19 May May 22 – Movie Night – Climate Change
“ - I don’t want your hope, I want you to panic.” Greta Thunberg has during the last year stated many facts about the climate crisis we are all facing and why we all have reason to panic. But why should we panic!? Not that we don’t...
19 May May 21 – UF Annual Election Meeting 2019
Uppsala Association of International Affairs welcome all members to the General Elections Meeting on May 21st 2019! The meeting will include the election of all board positions, an accountant and the election committee. Attendance and voting rights are given to members who have, at the latest twenty-one...
19 May May 20 – Rwanda – 25 years after the Genocide
Few—if any—countries in modern times have experienced cataclysmic tragedy of the kind that befell Rwanda in 1994: the genocide against the Tutsi. The country has since undergone a fast transformation. As with any extensive and fast reform, not everything has been easy or straight forward....
03 May May 16 – EU-Dagen i Uppsala
Den 26:e maj väntar EU-valet. I ett läge där så väl EU-kritiska som EU-optimistiska röster växer sig allt starkare är detta val av stor betydelse för hur framtidens EU kommer att se ut. För att ladda upp inför valet och öka på kunskapen om EU...
03 May May 9 – EU:s Östliga Partnerskap och dess framtid
På Europadagen blickar vi österut! Det Östliga Partnerskapet är ett samarbete mellan EU och sex länder i östra Europa: Armenien, Azerbadjan, Vitryssland, Moldavien, Georgien och Ukraina. Initiativet till detta togs 2009 och har sedan dess arbetat mot målet om ett gemensamt område av demokrati, välstånd,...
03 May May 6 – The Borneo Case – Movie night and talk with the director
This Monday UF invites you to watch the documentary The Borneo Case, after the screening we will hear director and filmmaker Erik Pauser speak about the making of the film and the current situation on Borneo and in Malaysia In The Borneo Case, documentary filmmakers Erik...
24 Apr May 2 – Beyond Growth: democratic developmentalism in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s economic growth is a result of a development-oriented ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) maintaining the ‘development projects’ hegemony’. Determined to establish a democratic-developmentalist state, the EPRDF gives preeminence to an autonomous policy space enabling experimentation with different economic policies. Focusing...
14 Apr April 25 – Panel on Journalism in War
Every day, we read articles and watch the news to learn about the new developments in conflicts around the world. Yet only rarely do we reflect on the risks associated with procuring this information for the brave journalists and photographers on the ground. We have...
14 Apr May 5 – Apply for the Board of 2019/2020
It is time to apply to become a Board Member of the Uppsala Association of Foreign Affairs! To apply, send an e-mail to val@ufuppsala.se where you concisely describe yourself, what post you are applying for and why you think you would be suitable for it. Maximum...