Published 1 September 2017 Nina Wilén has published the article "Gender and Blue Helmets" that reviews two new books on gender and peacebuilding. The books are The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, policing and the UN's first all-female peacekeeping unit, by Lesley J Pruitt, and Gender and peacebuilding, by Claire Duncanson.Both books focus on the encrease of female peacebuilding forces and peacebuil

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-comparing-two-books-gender-and-peacebuilding - 2025-06-15

Published 8 September 2017 Nina Wilén, guest researcher at the Department of Political Science, has together with Bert Ingelaere at the University of Antwerpen published the article "War-torn Congo has been called the “rape capital of the world.” Here is how fighters think about sexual violence." "Here's what we've missed until now: How do rebels think about sexual violence? That's what we asked f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nina-wilen-how-rebels-think-about-sexual-violence - 2025-06-15

Published 8 September 2017 Annika Björkdahl och Johanna Mannergren Selimovic have published the article "Feeling Silence in a Place of Pain" in International Feminist Journal of Politics. The article describes the denial of war-time wrapes in the small town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnien-Herzegovina. "What are we doing here? We are here to experience how a place of pain is layered by silences that

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/silence-deny-war-time-wrape - 2025-06-15

Published 19 September 2017 The Swedish Research Council has decided that the Kerstin Hesselgren professorial chair for 2019 will be held by Robyn Eckersley, professor of Policitical Science at the University of Melbourne Australia. During her time in Sweden she will work at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Full article (in Swedish) at The Swedish Research Council web site: 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/robyn-eckersley-lund-guest-professor-2019 - 2025-06-15

Published 19 September 2017 Fabio Cristiano, Lund University, and Emilio Distretti, London Metropolitan University, have co-authored the article “Along the Lines of the Occupation: Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem” for the journal Conflict and Society. Abstract:Augmented reality enables video game experiences that are increasingly immersive. For its focus on walking and exploration,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/article-explores-pokemon-go-imaginary-east-jerusalem - 2025-06-15

Published 22 September 2017 Ivan Gusic posted his thesis at the wall in Eden accompanied by collegues. In the background: Deputy Head of Department Björn Badersten. The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Ivan Gusics thesis "War, peace & the city: urban conflict over peace(s) in the postwar cities of Belfast, Mitrovica, and Mostar." was held on Thursday, September 21, at 3:15

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivan-gusics-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-06-15

Published 22 September 2017 Hanna Bäck, professor of political science, has published the article "Veto player theory and reform making in Western Europe" in European Journal of Political Research. The article focuses on governments' capacity to implement policy reforms, and builds on a new comparative data set on about 5,600 important economic reform measures undertaken in 13 Western European cou

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-governments-capacity-implement-reform - 2025-06-15

Published 26 September 2017 Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page.  Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2025-06-15

Published 29 September 2017 Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a solid political background, and that the share of "tech

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2025-06-15

Published 6 October 2017 The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2025-06-15

Published 16 October 2017 Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2025-06-15

Published 19 October 2017 Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological security that the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2025-06-15

Published 24 October 2017 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Alter

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-06-15

Published 24 October 2017 Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf I

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-06-15

Published 24 October 2017 Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the Danish, Dutch and German government positions on the re

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2025-06-15

Published 19 January 2024 Stora Brännbo Konferens och Hotel. Photo courtesy of Stora Brännbo Interested in spending a couple of days in Sigtuna to write together with peers in a beautiful environment and discuss your writing with senior scholars? The retreat takes place at Stora Brännbo Konferens och Hotel and starts in the late afternoon on the 13th of May and ends in the afternoon of the 15th of

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/writing-retreat-may - 2025-06-15

Published 22 February 2024 Photo by ConvertKit on Unsplash.com Want to stay up-to-date on Asian affairs and research in the Nordics and beyond? Tune in to the Nordic Asia Podcast! The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration between the following academic partners: Asia Centre, University of Tartu (Estonia), Asian Studies, University of Helsinki (Finland), Centre for Asian Studies, Vytautas Magnus U

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-and-graduate-school-asian-studies-joins-nordic-asia-podcast - 2025-06-15

Published 21 March 2024 New deadline 15 April. At this workshop, led by Altitude Meetings, and co-organised with the Graduate School in History, you will get practical advice in a workshop format on how to become a better speaker.The workshop takes place on 22 May at Stadshallen in LundSee here for more information

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/extended-application-deadline-workshop-presentation-skills-and-public-speaking - 2025-06-15

Published 16 May 2024 Application deadline: 13 June, 2024 During the fall of 2024, we will give the PhD course Critical Perspectives on East and South-East Asian Studies. The course is given part-time during the fall semester with some in-person events in Lund. Please check the link for more information and application form if you are interested. PhD students focusing on East and South-East Asia,

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/applications-are-now-being-accepted-our-fall-2024-phd-mobility-and-phd-course-critical-perspectives - 2025-06-15

Published 28 May 2024 Sigtunastiftelsen. Image from Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The 2024 annual retreat will be held 6-8 November in Sigtuna at Sigtunastiftelsen. The application deadline is 25 September. At this event we will discuss the need for knowledge on East and South-East Asia among Swedish and international institutions, and career possi

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/application-annual-retreat-application-now-closed - 2025-06-15