Guest Lectures with Michael Shapiro.

Title: Power, Art, Knowledge, Peace.

There will be two lectures: From 10:15 to 12:00 and 14.15 to 16:00.

These lectures are part of the subject SVF-3024 Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation from the Master's in Peace and Conflict Transformation (MPCT).

Michael Shapiro is a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He has taught courses on the subjects of 'Political Science and Film', 'Visual Culture and the Public Sphere', and 'War and Cinema'. Among his publications are titles such as 'Violent Cartographies: Mapping Cultures of War' (Minnesota 1997), 'Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender' (Edinburgh 1999), and 'Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics' (Minnesota 1999). Shapiro is a guest lecturer at the Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) at University of Tromsø. He will lecture at the CPS on Monday January 15, at 10:15 and 14:15, room U-06, Nedre Lysthuset. He is also member of the jury that will award this year’s Norwegian Peace Film Prize at TIFF.