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How and why has democracy developed in the world since 1900 and does it matter? Funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and several others. The aim of the Varieties of Democracy Research Program is to provide a systematic empirical contribution to the field of comparative democracy studies. First, we will capture democracy's manifold meanings by adopting

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/research/research-projects/v-dem-varieties-democracy - 2026-05-01

Our strong research profile is reflected in our teaching.Many of our courses are developed in connection with research projects, providing students with the opportunity to study current research findings with lecturers who are themselves active researchers within their respective fields. Our educational environment has long been highly internationalised: many of our courses are offered in English,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/about-department/welcome-department-political-science - 2026-05-01

Below you find the current vacant positions at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Vacant positions Below are the current vacant positions at the Department of Political Science, Lund University: The Department of Political Science Our Department combines ancient traditions with modern research and education. We safeguard disciplinary breadth and diversity and have long been succ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/about-department/jobs-available-our-department - 2026-05-01

Learn about our three interesting subjects – Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Intelligence Analysis. Political ScienceDo you want to understand how politics really works – from the local level to global decisions? Political science gives you the tools to analyse political events in a changing world. You study how power is exercised, how decisions are made, and how political syste

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/about-department/three-subjects-one-building - 2026-05-01

STVC55 – Environmental Governance (7.5 credits). Bachelor course in Political Science. Spring term. The aim of the course is to examine environmental change as a problem of governance. We scrutinize major governance dimensions - such as actors, institutions and problem structures - at multiple levels and across domains. This includes the interplay of government, market and civil society in efforts

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/exchange-students-coming-sweden/bachelor-courses/environmental-governance - 2026-05-01

6 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Chair: Robert Klemmensen Mats Fred Title: Organizing Public Sector ReformAbstract: I defended my PhD thesis on local government projectification in 2018. Since then, my research has expanded both theoretically and empirically toward a broader interest in all kinds of temporary and experimental forms of organizing. In this lecture I will talk about where limited,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/higher-research-seminar-mats-fred-and-hebatalla-taha-docent-lectures - 2026-05-01

13 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Chair: Markus Holdo OUP’s book abstract:Algorithmic Institutionalism uniquely conceives of algorithms as institutions in contemporary societies, focusing on different dimensions of how algorithms structure decision-making and enact power relations. This work addresses the need for new analytical lenses to make sense of algorithms’ rising ubiquity in decision-ma

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/higher-research-seminar-ricardo-fabrino-mendonca-federal-university-minas-girais-algorithms-and - 2026-05-01

20 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Chair: Ted Svensson Glyn Williams"I was appointed Professor of Development Geography at Lund University in February 2025, after previous academic posts at Keele University (1994-2002), King’s College London (2003-2006), and the University of Sheffield (2006-2025). My research is concerned with making development sensitive to, and inclusive of, the agency and pr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/higher-research-seminar-sasnet-co-sponsor-glyn-williams-lu-human-geography-renegotiating-lockdown - 2026-05-01

27 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Chair: Robert Klemmensen Pol CamposI am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Lund University and an affiliate at the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm. I am also a Wallenberg Academy Fellow and Tore Browaldh Scholar. From 2020 to 2022, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, and I earned my PhD in Economics f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/postponed-autumn-higher-research-seminar-pol-campos-lu-economics-incentives-and-vaccination - 2026-05-01

10 June 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Chair: Jon Polk The Higher Research Seminar is the main collective seminar of the Department. The research staff and invited national and international leading scholars present ongoing research and analyses of a broad range of exciting topics of relevance for Political Science.The Higher Research Seminar is held on Wednesdays 13.15 to 14.30 in Eden 367, unless

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/higher-research-seminar-anders-uhlin-lund-university-legitimation-and-delegitimation-international - 2026-05-01

STVC62 – International Relations Theory in Time and Space (7.5 credits). Bachelor course in Political Science. Autumn and Spring term. International Relations Theory is a time-honoured approach to the social world. Texts that are clearly recognizable as dealing with international relations date back to the ancient Greeks. Still, most textbooks in the field take a geographically and historically ve

