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Chair: Dr Anindita Datta and Ajay Bailey VENUE: VD-rummet, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundTwor sessions:1. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.002. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00 1. Introductory remarks by Dr Anindita Datta 2.  Lovitoli Jimo:Staging Love or Power? Materiality of Weddings in India’s North East RegionThe South East Asian market and the easy accessibility and availability of goo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-no-4-staging-marriage-and-modernity-among-middle-classes-south-asia - 2025-12-17

Fredagkväll i Lund och strax ska Mikael Dolsten, forskningschef på läkemedelsbolaget Pfizer och gästprofessor i farmakologi vid Medicinska fakulteten, berätta historien om hur det gick till när hans företag på nio månader tog fram ett coronavaccin. Det borde tagit nio år, om det nu inte varit oår. Heta forskarfrågor dryftades, vyer vidgades och hopp ingavs om att det kommer en tid då vi människor

https://www.lu.se/artikel/historien-om-pfizers-utveckling-av-corona-vaccinet - 2025-12-16

SkådespelarutbildningenExamensproduktion Jeanne d’Arc -häxan från VogesernaSom examensproduktion för skådespelarprogrammet sätter Teaterhögskolan i Malmö upp den nyskrivna Jeanne d’Arc — häxan från Vogeserna. Pjäsen tar utgångspunkt i den historiska figuren Jeanne d’Arc, vars öde, i såväl livet som efter döden, kan tyckas bortom all rimlighet. I ett intensivt relationsdrama blandas fakta med fikti

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/arrangemang-pa-teaterhogskolan-under-scenkonstbiennalen - 2025-12-18

För personer med psykisk ohälsa kan vägen till ett fungerande arbetsliv vara lång och krokig. En ny avhandling från Lunds universitet ringar in vad som krävs för att göra arbetslivet möjligt för personer med psykisk ohälsa: Hopp och tro på personens förmåga att arbeta. Att arbeta personcentrerat och öka kunskapen om psykisk ohälsa bland både arbetsgivare och dem som jobbar med arbetsrehabilitering

https://www.lu.se/artikel/tro-pa-personers-formaga-att-arbeta - 2025-12-18

Katrine Skovgård’s Ph.D. project sheds light on the dysfunctions in the brain through which dopaminergic pharmacotherapies for Parkinson’s disease affect motor behaviors. January 19, she defends her thesis. She explains how better experimental models might improve future translational research on dyskinesia. You presented your research at the MultiPark Café recently. But for those who could not at

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/why-dopamine-receptor-type-matters-phd-interview-katrine-skovgard - 2025-12-17

On April 9, Lund University's Pre-GMP Facility and Skåne University Hospital's ATMP Center - a joint research and development environment where new treatments using cell and gene therapies are developed - will be inaugurated. The aim of the collaboration is to bring research closer to healthcare and make advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) available to more patients. Advanced Therapy Medic

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/now-lunds-atmp-infrastructures-are-officially-open - 2025-12-17

Större delen av avdelningen för atomfysik vid Lunds universitet hade samlats i ett rymligt rum med storbildsskärm för att invänta tillkännagivandet av 2023 års Nobelpristagare i fysik från Kungliga vetenskapsakademin den 3 oktober. Nobelhemligheten är såklart rådande, men det fanns ändå en viss förväntan i luften. Detta är en översatt text från "The Conversation" som Sune Svanberg, professor emeri

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/hur-vi-rekryterade-anne-lhuillier-och-hur-vi-visste-att-hon-var-amnad-stordad - 2025-12-18

The Development Research Day is an inter-disciplinary arrangement that was initiated in order to form a meeting ground for all researchers and students at Lund University who share an interest in development issues. About Development Research Day, DRD The first DRD The event was launched in 2002 by the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Since then the responsibility for hosting th

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/development-research-day-2020 - 2025-12-17

Margarita Chumarina, from the iPSC laboratory for CNS disease modeling, will be defending her PhD thesis on Wednesday 15th of January. Researching in the group led by Laurent Roybon, Margarita has been utilizing stem cell-based models to study cellular alterations in Parkinson’s disease. Here, Margarita answers a few questions about her research and time spent at Lund Stem Cell Center. What have y

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-margarita-chumarina - 2025-12-18

