In the latest spat of anti-globalization sentiments, people one both sides of the Atlantic are getting worried about the TTIP, or Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement, which is currently under negotiation between the US and the EU. The negative hyperboles have found their way...
Uttryck Magazine / 25.05.2015
Love and Such
I still recall it sometimes. That night when I saw you for the first time, the rain drizzling down as a reminder of the fading summer. That night when I was hit in the face by something as delicate as your personality. It's been a...
Lectures / 22.05.2015
LECTURE: Antibiotic resistance – an issue to be solved by the market or by politics?
Open lecture on the challenges of antibiotic resistance by Dr Manica Balasegaram from Médecins Sans Frontières Arranged by Utrikespolitiska föreningen i Uppsala , Uppsala Health Summit and Uppsala Studentkår Medicinska Sektionen June 1st at 17:00 – 18:00 Free of charge. Uppsala University Main Building, Room X Doors open at 16:30...
Wednesday 27th of May, kl 18.15 Universitetshuset sal IX (free entry) The Greek crisis: Political and economic challenges More than five years since the global financial crisis in 2009, the Greek crisis remains a focal point within the Eurozone. In this seminar a number of questions will...
Uttryck Magazine / 21.05.2015
EMPIRES ON DECLINE: Is the US heading down the same road as the romans?
Past and Present Times...
Uttryck Magazine / 20.05.2015
TTIP – You didn’t see it coming…
The 18th of April marked the global day of action against TTIP and TTP - the transatlantic trade deal that is currently under secret negotiation in the European council. Corporation representatives are mainly carrying out the negotiations, with little input from elected Members of European...
Uttryck Magazine / 19.05.2015
Xenophobic violence against 'easy targets' – A report about South African uncertainty and frustration
As a white middle class foreigner in the middle of the xenophobic attacks in South Africa I find myself in a peculiar situation. I am a foreigner, but not a target of the xenophobia. The xenophobic attacks earlier this year have been carried out by South African...
Uttryck Magazine / 13.05.2015
Thank God for Climate Change!
- How global disaster is empowering us You know the dystopic side of the story: if we do nothing, we are doomed. What you do not know is how much YOU can actually do. Uttryck’s writer and environmentalist freak Allan Stewart claims that climate change could...
Okategoriserade / 11.05.2015
Uncomfortably warm: Professor Doreen Stabinsky and climate change leadership
Doreen Stabinsky is the first recipient of the Zennström professorship in Climate Change Leadership at the University of Uppsala, a ten year initiative set out to, ‘address some of the most challenging questions that climate change poses to humanity’. We attended her inaugural welcome to the university...