by Elín Björk | Mar 13, 2021 | Events, News
The digital era is changing the terms on which democracies operate. The Prime Minister’s Office of Iceland hosts an international conference on the challenges of digital technologies for democracy, equality and the rule of law in cooperation with the EDDA Research...
by Elín Björk | Dec 1, 2020 | Events, News
A virtual symposium to celebrate the publication of The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of The #MeToo Movement, edited by Giti Chandra and Irma Erlingsdóttir, will be held on Thursday 3 December 2020, 16.00-17.30 GMT. The book identifies thematic and theoretical...
by Elín Björk | May 15, 2020 | Events, News
Political Agency after COVID-19: Representation, Power, Constitutions is an online conference on the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic presents and its consequences that are bound to be enormous: Economies may collapse, political leadership will come under extreme...
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 Sveinn Jóhannesson | 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...
