-1998); Dean at St Antony's College (1998-2000); founding Director of the African Studies Centre at Oxford (2002-6); co-chair of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS, 2006-8); President of the African Studies Association of the UK (2008-10) and is currently Director of Graduate Studies at the African Studies Centre.

His major research and teaching interests are in southern African history and politics and in environmental history. Recent publications include Twentieth-Century South Africa (2001); The Rise of Conservation in South Africa (2003); with Lotte Hughes, Environment and Empire (2007); with Marcelle Dawson (eds), Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa (2010) and with Luvuyo Wotshela, Prickly Pear: the Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape (2011).

• Location: Universitetsaulan
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Musicum
• Konsert

Special guest performer, all the way from Japan, is Kohei Tanaka, the composer behind the music of One Piece and Dragon Ball just to name a few.

The music that will be performed includes Pokemon, Naruto, Neon Genesis Evangelion, One Piece, Dragon Ball, etc.

Special Guest Performer: Kohei Tanaka
Host & Pianist: David Westerlund
Symphony orchestra: The Royal Academic Orchestra
Musical director: Stefan Karpe


Uppsala, Universitetsaulan, Friday 15th of March 2013, 19.00
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Stockholm, Berwaldhallen, Saturday 16th of March 2013, 19.30
www.berwaldhallen.se

Tickets
275kr / 225kr for students.

• Location: Berwaldhallen, Stockholm
• Event URL:
• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Musicum
• Konsert

Special guest performer, all the way from Japan, is Kohei Tanaka, the composer behind the music of One Piece and Dragon Ball just to name a few.

The music that will be performed includes Pokemon, Naruto, Neon Genesis Evangelion, One Piece, Dragon Ball, etc.

Special Guest Performer: Kohei Tanaka
Host & Pianist: David Westerlund
Symphony orchestra: The Royal Academic Orchestra
Musical director: Stefan Karpe


Uppsala, Universitetsaulan, Friday 15th of March 2013, 19.00
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Stockholm, Berwaldhallen, Saturday 16th of March 2013, 19.30
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Tickets
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• Location: Aronsborg Aronsborg, Bålsta
• Lecturer: Carol Rubin, DVM, MPH Associate Director for Zoonoses and One health, CDC, Atlanta Henrik Lerner, PhD in tmea Health and Society, Linköping University P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati MD, PhD, Ass. prof of Environmental Pathology, Medical School of National Kapodistrian University of Athens Jonas Bonnedahl, MD, PhD, Kalmar Hospital Erik Salaneck, MD, PhD, sect for Infectious Disease Uppsala University Hospital Stefan Bertilsson, professor at EBC Uppsala University Hanna Södesrtröm, PhD, Environmental Chemist, Umeå University Lovisa Svensson and Neus Latorre Margalef, PhDs, Linneaus University
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• Organizer: IEE Network UU, SVA, SLU, LnU
• Contact person: Eva Haxton
• Konferens

• Location: Blåsenhus Betty Pettersson lecture room
• Lecturer: Dermot Bolger in conversation with Maria Allström
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• Organizer: Fortbildningsavdelningen för skoland internationalisering
• Contact person: Maria Allström
• Föreläsning

Register for the event by sending an e-mail to Maria Allström, no later than 18 March 15.00.

• Location: (UCRS) Uppsala Cente for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Irina Busygina is Professor of Comparative Politics at Moscow State Institute of International Relations. She also heads the Center for Regional Political Studies. She worked and published on comparative federalism, regional development in Russia and Europe and European integration. Her most recent book is Political Modernization of the State in Russia, published in 2012 by Liberal Mission Foundation (in Russian, with Mikhail Filippov).
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• Organizer: (UCRS) Uppsala Cente for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

The inequalities in economic opportunities and expectations of population in these distinctive parts of Russia determine inconsistent political demands and political actions across the nation as well as spatial concentration of civil protests in the large cities. Irina Busygina argues that the combination of globalization effects and low quality of governance in Russia will further sharpen interregional inequalities and - as a consequence - the level of political polarization in Russia. In the Russian case, the low quality of governance makes most of the regions unable to compete in the global economy, depriving them an opportunity to attract domestic and foreign investments. Thus, to the degree that the current non-democratic regime is responsible for the low quality of governance in Russia, it could also be blamed for the growing inequality of economic opportunities across the Russian regions and increasing political fragmentation of Russia's territory.

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Polhemsalen
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• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Charlotte Nordgren
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Gustavianum
• Lecturer: Senior lecturer Jane Reichel and Assoc. Professor Patricia Mindus among others.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Konferens

In 2013 it will be 20 years since the Maastricht Treaty came into force and EU citizenship was first introduced. It is also the European Year of the Citizen. Much has happened both in Sweden and in the EU over the last decades. European citizenship has been understood as the world's first post-national citizenship, although it is complementary to national citizenship. EU citizens enjoy rights that have been expanded, modified and reinterpreted in the light of the integration process.


