Pp. 172-197 in Laura Morales and Marco Giugni, (Eds.), Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe: Making Multicultural Democracy Work. Palgrave Macmillan. Abstract There is a widespr

Pp. 111-26 in J. Elster et. al. (eds.) Understanding Choice, Explaining Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Ole-Jørgen Skog. Oslo: Oslo University Press.

Place: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmInternational institutions make claims to authority that can clash with both personal and collective autonomy. At the same time, th

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.

Gunn Birkelund: Gender discrimination in hiring

Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, PhD in Sociology is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo (since 1999). Her main publications cover labour marke

Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, PhD in Sociology is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo (since 1999). Her main publications cover labour markeGender discrimination is often regarded as an important driver of women’s disadvantage in the labor market, yet earlier studies show mixed results. However, because different studies employ different research designs, the estimates of discrimination cannot be compared across countries. By conducting the first harmonized comparative field experiment on gender discrimination in hiring in six countries, we can directly compare employers’ callbacks to fictitious male and female applicants. The countries included vary in a number of key institutional, economic and cultural dimensions, yet we found no sign of discrimination against women. This cross-national finding constitutes an important and robust piece of evidence. Second, we found discrimination against men in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, and no discrimination against men in Norway and the US. However, when we pooled the data, we found no significant differences across countries. Our findings suggest that although employers operate in quite different institutional contexts, they regard female applicants as more suitable for jobs in female-dominated occupations, ceteris paribus, while we find no evidence that they regard male applicants as more suitable anywhere.

PROGRESS IN ETHICS Workshop at the Institute for Future Studies (IFFS), Stockholm, 19-20 June 2023  This is an open workshop, but seats are limited. Interested in attending? Send an e-mail to [email protected]:30 – 11:00: Coffee  11:00 – 12:30: Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland/Inland Norway University/Oslo), Tina Firing (University of Iceland), and James Norton (University of Iceland), “Understanding Philosophical Progress”  12:30 – 14:00: Lunch  14:00 – 15:30: Joe Roussos (IFFS), “When is agreement between moral models significant?”  15:30 – 16:00: Coffee  16:00 – 17:30: Ylwa Sjölin Wirling (Gothenburg), “A portrait of understanding as a nonfactive state”  

At the moment there are several ongoing research projects at the Institute for Futures Studies that analyses segregation patterns and dynamics. One of the projects studies segregation in schools. One

Workshop within the research project "Climate ethics and future generations", 27–29 September. Audience members admitted by invitation only. 1st Day – 27th September 8:45 – 9:15       Coffee/Breakfast 9.1

 Venue:The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, and online This event is open to the public.Conference poster. This conference will depart from and engage with the recent and critby Professor David Chalmers.