US midterm elections: What’s next?

30.10.2026 08:30 – 09:30English

The midterm elections will shape Trump’s ability to advance his agenda, and America’s relationship with the rest of the world.

Michael Alvarez (UiB) Kyle Lohse Marquardt (UiB) Hilmar Mjelde (HVL) Candela Arias Perez (U Washington)

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English

US midterm elections: What’s next?

30.10.2026 08:30 – 09:30

The midterm elections will shape Trump’s ability to advance his agenda, and America’s relationship with the rest of the world.

Michael Alvarez Kyle Lohse Marquardt Hilmar Mjelde Candela Arias Perez

English

Paradoxes of vulnerability in the age of ‘cancel culture’

19.11.2026 13:30 – 14:30

Rage, desire, and ‘bad objects’ of feminist, queer and trans activism and academia

Kata Kyrölä

English

The sovereignty–vulnerability nexus in postcolonial justice

19.11.2026 17:15 – 18:00

In postcolonial justice systems, vulnerability is not only a shared human condition; it is also a product.

Dianne A. Williams

English

Heterosexual melancholy: Butler before vulnerability

20.11.2026 11:00 – 12:00

Traces of other relations to kin and gender in the early writings of Butler.

Sara Edenheim

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Hashtag Wars: War, media and participation in the digital age

Contemporary wars have become hashtag-wars that extend beyond the physical battlefield into global war ecologies.

How can development aid create jobs?

Launch of the Knowledge Centre for Development Cooperation
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Students against autocracy: will Serbia’s Gen Z topple the hybrid regime?

President Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party faces challenge from the Student list.

BIFF: The American Doctor

From a Gazan hospital under siege, to the halls of Congress.

BIFF: Silenced

What happens when those who speak out about violence and abuse are themselves threatened with legal action?

BIFF: The secret reading club of Kabul

The struggle for women’s rights and the risks taken by those operating in the shadows to resist the regime.
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Democracy at risk? The election in Brazil

Back to Bolsonaro or another term for Lula?
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Should nature have rights?

What would it mean to recognise rivers, ecosystems and the natural world as subjects of rights?
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Climate change adaptation and migration in the Global South

What does climate change adaptation mean for migration and agricultural practices in the Global South?

Kampen mot transnasjonal undertrykkelse

Mellom krim, aktivisme og forskning
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Why dictators hold elections

Russia is heading for the polls – why bother?
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When societies choose not to know

Belgium and homosexuality 1870-1965

Bergen Global is a joint initiative between the University of Bergen and Chr. Michelsen Institute that addresses global challenges.