The Department’s Higher Research Seminar Series
Spring 2025
The Higher Research Seminar is the main collective seminar of the Department. The research staff and invited national and international leading scholars present ongoing research and analyses of a broad range of exciting topics of relevance for Political Science.
The Higher Research Seminar is held on Wednesdays 13.15 to 14.30 in Eden 367, unless otherwise indicated. PhD Mid-term seminars 13:15 to 14:45
Convenors: Professor Annika Björkdahl and Professor Fariborz Zelli
The following seminars are open to the public. Welcome to join us!
Program
| Date | Presenter & Affiliation (if from outside our department) | Title / Background | Chair |
| 15 January | Isabel Bramsen Jonathan Polk Lisa Strömbom Anders Uhlin | Successful grant applications from the department:
| Annika Björkdahl |
| 22 January | Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Aarhus University | ‘Democratic Imaginaries in the Movements of the Squares across 3 Emblematic Cases’ | Fariborz Zelli |
| 29 January | Michael McEachrane, Harvard University | ‘Racial Social Democracy and the Swedish Welfare State’
| Annika Björkdahl |
| 05 February | Joshua Wilson, University of Denver | ‘The Least Dangerous Branch? Understanding Recent Developments in the US Conservative Legal Movement’
| Jonathan Polk |
| 12 February | No seminar
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| 19 February | No seminar (Sportlov) | ||
| 26 February | Martin Hall
| ‘Raiding and Trading in the Baltic Sea’ | Annika Björkdahl |
| 05 March | No seminar (ISA Convention) | ||
| 12 March | Paulina Vaughn | PhD Mid-term seminar – Discussant: Dalia Mukhtar Landgren | Sara Kalm |
| 19 March | Isabela Mares, Yale University | ‘Parliaments in Times of Democratic Erosion’
| Fariborz Zelli |
| 26 March | No seminar
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| 02 April | Douglas Brommesson, Linnaeus University Ann-Marie Ekengren, University of Gothenburg Anna Michalski, Uppsala University | ‘Sweden’s Grand Strategy: Predicaments of a Small Liberal State in a Hostile World’
| Annika Björkdahl |
| 09 April | No seminar
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| 16 April | Manuela Boatca, Kerstin Hesselgren Professor, University of Freiburg | ‘Gendering Global Entanglements’
| Magdalena Bexell |
| 23 April | No seminar
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| 30 April | No seminar (Valborg) | ||
| 07 May | Gezim Visoka, Dublin City University | ‘The Derecognition of States’ | Annika Björkdahl |
| 14 May | Frank Biermann, Utrecht University (To be confirmed) | Focus: Sustainable Development Goals
| Fariborz Zelli |
| 21 May | Neil Renic, University of Copenhagen
| ‘Savage Wars of Algorithm: The Civilizational imaginaries of Military AI and Autonomous Weapons’ | Fariborz Zelli |
| 28 May | Michael Bruter, London School of Economics and Political Science | ‘Democracy and the Intergenerational Challenge’ | Annika Björkdahl |
| 04 June | Bibi Imre-Millei | PhD Mid-term Seminar – Discussant: (to be decided) | Sara Kalm |
| 11 June | No seminar |
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Research Group Seminars
Link to the calendar for the research groups' meetings.