Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?

As you might remember, a lot of our social behaviors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we perceived the behaviors of others. What was once deemed acceptable behavior became scrutinized, wi

Camilla Nothhaft is a researcher and lecturer at Lund University, Department of Strategic Communication. ABSTRACT This seminar will present results from a study on how lobbyists and politicians meet in

The purpose of the project is to stimulate and discuss knowledge-based text production alongside the dominant academic formats, to contribute to more animated writing and readable texts by scholars, and thereby enlarge their audience.

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism Review of Peter Königs,Problems for Moral Debunkers: On the Logic and Limits of Empirically Informed Ethics. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp.: 9783110750171.

Here you will find different texts written by researchers that are working for the Institute. All texts are not the result of research within the Institute's research program but are by theme and auth

This handbook explains the simulation model IFSIM, which is an agent based simulation model written in JAVA. The model is constructed for analyzing demographic and economic issues and its aim is to in

Workshop talk: The Duty to Compensate for Injustice as Applied to Reconstruction by Derek Matravers

Philosopher Derek Matravers from the Open University reads a paper he has written on the question of whether one should restore or simply leave damaged cultural heritage after a conflict has ended. Fr

Equality for women, prosperity for all

Augusto Lopez-Claros, international economist currently on leave from his position at the World Bank to be Senior Fellow at Georgetown University, speaks about equality for women, drawing on his recen

The Institute for Futures Studies now has a blog named Framtider (Futures), a name it has inherited from a magazine that was previously published by the Institute. On this blog you will find posts on

How much crime can foreign background explain? with Amber Beckley

Can the number of people with foreign background living in an area explain the level of crime in that same area? In this talk Amber Beckley gives us the numbers and finds a correlation that points cle