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22 April 2026 13:00 to 16:00 | Workshop Do you want to explore or develop your skills in supervising interdisciplinary PhD projects? This workshop aims to offer a space to learn from your peers and to share your experiences and tips. Target GroupPhd Supervisors at Lund UniversitySet-up and facilitatorWe will use previous experiences and participants discussions to inform recommendations aimed at s

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/interdisciplinary-phd-supervision-workshop - 2026-06-29

10 April 2026 13:15 | Thesis defence Tove Westberg has written a thesis entitled: The Paradoxical Darknet: An Ethnographic Study of Community and Social Control on CryptoforumsExternal reviewer: Assistant Professor Meropi Tzanetakis, University of ManchesterMore information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research Portal About the eventLocation:Gamla Köket, Sh128, Allhelgona k

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/phd-defence-sociology-tove-westberg - 2026-06-29

9 April 2026 10:00 to 11:30 | Seminar Lund Social Science Methods Centre invites Dr. Meropi Tzanetakis from the Institute for Sociology and Social Research at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, to a seminar on hybrid drug markets as socio-technical assemblages. No registration is required for this seminar.Hybrid drug markets are best understood as socio-technical assemblages operating

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/hybrid-drug-markets-why-integrated-methodological-approaches-are-needed - 2026-06-29

We are looking forward to having you at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Getting started at the Faculty of Social SciencesFor specific information about the program or course you are starting at the Faculty of Social Sciences, you can log onto the online student platform Canvas, after creating your student account.Canvas is Lund University’s learning platform, where you can access course materials,

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/admitted-student/interdisciplinary-programmes - 2026-06-29

18 May 2026 13:00 to 15:00 | Workshop Lund Social Science Methods Centre invites you to a workshop with Dr. Giulia Garofalo Geymonat from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on participant compensation in qualitative research. No registration is required for this workshop.The workshop examines participant compensation as a key methodological and ethical issue in qualitative research. While remunerati

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/does-voucher-make-things-easier-rethinking-participant-compensation-qualitative-research - 2026-06-29

5 May 2026 08:30 to 12:00 | Symposium The symposium is arranged together with School of Journalism at Lund University, Magazine Sydasien and Media Evolution. Join us as we mark the World Press Freedom Day for a discussion on Media, Power, and Technology in South AsiaWe hereby invite you to a symposium marking UNESCO World Press Freedom Day 2026, where you will meet journalists and experts addressi

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/sasnet-co-organized-symposium-can-tech-save-press-freedom - 2026-06-29

8 April 2026 10:00 to 11:00 | Lecture/talk Göran Holmqvist has a long background in various senior management positions at Sida as well as from academia and thinktanks. He holds a Phd in Peace and Development Research and a Fil. Lic in Economics. At present he works as secretary general of ForumCiv, an umbrella organization for 160 Swedish NGOs.  About the eventLocation:Geocentrum I, Room: Världen

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/swedish-foreign-aid-times-challenges - 2026-06-29

7 May 2026 09:15 to 8 May 2026 14:30 | Workshop The Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) is organizing an interdisciplinary workshop Critical Approaches to Middle East and Islamic Studies: Power, Politics, and Decoloniality with international scholars to analyze and evaluate major paradigms and methods used to study the Middle East and Islam. Keynote SpeakerLena SalaymehÉcole Pratique

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/critical-approaches-middle-east-and-islamic-studies - 2026-06-29

9 June 2026 10:00 to 12:00 | Seminar Lund Social Science Methods Centre invites you to a seminar with Prof. Iddo Tavory from New York University, on abductive analysis, pragmatist philosophy and methodological precepts. No registration is required for this seminar.This talk outlines some of the main tenets of abductive analysis: an attempt to analytically center the surprises that emerge in the re

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/abductive-analysis-surprises-and-theory-construction - 2026-06-29

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.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/book-talk-enduring-hostility-making-americas-iran-policy - 2026-06-29

