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14 March, 2023
Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders

Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders

Lorne L. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada. In public and expert judgements of whether an incident of mass violence by a lone actor is an instance of terrorism or simply mass m

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21 December, 2022

Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders. An Overview and Analysis of the Research

Seminar with Lorne L. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada. Register here > Abstract In public and expert judgements of whether an incident of mass violence by a lone actor is an

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22 November, 2016

Jens Rydgren

I am Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University. My main areas of research are political sociology and ethnic relations. At Stockholm University I am currently directing a research projects where

Professor, Sociology
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13 March, 2014

The Future of Urban Social Life

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

Going Solo and Connecting. Main speaker: Eric Klinenberg
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30 October, 2017

Power, policy and profit – book launch

With intensified globalization of markets, the restructuring of provisions of welfare services and accumulation of private capital, opportunities for corporate influence in politics have multiplied. IWelcome to a seminar where some of the authors present and discuss the contents of the book.When: Friday December 15th, at 16.00 –18.00 including a mingleWhere: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in StockholmSpeakers:Christina Garsten, Professor of Social Anthropology, SCOREAdrienne Sörbom, Associate Professor of Sociology, SCOREAnna Tyllström, PhD in Business Studies, Institute for Futures StudiesStefan Svallfors, Professor in Sociology, Institute for Futures StudiesLiv Fries, PhD Management, Senior Advisor at Decigo The book will not be for sale at the seminar, but a flyer offering discount will be distributed.

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31 March, 2017

Making sense of corruption

Corruption is a serious threat to prosperity, democracy and well-being, with mounting empirical evidence highlighting it detrimental effects on society. Yet defining this threat has resulted in profou

Corruption is a serious threat to prosperity, democracy and well-being, with mounting empirical evidence highlighting it detrimental effects on society. Yet defining this threat has resulted in profound disagreement, which makes it difficult to come to terms with the problem.
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14 January, 2022

Tim Bartley: Perceptions of distant problems. Popular understandings of labor and environmental problems in global supply chains

Tim Bartley is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University. He is an organizational, political, and economic sociologist with particular interests in globalization, labor,

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13 April, 2023

Research seminar with Krister Bykvist: Who should care about impossibility theorems in population ethics?

Online seminar. Register here > Research seminar with Krister Bykvist, Professor in Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University and Institute for Futures Studies. This se, New Jersey, USA.

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23 March, 2022
Tim Bartley: Popular understandings of labor and environmental problems in global supply chains

Tim Bartley: Popular understandings of labor and environmental problems in global supply chains

Perceptions of distant problems. Popular understandings of labor and environmental problems in global supply chains Tim Bartley is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm Univers

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