Som några av er vet så har vi haft problem med ”visa min sida” i forskarnavet. Detta är nu åtgärdat och fungerar.

Under en tid har det också varit ett problem att de forskare som slutar på Mah ligger kvar (med tomma sidor) i forskarnavet trots att de är borttagna ur personal- och kompetens. Även detta är åtgärdat har vi fått besked om. /Johanna

Det är dags att lämna in förslag till hedersdoktorer. Förslaget ska mailas till bo.petersson@mah.se  senast kl. 12.00 måndag 26 maj tillsammans med en lättillgängligt formulerad motivering på 100-150 ord, som kan ligga till grund för slutgiltiga motiveringstexten i pressmeddelande och promotionsskrift. Mer information finns på hemsidan i beslutsdokumentet Riktlinjer för utnämning av hedersdoktorer vid Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle.

Dokumentet ligger sist bland övriga dokument i högerkolumnen

http://www.mah.se/Om-Malmo-hogskola/Kultur-och-samhalle1/Organisation-Kultur-och-samhalle/Styrdokument-KS/

Institutet för studier in Malmös historia bjuder in till öppet föredrag vid urbanhistoriska seminariet:

Kan forskning kring urbant jordbruk i det förflutna normalisera den globala stadsodlingsrörelsen?

Med: Christian Isendahl, lektor vid Institutet för historiska studier, Göteborgs Universitet.
Tid: den 26:e maj, kl 15-17.
Plats: Sal D222 i Orkanen vid Malmö högskola.

Text om seminariets innehåll:
Archaeological research demonstrates that urbanism as a global phenomenon has a considerable time-depth. On most continents, people have for more than a millennium organized settlements in ways that we in some sense can recognize today as distinctly urban. Research also shows that different historical ecological pathways have created considerable spatial diversity and temporal variation in urban systems, and yet this is overlooked in contemporary urban scholarship. Although urban scholars and planners often reference the past, the scope of the frame of reference is spatially and temporally limited in relation to the wealth of the data. Isendahl & Smith (2012) suggest that urban scholars and planners should draw from as wide a range of cases and models as possible when considering options to inform the development of sustainable and resilient future cities. In this view, urban archaeologists have a distinct role to play in broadening the frame of reference, complementing recentist biases. Recent comparative archaeological research shows that many pre-industrial urban settlements can be characterized as ‘low-density cities’ (Fletcher 2009). A straightforward definition of this term is that urban settlement components are relatively dispersed in the landscape. Documented cases of early low-density cities include those of the Maya lowlands and the Khmer civilization, but the phenomenon is inadequately defined and under-investigated. Presenting the Maya case in this talk I argue that land-use strategies which intersperse agricultural production with urban functions account for the spatial distribution of architecture in Maya cities, and justify the term ‘agro-urban landscape’ as an appropriate designation for this type of site.

Welcome to two research seminars tomorrow,

K3´s seminar: 7 May, 10-12, Aktersalongen, Kranen room E203 with Susan Jackson, who is a senior lecturer in international relations at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö högskola. Susan will be speaking on the the topic of ’Militarization 2.0: Methodology on militarized corporations and their (gendered) social media presence.’ K3 Research Seminar blog

And this week’s GPS seminar, 7 May 13.15 – 15: Anti-racism under pressure? Social movements, NGOs and their mediated claims-making in Finland and Sweden. Welcome to a Global Political Studies Seminar with Camilla Haavisto, Postdoc at University of Helsinki and Finnish Academy Guest Researcher at GPS. Read more.