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Zen Buddhists have long given the following advice to attain liberation: “Eat when you’re hungry. Sleep when you’re tired.” In other words: “Freedom” is the “knowledge of necessity” (Hegel, Marx, and Engels). Early Islamic communities dealt with the challenge of internal warfare and tyranny and concluded that, “sixty years of tyranny is better than one day’s anarchy.” In other words, the worst-cas

10 juni 2026 12:00 till 13:00 | Seminarium Topic: The Challenges of Generative AI for Democracy – Trust, Transparency, and Accountability in an AI-Infused Information LandscapeWhen: 10 June, 2026 12.00 to 13.00 CETWhere: Online - link by registration Speaker: Olof Sundin, Information Studies, Lund UniversityAbstractThis presentation examines the risks generative AI poses to democratic societies, f

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/ai-lund-lunch-seminar-challenges-generative-ai-democracy-trust-transparency-and-accountability-ai - 2026-05-14

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/seminar-memory-infrastructures-russias-war-against-ukraine - 2026-05-14

This article investigates the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of typological characters in 117 Indo-European languages. We partition types of change (i.e., gain or loss) for each variant according to whether they bring about a simplification in morphosyntactic patterns that must be learned, whether they are neutral (i.e., neither simplifying nor introducing complexity) or whether they introduce

Galatians is a polemical letter which contains a substantial amount of argumentative passages. Paul evidently wanted to persuade by using the best arguments possible to convince his addressees. Using a state-of-the-art method from the discipline of argumentation analysis, Paul's argumentation can be analysed with a precision that standard exegetical methods cannot provide. The pragma-dialectical m

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/open-seminar-acousmonium-basics-alessandro-perini-intonal-2026 - 2026-05-14

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/breakfast-seminar-10-back-10-forward-climate-fully-booked - 2026-05-14

The aim with this study was to investigate the senses of the lexemes /assassinated/, /killed/, and /murdered/ in 21st century American and British newspaper discourse, which was done with the method of corpus-driven Cognitive Linguistics. The main research questions dealt with how the combination of grammatical and contextual features of the articles frame patients and agents of the verbs. A focus

14 maj 2025 15:15 till 17:00 | Övrigt Book panel with Jenny Hedström, Natalie Brinham and Andrew Jefferson In Reproducing Revolution, Jenny Hedström explores the Kachin revolution in Myanmar from the perspective of female soldiers, female activists, and women displaced by the violence in northern Myanmar. Hedström argues that the household is an inherently gendered, militarized, and political spac

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/meet-authors-new-books-myanmar-i - 2026-05-14

https://www.lu.se/evenemang/icos-science-conference-2026 - 2026-05-14

This thesis explores the experiences of international and domestic higher education students in the U.S. during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. By using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach the aim of the thesis, in the first place, is concerned with students’ experience during national and global lockdowns with social distancing and isolation and, secondly, with the structural c

Although mental illness is an increasing problem, it’s still stigmatizing. A reason for this is a lack of knowledge. Research has shown that people obtain much of their knowledge through films, whereby the presentation made in movies affects the understanding and the attitudes that the environment will have to mental illness. A film where mental illness is central is "A star is born" fro

In this interview, Michèle Lamont discusses her intellectual trajectory in relation to other sociologists and research fields. The starting point is her relationship to Bourdieu’s field theory in 1980s Paris. She describes how her empirically grounded work developed as a critique of Bourdieu’s oeuvre yet draws heavily on it. A common thread in her work is a focus on social and symbolic boundaries