Bergen Global

Where @UiB/@CMI_no researchers, students and the public meet for conversations on international affairs and global challenges.
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On your well-deserved break, check out the 80 events we hosted this year — many of them recorded. You will find them in our calendar 👉 https://t.co/oY4n7PDWBa We hope to see you again in 2025!
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Join us for a discussion on #Mozambique’s post-electoral protests and the muted 🇪🇺/🇳🇴 responses with Luisa Nhantumbo @Lusa_noticias, Edson Cortez @CIPMoz, @HelgeRonning, Carmeliza Rosario @cmi_no & @Azlaque ➡️ Wed 4 Dec 🕗 8:30 am 🇳🇴 📍 here/online ☕️🥐
👉 https://t.co/msepTQa2P8

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Join us for a lecture on #TimorLeste’s ‘oil fever’ and the #TasiMane project. Learn how animism and extractivism shaped national governance.
🗣️ Judith Bovensiepen @oeaw & Kari Telle @cmi_no ➡️ Mon 2 Dec ⏰ 13:00 📍 Jekteviksbakken 31 https://t.co/MgOIMfLPvt

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Hva skjer med 🇳🇴 støtte til en palestinsk stat? Hvordan har Gaza-krigen formet 🇳🇴 politisk debatt? Hva vil skje med UNRWA 🇺🇳? @kjerstig_berg, @JJensehaugen & Pelle Valentin Olsen @UiB_HF @PRIOresearch @NLAHogskolen ➡️ tor. 28. nov ⏰ 11:30 📍 her/zoom 🥐☕️
https://t.co/oawIaWaPDY

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@AarhusUni_int @cmi_no @li63ra You may watch the lively discussion about the 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇳🇴 Africa strategies 👇 https://t.co/xDOHY6dyan

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Norway + Denmark have special strategies for engaging w/ Africa — Sweden has none. Mette Kjær @AarhusUni_int 🇩🇰 Elling Tjønneland @cmi_no 🇳🇴 Jan Pettersson (EBA) 🇸🇪 @li63ra 🇳🇴 will compare Scandinavian approaches ➡️ Tue 12 Nov ⏰ 8:30 am 📍 here/zoom 🥐☕️https://t.co/1zBm1aEzIV

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Youth in Africa and Europe are underrepresented in politics and face limited future prospects. Join @AalenLovise and panel of researchers from both continents for breakfast on demographic change and youth politics ➡️ Wed 13 Nov ⏰ 8:30 am 📍 here/zoom 🥐☕️
https://t.co/JwKZSH64mL

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Both president Maduro and the opposition claimed victory in Venezuela's 🇻🇪 election this summer. Is there hope for democracy and justice? Meet @sozaca2017 and @leivm_academic in conversation w/@JoseZuritaT ➡️ Mon 4 Nov 12:15 📍 here/zoom 🥐☕️
👉 https://t.co/pYLCz99gxL

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Where is Georgia 🇬🇪 headed after this week's election – 🇪🇺/🇷🇺? Welcome to brekfast w/ Paulina Salek-Lipcean (@UiB), @kailmarkvart, Giorgi Cheishvili, @EddaBergen and @ElinaTroscenko ➡️ Tue 29 Oct ⏰ 8:30 am 📍 Jekteviksbakken 31 / Zoom 🥐☕️ https://t.co/hbKpfAEzhw

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Why is the US 🇺🇸 so evenly divided between two extremely different candidates? @li63ra, @HilmarLMjelde and @kailmarkvart will talk about the alternative futures following the election ➡️ Thursday 31 Oct ⏰ 8:30 am 📍 Jekteviksbakken 31 🥐☕️https://t.co/SJ8cDhTpCy

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How is personal identity protected and interpreted under #HumanRights law? @JillMarshallLAW looks at how it is shaping personal identities and explores what @ECHR_CEDH has achieved and could achieve in this area ➡️ Thur 17 Oct ⏰ 14:15 https://t.co/NglJMm0afq

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Indonesians 🇮🇩 who lose land to 🌴 oil companies face a "rightlessness" that avoids legal provisions and instead rely on informal connections and bargaining power. Meet @ward_berenschot, Kari Telle (@cmi_no) and @aledwil29161867 ➡️ Fri 13 Sept ⏰ 13:00
https://t.co/qCL6Xlphh4

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Hva er poenget med en strategi for et kontinent med over 50 land? @li63ra, Elling Tjønneland (@cmi_no) og @AalenLovise tar for seg @Utenriksdep sin nye Afrikastrategi ➡️ ons 11 sept ⏰ 08:30 🥐☕️
https://t.co/cMDkMu1KhE

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There is growing focus on nuclear energy ☢️ in the Middle East. Could this be a step towards nuclear weapons proliferation? Hebatalla Taha @pol_LU gives us the history and context of the nuclear programmes in the region ➡️ Thur 5 sept ⏰ 11:00 🥐☕️
https://t.co/7vHGXDGhVK

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Welcome to lunch and book talk with historian @simongandrew on the social life of an everyday technology — the cassette tape — to offer a multisensory history of modern #Egypt 🇪🇬 ➡️ Wed 28 Aug ⏰ 12:00 - 13:30
https://t.co/yDSvkXlUm3

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On this day in 1988, @DrJamesEHansen sounded the alarm about #ClimateChange on our planet - its consequences more evident by the day.
@jonasgahrstore @BjellandEriksen @Arbeiderpartiet @Regjeringen @energidep @kldep @miljodir @Kunnskapsdep @forskningsradet @stMari #JamesHansenDay

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Who's who in the Middle East? Pelle Valentin Olsen (@UiB_AHKR) invites colleagues to help you navigate the region. First out is the #Houthi 🇾🇪 w/ Alexander Weissenburger (@oeaw), Eirik Hovden (@UiB_IF) & @Maria_L_Clausen ➡️Tue 7 May ⏰ 12:30 🇳🇴 here/zoom https://t.co/J0tINkUj1M

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900 million Indians 🇮🇳 will soon take part in the world's biggest democratic exercise. Will they give Narendra Modi a third term? Welcome to breakfast w/ @K_Bo_Nielsen, Sarthak Bagchi (@ahmedabad) and @anweshadatta ➡️ Thur 18 April ⏰ 8:30 am 🇳🇴 here/zoom
https://t.co/t6KeVrHIKT

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In his book Nathaniel Mathews (@binghamtonu) traces the Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman 🇴🇲. In her book @AnneKBang1 looks at intellectual & social change in Zanzibar 🇹🇿. They meet Pelle Valentin Olsen (@UiB_HF) ➡️ Tues 16 Apr ⏰ 2pm https://t.co/1wu0yqmJdQ

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South Africans 🇿🇦 head to the ballot box in May. Will unemployment, collapsing infrastructure and poor governance bring down #ANC? Breakfast w/ @WeAreSatisfied, @LivToerres Elling Tjønneland (@CMI_no) & @marensab ➡️ Fri 12 April ⏰ 8:30 am 🇳🇴 here/zoom 🥐☕️https://t.co/sBsvWTeeB5