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30 May, 2024

High impact: Report to Joe Biden cites IFFS research

Research on population change, ageing and the economy, by Dean Spears, researcher in the project “Sustainable population in the time of climate change” at IFFS, is cited in "The Economic Report of the".

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21 August, 2018

Cultural heritage, law and war

The destruction of cultural property in war zones is of pressing concern. The recent and on-going conflicts in the Middle East have featured both the deliberate, symbolic destruction of cultural artefThis seminar brings together speakers from philosophy, archaeology, political science and international law. Topics to be discussed include the protection of heritage as a just cause for war, identity wars, military policy and heritage, the relationship between heritage and violence, and compensatory duties for damaged cultural sites.

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21 August, 2018

Breakfast seminar: Cultural heritage in war

The destruction of cultural property in war zones is of pressing concern. The recent and on-going conflicts in the Middle East have featured both the deliberate, symbolic destruction of cultural artef

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19 June, 2024

Aid and child health: A disaggregated analysis of the effects of aid on impaired growth

World Development, vol. 182 Abstract Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help reduce stunting or impaired growth among childre

Type of publication: Journal articles | Isaksson, Ann-Sofie , Dick Durevall
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27 August, 2024

Ghost Platform at September Sessions: Dirty details of the clean startup chime

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, 4th floor, Holländargatan 13, 111 36 Stockholm  Listening Session And Drinks The Institute for Futures Studies hosts the premiere of a new 15-minute sound work. Regist

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25 August, 2022

Bob Goodin: Structural injustice - its mechanisms and how to disrupt them

Place:At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online.  Research seminar with Bob Goodin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political theory at the Austra for his "acuity and success endeavored to blend political philosophy with empirical political science to increase the understanding of how decent and dignified societies can be shaped.wherehowmechanismsJoin the seminar online or at the Institute for Futures Studies. If you will join on site, please check the box in the .

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11 October, 2023
Global Social Norms

Global Social Norms

The Global Social Norms network is a research collaboration with its base at the Institute for Futures Studies, connecting social norms researchers from over 130 countries.

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18 October, 2022
Bob Goodin: Structural injustice - its mechanisms and how to disrupt them

Bob Goodin: Structural injustice - its mechanisms and how to disrupt them

Injustices that are, in the first instance, brute acts of clearly identifiable individuals are often perpetuated, more subtly, through seemingly innocent workings of anonymous and innocuous social str

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11 April, 2025

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.

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01 January, 2011

Patterns of Participation: Engagement among Ethnic Minorities and the Native Population in Oslo and Stockholm

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

Type of publication: Chapters | Gunnar Myrberg, Jon Rogstad
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