Archived News
"Religion and globalization" (16.11.2005) NTNU wishes to develop more inter-disciplinary projects within the subject of religion and globalization and invites to a work shop Wednesday Dec. 7. Invitation.
Navigating the conference: The final programme (15.06.2005) August 4-6 is approaching quickly. The international conference on globalization in Trondheim is set! 6 keynote speakers, 14 featured speakers and 70 researchers will present papers during three hectic days. Full programme here.
Forum for Globalization Research ( 02/05/05 ) Human rights, child labour, local social responsibility, environmental questions: All of which are problems that global companies may have to face. Chairman of the board Jannik Lindbæk of Statoil - Norway 's largest oil company - will talk about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on May 9. Also, PhD candidate Stig Larssæther will soon be the first at NTNU to defend a thesis on the subject of corporations' social responsibilities. Programme.
More to music than meets the ear? (18/04/05) NTNU’s big international conference on globalization takes place on August 4-6, 2005. As a warm up to the conference, we arrange a seminar on August 3, "MUSIC, RACE, PLACE AND GLOBALISM". Some of the major international researchers on music and cultural studies will be participants: Susan McClary, Robert Walser, Christopher Small and George Lipsitz. More information | More on NTNU's international conference "Navigating Globalization"
8 PhD positions within technology, social sciences and humanities (10/05/2005) The Globalization Programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ( http://www.ntnu.no/ ) in Trondheim, Norway, invites applications for 8 PhD positions. For more information about the Globalization Programme see http://www.ntnu.no/global/
The 8 PhD positions are linked to four different projects in the Globalization Programme:
- Post-crisis reconstruction, poverty reduction and development . (1 PhD position.)
- Transfers: Social and cultural aspects of transnational flows, the study of complex processes of "diffusion", "exports" and "imports ". (2 PhD positions.)
- Resilient Global Logistics: A vulnerability analysis of global logistics systems and problems of maritime logistics . (2 PhD positions.)
- Transnational Corporations and National Effects: A Multi-Disciplinary Research Effort into the Significance of Economic Globalization . (3 PhD positions.)
More information about the positions is available from Nina Sindre, tlf. + 47 73 59 80 17, nina.sindre@hf.ntnu.no or John Kamsvåg, tlf. + 47 73 59 83 77, john.kamsvag@hf.ntnu.no
Applications should be sent to:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts, NTNU, N-7491, Trondheim , Norway
by June 15, 2005 . The file number for the positions (HF-265) must be clearly stated on the application. Full announcement. Project descriptions for the different positions.
Launching NTNU Global! (08.04.2005) The strategic area Globalization has launched its first newsletter, "NTNU Global". The newsletter will be published four times a year and has a circulation of 2000. It is shipped to research institutions at home and abroad.
If you or your institution would like a free subscription, please contact Nina Sindre .
NTNU Global Vol.1, Issue 1. March 2005.
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.
The Anglo-American Middle East (21/03/2005) The Department of History and Classical Studies and the strategic area Globalization at NTNU will from 2.-4 May arrange the international conference "The Anglo-American Middle East" in Trondheim. The organizing committee is very proud to have persuaded internationally renowned scientists within the field to appear at the conference as speakers:
- Edward Ingram, Professor Emeritus of Imperial History, Simon Fraser University, editor of The International History Review
- Alan Milward, Professor Emeritus of European Integration Studies, European University of Florence. Professor Milward is currently working on The Official History of Great Britain and the Common Market.
- Douglas Little, Professor of History and Dean of the College, Clark University, Massachusetts, author of American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945.
- Peter L. Hahn, Professor of History, Ohio State University, author of Caught in the Middle East: U. S. Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945 - 1961.
- May Ann Heiss, Professor of History, Kent State University, author of Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950 - 54.
This will be an open conference. Programme. For more information contact Associate professor Tore T. Petersen, NTNU, tel. (+47) 73 59 66 06.
Some Ethical Consequences of Global Information (02/03/2005) What does Cassandra of Greek mythology have to do with the Information Age? Like humanity has today, Cassandra had a wealth of information available to her - she could foresee the future and Troy's demise. Yet with all her good will, and her efforts to warn the Trojans of their fate, she lacked the power to make change - the Greek god Apollo ensured that her prophecies would never be believed.
The Globalization Research Forum The flood of information available today all too often places humanity in Cassandra's predicament, according to Luciano Floridi, a philosopher from the University of Oxford who came to speak at the Globalization Research Forum on Wednesday, February 2, about the ethical consequences of global information. Read more... | Research: ICT | Ethics | Philosophy | Globalization
Gender and technology( 28/01/2005 ) Perceptions of gender and technology should be reconsidered in the era of the information society, according to nine researchers who contributed to the book He, She and IT - Revisited.
