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Idag märks flera av institutionens forskare i tidningarna med anledning av Internationella kvinnodagen 8 mars. Sydsvenskan skriver om arbetslivskritik, Feminismen behöver ett vrål i stället för hopbitna käkar, och hänvisar till den alldeles färska antologin "Ambivalenser och maktordningar - feministiska läsningar av nyliberalism" (red. Siv Fahlgren, Diana Mulinari och Angelika Sjöstedt Landén). Bl
https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/roster-i-media-8-mars - 2025-12-23
Niklas Altermark is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. His dissertation will be published in May 2016, entitled After Inclusion: Intellectual Disability as Bio-Politics. This presentation focuses on how discourses of ’bioethics’ surrounding pre-natal diagnosis - targeting conditions associated with intellectual disability - works to de-politicize technolo
https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/seminar-bioethics-de-politicization - 2025-12-23
"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. Prostitution is a controversial topic and the positions are often polarised. Discussions about prostitution easily becom
https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/meet-author-book-release - 2025-12-23
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 following questions: How a
https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/crip-and-queer-seminar-queer-art-seeking-asylum - 2025-12-23
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 diskuterade också vad som tas för giv
https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/lararbesok-pa-malmo-latin - 2025-12-23
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 transnational engagement with technology, laws,
https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/seminar-conflicted-kinship-transnational-world - 2025-12-23
"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.
https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/new-book-prostitution - 2025-12-23
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
https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/phd-defence-maria-tonini - 2025-12-23
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 Hörsal, Lund Prof. Jyoti Puri is th
https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/seminar-professor-jyoti-puri - 2025-12-23
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.
https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/four-postdoctoral-positions - 2025-12-23
Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke recovery therapy. “Communication between nerve cells in large parts of the brain changes after a stroke and we show that it can be partially restored with the treatment”, says Tadeusz Wieloch, senior professor of neurobiology at
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-lost-brain-function-restored-after-stroke - 2025-12-24
A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across 8 European countries show that despite tightened pesticide regulations, more needs to be done.Despite claims of the world's most rigorous risk assessment process, the use of approved pesticides in European agricultural landscapes still negatively affects non-target or
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-bees - 2025-12-24
Lund University has been rated number 8 in the world out of 1,403 universities assessed in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, which ranks sustainable development at higher education institutions around the globe. This places the University third-best in Europe and highest in Sweden. The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability is a framework for showing how universities are tack
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranks-top-10-global-sustainability-ranking - 2025-12-24
Through analysis of high-resolution data from a ten-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in generating new knowledge about three stars at the very heart of the Milky Way. The stars proved to be unusually young with a puzzling chemical composition that surprised the researchers. The study, which has been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, e
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/astronomers-determine-age-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-12-24
Lund University and Tetra Pak Processing are joining forces to build one of the largest precision fermentation research facilities in the Nordics. Microorganisms will be selected, fine-tuned and trained to convert inedible waste into food and materials for a growing population. The term “precision fermentation” is being used increasingly by biotechnology and food experts. As resources dwindle and
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/plant-waste-be-transformed-food-new-lab-lund - 2025-12-24
Do epigenetic changes cause type 2 diabetes, or do the changes occur only after a person has become ill? A new study by researchers at Lund University provides increased support for the idea that epigenetic changes can cause type 2 diabetes. The researchers behind the new findings published in Nature Communications now aim to develop methods for disease prevention. We inherit our genes from our pa
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/epigenetic-changes-can-cause-type-2-diabetes - 2025-12-24
Tuesday 9 January is Arrival Day, when international students arrive at Lund University from around the world. The University receives students from over 130 countries. During the spring semester, approximately 800 new international students are expected to start their studies at Lund University. On Arrival Day, some 450 students are expected to arrive.These students include:About 550 exchange stu
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-welcomes-800-new-international-students - 2025-12-24
The development of a new treatment strategy for bacterial infections and sepsis is being led by researchers at Lund University. In a study the researchers demonstrate how they, by mimicking a substance naturally present in the body, can neutralize toxic substances from bacteria and thereby mitigate harmful inflammation that could otherwise lead to sepsis. “Despite decades of research, there are cu
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/step-closer-treatment-severe-bacterial-infections-and-sepsis - 2025-12-24
An upcoming book featuring reproductions of artworks from the Ravensbrück concentration camp tells the story of the horrific reality its female inmates had to endure. The book has been published entirely thanks to private donations. In spring 1945, around seven thousand women, survivors of the Nazi concentration camp in Ravensbrück, came to Sweden as part of a Swedish-Danish rescue operation. Amo
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/donations-help-highlight-ravensbruck-art - 2025-12-24
During a French state visit to Sweden, President Emmanuel Macron visited Lund University on Wednesday, where he spoke directly with students at Studentafton. The President addressed challenges, possibilities and the future of the European cooperation. It was a long wait for vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and the audience inside the main University building. Finally, President Macron and his wife Br
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/french-president-emmanuel-macron-visits-lund-university - 2025-12-24
