7 Oct 2020

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 - for a discovery of a tool which will change society

The CRISPRideas Theme to discuss CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors; the scientific breakthroughs and implications for society, in a symposium.

28 Apr 2020

New Themes and Advanced Study Groups 2020-2021

In the autumn of 2020, the Pufendorf IAS will welcome eight new groups; five Themes and three Advanced Study Groups. The new Themes will work on current issues concerning: a future...

26 Nov 2019

Interview with the editors of the new book Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth

In 2015-2016, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Alexander Paulsson were coordinators of the Degrowth Theme at the Pufendorf IAS. On the 28 of November, almost five years later, they are ...

23 Oct 2019

Interview with Max Koch about the challenges to a degrowth transition

Professor Max Koch, member of the Pufendorf IAS Themes ’Sustainable Welfare’ (2014-2015) and ’Degrowth’ (2015-2016) has, together with co-author Milena Büchs, been awarded the Atl...

8 Oct 2019

The Pufendorf IAS 10 Year Jubilee

It has now been 10 years since the Pufendorf IAS welcomed its first Theme. Since then, hundreds of researchers have had the chance to advance new interdisciplinary areas of researc...

3 Oct 2019

Critical Explorations of Crisis: Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities

How, on what basis, by whom and in what context is crisis proclaimed? What does crisis mean for social justices, security, and rights in particular contexts for various groups due ...

14 Aug 2019

New Themes and Advanced Study Groups 2019-2020

We welcome five new Themes and five new Advanced Study Groups, 2019-2020

7 May 2019

Conference "Is the Future of Agriculture Perennial?"

From the 6th through the 10th of May, about 90 specially invited researchers from around the world will meet at the Pufendorf IAS in Lund to present and discuss progress, challenge...

19 Feb 2019

Fighting Climate Change – Mapping the pathway with social movements

The Pufendorf IAS Advanced Study Group 'Civil Society and Sustainability Studies' has invited climate change activist and founder of 350.org Bill McKibben and climate change activi...

17 Jan 2019

Visions for a sustainable food system

How can we create a sustainable agriculture and food system that can feed and nourish a growing population while carefully managing the Earth’s resources and reduce emission levels...

10 Dec 2018

MOVING AHEAD WITH MIGRATION RESEARCH

Reflections and lessons learned from the Pufendof IAS Migration Initiative and the Migration symposium

3 Dec 2018

New publication on perennial agriculture by Pufendorf IAS theme Domestication

14 Sep 2018

Urban Creativity presented at the Street Art & Urban Creativity conference

The new Pufendorf IAS theme Urban Creativity presented at the Street Art & Urban Creativity conference in Lisbon, Portual

5 Jun 2018

Meet our new director, Ann-Katrin Bäcklund

The Pufendorf Institute’s new director Ann-Katrin Bäcklund had an intensive start, as she began her new job in the middle of the application period for the autumn’s Themes. Now tha...

4 Jun 2018

Reflections on the Pufendorf IAS Symposium and workshops on interdisciplinarity

On the 4th of May, The Pufendorf IAS organized a symposium on interdisciplinarity. International guests and Lund University researchers discussed issues concerning the boundaries o...

24 May 2018

How local communities can transition to sustainable energy systems

What makes for a successful transition to a low-carbon energy system? Local involvement, perceived fairness and information sharing, according to a new study by members of the Pufe...

18 Apr 2018

New Themes and Advanced Study Groups for 2018-2019

We are happy to announce the new Themes and Advanced Study Groups for 2018-2019

6 Apr 2018

Critical conversation in the Digital Age

"It is of vital importance to swim against the current of bits and bytes which challenge our proven analogue way of reflecting on what is happening around us. I sincerely hope this...

26 Mar 2018

INTERVIEW: Symposium on interdisciplinarity: what, how and why?

On 4 May, the Pufendorf Institute will hold a symposium on the interdisciplinary approach. The symposium’s organisers Sune Sunesson and Eva Persson give us an insight into the day...

5 Feb 2018

Sune Sunesson about his new role as scientific advisor

It continues where it all started. As Professor Sune Sunesson recently became a scientific adviser after six years as director of the Pufendorf Institute, he now returns to his old...