By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 10 June 2024 Morse code is still used in Russia, but the manuals have probably  been updated. Photo Chris Curry. Why does Russia still use Morse code? Has military conscription increased equality? These are two questions that Tony Ingesson, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Political Sc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/morse-code-russia-path-idea-popular-article-conversation - 2025-04-18

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Publicerad 28 januari 2022 Brian Kyed. Unsplash. Vår professor Mia Liinason har med medförfattarna Olga Sasunkevich (Göteborgs universitet) och Selin Çağatay (Central European University) publicerat boken Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey - Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance. Här nedan finns en sammanfattning av boken från bokförlaget.  Feminist and LGBTI+ Act

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/bok-feminist-and-lgbti-activism-across-russia-scandinavia-and-turkey - 2025-04-17

Published 17 October 2016 As a young journalist, Tomas Sniegon had fantastic material – more than one hundred hours of interviews with the former KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastny. It was intended for a memoir, but time moved on and the market was suddenly saturated with Soviet confessions. Twenty years later, the winds have changed. There is renewed interest in looking back to understand both Rus

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/investigating-doctored-memories-old-soviet-communist - 2025-04-17

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-invasion-ukraine-could-change-global-map - 2025-04-17

By matilda [dot] skoglow [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Matilda Skoglöw) - published 8 November 2023 Is anarchy really chaos? Not according to M.P.T. Acharya - India's renowned anti-colonial anarchist of the early 20th century. A new biography by Lund University researcher Ole Birk Laursen delves into the life and ideology of Acharya, the Indian fight for freedom, and global events that influenced i

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-nationalism-anarchism-untold-story-mpt-acharya - 2025-04-17

By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 10 June 2024 Tony Ingesson writes about Morse code in one of his articles published in The Conversation. Photo: Johan Persson and Chris Curry Why does Russia still use Morse code? Has military conscription increased equality? These are two questions that Tony Ingesson, political scientist and expert

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/path-idea-popular-article-conversation - 2025-04-17

Published 30 October 2023 The Hällekis quarry in Västergötland hosts Middle Ordovician limestone layers that have been sampled and analysed in the study. Photo: Anders Lindskog. Changes in oxygenation and climate had a fundamental impact on marine environments and ecosystems during one of the most transformative times of the development of life on Earth. This according to a new study in which rese

https://www.science.lu.se/article/colder-climate-and-oxygen-rich-ocean-currents-laid-foundations-modern-marine-ecosystems - 2025-04-17

By lotte [dot] billing [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Lotte Billing) - published 22 December 2023 Photo: Fredrick Tendong | Unsplash Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This states a report from the Psychological Defence Research Institu

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-malign-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2025-04-17

Published 26 April 2017 The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Utrikespolitiska institutet, UI) is looking for researchers, preferably at the postdoc level. They will consider applications based on a broad range of topics. Successful applicants will join one of UI’s five programs: Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia and Eurasia, and Global Politics and Security. Deadlin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/five-research-positions-swedish-institute-international-affairs - 2025-04-17

Published 22 December 2023 Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. This states a report from the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University in Sweden. Since the 2016 US Presidential election, many democratic governments have paid c

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-malign-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2025-04-17

By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson (English translation by Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 6 May 2024 Damage in Gaza Strip Oct. 2023 (Photo: Wafa/Wikimedia Commons) The war in Gaza is testing alliances and shaking up politics, both globally and regionally. What does this mean for the West's relationship with the Middle East? How are inter-regional dy

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/geopolitics-and-diplomacy-wake-gaza-war - 2025-04-17

Published 25 September 2013 “Thy throne rests on mem’ries from great days of yore, when worldwide renown was valour’s guerdon...” is the translation of the words of the Swedish national anthem, which tries to construct a memory of a glorious national past. This type of attempt is not unusual, nor is its opposite – the suppression or alteration of shameful events. “We like to think that history is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collective-memory-sand-sculpture-can-be-re-moulded - 2025-04-17

Published 3 April 2025 A PhD programme exploring law and governance in authoritarian regimes across Central Asia has received nearly €4.7 million in funding from the European Commission, with an additional €800,000 contributed by the Swiss Secretariat for Research, Education and Innovation. The initiative aims to provide critical insights into legal and societal structures in authoritarian states.

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-eu55m-eu-funded-research-authoritarian-law-and-legality-central-asia - 2025-04-17

Published 2 November 2016 From left; Ivanna Read, Tatiana Proskurina On the 16 and 17 of September 2016 Ivanna Read and Tatiana Proskurina, Master students at the International Master programme in Strategic Communication (year 1) had the opportunity to attend the welcome event for the Swedish Institute (SI) Scholars. The Ceremony was held in Stockholm City Conference Center, where around 400 schol

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/two-master-students-department-strategic-communication-are-awarded-swedish-institute-scholarship - 2025-04-17

Published 15 March 2018 Uzma Kazi captures feedback from the group discussions at the pre-conference PhD mingle. Also in focus Hanna Sahlin (PhD student), Katarina Jacobsson (Chairperson of the Sociological Association) and Tora Holmberg (Outgoing Chairp.). Photo: Laura Kollmann SOCIOLOGIDAGARNA 2018: The Swedish Sociological Association's bi-annual conference titled "Sociology in a Polarized Worl

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/hundreds-sociologists-came-lund-discuss-divided-world - 2025-04-17

Published 17 October 2013 This autumn, a unique research satellite, Gaia, will be launched. The project aims to map a billion stars and involves hundreds of European astronomers. One of the originators of the initiative is Lund University’s Professor of Astronomy Lennart Lindegren. Lennart Lindegren tests a meridian circle, which was used in the 19th century to measure the position of the stars. P

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/idea-lund-behind-research-satellite - 2025-04-17

By jan [dot] olsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 22 September 2022 Sanimir Reisc, the dean of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. Photo: Kennet Ruona In five years’ time, the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts will move into Kockums’ old industrial premises in Varvsstaden in Malmö. Inside the gigantic machine hall, soil remediation is underway. Toxins and oil

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/move-means-change-faculty - 2025-04-18

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 8 November 2019 At one point, 70 per cent nitric acid is poured on the sample, which dissolves the mineral pyrite. The brownish yellow smoke consisting of nitric oxides is both toxic and flammable. Photo:Kennet Ruona Every year Birger Schmitz, Fredrik Terfelt and Ellinor Martin dissolve five to ten tonnes of limest

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chemically-empowered-hunt-space-grains - 2025-04-17

By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir (English translation by Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 13 November 2023 Israel left Gaza in 2005 but still controls the borders. According to international law expert Alberto Rinaldi, this could be seen as a continued occupation, which increases Israel's responsibility towards the civilian population of Gaza. Photo:

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/suspected-war-crimes-israel-and-palestine - 2025-04-17