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Albert Luthuli and Dag Hammarskjöld - leaders and visionaries : symposia in commemoration of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chief Albert Luthuli and Dag Hammarskjöld
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- Two symposia in Uppsala and Oslo during November 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Chief Albert Luthuli and Dag Hammarskjöld at the same ceremony for 1960 and (posthumously) 1961, respectively. The deliberations, which involved close family members of the late Chief Luthuli, commemorated and honoured two outstanding leaders of the 20th century. While they never met personally, they shared principle values and ethics rooted in a firm belief in the equality of people, human rights, justice and peace at a time of decolonization and apartheid. This booklet compiles a summary of the various presentations in Uppsala and Oslo, which paid respect to the two role models in their relevance also for today. It is published during the year, in which the two Uppsala based institutions celebrate their 50th anniversary.
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Images, Science & Knowledges
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- At the instigation of Professor Bengt-Erik Eriksson and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Linköping University, researchers from three faculties and several disciplines gathered for a seminar in November 2004 with the commission to discuss the possibility offorming a common research p latform for studies of visualization, visuality and visual culture.The outcome of this meeting between technologists, medical researchers, social scientists and humanities scholars was the founding of a permanent seminar group that was to meet regularly in order to make an inventory of and to present ongoing research wirhin the given field and to write applications for research grants. Visual accessibility, Visualization of dynamiccourses, Remediation and Yisualization and learning are some of the possible common projects that the group called VVV has identified over the three years of its existence.Chaired by Dr Anna Sparrman, a senior researeher at the department of Child Studies at the Tema Institute, the VVVgroup arranged a two-day Iong workshop under the heading Images, Science and Knowledge at Villa Fridhem south of Norrkö ping in October 2007.The aim of the workshop was to discuss the use of images in various scientific practices, focusing not only on the usage bur also on the different ways of defining visualization and on the various theoretical approaches to the concept image. Four key-note leetures and eight shorter presentations of current projects showed clearly the diversity of the use of images in scientific practices and need for a continuous discussion about scientific imagery and the prospeers of a common understanding of what an image really is.The invited key-note speakers were Professor W.]. T. Mitchell, university of Chicago and Dr Thomas Parathe and Dr Yvonne Eriksson, both from Mälardalen University College. White Professor Mitchells two leetures circled around the general problem of defining an image and the contemporary use of images to comment on and form political opinions instantly, Dr Parathe and Dr Eriksson had more specific approaches, pictures as tools for navigation and tactile perception and tactile understanding of images. The shorter presentations ranged from Haptic visualization of proteins to nations of visuality in a Swedish campaign against food advertising to children.All leetures and presentations of the workshop were thoroughly documented. The speakers' manuscripts, notes made during the proceedings and interviews with the key-note speakers eonstirute the basis for this publication which hopefully will function as a point of departure for further discussion. Accordingly we want to thank Anna Öst, Marcus Mattsson, Christina Lagneby and Alexandra Uhrefalk who with accuracy and zeal carried out their tasks as secretaries.Linköping, April 2008Bengt Lärkner and Gary Svensson
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National identity and democracy in Africa
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- "This is not a contribution to nation-building. I hope it helps disrupt nation-building". These words by film-maker Zackie Ahmat gave a kick-start to the discussions at the international conference on "National Identity and Democracy" held at the University of the Western Cape 14-18 March 1997, and they also introduce the theme for the book with some of the best contributions to the conference.Ahmat's understanding of "nation-building" was the kind of cultural homogenisation ordered from above which has been the rule in many parts of the world, not least in Africa. Nation-building has here often been been a hypocritical cloak for the hegemony of an elite, sometimes mobilising support from just one cultural group. By the title of the conference the organisers wanted to invite a discussion both on the insight that building a nation and building democracy are not necessarily twins, and on the risks of the misuse of power in the name of the nation.South Africa represents a possible and hopeful departure from the homogenisation model, with its explicit pluralism expressed in the adoption of 11 official languages. Six of the papers deal with the South African experiment, with an examination of the policy of non-racialism and the specific challenges posed by migrant workers, group identities and the themes of gender and nation. Other chapters are case studies from national identity formation on the contested cultural terrain in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Angola, Nigeria, and Tanzania. The book also contains an annotated bibliography.
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South-south relations in a changing world order
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- The traditional division of labour in the world economy, with its clearest expressions during the colonial period, is gradually disappearing. The emerging world order exhibits as one of its most significant features, increasing economic and political contacts between countries situated in the South. This trend represents a challenge to the previously so dominant North-South relations. It therefore raises a number of important questions, particularly with regard to the future of the South. To examine and discuss the problem areas involved, the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies organized a seminar in May 1981 on "The Emergence of South-South Relations in a Changing World Order". The agenda of the seminar concentrated on two major issues: Do South-South relations contain possibilities for development in the South not found in the old international division of labour? Or do they simply possess the same exploitative characteristics as the classic North-South exchange, therefore creating a process of accelerating unequal development in the South? The present volume addresses itself to these important issues by focusing on two particularly interesting cases of expansionism in the South, the Brazilian penetration of West Africa and the Indian activities in Asia and Africa.
