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The Department of Political Science (University of Gothenburg) announces the availability of six fully funded doctoral student positions. Apply by March 2. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ph-d-candidate-positions-gothenburg - 2025-11-08
RESEARCHER OUTREACH: In 2015, Johannes Stripple will head an Advanced Study Group entitled The Decarbonisation Laboratory, that will focus on the development of new methdologies in that field. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stripple-leads-decarbonisation-laboratory - 2025-11-08
RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Johannes Stripple organises Destination Decarbonisation, the closing event for Harriet Bulkeley as she ends her tenure as the King Carl XVI Gustaf professor in Environmental Science at Lund University (December 16). Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/closing-event-harriet-bulkeley - 2025-11-08
PROJECT SUPPORT: Malena Rosén Sundström and Hanna Bäck have been granted 5 mn SEK by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenbergs foundation in support of the project Political Participation among young people - from party democrats to social media activists. The department extends its congratulations!Malena Rosén SundströmHanna Bäck
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/funding-political-participation-among-young-people - 2025-11-08
Petter Narby defended his dissertation ”Time of Crisis: Order, Politics, Temporality.” yesterday at one o'clock in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. Discussant: Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics. AbstractCrises are common and problematic features of contemporary politics. Thought as moments in time when order is undermined by flux and disorder, they entail a nor
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/petter-narby-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-08
Lund University's advent calendar Merry Quizmas features Johannes Lindvall's research today. Every day you have a chance to enter the competition by sending a message (comment). Indicate the correct answer to today’s question in the message/comment: 1, X or 2.Today's quiz-question:There are various theories about what parties benefit in an election that takes place shortly after the start of a fin
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-quiz-question-todays-advent-calendar - 2025-11-08
Roger Hildingsson defended his dissertation "Governing Decarbonisation. The State and the New Politics of Climate Change" yesterday in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. Roger HildingssonDiscussant: Professor James Meadowcroft.AbstractThis dissertation examines the “new climate politics of decarbonisation” and the role of the state as a site for progressive climate action. Th
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roger-hildingsson-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-08
Annika Fredén writes about the government crisis on the international election blog "Making Electoral Democracy Work". The post is authored together with Elina Lindgren and Patrik Öhberg at Gothenburg University. Read post: Sweden: An unprecedented crisis in a (lost?) political stability heavenAnnika Fredén
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/freden-about-government-crisis - 2025-11-08
Two postdoc positions with STANCE (Lund). Apply by 2015-02-20. The project STANCE (State-Making and the Origins of Global Order in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond) announces a call for two postdocs in Political Science with a Specialization in Comparative Politics and/or International Relations.Read more.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-postdoc-positions-political-science - 2025-11-08
Eden will be completely closed on the following days: Christmas Eve 24 December - Sunday, 28 December. New Year's Eve 31 December and New Year's Day 1 January 2015. Opening hours over the winter holiday.The main entrance is open:Monday, 29 December between 10 and 12. The main entrance is open to students with a LU-Card:Tuesday, 23 December 7:30 - 18:00Monday, 29 December 7:30 - 18:00Tuesday, 30 De
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/departments-holiday-hours - 2025-11-08
Jonna Pettersson defended her dissertation "Incalculable Community" today at one o'clock in Edens Hörsal, The Department of Political Science, Lund. External reviewer: Associate professor Lars Toender, University of Melbourne.Jonna Pettersson AbstractThis thesis argues that the Western thinking of political community has assumed the community to require a unity or unifying principle that serves a
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonna-pettersson-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-11-08
The Swedish Network for European Studies in Political Science is organising its spring conference in Stockholm 19-20 March 2015. This year's theme is: Change and Continuity in Transatlantic Relations. SNES Spring Conference 2015
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/spring-conference-snes - 2025-11-08
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström and Jakob Skovgaard have penned the article "Previewing Paris 2015: The EU's ‘Leadiator’ Role in Future Climate Change Negotiations" published in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Online, "the flagship publication of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service".Together with their online-version the journal publishes articles of 800-1200 words "that
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-och-skovgaard-climate-change-negotiations - 2025-11-08
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl and Martin Hall (2014) have written the article ’Cooperation and Conflict’, Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 26:4. Learn more.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-and-hall-cooperation-and-conflict - 2025-11-08
The Department of Political Science (University of Gothenburg) announces the availability of six fully funded doctoral student positions. Apply by March 2. Learn more...
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ph-d-candidate-positions-gothenburg-0 - 2025-11-08
Welcome to the Department of Political Science, Spring term 2015 Follow this link to find relevant information about the courses on offer in English, spring term 2015.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/compulsory-introductory-meetings-admitted-students-and-incoming-exchange-students - 2025-11-08
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Bergman Rosamond has authored “The Nordic States and Gender Cosmopolitanism” published in the DIIS conference proceedings Nordic Foreign and Security Policy, Danish Institute for International Studies. December 2014.Learn more.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nordic-states-and-gender-cosmopolitanism - 2025-11-08
RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Catarina Kinnvall gave a presentation yesterday for The Tony Blair Foundation on the theme 'Hinduism as a Transnational Force' at a workshop in Pristina, Kososvo. The theme of the workshop was ’Religion and Conflict: Practical Policy Responses’ (An intensive training course for diplomats, public officials and professionals on faith and globalization).Learn more.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hinduism-transnational-force - 2025-11-08
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Bergman Rosamond has written Women, Peace and Security - and Denmark published by Danish Institute for International Studies, 2014. Learn more.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-women-peace-and-security - 2025-11-08
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Sara Kalm has, together with Sofia Näsström, penned the article ”A democratic critique of precarity” which has recently been published in the journal Global Discourse. Learn more.
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-och-nasstrom-global-discourse - 2025-11-08
