Events - Page 8
This half-day seminar presents a study made by the ACT Alliance on the shrinking political spaces of CSOs, a policy paper based on case studies from 14 countries. Four representatives from social movements in Brazil will present some of the issues from the Brazilian context.
Presentation of background material here. Presentation of speakers here.
Registration by 1 April to: marianne.opheim@nca.no
Department of social anthropology seminar with Dennis Rodgers, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester.
Read more here.
China is becoming a major actor in Latin America. This half-day seminar brings together high level experts on China’s foreign policy and development strategies and experts on Latin American development.
More information and registration here.
Presentation of speakers here.
Access the presentations at this seminar here.
Language: Norwegian
Read more here.
Department of social anthropology seminar with Diane Nelson, Duke University.
Read more here.
Seminar organized by Rainforest Foundation Norway, FIVAS and ForUM.
Registration to: regnskog@regnskog.no
More information here (in Norwegian).
Program here (in English).
Organized by Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), as part of a study tour for two Cuban researchers.
Language: English
Registration and more information here.
Seminar with Sjur Kasa, CICERO, who has recently returned from a research trip to Brazil.
Language: English
Questions about this event should be directed towards Sjur Kasa (sjur.kasa@cicero.uio.no) or Arild Vatn (arild.vatn@umb.no)
Trying to bring justice to the victims of Colombia’s civil war. Introduction by Jemima García Godos, researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. The documentary is part of the film festival Human Rights Human Wrongs.
An open theme meeting as part of the process organized by the Norwegian Government to develop an official Norwegian strategy for Brazil. See the program.
Register by 12 January to info@peacebuilding.no and brasilstrategi@mfa.no
NUPI seminar. Language: Norwegian
Read more here.
A one year commemoration. Read more here.
Seminar with participants from Mexico, Argentina and Norway. Language: English
See announcement.
With author Pablo Soler Frost, Mexico D.F.
Language: Spanish
Open meeting (Oslo, 23 Nov) with Eduardo Gudynas, Excecutive Secretary of Latin American Center for Social Ecology (CLAES).
See video recording from the meeting here.
Language: Spanish. See announcement.
Professor Birgen Angvik in conversation with Hege Duckert and the Salvadorean author Horacio Castellanos Moya.
Language: Norwegian and English
Read more here.
An international workshop organized by The CLACSO-CROP Programme on Studies of Poverty in Latin America and the Cuban institutions Centre for Psychological and Sociological Research, and the Antonio Núñez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Man. Deadlines: 1 June for abstracts and 4 October for final papers. Read more here.
Seminar with Prof. Renato Boschi, Rio de Janeiro State University.
Rafto Symposium 2010: Bishop José Raúl Vera López from Mexico, the 2010 Rafto Prize laureate, will be one of the speakers at the symposium.
Free entrance – please register. See the announcement.
Seminar at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo on the state and indigenous subjects in South America. Speakers: Professors Joanne Rappaport, Fernando Santos-Granero and Steven Rubenstein. Read more here.
See the announcement (and click on ”Foreløpig program” for the programme in English, and “Påmelding” for registration).
Title of thesis: "Conflicting Spatialities: Networks, Mediation and Alterity in the Making of Indigenous Territories in Ecuadorian Amazonia " . The trial lecture is on 4 Nov. at 16:15, and the public defense is on 5 Nov at 13:15.
See announcement.