Newsletter | November 2025

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Events 

Human rights and environmental politics – recent developments and historical perspectives | 5/11 at 09:30 to 12:00 | SOL:H135a and on Zoom

Welcome to a two-hour symposium to discuss recent developments and historical perspectives on human rights and environmental politics. This event will focus on recent backlashes against human rights and environmental politics and explore the underlying reasons for it with an emphasis on dialogues between researchers and civil society actors. Organized by Human Rights Profile Area members David Harnesk and Karin Zackari and made possible through seed funding from the Human Rights Profile Area. Hybrid event – online participation available. Please find more information here. 

Feminist perspectives on extractivism: South-South dialogue |06/11 at 09:30 – 12:30 | Geocentrum 

Scientific evidence shows that extractivism, as a development model reliant on the extraction of natural resources, has significant impacts on communities and ecosystems in the Global South, but also in the Global North. The concept of extractivism is born out of a politically engaged critique of a form of development that re-creates colonial inequalities through global unequal exchange. Today, the concept has traveled beyond the South American continent and has been deployed to understand many different aspects of the global economy, society, and culture. In this panel with internationally renowned scholars, we delve into feminist perspectives surrounding this concept, women's resistance to mining, and the onto-epistemological challenges of carrying out this type of research, particularly focusing on a South-to-South dialogue. Organizers are the Profile Area members Martina Angela Caretta and Vasna Ramasar, The Department of Human Geography. More details here. 

Human Rights Lunch Online | Cultural Rights of Children with Disability | 21/11 at 12:15-13 |Zoom: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/65437566996

Children with disabilities often face barriers to participation in cultural life—even within kulturskolor, which are publicly funded institutions offering creative education in various art forms in most of Sweden’s municipalities. Adriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg (Lund University), Märtha Pastorek Gripson (Halmstad University), and Anna Johansson (Stockholm University) will pre­sent their interdisciplinary research initiative on how kulturskolor work to support the cultural rights of children and adolescents with disabilities. Their project brings together three distinct academic fields—music education, aesthetics and innovation, and special education—in a unique collaboration. Find more details on the blog.