Stefan Svallfors

I am professor in Sociology at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. My research concerns different forms of expertise and their role in (Edward Elgar 2020).

What sets the framework for the research at the Institute for Futures Studies is research programs, created by the director. The current one, What future? Challenges and choices in the 21st century(201

Åsa Burman

I am Reader (Docent) in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University. My book Nonideal Social Ontology: The Power View(Oxford University Press, 2023) argues for the use of nonideal theory in the resear, which deals with the concept of power. In 2007, I did my dissertation at Lund University. After my defense I worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and with social entrepreneurship. I currently work as a project manager for the Forum for doctoral students at Stockholm University. I am an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies.

Register: The seminar is free of charge, but you need to register, REGISTER HERE The Inner World of Research - On Academic Labor is a book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher. It deals with ess

Emil Andersson

I defended my dissertation, Reinterpreting Liberal Legitimacy, in June 2019 at Uppsala University. The thesis deals with the topic of political legitimacy from a Rawlsian contractualist perspective. In

Interest in the future and the attempt to predict what will happen can be traced back a long way through history. The first attempts at more systematic studies about the future were made in the US def

Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. REGISTER for on site or online participation Abstract A special branch of political philosophy deals with the issue of

Mårten Schultz: Risk and responsibility

Legal responsibility comes in different forms. Private law deals with questions of responsibility for harm that someone causes another. The responsibility requires three things: That someone was harme

Populism, Epistemic Democracy and the Quality of Government

Research seminar with Bo Rothstein, Professor of Political Science, and affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. A special branch of political philosophy deals with the issue of the

Liberal Nationalism - What is it? Why do we need it? Gustaf Arrhenius and David Miller

Liberalism and nationalism are in many ways contradictory positions. The ideals of open borders, free movement of people, goods and services, cosmopolitanism and internationalism that are associated w