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• LECTURE - Human Futures, Machine Pasts: Rethinking AI through Cultural Memory and Imagination

  2026-05-27

  Anna Foka

• WORKSHOP - Human Futures – AI Transitions in a Global Context

  2026-05-27

  By invitation only.

• PANEL DISCUSSION - The Other Side of Futures: Engaging Endings and their Chronopolitics

  2026-05-26

  Marisa Cohn; Anders Ekström; Christina Garsten; Julia Velkova

• SEMINAR - Throwaway Infrastructure: Dismantling Communication Networks and the Cultural Politics of Making Technology Endings

  2026-05-26

  Julia Velkova

• SEMINAR - Grounding Space/Un-Earthing Ground: The Possibilities and Limitations of Extraterrestrial Anthropology

  2026-05-19

  Chakad Ojani

• SEMINAR - Magic, Gypsy Stereotyping, and Roma Agency: How European Magical Traditions Shaped a Transnational Minority

  2026-05-12

  Egil Asprem

• WORKSHOP - Advancing the Organization of Democratic Climate Transitions

  2026-05-11

  By invitation only.

• WORKSHOP - Academic Freedoms

  2026-05-07

  The Academic Freedoms workshop is a collaboration between the Academic Freedoms Research Network, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).

• SEMINAR - Politics of Therapeutic Culture: Polarization, Gender and Belonging in Turkey

  2026-05-05

  Feyda Sayan-Cengiz

• SEMINAR - Echoes of Preliterate Voices on the Shores of the Baltic Sea

  2026-04-28

  Anthony Jakob

• BOOK TALK - Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old Turns, New Encounters

  2026-04-23

  Brita Brenna (University of Oslo), Anders Ekström (SCAS & Uppsala University) and Marie-Theres Federhofer (UiT/the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø) in conversation with Erik Isberg (University of Copenhagen; moderator) about their new book Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old Turns, New Encounters (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026).

• SEMINAR - Vague and Incomparable Values: Two Challenges for Rational Choice

  2026-04-21

  Olle Risberg

• BOOK TALK - The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South

  2026-04-17

  Navnita Chadha Behera , Solveig Richter , Ashok Swain and Siddharth Tripathi will discuss The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South (Bloomsbury, 2025).

• SEMINAR - Rome Beyond Rome: The Reception of Classical Antiquity in the Muslim and Christian Late Medieval Mediterranean

  2026-04-14

  Dana Katz

• SEMINAR - Un/Natural : Marine Sexualities and the Queer Ecological

  2026-03-24

  Geoffrey Maguire

• New date: SCAS CONVERSATIONS - Parliaments, Political Communities, and the Tensions of Representative and Democratic Government

  2026-03-19

  SCAS Fellow Paul Seaward and SCAS Short-term Researcher Pasi Ihalainen discuss how their separate projects on the history of parliaments and parliamentarism illuminate the relationship between people, political elites, and our understanding of democracy.

• SEMINAR - On the Usefulness of Useless Knowledge – or How Free is Science Today

  2026-03-17

  Andreas Kirschning

• SEMINAR - What's Left for Glaciology? or, How We Remember What We Know About Anthropogenic Climate Change

  2026-03-10

  Anders Ekström

• SEMINAR - Judgment and Constraints: The Use of Climate Mitigation Models in Decision Making

  2026-03-03

  Jack Wright

• SEMINAR - The Wicked Problem of Childhood Obesity – How Can It Be Tackled?

  2026-02-24

  Peter Bergsten

• The 8th Wittrock LECTURE - Human Rights and Resurgent Fascism

  2026-02-12

  Michael Goodhart

• SEMINAR - A New Approach to the Diversification of Ancient Greek

  2026-02-10

  David Goldstein

• SEMINAR - The National Palaver and the Sausage Machine: Making Parliaments Work in Early Modern Europe

  2026-02-03

  Paul Seaward

• SEMINAR - Roman Urban Inequality: Challenges and Methodological Approaches

  2026-01-27

  Samuli Simelius

• SEMINAR - Understanding with Live Possibilities: On the Epistemic Gains of Seemingly Unsuccessful Inquiries

  2026-01-20

  Ylwa Sjölin Wirling

• SEMINAR - Home Affairs: Soldiering and Social Reproduction in Postcolonial India

  2025-12-09

  Sahana Ghosh

• BOOK TALK - Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820

  2025-12-08

  Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan , authors of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820 (Yale University Press, 2025), will introduce and discuss their new book.

