Calendar from our departments and centers

April

The Im/Possibility of Decolonizing Anthropology

Research seminar with Girish Daswani, Associate Professor, UTSC

April

Seminar

Brown Bag - David Jackson (SU)

Brown Bag seminar

Economics

April

Drop-in

Online drop-in with the Academic Writing Service, 2–4pm

Do you have a question about study skills or academic writing that you need a quick answer to? Visit the Academic Writing Service online for a drop-in consultation.

April

Webinar

Join our information session about Sida’s MFS scholarship

Do you want to conduct a field study abroad? Sida’s MFS programme gives you a scholarship of 27 000 SEK and the possibility to spend 8 weeks in a developing country to conduct a field study for your bachelor's or master's degree project/essay.

April

Blaxploitalian: Documentary screening and discussion with the director Fred Kuwornu

Screening of the documentary Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema (2016, 52 mins). After the screening, the director Fred Kuwornu will be available for an after-talk with the audience.

April

Event

Sustainability Forum 2021: From crisis to sustainability

To bring people together, build networks, and create collaborations for sustainable development.

Climate and Environment

April

SUDA Demographic Colloquium: André Grow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Assessing the Reliability of Facebook’s Advertising Data for Use in Demographic Research

April

Monuments and Democracy – a paradox or fruitful combo?

An Art, Architecture and Design session hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement (CREATURE), with special guest Tanja Schult, associate professor in Art History at the Department for Culture and Aestetchics.

April

Seminar: Story behind a CV: Malin Kylander

With Malin Kylander, Senior Lecturer, Department of Geological Sciences and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University.

April

Workshop in Human-Robot Interaction and Learning

Online workshop with invited researchers presenting their studies/ projects on the educational aspects of HRI.

April

Seminar by Prof. Marcelo Ketzer | IGV Seminar series

Department of biology and environmental science, Kalmar, Sweden

April

Another Skin: Belonging and Climate Adaptation in Guyana

Research seminar with Sarah Vaughn, UC, Berkeley

April

Social Stratification, Welfare, and Social Policy Seminar: Katherin Barg (University of Exeter)

Social inequality in parenting in the UK

28 April

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29 April

Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse

The conference will deal with cultural images of collapse that are endorsed by the extinction of biological species and disappearance of familiar biological communities.

April

Drop-in

Writing a thesis? Lunchtime drop-in for thesis students

Are you writing a thesis this spring? Do you have a writing-related question that you need a quick answer to?

April

Sociology Seminar: Roland Paulsen, Lund University

Return to Meaning

April

Book webinar: The Burmese Labyrinth - A History of the Rohingya Tragedy

In 2011, Myanmar embarked in a democratic transition from a brutal military rule that culminated four years later, when the first free election in decades saw a landslide for the party of celebrated Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

April

Workshop

MFS application writing workshop

An interactive workshop for students who are planning to apply for Sida’s Minor Field Studies (MFS) scholarship programme. This is a peer review session and an opportunity to ask last minute questions about your application draft.

April

SUDA Demographic Colloquium: Laura Fürsich, Linköping University

The Spatial Dimension of Social Networks: Social Influence in Residential Choice

April

Seminar

Seminar - Gianmarco Leon (UPF)

Economics

April

Anti-Racism Working Group Seminar: Tobias Hübinette, Karlstad University

Racializing Sweden

April

Session 6 - Conversation in Portuguese - Cinema in Portuguese

Portuguese Conversation online for Portuguese students enrolled at Stockholm University

May

Important dates

The Stockholm Prize in Criminology - Nominations for 2021

The Stockholm Prize in Criminology is awarded for outstanding achievement in criminological research or in the application of research results by practitioners or scholars for the reduction of crime and the advancement of human rights.

Crime and Punishment

May

Seminar

Brown Bag - Ines Helm (SU)

Economics

May

Drop-in

Online drop-in with the Academic Writing Service, 2–4pm

Do you have a question about study skills or academic writing that you need a quick answer to? Visit the Academic Writing Service online for a drop-in consultation.

May

Algorithmic means for social ends | JMK Higher Seminar

Welcome to an online seminar with Torbjörn Rolandsson, PhD Student, Jörgen Rahm-Skågeby, Associate Professor, and Andreas Widholm, Associate Professor, on "Algorithmic means for social ends: The multiple values of a public service news-sorting algorithm". The meeting link will be sent out by mail within the department.

May

Seminar

Seminar - Matthias Kehrig (Duke)

Economics

May

SUDA Demographic Colloquium: Jiaxin Shi, University of Oxford, MPIDR

Inequality in Death and Inequality in Lifetime Pension Income: Evidence from Five Decades of Swedish Taxation Data

May

Open talk- Global toxic waste, slow violence and contaminated soil- A conversation on "Arica"

Welcome to a talk with William Johansson Kalé and Lars Edman, directors of the documentaries Blybarnen (2010) and "Arica" (2021).

May

Qualitative Methods Working Group Workshop: Getting feedback on fieldnotes

Workshop: Getting feedback on fieldnotes, organized by Malcolm Jacobson & Andrea Voyer

May

Reanimating archives in the now: Frankensteinian logics, inheritances and fictive commensurabilities

Research seminar with Kharnita Mohamed, University of Cape Town

May

Code Narrative History: Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA

International symposium at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, 11 May 2021.

