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

A comparison between projects financed by the European Social Fund and Arbetsförmedlingen. The seminar will be held in Swedish at Ingenjörshuset, Malmskillnadsgatan 46 in Stockholm. Breakfast will be s

Risk Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13445 Abstract According to the class of de minimis decision principles, risks can be ignored (or at least treated very differently from other risks) if the ri

Do you ever donate money to a charitable cause? If you do, how do you choose what cause to favour? The Scottish philosopher William MacAskill says that we are generally quite bad at regarding donation

Main speaker: Saskia Sassen Today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, but more accurately in terms of expulsion—from p

Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Implicit Cognition. Workshop on the 25th and 26th of May at the Institute for Futures Studies. The theme of this workshop is implicit cognition, with a p

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.

Olle Häggström: Large Language Models, AI Risk and AI Alignment

Research seminar with Olle Häggström, a professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology, an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, and a member of the Ro

Peter Hedström, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies, will leave the Institute in August 2014. Peter will then be Professor of Sociology at Linköping University, where he will build a new rese

After two of the most damaging hurricanes in history affected the Gulf of Mexico just a few days apart, the impact of climate-induced catastrophes is finally getting some attention. However, in truth,