Lund Observatory has a long history of famous astronomers working on understanding the dynamics and the constituents of the Milky Way. Today we honour this legacy by actively pursuing questions at the cutting edge of astronomical research, namely the formation and evolution of galaxies, stars and exoplanets. The research here at the Division for Astrophysics is driven by the curiosity of individua

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This paper highlights the news media's reflection of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi, trans) -people in South Africa. Although South Africa in 1994 implemented a protection in the Constitution against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation it is constantly reported on violence and harassment against LGBT- persons. Given that previous research highlights the causal factors such as South Afr

Review of the book The Birth of Computer Vision by James E. Dobson (2023) Minneapolis (MN), University of Minnesota Press, viii-205 pp.

It's Time to Kill the Infinite Scroll” – Fotografimediets ideologiska terräng w/ Beata Fransson & Katarina Elvén It's Time to Kill the Infinite Scroll – Fotografimediets ideologiska terräng / It's Time to Kill the Infinite Scroll – the photographic medium’s ideological terrain Valbar kurs på BFA nivå/Optional BFA-level course Antal hp/Credits: 8 Lärare/Teacher: Beata Fransson & Katarina Elvén Tid/

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23 - 25 January 2018 2018 marked the fortieth anniversary of the initiation of China’s ‘Reform and Opening’ period. Over these four decades the country has seen economic, social and cultural transformation on a scale and at a speed unprecedented in human history. Over these four decades the country has seen economic, social and cultural transformation on a scale and at a speed unprecedented in hum

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Associate senior lecturer Contact details Email: annika [dot] elwert [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se Phone: +46 46 222 87 20Organisation Department of Sociology Visiting address: Sandgatan 11 (Gamla lungkliniken), Lund Room number: 407 Service point: 31 WebpageAnnika Elwerts profile in Lund University research portalOther affiliations Associate senior lecturer Centre for Economic DemographyMain researc

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This study in contemporary history describes the transformation of the public sphere in Sweden during the period 1969-1999, and analyses the role of information technology and politics in the process. The overall aim of the study is to explain how, and why, the public sphere in Jürgen Habermas sense has deteriorated during a period of rapid technological and political change, when increasing atten

In Swedish public debate, economists have been more influential than any other category of social scientists. We examine the views of five great Swedish economists on the role of the university economist in the public arena. What did they say about scholarly objectivity and value judgements, about political commitment and educating the people? The five economists are Knut Wicksell, Gustav Cassel,

This case study is an attempt to give empirical support to Georgio Agambens theory, regarding how the exceptions from the constitutional order should be regarded as a constant element in modern societies. The purpose was to investigate if Agambens theory is valid in the Swedish context. The exception, as definied by Agamben, is a reappearing phenomenon, which implies that the constitutional order

This thesis is to go head to head with metaphor theory and to humbly try to wrestle from the enormous structure of facts and hypotheses that such theories form collectively, one theory that might favorably be used to study another interesting phenomenon. This phenomenon is the variety of metaphor that is encouraging of synaesthesia, called simply synaesthetic metaphor. For the first part of this t

The aim of the present work is to introduce an innovative framework for employing 3D-GIS as an exploratory platform to perform visual analysis. Such a methodology is aimed at detecting patterns of visibility to simulate the past human perception of specific categories of artifacts placed inside a virtually reconstructed three-dimensional space. As a case study, the house of Caecilius Iucundus in P

Forskningen om Emilie Flygare-Carléns (1807-1892) författarskap har länge framhävt en särskild relation till naturen, men sedan dess inträde i det sena 1900-talets genusvetenskapliga litteraturhistorier har denna relation komplicerats. Den här uppsatsen undersöker därför naturskildringar i författarens roman En natt vid Bullar-sjön (1847) med utgångspunkt i ekokritiska, dekonstruktivistiska perspeStudies of the authorship of Emilie Flygare-Carlén (1807-1892) have previously emphasised a distinct way of relating to nature in her writing, but the strengthened position of gender studies in examinations of literary history has complicated this relationship. For this reason, this essay analyses portrayals of nature in the author’s novel En natt vid Bullar-sjön (1847), from ecocritical, deconstr

The topic of government and state officials leaving public service for the private sector has been a recurring talking point in the last decades with multiple countries in the OECD enacting different forms of regulation to contain potential conflicts of interest. In Sweden, legislation specifically regulating the phenomenon was not passed until 2018, when the Act Concerning Restrictions in the Eve

Drawing theoretic inspiration from the spatial turn within humanities, this article attempts to develop methods for studying placemaking in news media. This is done by a case study of the newspaper Þjóðviljinn, published in Ísafjörður, Iceland, in the late nineteenth century. The concept ‘banal placemaking’ is suggested for the kinds of spatial conceptions that occur in the paper without the expli

COSB60 Literature List Agov, Avram. (2016). “Inter-Korean Relations, 1945–2013." In Michael Seth, ed. Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History, Routledge, pp.368-389. > Pages to read for students: 22 Armstrong, Charles K. (2009). “Socialism, Sovereignty, and the North Korean Exception.” In Sonia Ryang, ed. North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding. Lexington Books, pp.41-55. > Pages to read fo

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Economic geographers have recently made important contributions to understanding of the relationship between regional transformation, industrial specialisation and innovation networks in the emergence of new industries. However, most contemporary research has focused on the influence of networks on regional trajectories, paying lip service to how regional trajectories also influence network config

The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates the complexity and contention of the layers of memory of the troubled 20th century in the region. Written by an international group of scholars from a diversity of disciplines, t

This article examines how knowledge of an impending collapse of modern industrial civilization circulated in Swedish society during the early 1970s. The point of departure is the Swedish biochemist Gösta Ehrensvärd’s (1910–1980) short book Före – efter: En diagnos (Before – After: A Diagnosis). In this book Ehrensvärd argued that the technologically advanced societies of the early 1970s would soon

COSM33 2021Human Rights in Asia COSM33 2021 Human Rights in Asia Course Outline Course director: Dr. Elizabeth Rhoads An additional 150 pages will be added later in order to be able to stay up-to-date with current issues. Literature Aronson, Jay D (2016), “Mobile Phones, Social Media and Big Data in Human Rights Fact- Finding: Possibilities, Challenges, and Limitations,” in The Transformation of H

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Literature list COSM25 Contemporary Southeast Asian Societies The literature in question is available physically in the library and/or as e-resources though LUBsearch, or online via links in literature list. Ahmad Wani, K., & Ariana, L. (2018). Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous People and Adaptive Capacity of Bajo Tribe, Indonesia. Environmental Claims Journal, 30(4), 302–313. Pages to read f

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