For more information, please visit: http://www.europeancitizenship.se/

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• Location: Hugo Valentin - centrum, Engelska parken ENG 4-1020
• Lecturer: Moderator: Ivana Macek
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• Organizer: Hugo Valentin-centrum
• Contact person: Tania Langerova
• Seminarium

The starting point for the discussions will be the film "Grbavica" about a woman's destiny and everyday life in Sarajevo after the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Location: Ekonomikum hörsal 2, Ekonomikum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 B, Uppsala
• Lecturer: Her Excellency Banashri Bose Harrison, Ambassador of India to Sweden and Latvia; Uma Kambhampati, Professor of Economics, University of Reading, United Kingdom; Sten Widmalm, Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University; Moderator: Ranjula Bali Swain, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
• Organizer: The Forum for South Asia Studies in collaboration with the Department of Economics
• Contact person: Ranjula Bali Swain
• Föreläsning

Since the turn of the 21st century, India has averaged about 8 per cent annual GDP growth. World's largest democracy, with a population of more than a billion, it is the 10th largest economy in the world. Internationally, India has also become an important actor. Though India's growth potential is immense the recent slow-down in GDP growth to 5.3 per cent has led to an introspection of the hurdles that she faces. Rising inflation, a large fiscal deficit, growing need for reforms, infrastructural bottlenecks and poor governance are some of the main challenges to India's high and sustainable growth.

• Location: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla torget 3, 3 vån, UCRS bibliotek
• Lecturer: Galin Tihanov holds the George Steiner Chair of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He was previously Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History and founding co-director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester. His most recent research has been on exile, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism. He is the author of The Master and the Slave: Lukacs, Bakhtin and the Ideas of their Time (2000) and the co-author of A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil (2010) and Critical Theory in Russia and the West (2011).
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• Organizer: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Biomedicinskt centrum, BMC B8 and Postersession/Lunch in B10
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• Organizer: SciLifeLab Uppsala
• Contact person: Elina Hjertström
• Konferens

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• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Charlotte Nordgren
• Studentevenemang

• Location: UCRS. Centrum för Rysslandsstudier Gamla torget 3, 3 vån, UCRS bibliotek
• Lecturer: Vitaly Kurennoj is the editor of Logos, and one of the leading experts in cultural studies (Higher School of Economics). He has also translated several philosophical classical works into Russian.
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• Organizer: UCRS. Centrum för Rysslandsstudier
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: The Department of Government Ihre-room, Gamla torget 6, plan 3
• Lecturer: Edward Page is Associate Professor of Political Theory at Warwick University. He is a leading scholar in the ethics and politics of climate change.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

The importance of considerations of futurity has been enhanced in recent years by improvements in our understanding of the way in which human originating environmental problems, such as global climate change, expose the not-yet-born to adverse impects that were barely understood twenty years ago.

In this lecture, I investigate three common arguments for restricting justice to dealings amongst contemporaries and argue that each can be overcome without abandoning the central elements of a liberal egalitarianism approach to justice.

• Location: Room X
• Lecturer: Professor of Psychology Ervin Staub, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.
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• Organizer: Hugo Valentin-centrum
• Contact person: Tania Langerova
• Föreläsning

THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL LECTURE to the Memory of Hugo Valentin will be held by professor of Psychology Ervin Staub from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. Professor Staub, who is a specialist in the psychology of violence and conflict, initiated and led until 2006 the doctoral programme in Psychology of Peace and Violence Prevention at the University of Massachusetts. He has lifelong experience in field research, educational efforts and interventions in connection to violence, peace and reconciliation in different regions of the world. Among his most important publications are The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence (1989), The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children, Adults and Groups Help and Harm Others (2003), and Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism (2011).

• Location: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3, 3 floor
• Lecturer: Prof. Jan Rychlik (Charles University, Prague) is a renowned expert on Czecho-Slovak relations in the 20th Century and has published widely on the subject.
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• Organizer: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