The book takes a synoptic look at the differing relationships that men and women have with technology, and explores common stereotypes that have evolved with the development of the Information Age. Are computers just boys' toys? New and evolving perceptions of gender and technology continuously confirm this common perception. However, researchers in the book tell of girls who use information technology with great enthusiasm. The book also addresses the ways in which public policies have tried to include women in the information society. Prof. Lie is a professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies at NTNU. (From Gemini.) | Merete Lie (editor):"He, She and IT - Revisited New Perspectives on Gender in the Information Society" |
"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.
"The Resource Curse" ( 28/01/2005 ) This is the title of a doctoral course at the Department of Economics, with particular relevance for students of globalization. Whay is at that one of the puzzling regularities of economic growth is that many countries rich on natural resources have had such a poor growth performance?
The course is organized jointly by:
- Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
- Center for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
- Nordic network on 'The Political Economy of Governance and Conflict' (PEGC)
The course is targeted at PhD students in political science and in economics | More information
"Musicking in a global context" ( 18/01/2005 ) The Department of Music at NTNU is offering this course for the spring semester 2005. The course aims to provide an understanding of global processes of change in relation to folk music, art music, jazz and pop music. This will be a cross-disciplinary exercise involving anthropology, philosophy, music, media studies and educational science. More information
ICT, globalization and ethics ( 11/01/2005 ) The E-CAP 2005 conference takes place in Västerås , Sweden June 2-4, 2005 . It will deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that is occurring through the interaction between the disciplines of Philosophy and Computing. Of particular interest to globalization researchers are these subjects:
- Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources
- Information and Computing Ethics
- It just isn't fair ( 1/10/2005 ) Department of Philosophy invites to a series of seminars on "global justice" this semester. More information | | Research: Globalization | Social justice | Philosophy
Reconstruction after the tsunami disaster (05.01.2005) NTNU researchers will participate in planning for the reconstruction phase in Sri Lanka. Shortly before the catastrophe on December 26, the NTNU-group was invited to a workshop on post-civil war efforts in Sri Lanka , but the tsunami has made their expertise on internal displacement situations more immediately needed. The research group is part of the Globalization programme at NTNU, and is led by Professor Ragnhild Lund. The group has previous experience from - among other regions - Bosnia. Adresseavisen has more on this story (.pdf copy) | More about the Research group on forced migration. Research: Forced migration | Internal displacement | Civil war
How do we manage the reconstruction in the disaster areas in South Asia? ( 06/01/2005 ) This is the subject in a feature article in the Norwegian national Dagbladet by Hans Skotte. With experience from studies of reconstruction work in Bosnia, he points to the fact that every fifth internationally financed private housing in Bosnia are unoccupied. Why - he asks - with relevance to the Tsunami disaster. Reconstruction is a reflexive process, which must rest on local experience and local social and commercial structures. Research fellow Hans Skotte is member of the research group Forced Migration within the Globalization programme at NTNU. The article is in Norwegian only. Research: Forced migration | Reconstruction | Bosnia | Tsunami disaster | Housing
Globalization conference submission ( 06/01/2005 ) Term of submission for papers and session proposals is January 15! The conference invites experienced and younger scientists alike to send papers and suggest sessions. The Globalization Programme encourages NTNU researchers to seize the opportunity to invite colleagues nationally and internationally to "Navigating Globalization" in Trondheim August 4-6 2005 . Email address is global@hf.ntnu.no.
War on terror creates fear (21.12.04) The campaign against terror has led to an unnecessary fear and anxiety for people with foreign appearances, says Arnulf Kolstad, professor at the Department of Psychology at NTNU - to the Norwegian daily Aftenposten.
Forum for globalization research(24.11.2004) Researcher Jørgen Carling at PRIO was the main lecturer at the forum's meeting at Desember 6. Carling was recently interviewed in the national newspaper Dagbladet.
Here is the programme for Desember 6 (Norwegian only).
Religion and environment (24.11.04) How are values, world views, and spiritualities interconnected with environmental practices and the images of nature? The project "Religion and Environment in Europe" at the Department of Archeology and Religious Studies has received funds from the European Science Foundation.
