In partnership with BIFF, Bergen International Film Festival, LawTransform will screen the Italian film “Into My Name” at the Bergen Cinema in Magnus Barfot Gate (17.15). It will open the festival’s LGBTQ programme. Next, we will have a talk with the director Nicolo Bassetti and the producer Gaia Morrione at Kulturhuset (19.15). The evening will end with a party at Kulturhuset!
Barnevernfrokost: Rettssikkerhet for barn i barnevernet
Dato og tid: September 30 2022, 09:00 – 09:45 Sted: Zoom Regjeringen har nedsatt Barnevernsutvalget som skal vurdere tiltak for å styrke rettssikkerheten i alle ledd av barnevernets arbeid, fra undersøkelsesfasen til ettervernsfasen. Marit Skivenes er leder for utvalget og vil i dette foredraget presentere sentrale utfordringer i norsk barnevern som utvalget arbeider med. Skivenes er professor […]
Rethinking Law & Democracy Education: Student-Led Learning
Date/Time: 26 August 2022, 14:30-16:00 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Current and past students from the Bergen Exchanges PhD-course, and from the LawTransform student-led course will lead in discussion about how we can advance student-led learning and teaching on democracy and law. How can students be enabled to learn – and teach – in ways that […]
Human Rights Activism in Challenging Circumstances
Date/Time: 23 August 2022, 10:15-11:15 Venue: Kulturhuset This event will not be streamed. Human rights activists are under threat in many parts of the world. Not least those who work on economically or culturally sensitive issues such as indigenous rights, environmental and labor rights, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive rights. What makes them persist […]
Sexuality Politics, Lawfare and Violence: Global Contestations
Date/Time: 26 August 2022, 11:30-12:30 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom The celebration of the 50-year anniversary for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Norway was marred by violence when on the eve of Oslo Pride two people were killed and many wounded in a shooting near a well-known gay bar. That this happened in a country frequently […]
Queer Lawfare in Africa: Queer Identities as Political Currency in Autocratisation Processes and Courts as Sites of Resistance
Date/Time: 26 August 2022, 10:00-11:15 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Across much of Africa the lives of queer people – lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTIQ+) – are deeply affected by an extreme politicization of queer identities and rights. Church leaders and politicians are whipping up hatred, and anti-queer laws are tightened and more harshly […]
Keynote: Svati Shah: Postcolonial Queer and Trans Theory: The Country, the City, and Rural Imaginaries
Date/Time: 26 August 2022, 09:00-09:45 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom As LGBTQI+ movements and visibility gain momentum in South Asia and Africa, these spaces take shape as urban, developmentalist, and, in some respects, homonationalist and homocapitalist. In their keynote, Dr. Svati Shah reads work by South Asian historian Neeladhri Bhattacharya with political theorist Lyn Ossome’s work […]
New Paths in Climate Litigation
Date/Time: 23 August 2022, 11:30-12:30 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Litigation is becoming a central avenue to force policy change to address the climate emergency. Climate related court cases are growing rapidly in numbers and are brought before courts in more and more countries and on the international level. Climate litigation is also expanding with regards to […]
Child Marriage and the Significance of Global Norm Diffusion
Date/Time: 25 August 2022, 15:15-16:00 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Child marriage is defined as a person entering marriage before the age of 18. A number of international human rights norms and conventions aim to eliminate the practice which predominantly affects girls. Each year 12 million girls become child brides across the globe; many in contexts […]
Child Protection Systems Across the World
Date/Time: 25 August 2022, 12:30-13:00 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Child protection services are organised very differently across the globe – but how significant are these differences for child rights protection? The interview presents the new DIPA/LawTransform (UiB) project Child Protection Systems Across the World Participants: Jill Duerr Berrick (University of California Berkeley) and Marit Skivenes (DIPA, UiB) […]