Even though the dissolution lacked popular support in the early 1990s, it is increasingly perceived as "positive" and "inevitable" by people. While in 1992, 66% of Slovaks and 59% of Czechs were against the dissolution; by 2012 the numbers dropped to 30% and 44%, respectively (Institute for Public Affairs, 2012).
On January 1, 2013 both Czech and Slovak Prime Ministers met in Brno (Czech Republic) to commemorate the 20th anniversary of both countries' independence. On this occasion, the Czech Prime Minister Peter Necas noted that he was "convinced that the step [taken] 20 years ago was good and inevitable." The Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico concurred and dubbed Czecho-Slovakia an "unsustainable" project. They both went on to praise the good relations between both republics, which indeed improved in recent years following a very brief "post-separation" syndrome. Both Czech and Slovak governments meet regularly to discuss issues of common concern. It has also become customary that the newly elected Czech and Slovak Presidents usually pay their first and last foreign visits to the other country of the former Czecho-Slovakia. Recently, a proposal has been put forward to merge some of the Czech and Slovak Embassies abroad.
To mark the 20th anniversary, UCRS will hold a seminar given by Prof. Jan Rychlik (Charles University, Prague) who is a renowned expert on Czecho-Slovak relations in the 20th Century and has published widely on the subject.

• Location: Skytteanum Gyllenhielmska biblioteket, Valvgatan 4
• Lecturer: Workshop conveners are Uppsala Forum Visiting Fellow Assoc. Professor Edward Page (Warwick University) and Dr. Aaron Maltais (Uppsala University).
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Seminarium

At the same time, a consensus has emerged in favour of a co-ordinated, international, response to implement effective policies of mitigation (to prevent avoidable adverse climate impacts) and adaptation (to modify human activities to manage adverse climate impacts that are no longer avoidable so they do not threaten human well-being).

• Location: Ekonomikum A114
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• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Charlotte Nordgren
• Studentevenemang

• Location: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Professor Kaj Hobér holds the chair of International Investment and Trade Law at Uppsala University. He is also a partner of Mannheimer Swartling in Stockholm. He has been involved with legal and economic aspects of Russia for several decades.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Universtitetshuset, sal IX
• Lecturer: Panel participants: Susan Hegeman, 2012-13 Uppsala Fulbright Professor of American Studies; David Watson, associate professor of American literature, Department of English; Dag Blanck, director, Swedish Institute for North American studies. Moderator: Daniel Kjellén, president, The Uppsala Association of International Affairs
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• Organizer: American studies group, Department of English and the Uppsala Association of International Affairs
• Contact person: Dag Blanck
• Seminarium

• Location: Blåsenhus Room 10:203 (ULL classroom), Blåsenhus, von Kraemers allé 1A, Uppsala
• Lecturer: Welcome and opening by Vice-rector Margareta Fahlgren, Keynote speakers are the leading Caravaggio-researchers Marco Cardinali, Maria Beatrice De Ruggieri and Rossella Vodret, Rome and Reidar Hvalvik, Oslo.
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• Organizer: Konstvetenskapliga institutionen/Newmaninstitutet
• Contact person: Azul Tarazona
• Konferens

A round table discussion will be held in Rome 17 April 2013 at Accademia Nazionale di San Luca to conclude the conferences. Please visit http://www.newcaravaggio.se/ for full program and for more information.

Program on 12 April: 09:00-12:00, regular conference program
13:30-18:00, Workshop with Emmebi and master students.

• Location: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3 vån, Biblioteket
• Lecturer: Fabian Heffermehl (f. 1983) er utdannet som slavist og grafiker fra universitetene i Moskva og Berlin. Han skriver nå en avhandling i teologi ved Uppsala Centrum för Rysslandsstudier.
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• Organizer: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Föreläsning, Seminarium

• Location: Uppsala
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• Organizer: Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development
• Contact person: Sara Andersson
• Utställning, Föreläsning, Studentevenemang, Utbildning, Konferens

The month is a platform that allows for bringing out the multitude of perspectives and approaches that sustainable development and education for sustainable development can entail. We hope that people in Uppsala with an interest in sustainability will and new places and new ways to meet. We especially want to bridge the gap between academia and the public sphere, between generations and between people with different cultural backgrounds.

Uppsala Sustainability Month is coordinated by CEMUS Forum, but we invite many organizations and partners to be a part of the initiative. It is very much all the participating organizations that are contributing that make this month what it is.

For more information and to see all of the events, visit www.sustainabilitymonth.se

• Location: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Boris Mezhuev is an Assistant Professor of History of Russian Philosophy at the Moscow State University. He is the editor-in-chief of the internet-based resource Terra America and a regular columnist of "Izvestia" newspaper. Dr. Mezhuev has authored over 200 publications and his latest book is entitled "The political critique by Vadim Tsymbuirski" (2011).
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• Organizer: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: University Main Building Nya konsistorierummet
• Lecturer: Professor Judyth Sachs, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Macquarie University, Australia
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• Organizer: The Quality Advisory Board at Uppsala University
• Contact person: Thomas Öst
• Seminarium

In 2010, nine Australian universities collaborated on the Teaching Standards Framework (TSF) project. The aim of the project was to develop a tool by which universities could conduct a comprehensive survey of their processes for ensuring teaching quality, and report accordingly. In a second project, an online version of the TSF (available from teachingframework.edu.au), was developed and tested under the leadership of Professor Judyth Sachs. Professor Sachs will introduce the framework and how it can be used as means for enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.

