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UPCOMING EVENTS SPRING 2022
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Uppsala Forum Survey
Uppsala Forum is conducting changes to its organisation and adapting funding on offer. To make the right decisions about researchers’ future priorities, we would like your input on our strengths and weaknesses. Please do take this 3-minute survey on your experience of Uppsala Forum
Link to the survey here.
Thank you for participating!
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MSCA Workshop for PhD Candidates and Postdocs
Are you planning to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship for a post-doc abroad? Uppsala Forum organises a workshop series this Spring term, in collaboration with Doctoral Student Forum and EU Funding Office for the Humanities and Social Sciences, to help PhD candidates in the later part of their doctoral programs and researchers with less than 8 years total research experience (from the date of receiving PhD Degree) to prepare a winning proposal. A transdisciplinary panel of local and international scholars will provide scientific feedback on your draft application, and you will receive expert advice on how to prepare your proposal and hear from earlier grant-receivers about their experience. The workshop is held on April 20 and June 20. Last day for registration is April 13. For more information and registration please contact mattias.vesterlund@uppsalaforum.uu.se
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Call for Abstracts, March 5: Uppsala Epistemology Workshop: Inquiry and Epistemic Harms
Much recent work in epistemology and metanormativity is concerned with questions about how, if at all, non-epistemic considerations bear on what we should believe and how we should conduct inquiry. For instance, are there moral and/or prudential constraints on inquiry and deliberation? Can beliefs be harmful and/or wrong, and if so, do we thereby have reason not to form such beliefs? The workshop aims to provide a constructive forum to make progress on these and related questions, with a focus on the topics of inquiry and epistemic harms (both very broadly construed).
The workshop will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, on June 16-17, and there will be ten talks in total. Five talks will be given by invited speakers and five talks will be selected on the basis of submitted abstracts. We welcome abstracts on all questions having to do with inquiry, epistemic harm, and other nearby issues. Abstracts should be 1000-1200 words long, be prepared for blind review, and be suitable for a 35-minute presentation. Please submit your abstracts no later than March 5 to olle.risberg@filosofi.uu.se.
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The presentation will evolve around the Tunisian revolution and the democratic experience. It will feature a brief historic presentation of Tunisia and why Tunisia was set to become a democratic country south of the Mediterranean. Ten years of a distorted democracy have led the Tunisian people, who are widely supporting the President of the Republic, to take back control of the country in July 2021 to readjust the path of democracy. During the last ten years, Tunisian Women were at the forefront in defending their rights and struggling against extremism and intolerance. A new road map has been set up that culminates with the holding of the legislative elections in December 2022. He will conclude the presentation by discussing the Tunisia- Swedish relations and the flourishing bilateral cooperation.
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When: March 31, 2022, 13:15-15.00
Where: IRES Library, Gamla torget 3, 3rd Floor, and Zoom.
Contact: Mattias Vesterlund or Tommaso Braida.
Organisers: The Higher Seminar in Legal Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, and Uppsala Forum on Democracy Peace and Justice.
During this seminar, Maria Bexelius will discuss aspects of her ongoing PhD-project. In her thesis, she explores how the figure of the refugee is constituted by law – historically and today – in Swedish asylum law (1914-2021) and the ICCPR, and how this refugee-making feeds into processes of person-making and the (re)production of inequalities. She is mapping inclusionary and exclusionary power practices in law, including the interplay between legal precision and vagueness. This means that she seeks to identify practices that both make and unmake the refugee, for example, categorizations– based on nationality, gender, class, political opinion, and ethnicity etc.–, selective legal interpretations, discourses, and silences as well as uses of dichotomies such as the public vs. the private, the genuine refugee vs. the fraudulent asylum seeker or the political refugee vs. the economic migrant.
About Maria Bexelius
Maria Bexelius, PhD student in Public International Law (with a focus on Migration Law) at Uppsala University. She is also a lecturer in human rights and democracy at University College Stockholm.
