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24 Jan 2023
Sture Forsén 1932 – 2023
Professor emeritus Sture Forsén, the Pufendorf IAS's first director, has passed away.
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17 Jan 2023
Watch: Net negative and nature positive: Disclosure as a game changer or cheap talk?
Can we translate nature into numbers and what are the consequences of using economic concepts of risks and return when quantifying nature? These where some of the issues explored a...
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19 Dec 2022
Meet guest researcher Friederike Landau-Donnelly working with the Theme Public Art and the New Commons
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8 Dec 2022
Smart technical solutions and a sustainable tax system: two focus areas for the institute's new Advanced Study Groups
In the spring, the institute welcomes two new Advanced Study Groups. The ASG "The Seamless Life" studies experiences and visions of a data-driven life, while the ASG Digi-Tax focus...
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1 Dec 2022
Aysegül Sirakaya and Torsten Krause ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15)
The upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal will feature many discussions on the fairness and equity between those who provide biodiversity and those who utilise th...
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17 Oct 2022
The Pufendorf IAS calls for applications are now open.
The Pufendorf IAS stimulates interdisciplinary research within Lund University. The Institute supports researchers working together across disciplinary borders to develop new areas...
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13 Sep 2022
Photographs from a world on fire
Wildfires have ravaged many parts of the world this summer, threatening thousands of households and lives. In a new photographic exhibition, scholars from Lund University explore d...
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15 Jun 2022
The Institute has been appointed a European Physical Society’s (EPS) Historic Site
The European Physical Society’s (EPS) committee for Historic Sites has appointed Gamla Fysicum, currently the Pufendorf IAS, as an EPS Historic Site.
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14 Jun 2022
New Themes and Advanced Study Groups autumn 2022
The institute welcomes two new Themes and at least two new Advanced Study Groups (ASGs) this autumn.
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20 May 2022
Researchers warn of increased fire risk in war-torn Ukraine
In the wake of climate change and an increasingly warmer and drier climate, wildfires are becoming more common. In Ukraine, the war further increases the risk. Already in March thi...
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7 Apr 2022
Guest researcher Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen will explore the ethics of post hoc interventions.
We are pleased to welcome our new guest researcher, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen is a professor of political theory at Aarhus University and will join the Th...
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2 Feb 2022
Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen – New Director of the Pufendorf IAS
In January, we welcomed Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen as new Director of the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies. In this interview you can get to know her and read about her thou...
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21 Dec 2021
The Institute welcomes three new Themes and one Advanced Study Group
In February, the institute will welcome a new ASG, Wildfires in the Anthropocene, and three new Themes: Nature by Numbers, Post Hoc Interventions, and Synthetic Biology. We hope th...
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8 Oct 2021
Call for applications to the Pufendorf IAS are now open.
The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University announces the yearly calls for application to Themes and Advanced Study Groups.
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2 Jun 2021
Previous Themes back with new ideas
Four previous Themes return in autumn to once again work at the institute, now as Themes 2.0
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4 Mar 2021
RQ20 praises the Pufendorf IAS model
In the report from the Lund University Research Quality assessment 2020, the panel looks to the Pufendorf IAS as a model and asset for interdisciplinary and international work at t...
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3 Mar 2021
A future without antibiotics explored in new anthologies
What would a future without antibiotics mean for mankind? That is one central issue for two new anthologies from the multidisciplinary Theme Post-Antibiotic Futures at the Pufendor...
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3 Mar 2021
Exploring political polarisation on the internet
The storming of the Capitol, waning trust in politicians and authorities, growing fact resistance, and filter bubbles – a great deal is today attributed to growing political polari...
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2 Mar 2021
A closer look at In Search of Search and its Engines - interview with the coordinators
The Theme welcomes a new guest researcher, coordinators Olof Sundin and Alison Gerber talk about their plans and future of the Theme
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15 Feb 2021
Call for Theme applications for 2022
The call for Theme applications for 2022 is now open! This year the Pufendorf IAS is making a call for Theme applications in both the spring and the autumn.