28 April 2026 19:00 to 20:15 | Other For decades, Europe has seen itself as something more than armies and markets – a force of ideas. A normative power. A model of democracy and the most desirable way of life. But in today’s world, autocracy is rising. Only seven percent of the world’s population lives in a liberal democracy. Increasingly, people seem to prefer strong leaders over elections. So w

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/debatt-i-lund-europes-twilight - 2026-06-29

24 April 2026 10:00 | Thesis defence Pernilla Danielsson has written a thesis entitled: User Orientation in Welfare Services: Challenges from a Public Service Logic PerspectiveExternal reviewer: Professor Per Skålén, Karlstad UniversityMore information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research Portal About the eventLocation:U203, Universitetsplatsen 2, HelsingborgContact:ulrika

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/phd-defence-service-studies-pernilla-danielsson - 2026-06-29

22 April 2026 18:45 to 21:00 | Other Welcome to a screening of Mr Nobody Against Putin, an award-winning documentary on power, resistance, and propaganda by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin. Setting the stage for an urgent conversation, it will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Dr Jonathan Andrew, Lilia Chanysheva Morris Wikström. You are invited to a timely conversation on resistance

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/mr-nobody-against-putin-screening-and-panel-discussion - 2026-06-29

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.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/meet-2026-honorary-doctors-faculty-social-sciences - 2026-06-29

10 June 2026 09:30 to 12:30 | Workshop Lund Social Science Methods Centre invites all doctoral students at the Faculty of Social Sciences to a half-day workshop with Professor Iddo Tavory. This workshop is conducted in English.Iddo Tavory is Professor of sociology at NYU, and a theorist of culture and interaction. Iddo Tavory is also giving a seminar here at the Faculty on 9th of June (Abductive A

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/analytic-refinery-professor-iddo-tavory-phds-only - 2026-06-29

16 April 2026 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar Research seminars with LUCSUS researchers and guests presenting their latest research. Presenters: Sinem Kavak, Lennart Olsson, and Mine Islar, LUCSUSIn this seminar, we present our preliminary findings on the transformation of the Colombian coffee sector through a socio-ecological lens, focusing on the possibility of value recapture within a historically une

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/lucsus-seminar-beans-change-transforming-colombian-coffee-landscape-socio-ecological-sustainability - 2026-06-29

23 April 2026 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar Research seminars with LUCSUS researchers and guests presenting their latest research. David Harnesk and Malin Brännström welcome you to a LUCSUS seminar that seeks to stimulate engagement with research on land rights and sustainability. We first introduce recent academic debates from commons research, critical property studies and environmental history that

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/lucsus-seminar-multiple-forest-uses-and-parallel-land-rights - 2026-06-29

11 May 2026 13:15 | Thesis defence Andreas Erlström has written a thesis entitled: Evolving Geographies of Economic Inequality: Continuity and Change in Wage Structures Across Sweden, 1990–2018External reviewer: Professor Jürgen Essletzbichler, Vienna University of Economics and BusinessMore information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research Portal About the eventLocation:Vä

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/phd-defence-human-geography-andreas-erlstrom - 2026-06-29

27 May 2026 09:00 to 13:00 | Workshop From invasive and non-invasive brain-computer interfaces to data privacy, governance models, and the impact on democracy and human dignity, the Pufendorf-Theme has examined how these technologies are reshaping our brains, bodies, and societies. Now, the researchers invite academic staff, students, practitioners, and curious minds - to join them for a provocati

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/neurofutures-promises-and-perils-neurotechnologies - 2026-06-29

13 May 2026 10:00 | Thesis defence Lina Lefstad has written a thesis entitled: From Show Pony to Working Horse: Reimagining Carbon Capture and Storage for Just Climate Change MitigationExternal reviewer: Professor Oluf Langhelle, University of StavangerMore information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research Portal About the eventLocation:Ostrom, Josephson, Biskopsgatan 5, Lu

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/calendar/phd-defence-sustainability-science-lina-lefstad - 2026-06-29