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Queer asylum seekers to the EU must conform to fixed notions of gender and sexuality for migration authorities to believe them. In a recent study, Sophia Zisakou exposes the migration authorities' biased expectations of LGBTQI asylum seekers within the European asylum process. Persons facing persecution, discrimination, or violence based on their sexual orientation or gender identity have grounds

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/queerness-mechanism-creating-europes-borders - 2025-10-21

The events leading up to Cyprus gaining independence from Great Britain in 1960 were not the result of instrumental rational calculations, argues sociologist Chares Demetriou in a recently published paper. Instead, a complicated series of interactions between several actors clouded the colonizer's judgement, ultimately leading to the inadvertent independence of Cyprus. A relatively late colonial a

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/british-strategy-dividing-cyprus-ultimately-enabled-its-independence - 2025-10-21

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/record-breaking-numbers-ines-and-mikaels-article-conversation - 2025-10-21

On 7 March 2017, 18.00 Nicholas Sims-Williams will hold a lecture entitled: "From philology to history: Deciphering the language of ancient Afghanistan" at Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademin. Venue: Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Drammensveien 78, Oslo. Bactrian, the principal administrative language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, fell out of use more than a thousand years ago and for many centuries was

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-lecture-language-ancient-afghanistan - 2025-10-21

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/using-criminal-law-and-sortition-against-antidemocratic-parties - 2025-10-21

The Sociology of Law Department's annual research day for new students took place on the Lund University campus for the first time since the end of the pandemic restrictions last year. The day introduced several of the department's new researchers and PhD students. Professor Ole Hammerslev joined the Sociology of Law Department on 1 January this year. His research interests include how conflicts a

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/socio-legal-research-panorama-back-campus - 2025-10-21

Drawing UtopiasIKLECTIK Art Lab1st November -11th November 2016Drawing Utopias is an exhibition that assembles works of 26 International artists, trying to respond to Thomas More book Utopia. 500 years ago, Londoner Thomas More published his famous book Utopia. Utopia described in detail an imaginary island located in the Atlantic Ocean and the socio-economic organization of its society.  The titl

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/drawing-utopias-iklectik-art-lab - 2025-10-21

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/latest-group-mespom-program-have-arrived - 2025-10-21

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mespom-masters-programme-2022-2024-open-applications - 2025-10-21

USI, Universities and Swedish Institutes in Collaboration for Internationalisation, has held its annual meeting in Athens. Collaboration with partner universities in the host countries around the Mediterranean is intensifying. The new thematic seminars initiative has proved fruitful and it is hoped it will become a permanent feature. The Acropolis watches over the Swedish Institute’s roof terrace

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/fieldwork-across-disciplines-and-borders-inspires-new-research - 2025-10-21

It was 17 December 1944. The American B-24 bomber aircraft, better known as the Tulsamerican, was circling the island of Vis off the coast of Croatia. The plane was damaged following an attack by the Germans and finally crashed into the sea. Seven of the ten crew members survived but three died, among them the pilot, Eugene Ford. Now, the marine archaeologist Brendan Foley has brought him home for

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/deep-diving-history - 2025-10-21

The Muslim South Asia Research Forum (MUSA) at SOAS, University of London, UK, arranges a Workshop on Negotiating Technologies, 14-15 October 2016. The MUSA Workshop is organized in collaboration with CEIAS, Paris & the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge, and will be held at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.​One session is devoted to South Asian Muslims & the History of Science & Tec

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/cambridge-musa-conference-negotiating-technologies - 2025-10-21

Three first-year Master students at the Master’s programme in Strategic communication have been selected to present their papers at the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) congress to be held in October 2021. The students have worked on their papers during the course “Qualitative methods” and their Lecturer Leysan Storie will continue to work with the students on

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/master-students-presenting-papers-academic-conference-euprera - 2025-10-21

Lisa Strömbom has coauthored with Bahar Rumelili the article "Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: Lessons from Israel and Turkey" which is now available online (open access) in Third World Quarterly. The article is part of a forthcoming Special Issue on agonistic peace, edited by Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen.  Abstract While an extensive part of the conflict transformation

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonistic-recognition-turkey-and-israel-palestine - 2025-10-21

Swedish nature is teeming with wild edible plants. Some taste good, others don’t. A group of biologists from 11 different countries got to learn which plants are edible, and what they taste like, when the department’s SACT (Scientific Activities) group organised a herbal excursion to Abusa Valley outside Södra Sandby in Skåne. The goal was to learn more about the herbs of nature while letting the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biologists-feasting-spring-abusa-valley - 2025-10-21

Just like self-driving cars, we can expect autonomous ships to become more common in the coming years. However, two safety challenges which need to be solved along the way, and which are different for ships compared to cars, are navigation without GPS and remote control. In his research, Mårten Lager has developed user interfaces for remote control of ships, as well as positioning using water dept

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/improving-conditions-autonomous-ships - 2025-10-21

Gifted and enthusiastic students work with the "layers of history" in our beautiful Sculpture Hall. Pufendorf IAS is situated in one of the most beautiful buildings in Lund (if we may say so ourselves), originally built in 1886. The last major renovation of the former Department of Physics and Classical Department was done in 2009, just before the Pufendorf Institute moved in. It was of great impo

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/welcome-back-classical-archaeology-and-ancient-history - 2025-10-21

The project is focused on the emotional economy of anti/pro-democratic expressions of grievances, with an aim to explain how anti-social grievance politics transform into democratic political action. Congratulations on the research grant! Project name: Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance (PLEDGE)SummaryContemporary politics is angry and vengeful, with affective polarization and uncompr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-ian-manners-represent-lund-university-horizon-project-pledge-politics - 2025-10-21

Petter Narby defended his dissertation ”Time of Crisis: Order, Politics, Temporality.” yesterday at one o'clock in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. Discussant: Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics. AbstractCrises are common and problematic features of contemporary politics. Thought as moments in time when order is undermined by flux and disorder, they entail a nor

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/petter-narby-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-21

The European Council meeting of EU heads of state and government was hosted by the Department of Political Science, Lund university this week with great success. Guided by the Spanish presidency of the EU, the President of the European Council, and the European Commission, a meeting of the General Affairs Council and the Council working group on energy were held in the morning to hear of Commissio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/european-council-negotiations-success-lund-masters-students - 2025-10-21