May

Social Stratification, Welfare, and Social Policy Seminar: Line Rennwald (Univ. of Geneva)

Union Power and Class Gaps in Perceived Representation in Politics from the 1970s to the Present

May

Stockholm Session on Migration: Livia Ortensi, University of Bologna

TBA

May

Computational Sociology Group Meeting: Online Polarization on Swedish Twitter during COVID

Presentation by Sarah Valdez (IAS, Linköping University)

May

Session 7 - Conversation in Portuguese - Migrations and democracy in the Lusophone space

Portuguese Conversation online for Portuguese students enrolled at Stockholm University

May

Faroese fatherhoods in transition: ‘New fathers’ in the North Atlantic?

Research seminar with Firouz Gaini, University of the Faroe Islands

May

Bert Bolin Science Seminar, Prof. William F Ruddiman

Professor William F Ruddiman, University of Virginia, USA

May

Sociology Seminar: Jens Rydgren, Stockholm University and Sanna Salo, Helsinki University

The Battle Over Working Class Voters: How Social Democracy has Responded to the Populist Radical Right in the Nordic Countries

May

Seminar

Seminar - Kalina Manova (UCL)

Economics

May

SUDA Demographic Colloquium: Martin Kolk, SUDA, Dep. of Sociology & Institute for Futures Studies

Government transfers to parents and population policy in a global perspective: An economic demographic approach

May

2021 | Bert Bolin Climate Lecture: Prof. William F Ruddiman

For how long have humans affected the climate?

May

Bert Bolin Climate Lecture 2021

Title: For how long have humans affected the climate? Speaker: William F. Ruddiman, palaeoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus from the University of Virginia

May

Cultural Sociology Group Meeting: “Solidarity Norms”, Melis Kirgil, Stockholm University

“Solidarity Norms”, a works-in-progress presentation by Melis Kirgil, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University.

May

International Day for Biological Diversity

The United Nations has proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues.

May

White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

Research seminar with Andreas Malm, Lund University

May

Lecture

Monday lecture: Migrant femininities and transnational Chinese literature: the case of Xiaolu Guo

Welcome to a Monday lecture by Martina Codeluppi, PhD at Ca' Foscari, Venice University.

Art and Culture Language and Linguistics

May

Seminar

Seminar - Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)

Economics

May

Social Stratification, Welfare, and Social Policy Seminar: Catherine De Vries (Bocconi Univ.)

Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe

May

Event

Mentorship Programme Conclusion and Celebration

We hope to be able to meet for wrapping up the Mentorship Programme 2020-21 with a celebration dinner.

May

Open Webinar: The Cyber Threat Landscape in East Asia and Policy Challenges

Dr Jun Osawa, Nakasone Peace Institute, Tokyo.

May

Seminar

Final seminar - Nanna Fukushima (SU)

Economics

May

Seminar

Seminar - Nico Voigtländer (UCLA)

Economics

May

SUDA Demographic Colloquium: Magnus Carlsson, Linné University

Co-worker Peer Effects on Parental Leave Take-up

May

Anti-Racism Working Group Seminar: Paula Mulinari, Associate Professor at Malmö University

Topic: Racialization of Time

May

Session 8 - Conversation in Portuguese - Open topic

Portuguese Conversation online for Portuguese students enrolled at Stockholm University

June

Seminar

Brown Bag - Shandi Hou (UAB)

Economics

3 June

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4 June

Facing the Great Derangement

Cultural Responses to Climate Change and the Unthinkable from Latin America and the Global South. OBS! Deadline for reception of abstracts extended until 20 April, 2021

June

Seminar

Seminar - David Weil (Brown)

Economics

June

SUDA Demographic Colloquium: Chiara Comolli, SUDA & University of Lausanne

Concentration of Critical Events over the Life Course and Life Satisfaction later in life.

June

Qualitative Methods Working Group Meeting: “What is Qualitative in Qualitative Research?”

Discussion of article, “What is Qualitative in Qualitative Research?”, with the authors Patrik Aspers, University of St. Gallen, and Ugo Corte, University of Stavanger.

June

PhD Dissertation Defense Seminar: Andrea Monti, SUDA, Department of Sociology

Our PhD student in sociological demography Andrea Monti defends her PhD dissertation "Moving again - Studies of international return and onward migration".

June

Event

Celebrate your Master's Degree

We look forward to all participants wanting to celebrate with loved ones in a safe way! Watch the live broadcast.

June

Seminar

Final Seminar - Roza Khoban (SU)

Economics

June

Mobilities, moorings and inequalities

Research seminar with Laure Sandoz, the University of Neuchâtel

June

Social Stratification, Welfare, and Social Policy Seminar: Merlin Schaeffer (University Copenhagen)

Teasing Apart Perceived and Actual Discrimination: A New Experimental Design

June

Bolin Centre Seminar Series | RA4

Protection of Permafrost Soils from Thawing by Increasing Herbivore Density

June

Greta Gober | JMK Higher Seminar

Welcome to an online seminar with Greta Gober, postdoc in Journalism, Stockholm University. More information to be announced. The meeting link will be sent out by mail within the department.

June

PhD Dissertation Defense Seminar: Jelena Jovičić, Department of Sociology

Our PhD student in sociology Jelena Jovičić defends the PhD dissertation "On the visual (re)production of ‘refugeeness’: images, production sites and oppositional gazes".

June

Seminar

Seminar - Dave Deming (Harvard Kennedy)

Economics

June

SUDA Demographic Colloquium: Helena Honkaniemi, Department of Public Health, Stockholm University

TBA

June

Computational Sociology Group Meeting: TBD

TBD.

July

Important dates