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13 April 2026 08:00 to 18 April 2026 17:00 | Other Save the date! Sustainability Week will be held for the 10th time on 13-18 April – everyone is welcome! Sustainability Week is an annual event where Lund University and Lund Municipality…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/sustainability-week-2026- 2026-02-11

Human Rights Working Groups bring together experts and practitioners from different fields to focus on a particular human rights topic for a set period. The format is open—anyone interested, including those outside Lund University, is…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/human-rights-working-groups- 2026-02-26

Seed funding for innovative research The Human Rights Profile Area offers seed funding for members (25,000–75,000 SEK) to initiate innovative, interdisciplinary projects, research groups, or proposals. This funding initiative aims to spark…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/research/projects-and-initiatives- 2026-02-26

The Human Rights Profile Area forsters a human rights community at Lund University where researchers working with human rights connect and collaborate and get in contact with our collaboration partners and civil society organizations. To…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/research- 2026-02-10

Register for the event on 29 January, 2026, by 15 January. Status message The event is fully booked. Please contact info@humanrights.lu.se to be put on the waiting list.  Leave this field blank

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/form/event-exploring-common-ground-human-rights-climate-crisis-sustainability-green-and-just-transition- 2025-12-03

Management team The management team is the strategic body of the Human Rights Profile Area. Besides the strategic direction, the management team decides over member admission, seed funding grants and finances. It consists of a coordinator,…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/about/organization- 2026-02-26

Researchers within the Human Rights Profile Area pay particular attention to the impact and consequences of a polarised world on global norms, practices, actors and institutions in the field of human rights. Research topics at the top of…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/research/research-themes- 2026-02-26

Join us for an interdisciplinary, collaborative space to explore common interests and to build connections across fields! Date: 16 February 2026 Time: 13:15–15:00 (including fika) Location: SOL:H435 Centre for Languages and Literature,…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/form/earth-observation-and-human-rights-conflicts-and-disasters- 2025-12-16

Collaborations in Lund - the Swedish hub for human rightsBesides the university, Lund is home to two major human rights institutes in Sweden which makes the city of Lund to a Swedish hub for human rights. The Human Rights Profile Area…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/collaborations- 2025-09-25

26 March 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Jesse Tomalty, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, will present a paper co-written with Kerry Woods. Who are the bearers of human rights? At first glance, the answer seems…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/jesse-tomalty-justifying-human-rights-rights-humans- 2026-01-22

Datum: 23 april 2026, kl. 13:15–15:00, följt av fika & frågor i foajén 15:00–15:30.Lokal: LUX:C121, Helgonavägen 3 och online via Zoom Webinar (med möjlighet till frågor). First name (required) Please enter your first name. Last name …

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/form/anmalan-till-fran-forskning-till-rattvisa-sanningskommissionen-det-samiska-folket-i-fokus- 2026-01-23

28 April 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Igor Shoikhedbrod is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. He is the author of Revisiting Marx’s Critique of…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/igor-shoikhedbrod-alternative-futures-rights-three-heterodox-marxists- 2026-01-25

6 May 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Piers Von Berg is a Senior Lecturer and an interdisciplinary scholar in human rights education and human rights law at Birmingham City University. His work contributes to understanding how transformative…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/piers-von-berg-transformative-human-rights-and-citizenship-education-university-thinking-through- 2026-02-16

23 April 2026 13:15 to 15:30 | Seminar Panelsamtal utifrån en forskningsantologi framtagen av Sanningskommissionen för det samiska folket, som utkommer i mars 2026. Välkommen till ett panelsamtal om Sanningskommissionen för det samiska…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/fran-forskning-till-rattvisa-sanningskommissionen-det-samiska-folket-i-fokus- 2026-01-30

26 March 2026 15:00 to 16:00 | How can archives, personal testimony and research help us understand and remember the atrocities of Nazi persecution? This concluding roundtable brings together the speakers from the University Library’s…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/ravensbruck-dialogue-roundtable-archives-testimony-and-memory- 2026-01-28

– Ukraine as a catalyst for human rights collaboration - Date: 16 March 2026 Time: 13:30–17:00 Location: LUX:C212 Lynnéum, staff dining room, Helgonavägen 3 Status message The registration deadline has passed. If you wish to participate,…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/form/registration-human-rights-dialogue-2026- 2026-01-30

16 March 2026 13:30 to 16:30 | Workshop This half-day workshop brings together researchers and human rights experts from Lund University’s Human Rights Profile Area, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI)…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/human-rights-dialogue-ukraine-catalyst-human-rights-collaboration- 2026-03-02

29 May 2026 12:15 to 13:00 | Seminar Human Rights Lunch Online is a digital seminar series where Human Rights Profile Area members and guests present their latest projects and research. On 29 May we welcome Maria Andrea Nardi (Department…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/human-rights-lunch-online-environmental-human-rights-defenders-new-developments-and-their- 2026-02-09

13 May 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Karolina Sikora is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University. She is a member of the research project Transformative Environmental Justice (EnJUSTICE), funded by…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/karolina-sikora-human-right-cultural-heritage-social-contract-nonlegal-tool- 2026-02-10

11 March 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Seminar Alexandra Lebedeva is lecturer and researcher at the National Centre for Women’s Peace (Nationellt centrum för kvinnofrid) at Uppsala University. Her PhD in Ethics is a study on truth commissions as…

https://www.humanrights.lu.se/calendar/alexandra-lebedeva-are-migrant-women-especially-vulnerable-gender-based-violence-reasessing-concept- 2026-02-11