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22 Sep 2023
From sound engineer and roadie to professor in music: Meet guest researcher Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard is usually working as a professor of music at Aalborg University in Denmark, but for the coming six months he is joining the Theme Sound of Democracy at the P...
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8 Sep 2023
Call for applications to the Pufendorf IAS are now open.
The Institute announces yearly calls for application to Themes and Advanced Study Groups. Researchers at Lund University are now invited to apply for Themes and Advanced Study Grou...
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22 Jun 2023
The institute welcomes four new Advanced Study Groups in the autumn.
The new Advanced Study Groups, who will start their work at the institute in September, will investigate questions related to: artistic processes in music and literary creation; la...
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22 May 2023
Meet our guest researcher Mariangela Lavanga
Mariangela Lavanga is working as a guest researcher with the Theme Public Art and the New Commons in spring 2023.
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20 Apr 2023
Meet guest researcher Ruth Bereson
Ruth Bereson is working as a guest researcher with the Theme Public Art and the New Commons in spring 2023.
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19 Apr 2023
Meet guest researcher Visvanath Venkatesh
Professor Viswanath Venkatesh has been working as a guest researcher with the Theme Designing Sustainable Digital Work in spring 2023.
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13 Apr 2023
Pufendorf Theme paved the way for ERC Advanced Grant on perennial crops
Professor Lennart Olsson has been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant to develop his research on perennial crops for a transition to more sustainable food system – research ...
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3 Apr 2023
Four new Themes to start in the fall of 2023
This year’s four new Themes have now been chosen. In total, the Institute received eighteen Theme applications in December 2022, of which eight were sent to external experts. In M...
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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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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...
