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...
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...
