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During this year's popular science Framtidsdagarna ('Future Days') at Lund University on October 16–17, we had the chance to hear about crucial and decisive issues for the future. This year focused on future cities and 'The Future of Death.' Representing LUSEM, Markus Lahtinen, teacher and researcher at the Department of Informatics, gave a lecture. We took the opportunity to ask Markus why this r

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/experts-view-how-sensors-are-shaping-urban-landscape-future - 2025-12-17

Change brings development and is a part of life. Sara Novakov has guided LUSEM through changes while maintaining continuity since 2007, but this fall, she will be retiring. Sara joined LUSEM in 2007, having already been employed at the university since 1994, including working as an internal auditor. Coming to a faculty full of economists as an economist herself has worked well, she says with a smi

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusems-very-own-head-finance-retiring-what-happens-now - 2025-12-17

An economist as a comic book character, podcaster, or cultural commentator? Andreas Bergh from LUSEM has chosen all three (and a bit more) as he, alongside his lectures on microeconomics and the welfare state, curiously explores various ways to reach the public. Here, he shares his best tips on where and why. Comics – because it’s so challenging. "It’s a challenge to simplify complex things. That’

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/andreas-bergh-media-choices-research-communication - 2025-12-17

Employees and students at Lund University are hereby invited to propose candidates for the 2024 Lund University Administrative Prize. With this award, the University management wishes to recognize extraordinary contributions in administration throughout the University. Nominate by 11 November 2024 at the latest.Learn more on LU Staff Pages

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/nominate-candidates-lund-university-administrative-prize-2025 - 2025-12-17

Do you want to contribute to making Lund University more sustainable? A new application round and the chance to realize the idea for the Sustainable Proposal Testbed will be opened.A sustainable workplace – from concept to realityThe University’s Sustainability Strategy and the Sustainability Plan are ambitious. Change demands new ideas, and good ideas often come from employees within the organisa

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sustainable-workplace-idea-reality - 2025-12-17

What we eat and drink impacts people and the environment in many ways – thanks to the way food is produced, transported and used. New guidelines for purchasing foodstuffs raise our ambitions and clarify the University’s role on issues of sustainable food production. The target is to increase the proportion of food that is vegetarian and in season, and for food wastage to be reduced.Learn more on L

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/vegetarian-food-become-default-offering-meetings-and-conferences - 2025-12-17

Candy heaven or candy hell? Halloween consumption has gone rampant since we imported this tradition from the United States, and is expected to reach 1,6 billion SEK in 2024. In Sweden we used to just go to graveyards on All Hallows Eve and light candles in memory of loved ones that have passed, but starting in the 1990’s it has become a spectacle, with costumes, parties, ghostly decorations and tr

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/economics-death-and-halloween-consumption - 2025-12-17

The Faculty of Social Science at Lund University is now accepting applications for four postdoctoral positions. To find out more about these positions and the application process, go here: Four (2 year) Postdoctoral positions. The same ad, in Swedish: Fyra (2-åriga) postdoktoranställningar. 

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/four-postdoctoral-positions - 2025-12-17

On Thursday 26 May professor and Honorary Doctor Jeff Hearn will hold an open lecture i R240 at 10.00-11.30. What to do about men, and the study of men and masculinities, and why bother? Can there be a sociology, a social science, of men and masculinities? In this lecture Jeff Hearn provides a brief overview of the growth of critical studies on men and masculinities, as a preface to the discussion

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/jeff-hearn-26-may-men-world-global-transnational-gexual - 2025-12-17

Several researchers from the Department of Gender studies are involved in the upcoming International Conference on Migration, Irregularisation and Activism: Challenging Contemporary Border Regimes, Racism and Subordination. The conference will take place in Malmö 15-16 June 2016. Assistant professor Maja Sager is on the organizing committe.Among the keynote speakers are:Bridget Anderson (Oxford Un

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/international-conference-malmo-15-16-june - 2025-12-17

Our partner university in Italy announces six scholarships for a joint Italian-French PhD, three of which are open only for students who earned a master's degree in France Six PhD scholarships (duration: 3 years) in memory of Valeria Solesin, the Italian PhD student at Paris-Sorbonne University killed in the terror attacks at Bataclan in November 2015, have been assigned by the Italian Ministry of

