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Newsflash No. 54 - October 10, 2018

A collection of events, seminars, information, and opportunities for master’s students at the Faculty of Social Sciences

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Graduate School News

Reminder: Thesis Meeting for First Year Graduate School Students, October 11
Seminar: A Cripistemology of Pain: Experiences and Recognition of Endometriosis with Ina Hallström, October 24

 

News from the Faculty of Social Sciences

Seminar: Finding the Way. Migrants’ involvement in immigration status changes between asylum, student and labour migration in Sweden, 2009-2017, October 11
Seminar: Digital Suffering: Images of War & the Politics of Care in the Digital Age with Daniel Møller Ølgaard, October 17
Seminar: Regulating Health Research: Empirical and Ethical Considerations with Ted Dove, October 17
Seminar: The Intersections of Sexual Orientation and Gender in Recruitment with Amanda Klysing, October 19

 

Other News and Events

Documentaries screening: Women and Climate Change - Fem Fighters Documentary Night, October 10
Lecture: Affective interventions: Power, gender and material culture in Viking Age. An example from Västergötland, October 11
Lecture: China's Belt and Road Initiative: Aspirations, Imaginations, and Developments, October 17
Film screening: After Spring, the Tamaki Family…, October 23

 

Graduate School News

 

Reminder: Thesis Meeting for First Year Graduate School Students

Don’t miss the upcoming information meeting on thesis planning on Thursday, October 11. Important information regarding the thesis process will be shared, as well as an opportunity to ask general questions regarding it. This meeting is for first year students only.

Time: October 11, 2018 - 15:30-16:30
Location: LUX Aula Upper
Contact: katherine [dot] anderson_ahlstedt [at] sam [dot] lu [dot] se

 

Seminar: A Cripistemology of Pain: Experiences and Recognition of Endometriosis with Ina Hallström

Ina Hallström is a PhD student in Gender Studies at Stockholm University and lives with chronic pain.

Although almost everyone experiences pain, it is often seen as incidental rather than as a fact of life. Moreover, societal responses to pain differ depending on the sufferer’s identity. What happens when the pain of some bodies is not recognized within society, and what are the emotional and material implications? What kind of knowledge production is made possible when the painful body is treated as the point of departure, rather than as an exception and from an outside perspective? I engage in these questions through Alyson Patsavas concept of a "cripistemology of pain" – a form of knowledge production that situates pain within broader systems of discourse and power. The discussion proceeds from her PhD project "Painful Subjects: Endometriosis, Experience, Recognition", which is based on in-depth interviews with people diagnosed with the chronic illness endometriosis. Endometriosis is a common disease affecting one in ten people menstruating. The most common symptoms are chronic pain and infertility. Even though this condition has severe effects on perceived quality of life, it is difficult to receive help and support, and the road to diagnosis is often long. There are many difficulties that come with living with a painful condition that is not directly visible to others. My study combines feminist phenomenology and recognition philosophy with crip perspectives on normative embodiment and compulsory able-bodiedness. The concept of a "cripistemology of pain" can be understood as the node where these theoretical strands intersect – and become acutely political.

Time: October 24, 2018 - 13:00 - 15:00
Location: M224 - Department of Gender Studies, Lund University
Contact: mikael [dot] karlsson [at] genus [dot] lu [dot] se
More information: https://www.genus.lu.se/event/a-cripistemology-of-pain-experiences-and-recognition-of-endometriosis

 

News from the Faculty of Social Sciences

 

Seminar: Finding the Way. Migrants’ involvement in immigration status changes between asylum, student and labour migration in Sweden, 2009-2017
Welcome to Mona Hemmatys’ final seminar, on migrant involvement in immigrant status changes and labour migration in Sweden between 2009-2017. Leading the discussion will be Professor Bo Petersson from Malmö University, with internal committee member Associate Professor Lisa Eklund from the Department of Sociology at Lund University. This seminar will take place in English.

Time: October 11, 2018 - 13:15
Location: Conference Room 1, Department of Sociology
Contact: mona [dot] hemmaty [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se
More information: https://www.soc.lu.se/event/finding-the-way-migrants-involvement-in-immigration-status-changes-between-asylum-student-and-labour-migration-in-sweden-2009-2017

 

Seminar: Digital Suffering: Images of War & the Politics of Care in the Digital Age
Daniel Møller Ølgaard has been a PhD student with the Department of Political Science since September 2016. He holds an MA in International Conflict Studies from King's College London and an MSc in Global Studies from Roskilde University.

This seminar investigates the phenomena of distant suffering in the digital age. Animated by the challenges confronted by contemporary spectators of the Syrian war, Ølgaard tries to think through the entangled nature of feelings, politics, and technology to perform a critical exploration of the ‘politics of suffering’ as the pain of distant others is increasingly sensed, sighted, and evaluated via digital media. Particular interest is taken here in how the emergence and proliferation of digital media technologies reconfigures the ‘affective terrain’ of world politics, that is, the changing perceptions of victimhood, regimes of compassion and indifference and the changing sense of belonging or alienation at the time of social media, smart phones and other, ever evolving, technological forms of connectivity.

Time: October 17, 2018 - 13:15-15:00
Location: SOL Absalon A214
More information: http://www.kom.lu.se/institutionen/kalendarium/?searchingImmediately=0&isLu2013=0&editingMode=0&baseDepartmentId=0&subjectId=0&L=0&id=0&reducedForm=&compactness=&application=&type=&sortMode=&freeTextSearchString=&date=2018-10-08&showEverythingId=10424#calendarEvents_10424

 

Seminar: Regulating Health Research: Empirical and Ethical Considerations

Ted Dove is a research fellow at Edinburgh University in the Faculty of Law. 

