By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 7 September 2023 "We need to acknowledge how valuable a tree in the city can be – it's not just for decoration. It affects insects, birds, and human well-being", Johan Kjellberg Jensen says. Photo: Sara Håkansson The city is the perfect place to study nature and how humans affect it, says Johan Kjellberg Jensen.

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/city-our-most-important-ecosystem - 2025-05-07

By Marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 29 August 2023 The 'Natural Nations' project brings biodiversity into schools so that children learn about pollinating insects and birds at an early age. Photo: iStockphoto Preschool and primary school children will now be able to learn more about insects, birds, flowers and plants, how valuable they are and how people c

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/children-and-biologists-research-biodiversity-together - 2025-05-07

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 23 November 2023 On 15-17 May 2024, SMHI, the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research invite you to the second Swedish Climate Symposium in Norrköping. A symposium for increased scientific understanding of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences. Climate change

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/time-submit-your-contribution-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-05-07

Published 23 November 2023 "Given the urgency of climate action, every meeting matters," says Markku Rummukainen. Photo: Johan Persson The UN's annual climate summit, COP28, is just around the corner. Starting on 30 November, the world's countries will meet for two weeks to discuss global climate cooperation and how to achieve the climate goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. This time the meeting wi

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/five-questions-markku-rummukainen-ahead-cop28-climate-summit - 2025-05-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 19 January 2024 CEC is responsible for the interdisciplinary PhD programme in Environmental Science. CEC now announces funding to partly finance up to five (5) doctoral student projects, where the doctoral students are admitted to the PhD programme in Environmental Science. Note: It is the researcher who apply fo

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/funding-doctoral-student-projects-environmental-science - 2025-05-07

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 4 December 2023 Emil Andersson uses computational models to investigate cell reprogramming and how tumour cells can be better recognised using machine learning. Photo: Sara Håkansson What if ordinary skin cells could be effectively reprogrammed to become brain cells and help with diseases like Alzheimer's? And what if

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/one-step-closer-towards-improving-cancer-surgery-and-reprogramming-cells - 2025-05-07

By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 4 December 2023 Bumblebees are a key wild and commercial pollinator. Yet commonly used farmland pesticides continue to harm bumblebees. Photo: Theresia Krausl A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across eight European countries sh

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-pollinators - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 July 2019 Under det fullsatta seminariet ”Mellanöstern bortom Islamiska staten – vad händer nu?” avhandlades på onsdagen allt från Turkiet till Egypten och Algeriet i ett soligt Almedalen.   De många konflikterna i Mellanöstern (Photo: Amnesty Press, Ylva Sundgren) Ämnet var minst sagt omfattande, men de tre experte

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/almedalen-2019-de-manga-konflikterna-i-mellanostern-amnesty-press - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 July 2019 Heavy rainfall and flooding in late March and early April 2019 affected millions of people in Iran, caused deaths, displacement and catastrophic damage to the infrastructure. The historic Kashkan bridge was damaged in the recent flood. This is happening while the country has long suffered from frequent drou

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/disastrous-floods-after-prolonged-droughts-have-challenged-iran - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 28 June 2019 CMES is arranging three seminars on the Middle East next week in Almedalsveckan in Gotland. Middle East beyond the Islamic state. What happens now?  Swedish municipalities after IS - to work with returnees and prevent new travelers to terrorist groups.  Culture, religion, honor and clan. How do we understa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen-final-programme - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 25 June 2019 A new cohort of students have graduated with a Master's degree in ME studies and wrote master's theses on very diverse topics (Algeria, Afghanistan, Jordan and migration from the ME to Europe). Master Students graduated First row left to right:Zane LiepenlauskaLinda el-NaggarTaha Haj AhmadDalia Abdelhady (

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/me-master-students-graduated - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 19 June 2019 We wish you all a warm and relaxing summer. However, in only a few weeks from now the important Almedalen week starts. Lund University is as always well represented and many panels have connections to the Middle East and the dynamics of this region. Middle East Forum Newsletter #2 As well, keep your eyes a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-2-summer-edition - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 18 June 2019 CMES guest researcher Defne Kadıoğlu Polat just published a chapter in the book "German-Turkish Relations Revisited: The European Dimension, Domestic and Foreign Politics and Transnational Dynamics". Creatively Displaced? The Impact of Neoliberal Urban Policies on Immigrants from Turkey in Berlin "In recen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/creatively-displaced-impact-neoliberal-urban-policies-immigrants-turkey-berlin - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 13 June 2019 Svante Lundgren is a researcher at CMES. Two of his popular science books have recently been published in translation. The Assyrians - Fifty Years in Sweden Assyrierna - från Nineve till Södertälje (2014) have been published in Dutch: De Assyriërs - van Nineveh naar Enschede (AJN Press). It has previously

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/books-assyrians-svante-lundgren-translated - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 10 June 2019 Pinar Dinc, researcher from from CMES, tomorrow holds a lecture at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. The “Art” of Government: Reading Turkey’s Raison d’etat through Novels and Short Stories on Dersim 1937–38 Being a mountainous region with numerous bodies of water, valleys, and grottos, Dersim or

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/art-government-reading-turkeys-raison-detat-through-novels-and-short-stories-dersim-1937-38 - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 5 June 2019 Next week CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour is speaking at an event that marks the launch of policy papers by the Syrian Women’s Political Movement (SWPM) on an engendered constitution, the return of displaced Syrians and reconstruction. The papers relied on the findings of a series of national con

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/feminist-perspective-syrian-political-process-return-displaced-syrians-reconstruction-and-engendered - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 June 2019 From Jabhat al-Nusra to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, what has changed? CMES Researcher Orwa Ajjoub has written an article examining the history of one of the most significant opposition groups in the Syrian conflict, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). In it, he traces the group through four main phases: during the firs

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-article-history-hts - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 27 May 2019 The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is looking for a post-doc that will be part of the research area regarding groundwater as a natural resource in the arid Middle East and how the use of satellite data and advanced machine-learning algorithms can be used to solve complex water supply problems. The ground

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 24 May 2019 Welcome to our newsletter about research on the Middle East at Lund University! Middle East Forum Newsletter #1 May, 2019 The Middle East is an area that affects us all. It is the cradle of human civilization with a recent conflict-ridden history, and aspiring democracy movements that are of global concern.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-1-may-2019 - 2025-05-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 20 May 2019 CMES, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and a new platform called ip-ACIRR* are working to promote rights for people with disabilities in contexts of armed conflicts and for inclusive post-conflict society building. New cooperation initiative around people with disabilities

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cooperation-initiative-around-people-disabilities-conflict-areas - 2025-05-07