28th of September 2016 Seven Year Review of the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University Alan Irwin, Kate Soper and Richard Taylor were asked to evaluate the Institute and besides being given access to all necessary material they also visited the Institute for a week this past April. Their efforts culminated in this document. We thank our three evaluators for all their hard work

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Theme A Plurality of Lives A few decades ago both the creation of new life and the discovery of extraterrestrial life would have been seen as science fiction. Today, the scientific community generally agrees that it is a question of when, not if, any of these endeavors will be successful. In spite of this, there are reasons to believe that we are ill-prepared for the challenges, as well as the opp

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Desta Mebratu on the Importance of Energy - Energy has always played a central role in all forms of social transformation in human history. Desta Mebratu is a guest researcher involved in the theme Energy Justice. He is affiliated with Stellenbosch University as an Extra Ordinary Associate Professor, Center for Complex Systems in Transition, School of Public Leadership. Before that he was the Depu

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ASG Imaging for life Many fields of research are in great need of imaging with differing contrasts and a range of length scales to study everthing from molecules and cells to organs and live organisms. Additionally, researchers today frequently use both integrative and correlative analysis methods to answer their sceintific questions. Lund University has great expertise in imaging and several exce

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ASG Innovation for whom Universities as drivers of social innovation for inclusive development In the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, 162 877 persons applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015. Integrating hundreds of thousands of new arrivals into the Swedish society in the coming years is but one example of societal challenges that will require social innovations, not least within Higher Educational

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ASG Narrating Climate Futures Grappling with the challenge of climate change requires action in the present that addresses how we want the future to unfold. This requires foresight of alternative futures and how our actions can shape the world to come. There are a range of techniques to this end – from modelling and scenario techniques, demonstration and experimentation, to cultural interventions

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ASG New Pathways out of poverty This project is about poverty. From an interdisciplinary perspective it seeks to find potential pathways out of poverty as a persistent problem with many roots and drivers. Due to its complex dynamics and multidimensionality, it is the subject of research in many disciplines including, among others, anthropology, economics, geography, sociology, political science, m

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There is an urgent need for agriculture to drastically reduce its negative environmental impacts, while at the same time responding to increasing demand and adapting to a changing climate. For this to be possible, radical change in how we grow our major staple crops is essential. The Pufendorf theme ‘Domestication’ welcomes the public to a half-day colloquium/symposium to take part in a discussion

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PUFENDORF INSTITUTE for Advanced Studies SYMPOSIUM ON CRISIS: PROGRAM 9.15-9.30 Opening by Helle Rydström, Professor, Dept. of Gender Studies, Lund University & Jeff Hearn, Professor, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University 9.30-9.50 Catarina Kinnvall, Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Lund University & Sidsel Hansson, Researcher, Center for East and Southeast A

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PUFENDORF INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES International Symposium Critical Explorations of CRISIS: Global Entanglements and Gendered Ramifications Date: June 8th, 2018 Venue Morning: R240, R Building (Second Floor) Venue Afternoon: M221, M Building (Second Floor) Paradise Campus Area (Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14) Lund University, Sweden Organizer: The Pufendorf Institute Advanced Study Group on CRISIS

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Ebola workshop Workshop, arrangerad av Pufendorfinstitutet med stöd av LMK-stiftelsen Tid: 2014-12-01 , 12.00 – 18.00 Plats : Pufendorfinstitutet, stora hörsalen, vån. 1 Biskopsgatan 3, Lund. Moderator: Sune Sunesson, föreståndare, Pufendorfinstitutet Program 12.00 Lunch 13.00 Inledning Fredrik Månsson, Patrik Medstrand – Ebolaviruset och de första utbrotten 1976 i Kongo; Symptomen och de tidiga b

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Namnlös The Pufendorf IAS Newsletter I February 2018 News, events and information from the Pufendorf IAS (Pufendorfinstitutet) at Lund University Greetings from the director Since January I am the new director of the Institute. The first two months have been busy finding reviewers to this year’s 16 Theme applications. Each application is reviewed by two, usually international, scholars. We do not

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PUFENDORF INSTITUTE for Advanced Studies INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO MIGRATION RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES Intellectual Enclosures and the Fight for the Commons Open Lecture and Panel Debate Jens Stilhoff Sörensen Date: 22 May 2018 Time: 13.15 – 15.00 Location: The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies – Classicum, Biskopsgatan 3 Lund. Jens Stilhoff Sörensen is Associate Professor in the School

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PUFENDORF INSTITUTE for Advanced Studies INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO MIGRATION RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES Venue: Classicum, Biskopsgatan 3, Lund. Politics of Migration: Institutions and political movements This seminar discusses national and local level politics around the issue of migration with a particular focus on Scandinavia. We discuss how migration is continuously problematized by the Scan

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Members of Social Innovation Bo Göransson (Coordinator) Associate professor, Department of Business Administration School of Economics and Management, Lunds University Bo.Goransson@fek.lu.se +46 46 222 1414 http://portal.research.lu.se/portal/sv/persons/bo-goeransson(6e6c9a01-8801-434d-88db- d0e9e511dae7).html Cristina Chaminade Professor, Department of Economic History School of Economics and Man

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Untitled May 2016: 234x156: 220pp Hb: 978-1-138-92528-1 | £95.00 eBook: 978-1-315-68385-0 20% Discount With This Flyer Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare Edited by Max Koch, Lund University, Sweden and Oksana Mont, Lund University, Sweden Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare raises the issue of what is required to ma

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Lund Sept., 2017 SYMPOSIUM ON CRISIS: “Gender Asymmetries, Climate Changes, and Precariousness” October 26, 2017, Room 224M (LU) Symposium Abstract Gender is a key not only to understand the ramifications of a crisis but also to identify the reasons behind a crisis and how it might be resolved (Aolain 2011; Walby 2015). With this theme, we address a tendency in current crisis studies to bypass the

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May 4th 8.30 - 9.00 Coffee and registration 9.00 - 9.10 Welcome 9.10 - 9.40 Asymmetries in interdisicplinarity Uskali Mäki (Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki) 9.45 - 10.15 Introduction to the Pufendorf IAS´s model Sune Sunesson (Scientific Advisor and Director of Pufendorf IAS 2012-2017, Lund University) Work and Organization in the Digital Age - presentation of Pufendorf I

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The Credit Society A DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN RISK AND OPPORTUNITIES In the theme project “The Credit Society”, we work in an interdisciplinary way on an analysis of the credit society. We start with the paradox that while credit enables a good life, it also represents a risk of exclusion from it for those who do not succeed in getting credit or have ended up in debt. In today’s society the depend

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Microsoft Word - Brevmall, svenska utlysning ASG.doc The Pufendorf IAS Call for ASG proposals 2016-2017 Lund 2016-09-30 The Pufendorf Institute calls for submission of proposals to form an "Advanced Study Group" How do you make a proposal for an Advanced Study Group for 2017–2018? A proposal for an Advanced Study Group must be received by the Institute before 24th of January 2016. The proposal is

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