by Elín Björk | Oct 14, 2019 | Events, News
People who flee persecution because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression (SOGIE) constitute a particularly vulnerable group of migrants in both asylum and integration processes. On October 11-12, the GEST programme launched a two-day workshop...
by Elín Björk | Jul 29, 2019 | Events, News
A group of 23 students from Iceland, Russia, Canada, Argentina and the UK took part in a week-long summer school organized by EDDA in cooperation with Democratic Constitutional Design and the Escapes from Modernity project. The group discussed democratic theory, both...
by Elín Björk | Jul 24, 2019 | Academic Forum, News
Welfare and the Great Recession: A Comparative Study has been published by Oxford University Press. The book is edited by EDDA researcher Stefán Ólafsson along with Mary Daly, Olli Kangas, and Joakim Palme. The edited volume focuses on the consequences of the European...
by Elín Björk | May 30, 2019 | Events, News
ReNEW (Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World) is a research hub established in 2018 to enhance cooperation to develop new and path-breaking excellence in research about the Nordic region. One of ReNEW‘s activities during the five-year duration of the project is to...
by Elín Björk | May 26, 2019 | Events, News
The NORA conference 2019, was co-hosted by EDDA, RIKK – Institute for gender, equality and difference and UNU-GEST. The conference focused on critical feminist cross-disciplinary research and activities relying on contemporary and/or historical perspectives as...