• Location: Universtitetshuset, sal IX
• Lecturer: Dr Pamela Mbabazi, Associate Professor of Development Studies at Mbarara University of Science & Technology, Uganda
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• Organizer: The Department of Peace and Conflict Research and the Nordic Africa Institute
• Contact person: Helena Grusell
• Föreläsning

The resource curse, as set forth by Richard Auty (1993), indicates that countries highly endowed with natural resources can experience slow economic growth, resulting in a host of other problems, most notably conflict. Classical economics suggests that if a country has a significant amount of a resource in high demand globally, then that country should prosper. The resource curse suggests otherwise. As Uganda limps closer to full commercial production, the state has much work to do to become Africa's first oil success story. Although much of the literature regarding oil globally, as well as in Uganda, paints a rather pessimistic picture, I try to provide a set of alternatives, looking at oil as an opportunity rather than a curse.
Pamela Mbabazi is an Associate Professor of Development Studies at Mbarara University of Science & Technology in Uganda and currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor. She has been lecturing and doing research in Development Planning, Rural Development, Political Economy and Conflict Studies over the last 16 years. Her current research interests include Political Economy of Oil and Land Governance issues.

Mbabazi's publictions include:
Mbabazi, Pamela and Shaw, Timothy, 2008, 'Two Africa's, Two Ugandas?' in Alfred Nhema and Paul Teyambe Zeleza (eds), The Roots of African Conflicts in Africa. Causes and Costs. Ohio: Ohio University Press.
Mbabazi, Pamela and Ian Taylor (eds), 2005, The Potentiality of Developmental States in Africa. Uganda and Botswana Compared. Dakar: CODESRIA.

• Location: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Ildikó Asztalos Morell is an Assistant Professor (docent) in Sociology at Mälardalen University as well as a senior research fellow at the UCRS. She is currently working on a five year comparative research project "Negotiating rural poverty" financed by Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) ; the project explores the forces that produce and reproduce poverty in rural Russia and Hungary.
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• Organizer: UCRS. Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

The utility of renewable energy sources has been discussed primarily from economic and ecological perspectives. In developing countries renewable energy production is also actualized as means of poverty elimination. The potential for social benefits resulting from the implementation of renewable energy sources for the elimination of poverty has been newly actualized even in the post-socialist context. The paper elucidates through a case study of a LEADER project, Romavirka, the obstacles facing the utilization of this technology for those with the least resources. Romavirka, within the framework of Makrovirka, a larger EU financed rural development project for the implementation of renewable energy, initiated the implementation of renewable energy technology for the improvement of the living conditions of rural marginalized Roma settlements in a deindustrialized region of rural Hungary with high rates of long-term unemployment.

• Location: The Department of Peace and Conflict Research Alva Myrdalrummet, Gamla torget 3, 3rd floor
• Lecturer: Chris Armstrong is a Reader in Politics at the University of Southampton. He is a political theorist working mainly on issues and theories of global justice.
• Organizer: Uppsala Forum on Democracý, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

This lecture asks who should, from the point of view of justice, bear the costs of rainforest protection. Should countries which happen to have rainforests within their territories bear all of those costs? Should they be asked to sacrifice economic development, because of our broader global interests in protecting key carbon sinks? Given that most rainforests fall within the territories of developing countries, and given that it is the inhabitants of developed countries who consume most of the rainforests? capacity to absorb greenhouse gases, this might seem unjust.

Perhaps instead we should favour a "principle of fairness" according to which those who benefit from important global public goods, such as carbon-absorption, ought to pay something towards their protection? If so, the implication would be that the inhabitants of the developed world should pay countries with rainforests not to develop them. The lecture will suggest that we do have such a duty, and assess some of its implications for debates about global justice and spreading the costs of mitigating climate change.

• Location: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen Ihre-rummet, Gamla torget 6, plan 3
• Lecturer: Professor Jason Czarnezki and Professor Siu Tip Lam, Vermont Law School.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum on Democracý, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

In contrast, under the Clean Water Act, EPA promulgates national industrywide standards with which polluters must comply, whereas the states are empowered to define acceptable ambient pollution levels in water bodies within their borders. What are the successes and challenges to this approach?

Lunch-talk, please register with Frida Björklund before April 18, frida.bjorklund@jur.uu.se.