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/exchange-students-coming-sweden/bachelor-courses/international-relations-theory-time-and-space - 2026-05-01

7 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Presentation by Alice Panepinto, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast. The phenomenon of settler violence against people and property in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, and in particular the West Bank, has been a feature of Israel's grip over that land for decades. Despite some Western states' attempts to impose sanctions on individual settler

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/cmes-seminar-jewish-settler-violence-palestine-israeli-state-responsibility-attribution - 2026-05-01

21 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Presentation by Pelle Valentin Olsen, CMES and Department of History, Lund University By examining modern Iraqi history through the lens of leisure, this talk offers an entirely new perspective as it explores the institutions, practices, distractions, and discourses of leisure that occupied increasing space and time in the life of many Iraqis in the twentieth c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/cmes-seminar-idle-days-and-nights-leisure-entertainment-and-everyday-life-modern-iraq - 2026-05-01

4 June 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Presentation by Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklund, Maria Andrea Nardi, Mo Hamza, Hakim Abdi, CMES and Lund University. Over a decade has passed since the onset of the Syrian conflict, which continues to have dire humanitarian consequences in the region. Syria, with a population of approximately 17 million, ranks among low-income countries, with a gross national income pe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/cmes-seminar-eco-syria-exploring-conflict-environment-interactions-sustainable-development-and - 2026-05-01

8 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Cecilia Uddén, author the recent book, Allt har en smak av aska. Skräddaren i Gaza och Andra människor i en plågad region, Middle East Correspondent, Sveriges Radio About the eventLocation:Eden Auditorium (Allhelgona kyrkogata 14, Lund)Contact:lisa [dot] strombom [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se Save the event to your calendar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/cmes-seminar-what-going-happen-gaza - 2026-05-01

26 May 2026 09:00 to 27 May 2026 17:00 | Workshop The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Lund University invites you to explore the intersection of authoritarianism, climate policy, and displacement: In 2024, climate disasters caused 45.8 million displacements, more than double those from armed conflict. This workshop shifts the focus from traditional conflict-driven migration to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/authoritarian-climates-immobility-and-green-transition-middle-east - 2026-05-01

28 May 2026 13:15 to 14:45 | Seminar “The Goalification of Global Governance: How Targets Are Shaping International Environmental Politics”AbstractOver the last twenty years, it has become more common in global environmental politics to rely on goal setting as a political steering mechanism. In climate governance, the goal-based Paris Agreement has replaced the stricter approach of the earlier Kyo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/honorary-doctor-seminar-frank-biermann-utrecht-university-goalification-global-governance-how - 2026-05-01

28 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar CMES welcomes Dalia Dassa Kaye for a talk on her book Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy. A timely and rigorous analysis of a half-century of American policymakers' shifting perceptions of Iran, and how they have driven US-Iran relations.US–Iran hostility has endured for longer than the Cold War. Momentous geopolitical shifts, changing lead

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/book-talk-enduring-hostility-making-americas-iran-policy - 2026-05-01

27 May 2026 15:15 to 16:45 | Lecture/talk Welcome to this year’s honorary doctor seminars hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences. 15:15-16:00Frank Biermann: “Planetary crisis and plurilateral politics: Global governance in the age of Trump”Frank Biermann is Professor of Global Sustainability Governance at Utrecht University. Drawing on political science and law, his influential scholarship criti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/meet-2026-honorary-doctors-faculty-social-sciences - 2026-05-01

3 June 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Chair: Annika Björkdahl Agonistic Memory and Peace: Colombia, Northern Ireland and Israel-PalestineInvestigates memory initiatives in three of the world’s hardest to solve conflicts and how they can be invested with more constructive dynamicsAgonistic memory work as a framework for conflict transformationIn-depth case studies from Colombia, Israel-Palestine, an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/higher-research-seminar-lisa-strombom-lund-university-agonistic-memory-and-peace - 2026-05-01