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5 November 2025 09:30 to 12:00 | Welcome to a two-hour symposium to discuss recent developments and historical perspectives on human rights and environmental politics together with civil society actors and scholars in the Lund University’s Human Rights Profile Area. This event will focus on recent backlashes against human rights and environmental politics and explore the underlying reasons for it
20 November 2025 09:00 to 15:00 | Welcome to the Responsible Neurotechnologies Symposium, introducing renowned international speakers working in an array of disciplines connected with neurotechnologies development and use. Policy frameworks currently lag behind the pace of neurotechnological innovation. Some tools provide some guidance to address concerns that arise in clinical and consumer uses –
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/responsible-neurotechnologies-symposium - 2026-05-05
1 December 2025 16:15 | Lecture/talk "Science has no homeland" captures the inherently transnational nature of scientific inquiry and its potential to serve humanity beyond borders. Being science inherently transnational, scientific progress requires international cooperation to flourish and serve as a vehicle for promoting human rights and reducing inequalities, international human rights law sup
Human Rights Working Groups bring together experts and practitioners from different fields to focus on a particular human rights topic for a set period. The format is open - anyone interested, including those outside Lund University, is welcome to join.In spring 2026, the Human Rights Profile Area funds three working groups with 30,000 SEK each. This new funding format was introduced in to help re
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/human-rights-working-groups - 2026-05-05
Seed funding for innovative research The Human Rights Profile Area offers seed funding for members (25,000–75,000 SEK) to initiate innovative, interdisciplinary projects, research groups, or proposals. This funding initiative aims to spark new research ideas with strong potential for external funding and strengthen a vibrant, well-connected scholarly community at Lund University.To be eligible, th
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/research/projects-and-initiatives - 2026-05-05
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 - 2026-05-05
29 January 2026 11:15 to 13:00 | Workshop Human Rights Profile Area meets Nature-based Future Solutions Profile Area! There is significant overlap in the topics of our research—human rights and the green transition, climate issues, biodiversity loss, just transition, social welfare, and ethical aspects of sustainability. Let’s explore our common interests, inspire for new research ideas and identi
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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. Every member has a designated responsibility. Coordinator Lena Halldenius, Profes
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/about/organization - 2026-05-05
Researchers within the Human Rights Profile Area pay particular attention to the impact and consequences of a polarised world on global norms, practices, actors and institutions in the field of human rights. Research topics at the top of our agenda: Human rights & CultureHuman rights & DisabilitiesHuman rights & Economic developmentHuman rights & EducationHuman rights & GenderHuman rights & Health
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/research/research-themes - 2026-05-05
16 February 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar The Human Rights Profile Area and Lund Earth Observation group invite you to an interactive seminar with The Decentralized Damage Mapping Group (DDMG) to discuss how Earth Observation can be used to study or monitor human rights in conflicts and disasters. We will hear a presentation from DDMG and thereafter have a round-table discussion to exchange perspe
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/earth-observation-and-human-rights-conflicts-and-disasters - 2026-05-05
Join us for an interdisciplinary, collaborative space to explore common interests and to build connections across fields! Date: 16 February 2026 Time: 13:15–15:00 (including fika) Location: SOL:H435 Centre for Languages and Literature, Helgonabacken 12, Lund Status message The registration deadline has passed. Leave this field blank
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30 January 2026 12:15 to 13:00 | Seminar Human Rights Lunch Online is a digital seminar series where Human Rights Profile Area members and guests present their latest projects and research. On 30 January, Martin Scheinin, visiting professor at the Faculty of Law and previous United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism (2005–2011), will present on the rights of future ge
14 January 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Darcy Thompson is a PhD-student in Human Rights Studies. Her thesis focuses on the Swedish foreign aid system. At the seminar, chapter 4 of the thesis will be presented and discussed. A text is available for pre-reading. Contact lena.halldenius@mrs.lu.se or Darcy if you'd like the text sent to you. This chapter situates Sweden as a distinctive case of democ
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 - 2026-05-05
28 January 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Presenters: Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Mariia Lesina, Salobrar Alonso Jiménez, and Antonia Rick. In recent years, corporations have embraced the role of global benefactors, increasingly entering a space traditionally occupied by NGOs. Corporations are also actively welcomed by governments as international collaborators to solve the world’s wicked problems. Incr
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/fluff-tough-role-standards-international-human-rights-monitoring - 2026-05-05
26 March 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Jesse Tomalty, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, will present a paper co-written with Kerry Woods. Who are the bearers of human rights? At first glance, the answer seems obvious: all humans. We can add to this the commonsensical thought that human rights are held only by humans. They are, after all, human rights. While seemingly i
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/jesse-tomalty-justifying-human-rights-rights-humans - 2026-05-05
Datum: 23 april 2026, kl. 13:15–15:00, följt av fika & frågor i foajén 15:00–15:30.Lokal: LUX:C121, Helgonavägen 3 och online via Zoom Webinar (med möjlighet till frågor). Status message The registration deadline has passed. Leave this field blank
28 April 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Igor Shoikhedbrod is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. He is the author of Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights (2019) and many other publications on Marxist theory and human rights discourses beyond a narrowly conceived liber
https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/igor-shoikhedbrod-alternative-futures-rights-three-heterodox-marxists - 2026-05-05
6 May 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Piers Von Berg is a Senior Lecturer and an interdisciplinary scholar in human rights education and human rights law at Birmingham City University. His work contributes to understanding how transformative human rights education can be applied in higher education. Education systems in many parts of the world are directed towards shaping the human being as an econo