• Location: Ekonomikum B115
• Lecturer: Mikael Laaksoharju and Pontus Olsson (both PhD students at Department of Information Technology, Division of Visual Information and Interaction)
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• Organizer: This workshop is part of a series of open sessions, organized by students within the Human-Computer Interaction master's programme.
• Contact person: Simon Harhues
• Föreläsning, Seminarium

• Location: Ekonomikum A114
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• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Charlotte Nordgren
• Studentevenemang

• Location: Engelska parken Thunbergsvägen 3A, 1-0062
• Lecturer: Prof. Anne C. Nagel, Universität Giessen
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• Organizer: Forskningsnoden
• Contact person: Andreas Åkerlund
• Seminarium

Anne C. Nagel is professor for contemporary history at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen. She has published extensively on the history of science and German universities in the twentieth Century, especially during the National Socialist dictatorship. Her latest book "Hitlers Bildungsreformer" treats the ministry of science and education in the Third Reich.

• Location: Engelska parken Room 16-0042
• Lecturer: Dr. Julia Sattler, TU Dortmund University
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• Organizer: Engelska institutionen
• Contact person: Alexander Ringholm
• Föreläsning

In the context of the Obama Presidency, a discussion around a supposedly 'post-racial' society has emerged across the United States. This makes evident that a topic such as mixed heritage is no longer a taboo to be discussed only in quiet, but has taken center stage.

Already in the 1990s and early 2000s, a number of mixed-race memoirs - among them also Obama's own autobiography, Dreams from my Father (1995) - have complicated ideas of what it means to be a family and what it means to be American in the face of the complex legacy of racial transgression.

• Location: Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum Ekmansalen
• Lecturer: Gene E. Likens, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA
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• Organizer: Limnology, department of Ecology and Genetics
• Contact person: Lars Tranvik
• Föreläsning

Gene E. Likens, is currently visiting professor at the limnology program, Uppsala University. Distinguished Senior Scientist Emeritus, Founding Director and President Emeritus of Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY., and Special Advisor on Environmental Affairs to the President of the University of Connecticut. He is an ecologist best known for discovery of acid rain in North America, for co-founding the renowned Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study and for founding the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, a leading, international ecological research and education center. Dr. Likens is an educator and advisor at state, national, and international levels. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Austrian Academy of Sciences, an Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society and Albert Einstein Professor from the Chinese Academy of Science. He was awarded the 2001 National Medal of Science; and In 2003 was awarded the Blue Planet Prize (with F.H. Bormann), and he is the author, co-author or editor of 25 books and more than 600 scientific papers.

• Location: Engelska parken Room 16-0043
• Lecturer: Dr. Julia Sattler, TU Dortmund University
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• Organizer: Engelska institutionen
• Contact person: Alexander Ringholm
• Föreläsning

Dr Sattler has completed her PhD in American Studies in 2012 and is now the Academic Director of an international PhD program focusing on 'Urban Transformations in the USA' at the University Alliance Ruhr Metropolis (UAMR) as well as the Academic Coordinator of TU Dortmund's Department of Culture Studies. In her postdoctoral work, Julia Sattler is focusing on 'Ruhr/Detroit' and aims to explore the narration of post-industrial landscapes at the intersection of Urban Planning and American Cultural Studies.

Detroit, Michigan, once the center of automotive production ('the Motor City'), has in the past decades become the poster child for urban blight and decay: having lost more than half of its population and much of its industry in the past fifty years, photographers from all over the world travel there in order to catch a glimpse of a landscape that is heavily marked by its heritage of industrial labor and the continuing absence thereof in the present.

In addition to the story of a community that has essentially been robbed of all opportunity, in the past decade, though, a new and different narrative has emerged about Detroit and other Rust Belt Cities: the narrative of a new frontier, of an 'authentic' space of freedom and invention, and a laboratory for new ideas.

• Location: Universitetsaulan
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• Organizer: Musicum
• Contact person: Rebecca Dahl
• Konsert

Uppsala University Jazz Orchestra, conducted by Ulf Johansson Werre, plays interesting new versions of George Gershwins compositions.
Guest soloist: Andreas Pettersson

University Main Building, the Grand Auditorium at 19.00

Tickets: 150kr / 100kr for students.
With the UNT card: 120kr / 80kr for students.

Buy your tickets at www.ticnet.se, UNT or at the entrance on the day of the concert.

• Location: Engelska parken Ihre Hall, Eng21-0011
• Lecturer: Professor David Price
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• Contact person: Sverker Finnström
• Föreläsning

David H. Price is a Professor of Anthropology at St. Martin's University in Lacey, Washington. He has conducted research in the United States and Palestine, Egypt and Yemen. He is writing a three volume book series using examining anthropologists' interactions with intelligence agencies: Threatening Anthropology (2004, Duke), examines McCarthyism's effects on anthropologists; Anthropological Intelligence (2008, Duke), documents anthropological contributions to World War II, and he is completing a third volume documenting anthropologists interactions with the CIA and Pentagon during the Cold War. His most recent book is Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State (2011,CounterPunch Books).