• SYMPOSIUM - LAMP Reflections: Illuminating a Paradigm Shift in Prehistoric Research

  2025-12-04

• SEMINAR - Creating Genome-edited Humans for Outer Space Travel: An Apocalyptic Scenario and an Ethical Idea of Classical Confucianism on Humanity

  2025-12-02

  Jing-Bao Nie

• SEMINAR - Russian Multi-Layered Strategies for Gaining Control over Industrial Assets in Pre-2022-Invasion Ukraine

  2025-11-25

  Hanna Shevtsova

• SEMINAR - Genomic and Archaeological Insights on the Expansion of Austronesian Speakers into Island Southeast Asia

  2025-11-18

  Hugo Reyes-Centeno

• CUSP LECTURE - Entering the Philanthropocene: Planetary Sciences in the Age of Rich Men

  2025-11-12

  Thomas Turnbull

• SEMINAR - Seeking Infinity: Mystics in the Modern World

  2025-11-11

  Jane Shaw

• SEMINAR - The Invention of the Ecological Consumer: A New History of Green Capitalism

  2025-11-04

  Niklas Olsen

• LECTURES - The Situation for Individual Scholars Worldwide

  2025-10-23

  A Week on Academic Freedom

• LECTURE - Beyond Competitiveness? Academic Gift Culture and Its Discontents

  2025-10-21

  Alexandra Urakova & Olli Pyyhtinen  

• LECTURE - A Dual-loop Model and Institutional Neutrality: Doing Social Research in Uncertain Times

  2025-10-21

  Biao Xiang

• SEMINAR - The ‘Subaltern-speak’: Vernacular Sites and Modes of Knowledge Production

  2025-10-21

  Navnita Chadha Behera

• A Week on Academic Freedom

  2025-10-20

  A Week on Academic Freedom is a joint initiative by the research programme Democracy and Higher Education, Higher Education and Research as Objects of Study (HERO), and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).

• WORKSHOP - Beyond Crisis: Emerging Temporalities in a Warming World

  2025-10-13

  Since the founding of IPCC in 1988, global societies have struggled to encompass the wide-ranging impact of anthropogenic climate change. This challenge has been predominantly approached through the concept of crisis. This workshop addresses the limitations of this view. Three major shortcomings of the analytical and political framework of crisis particularly comes to mind. First of all, it positions climate change on the same level as other disruptive events, for example pandemics, war and financial crises, with the inevitable effect that climate action is measured against and postponed by other crises and a proliferating tactics of ‘states of exception’. The second aspect concerns the original meaning of crisis as a transitional moment with a distinctive before and after. In terms of climate policy, this invites one-solution thinking based in unsubstantiated expectations of transformative technological innovations in the distant future. The third problem concerns the mismatch between, on the one hand, the multiple temporalities and extending durations of climate action and, on the other, the temporal flatness and presentism implicit in the concept of crisis. This workshop therefore posits that the growing engagement in late-modern societies with increasingly conflicted timescapes and matters of temporal injustice not only reflects the ‘climate crisis’, but also a far-reaching ‘crisis’ of modern temporality itself. It is against this critical backdrop that the workshop sets out to explore a different set of temporalities currently emerging from the historical experience of anthropogenic climate change.

• SEMINAR - The Life of an Early Christian Poet

  2025-10-07

  Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed

• BOOK LAUNCH - Indo-European Ecologies: Cattle and Milk – Snakes and Water

  2025-10-02

  This volume brings together scholars from different fields, exploring how early Indo-European communities understood and mythologized their natural and social environments. From sacred cattle and milk rituals to the chthonic symbolism of serpents and the mythological periphery of water, this interdisciplinary volume uncovers deep-rooted ecological imaginaries embedded in language, archaeology, and comparative mythology. With contributions spanning from the Indo-Iranian plains to the Baltic forests, the book reveals how beliefs about animals, agriculture and the household shaped Indo-European worldviews. Rich in detail and accessible in style, Indo-European Ecologies offers new perspectives for scholars and curious readers alike. It is the second volume in the book series Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture .

• SEMINAR - Rethinking Mongol History

  2025-09-30

  Johan Elverskog

• CUSP LECTURE - It Can Happen Here 2.0: Democratic Backsliding and the Rising Threat of Violence in the U.S.

  2025-09-25

  Alexander Hinton

• SEMINAR - Visualising Diplomacy in Cold War Asia

  2025-09-23

  Naoko Shimazu