Kvinner i revolusjon: Iran og Sudan

Dato/tid: 14 mars, 08:30-09:30 Sted: Jekteviksbakken 31 / Zoom Kvinnelege revolusjonære i Sudan og Iran har fanga verdas merksemd dei siste åra. Alaa Salah vart ikonisk under revolusjonen i Sudan i 2019. Ho var langt frå den einaste, og kvinner leia demonstrasjonar over heile landet. Hausten 2022 utløyste Mahsa (Jina) Aminis dødsfall i politiets varetekt store protestar […]

Film screening of My Imaginary Country

Date/time: 22. March, 16:30 Place: Jekteviksbakken 31 In collaboration with Cine Latino, LawTransform invites you to a free screening of this striking documentary about the constitutional struggle and the protests from 2019 in Chile – followed by panel discussion. Santiago de Chile, 2019: An increase in public transport ticket prices was the final straw for […]

Women Fight for Rights: Labour movements in the Global South

Date/time: 8 March, 08:30-09:30 Place: Jekteviksbakken 31 and Zoom Globally, International Women’s Day marks women’s battle for rights recognition, including labour rights. In this seminar, we discuss the multi-level discrimination that paid domestic workers have to contend with in Brazil and India and efforts to combat this. We analyse and compare the social-and labour movements […]

Women, Revolution, and Backlash: Igniting Feminist Mobilization in Sudan

Liv Tønnessen and Samia Al-Nagar (2023)

Tønnessen, L., & Al-Nagar, S. (2023). Women, Revolution, and Backlash: Igniting Feminist Mobilization in Sudan. Politics & Gender, 1-6. doi:10.1017/S1743923X22000708

Women were at the forefront of the popular uprising that overthrew Sudan’s dictator, Omar al-Bashir, in 2019 (Al-Nagar and Tønnessen 2021). In the aftermath of the uprising, different forms of feminist mobilization emerged. Based on interviews conducted in Sudan in early 2022, we argue that this feminist mobilization was sparked by the backlash facing women […]

Gender Trouble: Glocalization of gender politics and challenges for public health and democracy

Project Leader: Siri Gloppen Funding: Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) RDF 2022, £10000 About the project The project aims to to develop a collaborative, inter-disciplinary, and multi-sited research project investigating the growing politicization of gender across societies, and the consequences for public health and democracy. This addresses a major societal challenge and requires international collaboration. The politicization […]

An Indigenous Perspective on Climate Change Solutions: A Decolonial Learning Journey

  Time/date: 17. February. 12:00-13:00 Place: Bergen Global (Jekteviksbakken 31) The 2023 Annual Lecture on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will be held by Dr. Ranjan Datta ( Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair at Mount Royal University in Canada) He will speak on: “An Indigenous Perspective on Climate Change Solutions: A Decolonial Learning Journey”,   Following the […]

Samefolkets dag: Konflikt, sanning og forsoning

Elin Monstad (UiB), Per Selle (UiB), Felizia Sara-Skree (Bergen Sameforeining), Kai Grieg (FN-sambandet) og Elin Skaar (CMI) I anledning Samefolkets dag måndag 6. februar, inviterer Center for Law and Social Transformation (LawTransform) til frukostseminar. Møtet vert arrangert fysisk i Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 (ingen streaming). Lett frukost vert servert. Se også Facebook-arrangement. Samtalen vil handle om arbeidet til den norske sannings- og forsoningskommisjonen som er […]