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This book analyses the tensions that emerge within strong welfare states when faced with large migration flows. It also interrogates the phenomenon of the 2015 'refugee crisis' and its foreplay and aftermath in the context of Northern Europe and challenges the notion of crisis as a feature of contemporary realities. "With an eye to the daily strategies and experiences of newly settled populations,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-refugees-and-violence-welfare-bureaucracies-northern-europe-edited-cmes-dalia-abdelhady-and - 2025-11-19

The conference entitled: “Challenging Perspectives on the Indian Diaspora: A Global Conference on Diaspora Studies and Policies.” will be held at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands from 5 to 7 October 2017. Submit abstract before 30 May 2017. In this international conference the organizers would like to broaden the scope on the Indian diaspora from the experi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-indian-diaspora-studies-and-policies - 2025-11-19

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/advocacy-veganism-and-animal-liberation-neither-new-nor-western-phenomenon-plant-based-capitalism - 2025-11-19

Ryssland terroriserar högljudda oliktänkare mer än många andra av dagens auktoritära styren, enligt historieprofessorn Klas-Göran Karlsson som ser flera orsaker till landets agerande. När det framkom att den ryske oppositionspolitikern Aleksej Navalnyj fått i sig nervgiftet novitjok, samma medel som hittades i den ryske ex-spionen Sergej Skripal och hans dotter i Storbritannien för två år sedan, v

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fler-ryska-regimkritiker-att-jaga-efter-murens-fall - 2025-11-20

Är du journalist och ska skriva om händelseutvecklingen i Öst- och sydöstasien? Då är du välkommen att kontakta forskare vid Centrum för Öst- och sydöstasienstudier och forskare vid andra institutioner vid Lunds universitet. Nedan följer ett axplock av den expertis som universitetet erbjuder när det gäller länder och ämnesområden. Centrum för Öst- och sydöstasienstudier, www.ace.lu.seTobias Axelss

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ost-och-sydostasien-expertis-vid-lunds-universitet - 2025-11-19

Erik Hannerz at the Department of Sociology and Peter Bengtsen at the Division of Art History and Visual Studies recently attended the annual Street Art & Urban Creativity Conference in Lisbon, Portual. Here they presented their plans for the upcoming Pufendorf research theme on Urban Creativity. The theme will run 1 October 2018 - 31 May 2019. During this period, an interdisciplinary group of eig

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/urban-creativity-kicks-presentation-lisbon - 2025-11-19

A new book, edited by Cecilia Cassinger, Andrea Lucarelli, and Szilvia Gyimóthy, explores the mobility of Nordic brand imaginaries and the global relevance of Nordic place branding practices. The edited volume unpacks the specificity of Nordic brand imaginaries, practices, and their political consequences. The contributions consolidate Nordic place branding scholarship and its scientific engagemen

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/new-book-nordic-place-branding - 2025-11-19

18 March 2020, @ 15:00 CMES, Lund University, Finngatan 16 Please register here: maria.lofstedt@cme.lu.se Speakers:Pınar Dinç, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University“Turkey's Unchanging Raison d'État? Narratives on Dersim 1938”Reyda Ergün, Faculty of Law, Kadir Has University,“Raison d’État and the Regimes of Gender and Sexuality in Turkey under the AKP rule”Burak Özçetin, Faculty of C

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/panel-discussion-raison-detat-new-turkey-postponed - 2025-11-19

Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications. Read full newsletter here!Now well into the autumn semester, several milestone activities have taken place, with additional events forthcoming. The first cohort of PhD students, recruited as part of the transition to CMES/MECW 2.0 in 2021, is now reaching the conclusion of t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-55 - 2025-11-19

Marie Leth-Espensen has co-authored an article on the recent gastronomic trend known as “New Carnivorism.” Marie Leth-Espensen, doctoral student at the Sociology of Law Department, has together with Mathias Elrød Madsen studied this relatively new food media trend. In an article in the journal Society & Animals, they discuss how examples such as the Danish TV show “Kill Your Favorite Dish” (Dræb d

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-research-ideology-meat-eating - 2025-11-19

Wim Carton discusses why tree planting is not a panacea for the climate. According to him, too many studies and stakeholders fail to see that the method is inherently fraught and can take away focus from the need to drastically reduce emissions to meet our climate targets. "Tree planting is seen as an easy method that can be scaled up. But that is not the case. There are many probems with the meth

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/tree-planting-no-panacea-climate - 2025-11-19

Together with Ron Eyerman and Todd Madigan, sociologist Magnus Ring has published the article “Cultural Trauma, Collective Memory and the Vietnam War” in the Croatian Political Science Review, Vol. 54. More information and a link for downloading the article can be found here at the Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia. Abstract:Part of a wider project on how the Vietnam War (1945-1975) is reme

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/vietnam-continues-haunt-american-collective-memory - 2025-11-19

The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) successfully hosted its highly anticipated annual conference held from October 19 to 22, 2023 at the University of Pittsburgh, United States. The event brought together esteemed scholars, researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from across the globe to delve into the multifaceted dynamics of Central Eurasia’s ongoing transformation. The mission of th

https://www.mocca.lu.se/article/mocca-project-participants-presented-their-research-cess-annual-conference-university-pittsburgh - 2025-11-19

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 close attention to how forei

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-malign-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2025-11-19

On 20-22 September 2016, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) successfully organized a conference entitled ”Modern Matters: Negotiating the Future of Everyday Life in South Asia” at Lund University. The conference attracted more than 60 researchers, Swedish and European, but a large number of them also came from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. conference_programme.pdf

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-conference-modernity-south-asia-successfully-completed - 2025-11-19

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 close attention to how forei

https://www.ch.lu.se/en/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-malign-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2025-11-19

Former doctoral student Firas Jumaah and supervisor Charlotta Turner have had a special bond since 2014, when Jumaah and his family got caught up in the first ISIS lightning offensive in Iraq.  Employing far-reaching means, Charlotta Turner managed to get them back to Lund unharmed. Now they have written a book together about the rescue. The new authors expectantly open a large cardboard box full

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-she-became-professor-hardcore - 2025-11-20

ElsevierförhandlingarnaPreliminära resultat från utvärderingen av Elsevier-avtalets uppsägning presenteras på BIBSYSEn presentation hölls i Trondheim 12 mars. Presentationen redovisar preliminärt vad BIBSAM fått fram av sin enkät om Elsevieruppsägningen. Enkäten undersöker både biblioteks- och forskarreaktioner.Länk till ppt-presentationen: https://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/files/2019/03/Brudd-med-ti

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-april-emedia-och-lubsearch - 2025-11-19

On June 17, Jacob Stenberg obtained his doctoral degree in Media and Communication Studies with his thesis entitled “The Communicative State: Political Public Relations and the Rise of the Innovation Hype in Sweden”. The thesis poses the question of what happens when a political hype occurs, that is, when a political issue suddenly becomes highly topical, and political stakeholders begin to mobili

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/new-phd-thesis-when-policy-issues-are-prioritised-based-their-communicative-potential - 2025-11-19

Chair: Henrik Chetan Aspengren and J R Jishnu VENUE: Sångsalen, AF Borgen, Sandgatan 2, Lund  Schedule panel 8. DAY 1:  20 September (Tuesday)Slot 1 Time: 14.30 – 16.30Venue: SångsalenChair: Henrik Chetan Aspengren Public Spheres and Private Lives30 min./paper including discussion. Mohammad Tareq Hasan,  University of Bergen:“Becoming Garment Workers: Social Reproduction in Neoliberal Labour Regim

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-8-open-panel - 2025-11-19