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Critically Urgent Societal Problems

CUSP is an arena for addressing big societal challenges of our time: social, political, cultural, economic, environmental, and/or medical. In an effort to give voice to urgent societal problems, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) invites academics, policy-makers, artists, and other actors to publicly address such global concerns.

Upcoming CUSP event:

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Previous CUSP events:

CUSP LECTURE - 12 November, 2025
Entering the Philanthropocene: Planetary Sciences in the Age of Rich Men
Thomas Turnbull, Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

CUSP LECTURE - 25 September, 2025
It Can Happen Here 2.0: Democratic Backsliding and the Rising Threat of Violence in the U.S.
Alexander Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention, Rutgers University

CUSP LECTURE & PANEL DISCUSSION - 22 May, 2024
Governing Temperature, Governing the World: From the Earth Summit to the Earth Commission
Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography, University of Cambridge
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The lecture was followed by a panel discussion with Sabine Höhler, Sam Robinson, Richard Staley, Sverker Sörlin (Chair) and Paul Warde.


CUSP LECTURE - 25 May, 2023
The Invasion of Ukraine: Impacts on World Agricultural Markets of a Large Production Loss, One Year Later
Torbjörn Jansson, Fredrik Wilhelmsson

CUSP PANEL DISCUSSION - 5 December, 2022
A Critically Urgent Discussion about Intercountry Adoption to Sweden and What Remains to Be Done
Tobias Hübinette, Anna Singer, Gonda Van Steen

The 1st CUSP LECTURE - 4 June, 2021
Controlling Corruption: The Social Contract Approach
Bo Rothstein, August Röhss Chair in Political Science, University of Gothenburg