Reflection: Amazomania panel and screening

Amazomania: Who Gets to Decide What the Images Mean? In Amazomania, Swedish director Nathan Grossman revisits footage from a 1996 expedition into the Javari Valley, Brazil to contact a group of Korubo people for the first time. The film moves from the original recordings to journalist Erling Söderström’s return around thirty years later, when the […]

Revisit: BIFF X LawTransform

Last week, LawTransform hosted several different panels in collaboration with BIFF. Scholars, activists, actors, and filmmakers joined us to discuss important contemporary issues. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to attend any of the panels. Revisit the BIFF X LawTransform week here. Friday 16th of October – ‘The Secret Reading Club […]

How to Ban AI Glasses? A Pedagogical Approach

A Minister Needs Help This summer, AI glasses suddenly became a hot topic in the Norwegian public sphere. What had for years existed as a kind of utopian object of the future suddenly appeared for sale at opticians. Digitalization Minister Karianne Tung was accused of being uninformed, uninterested, and too accommodating toward the technology giants. […]

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Reflection: Amazomania panel and screening

Amazomania: Who Gets to Decide What the Images Mean? In Amazomania, Swedish director Nathan Grossman revisits footage from a 1996 expedition into the Javari Valley, Brazil …

BEYOND REPORTING: Sexual Violence in Schools and the Challenges of Protecting Awajún Youth in Condorcanqui, Peru

Despite legal reforms to address sexual violence in Peru’s schools, Awajún girls in Condorcanqui continue to face significant barriers to protection and justice. Beyond Reporting examines how …

Revisit: BIFF X LawTransform

Last week, LawTransform hosted several different panels in collaboration with BIFF. Scholars, activists, actors, and filmmakers joined us to discuss important contemporary issues. We would …

How to Ban AI Glasses? A Pedagogical Approach

A Minister Needs Help This summer, AI glasses suddenly became a hot topic in the Norwegian public sphere. What had for years existed as a kind …

“All women’s wombs are caught up in these politics”: Interview with Maya Unnithan

Maya Unnithan is a social and medical anthropologist at the Department of Anthropology at Sussex and Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction Technologies …

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Beyond the Risk Narrative: What Bangladesh and Brazil Teach Us About Adolescent Pregnancy

by Larissa Cristina Margarido and Nelufer Nazrul Every year, roughly 16 million girls aged 15 to 19 become pregnant. Strip away the statistics and what’s left …

LawTransform x BIFF 2026

This autumn, LawTransform is collaborating with the Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) to bring film and research into conversation. Through a series of screenings, seminars …

Art as Protest, Art as Memory: Three Reflections from Bergen Exchanges 2026

During the 2026 Bergen Exchanges, researchers, scholars and students gathered at Kunsthall 3,14 for a panel on art as a form of resistance, opened by …

Book Review of “Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights”

"At a time when European welfare states deal with competing demands of state sovereignty, family autonomy and universal children's rights, the book offers an incisive …

Applications open for #BeEx2026 PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change”  

Join the LawTransform/UiB Department of Goverment PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change”  which is an integrated part of the …