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Utilizing Social Influence: Empirics and Modeling
Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zürich The research seminars are free of charge and take place Fridays at 13.00–14.30 in the Institute, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm.
Think Tanks in the American Field of Power - CANCELLED
Tom Medvetz, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego To Tom Medvetz at University of California Registration for the research seminars. The research seminars are free of charge and t
Welcome to our research seminars
Our two seminar series will continue this spring, "Seminar on contemporary social and political issues" on Wednesdays and "Social-mechanism seminar" on Fridays. Come meet among others Michael Macy, Je
Research seminars
The Institute regularly organizes research seminars that are primarily aimed at researchers, although other participants are also very welcome. The seminars will be held in English unless all partici
Why are the home addresses of your friends causing greenhouse warming?
Kay Axhausen, ETH Zürich Transport planning has studied social networks as central element behind the location choice for residential locations and for leisure activities. The talk will introduce the o
Nora Sánchez Gassen: Who will be able to vote in the future? Exploring how population change influences the electorate in Germany and why it matters
Nora Sánchez Gassen, political scientist and demographer, Nordregio.AbstractThe presentation will analyse how demographic trends such as population aging and international migration have influenced th
Modelling Social Mechanisms for Knowledge Generation & Exploration
Nanda Wijermans, Stockholm Resilience Centre Human behaviour is a complex phenomenon with a lot of open questions. Computational modelling can support the scientific quest for more understanding of hum
Contexts and Conditions of Ethnic Discrimination: Evidence from Field-Experiments in German Housing Markets
Katrin Ausprung, History and Sociology, Konstanz University, Germany People’s housing conditions and places of residence have serious impacts on individual living conditions and social stratification.

Climate Crisis Norm Entrepreneurs - How successful are they?
Recently, researchers have tried to identify various positive social tipping points that could help societies shift rapidly toward a sustainable, post-carbon future. One of the social tipping interven
Viktoria Spaiser and Nicole Nisbett: Climate Crisis Norm Entrepreneurs: How successful are they?
Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Viktoria Spaiser and Nicole Nisbett. REGISTERAbstractRecently, researchers have tried to identiJoin the seminar online or at the Institute for Futures Studies. If you will join on site, please check the box in the.