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/six-scholarships-joint-italian-french-phd - 2025-12-17

One month ago, our colleague Maria Tonini defended her PhD thesis "The Ambiguities of Recognition. Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India". In the recent issue of Lund University Magazine, LUM, she talks about the work behind the thesis. Read the interview in English:Demanding family relationships pressure LGBTQ youth in IndiaIn Swedish:Avhandlingsämnet om HBTQ i Indien tog oväntad vändning

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/phd-scholar-maria-tonini-lum - 2025-12-17

The Department of Gender Studies is now accepting applications for a new PhD position. Detailed information regarding for example admission requirements and assessment criteria is included in the announcement, see link below. Last application date is the 20th of September.In English: PhD position in Gender StudiesIn Swedish: Doktorand på genusvetenskapliga institutionenPlease direct all and any qu

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/phd-position-gender-studies - 2025-12-17

Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning har publicerat ett porträtt av professor Diana Mulinari: "Den intersektionella analysens förkämpe". Nationella sekretariatet för genusforsknings skribent Sara Abdollahi skriver såhär:Diana Mulinari är en pionjär när det gäller intersektionalitet. Hon är känd för att tillsammans med kollegorna Irene Molina och Paulina de los Reyes introducerat begreppet i

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/forskare-i-media-diana-mulinari - 2025-12-17

On 18 October there will be a symposium on ‘Critical Explorations of Crisis’ organized by Helle Rydström and Annika Bergman Rosamond. The venue of the Symposium is Gamla Biskopshuset. All seats are already taken, but you can find the program here: Symposium on ‘Critical Explorations of Crisis’ October 18, 2016 

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/symposium-critical-explorations-crisis - 2025-12-17

Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning har publicerat ett porträtt av professor Helle Rydström: "Viktigt att följa det globala spåret". Nationella sekretariatet för genusforsknings skribent Anna Norrby skriver såhär:Helle Rydström är genusforskaren som inledde sin akademiska bana med att valla oxar i Vietnam, allt för att lära sig mer om våldets roll i vietnamesiska landsbygdsfamiljer. Numera

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/forskare-i-media-helle-rydstrom - 2025-12-17

Our department recently had the privilege of hearing sociologist and gender scholar Gerard Coll-Planas speak on the topic of trans activism in Barcelona. Coll-Planas was a invited to give a seminar within in the Gender Studies Open Seminar and the title of his seminar was Gender, Class and Capital - Trans lives in Barcelona. As you can see in the photos below the seminar was quite popular. Due to

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/gerard-coll-planas-trans-activism-barcelona - 2025-12-17

Doktor Matilda Svensson Chowdhury blev nyligen intervjuad i Kropp och själ i Sveriges Radio P1. I programmet är Matilda med på telefon och intervjuas om sin avhandling som handlar om hur poliosjuka har berättat om sina liv och vilken mening de tillskriver sjukdomen.Lyssna här: Epidemin som förlamade Sverige - Kropp & Själ | Sveriges Radio

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/forskare-i-media-matilda-svensson-chowdhury - 2025-12-17

Jens Rydström, forskare vid vår institution, har fått forskningspengar från Vetenskapsrådet. Projekts titel är "När staten inte räcker till: Aids och det civila samhället i Sverige 1982-2000". - AIDS-epidemin är ett stycke viktig historia i Sverige och hela västvärlden, säger Jens Rydström. Vårt projekt handlar om hur civilsamhället reagerade inför den nya skrämmande sjukdomen. Hur lade de etabler

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/forskningspengar-till-projekt-om-aids - 2025-12-17

Marta Kolankiewicz och Maja Sager, forskare vid vår institution, har fått forskningspengar från Vetenskapsrådet. Deras projekt heter: "Domstolen som arena för kamp mot och om rasism".Stor glädje råder idag på institutionen när vi firar att detta projekt har fått finansiering!Marta Kolankiewicz hemsidaMaja Sagers hemsida 

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/forskningspengar-till-projekt-om-rasism - 2025-12-17