11th July 2010: My first day on Litløy fyr. I met many wonderful house guests, and the fishing boat M/K Faxsen came to pick up two guests!
And Norwegian television NRK filmed! Read more about their last visit in winter at http://www.fyr.no!
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Annual Summer-Melbu Festival, July 2010
Nordland Akademi for Kunst og Vitenskap, Melbu, Vesterålen, Norway

4th May 2010, "The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Moral Philosophy," lecture given in the course on Moral Philosophy with Professor Francesca Brezzi at the University Roma Tre in Rome, Italy, through the kind introduction by Emanuela C. Del Re.
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28th-30th April 2010
15th Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network in Istanbul

On 28th April 2010, on Day One of the conference, Dr. Kadri Ozcaldiran, Rector of Boğaziçi University welcomed everybody.
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See also Hayal's blog!

20th-28th April 2010, days prior to the
15th Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network in Istanbul

On 20th April 2010, after 4 nights being stranded in Amsterdam, Evelin finally arrived in Istanbul, lovingly welcomed by Hayal Köksal, the unbelievably caring and skilled convener of our conference.
Dear Hayal arranged something extraordinary, namely, that I could stay during the first days prior to our conference in the famous Kennedy Lodge on the campus of Bogazici University in Istanbul. It is a large house with a marvelous view of the Bosphorus. Then she invited me for my first lunch in Turkey to the wonderful Takanik Balik restaurant.
Thank YOU, dear Hayal, for such loving care!
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22nd March 2010, with Jean-Damascène Gasanabo (Damas).
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13th March 2010, 80th International Motor Show, March 2010 Geneva.
Unfortunately, also the 2010 Motor Show did not show much improvement on my points of criticism that I list in my 2010 book Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security:
"I am a technology enthusiast. I am a faithful attendee of all motor shows wherever I travel. However, the longer I spend at each show, the more enraged I get. How can self-respecting engineers deliver such mediocre work? Where is my high-tech car that is fully recyclable and uses, for instance, the energy of the sun? What about hydrogen motors with the hydrogen fuel produced from solar collectors in the African desert? Why do engineers have so little trust in their products that they must humiliate my sisters by setting them up as sex-traps in front of their technology? And how do they expect me to buy their products, if they sell them by humiliating female dignity? Is it really a good idea to cater to sexist males and repulse the rest? Are such practices liberating sexuality? Are they not rather co-opting all females into the role of toys for all males, who misuse the freedom of Western individualism to “play”?" (pp. 105-6)
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21st February 2010, meeting with Tanga Kabore.
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3rd February 2010, meeting with Elenor.
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23rd January 2010, with Heidetraut von Weltzien Høivik and Maria Dahle in Oslo.
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22nd January 2010, with Maria Rosvoll in front of the Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Norway, where we had our 2008 HumanDHS conference. Note that Maria manages to make the snow ball fly on the picture!
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20th January 2010, with Trond-Viggo Torgersen and Arne Olav Hageberg.
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19th January 2010, with Anne-Katrine Stabell Hagelund and Ragnhild S. Nilsen.
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16th January 2010, with Ragnhild S. Nilsen and her husband.
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15th January 2010, The Relevance of Dignity and Humiliation for Peace Research, Lecture at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and, afterwards, Norsk Taiji Senter.
Please see also the video-taped introductory lecture Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, held at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway, on 14th January, 2009.
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13th January 2010,Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad
Lecture at the Department of Psychology/Psykologisk institutt at the University of Oslo, Norway (Harald Schjelderups hus, Forskningsveien 3, Auditorium 3, as part of PSYC3203 - Anvendt sosialpsykologi), 10.15-12.00.
Please see also the video-taped introductory lecture Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, held at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway, on 14th January, 2009.
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11th January 2010, The Role of Anthropology for Theorizing Dignity and Humiliation: How Global Humiliation Affects the Citizens of Increasingly Diversified Societies, Lecture at the Cultural Complexity in the New Norway (CULCOM) programme at the Department of Social Anthropology/Sosialantropologisk institutt at the University of Oslo, Harriet Holters hus, 2nd floor, invited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Eide.
Please see also the video-taped introductory lecture Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, held at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo, Norway, on 14th January, 2009.
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7th-8th January 2010, with Color Line (MS Color Magic) from mainland Europe (Kiel, Germany), to Oslo, Norway, a journey of 20 hours. The journey begins with waiting (before driving onboard), then the ship leaves the harbour. Arrival is next morning at around 10.30. In Kiel temperatures were at ca. minus 10 degrees Celcius, in Oslo at almost minus 20 degrees (during the night temperatures had fallen to more than minus 40 degrees in several places in southern Norway).
I have a tradition of celebrating when arriving on board of the ship with the one beer that I usually drink per year (sometimes two). Upon arrival in Oslo, I always immediately drive to the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. I am deeply thankful for the help and support I reveice from everybody there! My computer got the brilliant expert attention it urgently needed (Egil and Øivind rescued the sound card: HOORAY!!!), and my snail mail was waiting for me that had been faithfully and kindly collected for me during the past months (note: please do not send snail mail to me expecting quick responses!).
Later the same day, I had a chance to touch ground with our esteemed Global Advisory Board member Hroar Klempe from the University in Trondheim.
9th January 2010: Enjoying winter in Oslo-Ekeberg!
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