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...
by Sveinn Jóhannesson | 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...
