Jugdes are people not robots and emotions are inevitabably part of their daily life. In The Conversation Lisa Flower gives her view on why the US jugde Brett Kavanaugh is not seen as fit to be a jugde. Lisa Flower, studies the sociology of emotions at the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on ways in which defence lawyers represent their clients using emotions and their bodies. Read the

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/why-do-we-not-want-angry-judges - 2025-09-13

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/master-thesis-electronic-market-places-was-awarded - 2025-09-13

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We wish you all a warm and relaxing summer. However, in only a few weeks from now the important Almedalen week starts. Lund University is as always well represented and many panels have connections to the Middle East and the dynamics of this region. Middle East Forum Newsletter #2 As well, keep your eyes and ears open for coming news on the planned public seminars that we are arranging on MENA rel

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-2-summer-edition - 2025-09-13

Monday the 27th of May, CMES affiliated researcher, the Syria scholar and ethnographic filmmaker Joshka Wessels will present her upcoming book which will be published by Bloomsbury/IB Tauris entitled "Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution". "Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution". Cover: I.B. Tauris Joshka's book is the world's first history of Syria

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/worlds-first-history-syrian-documentary-cinema - 2025-09-13

SASNET is proud to announce that as of 2020 it will become a research-focused center in the Faculty of Social Sciences. This development testifies to growing importance of South Asian Studies at Lund University, and the confidence the university has in SASNET’s ability to create a strong research environment and network of scholars. Until 2020, SASNET will remain as an autonomous part of the Cente

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-will-become-research-focused-center-2020 - 2025-09-13

INAUGURATION OF NEW PROFESSORS: Hanna Bäck has been promoted to full professor at the department and will take part in the inauguration ceremony today (16th October). Hanna Bäcks personal pageLearn more about the new professors (PDF) In Lund, the inauguration of new professors is a public ceremony presided by the vice-chancellor. At least one such ceremony is held each semester, in which the new p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-new-professor - 2025-09-13

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Fariborz Zelli is one of two editors of the newly released book Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics. Providing its readers with a unique point of reference, as well as stimulus for further research, the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in the governance and politics of the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zelli-provides-pluralistic-knowledge-base-global-environmental-governance - 2025-09-13

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-long-term-effects-green-public-procurement-gpp - 2025-09-13

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The University building. Photo: Kennet Ruona A decision has now been taken on the next operational plan and resource allocation. The operational plan contains the management’s and University Board’s targets, priorities, initiatives and specific challenges. The resource allocation outlines how the government resources of SEK 4.5 billion are to be allotted, as well as the factors that affect plannin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/universitys-operational-plan-and-resource-allocation-2020-2021-has-been-finalised - 2025-09-13

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https://www.aclu.lu.se/en/article/review-det-samhallsbarande-kontraktet-svd - 2025-09-13

Jagannath Panda (Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs) visited SASNET for a talk on India’s strategic choices in the Indo-Pacific. Yesterday, January 23, Jagannath Panda delivered a public SASNET Lecture at the Eden Auditorium, focusing on India's foreign policy and strategic choices in the Indo-Pacific. The event was co-organized with the Lund Association of Forei

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/power-plays-multipolar-world-mapping-indias-global-game - 2025-09-13

Photo of Sophia Zackrisson by André de Loisted A new LUCC Coordinator has been appointed by the Dean of Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. Professor Sophia Zackrisson has been appointed as the new LUCC coordinator for a 3-year period and she will replace Kristian Pietras as coordinator from March 1st 2021. Nomination of coordinator candidates took place during December 2020 until the end of F

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-lucc-coordinator - 2025-09-13

Are you a student enrolled in the Bachelor course in journalism at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University? Then you are eligible to apply for our grant to conduct fieldworkd in South Asia. Applicants for this grant must be students within the Bachelor course in journalism at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University. Most importantly, your fieldwork must take

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-sasnet-travel-grant-journalism-students - 2025-09-13

Huntington Center is hosting this year's first information meeting in Lund on Huntington's disease on May 28. The evening is open for families with Huntington's disease and health care professionals. The Huntington team from the Neurology clinic at Skåne University Hospital will be present, as well as researchers from Lund University and the patients' organization RHS. There will be opportunity to

https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-information-evening - 2025-09-13

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-articles-2030-agenda-legitimacy-and-responsibility - 2025-09-13

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-and-stripple-long-term-futures-urban-planning - 2025-09-13