Current and Recent Projects The Mimir Institute for Long Term Futures Studies Climate Ethics and Future Generations Sustainable Population in the Time of Climate Change Anxieties of Democracy The Boundary

Sverige 2020. Vad kan historiker säga om framtiden?

Klimatkris, terrorhot och välfärdsstatens kollaps de framtida hotbilderna staplas på varandra av klimatforskare, demografer och samhällsvetare. Men vad innebär ett historiskt perspektiv på framtids

Most of this seminar will be in Swedish. One of the presentations, however, will be in English. In Sweden the amounts of payments made with cash are decreasing and it has been claimed that in 2030 we w

On the 27-29:th of January we are hosting the conference Democratizing the Corporation in collaboration with the Havens-Wright Center for Social Justice, University of Wisconsin-Madison.  The conference

The American sociologist Erik Olin Wright lecture on "How to be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century". What are the reasons to be "anti-capitalist" and what does this really mean? Is it still possibl

Fors, Vaike, Berg, Martin and Brodersen, Meike. The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures: Imaginaries, Interactions and Impact, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. Abstract Health services and medical

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Eva Erman, Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on democrat

Erik Olin Wright: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Madison-Wisconsin. ABSTRACT The idea that there is a pathway from a capitalist economy to a cooperative market economy is grounded in

A couple of weeks ago it was decided that the Institute for Futures Studies will support the project International Panel on Social Progress. It is a large project with high ambitions that mobilizes se