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The Elusive Lund Alumnus Who Fought for Ukraine – The Alumni Network Blog Skip to content Home About this blog About the Alumni Network Search Search Close Menu Menu The Alumni Network Blog The latest from the Alumni Network at Lund University The Elusive Lund Alumnus Who Fought for Ukraine What does a self-proclaimed king of Corsica have in common with a young Ukrainian nobleman? Well, both are s

https://alumni.blogg.lu.se/the-elusive-lund-alumnus-who-fought-for-ukraine/ - 2025-12-15

“The skills we acquire, the connections we make, the conversations we have, positively influence our future” – The Alumni Network Blog Skip to content Home About this blog About the Alumni Network Search Search Close Menu Menu The Alumni Network Blog The latest from the Alumni Network at Lund University “The skills we acquire, the connections we make, the conversations we have, positively influenc

https://alumni.blogg.lu.se/the-skills-we-acquire-the-connections-we-make-the-conversations-we-have-positively-influence-our-future/ - 2025-12-15

The following Lund University academics are available for commentary and analysis, in light of recent news coverage regarding alleged activity in the Stockholm archipelago:  Mi LennhagPhD student, Department of Political Science, Lund UniversitySwedish foreign and defence policy, Swedish national security as it relates to post-Soviet region, general post-Soviet area expertise +46 70 950 93 23mi [d

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/experts-swedish-and-russian-national-security-policy - 2025-12-15

During a French state visit to Sweden, President Emmanuel Macron visited Lund University on Wednesday, where he spoke directly with students at Studentafton. The President addressed challenges, possibilities and the future of the European cooperation. It was a long wait for vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and the audience inside the main University building. Finally, President Macron and his wife Br

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/french-president-emmanuel-macron-visits-lund-university - 2025-12-16

Passports issued by fallen empires, decks of cards from the Iraq war, deceased Ukrainian students’ uncollected diplomas and much more. A new museum in Lund is collecting artefacts that show how international law affects people's lives. The initiative is being led by international law researchers who argue that we are currently witnessing a crisis of the entire international system. “International

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-museum-displays-war-artefacts-and-human-side-international-law - 2025-12-16

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 according to a new report from Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University in Sweden. Since the 2016 US Presidential election, many democratic governments have paid close attention to how

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-video-games-are-being-used-foreign-actors-and-extremists - 2025-12-16

We tend to attribute today's zoological menagerie of dog breeds to Victorian gentlemen with a penchant for selective breeding. The truth, however, goes back much further. An international study shows that the rich morphological variety among dogs began to take off 11,000 years ago – long before nineteenth century kennel clubs. Look at the dogs of today: the dainty Chihuahua, which most resembles a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dog-diversity-thousands-years-older-we-thought - 2025-12-16

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/russian-invasion-ukraine-why-history-matters-and-what-will-be-impact - 2025-12-16

Today, Lund University handed over the remains of an Aboriginal man to representatives of the Australian government’s Indigenous Repatriation Programme. The event in Lund was attended by Australia’s Ambassador Jonathan Kenna. A solemn ceremony was held in connection with the handover. The remains have been part of Lund University’s collections since the 1890s, but following a decision by the Swedi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-returns-remains-australia - 2025-12-15

With the help of an artist, a geology professor at Lund University in Sweden has figuratively speaking breathed life into one of science’s most well-known fossil species; Agnostus pisiformis. The trilobite-like arthropod lived in huge numbers in Scandinavia a half-billion years ago. Today, this extinct species provides important clues for science in several ways. Despite its small size, Agnostus p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/celebrity-fossil-reveals-all-science - 2025-12-15

An international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has found that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago created drastic changes to life on Earth. The breakup of a major asteroid filled the entire inner solar system with enormous amounts of dust leading to a unique ice age and, subsequently, to higher levels of biodiversity. The unexpected discovery could be r

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gigantic-asteroid-collision-boosted-biodiversity-earth - 2025-12-15

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/panel-experts-russian-invasion-ukraine - 2025-12-15

Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite and the National University of Singapore will hold a two-day conference in Singapore 16-17 November 2017, on the trajectory of the Russian Revolution in Asia, broadly defined to include the Asian territories of the Russian Empire as well as Northeast, South and Southeast Asia. Deadline for submission of abstract is 15 June 2017. Scholars working in all relevant disci

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-asian-arc-russian-revolution - 2025-12-15

Why does Russia still use Morse code? Has military conscription increased equality? These are two questions that Tony Ingesson, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, reflects on in two highly read articles on the news platform, The Conversation. One of Tony Ingesson’s articles, on military conscription, has 26,000 reads and the other, about Morse code, has over 40,000 r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/morse-code-russia-path-idea-popular-article-conversation - 2025-12-16

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-visiting-assistant-professor-history - 2025-12-15

Vår professor Mia Liinason har med medförfattarna Olga Sasunkevich (Göteborgs universitet) och Selin Çağatay (Central European University) publicerat boken Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey - Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance. Här nedan finns en sammanfattning av boken från bokförlaget.  Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey. Tran

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/bok-feminist-and-lgbti-activism-across-russia-scandinavia-and-turkey - 2025-12-15

As a young journalist, Tomas Sniegon had fantastic material – more than one hundred hours of interviews with the former KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastny. It was intended for a memoir, but time moved on and the market was suddenly saturated with Soviet confessions. Twenty years later, the winds have changed. There is renewed interest in looking back to understand both Russia and President Putin, w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/investigating-doctored-memories-old-soviet-communist - 2025-12-15

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-invasion-ukraine-could-change-global-map - 2025-12-15

Is anarchy really chaos? Not according to M.P.T. Acharya - India's renowned anti-colonial anarchist of the early 20th century. A new biography by Lund University researcher Ole Birk Laursen delves into the life and ideology of Acharya, the Indian fight for freedom, and global events that influenced it. It all started several years ago, as Ole Birk Laursen was conducting research on the Indian free

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-nationalism-anarchism-untold-story-mpt-acharya - 2025-12-15

Why does Russia still use Morse code? Has military conscription increased equality? These are two questions that Tony Ingesson, political scientist and expert in intelligence analysis, reflects on in two highly read articles on the news platform, The Conversation. One of Tony Ingesson’s articles, on military conscription, has 26,000 reads and the other, about Morse code, has over 40,000 reads. The

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/path-idea-popular-article-conversation - 2025-12-15