The EDDA Research Center at the University of Iceland is an interdisciplinary center in critical contemporary research, with emphasis on (in)equality and difference; societal and political ruptures; the welfare state; and security and development.
Icelandic Constitutional Revision. What next?
The Democratic Constitutional Design (DCD) research project organises a conference at the University of Iceland on 20 October 2022 on the next steps for the Icelandic Constitutional Revision. DCD examines what lessons can be drawn from the Icelandic constitutional...
Recognising Sexual Violence. ReNEW Workshop
A Nordic ReNEW Workshop on Recognising Sexual Violence. Developing Pathways to Survivor-Centred Justice was held in conjuncture with an international conference by the same title at the end of September 2022. The aim of the conference was to discuss how, in the...
International Conference: War Narratives, Global Crises, and Memory Battles
The EDDA Research Center—in cooperation with the Ratiu Democracy Centre and the Babes-Bolyai University in Romania as well as the London School of Economics – LSE IDEAS—hosts an international conference on the perilous political and economic situation in Europe from...
RESEARCH & PUBLICATION
The EDDA Research Center promotes research projects and publications that align with the center’s research program.
VIÐBURÐADAGATAL
Tasa-arvopäivät 2024 (02.10.2024 - 03.10.2024, Helsinki)
Ajankohta: 2.–3.10.2024 Paikka: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos THL (Mannerheimintie 166, Helsinki)
2024 ATGENDER conference: Gender studies and the precarious labour of making a d...
The 2024 ATGENDER conference aims to explore the theme of Gender Studies and the Precarious Labour of Making a Difference: (Un)paid Jobs, Internships, and Volunteering in the Worlds of Activism, Profit, and Non-profit.
EGSC 2024: 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (02.09.2024 - 04....
Theme: Uncomfortable Spaces At this conference, we’re interested in comfort – and discomfort. We want to take seriously the emotional and affective qualities of comfort and discomfort. We aim to explore their shifting meanings and practices, the...