by Elín Björk | Dec 18, 2020 | News
The EDDA Center has entered into a research partnership with the University of Lisbon as part of project on social and economic benefits of equal pay between women and women. EDDA core researcher, Stefán Ólafsson, is the Icelandic member of the research team that...
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 | Oct 1, 2020 | News
What is often termed ‘Nordic Noir’ has dominated detective fiction, film and television internationally for over two decades. This volume, edited by Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir Professor at the University of Iceland, investigates the parameters of this...
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 | Mar 5, 2020 | News
The persistent lack of trust in politics and politicians in many well-established democracies has led to increased calls for new and meaningful ways for citizens to participate in democratic decision-making beyond elections. The Democratic Constitutional Design (DCD)...
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...