• Location: Engelska parken Ihre Hall, Eng21-0011
• Lecturer: Professor Susan Reynolds Whyte
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• Contact person: Sverker Finnström
• Föreläsning

Susan Reynolds Whyte, Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Copenhagen University, carries out research in East Africa on social efforts to secure well-being in the face of poverty, disease, conflict, and rapid change. She uses concepts of pragmatism, uncertainty, and temporality to examine relationships between people, institutions, ideas, and things. For two decades she has worked with African colleagues on Enhancement of Research Capacity projects. One result of that collaboration is a forthcoming book, Second Chances (Duke University Press), which is a ?polygraph? (not a monograph) by four Danish and four Ugandan scholars on the first generation of AIDS survivors.

• Location: Engelska parken Ihre Hall, Eng21-0011
• Lecturer: Professor David Lewis
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• Contact person: Sverker Finnström
• Föreläsning

David Lewis is Professor of Social Policy and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. An anthropologist by background, he has worked mainly in Bangladesh, undertaking research on issues that include rural development, politics and local power structures, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society. His books include Technologies and Transactions: A Study of the Interaction Between New Technology and Agrarian Structure in Bangladesh (Dhaka University, 1991), Anthropology, Development and the Postmodern Challenge (Pluto, with Katy Gardner, 1996), NGOs and Development (Routledge, 2009, with Nazneen Kanji) and Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

• Location: Linnéträdgården, Svartbäcksgatan 27 Linnés Hammarby
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• Organizer: Uppsala linneanska trädgårdar
• Contact person: Anita Ulvenkvist, Lotta Saetre
• Utställning

• Location: Skytteanum Gyllenhielmska biblioteket, Valvgatan 4
• Lecturer: Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in PAIS and Professorial Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick. His main research covers globalisation, global governance, civil society in global politics, and global democracy.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

Change-oriented NGOs, labour unions, faith-based organisations and other social movements have mostly remained in the shadows vis-à-vis private financial markets. Impacts from these citizen associations have not gone beyond promoting modest rises in public awareness, certain limited policy shifts, and minor institutional reforms of a few public governance agencies. The reasons for these scant achievements are partly related to capacities and practices in civil society groups, relevant governance agencies, and financial firms.

Also important in constraining civil society impacts to reform and transform contemporary financial markets are deeper structural circumstances such as embedded social hierarchies (among countries, classes, etc.), the pivotal role of finance capital in accumulation processes today, and the entrenchment of prevailing neoliberal policy discourses.

• Location: Skytteanum Gyllenhielmska biblioteket, Valvgatan 4
• Lecturer: Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in PAIS and Professorial Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick. His main research covers globalisation, global governance, civil society in global politics, and global democracy.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

Geographically, the work is mostly concentrated in the urban global north. Culturally, the work mostly emanates from western-modern mindsets. Intellectually, the investigations are disproportionately derived from the disciplines of politics and sociology. Sectorally, global studies research has primarily been pursued within introspective academic circles, avoiding engagement of practitioners in business, civil society, media and official circles. Socially, most research on the global has been undertaken by those at the core of power with regard to age, class, gender, race and sexual orientation.
This workshop explores how global studies might develop more democratic qualities. To this end the focus is placed on principles of diversity, reflexivity and praxis. Diversity entails nurturing research environments where all relevant voices have access and feel safe to speak, thereby opening up greater possibilities for participation, learning and the production of alternative knowledge. Reflexivity entails a researcher's critical reflection on their self and their relations to wider society and its structures of power, thereby enhancing capacities for deliberate and transformative action. Praxis entails close involvement throughout the research process by those whose lives are affected by the study, thereby making the work more relevant to and empowering for global publics.

This workshop develops these principles in greater detail and in relation to the specific projects of the participating researchers. How could your own work better incorporate diversity, reflexivity and praxis? What benefits could result? What obstacles could arise in attempting to implement these principles, and how could these difficulties be countered?

If you wish to paticipate, please register with Frida Björklund, frida.bjorklund@jur.uu.se.

• Location: Lena kyrka and Altuna kyrka
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• Organizer: Uppsala universitets Körcentrum
• Contact person: Gustaf Bäckström
• Konsert

• Location: Room X
• Lecturer: Dr. Milton Diamond is the Director of the Pacific Center for Sex and Society, having served as Professor of Anatomy and Reproductive Biology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai'i from 1971 to 2009.
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• Organizer: Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice
• Contact person: Frida Björklund
• Föreläsning

Prime attention will be given to the treatment of various infant cases of ambiguous genitalia. Conflict is seen among the recommendations of different physicians and between researchers from different fields (and of different ages) in regard to medically simple, evidence based, and legal and ethical practices in dealing with these conditions. Parental rights and cultural expectations are part of the mix.

