Spring 2005 This is a list of events arranged by the strategic area Globalization, or with relevance to globalization research. Most of the attached programmes are in Norwegian, but the list gives an overview of some of the activities within the Strategic area.
- 4- 6 August NAVIGATING GLOBALIZATION: Stability, Fluidity, and Friction: Trondheim , Norway
- 18 September China exhibition opens: The Strategic area Globalization arranges a series of seminars
Past events
- 8 April Forum for Globalization Research: "The global child" with professor Stuart Aitkin, San Diego State University (programme to follow
- 21-22 April Seminar "Musicking in a global context" with professor Christopher Small and professor Bruce Johnson (More information)
- May Forum for Globalization Research: "Global production: Business responsibility for the environment and society"
- 2- 4 May Conference "The Anglo-American Middle-East"
- Interdisciplinary Graduate Course May 23rd – 27th 2005: Norway Bridging Cultures: Computer Ethics, Culture, and ICTLecturer: Charles Ess, distinguished research professor at Interdisciplinary Studies at Drury University, USA and professor II at NTNU (Globalization and Program for Applied Ethics)
- June Forum for Globalization Research: "Offshoring - Norwegian culture and labour system when the business goes global"
- 2 February Forum for Globalization Research: ICT, Ethics and Art (programme)
- 16 February Seminar "Innovation to make a difference". (Arranged by the Strategic area Energy and Petroleum - Resources and Environment (programme)
- 11 - 12 March "Globalization, Identity and Standardization" Interdisciplinary, international workshop in Trondheim , Norway (web page)
- 31 March Forum for Globalization Research: "Empire - the nation state, territorialism, imperialism and globalization" with Stein Sundstøl Eriksen, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and professor Ragnar Braastad Myklebust, University of Oslo (programme to follow)
- March Forum for Globalization Research: "Style, Design and Image: National design - international market" (programme to follow)
Forum for Globalization Research (21/03/2005) The forum will on March 31 arrange the seminar "Empire - the Nation State, Imperialism and Globalization". Speakers will be Stein Sundstøl Eriksen from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Ragnar Braastad Myklebust, University of Oslo and Truls Wyller of NTNU. Programme.
Forum for Globalization Research (21/03/2005) On April 5 the forum arranges "Challenges for Norwegian Companies in China". Speakers Kjell Stenstadvoll, executive officer of Hydro; researcher Emil Røyrvik from the Department of Social Anthropology and professor Merete Lie from the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies. Programme.
"Globalisation, identity and standardisation" ( 28/01/2005 ) Interdisciplinary, international workshop in Trondheim , Norway . March 1 and 12, 2005.
A new conference is planned in the field between the humanities, social sciences and ICT. "Globalization studies have mainly focused on processes of homogenization, commodification and quantification - processes which effect the commensuration of objects, subjects and institutions. However, the same changes provoke efforts to singularize and particularize objects and identities - from commodity branding to the essentialization of postcolonial, gendered and ethnic identities", it says on their preliminary web page . One of the aims of the conference is to see these superficially contradictory processes as dialectically linked, and examine their empirical variation.
Forum for globalization research(24.11.2004) Researcher Jørgen Carling at PRIO will be main lecturer at the forum's upcoming meeting at Desember 6. Carling was recently interviewed in the national newspaper Dagbladet.
Here is the programme for Desember 6 (Norwegian only).
Zilia Castrillon, Tufts University, U.S "How international frameworks could be applied in the process of territorial and housing restitution of internally displaced persons in Colombia", Thursday 14 October, 14.15
The research group on forced migration at the Department of Geography invites you to a seminar on Colombian IDPs and the process of restitution of territory and housing upon return.
Zilia Castrillon from Tufts University, U.S., will present a very rich paper related to these issues, and although Colombia is the starting point for the talk she will make comparisons with countries as diverse as Bosnia and Guatemala. See attached abstract for more information.
The seminar will be held in the meeting room at the Geography department: Building 7, Level 4, Dragvoll, 14.15 - 16.00. Mer info
Globaliseringsforelesning Vi minner om Globalization and Sustainable Development ved Indra de Soysa, ISS. Tid: 15.10.2004 kl. 12.15-14.00. Sted: rom D8
Medier og globalisering Onsdag den 20.10 klokka 14.15 – 16 i auditorium 10 på Dragvoll: Ramaswami Harindranath, seniorforsker ved University of Melbourne og Elisabeth Eide, førsteamanuensis ved Journalistutdanningen, Høgskolen i Oslo | Mer info
Poul Grosen, Director of UNDP’s Nordic office Presents the Human Development Report 2004, Wednesday Oktober 20.
Each year UNDP presents its Human Development Report with the renowned Human Development Index (HDI). The report this year goes beyond economic growth and material welfare. It promotes cultural diversity and tolerance. It argues that
- Ethnic identities do not threaten the legitimacy of the state
- Ethic groups do not tend to clash in violent conflicts over value
- Cultural liberty should not be confused with defence of tradition
- Ethnic diversified countries are not less able to develop
- It is untrue that some cultures are more progressive than others
Poul Grosen is the Director of UNDP’s Nordic office in Copenhagen. He will come to NTNU to present and discuss this year’s report: Wednesday October 20 2004 at 12:15 – 14:00 Auditorium X, Dragvoll. The event is open for all. Mer info
"Media Research in the Age of Globalization", Trondheim, 21-22 October, 2004 (Norwegian association of media researchers)
"GLOBAL BRANDS in a comparative and cultural perspective", 22 and 23 November 2004, Trondheim ( programme)
Sist oppdatert: 22.09.2005
