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24 November, 2023
Status and stability

Status and stability. An examination of the importance of time in Swedish asylum and citizenship legislation

The past years the migration laws have shifted from the permanent to the temporary. What does the aspect of time mean for the individual's legal status?

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31 October, 2023

Dan Wikler: Ethics, E-Cigs, and the Tobacco End Game

Full title: Ethics, E-Cigs, and the Tobacco End Game: Trading off mortality of the world's #1 cause of death in the near term, medium term, and long term future REGISTER HERE > Research seminar with DPlease note the time and that the speaker will join us online.

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16 April, 2019

Parity and Mortality: An Examination of Different Explanatory Mechanisms Using Data on Biological and Adoptive Parents

European Journal of Population,  Volume 35, Issue 1, pp 63–85. doi.org/10.1007/s10680-018-9469-1 Abstract A growing literature has demonstrated a relationship between parity and mortality, but the explana

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & Kieron Barclay
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21 March, 2017

Thomas Sommer-Houdeville: Remaking Iraq

- Neoliberalism and a System of violence after the US invasion, 2003-2011 Dr Thomas Sommer-Houdeville, Stockholm University, Department of Sociology. ABSTRACT After the invasion of Iraq and the destructi

Dr Thomas Sommer-Houdeville, Stockholm University, Department of Sociology.
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14 January, 2025

Generationally Parochial Geoengineering: Early Warning-Signs of a Basic Threat

In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.),Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generationsvol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract ‘Geoengineering' has come to refer to massive technological inter

Type of publication: Working papers | Stephen M. Gardiner & Catriona McKinnon
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15 August, 2022

Stephen Gardiner: Generationally Parochial Geoengineering - A Threat to the Young and Other Future Generations

Place:At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. REGISTERAbstract'Geoengineering' has come to refer to massive, deliberate technological interventions into fundamentis Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also Director of the Program on Ethics. His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics.Join the seminar online or at the Institute for Futures Studies. If you will join on site, please check the box in the 

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17 May, 2023

Humanity - the biosphere's best hope?

Human activity often has a negative impact on the Earth's ecosystems. However, according to researchers Karim Jebari and Anders Sandberg, humans are still, in the long run, the best and actually the only

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14 December, 2018

Graham Oddie: What’s so bad about adaptive preferences?

Graham Oddie, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder Abstract Our desires and preferences change, but one particular kind of change in preferences has been singled out for opprobrium—so

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23 September, 2024

Religion and Fertility: A Longitudinal Register Study Examining Differences by Sex, Parity, Partner’s Religion, and Religious Conversion in Finland

European Journal of Population, vol. 40:9 Abstract We use longitudinal data on religious affiliation in Finland to examine childbearing behavior. All analyses are based on detailed fertility information

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & J. Saarela
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17 January, 2020

David Miller - Controlling Immigration in the Name of Self-Determination

David Miller, Professor of Political Theory, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College Abstract States often justify their restrictive immigration policies by appealing to their right of self-determ

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