Den nya skuggeliten med Janine Wedel

Det finns en ny slags elit, en elit av personer som genom sin position i samhället kan tillskanska sig makt på ett sätt som inte är olagligt, med djupt oetiskt. Janine Wedel, professor vid George Maso

Hur mår demokratin? Intervju med filosofen Gustaf Arrhenius, VD för Institutet för Framtidsstudier

Det talas om hot mot demokratin, om misstro mot politiker, sjunkande valdeltagande, om klyftor mellan folket och den verkliga makten och om olika typer av korruption. Hur mår egentligen demokratin? På

Overheating. Understanding accelerated change. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. ABSTRACTThe contemporary world is … too full? Too intense? All of the above, and more. Ours is a world of high-speed modernity where exponential growth can be found in domains as different as the number of cellphones in Africa and the number of international tourist arrivals. The fossil fuel revolution two centuries ago led to the contemporary ‘overheated’ world of exponential growth. The main dilemma of this overheated world is the insight that what was the salvation for humanity for two hundred years, namely fossil fuels, has rapidly become our damnation owing to climate change. This lecture outlines the parameters of ‘overheating’ and describes the main global challenges for our century.

Sakli(g)t 2024: Sveriges första sakprosafestival

Sakli(g)t is Sweden's first festival of literary non-fiction, organized by the Rikstolvan cultural centre outside Simrishamn in collaboration with the Institute for Futures Studies and Linnaeus UniverGiven the central role of non-fiction as a knowledge-transmitting link between science and the public, Sweden needs an arena where the narrative non-fiction book is the focus of in-depth discussions on the politically increasingly hot issues of facts, truth, narrative, reality and how form and aesthetics affect both knowledge itself and what knowledge becomes viable in today's technologically mobile media landscape. Such meeting places for producers and consumers of the documentary genre have long existed in the neighboring Nordic countries, but have not yet existed in Sweden.This year's program includes author talks with Åsa Wikforss, Nicolas Lunabba, Saga Cavallin, Johan Hilton, Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Gudrun Schyman, Lasse Berg and Elena Kostiutjenko. In total, 50 authors will appear at the festival. Read the . Get .Together with Rikstolvan, the Institute is a co-founder of the festival, which was launched last year. A permanent establishment of the festival has been made possible with funds from the Institute for Futures Studies, Linnaeus University, the Nature & Culture Foundation, the Swedish Academy, the Swedish Arts Council, Simrishamn Municipality and Region Skåne.

Att förstå korruption, seminarium med Bo Rothstein

Korruption utgör ett allvarligt hot mot välstånd, demokrati och välbefinnande, och de empiriska bevisen för dess skadliga effekter på samhället bara växer. Det har dock visat sig vara väldigt svårt at

It has been a long and violent conflict, but the parties have finally come to an agreement to put down their weapons – now it’s time for peace to settle in society. Unfortunately, there are a limited

Offentliga samtal: Berikas eller utarmas det svenska språket?

Språkutveckling, invandring och internationalisering Ibland får vi läsa att det svenska språket är hotat. Det kan röra sig om engelskans inflytande på bekostnad av svenskan, ungdomens slangord och b

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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