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The aim of this seminar is to analyze the destiny of the Roma and Sinti families who lived in the border regions between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between the two World Wars. Particular attention will be paid to the treatment of “Gypsies” by the fascist regime in the ex-Hapsburg territory named Venezia Giulia, the so-called province of Ljubljana annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in April 1941, as well as the period when those territories became a part of the Reich (September 1943 - May 1945). Given the wide-ranging overlap of political and border contexts, we need to carefully reconstruct local events and family histories through the bottom-up approach, based on an interdisciplinary perspective (connecting history and anthropology) and multi-situated research (in different national archives and between Roma families).
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Uppsala Forum Guest Lecture with Laura K. Taylor: Developmental Peacebuilding Model: Integrating Psychology and Peace Science
When: November 2, 13.15-15.00
Venue: Brusewitzsalen, room 3312, Östra Ågatan 19, Uppsala
Organizer: Department of Government, Peace and Conflict Department, and Uppsala Forum
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Over 60% of armed conflicts reoccur; the seed of future conflict is sown even as a peace agreement is signed. The cyclical nature of war calls for a focus on youth who can disrupt this pattern. Complementing existing knowledge about the negative impact of political violence on child development, this talk shifts the focus to children’s prosocial behaviors, and more specifically, the Developmental Peacebuilding Model (DPM; Taylor, 2020). The DPM makes two main contributions. First, the DPM integrates a developmental intergroup framework and socio-ecological perspective, with a peacebuilding paradigm, to examine the target and type of children’s prosocial behavior in settings of intergroup conflict. Second, DPM outlines how children’s outgroup prosocial behaviors, which promote constructive change at different levels of the social ecology, can be understood as peacebuilding and fostering social cohesion. Flipping the existing paradigm, this line of research does not ask how to protect 1.8 billion children in conflict-affected countries. Instead, it shows how youth – one-third of the world’s population – can build peace.
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The Nazi-inspired genocide of the Romani minorities of German-occupied Europe during World War II had both broadly common features, but also numerous local variations. This talk will focus on the case of the Baltic states – Estonian, Latvia, and Lithuania – to illustrate how the outcomes could vary across a relatively small geographical area, even from district to district within the same country. It will also raise important issues of the levels of local complicity in the genocide and the leeway for local actors to either intensify or hinder the mass murder of their Romani compatriots. This question of the agency of local perpetrators in particular has implications for how the genocide is (not) commemorated in Baltic societies today.
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Using the tools of normative political theory, this book explores the political relationship between exiles and the communities from which they have fled. It makes two central claims. First, exiles have rights and responsibilities in their homelands and are morally required and permitted to play particular roles in the homeland. Second, in playing these roles, exile politics can perform two corrective functions: it can repair defective political institutions at home and it can compensate for institutional shortcomings in the global domain. In short, exiles engage in a ‘politics from below’ and ‘away’ that produces alternative sites of power and can mitigate the several failings of an international system of states in an unequal world. This normative exploration of exile politics has a few implications. It counters an overwhelming focus, in both political philosophy and public discourse, on the consequences of forced migration for receiving societies—a focus that often treats exiles as passive actors. Recognizing the political agency of exiles reveals another side of the migration story, and allows for a more fulsome exploration of what political obligation and membership mean in an increasingly transnational world. Identifying exiles as important domestic and transnational actors also points to the ways third parties ought to enable the different roles exiles play in their communities of origin and in the international domain. And recognizing exile agency highlights the shortcomings of an international system of refugee protection that focuses on exiles’ humanitarian needs but denies them their political rights and agency.
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2022 marks thirty years since Union citizenship was introduced. Celebrated as the world’s first “transnational legal status”, yet a complement to nationality, the status entails rights that have been expanded, modified, re-interpreted, on the backdrop of the economic integration process. Criticisms against Union citizenship often focus its exclusionary nature, often in relation to economic factors. The symposium assesses these three decades of Union citizenship against the backdrop of the revival of interest in economic contributions and the role these ought to play in attribution of social roles and political power. Normatively ambiguous, contributions might justify political inclusion of immigrants or restrict voice for non-contributors. Do economic contributions matter more? What does it mean for citizenship, and Union citizenship in particular?
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Inom politiken och i den allmänna debatten talar sig många varma för akademisk frihet. Men vad innebär då akademisk frihet? I litteraturen knyts begreppet dels till institutioner (lärosäten), dels till individer (forskarna och lärarna). Det förra avser högskolornas möjligheter till självstyre – i relation till exempelvis regering, riksdag och marknaden – medan den individuella akademiska friheten avser rätten till professionellt självbestämmande som tilldelas den enskilda läraren och forskaren i undervisningen och forskningen. Det är också centralt att förstå institutionell autonomi och individuell akademisk frihet som ömsesidigt beroende: Institutionell autonomi är ett nödvändigt, men inte tillräckligt villkor för individuell akademisk frihet. Enkelt uttryckt kan ett universitet eller en högskola inskränka sina medarbetares frihet på sätt som bryter mot idén om den enskilda forskarens och lärarens akademiska frihet. I denna föreläsning kommer jag sammanfattningsvis att belysa de institutionella svagheterna i dagens svenska system, och påtala på vilket sätt det påverkar forskarna och lärarnas situation vid våra lärosäten.
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Forsskålsymposiet 2022
Moderator och panel till årets Forsskålsymposium består av nedanstående:
Maria Ripenberg, Journalist (moderator)
Lisa Irenius, Kulturchef på Svenska Dagbladet
Arne Jarrick, Professor emeritus i historia, Stockholms universitet och Institutet för Framtidsstudier
Lena Marcusson, Professor emerita i förvaltningsrätt, Uppsala universitet
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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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