"We live in an unpredictable time, the leading experts in artifical intelligence tell us. They have no answers and ordinary citizens are not even capable of asking the pertinent questions. We traveled

China's future, as well as our own, also has to do with everything from pollution in the wake of growth to the inferior status of women in society. This issue is about the changes in China. Contents A hTorbjörn Lodén

This preliminary study of central actors in the future landscape argues that there is a spectrum from institutions claiming independent expertise and scientific certainty about the future, to those fo

The future of work: the paradox of increased  team production and greater inequality in pay in the knowledge economy. Main speaker: Richard B. Freeman. The seminar will be in English. It will also be r

The Future of Inequality: Low Growth, Oligarchic Redistribution, and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. The dramatic increase in inequality in advanced capitalist countries is closely related to decl

How to face the challenge of the protest movements? In this presentation Chantal Mouffe will examine the recent Occupy movements in order to grasp the nature of the challenge that they pose to represen

Welcome to a seminar with Thomas Hylland Eriksen about the future of the nation. Main speaker:Thomas Hylland Eriksen, anthropologist and writer at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of O Lisa Pelling, Chief Analys at Arena Idé, and Peter Aronsson, PhD in history, Linneaus University. Göran Rosenberg.

Future generations

Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time, and in this theme there is a focus on future generations and their living conditions. We aim to examine among other things climate ethics, sustainable development, green growth, obstacles to climate action and social dilemmas.

Depending on your perspective, technological development has been saving us from drudgery, or destroying our livelihoods, for centuries. From the very first domestication of animals we’ve been finding

Main speaker: Saskia Sassen Today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, but more accurately in terms of expulsion—from p