From the abstract: The project assumes that religion is crucial for the construction of human images of nature, and that values, world views, and spiritualities are reciprocally interconnected with environmental practices and ideologies. The workshop departs from the sociological hypothesis of 'a new emerging earth religion' in Europe (and North America), and it investigates the impact of normative religious models in different geographical, religious, and socio-cultural contexts in Europe on the environmental discourse and the construction of a good life.
The geographical scope of its investigation includes Scandinavian, North West Russian, British, German, Hungarian, and Greek perspectives. Its religious scope extends from Eastern (Russian and Greek Orthodox) and Western (Catholic and Protestant) Christianity to 'new religious processes'.
Regional and traditional differences are studied, as well as the emergence of a new translocal and transcultural emergence of a common understanding of life in general. Scholars from Religious Studies, Theology, Gender Studies and Social Sciences will collaborate on themes of 'environmental ethics', 'rights of the coming generations', 'ecofeminism' 'ecological citizenship', 'religion in globalisation', and 'sustainability'.
Contact: Prof. Sigurd Bergmann Research : Nature | environment | Religion | Theology | Ethics | sustainability |
NEW challenges for global production (09/11/2004 ) Olav Volldal - the CEO of Kongsberg Automotive - finally made it to Trondheim after one earlier unsuccessful attempt. He presented a first-hand view on business challenges regarding global production. From the viewpoint of Kongsberg Automotive, he summed up some key factors and pitfalls. The whole presentation is available from here.
Challenges for global production (30/09/2004) The Globalization Research Forum's recent seminar, "Global production" originally featured Kongsberg Automotive's chief executive officer, Olav Volldal, but Volldal was unable to attend as planned. Kongsberg Automotive has established production facilities in South Korea.
Researchers at NTNU have been able to study Kongsberg Automotive's experience in global production at the micro level. PhD-student Sigrid Damman looked at management processes in a global context, and has interviewed both Scandinavian and Korean employees about job satisfaction and their perceptions of cultural differences. More on her project here.
What should be the foundation of a national plan for Norway's export industry? Not costs, says Professor Ola Strandhagen at the Department of Production and Quality Engineering. Strandhagen is part of a new cross-disciplinary, multi departmental pre-project. The initial goal of the project is to design an analysis of Norwegian industry in a global setting. The idea is to match industrial opportunities in Norway with research conducted in NTNU's six strategic areas. The project is currently seeking funds.
Internal displacement seminar (17.09.04) The Research Group on Forced Migration arranged on September 16 its second conference, entitled "House: Loss, refuge and belonging" in Trondheim, Norway. The idea of the conference was to use 'house' as a starting point of discussions on such different issues as construction and housing materials, to social and psychological implications of 'house'.
The Research Group on Forced Migration is partially funded by the NTNU Globalization Programme and the Norwegian Research Council. The network has developed an open database as part of the project, which intends to gather research results related to internal displacement.
The Research Group on Forced Migration is part of the Global IDP Project | Contact: Professor Ragnhild Lund
Competitor as chairman (14.09.2004) Professor Helge Hveem, director of the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo, will be the first chairman of the board for the NTNU Globalization Programme.
Professor Hveem has been head of the Centre of Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK) since 2002. He is currently on leave from his professorship at the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo . His main area of research is international political economy, with a focus on the political and institutional aspects of trade systems, international investment, and aid and financial transactions.
- My primary role as chairman of the board will be strategic, Hveem says. As an "outsider", from an institutional perspective, I have the ability to take a comprehensive view of the programme. I will suggest directions for research policy and research areas to pursue.
- My strength lies in my ability to bring people together, especially when it comes to making cross-disciplinary environments work together. I'm looking forward to learning more about technology at Gløshaugen [NTNU's engineering and natural sciences campus].
TIK and the NTNU Globalization programme are competitors in some respects: both institutions seek funding from the same financial sources.
-Because my role is strategic, I do not see myself in situation where this will be a problem. If such a circumstance should arise, I will recuse myself from the discussion so as to prevent any conflicts of interest.
The first board meeting will take place on 23 September | Professor Helge Hveem
Forum for globalization research (16.09.2004) The topic for the Forum for Globalization Research's September 27 seminar is global production. The forum has invited Kongsberg Automotive CEO Olav Volldal to discuss his firsthand experience with the issue. The forum holds two or three seminars each semester and is a project of the NTNU Globalization Programme. The next seminar will be held December 16. Here is a list of scheduled seminars. Read more about the Forum for Globalization
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Global wanderers (16.09.2004) Norwegian law entitles all university students to study abroad as part of their degree. In accordance with this law, NTNU's Globalization Programme will make financial contributions to master's and PhD students who wish to travel abroad to conduct field research or archival studies. One month's support is also available for students who are preparing a PhD-proposal. More information.
