Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Emily Jones, Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. Register here > Abs

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

A seminar on the future of social sciences. Main speaker: Jon Elster.Commentators: Tore Ellingsen and Bengt Hansson. Read more in the invitation (pdf)

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

It is becoming common for political parties with xenophobic views to appear in parliaments in Europe, Sweden is no exception. There is an ongoing debate about xenophobia and diversity in the media, in

Open seminar on the European system for receiving and introducing asylum seekers. Migration is in many European countries on the one hand considered a problem, even a threat, on the other hand a possib

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

Going Solo and Connecting. Main speaker: Eric Klinenberg. Comments: Maria Törnqvist and Elizabeth Thomson. Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociologi and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at

On Friday the 24th of January our seminar series begins again here at the Institute for Futures Studies.The four first seminars all touch our research area segregation. Martin Ljung from the Research

The most recent conflict in Gaza – Operation Protective Edge – brought to the fore crucially important debates in both international law and the ethics of war. In November this year, a group of intern