Stefan Svallfors gave a lecture called:  "Politics as Organized Combat: New Players and New Rules of the Game in Sweden” at Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin March 24th. Read more about the lecture. Read m

Advances in Life Course Research, vol. 53 Abstract We studied to what extent family lines die out over the course of 122 years based on Swedish population-level data. Our data included demographic and s

On Friday the 24th of January our seminar series begins again here at the Institute for Futures Studies.The four first seminars all touch our research area segregation. Martin Ljung from the Research

Did you take part in Earth Hour last month? On the 24th of March each year a big part of the earth’s population in the most energy consuming countries turn the lights off for one hour to stress the en

The ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, along with calls for intervention in conflicts in Syria and elsewhere, has pushed discussion of duties to rescue into the political spotlight. At the same time, t

The American sociologist Erik Olin Wright lecture on "How to be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century". What are the reasons to be "anti-capitalist" and what does this really mean? Is it still possibl

In the last months, Spain and Catalonia have experienced an exceptional political crisis. On October 1st, 2017, a referendum took place in Catalonia to decide whether it should separate from Spain, wh

Seminar during "Digital Health Days". Digital Health Days 2014 are held at Stockholmsmässan in Älvsjö, on the 25th and 26th of August. Anders Ekholm, deputy director at the Institute for Futures Studies

Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Implicit Cognition. Workshop on the 25th and 26th of May at the Institute for Futures Studies. The theme of this workshop is implicit cognition, with a p

A Future of Expulsions

Saskia Sassen was invited to Stockholm on the 25th of November 2014 to talk about her latest book. She looks at the world and sees expulsion. The expulsion of people from their jobs, their homes, even