The country of Australia requires that medical procedures involving minors must first pass court legal review, and the country of Colombia debates how to define male and female for medical and legal purposes, and does it mater. Consideration of how these issues are involved in different medical treatments, and why they can be complicated, will be discussed.

• Location: Universitetsaulan Biskopsgatan 3
• Lecturer: H.E. Tarja Halonen, former President of the Republic of Finland
• Organizer: Akademiintendenturen och Dag Hammarsköldfonden
• Contact person: Gabriella Jönsson
• Föreläsning

• Location: Blåsenhus
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• Organizer: CEMUS/CSD Uppsala
• Contact person: Sara Andersson
• Konferens

The two main conference themes are:
Bridging different worlds: Local and regional collaborative learning for sustainable futures
Campus sustainability and beyond: the university as a driver of innovations for sustainable solutions (through research, education and collaboration).

During May 7-8 you are invited to take part in a conference that aims to deliver tangible and concrete solutions and proposals for some of our regional, local and global sustainability challenges. Through participatory workshops we will work to develop ideas for how Uppsala's university campuses can be developed towards sustainability, from students' and users' perspectives. We will also develop project proposals and other ways to enhance a necessary learning for a sustainable transition in the Uppsala region. What are the skills and knowledge needed and how can the university, together with key partners in the region, involve and also learn from new collaborations and initiatives, involving new stakeholders and participants in a participatory manner?

Conference Concept - A Forum for New Initiatives The Uppsala Conference on the Future of Education and Sustainability will give participants an opportunity to engage in discussions about the futures we want to create and the learning that needs to take place to get there. The participation from students and researchers from different backgrounds and disciplines is one of the building blocks of the conference and the aim is to enable a multifaceted discussion across disciplines and generations.

During the conference participants will together create a conference exhibition, with results from workshops and important lessons from keynotes and discussion. The exhibition will be on display in the Blåsenhus entrance hall and will constitute a natural meeting point for the conference. After the conference CSD Uppsala will compile a report including key conference results - a report that will be used as inspiration and guidance for future sustainability work.

• Location: Ekonomikum Hörsal 2
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• Organizer: Study Councellors and Career Office
• Contact person: Per-Erik Pettersson
• Studentevenemang

• Location: UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Oleg Budnitskii is Professor of History and Director, Center for the History and Sociology of World War II at the National Research University Higher School of Economics; he is also senior research fellow at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His recent books include Russko-evreiskiy Berlin, 1920-1941 (Russian-Jewish Berlin, 1920-1941), in cooperation with Aleksandra Polian (Novoe Literaturnoe obozrenie, 2013), Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), and Svershilos'. Prishli nemtsy! Ideinyi collaboratsionism v SSSR v period Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny (It happened. Germans came! Ideological collaboration in the USSR during the Great Patriotic War period) (ROSSPEN, 2012).
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• Organizer: UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

• Location: Universtitetshuset, sal IX
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• Organizer: UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Johan Matz
• Konferens

Recent years have seen very few important findings on Wallenberg in former Soviet archives. Drawing on experiences from research on similar unresolved historical questions of the last century, this workshop is aimed at discussing how to move forward on the Wallenberg-case. The workshop brings together researchers from Austria, Finland, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the United States.

• Location: Universtitetshuset, sal IX Gustavianum
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• Organizer: UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Ausra Padskocimaite
• Konferens

Even though access to important sources still remains partial, the revelations made in the last two decades within a number of important areas of research are certainly significant enough to warrant the locution "revolution".

Access to the archives of the former Soviet Union has been of fundamental importance, providing an opportunity to reassess and reinterpret not only the history of Russia or any other former Soviet republic, but the history of the twentieth century as such. Virtually all fields of the social sciences and humanities - economics, political science, history, military studies, international relations and literature - have been touched by the availability of previously inaccessible sources.

The main purpose of this conference is to bring together a group of international specialists in different fields, in order to answer two closely related questions: What have we learned from the Soviet archives in the last twenty years? And what potential challenges lie ahead, in terms of access to further primary sources as well as conceptual issues and interpretation?

The conference is organized with generous financial support from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.

