Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Lund University
2019-12-05
The Human Touch: Intercultural Dynamics in Arab Gulf- Sweden Relations
Today CMES director Ronny Berndtsson and Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi attended a roundtable and workshop in Stockholm, discussing the relations between Sweden and the Gulf states. [...]
2019-12-05
A BOOK LAUNCH AFTERWORK WITH MARIA FREDERIKA MALMSTRÖM
Maria Frederika Malmström defended her thesis in Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, in 2009. Now she is back to talk about her new book. [...]
2019-12-02
Offensive jokes is a part of racism towards muslims. How is this regarded in Swedish courts? [...]
PUBLIC EVENTS CALENDAR
War trophies in the age of mechanical reproduction: Evidence from human rights courts
Dec 12, at 12-13, Seminar room, Finngatan 16
At UMass Amherst Violence and Conflict Laboratory, we examined twenty-two photographs of slain Kurdish revolutionaries that were unclassified for Turkish courts for identification of human remains in a mass grave site. They were killed in 1998 and the photographs were made available to the court in 2014. These photographs were not produced for forensic purposes, instead they were treated as trophies that would be displayed to superiors as proof of military success and to families of slain insurgents. Dead bodies and human parts are used as writing materials during warfare and conquest.
Bilgesu Sumer is a political scientist, translator and human rights activist from Turkey.
OBS NEW TIME AND PLACE!
BOOK TALK The author of the book "The Streets Are Talking to Me - Affective Fragments in Sisi's Egypt" CMES researcher Maria F Malmström has invited four guests: Jessica Winegar, Nina Gren, Jonas Frykman, Anja Franck to talk about her book.
- December 16, at 16-18, Seminar room CMES Finngatan 16
Conversation series Passion and Politics
OBS NEW TIME AND PLACE!
Jessica Winegar
Jessica Winegar is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work investigates how people articulate understandings of history and political-economic change through cultural production and consumption, in particular through competing notions of culture and culturedness. Themes: Love, disgust and humor in relation to passion.
Dec 17, at 16-18, Finngatan 16