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Supporting African peace operations
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- The Nordic Africa Institute, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs hosted a seminar in Uppsala, Sweden, on 15 and 16 December 2011, that brought together AU, EU and UN officials closely involved in peace operations in Africa. The seminar’s purpose was to allow participants to compare their experiences of the different support models that have been used to date in Sudan and Somalia. International support for African peace operations provides opportunities but also poses challenges. This report examines four of these challenges in some detail: the AU Commission’s limited capacity to plan and manage peace operations; insufficient political engagement by African member states with AU peace operations; the short-termism and self-interest of some of the AU’s partners; and the need for UN Security Council permanent members to value and ensure a shared AU-UN strategic vision. The report also includes policy recommendations for resolving these challenges.
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Åvdåsvásstádus: Ansvar, avkolonialisering, helande : Ett symposium om rasbiologi, rasism, avbildade samer, samiskakvarlevor och vägar till upprättelse och självförtroende 21- 23 januari 2015, Uppsala
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- Videofilmade föredrag och diskussioner vid symposiet "Åvdåsvásstádus: Ansvar, avkolonialisering, helande. Ett symposium om rasbiologi, rasism, avbildade samer, samiskakvarlevor och vägar till upprättelse och självförtroende 21- 23 januari 2015, Uppsala (den 22a januari).Förmiddagssession: Moderator: Gunilla Larsson, Teknovetenskapliga forskargruppen, Centrum för Genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet. 09.00 Öppningsjojk, Ylva Gustafsson 09.05 Stefan Mikaelsson, Sametingets ordförande och Teknovetenskapliga forskargruppen, Centrum för Genusvetenskap (CfG): Öppnande och inledningsanförande ”Rahpat, Báze dearvan - Mana Dearvan: Bli kvar med hälsan och gå med hälsan: Perspektiv på försoningsprocesser för två folk i samma nationalstat där stigarna blivit trängre 09.20 Välkomnanden o öppningsanföranden: Malin Ah-King, Centrum för Genusvetenskap; Satu Gröndahl, NAMIS, Hugo Valentin Centrum; NAPTEK, Agneta Silversparf, Silbonah Samesijdda, Carola Grahn, Sameföreningen i Stockholm 09.30 Peter Rodhe, SameÄtnam 09.40 May-Britt Öhman Tuohea Rim, UPPSAM, Teknovetenskapliga forskargruppen, CfG, och Mind and Nature ” Rievsak sjläsjkoj ja Biekkaid Biellocizáš” Dalripans skratt, stormsparven och örnen på lugna uppåtvindar : Feministiska teknovetenskapliga och kritiska urfolksstudie- perspektiv på den samiska Förintelsen, dekolonisering och helande” 09.50-09.55 Jojkpaus. 09.55-11.05 Maja Hagerman, historiker, vetenskapsjournalist och filmmakare: ” Filmen och boken om Herman Lundborg, chef för Rasbiologiska institutet: Etik, möjligheter och nödvändigheter” (Presentation och diskussion) 11.05- 11.10 Introduktion – samiska markrättigheter och rasbiologi (May-Britt Öhman - Lars-Anders Baer, jurist, Sametingspolitiker och ordförande Luokta Mavas sameby) skulle ha medverkat men kan ej delta pga renskiljning. 11.10-11.30 Bertil Bengtsson, Professor i civilrätt, ”Skattefjällsmålet och diskrimineringsfrågan” 13.10-15.00 Eftermiddagssession del 1: Moderator: Malin Ah-King, Centrum för Genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet 13.10- 13.15 Öppen jojkscen. 13.15-15.00 Torsdagsseminarium öppet för allmänheten, arr. Centrum för Genusvetenskap, Aulan, Universitetshuset, Biskopsgatan 3. Katarina Pirak Sikku, konstnär ” Vi var generade över att vara lappar. Det var fult.”: Elsas vittnesmål om Rasbiologiska Institutets undersökningar av samiska barn vid nomadskolan i Vaikijaur, Jokkmokk” Kommentator: Ylva Gustafsson Torsdagsseminariets upplägg är presentation ca 30 minuter, därefter kommentators frågor med diskussion ca 15 minuter, och slutligen allmän diskussion ca 45 minuter. 15.30-17.30 Eftermiddagssession del två: Moderator/Samtalsledare: Stefan Mikaelsson, Sametingets ordförande och Teknovetenskapliga forskargruppen, Centrum för Genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet 15.30-16.00 Gunnar Hauk Gjengset "Med skjeletter i skapet", en kort oversikt over hvordan norsk medisinsk forskning etter press i mer enn 150 år, endelig måtte gi fra seg skjelettrester etter forskning på samefolket, og især hodeskallene etter lederne av Kautokeino-opprøret i 1852” 16.00-16.10 Astri Dankert; ”En samisk dekoloniseringsprosess: Melankoli, tap og forsoning” 16.10-16.20 Anne Heith, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, Umeå universitet ”EN ANNAN HISTORIA: Åtta samiska konstnärer på Bildmuseet i Umeå under kulturhuvudstadsåret” 16.20-16.45 Korta presentationer - reflektioner och funderingar: Lilian Mikaelsson, SameÄtnam; Lena Kroik, Svenska Samernas Riksförbund (SSR) o Glesbygdsmedicinskt centrum i Storuman; Nils-Axel Heikka (medlem i QueerSámit); Tomas Cramér; Rikard Engblom 16.45 -17.30 Paneldiskussion och allmän diskussion med deltagarna Företrädare för medarrangörer, Sametinget, samiska organisationer, Uppsala universitet mfl
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