The Higher Research Seminar
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 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: Annika Björkdahl and 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 |
| 14 May | Roger Mac Ginty, Durham University | ‘Making sense of it all: Can hybridity help us understand the emerging peace landscape?’ | Lisa Strömbom |
21 May Cancelled
| 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: Catarina Kinnvall and Margaux Dandrifosse | Jens Bartelson |
| 11 June | John Dryzek, University of Canberra | ‘Democratic Resilience: The Shallow and the Deep’ | Moira Nelson |
Research group seminars
In the shared calendar on our English internal website, you can see all the internal seminars of the research groups.