The Department’s Higher Research Seminar Series
Autumn 2024
The Higher Research Seminar is the main collective seminar of the Department. The research staff and invited national and international leading scholars present ongoing research and analyses of a broad range of exciting topics of relevance for Political Science.
The Higher Research Seminar is held on Wednesdays 13.15 to 14.30 in Eden 367, unless otherwise indicated. PhD Mid-term seminars 13:15 to 14:45
Convenors: Professor Annika Björkdahl and Professor Fariborz Zelli
The following seminars are open to the public. Welcome to join us!
Program
| Date | Presenter and Affiliation (if from outside our department) | Title / Background | Chair |
| 04 September | Julia Qian Mao | Working title: Political Economy of Biodiversity Financing Discussant: Robert Klemmensen | Sara Kalm |
| 11 September | Pinar Dinc and Malena Rosén Sundström
| Pinar Dinc: ‘Conflict, Environmental Destruction, and Resistance in the Lands of “the Others”’ Malena Rosén Sundström: ‘Chance and Choices’ | Annika Björkdahl |
| 18 September | Simon Turner, Department of Sociology, Lund University | ‘Futures, Displacement and Conflict in and around Burundi’
| Annika Björkdahl |
19 September, NB: Thursday, 13.15 hrs; | Jan Selby, Leeds University | ‘Israel-Palestine through the lens of water’ | Roxanna Sjöstedt |
25 September
| Linn Brolin | Working title: Capital-labour relations in a changing climate Discussant: Niklas Altermark | Sara Kalm |
| 02 October | Detlef Sprinz, University of Potsdam | ‘Can We Predict Long‐Term Policy Decisions?’ | Fariborz Zelli |
| 09 October | Jason Diakité, LU Honorary Doctor and Madubuko Diakité, LU Raoul-Wallenberg-Institute | Title: TBD Will speak inter alia about their family history and its political and human rights dimensions. | Annika Björkdahl |
CANCELLED! 16 October | Isak Svensson, Uppsala University | ‘Brain Train: Thinking as We Travel?’ | Annika Björkdahl |
| 23 October | Olaf Corry, University of Leeds | ‘Making things malleable? Weak and strong governance objects, technologies of control, and the transformation of climate change as a problem‘ | |
| 30 October | Professor Natalia Chaban – Director, Research Centre Public Diplomacy and Political Communication Forum (PD-PCF UC | Title: “Securitization of heritage and the global ‘battle of narratives’: Communicating Ukraine’s historical and cultural heritage in global media since February 2022”. | |
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| 13 November | Margaux Dandrifosse | PhD Plan seminar: Margaux Dandrifosse Working title: The Emerging Justice Curse? Investigating the link between the judicialization of violence, extractivism, and civilian victimization during conflicts Discussant: Jonathan Polk | Sara Kalm |
| 20 November | Lena Kempermann | PhD Plan seminar: Lena Kempermann Working title: Many roads lead to the table: Women's differential participation in peace negotiations and their impact on peace agreements Discussant: Agustín Goenaga | Sara Kalm |
| 27 November | Karin Aggestam, Elsa Hedling and Annika Bergman-Rosamond (University of Edinburgh) | Presentation of their new book ‘The Politics of Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy’ | Annika Björkdahl |
| 04 December | Johan Alvehus, Department of Service Studies, Lund University | Title: ‘The rise of midocracy: The consequences of an expanded and elevated administration’ | Mats Fred |
| 11 December | Maria Hedlund and Thomas Hickmann | Maria Hedlund: ‘Experts and democracy in the context of emerging technologies’ Thomas Hickmann: ‘Multi-level governance dynamics in global sustainability politics’ | Fariborz Zelli |
Research Group Seminars
Link to the calendar for the research groups' meetings.