• Location: Blåsenhus Bertil Hammer-salen (24:K104)
• Lecturer: Lucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D. and Kaustubh Supekar, Ph.D., Stanford University
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• Organizer: Institutionen för psykologi
• Contact person: Jonas Engman
• Seminarium

Titles for the two seminars:
"Mapping Neurocognitive Networks in Typical and Atypical Development" (1:15-2:45 pm) och
"Large-scale Brain Networks in Cognition: Emerging Methods and Applications" (3:00-4:15 pm)
The seminars will be held in english

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Häggsalen
• Lecturer: Piero Baglioni
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• Organizer: SNSS - Svenska neutronspridningssällskapet
• Contact person: Martin Sahlberg
• Föreläsning

New perspectives have been opened by the application of colloids, and in particular of selfassembling
systems and nanoparticles, to Conservation, generating a breakthrough in the
development of innovative tools for the conservation and preservation of cultural heritage.
This contribution is an overview of the most recent methodologies developed in the
Conservation field, focusing on amphiphilic systems, and gels. I will report on two recently
developed systems and on their application for the cleaning of works of art:
i) the characterization of two systems, EAPC and XYL, which have shown good to optimal
performances in the removal of organic polymers from wall paintings. EAPC is a fivecomponents
fluid composed of water, sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS), 1-pentanol (PeOH),
propylene carbonate (PC), and ethyl acetate (EA), while XYL is a ?classical? o/w
microemulsion where p-xylene droplets are stabilized in water by SDS and PeOH.
ii) an innovative hydrogel based on semi-interpenetrating poly(2-hydroxyethyl
methacrylate)/polyvinylpyrrolidone networks with suitable hydrophilicity, water retention
properties, and required mechanical strength to avoid residues after the cleaning the works
of art. This family of gels is able to confine water or water based complex fluid, and has
outstanding cleaning capacity for water-sensitive works of art, and in particular for
watercolor paintings that are extremely difficult to clean with conventional methods.
Small-angle neutron and scattering (SANS) with contrast variation and SAXS are used to
infer a detailed picture of the structure of these complex systems. We found that the
composition and the structure at the nanoscale determine the capability of removing a broad
range of different polymer coatings from porous materials.

• Location: UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Gamla Torget 3, 3rd floor, UCRS Library
• Lecturer: Paul Lewis is Professor Emeritus at the Open University, UK, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK. Previously he was Professor of European Politics at the Open University, where he taught courses on comparative and global politics, and European politics. His early research focused on the politics of the East European states during the communist period and then shifted to issues of democratisation and party development, as well as processes of European integration. Major works include Central Europe Since 1945 (1994), Political Parties in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (2000), and Europeanising Party Politics (edited, 2011). Edition 5 of Developments in Central and Eastern Europe (co-edited for Palgrave Macmillan) is currently in press.
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• Organizer: UCRS Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Contact person: Jevgenija Gehsbarga
• Seminarium

After an initial decade of uncertainty following the end of communist rule, relatively stable patterns of party system development seemed to emerge in some countries of the region. Hungary was recognised as having the most stable system, while party systems in Slovenia and the Czech Republic also seemed to stabilise more successfully than others in the region. But the picture underwent major change in all these countries with the elections of 2010 as several established parties disappeared from parliament and the representation of others was greatly diminished, with major implications for the trajectory of democratic development in Hungary in particular. The seminar will be devoted to an examination of these changes and explore why the stability of such party systems was only apparent.

• Location: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1 Häggsalen
• Lecturer: Dr. Vassilios Kapaklis, Avdelningen för Materialfysik, Institutionen för Fysik och Astronomi, Uppsala Universitet
• Contact person: Vassilios Kapaklis
• Docentföreläsning

The speaker is Dr. Vassilios Kapaklis, Div. of Material Physics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University.

The docent committee is represented by prof. Peter Oppeneer and the session will be chaired by prof. Björgvin Hjörvarsson.

Abstract:

Magnetism has provided a fertile testbed for physical models, such as the Heisenberg and Ising models. Most of these investigations have focused on solid materials and relate to their atomic properties such as the atomic magnetic moments and their interactions. Recently, advances in nanotechnology have enabled the controlled patterning of nano-sized magnetic particles, which can be arranged in extended lattices. Tailoring the geometry and the magnetic material of these lattices, the magnetic interactions and magnetization reversal energy barriers can be tuned. This enables interesting interaction schemes to be examined on adjustable length and energy scales. As a result such nano-magnetic systems represent an ideal playground for the study of physical model systems, being facilitated by direct magnetic imaging techniques. One particularly interesting case is that of systems exhibiting frustration, where competing interactions cannot be simultaneously satisfied. This results in a degeneracy of the ground state and intricate thermodynamic properties. The archetypical frustrated physical system is water ice, and similar physics can be mirrored in nano-magnetic arrays, by tuning the arrangement of neighbouring magnetic islands, referred to as artificial spin ice. Thermal excitations in such systems resemble magnetic monopoles. In this lecture key concepts related to nano-magnetism and artificial spin ice will be introduced and discussed, along with recent experimental and theoretical developments.