In this seminar, Dove will discuss current issues in regulating health research, including empirical and ethical considerations. Arranged in collaboration with the Law Faculty. All are welcome!

Time: October 17, 2018 - 14:00-16:00
Location: Tekaris Hall at the Law Faculty (first floor)
Contact: reza [dot] banakar [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se
More information: https://www.soclaw.lu.se/event/regulating-health-research-empirical-and-ethical-considerations

 

Seminar: The Intersections of Sexual Orientation and Gender in Recruitment with Amanda Klysing

Amanda Klysing is a doctoral student in the Institution for Psychology at Lund University.

In this seminar, Klysing will speak on the topic "The intersections of sexual orientation and gender in recruitment/Intersektionen av sexuell läggning och kön i rekrytering” on Friday 12/10 at 1200-1300 in p124. Sandwiches will be serves on this lunch seminar.

Time: October 19, 2018 - 12:00-13:00
Location: P124, Department of Psychology, Lund University
Contact: sverker [dot] sikstrom [at] psy [dot] lu [dot] se
More information: https://www.psy.lu.se/event/amanda-klysing-the-intersections-of-sexual-orientation-and-gender-in-recruitmentintersektionen-av-sexuell-laggning-och-kon-i-rekrytering

 

Other News and Events

 

Documentaries screening: Women and Climate Change - Fem Fighters Documentary Night

Did you know that women are affected by climate change in different ways, and oftentimes more severely than men? Do you want to learn about women all over the world tackling the challenges posed by climate change by becoming climate leaders in their local communities? Fem Fighters will be screening several documentary excerpts telling the stories of women all over the world, and their relation to climate change. This is followed by a discussion round. Fika will be provided. Find out more about Fem Fighters here: https://femfightersblog.wordpress.com/

Time: October 10, 2018 - 18:00-20:00
Location: Floor 3 in the LUCSUS Building
More Information: https://www.facebook.com/events/277945349724149/

 

Lecture: Affective interventions: Power, gender and material culture in Viking Age. An example from Västergötland

Lecture by Elisabeth Nordbladh, professor in archaeology at the University of Gothenburg

This talk is part of a special initiative to discuss and illuminate issues of gender and diversity within archaeology and classical studies, and is financed through support from the Lund University Management Group for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities.

Time: October 11, 2018 - 15:15-17:00
Location: LUX Room C126
More Information: https://www.lu.se/event/affective-interventions-power-gender-and-material-culture-in-viking-age-an-example-from-vastergotland

 

Lecture: China's Belt and Road Initiative: Aspirations, Imaginations, and Developments

Alvin Yang, Ph.D. candidate Political and Social Sciences at Universität Kassel; Roger Greatrex, Professor Emeritus, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University

In 2015 China launched a new development strategy, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It presents a new vision for a broad international cooperation encompassing about 70 countries along two main trading routes: the ancient land-based Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The political, economic, and global implications of this initiative have been much discussed in the international media. The two presentations by Ph.D. candidate Alvin Yang and Professor Emeritus Roger Greatrex will provide deeper insights into some of the major issues as well as exemplify with some concrete cases. Two papers will be presented. First, Will the Belt and Road Initiative Reshape the Current Global Order? One Initiative, Thousands of Imaginations presented with Alvin Yang, Ph.D. candidate Political and Social Sciences at Universität Kassel. And then, Entering the Age of China’s New Mode of International Relations with Roger Greatrex, Professor Emeritus, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University

Time: October 17, 2018 - 10:00-12:00
Location: Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Room 005
Contact: marina [dot] svensson [at] ace [dot] lu [dot] se
More Information: https://www.lu.se/event/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-aspirations-imaginations-and-developments

 

Film screening: After Spring, the Tamaki Family…

Film synopsis: On a warm spring day in 2015, Grandma Tamayo and the Tamaki family, the largest Taiwanese immigrant family on Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa, takes a journey back to the home which they left before World War II: Taiwan. The people who emigrated from Taiwan to Okinawa became political refugees under the 30 year long U.S. occupation. The Tamaki family has experienced this complicated history. By revisiting Taiwan, they little by little steer out of the disorientation of their memory anidentity. This is a heartwarming home movie spanning 80 years about one's family's vicissitudes in East Asian history.    Bio: Huang Yin-­‐Yu now lives in Japan. His first documentary “Wuguwang N. St. to Taipei”(2010) is an anthropological film about Thai labors in Taiwan. “Temperature at Nights (2013) is a private film which portrays the memory in the military service and his childhood, and was selected in the international competition of Visions du Réel, Buenos Aires International Doc FilmFest, and nominated for the best documentary of Taipei Film Festival. He also made a short documentary “YAMAMORI”(2014) for the project “Grand Voyage” produced by Naomi Kawase, for Nara International Film Festival 2014. Now he’s based in Okinawa, producing a series of documentaries about pre-­‐War immigrants in Okinawa region of Japan. His project “Wild Mountains over the Sea” was selected in the “Doc Station” of Berlinale Talents, and received the grand prize of “Pitching du Réel” in Visions du Réel 2015.  See trailer here

Time: October 23, 2018 - 15:15-17:30
Location: Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Asia Library
Contact: marina [dot] svensson [at] ace [dot] lu [dot] se
More information: https://www.lu.se/event/film-screening-after-spring-the-tamaki-family