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Uppsala Forum Visiting Fellow Diego Acosta will share some crucial ideas he wished he had learned when he started his PhD. His advice aims at making your journey more enjoyable and, in the process, making your research more useful and important. Rather than offering obvious advice (e.g. write good papers), Professor Acosta will present some of the most common traps that lead scholars to have their work not being read by anyone and to procrastination. Once those traps are identified, he will give some unconventional advice on how to face them and have a more enjoyable and fruitful career, or get a first academic job for those who are still in their doctoral studies.
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Workshop: Post-Soviet Women - Ways to Empowerment
When: May 12-13, 2022
Where: IRES Library, Gamla torget 3, 3rd Floor, and Zoom
Contact: ann-mari.satre@ires.uu.se
Organisers: Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES), Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University, and Uppsala Forum
Women commonly face challenges to gender equality in many post-Soviet countries. Among these are revival of conservative political agendas, ambiguous public opinions on women’s roles in society and gender stereotypes, as well as anti-gender initiatives supported by the church, by governments as well as by parts of civil society. The purpose of this workshop is to gather scholars from different disciplines and countries to discuss these tendencies and its consequences, including the reactions and initiatives by women’s organisations. We will discuss new activism and ways to empowerment.
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Open lecture: Democracy under duress – how to defend and revitalize it?
When: May 18, 2022, 14.30-16.30
Where: Humanistiska teatern. The event will be live streamed for those who wish to participate online. The link will be posted here prior to the event.
Contact: Sofia Näsström
Organisers: Sofia Näsström/Marianne & Marcus Wallenbergprojektet "Demokratiskt självförsvar", CIRCUS, Programmet Demokrati och högre Utbildning, and Uppsala Forum on Democracy Peace and Justice.
What is the main threat to democracy today, and how can it be defended and revitalised anew? Welcome to a public event at the Humanities Theatre where we will address these issues with the help of three distinguished scholars in the field: Sheri Berman, Jan-Werner Müller and Nadia Urbinati. The event will be chaired by Jenny Andersson, and introductory comments will be given by Sofia Näsström.
Democracy is under duress, and this trend can be witnessed both in new and established democracies. Central tenets of a well-functioning democracy – such as free media outlets, the veracity of elections, the need for an independent judiciary and civil society and academic freedom– are either dismantled, or provoking fierce debate.
Drinks and snacks will be served after the event. Welcome!
Please register here no later than May 9.
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Organisers: The Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES) and hosted by Higher Education as Research Object (HERO), a multidisciplinary research network, Uppsala University, and Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS)
“The crisis of the university” is a familiar topos in contemporary discussions about higher education. It is said that the University is facing untold threats from, inter alia, the anti-intellectualism of populist politicians and authoritarian regimes, the commodification of knowledge resulting from neo-liberal ideas about utility and international competition, the politicization of teaching and learning arising out of identity movements, the fragmenting of the university in response to stakeholder demands, and so forth.
This conference poses the question: Is this really the case? And, if so, what exactly is being threatened? The aim of the meeting is to take a serious look at what is ultimately at stake, among other things, by examining the roots of these developments in terms of our conceptions of what is useful knowledge, why it is desirable and what is required to establish, maintain and develop it through our institutions of higher education.
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New PhD-level course: 'Migration theory: perspectives on time and temporalities'
When: June 20 and June 27-28, 2022.
Where: The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway.
Contact: Jørgen Jensehaugen: jorjen@prio.org
PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in June 2022. The application deadline is April 18. This course explores the diverse roles of time in migration processes, as a key vantage point on migration theory. It is suited for doctoral students across the social sciences and humanities who do research on migration-related topics.
The course consists of two parts: one day of online teaching, Monday 20 June, and two days on site in Oslo the following week, 27-28 June. The course is organized in conjunction with the IMISCOE Annual Conference, Europe's largest academic conference on migration, which takes place in Oslo from 29 June to 1 July.