"Globalization in Norwegian" (19.8.04) "We must dwell less on the past and unite around a proactive, collective effort to create a Norwegian-based action agenda for global, knowledge-based value creation", writes senior researcher Gunnar Lamvik, SINTEF Technology Management, and Professor Eric Monteiro, NTNU. Read the feature article in Dagens Næringsliv.
The local in the global (16.8.04) 580 rural researchers from around the world came to Trondheim to participate in the 11 th annual "World Congress of Rural Sociology", hosted by the Centre for Rural Research, which is affiliated with NTNU. What are the consequences of globalization for the world's rural communities? The acclaimed sociologist Zygmund Baumann said that globalization results in too many people who feel - or are - superfluous. He calls this phenomenon "Human Waste". The Centre for Rural Research features more information about the happenings at the congress.
Globalization for engineers (16.8.04) One of the goals for NTNU's strategic areas is to help increase collaboration across academic disciplines, to tap into the synergy that comes from interdisciplinary studies and research. As a part of this effort, Globalization - through the Department of Sociology and Political Science - offers courses that could be helpful for researchers, scientists and engineers who will work internationally. These courses can be incorporated into the Advanced Programme in Technology and Engineering . More on the courses offered.
Nordic countries and globalization (15.6.04) - How have Nordic countries addressed large, global processes in international politics and the economy? This question is posed in the project Small States and globalization - Norden as Defence against Large Processes" at NTNU.
- A workshop was recently held in Trondheim , where Norden's position on the "Germany issue" after World War II was addressed though a series of papers. Some of the presentations will be published in upcoming issues of Contemporary European History
- The project's first workshop addressed Norden and the trade liberalisation of the 1950s. The articles from this workshop will be published in the Scandinavian Economic History Review in the autumn of 2004.
- The next workshop will be held in Copenhagen in the spring of 2004 : How did Norden relate to "deglobalization" in the 1930s. (Preliminary list of papers)
Group of leaders established (10.6.04) Globalization as NTNU's sixth strategic area was formally established in March, with the composition of the leadership now clear. The leadership is composed of:
- Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts Petter Aaslestad will lead the strategic area (this has been decided for some time).
- Professor Ragnhild Lund from the Department of Geography will be responsible for The Cultural and Social Expressions of Globalization focus area.
- Professor Asbjørn Rolstadås from the Department of Production and Quality Engineering will be responsible for the Production Systems in a Globalized World focus area.
- Professor and IT-expert Eric Monteiro from the Department of Computer and Information Science will be responsible for Cross-Cutting Perspectives (See link to the left, this page).
Construction in war-torn areas (4.6.2004) Building houses is not the same as building peace, even though this has been a central goal for all international construction efforts. Construction does not help reconcile old enemies; people's houses are too personal and private for that to happen, says Trondheim architect Hans Skotte (59) in his doctoral thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has examined international aid contributions to construction in war-torn areas, and how such aid can contribute to long-term rebuilding. Doctoral theses with NTNU.
Work and globalization (4.6.2004) Per Øystein Saksvik, Professor of Psychology, and Carla Dahl-Jørgensen, Professor of Anthropology - both at NTNU - have written a feature article in Adresseavisen about the effects of globalization on jobs.
International conference 4-6 August 2005 (25.5.04) Suggestions are welcomed for themes for workshops/sessions for NTNU's international conference "Navigating Globalization: Stability, Friction and Fluidity".
More information | Form for suggestions (in Norwegian)
Globalization and the Media (25.5.04) The Norwegian Association of Media Researchers will hold its 11 th national conference in Trondheim on October 21-22, 2004 . The title is "Media Research in the Age of Globalization". The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 1. Participants may sign up before August 15 on the conference's home page.
New doctoral degree (19.5.04) The significance of technology transfer in the collective economic growth in Thailand is the topic of a new doctoral thesis from the Department of Economics. By reviewing the interaction between technology transfer and investments, Hildegunn Ekroll Stokke's research attempts to show sources of growth in productivity. Ekroll Stokke's advisor has been Professor Jørn Rattsø, and the work has been financed by the Research Council of Norway and NTNU. Read more about the thesis on the Teknisk Ukeblad home page.
Global thinkers in debate (27.4.04) Professor Helge Hveem from the University of Oslo was invited by the Globalization Research Forum to talk about NTNU's new strategic area. Read more in Universitetsavisa. Globalization Research Forum.
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