Events

Upcoming events

15 Apr 2021

Book launch: Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam

21 Apr 2021

Troubled Waters – Chinese Fishing Fleets on African Shores

21 Apr 2021

The Role of Africa in Chinese Foreign and Development Policy

Recent events

Southern Support - China´s Changing Relations with the African Union

7 April 08:30 - 10:00

Ilaria Carozza (senior researcher, PRIO), David Monyae (Co-Director, Centre for China-Africa Studies, University of Johannesburg and Nanjing Tech University) and Elling Tjønneland (senior researcher, CMI)

What are the effects of Chinese development aid?

24 March 08:30 - 10:00

Dan Banik (UiO), Sergio Chichava (IESE, Mozambique), Jon Lomøy (former Director General, Norad and former Director of the Development Co-operation Directorate of the OECD), Elling Tjønneland (CMI).

Interdisciplinary Methods in Migration Research

18 - 19 March

How will China respond to the African debt crisis?

17 March 08:30 - 10:00

Aslak Orre (CMI), Arve Ofstad (African Legal Support Facility), Hilde Selbervik (CMI).

Angola from economic boom to a post-petroleum economy

11 March 14:00 - 16:30

China’s role in Africa's industrial growth – the case of Ethiopia

11 March 08:30 - 10:00

Yu Zheng (Fudan University), Gedion Jalata (Forum for Social Studies in Addis Ababa), Nicolas Lippolis (Oxford University), Lovise Aalen (CMI).

Seminar series: China’s role in Africa: What now?

11 March - 11 May 08:30 - 10:00

CMI and the Department of Comparative Politics (UiB) in cooperation with Bergen Global

Book Launch: Tax Justice and Global Inequality

17 February 16:00 - 17:00

Erika Siu (Editor), Krishen Mehta (Editor), Tina Søreide (NHH), and Astrid Haas (ISG) in conversation with Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (GRIP).

Tension on the Border: Refugee flows and clashes over land at the Sudan-Ethiopia frontier

16 February 08:30 - 09:30

Lovise Aalen (CMI), Gunnar Sørbø (CMI) og Adam Babekir (UoG).

Violent Conflicts over Indigenous Peoples’ Land

5 February 15:00 - 16:30

Francisco Calí Tzay (UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous People) is the key note speaker of the annual lecture on Indigenous Peoples rights. Tatiana Alfonso (ITAM, Mexico City) and Eva Maria Fjellheim (University of Tromsø) in conversation with Rachel Sieder (CIESAS, Mexico and CMI/LawTransform).

Annual Lecture on the Rights of Indigenous People

5 February 15:00 - 16:30

Francisco Calí Tzay (UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous People). Tatiana Alfonso (ITAM, Mexico City) and Eva Maria Fjellheim (University of Tromsø) in conversation with Rachel Sieder (CIESAS, Mexico and CMI/LawTransform).

Samehets og rasisme – hvordan kommer vi videre?

4 February 12:00 - 13:00

Aina Madelén Nordsletta Aslaksen (Nordkalottfolket), Iver Bjørklund (Universitetet i Tromsø), Runar Myrnes Balto (NSR/Sametinget) og Skjalg Fjellheim (Nordlys) møter Marita Monsen (Bergen sameforening).