Noragric Thursday seminars are usually held in the Thor Larsen attic, Tivoli, on Thursdays from 12:15 - 13:30. See details for each seminar below. All seminars are open for staff and students. _______________________________________________
Spring 2011:
February 2011:
• February 17 Dr. Bahadar Nawab, Comsats Human Security and Development in Post-Conflict / Post Flood Swat Please note: Parkgarden 207: 12:15 -14:00
• February 10 - GOVCLIM Sjur Kasa (CICERO) The Effects of REDD on Brazilian Climate Policy Thor Larsen loft: 12:30 - 13:45
Noragric Thursday Seminar Series for the autumn 2010 semester consists of lectures organised by the different Research Clusters:
December 2010
• December 13 - GOVCLIM Violeta Dirimanova, Assistant Professor at the Department of Management and Marketing at the Faculty of Economics, Agricultural University Plovdiv, Bulgaria and a visiting post doc at the Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University, Berlin Economic Effects of Land Fragmentation: Property Rights, Markets and Contracts in Bulgaria Thor Larsen loft: 12:15 - 13:30
• December 9 - RAPID Malcolm Langford - Research Fellow, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights Socio-economic rights and natural resources: State of the art in struggles over water rights in South Africa Thor Larsen loft: 12:30 - 13:45
November 2010:
• November 11 - ADLEC Fred H. Johnsen - Professor, Noragric The Role of Governments and Markets in Development Thor Larsen loft: 12:15 - 13:30
• November 15 - ENGOPA Jon Geir Petursson - Reearch fellow, Noragric Going transboundary? Institutional and organizational analyses of transboundary protected area management challenges. The case of Mt. Elgon, Uganda and Kenya. Thor Larsen loft: 12:15 - 13:30 October
• October 28 - GOVCLIM Audun Rosland - Special envoy for climate and forest in the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment What can we expect from Cancun? - General Issues and Issues for REDD Location: T401 - 12:15 - 13:30
_____________________________ Seminars in the spring of 2010
• June 3: Andrei Marin, Research Fellow, UiB Building development under climate change in arid Mongolia. Modernisation, globalization, adaptationAbstract Yellow Room, Economy building: 12:15 - 13:30
• May 20: Frode Sundnes, Research Fellow, Noragric From wasteland to heritage: exploring environmental history and social struggle in relation to an 'indigenous forest', the Dukuduku Forest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Thor larsen loft: 12:15 - 13:30
• April 29: Sunetro Ghosal, Research Fellow, Noragric Mapping human - large carnivore interactions in a human-dominated non-protected landscape in rural India. Thor Larsen attic: 12.15-13.30
• April 8: Phillan Zamchiya, Research Fellow, Oxford University Farm dwellers and Farm workers in Limpopo, South Africa: Tenure, Livelihoods and Social Justice Thor Larsen attic: 12.15-13.30 • March 25: James Morrissey, Research Fellow, Oxford University Contextualising the environmental migrant: What it means for ‘migration’ and for policy? Thor Larsen attic: 12.15-13.30 • March 11: Lutgart Lenaerts, PhD student, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences - Division Soil and Water Management, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 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
