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Selling pictures. Pictorial Economy and Commoditization 1820–2020
This project will place the current discussions concerning AI-generated images in a historical context, comparing it to two previous technological breakthroughs that have affected the use of pictures for commercial purposes.
The Origins and Maintenance of Female Genital Modification across Africa
Bayesian Phylogenetic Modeling of Cultural Evolution under the Influence of Selection Human Nature, 27(2), 173-200. DOI 10.1007/s12110-015-9244-5 Abstract We present formal evolutionary models for the oristratification appear to play a more important role in the cross-cultural distribution of FGMo. To explain these cases, one must consider cultural evolutionary explanations in conjunction with behavioral ecological ones.We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our study for policies designed to end the practice of FGMo.
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Productivity Consequences of Workforce Ageing – Stagnation or a Horndal effect?
This paper studies the composition of the workforce at the plant level in relation to the productivity performance of the plants, with data covering Swedish mining and manufacturing industries 1985-19
Research seminar with Sarah Birch: Voting for the future
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, and online Research seminar with Sarah Birch, Professor of Political Science atKing's College London. You can join in person or onlin

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.
NEW DATE! Avner de-Shalit: Cities and immigrants: Should cities have the power to decide who can settle in them?
Avner de-Shalit, Professor of Political Science and Max Kampelman Chair of democracy and human rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Abstract All over the world immigrants move to cities, rather
Maria Ojala: Hope in the face of climate change. Wishful thinking or an existential must?
Maria Ojala is Associate Professor (docent) in psychology at Örebro University. Her research interest mainly concerns how young people think, feel, act, cope, learn and communicate about climate chang