Location: Big seminar room, Teknikringen 74D, floor 5 (KTH)This is a "Brown Bag Seminar" hosted by KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm with Benjamin Gerdes, artistic researcher at the At this seminar, he will talk about his artistic research project "Ghost platform: Generating the "Complex image" of data, labour and logistics", funded by Vetenskapsrådet.

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED, NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineResearch seminar co-hosted with Rutgers University.ABSTRACTMore i

Venue: Masthuggsterrassen 3, Göteborg A methods workshop, work-in-progress screening, and open discussion bringing together participants, media, and approaches from the three year artistic research proj. We will engage with group efforts to offer new visual approaches to hidden struggles within transport, data, and logistics industries—workers, stories, and vantage points that have been “ghosted” from dominant narratives. Through the concept of a collectively investigated counter-aesthetics we will examine how art practices embedded within or alongside labour organizing and social movements, seeing and sensing systems of power, production, and resistance. Beyond basic introductions of why we need different forms of public engagement with logistics, the conversation will connect sites and contexts from the Nordics to Southern Europe to the Middle East, asking for example how struggles against Amazon connect cross-border to struggles for Gaza.We welcome guests—a mix of workers, organizers, artists and ad hoc researchers—from near and far.Participants:• Michele Amaglio, artist (Bologna)• Bahaleen Collective (Aya Besio, Noura Salem, Elia El Khazen) (Jordan)• Peppe Dalesio, organizer, S.I.Cobas (Naples)• Benjamin Gerdes, artist and organizer, Ghost Platform (Stockholm)• Magda Malinowska, filmmaker, worker, and organizer, Amazon Workers International & OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Poznań)• Robert Ochshorn, software engineer and media researcher (Brussels)***The workshop is open to everyone. Artists, students, activists, researchers and logistics, data, and transportation workers are particularly invited to participate.Language: EnglishAfter the program, Skogen invites everyone to participate in a communal dinner. Skogen has no set ticket fee, but we take in donations for art, workshops, food.With the support of: Vetenskapsrådet, Nordisk Kultur Fond, and Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm.

On the 25th of January we hosted the breakfast seminar "The enemy withing" at the Institute. The seminar was filmed by UR Samtiden and is now available on their website for some time. The seminar was i

A large number of Swedish researchers are asking the Swedish research councils in coAlition S to withdraw their support from Plan S. Plan S is an initiative to promote the immediate and open access of

On the 27-29:th of January we are hosting the conference Democratizing the Corporation in collaboration with the Havens-Wright Center for Social Justice, University of Wisconsin-Madison.  The conference

On the 7th and 8th of June, the International Network for Analytical Sociologists, INAS, will meet for its sixth conference, this time in Stockholm hosted by the Institute for Futures Studies. Thomas

In June 2013, the 6th annual conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS) will be held in Stockholm, with the aim to create synergistic contacts between researchers withinThis year, Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond has on April the 11th decided to grant SEK 225,000 to this year's conference that will be hosted by the Institute of Futures Studies in collaboration with the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University. During 7th and 8th of June, both Swedish and international researchers from the world’s leading universities will present their work in the field of analytical sociology. Over forty papers will be presented at the conference, where Thomas Schelling will deliver the opening keynote speech. Schelling was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis.

Andreas Diemer

I am a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University and at the Institute for Futures Studies. I am also part of the Urban Lab network hosted by the Institute

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, 4th floor, Holländargatan 13, 111 36 Stockholm  Listening Session And Drinks The Institute for Futures Studies hosts the premiere of a new 15-minute sound work. Regist