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The steering group consists 7-15 members from the faculties from which WINGS receives funding. The steering group is elected for two years at a time. The WINGS steering group is responsible for organizing activities, such as lunch meetings, workshops and conferences, and distributing information to the members of the network (through this webpage, our emailing list and social media). If you are in
https://www.wings.lu.se/about-us/steering-group - 2025-10-01
5 November 2025 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar In this seminar, philosopher Adam Etinson (St. Andrews) will discuss what human rights are for and what makes them different from other kinds of rights. Specifically, given that human rights law is quite ambitious (or “maximalist”), why is human rights theory so unerringly conservative (or “minimalist”)? This seminar in the Philosophy and Human Rights-serie
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/lure-human-rights-minimalism-adam-etinson - 2025-10-01
30 October 2025 13:15 to 15:00 | Lecture/talk Welcome to a SASNET talk with Prof. Atreyee Sen (University of Copenhagen) about amplified anger and its rhetorics of legitimation in the 21st century. This event is a collaboration with the Division of Gender Studies. For the past decades, this world has faced exponential failures of democracy, resuscitation of dictatorships, rising gender backlash, s
29 October 2025 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Camila Freitas de Souza is a PhD candidate in Human Rights Studies. At the seminar, she will present a draft chapter from her dissertation on women's grassroots movements in Brazil. More information to be announced! Watch this space.Camila's research encompasses critical human geography, gender studies, and human rights. In her dissertation in Human Rights
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/dissertation-draft-chapter-camila-freitas-de-souza-title-be-announced - 2025-10-01
19 November 2025 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar This seminar is part of a series on "Inclusive teaching on international Master's programs", organised by Malin Arvidsson, senior lecturer in Human Rights Studies. Hanne Tange is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Learning at the University of Aalborg. The seminar will begin with an oral presentation, focusing on the following themes:Teac
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/teaching-practices-global-learning-environment-hanne-tange - 2025-10-01
23 October 2025 12:00 to 24 October 2025 13:00 | Conference Conference: Method and Human Rights – Education in a Time of Societal Change | 23-24 October 2025| Uppsala University Uppsala University arranges the second conference of the Network Human Rights in Higher Education. The conference draws attention to the role of methodology teaching in preparing students for their future professional live
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/international-conference-human-rights-higher-education-2025 - 2025-10-01
13 April 2026 08:00 to 18 April 2026 17:00 | Other Save the date! Sustainability Week will be held for the 10th time on 13-18 April – everyone is welcome! Sustainability Week is an annual event where Lund University and Lund Municipality invite people to a week of activities focusing on sustainability. A wide range of topics are discussed during the week, and everyone is welcome.Information about
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/sustainability-week-2026 - 2025-10-01
6 November 2025 09:30 to 12:30 | Seminar Scientific evidence shows that extractivism, as a development model reliant on the extraction of natural resources, has significant impacts on communities and ecosystems in the Global South, but also in the Global North. The concept of extractivism is born out of a politically engaged critique of a form of development that re-creates colonial inequalities t
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/feminist-perspectives-extractivism-south-south-dialogue - 2025-10-01
8 October 2025 12:15 to 13:30 | Seminar Dr Martin Lemberg-Pedersen (Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, and research affiliate with the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) will present his ongoing work on ‘Market-crafting in the EU border security sector’. You can find an abstract below and in the flyer.Abstract:This talk analyzes processes, networks and actor
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/human-rights-law-discussion-group - 2025-10-01
Working Groups area a new format to support researchers in the process of finding inter- and transdisciplinary partners for further collaborations within the field of Human Rights. One goal of the Human Rights Profile Area is to foster inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration in Human Rights at Lund University. To pursue this goal, we will test the new funding initiative “Human Rights Working Gr
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/working-groups - 2025-10-01
21 November 2025 12:15 to 13:00 | Seminar Human Rights Lunch Online is a digital seminar series where Human Rights Profile Area members present their latest projects and research. On 21 November, Adriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg (senior lecturer in music education at the Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University), Märtha Pastorek Gripson (senior lecturer in aesthetics and innovation at Halmstad Universit
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/human-rights-lunch-online-cultural-rights-children-disability - 2025-10-01
The Human Rights Profile Area forsters a human rights community at Lund University where researchers working with human rights connect and collaborate and get in contact with our collaboration partners and civil society organizations. To promote research advancement, we organize activities related to research that are open to both our members and partners, and some also for the public. Twice per y
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/research - 2025-10-01
Collaborations in Lund - the Swedish hub for human rightsBesides the university, Lund is home to two major human rights institutes in Sweden which makes the city of Lund to a Swedish hub for human rights. The Human Rights Profile Area organizes events together with these institutes to foster collaborations and exchange among staff and members. Together we are creating a robust and dynamic environm
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/collaborations - 2025-10-01
In terms of education, the Human Rights Profile Area aims to strengthen the connections between research and education in the field of human rights. We facilitate collaboration between educational programmes and courses at Lund University that explicitly or implicitly focus on human rights. Overview of Human Rights related education at Lund University The Human Rights Profile Area also engages on
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/education - 2025-10-01
Pro Vice- Chancellor Per Mickwitz about the Human Rights Profile Area What is the Lund University Human Rights Profile Area?The Human Rights Profile Area is a hub for interdisciplinary research, education and collaboration on human rights. We bring together 145 human rights researchers at Lund University from a broad range of disciplines. The profile area can be described as a network that is prim
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/about-us - 2025-10-01
Management team The management team is the strategic body of the Human Rights Profile Area. Besides the strategic direction, the management team decides over member admission, seed funding grants and finances. It consists of a coordinator, a deputy-coordinator and two assistant coordinators from different faculties. Coordinator:Lena HalldeniusProfessor of Human Rights StudiesThe joint faculties o
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/about-us/organization - 2025-10-01
Get engaged, become a member! Lund University staff and employees of affiliated partners can join the profile area network and contribute to interdisciplinary research at Lund University! What the Human Rights Profile Area offers for its members A calendar for human rights events at Lund University has been on my wish list for a long time. Thanks to the profile area and the new website I have a go
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/about-us/advantages-members - 2025-10-01
You can add an educational programme or course to the overview of Human Rights related education at Lund University by filling in this form: Email (required) Please enter the email adress of the responsible course coordinator. Programme or course title (required) Please enter the programme or course title. Study programme or stand alone course? (required) Please specify if this is a study programm
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/form/register-programmes-or-courses - 2025-10-01
Halla Steinunn Stefándóttiräs doctoral thesis is concerned with agency in the work of a performer, curator, and composer, and how these agencies are socio-culturally constructed. Grounded in creative practice as primary research methodology, the project builds on feedback loops between creation, analysis, and interpretation. The aim is to better understand the conventional norms that define the ro
https://www.iac.lu.se/halla-steinunn-stefansdottir - 2025-10-01
Kent Olofsson is a composer with an extensive artistic output of over 200 works that span a broad field of genres, ensemble types and contexts including music for orchestra, chamber music, electroacoustic music, music theatre, rock music, and works for dance performances and installations. The last decade his artistic work and research has been particularly focused on exploring musical composition
https://www.iac.lu.se/kent-olofsson - 2025-10-01
