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Organised Interests, Labour Market and Migration: the Swedish Model
The paper examines arguments presented by unions and employers concerning immigration in relation to the Swedish labor market. It also considers how Sweden’s institutional arrangements in this respect
The EU project Open Days: The AMIF Project "The Subjective Integration 2"
The purpose of this project is to give the migrants arriving via the organised channels, i.e. quota refugees and family reunion cases information about Sweden before leaving for Sweden. They are inte
Long-term Care Insurance in Germany
Arbetsrapport 2011 nr. 13 Hur kan vi organisera och finansiera äldreomsorgen i framtiden med en åldrande befolkning? Den tyska äldreomsorgsförsäkring som infördes 1995/96 utgör ett intressant alternati
Countering Across Contours - A Collective Conversation: Workshop, film screening and discussion
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.
For Whose Benefit? The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation
Springer, New York. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50874-0 This book takes the reader on a journey, navigating the enigmatic aspects of cooperation; a journey that starts inside the body and continues via our
Values in science
The topic of the workshop is values in science and will focus mainly on the role that epistemic and non-epistemic values play in climate science. Sub-topics in this area include: how values enter into
General Assembly of the World Values Survey meets in Qatar
General Assembly of the World Values Survey Associationwill meet in Doha, Qatar, March, 18–22 at the World Conference on “The Rise of Public Engagement, in the region and in the World”. The conference , (Social and Economic Survey Research Institute and the Arab Barometer.
Population Ethics and the Non-Identity Problem
Welcome to a workshop on the non-identity problem and population ethics at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. The workshop will focus on the evaluative and moral significance of acts that

Benjamin Gerdes
Benjamin Gerdes is an artist, writer, and organizer working in video, film, and related public formats, individually as well as collaboratively. He is interested in intersections of radical politics,
AI in healthcare
Venue: The Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm This workshop is open to invitees only. For more information please contact the organizers. The imperative to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) has be