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Noragric seminars and guest lectures are open for anyone who is interested.

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The Noragric Seminars invite scientists to present their work for feedback and discussions. We also invite guest lecturers to present results of their research and to discuss pressing problems on global, regional and local levels.

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Seminars 2010:
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• March 11:
Noragric Thursday seminar by Lutgart Lenaerts:
This grazing land is ours since ancient times - An ethnographic analysis of conflicts on the border between Tigray and Afar, North-Ethiopia
Thor Larsen attic: 12.15-13.30
Lutgart Lenaerts is PhD student, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences - Division Soil and Water Management, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

• March 25:
Noragric Thursday seminar by James Morrissey
Contextualising the environmental migrant: What it means for ‘migration’ and for policy?
Thor Larsen attic: 12.15-13.30

• April 29:
Noragric Thursday seminar by Sunetro Ghosal
Mapping human - large carnivore interactions in a human-dominated non-protected landscape in rural India.
Thor Larsen attic: 12.15-13.30

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Earlier seminars in 2010
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• February 16:
Seminar by Dr. Naoki from Naito Center for Research Development, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
The dynamics of the inter-ethnic relationships among pastoral peoples in East Africa under political democratization: A case of study of emergence of new ethnicity of the Ariaal in Northern Kenya after national election and decentralization.
-- Summary
Thor Larsen attic: 12:15 - 13:15

• February 4: Seminar/meeting/social evening at 1500 hours (in the Thor Larsen attic).

• January 28:
Seminar by Prof. Shanmugaratnam
"Human Security and Global Danger" (Chap.5) from Mark Duffield's book “Development, Security and Unending War Governing the world of peoples” (2007).
-- Excerpt from the book
We also will have the discussions and social aspects...including refreshments, snacks etc. after the seminar. Organised by the Conflict, Human Security and Development (CHSD) cluster.

• January 26:
Seminar by Prof. Clive Spash
The Brave New World of Carbon Trading
Thor Larsen attic: 12:15

Prof. Clive Spash will present the main contents of his paper on carbon trading that he wrote while still being with CSIRO in Australia. CSIRO tried to censor the paper, and that this even caused a debate in the Australian parliament about it. The seminar is organized by the Governance and Climate Change Cluster.
The paper can be found at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/19114.html

Clive's personal website contains more information about the controversy via links to the media coverage and pdf files on the Australian Senate debate. http://www.clivespash.org/main.php?page=cnsrsp&style=default

Updated: 24.02.10
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E-mail: noragric@umb.no

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