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Seminar (Ulandsseminaret) arranged by SAIH and SUM in cooperation with NorLARNet and LAG
The seminar will focus on how Norwegian media cover news from Latin America. Is it fair to say that the region gets little attention from media, and that the coverage lacks nuances? What can be done to improve the coverage of Latin America in Norwegian media? Language: Norwegian
More information here.
Related comments here and here.
Date: Tuesday 24th March; 17:15 to 18:45
Place: University of Oslo, Blindern, Eilert Sundts hus (SV Fakultetet), aud. 7 (ground floor)
A NorLARNet seminar
With the FLMN victory in El Salvador this Sunday another former guerrilla movement has come to power in Central America. But what can we expect of FMLN as a governmental party? How will El Salvador develop, compared to what we have seen in Nicaragua under the Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega? What distinguishes the FMLN from the Sandinistas and what do they have in common? And how will the FMLN and Mauricio Funes meet the challenges that El Salvador is faced with?
Speakers:
Vegard Bye - political scientist, author and consultant
Elin Ranum - program coordinator Central America, the Development Fund, former researcher at the Universidad Centroamericana, El Salvador
Fatima Valdes Haugstveit - election observer in El Salvador (on web-cam).
NB: The seminar will be held in Norwegian
Date: Wednesday 18th March, 15:00-17:00
Place: Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), Sognsveien 68, 4th Floor, Oslo
An open guest seminar with Dr. Sebastián Linares
NB: In Spanish
Sebastián Linares is born in Argentina and holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Salamanca. More information here.
Date: Wednesday 11th March; 13:15 to 15:00
Place: Fosswinckelsgt. 6, Lauritz Meltzers Hus 8th floor (seminar room 843), University of Bergen
El Centro para el Desarrollo y el Medio Ambiente (SUM) invita a un seminario con Carlos Monedero García sobre la situación ambiental venezolana y estrategias políticas para la gestión ambiental.
Fecha: Martes 17 de febrero 2009, 12:00-13:00
Lugar: Centro para el Desarrollo y el Medioambiente (SUM), Universidad de Oslo Sognsveien 68, 4a planta
Más información aquí
NorLARNet seminar with Mark Weisbrot
Date: Tuesday 10th February 2009, 14:00-16:00
Place: Auditorium 1, Georg Svendrup Hus, Blindern, University of Oslo.
Registration: Please register by sending an e-mail to norlarnet@sum.uio.no
More information here
On January 29 NorLARNet and NOREF (Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre) will host a meeting where representatives of Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NGOs and researchers associated with NorLARNET will discuss the implications of key trends in Latin America for Norwegian Latin America policy. This discussion will be based on a presentation by Augusto Varas, president of Fundación Equitas, Chile. Recent papers by Varas may be accessed here, here and here. Participation by invitation only. An abbreviated version of the presentation is available here
On 31 January NorLARNET and LAG will host a launch of the documentary De ville vi skulle glemme about women and conflict in Latin America. The documentary is produced by LAG and supported by NORAD. Before the movie Jemima García-Godos, Senior Researcher, Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, will comment on processes of justice and impunity following the kind of human rights abuses described in the documentary, and Martha Rubiano Skretteberg, leader of Forum for kvinner og utviklingsspørsmål (FOKUS), will comment on gender issues related to human rights abuses. Everybody welcome.
Date: Saturday 31st January, 14.00.
Place: Litteraturhuset, Wergelandsveien 29
Adrian Bergmann, who has been involved in work related to the gangs ("maras") in Central America for three years, talked about what motivates the gang members, what are their impacts, and which are the most constructive ways to meet the challenges they pose. Adrian Bergmann's power point presentation in the seminar is available here. Listen to NRK P2's program Verden på Lørdag on maras and gangs with Adrian Bergmann and the Ambassador of Guatemala here.
Date: Friday January 9th, 2009, 10-12
Place: SUM, Sognsveien 68 (by Ullevål T-bane), Seminar room 4th floor.
Many countries in the region have experienced periods of poor public security. How does this, and the governmental responses to it, affect the human rights situation in these countries? José Zalaquett, Chilean Lawyer and Professor in Human Rights will discuss these issues and will give a panorama of the situation of human rights in the region.
Date: Thursday December 4th
Place: SUM, 4th floor (seminar room), Sognsveien 68 , by Ullevål T bane About José Zalaquett
Given the conflictive relation between Haiti and the Dominican republic, and the difficult human rights situation for many Haitian immigrants in the Dominican republic, the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) has for several years supported work directed towards dialogue between Haiti and the Dominican Republic and work directed toward human rights for Haitian immigrants and their descendants. Currently, and as a part of this work, NCA supports the establishment of an Observatory for migration issues in the Dominican Republic.
Date: Tuesday November 25th, 9am
Place: SUM 4th floor (seminar room) - Sognsvn 68, by Ullevål T bane
Norlarnet was launched Wednesday October 22. The opening speeches by Kristi Anne Stølen (Director of SUM) and Benedicte Bull (Director of NorLARNet) are accessible here and here (in Spanish).
The NorLARNet invites all interested researchers to an informal meeting with the Head of the Program Committee for the new Latin America program at the Research Council of Norway, Dr. Rickard Lalander (Institute of Latin America Studies, University of Stockholm).
Date: 14-16, October 22nd.
Place: Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), 4th floor, Sognsveien 68, Oslo.
Among the speakers are Ivan Briscoe (Fride, Madrid), John Andrew McNeish (CMI, Bergen), Jennifer Schirmer (SUM, University of Oslo), Kjersti Rødsmoen (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). The program is available here
Date: October 20th, 2008
Place: 9th floor of the Social Sciences Building at the University of Bergen, Fosswinckels gt. 6.
NorLARNet and SUM invites Latin America researchers to an informal lunch-meeting with vising speakers to the Latin America week organized by LAG, including Mariana Selvas.
Date: Thursday October 2nd at 12.00Place:Centre for Development and the Environment, SUM, Sognsveien 68