Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University ABSTRACTHow likely is humanity to be severely damaged by a global disaster, or go extinct? How bad would it be? This talk will review wo

Kristian Lasslett

Kristian is an investigative criminologist specialising in the study of elite networks involved in the organisation of serious economic crime. His research focuses thematically on grand corruption, kl

Laura Pantzerhielm

I am a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Mälardalen University, a visiting scholar with London School of Economics and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. My research l In my current project ‘(funded by the Swedish Research Council, VR 2025-2028), I examine how political organizations on the world stage relate to the future as a temporal register amidst uncertainty and diagnoses of polycrisis.

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, 4th floor, Holländargatan 13, 111 36 Stockholm  Listening Session And Drinks The Institute for Futures Studies hosts the premiere of a new 15-minute sound work. Regist

Venue: Biblioteket, Hägerstensåsens medborgarhusFor more information och information på svenska, visit the Facebook event here > Why should we care about logistics? How do we connect struggles around

Wicked problem governance

By investigating the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change on the interaction between science, policy and the public, this project aims to solve how public governance can better deal with severe crises in the future.

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online  Research seminar with Sofia Jeppson, Associate Professor of philosophy at Umeå University. She started her career writing m

Markus Jäntti: Trends in absolute intergenerational income mobility in Sweden

Markus Jänttis research centers on income inequality, poverty, socio-economic mobility, and wealth inequality, especially in a cross-national perspective. He teaches econometrics and methods for inequ

Ai & Society. Curmudgeon paper Abstract There is a disturbing discrepancy between the AI ethics frameworks that highlight the technology’s ability to promote the social good and the relationship bet

Children and Youth Services Review, In Press, Accepted Manuscript. Published online before print August 21, 2015, doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.08.013 Poverty among children and adolescents attracts con