Welcome to the first lecture in 2017! In April 2014 Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group based in North-Eastern Nigeria, kidnapped 276 school girls from the town of Chibok in Northern Nigeria. The crimes have drawn the world's attention on the brutal IS-linked group and the...
Utrikespolitiska föreningen i Uppsala in collaboration with IFMSA Uppsala as part of the Uppsala Sustainability Festival Dr. Sujit Kumar Brahmochary, founder of the organization Institute for Indian Mother & Child (IIMC), will talk about rural development in India, child- and maternal health and his life lasting...
Welcome to join UF for free film screening: "Before the Flood" is a 2016 documentary film about climate change directed by Fisher Stevens. The film was produced in a collaboration between Stevens, Leonardo DiCaprio, James Packer, Brett Ratner, Trevor Davidoski, and Jennifer Davisson Killoran. At the European...
Debatten om klädesplagg för muslimska kvinnor (som slöja, hijab, niqab etcetera) har i flera år varit en fråga som diskuterats. I somras blev frågan återigen omdiskuterad efter burkiniförbudet som infördes på vissa ställen i Frankrike & efter bilderna på de franska poliserna som tvingade av...
Femdefenders day kommer till Uppsala! Välkommen till Kalmars nation den 29 november för att uppmärksamma Femdefendersdagen, den internationella dagen för kvinnorättsförsvarare, med Kvinna till Kvinnas volontärgrupp i Uppsala och Utrikespolitiska föreningen! Vi vill uppmärksamma denna dag med Uppsalas egna föreläsare, kör och DJ:s. Forskaren Angela Muvumba Sellström...
The civil war in Syria has since 2011 caused nearly 500,000 people their life, forced millions of people to flee, and put the US against Russia in a confrontation of a sort not seen since the Cold War. Over and over again it seems like...
The renewable energy transition is most often considered in technical and economic terms, although current energy system changes involve much more than a technical substitution from fossil fuels to renewable electricity generation; this transition also involves social, institutional, and cultural innovations in how energy is...
For those who might have missed our e-mail, here is the program sheet for November. Click here!...
Japan’s new security policies – proactive pacifism or resurgent militarism? The Facebook event is HERE! In March 2016, a new security legislation came into effect in Japan which expanded the legal framework for its so-called Self-Defense Forces to operate and be deployed abroad. This meant a further...
See the event on Facebook HERE! If we look up from our phones we realize that most of society today is run from above. Climate research is based on data collected by satellites. Google Maps is used to monitor the artillery strike in the conflict in...