by Elín Björk | May 12, 2011 | Academic Forum @en, Events, News, Public Forum @en
Dr. Pasquale Pasquino, Distinguished Professor in Law and Politics at New York University and research professor at CRNS in Paris, will give a public talk, on Tuesday 31 May, entitled “Forms and Actors of Constitution Making”. The talk will take place in Oddi, room...
by irma | Apr 13, 2011 | Academic Forum @en, Events, News, Public Forum @en
Goethe Institut and EDDA Center in Critical Contemporary Research at the University of Iceland will host a conference on Hannah Arendt and the Crisis of Politics. In collaboration with the Nordic Society of Phenomenology, the EDDA Center will also host a panel on...
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 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...
