BSRS 2008: International Scholars

Each doctoral course counts with the participation of an internationally known scholar in the field. In addition to the plenary speakers, in addition, all the plenary roundtables have invited international and Norwegian participants.

• Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
• Jan Gustav Andersen, managing director of Kaffehuset Friele A/S (to be confirmed)
• Francis Appiah, Professor, Executive Secretary of the National African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Governing Council Secretariat, Ghana
• Kjetil Bjorvatn, Professor, NHH
• Ivar Bleiklie, Professor and chair, Department of Administration and Organization, University of Bergen
• Stuart Blume, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Amsterdam 
• Camilla Brautaset, Associate professor, Department of Archaeology, History, Culture and Religion, UiB
• Jan-Kåre Breivik, Researcher, Rokkan Centre
• Vigdis Broch-Due, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, UiB
• Benedicte Bull, Senior Researcher, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway
• Camilo Pérez Bustillo, Research Professor, Human Rights Program, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM), México
• Alberto D. Cimadamore, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)/ CLACSO-CROP, Argentina
• Jean Comaroff, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
• Bob Deacon, Professor of International Social Policy, University of Sheffield and Director of Globalism and Social Policy Programme (GASSP)
• Paul Divakar, is Co-Founder and National Convenor of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), Master of Social Work.
• Helge Drange, Professor, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre
• Jacki Dugard, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Elisabeth Fosse, Associate Professor, HEMIL, UiB
• Roberto Gargarella, Professor of Law and Constitutional Theory, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina/ Chr. Michelsen Institutt
• Siri Gloppen, Associate professor, CMI/UiB
• Regina Grafe, Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
• Tor Halvorsen, Associate Professor, Department of Administration and Organization, UIB
• Janet Harris, Associate Professor, Centre for Knowledge Based Practice, Bergen University College
• Magnus Hatlebakk, Senior Researcher, Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI)
• Kjersti Holtar, managing director of Isandi
• Konrad K. Jarausch , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Surinder Singh Jodhka, Professor of Sociology. Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and Director at the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies
• Ivar Kolstad, Researcher, CMI
• Victoria Lawson, Thomas L. & Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle (USA)
• Gro Therese Lie, Professor, HEMIL, UiB
• Bernt Lindtjørn, Professor, Centre for International Health, UIB
• Takyiwaa Manuh, Director, Center for African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon and Member of the Regional Scientific Committee for Africa, UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge
• Desmond McNeill, Research Professor and former Director, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo
• Maurice B. Mittelmark, Professor, HEMIL, UiB
• Karl Ove Moene, Professor Department of Economics, University of Oslo and Director of the Research Centre of Excellence on Equality, Social Organization, and Economic Performance (ESOP)
• Ottar Mæstad, Senior Researcher, Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI)
• Victor Norman, professor of economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH)
• Karen O'Brian, Professor Department of geography, University of Oslo and chair of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Programme (GECHS)
• Alice O'Connor, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
• Thomas Pogge, Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University (USA), and Research Director at the Center for the Study of the Mind and Nature, University of Oslo.
• Rainer Sauerborn, Professor, Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• Eivind Heldaas Seland, Researcher, Department of Archaeology, History, Culture and Religion, UiB
• Tom Skauge, Associate professor, HiB, Scientific Director CROP
• Asgeir Sorteberg, Researcher, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, UiB/Unifob
• Jakob Svensson, Professor of Development Economics, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University
• Laura Tavares, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Researcher, Laboratorio de Politicas Publicas (Public Policies Laboratory), Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (LPP/UERJ), Brasil
• Bertil Tungodden, Professor, NHH
• Ali Yamin , Human Rights Programme, Harvard Law School (USA)
• Sam Zia-Zarifi, Lawyer and Director of Amnesty International Asia division, formerly Academic Freedom Director of Human Rights Watch and Research Director at Human Rights Watch Asia Division