Welcome to a ”spikning” of Josef Chaib’s doctoral thesis titled Evidence, Expertise and ’Other’ Knowledge. Governing Welfare Collaboration. As a doctoral student at the Department of Global Political Science, Josef Chaib has been researching collaborations in public administration. His thesis is part of a VR-funded research project.

When & where:
Friday September 21 at 15.15
Niagara building’s ground floor by the A elevators

Josef Chaib’s public defense will be held on October 12.
More information about the public defense.

Welcome to the 90% seminar of Christina Hansen, PhD-student at the departments of Urban Studies and Global Political Studies. The seminar title is Solidarity in diversity: Activism as a pathway of migrant emplacement.

When & where:
Tuesday, September 18, at 12.15-14.00 in Niagara, room NIC0826.

Opponent is Margit Mayer of Freie University Berlin. The Internal reading group includes Diana Mulinari (Lund University), Carina Listerborn (Urban Studies, Malmö University) and Christina Johansson (Global Political Studies, Malmö University).

The dissertation manuscript has been circulated among the colleagues affiliated with MUSA programme. Other interested colleagues who plan to participate in the seminar can receive it at request either from Christina (christina.hansen@mau.se) or from her PhD supervisor Maja Povrzanović Frykman.

The Department of Global Political Studies welcomes a group of seven research interns, who will be here for the duration of the semester. A research internship is a good option within the 2-year Master’s programmes at GPS. Most of the interns will be sitting on the 10th floor in Niagara.

Pictured from left to right:
Henrik Johnsrud Odden, Master’s programme in Political Science at Lund University. Involved in projects at Caucasus Studies/RUCARR. Supervisor is Karina Vamling.

Matias Castrén. Involved in The Dialogue Among Civilisations Project (DACP). Supervisor is Ane Kirkegaard.

Olga Matsarina, Master’s programme in Global Politics and Societal Change. Involved in the project Is the European trade justice movement losing its ‘European’ identity? The impact of rising nationalism on civil society alliance formation. Supervisor is Michael Strange.

Siavosh Bigonah. Involved in The Dialogue Among Civilisations Project (DACP). Supervisor is Ane Kirkegaard.

Kanwal Ahmad, Master’s programme in International Migration and Ethnic Relations. Involved in a project for the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB). Supervisor is Anne Sofie Roald.

Zoë Korten, Master’s programme in International Migration and Ethnic Relations. Involved in three different research projects in Peace and Conflict Studies. Supervisor is Kristian Steiner.

Samir Salimzade, Master’s programme in Global Politics and Societal Change. On a Swedish Institute scholarship. Involved in projects at Caucasus Studies/RUCARR. Supervisor is Bo Petersson.

On September 13, the Dalai Lama will visit Malmö University to present a conversation and lecture on secular ethics. The event is by invitation only but will be streamed online and on Facebook. The Dalai Lama’s visit to Malmö University takes place in connection to the 80th anniversary of the Swedish development organisation IM Swedish Development Partner.

You can stream the lecture live on September 13, 8.45-10.15.

Stiftelsen för Internationalisering av högre utbildning och forskning, STINT, bjuder in svenska lärosäten att nominera kandidater till programmet Teaching Sabbatical 2019. Inom programmet vistas deltagarna vid ett utländskt lärosäte för att undervisa och skapa förutsättningar för erfarenhetsutbyte och framtida samarbeten. Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle har erbjudits att till rektor komma med förslag på två kandidater för nominering och har nominerat Åsa Harvard Maare och Hope Witmer som fakultetens kandidater till STINT Teaching Sabbatical 2019.