Åpne forelesninger:

Poverty and deprivation affect large numbers of people in our world today. Are we we morally obliged, as global citizens, to express solidarity with the poor in distant lands?

Speaker: Dan Banik

Is democratic participation something that can be learned and therefore taught?

Speaker: Janicke Heldal Stray

October 24 is United Nations day, to celebrate that in 1945 the United Nations was born to promote peace, friendly relations and human rights for all peoples. But the United Nations is not stronger than its member states, and recent history has shown its weakness in reaching its goals.

Speaker: Halvor Moxnes

Global environmental change poses unprecedented challenges to humanity, and we increasingly hear calls for ecological citizenship, global governance, and new ways of viewing the world.

Speaker: Karen O'Brien

Does the idea of “global citizenship” inspire the age of ecomodernity? Are cosmopolitan inhabitants of the global village joining their forces to save the planet - and humanity - from peril?

Speaker: Nina Witoszek

A renewed nation state, based on a more inclusive conception of who "we" are, may be the possible answer to challenges presented by globalization processes.

Speaker: Knut Kjelstadli

Over the course of the last twenty years the two main elements of European law – EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights – have evolved and expanded greatly in substance, scope, impact and geographical extension.

Speaker: Fredrik Sejersted

Hans Rosling kan få statistikk og kompliserte data til å høres ut som musikk. 22. august kommer den verdenskjente svensken til Blindern for å sparke i gang høstens forelesningsrekke ”Global Citizen”.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology at UiO talks about the implications of social connectedness in the world today.

Er det egentlig så innlysende hva vi mener når vi snakker om "verden"? Helge Jordheim skal se nærmere på hva slags begreper, bilder og ting mennesker har brukt for å sette ord på verden.