Considering the recent wildfires in Canada, the harmful effects of climate change are undeniably evolving faster than previously expected. It is now imperative for leaders in government, business and

Wayne Sumner, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto. ABSTRACTFew people doubt that hate speech is capable of harming the minorities that it targets. This talk will explore the various ki

Workshop talk: Who attacks cultural heritage in war, and what effects does it have on subsequent violence?

Joakim Kreutz, Political Science, Stockholm University: "Who attacks heritage in war, and what effect does it have on subsequent violence? Findings from global research on attacks on sacred spaces, 19

Research seminar with Avia Pasternak, Associate Professor in Political Theory at University College London. REGISTER HERE TO GET A MEETING LINK AbstractViolent protestors against state injustice typical

Social Science Quarterly, 838-856 Abstract Objectives This article presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outc

The topic of the workshop is values in science and will focus mainly on the role that epistemic and non-epistemic values play in climate science. Sub-topics in this area include: how values enter into

This paper studies how the new, integrated employment and social services look like with respect to government structures, e.g. shifts of responsibility upwards or downwards for both groups and how en

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, and online Research seminar with Oskar Nordström Skans, Professor of Economics, Uppsala University. REGISTERAbstractUsing g

European Journal of Political Theory, DOI: 10.1177/1474885117738116 Abstract How can we equalize opportunities while respecting people’s freedom? According to a view that I call libertarian resourcism, pbecome a powerful weapon to criticize work conditionality as unfair and perfectionistic (or illiberal), and to motivate political struggles for the emancipation of the precariat. However, similar views are also expressed in many other justifications of basic income that stress the strategic importance of exit-based empowerment. This article argues that the reliance of these theories on concepts and assumptions of libertarianism makesthem ill-equipped to justify core requirements of social empowerment, and to identify the forms of agency needed to sustainably advance the radical objectives they favour. The implication of this is not to reject the link between social justice and unconditional resource endowments but to dissociate the justification and design of such measures from libertarian ways of thinking.

Juho Härkönen, Stockholm University Schools are considered efficient mating markets--that is, structured social settings in which partners meet--and feature prominently in explanations for patterns in