Guest lectures and seminars

What happens at the intersection of women's health and international relations? In this Global Health Unpacked seminar, Dr Sophie Harman will look closer at the state of gender in global health.

Join us for this memorial lecture by Manisha Anantharaman and a discussion on consumption and environmental justice.

Can a new constitution impact health? In this Global Health Unpacked seminar, Dr Simon Rushton examines the case of Nepal.

How do the political determinants of health shape health outcomes in the Covid recovery era? This workshop aims to take stock of 10 years of scholarship on the political determinants of health and reflect on the future of this research agenda.

Join us for this memorial lecture by Frank Trentmann and a discussion on sustainable consumption.

An engaging meeting with this year's Arne Næss professor, Jason Hickel.

The symposium features Jason Hickel, the 2023 Arne Næss Professor.

How does online crowdfunding change the ways we seek and provide health care? In this seminar, Dr. Nora Kenworthy will discuss how crowdfunding reinforces the many problems of market-based health systems.

Seminar with Venezuelan economist Manuel Sutherland.

What novel forms of health interventions and markets do impact bonds generate? And in what ways is the provision of healthcare re-imagined through this financing mechanism?

In this seminar, Professor Susan Erikson will use the World Bank's pandemic bond fiasco to offer new insights into how capitalism shapes pandemic preparedness and response.

The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), the Network for Asian Studies (Asianettverket), the University of Bergen, and the Chr.  Michelsen Institute (CMI) are co-hosting the 2023 Nordic NIAS Council (NNC) / ASIANET Conference: "Consuming Asia - Systems and Structures of Consumption in Modern and Contemporary Asia"

Zaad Mahmoud analyses the changing nature of political elites in West Bengal

Can planetary health escape a technocratic tunnel vision on climate and health adaptation and contribute to contextualised, participatory policy actions that improve health equity? In this seminar, Dr. Remco van de Pas will unpack the planetary health paradigm.

Join us for this seminar with Kirin Narayan (Australian National University) and Kenneth M. George (Australian National University).

What happens when political priorities, cultural squabbles and business interests undermine public health efforts during a pandemic? In this breakfast seminar, Professor Emily Mendenhall will discuss how people responded to COVID-19 in Okoboji, a small town in the American Midwest. 

How does health inform foreign policies? And how can health’s role in policy decision-making be strengthened? In this breakfast seminar, Professor Ronald Labontè will share his experiences from studying Canadian global health diplomacy over the last decade.

In this seminar, Dr Sarah Marks will discuss critiques of Global Mental Health and highlight experiences and practices in Ghana and Zimbabwe that integrate modern interventions with indigenous understandings of mental distress. 

Why do we consume as we do, how is consumption changing, and why do we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet?

Join us for this seminar with Nir Avieli on contemporary Vietnamese masculinity.

In this seminar, Rashmi Varma and Subir Sinha analyze the politics and dynamics of extractivism in contemporary India.

Welcome to the launch of Dr. Rahul Ranjan’s new book!