Published 31 May 2016 The Afrint research group and Development Geography in Lund warmly welcome you to the 15th Development Research Day: End hunger and achieve food security by 2030 Date: Thursday November 10, 2016. Time:  9.30-17.00 | Geocenter I, Sölvegatan 10, LUNDThe Development Research Day is an annual event at Lund University bringing together all fields working on development to share an

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Published 16 June 2016 The possibility of late application will open for some of the courses at the department on the 15th of July. Apply via: www.universityadmissions.se. Please note that a late application does not guarantee you a spot on the course. Read more about the late application process: https://www.universityadmissions.se/en/All-you-need-to-know1/Applying-for-studies/Application-process

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Published 15 September 2016 Lund University is celebrating 350 years of education and research with €350,000 in scholarships! Win a scholarship for your Master’s programme by showing that you share Lund University's vision to understand, explain and improve the world and the human condition. The scholarship can be applied to over 100 different Master’s programmes in a variety of subjects at Lund U

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Published 4 October 2016 Geographers and GIS technicians wanted! Per Becker, Engineer and Risk Manager talks about international cooperation and his work with risk management and aid work coming back after a year posting in Fiji. Thursday 6 Oct at 18:30Place: Sky High, Geocentum 1, LundThe pub serves beer, wine and snacks to membership prices. Are you not a member? No problem, you can become membe

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Published 10 October 2016 The stipend from Torsten Hägerstrands stiftelse commemorating the birth of Torsten Hägerstrand a 100 years ago, October 11, 1916, has been awarded to:Andreas Skriver Hansen, Human Geography, Göteborgs Universitet. Skriver Hansen applies for funds to participate in and also arranging a session at the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM) in Ume

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Published 24 October 2016 The Afrint research group and Development Geography in Lund warmly welcome you to the Development Research Day 2016: End hunger and achieve food security by 2030. The Development Research Day is an annual event at Lund University bringing together all fields working on development to share and discuss their research with each other, students and the public. Theme: End hun

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Published 7 December 2016 On Thursday at 15.15 , Professor Frédéric Landy will be holding a seminar on the topicNational parks within the urban agglomerations of Mumbai, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town: between urbanization and globalization, which place for ‘eco-ethnicity’?Venue, Rio (430), Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 10, floor 4 Frédéric Landy is the Director of the French Institute of Pondic

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Published 9 December 2016 On Thursday 10th of November 2016, we had another inspiring edition of the Development Research Day, a flagship annual event at Lund University bringing together all disciplines working on development issues since 2002. This year the Development Research Day was hosted by the Human Geography department and was dedicated to Sustainable Development Goal no. 2: “End hunger,

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Published 14 December 2016 Richard Shearmur is Professor at the School of Urban planning, McGill university in Montreal, Canada. Richard is an international leading scholar in a broad spectra of areas in economic geography including research on urban, regional and rural development and different dimensions on cities and firm level innovations. His interest also covers critical analysis on how meas

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Published 19 December 2016 The latest book by associate professor Anders Burman of the Human Ecology Division has now been published, called "Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes: Ritual practice and activism". "Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes: Ritual Practice and Activism explores how Evo Morales’s victory in the 2005 Bolivian presidential elections led to ind

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Published 20 January 2017 Rikard Warlenius will defend his thesis named "Asymmetries. Conceptualizing Environmental Inequalities as Ecological Debt and Ecologically Unequal Exchange" on the 10th of February at 1 pm in Världen, Geocentrum 1. Opponent will be Joan Martínez Alier of UAB, Barcelona. In this compilation thesis, consisting of six papers and an introductory chapter, the concepts of ecolo

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Published 27 February 2017 On Monday June 12, at 14:15-16, Chia-Sui Hsu will have her final seminar. On Wednesday June 28, 13-15, Joakim Wernberg (CIRCLE) will have his final seminar.  Chia-Sui Hsu, Monday June 12, 14:15-16, final seminarFarmland of Dreams: Gentrifying the Countryside with Alternative Food Networks in TaiwanDiscussant: Senior Lecturer Dr Nicholas Loubere, Centre for East and South

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Published 2 March 2017 350-ÅRSJUBILEUM. Welcome to this symposium on Wednesday March 8th, where we look at poverty development in Sweden during the last 100 years & trends in men & women's incomes in Africa. Life expectancy in the Western world, like in Sweden, has expanded linearly by about 25 years during the 20th century, a bit more for women than men. At the same time, living standards have im

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Published 9 March 2017 Two new books, two grants and a price!  New booksErik Jönsson och Elina Andersson (red): Politisk Ekologi, with contributions from several of the institution's employee (Link to Studentlitteratur) Anders Burman: Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes (Link to Bokus)  GrantsAnders Lund Hansen – grant from STINT Seed Funding for Development of the International C

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Published 24 April 2017 If you have not yet applied, you can now submit a late application to the Master’s Programme in Human Geography at the Department of Human Geography, Lund University. The Master’s Programme in Human Geography prepares you for a wide range of professions. Human Geography is about the ways in which spaces, places and environments are both the condition for and the consequence

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Published 2 May 2017 The stipend from Torsten Hägerstrands Stiftelse for 2017 has been awarded to...  For Physical Geography Abdulhakim AbdiPhysical Geography and Ecosystem Science, University of Lund. Abdi is applying for grants to present the results of his PhD-thesis (2017) at The Japan Geoscience Union/American Geophysical Union Joint Meeting on May 20th, 2017 in Chiba, Japan.  The stipend wil

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Published 12 May 2017 A warm welcome to PhD thesis nailing ceremonies on Monday May 15 (Hayford Ayerakwa) and on Tuesday May 16 (Noura Alkhalili)! You are hereby invited to the PhD thesis nailing ceremony for  Hayford AyerakwaMonday 15th May  at 15:15 (3:15 pm) Venue: the third floor, Geocentrum 1 Noura AlkhaliliTuesday 16th Mayat 15:00 (3 pm)Venue: the third floor, Geocentrum 1   There will be so

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Published 17 May 2017 On Wednesday 17 May 2017, Lund University will fly the rainbow-flags again to draw attention to the violence and discrimination that LGBTQI people are exposed to in all countries. The programme for IDAHOT at Lund University is open to anyone who wants to learn more about LGBTIQ. All activities are free of charge.PROGRAM8.00 Flag hoisting ceremonyWe meet in front of the main u

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Published 18 May 2017 On Thursday May 18, Ståle Holgersen will be at Lund University for a panel discussion about his new book "Staden och kapitalet - Malmö i krisernas tid". With Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren (Political Science), Johan Pries (Department of History) and Andreas Malm (Department of Human Geography).Date: Thursday May 18Venue: "Världen", Geocentrum I, Sölvegatan 10.Time: 13:00-15:00 (1pm-3

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Published 23 May 2017 Three doctor’s theses will be defended during the same week: Hayford Ayerakwa (June 7), Niclas Lavesson (June 8) and Noura Alkhalili (June 9). Wed 7 June 1-3 pm.Hayford AyerakwaPlanting to feed the city? Agricultural production, food security and multi-spatial livelihoods among urban households in GhanaOpponent: Dr Pay Drechsel, International Water Management Institute, Sri L

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