by irma | Apr 11, 2011 | Academic Forum @en, Events, News, Public Forum @en
Professor Jon Elster, the Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University, will give a public talk entitled “The Optimal Design of a Constituent Assembly” on Tuesday 12 April 2011. The lecture will be held at the Ceremonial Hall, Main Building,...
by Elín Björk | Feb 17, 2011 | Academic Forum @en, Events, News, Public Forum @en
On Monday the 21st of February, Dr. Yohann Aucante, Lecturer-Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, will give a public talk titled “Social Democracy, Ideological Change, and the Global Crisis: Lost Opportunity or...
by Elín Björk | Feb 9, 2011 | Events, News
On Wednesday the 16th of February, Diane Elson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex in the UK and Chair of the UK Women‘s Budget Group, will give a public talk titled: Gender Budget Analysis for an Age of Austerity. The talk will take place in The Nordic...
by irma | Nov 14, 2010 | Events, News
The symposium “Gender and Security: The Impact of UN Resolution 1325 on Peacebuilding and Conflict Management“ was be held on Thursday the 14th of November at The National Museum of Iceland. The symposium is hosted by EDDA – Center of Excellence, GET – The Gender...
by irma | Nov 12, 2010 | Events, News, Public Forum @en
In his second lecture, Kunda Dixit will speak about reporting in times of conflict and crisis. Kunda Dixit is a Nepali editor and publisher of the Nepali Times weekly newspaper in Kathmandu. He is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and started out as a...
by irma | Nov 11, 2010 | Events, News, Public Forum @en
Thursday, 11 November, at 16.30, Háskólatorg, room 105 Nepali journalist and writer Kunda Dixit speaks about how climate change is affecting the Himalayas, melt ing Asia’s water towers. Using photographs from Nepal, we see how the mountains are losing their per...
