Professor Kerstin Jacobsson, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, Södertörn University College Seminars host is Stefan Svallfors. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 13.00–14.30 in the

The role of elite corruption with Janine Wedel

The Role of Elite Corruption in Today’s Illiberalism: Trump as “Trickster,” Why Trumpism is No Accident, and the Corruption Coming Now. This is Janine Wedel's inauguration lecture as a Kerstin Hesselg

In 2018 the Institute for Futures Studies will host the Kerstin Hesselgrens gästprofessur, held by Janine R Wedel, an American anthtropologist and professor at George Mason University i USA. Janine Wed at the institute in 2016. Follow that link and listen to Janine's TEDx-talk about the shadow elite affecting American politics.

Karsten Klint Jensen

One part of my research has been within applied ethics. Much of this research has been in connection with international interdisciplinary research projects. I have mainly been concerned with how factu

Research and ideas for a brighter future - part 1

What are the greatest challenges to our modern society and what can be done to overcome these, with a brighter future ahead? This is part two of the seminar "Research and ideas for a brighter society"

In the wake of the election one can start to wonder what politics should really be about. What are the greatest challenges to our modern society and what can be done to overcome these, with a brighter

Welcome to Janine Wedel's inaugural lecture as a Kerstin Hesselgrens Visiting Professor: The Role of Elite Corruption in Today’s Illiberalism: Trump as “Trickster,” Why Trumpism is No Accident, and theThis talk, by social anthropologist and public policy professor Janine R. Wedel, examines how the activities of a novel breed of “shadow” or “influence elites” have helped corrode civic trust and fueled the surge in income inequality.  Partly as a result, many citizens in the United States and Europe (notably Poland and Hungary) have turned to demagogic figures who flout both the norms of the rigged system they seek to smash, and the Weltanschauung of the establishment. The talk will explore why people turn to them, Donald Trump’s role as “trickster,” and how Trump and other taboo-breaking, system-busting leaders govern once in power. 

Karsten Klint Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen. ABSTRACTIn this talk I ask whether the genuine representation of future generation

This is a hybrid workshop. If you wish to join, get in touch with Olle Torpman, [email protected] more information about the workshop, including abstracts, visitthe project website Agenda Wednesd10.00–11:45 Julia Nefsky: Expexted Utility, the Pond Analogy and Imperfect Duties13.30–14.30 Anne Schwenkenbecher: We-mode reasoning about our environmental obligations14.45–15.45 Vuko Andric: