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Buddhist nun intervjued in the film. © Inger Agger/Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Copenhagen, Denmark
Time and place: Dec 6, 2012 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM, Helga Eng's house, Auditorium 2, Blindern Campus, University of Oslo

During her fieldwork in Cambodia in 2011, the Danish psychologist and researcher, Inger Agger, has looked at how survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime experience the present justice process of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

A quick wash in the slum, Kolata, India (Photo: Maciej Dakowicz)
Time and place: Dec 6, 2012 09:00 AM - Dec 7, 2012 04:00 PM, Helga Eng's house, Auditorium 2, Blindern Campus, University of Oslo

The conference presents research on Livelihoods in developing countries and discuss the tensions in the multidiciplinary approaches to protect and promote human well-being.

Illustration photo: Maciej Dakowicz (c)
Time and place: Dec 3, 2012 09:00 AM - Dec 5, 2012 05:00 PM, Centre for Development and the Environment - SUM, Sognsveien 68, Seminar room, 4th floor

The principal objective of the course is to critically review different approaches to health inequality, which will enable doctoral students to understand the causes of the causes of ill health – the political determinants of health.

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Time and place: Nov 20, 2012 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM, Centre for Development and the Environment - SUM, Sognsveien 68, Seminar room, 4th floor

In this seminar Elin Stauren (MSc Industrial Ecology, NTNU) and Gilbia Portela (MPhil Candidate Culture, Environment and Sustainability, UiO) will share their experiences of doing quantitative and qualitative data analysis for their master’s theses, respectively.

Illustration photo: Water pollution by plastic (Photo: Fotokannan, Kerala, India (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0] via Wikimedia Commons.)
Time and place: Sep 6, 2012 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM, University of Oslo

This year’s contemporary India seminar seeks to explore how various environmental challenges are politicised in India.

(Seminar poster)
Time and place: Jun 19, 2012 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM, Centre for Development and the Environment - SUM, Sognsveien 68, Seminar room, 4th floor

Welcome to this semester’s last LEVE Student Seminar focusing on writing the Master Thesis.

Illustration photo: Ultrasound examiniation, week 41 (Jackson Latka, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, via Flickr.com)
Time and place: Jun 1, 2012 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Centre for Development and the Environment - SUM, Sognsveien 68, Seminar room, 4th floor

Surrogacy is becoming an international "trade" with mainly buyers from the Western World and supplyers from developing countries. In this seminar Kristin Engh Førde examines the development of surrogacy in India.

Illustration photo: colorbox.com
Time and place: May 24, 2012 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM, Centre for Development and the Environment - SUM, Sognsveien 68, Seminar room, 4th floor

Do all sectors of society share challenges of global governance? Do they ultimately affect the same health outcomes? The Resource group of the the Lancet - UiO Commission: Global Governance for Health, invites you to participate in the discussion.

Desalegn K. Dheressa conducting interviews with local inhabitants during his fieldwork in the Oromiya region, Ethiopia.
Time and place: Apr 19, 2012 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), Sognsveien 68, Seminar room 4th floor

Welcome to the second LEVE Student Seminar with presentation of fieldwork in Ethiopia and film screening from Sierra Leone.

Illustration photo: Water source in the Mwamanongu village in Tanzania (Photo: Bob Metcalf [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
Time and place: Mar 30, 2012 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Georg Sverdrup's house (University library), undervisningsrom 3, 3rd floor, Blindern campus

In this seminar, Anne Hellum will present findings from the research project 'Gender, Human Rights and Water Governance'.

Illustration photo: Earthrise, December 24, 1968, while in orbit around the Moon. (Photo: Bill Anders, Apollo 8 crewmember, NASA [Public Domain], via Wikimedia Commons.)
Time and place: Feb 16, 2012 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Centre for Development and the Environment - SUM, Sognsveien 68, Seminar room, 4th floor

LEVE Student seminars is aimed at students at Master’s level who are interested in issues concerning health, the environment and poverty in developing countries. Welcome to the first seminar!

Map of Burkina Faso in West Afrika (Source: United States Central Intelligence Agency [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons).
Time and place: Jan 27, 2012 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, The Centre for Development and the Environment - SUM, Sognsveien 68, Seminar room, 4th floor

In this seminar, Katerini T. Storeng  will examine the concept of vulnerability in the context of maternal morbidity and mortality in Burkina Faso, an impoverished country in West Africa.

Map of Uganda (Source: United States Central Intelligence Agency [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons)
Time and place: Jan 23, 2012 - Jan 25, 2012, Bomah hotel Gulu at Victoria Conference hall, Gulu, Uganda

In this seminar researchers will share experiences of mental health issues from several countries to develop strategies for identifying, enhancing, and improving different services and research that are appropriate for people to cope with mental health disorders after the civil war in Northern Uganda.