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25 April, 2018

Non Ideal Social Ontology III

PROGRAM Printable program as pdf-file. 11th of June: Implicit bias Room: Meeting room, Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm 09.00 Welcome 09.15–10.30 Robin Zheng (Yale-NUS College) “Re” 11.00–12.15 Åsa Burman (Stockholm University & Institute for Futures Studies) ””

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06 April, 2018

Non Ideal Social Ontology III

By 'non-ideal social ontology', we have in mind social ontology that starts with difficult, complicated cases of immediate importance to social theory, rather than starting from simplified or abstractOur thinking is that just as critical philosophers of race such as Charles Mills have made a case for the importance of non-ideal political philosophy, non-ideal social ontology could play an important role in advancing emancipatory social theory. 09.00 Welcome 09.15–10.30 Robin Zheng (Yale-NUS College) “Responding to Bias: Oughts, Ideals, and Appraisals” 11.00–12.15 Åsa Burman (Stockholm University & Institute for Futures Studies) ”Collective responsibility for implicit bias” 12.15–13.30 Lunch 13.30–14.45 Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (Institute for Futures Studies) ”Implicit bias and discrimination” 15.15–16.30 Alex Madva (California State Polytechnic University), ”Responsibility for Interpreting Implicit Bias” 19.00 Workshop dinner 09.00–10.15 Rebecca Mason (University of San Francisco) ”Oppression and Incredulity” 10.30–11.45 Johan Brännmark (Malmö University) ”Institutions, Ideology, and Non-Ideal Social Ontology” 11.45–13.15 Lunch 13.15–14.30 Staffan Carlshamre (Stockholm University) ”Natural kinds, social kinds, mixed kinds” 14.45–16.00 Katharine Jenkins (University of Nottingham) ”Sex and gender, grounding and anchoring” Organized by Åsa Burman & Katharina Berndt Rasmussen. Sponsored by Jane and Dan Olsson Foundation, Institute for Futures Studies, and the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University Questions? Please contact:

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22 October, 2013

Searching for successful integration – presentation of a an assessment of projects which aim to help young adults and immigrants to find employment

A comparison between projects financed by the European Social Fund and Arbetsförmedlingen. The seminar will be held in Swedish at Ingenjörshuset, Malmskillnadsgatan 46 in Stockholm. Breakfast will be s

A comparison between projects financed by the European Social Fund and Arbetsförmedlingen.
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06 May, 2022

Conference on organized violent threats

This conference is a collaboration between Sweden and Canada Organized crime and violent extremism are violent threats to the democratic society. Sweden is a country where the number of shootings and e  

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19 April, 2022

The Ethics of Refugee Policy: Discrimination, Integration, and Politics

Place:Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Co-hosted by the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace and the Institute forFutures Studies. Co-sponsored by the Society for

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24 October, 2024

Conference: Philosophical Perspectives on Social Injustice

Location: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm If you plan to attend all or parts of the conference, please register by sending an e-mail to [email protected] Thursday Decem

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19 January, 2017

Basic income – the key to a free society and a sane economy?

It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking for work. But today, with the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, the idea of a basic income has be

With the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, the idea of a basic income has become one of the most widely debated social policy proposals in the world. Welcome to a seminar whith one of the most well-known advocates of this old idea, Philippe Van Parijs.
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01 February, 2023

Research seminar: Paul Levin

Place: ATTENTION! This seminar will be held at CityLife, Sveavägen 63, Stockholm, close to Handelshögskolan. Coffee and light sandwich will be served from 09.30. You can also join online. REGISTERResearch, the Director of the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies and Managing Director of the Consortium for European Symposia on Turkey. A frequent commentator of Turkish affairs in Swedish and international media, he is a Docent in International Relations, having received his Ph.D. in the same subject along with an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California and a Fil. Kand. In Practical Philosophy from Stockholm University.

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01 March, 2018

Offentliga samtal: Tolerans, till vilket pris?

Det finns studier som pekar ut Sverige som ett av världens mest toleranta länder och tolerans betraktas ofta som en nödvändig förutsättning för en fungerande demokrati. Men vad menas egentligen med to, professor i statsvetenskap vid Uppsala universitet. Tolerans är en nödvändig förutsättning för en fungerande demokrati. Trots detta missuppfattas toleransbegreppet ofta i både politiska och vetenskapliga diskussioner, både avsiktligt och oavsiktligt. Hur formar egentligen individers tolerans och varför kan individuella rättigheter anses som viktigare än grupprättigheter i en värld där den politiska toleransen hotas? Om detta handlar Sten Widmans presentation. , professor i islamisk teologi och filosofi vid Uppsala universitet. När människor dras till våldsbejakande islamitisk extremism bottnar oftast lockelsen i andra faktorer än religiösa visar djupintervjuer med återvändare. Samtidigt används religiösa legitimitetsgrunder hos de som ansluter sig till våldsbejakande extremism. Hur långt bör det demokratiska samhällets tolerans sträcka sig, ska dessa tankegångar ses som religiösa tolkningar bland många andra så länge de inte har omsatts i handling?, fd lärare och grundare av Toleransprojektet, Segerstedtinstitutet , Generalsekreterare vid World Values Survey. , projektkoordinator på Myndigheten för stöd till trossamfund Folke Tersman

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