Please see the full announcement for additional information and the application form.
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Course description:
This course provides an in-depth introduction to case-based methods and process analytics. We begin with some preliminaries (epistemology, ethics, transparency) and then survey key methods, including case studies, case selection and several techniques designed to capture process. The latter include interviewing, practice analytics and process tracing. Whenever possible, students will be introduced to both the positivist and interpretive variants of particular methods.
The deadline for applications is May 1, 2022.
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Visiting Fellows Spring 2022
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Karen Uslin
Visiting period: March 2-April 1
Karen Uslin is adjunct professor of Music History and Fellow for the Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Rowan University. Her main areas of expertise include music from the concentration camp of Theresienstadt and music from Central/Eastern Europe. Her current work includes examining music criticism during the period of World War II.
Karen Uslin's Guest Lecture is entitled "Beyond the Pale: How 20th/21st Century Immigration Affected Jewish Cultural Life in Sweden." The lecture is scheduled for March 23, 15.15-17.00 as a hybrid event. Zoom link and room TBA.
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Alexander Dukalskis
Visiting period: March 7-20
Alexander Dukalskis is Associate in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. His Research concerns authoritarian states, transitional justice, Asian Politics and international human rights.
Alexander Dukalskis' Guest Lecture is entitled "Authoritarian Snapback: How Dictatorships Tame the Spread of Liberal Ideas". The lecture is scheduled for March 10, 10.15-12.00, Brusewitz Hall, Östra Ågatan 19.
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Diego Acosta
Visiting period: March 27-April 9
Diego Acosta is Professor in European Migration Law at the Law Department, University of Bristol. His work discusses Migration Law as a central aspect of globalisation and analyses various processes of inclusion and exclusion and their implications for the rule of law in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere.
Diego Acosta's Guest Lecture is entitled "Regional Free Movement of People Law as a New Subfield of Research in International Law". The lecture is scheduled for March 30, 16.00-18.00, IRES Library, Gamla torget 3, 3rd Floor.
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Volker Kaul
Visiting period: April 14-May 20
Volker Kaul is Research and Teaching Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Global Politics at LUISS University in Rome and lecturer at the CEA Rome Center. His work focuses on the possibility of emancipation. In this regard, he works on the concepts of identity, agency, autonomy, self-knowledge, recognition, and culture.
Volker Kaul's Guest Lecture is entitled "Open Borders and the Claims of Community".
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David Goodhart
Visiting period: May 20-June 12
David Goodhart is a writer, journalist and think tanker. He worked at the Financial Times for 12 years, founded the current affairs monthly Prospect in 1995 (editing it for 15 years), ran the think tank Demos for three years, and in 2017 published the best-selling book about contemporary politics The Road to Somewhere (coining the terms Anywheres and Somewheres). Last year, he published a follow-up book: Head, Hand, Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century. He currently runs the Demography, Immigration and Integration unit at the think tank Policy Exchange. For the past 20 years, he has had a special interest in race and immigration; in 2013, he published the book The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration.
The preliminary title of David Goodhart's Guest Lecture is: "The Status of Care: Work and Pay in Public and Private"
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Pamina Firchow
Visiting period: May 14-20
Pamina Firchow is Associate Professor of Coexistence and Conflict at Brandeis University. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, as well as a Senior Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 2016. Her main research interests surround the study of the international accompaniment of communities affected by mass violence and the localization of international development and peacebuilding aid. She has published widely on participatory approaches to design, measurement and evaluation of transitional justice, reconciliation and peacebuilding interventions.
Pamina Firchow's Guest Lecture is entitled "Everyday Peace Indicators: Informing Social Policy through Everyday Lived Experiences”. The lecture is scheduled to take place on May 17. Room and time TBA.
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Please note that all Uppsala Forum events are free of charge and open to the public. Our events are held in English, if not otherwise indicated. For more information visit the Uppsala Forum website. Welcome!
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