Annual Report 2011 - NTNU
Annual Report 2011 - NTNU
Annual Report 2011 - NTNU
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<strong>NTNU</strong> Global<br />
JANUARY—MARCH <strong>2011</strong><br />
<strong>NTNU</strong> Research Strategic Area Globalization<br />
In this issue<br />
News 1<br />
Focus area: Global<br />
Economic flows,<br />
Governance and<br />
Stability<br />
India Delegation<br />
visit<br />
2<br />
Publications 6<br />
Organized events 7<br />
3—5<br />
WELCOME to the <strong>NTNU</strong> Global, the newsletter from the <strong>NTNU</strong>’s research<br />
strategic area Globalization.<br />
<strong>NTNU</strong>’s Globalization Research Programme addresses socially-relevant, topical<br />
issues concerning the promises and pitfalls of globalization in economic, social,<br />
cultural and political life.<br />
<strong>NTNU</strong>’s globalization research centers on four focus areas:<br />
Global Production and Communication<br />
War, Conflict and Migration<br />
Intercultural dynamics: Communication, Responsibility and Development<br />
Global Economic Flows, Governance and Stability<br />
NEWS<br />
Strategic Advisory Council<br />
meeting (strategisk råd møte) of<br />
the Globalization Research Programme<br />
was held on 17th January at<br />
the Rica Nidelvan Hotel. Three new<br />
members joined the Strategic Advisory<br />
Council from January, namely<br />
Inge Bartnes (Nord Trøndelag Energiverket—NTE),<br />
Tore Ulstein<br />
(Ulstein Group) and Nils Petter<br />
Gleditsch (PRIO / <strong>NTNU</strong>).<br />
2 MoUs were signed between<br />
globalization research partner<br />
institutions and <strong>NTNU</strong><br />
Read more on the delegation to India<br />
with Rector on pages 3-5.<br />
Call for Applications<br />
Globalization Research Programme<br />
has announced vacancy of 4 PhD<br />
positions; 2 PhD positions within<br />
the focus areas Intercultural Dynamics<br />
and Global Economic Flows and<br />
2 PhD positions within the research<br />
project “Transformation and friction<br />
in globalizing India”.<br />
Application deadline: 06. May<br />
Please see our website<br />
www.ntnu.edu/global or Jobbnorge<br />
for more information<br />
Guest lecture on “Globalization<br />
and Contentious Politics".<br />
Craig Jenkins, Professor of Sociology,<br />
Political Science & Environmental<br />
Science from the Ohio State<br />
University will give a lecture on<br />
“Globalization and Contentious<br />
Politics".<br />
Time: 12th May 12.15—14.00<br />
Place: D 153, Dragvoll Campus<br />
India <strong>2011</strong> activities<br />
Globalization researchers received<br />
funding for arranging 3 activities<br />
during INDIA <strong>2011</strong> week in October.<br />
1. A conference—India as a<br />
global power: Diversity, democracy<br />
and prosperity<br />
2. Workshop on INDNOR research<br />
project.<br />
3. Photo exhibition on<br />
“Indigenous women in India”.<br />
PhD defence /disputas<br />
Cand.philol Lars Petter Haga<br />
(Department of history and Classical<br />
Studies) will defend his PhD dissertation<br />
entitled The Conquerors’ Maps:<br />
Soviet Literary, Scientific and Cultural actors’<br />
mental mapping of East Central Europe,<br />
1944-1953) on 14th April. Haga’s PhD<br />
project was affiliated with the globalization<br />
focus area Intercultural Dynamics.
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