Publicerad 15 april 2016 Eda Farsakoglu presents a paper entitled The Queer Art of Seeking Asylum: Tracing Im/Mobility through Experiences of Iranian Queer Refugee Claimants in Turkey. The paper is based on a multi-sited ethnographic research project that Eda Farsakoglu conducted for her PhD project with Iranian queers seeking refugee status in the transit migratory space of Turkey. It poses the f

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/crip-and-queer-seminar-queer-art-seeking-asylum - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 18 april 2016 Malmö Latin Den fjortonde april var två av institutionens lärare, Diana Mulinari och Irina Schmitt, bjudna till Malmö Latin för att bidra till skolans likabehandlingsvecka. Under titeln Hur jämställdheten ser ut i Sverige idag - är det jämställt i Sverige idag? gjorde Diana och Irina korta nedslag i det historiska arbetet med jämställdhet och social rättvisa i Sverige. De

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/lararbesok-pa-malmo-latin - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 25 april 2016 Anindita Majumdar Anindita Majumdar is a guest researcher here at the Department of Gender Studies. On Wednesday 27 April she will give a seminar entitled Conflicted Kinship in a Transnational World. The seminar focuses on an ethnographic study of the practice of commercial gestational surrogacy in a transnational context. Embedded in an Indian setting but involving a tran

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/seminar-conflicted-kinship-transnational-world - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 25 april 2016 "Buying and selling sex: Between pleasure, work and exploitation" is the title of Giula Garofalo Geymonat's new book, now in Swedish. The Gender Studies Department and Daidalos Publishers proudly invite you to a book release at the Gender studies Department on April 28 at 17:15.

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Publicerad 2 maj 2016 Dissertation: The Ambiguities of Recognition PhD student Maria Tonini will defend her dissertation thesis, The Ambiguities of Recognition - Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India, on 13 May. Welcome to the defence in Auditoriet/Hörsalen at Kulturen at Tegnérplatsen in Lund.Date: 13 May 2016Time: 13.15

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Publicerad 3 maj 2016 Jyoti Puri Thursday May 12, 2016, 15.00-17.00, SASNET and the Dept. of Gender Studies organize a seminar with Professor Jyoti Puri from Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on the Criminalization of Homosexuality in India (Room M221). The seminar is entitled (Un)Making Sexual States: Antisodomy Law and Racialization in India.Friday May 13, 2016, 13:15-16, Kulturens Hö

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/seminar-professor-jyoti-puri - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 4 maj 2016 The Faculty of Social Science at Lund University is now accepting applications for four postdoctoral positions. To find out more about these positions and the application process, go here: Four (2 year) Postdoctoral positions. The same ad, in Swedish: Fyra (2-åriga) postdoktoranställningar. 

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Publicerad 19 maj 2016 On Thursday 26 May professor and Honorary Doctor Jeff Hearn will hold an open lecture i R240 at 10.00-11.30. What to do about men, and the study of men and masculinities, and why bother? Can there be a sociology, a social science, of men and masculinities? In this lecture Jeff Hearn provides a brief overview of the growth of critical studies on men and masculinities, as a pr

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/jeff-hearn-26-may-men-world-global-transnational-gexual - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 7 juni 2016 Several researchers from the Department of Gender studies are involved in the upcoming International Conference on Migration, Irregularisation and Activism: Challenging Contemporary Border Regimes, Racism and Subordination. The conference will take place in Malmö 15-16 June 2016. Assistant professor Maja Sager is on the organizing committe.Among the keynote speakers are:Brid

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Publicerad 14 juni 2016 Our partner university in Italy announces six scholarships for a joint Italian-French PhD, three of which are open only for students who earned a master's degree in France Six PhD scholarships (duration: 3 years) in memory of Valeria Solesin, the Italian PhD student at Paris-Sorbonne University killed in the terror attacks at Bataclan in November 2015, have been assigned by

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Publicerad 16 juni 2016 Dissertation: The Ambiguities of Recognition One month ago, our colleague Maria Tonini defended her PhD thesis "The Ambiguities of Recognition. Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India". In the recent issue of Lund University Magazine, LUM, she talks about the work behind the thesis. Read the interview in English:Demanding family relationships pressure LGBTQ youth in I

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/phd-scholar-maria-tonini-lum - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 4 juli 2016 The Department of Gender Studies is now accepting applications for a new PhD position. Detailed information regarding for example admission requirements and assessment criteria is included in the announcement, see link below. Last application date is the 20th of September.In English: PhD position in Gender StudiesIn Swedish: Doktorand på genusvetenskapliga institutionenPleas

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/phd-position-gender-studies - 2025-05-07

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 28 October 2019 Solar panels at the flux station in Adventdalen on Svalbard, one of the locations where data was collected for this study. Photo: Frans-Jan Parmentier. A recent study based on data collected by, among others, researchers at our department, finds that climate change is converting permafrost areas fr

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/thawing-permafrost-turns-arctic-carbon-sink-carbon-emitter - 2025-05-07

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 18 November 2019 Malene Thyssen [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)] Giuliana Zanchi (INES) and Mark Brady (CEC) have been interviewed about new research that shows the benefits of continuous cover forestry in larger areas compared to intensified biomass utilization. Mark Brady (research

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/another-type-forest-management-would-provide-greater-benefits-society - 2025-05-07

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 20 November 2019 Last week, some of our students arranged a GIS day showing cartographic material made by the department's students. Last week, on November 13th 2019, the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science celebrated GIS Day.On this occasion, for the first time in the department's history, stud

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/students-department-created-exhibition - 2025-05-07

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 20 December 2019 Screencap from the TV4 news, https://www.tv4play.se/program/nyheterna/12514515 Anders Lindroth, Professor Emeritus, has been interviewed in Swedish TV4 news regarding effects of the 2018 drought. The ICOS research station in Hyltemossa measures, among other things, the exchange of carbon dioxide (

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/feedback-loop-anticipated-after-2018-record-drought-decreased-forests-uptake-carbon-dioxide - 2025-05-07

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 3 January 2020 One of our students, Juliano Hanna, is on exchange in Svalbard. He is participating in a project aimed at gathering knowledge about how the Longyear River is slowly changing its path over time. One of our bachelor students, Juliano Hanna, who is on exchange at Svalbard, is featured in a recent artic

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/exciting-internship-during-exchange-svalbard - 2025-05-07

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 31 January 2020 Increased tropical land use is disrupting the carbon cycle. Photo: Unsplash An international study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows that the rapid increase in land use in the world's tropical areas is affecting the global carbon cycle more than was previously known. By studying

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/increasing-tropical-land-use-disrupting-carbon-cycle - 2025-05-07

Published 14 February 2020 Zackenberg in northeast Greenland, one of the research stations that are part of Interact. Photo: Mikhail Mastepanov. Lund University will receive SEK 100 million from the EU to coordinate the international research project Interact for another four years. Among other things, the funding is to be used to send more polar researchers to the Arctic, make data available usin

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/lund-university-receives-sek-100-million-coordinate-major-polar-research-project - 2025-05-07

Published 24 February 2020 The ability of global ecosystems to absorb carbon dioxide is regulated to a large extent by the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. With lower plant access to these nutrients, greater volumes of carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere, instead of being absorbed by forests and other ecosystems. A new study has now charted the global patterns of this nitrogen and phosphorus

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-study-solves-old-climate-mystery-about-ecosystems-nutrient-limitation - 2025-05-07