Bladder cancer is as common as malignant melanoma. However, in the past three decades, the death rate has remained high and the treatment has been the same since the 1970s. Yet only a very small part of research funding goes to bladder cancer. Through a unique collaboration, researchers now want to transfer new research about the disease to clinical practice. However, first they have to find a way

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-cancer - 2025-12-18

The internal combustion engine is a subject that has been described as nasty and outdated. In fact, it is not outdated at all – but an area of cutting-edge research that is an important part of a sustainable energy transition. Martin Tunér is a professor of Internal Combustion Engines at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and he explains that a functioning and egalitarian society needs transport, so

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/internal-combustion-engine-will-remain-important - 2025-12-16

Despite the early morning, the pool is full of patients exercising in the warm water. There are laminated exercise programmes by the side of the pool depicting different exercises. Ronny Karlsson has been in the hospital for a week. A couple of months ago he was bitten by a tick and contracted TBE. He now has problems with motor function and balance and needs to train his body to be able to functi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/perceptive-training-best-way-forward - 2025-12-17

We spend 90 per cent of our time indoors. We can both exercise and shop without taking a step outdoors and the indoor trend is on the increase, despite the fact that we have little understanding of the air we are breathing. “The health effects may not be detected for a number of years”, says LTH researcher Aneta Wierzbicka, who is coordinating an interdisciplinary theme at the Pufendorf Institute.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-good-our-indoor-environment - 2025-12-17

LUCSUS researcher Torsten Krause have been researching hunting, forest fauna and wild meat consumption, particularly in the Amazon, for the past three years. He is currently in Colombia, where his fieldwork was cut short due to the current coronavirus pandemic. In this interview, he reflects on the impacts of the coronavirus on vulnerable indigenous communities, and on the link between humanity's

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-impacts-coronavirus-indigenous-communities-amazon-torsten-krause - 2025-12-18

Congratulations to Jacob Vogel and Camila Consiglio who have been awarded grants to develop their research projects on Alzheimer's and fertility. Camila Consiglio's research focuses on infertility and the immune system that plays a central role in determining reproductive success. Jacob Vogel and his research team will develop computational simulations of Alzheimer’s disease enabling virtual exper

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/erc-grants-awarded-research-interplay-between-immunology-and-fertility-and-alzheimers-disease - 2025-12-17

During the winter, the Sustainability Fund opened a call for proposals to test solutions to sustainability challenges in the organisation. Lund University is deeply committed to its sustainability strategy and sustainability plan, aiming for remarkable achievements in this area. We know that change requires new ideas. That's why staff at Lund University have the opportunity to seek funding to addr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-ideas-sustainable-workplace-gets-funding - 2025-12-16

Burak Tunca is director of AI at the Department of Business Administration. He shares some insights into large language models and his work in this fairly new role. He is responsible for overseeing developments in the AI space and evaluating how teaching and research activities at the department can benefit from integration of those developments. “At the moment, we have two main questions: First,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/what-about-ai-burak - 2025-12-17

Individuals cannot solve the climate crisis, argue researchers Carys Egan-Wyer and Jack Coffin. Policy makers should direct their attention to the (im)moral market structures that influence consumer and corporate decision-making. In the fight against climate change, it is more important to make markets more moral than to make consumers more ethical. Individual consumers are, by now, well used to b

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/why-we-need-more-moral-markets-not-more-ethical-consumers - 2025-12-17

Former doctoral student in Statistics at LUSEM Johan Larsson, has been awarded the Best thesis award at LUSEM 2024 for his thesis Optimization and Algorithms in Sparse Regression: Screening Rules, Coordinate Descent, and Normalization. Selected by the College of Doctoral Studies, this recognition highlights the exceptional quality and impact of Johan Larsson's research. The award, which includes a

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusems-best-thesis-award-2024-goes-johan-larsson - 2025-12-16

Peter Bentzer, Professor of Anaesthesiology at Lund University and an anaesthesiologist at Helsingborg Hospital, is being honoured by the Swedish Society of Medicine for initiatives that reduce climate impact. You are being awarded the prize for the best possible care with the least possible environmental impact – what was the key to your success? – As doctors, we have the opportunity to identify

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honoured-best-possible-care-least-possible-environmental-impact - 2025-12-18