Overheating. Understanding accelerated change. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. ABSTRACTThe contemporary world is … too full? Too intense? All of the above, and more. Ours is a world of high-speed modernity where exponential growth can be found in domains as different as the number of cellphones in Africa and the number of international tourist arrivals. The fossil fuel revolution two centuries ago led to the contemporary ‘overheated’ world of exponential growth. The main dilemma of this overheated world is the insight that what was the salvation for humanity for two hundred years, namely fossil fuels, has rapidly become our damnation owing to climate change. This lecture outlines the parameters of ‘overheating’ and describes the main global challenges for our century.

Interview with Thomas Schelling

On the 7th of June, 2013 professor and Nobel Prize Winner Thomas Schelling came to visit Stockholm, Sweden and the Institute for Futures Studies in order inaugurate an international research conferenc

Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg The Guardian recently decided to change house style and start using terms like Climate Crisis instead o

Thomas Nygren, Uppsala universitet

A Multidisciplinary Look at Knowledge Resistance ’Knowledge Resistance: Causes, Consequences, and Cures' is a multidiciplinary research program, comprised of studies from the fields of Philosophy,

A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 1

www.iffs.se Thomas Schelling, an American economist and professor of foreign affairs who in 2005 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analyses of game-theory, is interv

A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 3

www.iffs.se Thomas Schelling, an American economist and professor of foreign affairs who in 2005 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analyses of game-theory, is interv

A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 2

www.iffs.se Thomas Schelling, an American economist and professor of foreign affairs who in 2005 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analyses of game-theory, is interv

Today we mourn the passing of Thomas Lindh, a respected researcher, an appreciated colleague and a dear friend. Professor Thomas Lindh has been a coworker at the Institute for Futures Studies for many

In 2013 the Institute for Futures Studies arranged the 6th annual INAS-Conference in Stockholm. The conference was opened by Thomas Schelling, being interviewed by Richard Swedberg.

- Neoliberalism and a System of violence after the US invasion, 2003-2011 Dr Thomas Sommer-Houdeville, Stockholm University, Department of Sociology. ABSTRACT After the invasion of Iraq and the destructi