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In the 1960s, Europe’s largest steel plant was built in Taranto, Italy. While transforming the local economy, it generated pollution that has been linked to illness and premature death among residents. In his doctoral thesis, Carlo Nicoli Aldini shows how law has both contributed to the crisis and been used as an instrument to seek justice by the local population. Carlo Nicoli Aldini recently comp

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/taranto-environmental-crisis-reveals-laws-ambivalent-role - 2026-06-19

The Islamic presence in Europe is becoming normalised. But integration also leads to increased conflict, according to Oliver Scharbrodt, Lund University’s new professor of Islamic Studies. Oliver Scharbrodt came to the University last spring after taking up Sweden’s only professorship in Islamic Studies. “I was attracted by the fact that Lund is one of Europe’s classic top universities and that th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/integration-can-lead-conflict - 2026-06-20

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. PhD candidate Maria Tonini at the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”The Ambiguities of Recognition – Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India” on Friday 13 May 2016. The faculty opponent was Professor Jyoti Puri from Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/doctoral-thesis-homosexuality-contemporary-india - 2026-06-19

CONGRATULATIONS TO Christian Jamtheim Gustafsson, who has received the ALF Research Space for Younger Clinical Researchers ALF | Medical Faculty, Lund University ALF Forskningsutrymme för Yngre kliniska forskare utlyses varje år (på våren) och är från och med utlysningen 2022 ett fyra-årigt anslag. Den som innehaft forskningsutrymme under en fyraårsperiod har möjlighet att i konkurrens ansöka om y

https://www.msf-malmo.lu.se/article/alf-research-funds - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Heimo Zobernig, Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, has been appointed honorary doctor of Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts 2021. Since his debut in 1978, Heimo Zobernig has been one of Europe's and the world's most interesting and influential artists. In his field, he works with the equivalent of art to basic res

https://www.arts.lu.se/article/heimo-zobernig-appointed-honorary-doctor - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Frans Libertson, doctoral student at the IIIEE, has published a new article in Energy, Sustainability and Society. The focus of the article is to decipher the ongoing media discourse in Sweden concerning the electricity shortage and its proposed solutions, and thereby also discerning the related pathways for Sweden’s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-competing-socio-technical-narratives-swedens-energy-future - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Evaluating for a Transition – Advancing evaluation of research and policy for a more sustainable energy system and society” is the title of Sofie’s dissertation. How can evaluation of policy instruments and research initiatives support large-scale transitions towards a more sustainable energy system and society? This

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/doctoral-defence-sofie-sandin-may-21 - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published the article "Institutional stepping stones for democracy: how and why multipartyism enhances democratic change" which presents evidence in support of a more positive understanding of multipartyism and democracy. AbstractScholars of electoral authoritarianism and comp

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-even-fake-elections-can-hasten-democratic-change - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees. The ban on neonicotinoids, approved by member nations today, is expected to come into force by the end of 2018 and will mean these insecticides can only be used in closed greenhouses.This

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-agrees-ban-use-neonicotinoids - 2026-06-19

Together with Esam Wasel (Thamar University), CMES researcher Mohammed Al-Mahfali has authored the article "Women Stereotype in the Book: Yemeni Tales and Legends", available online in the journal Ansaq. The paper aims to understand how women stereotypes are formed in Ḥekayᾱt Wa Asaṭīr Yamanī [Yemeni Tales and Legends] book compiled by Ali Muhammad Abdo. The paper consists of a preface that includ

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-stereotypes-book-yemeni-tales-and-legends - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This year's Graduate Student Conference was entitled "The Middle East in the Contemporary World". The conference is as an opportunity for students at CMES and more widely at Lund University to present and discuss their own research and ideas. One of the presentations was The Hurdles of the Patriarchy – Women and Polit

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-and-politics-lebanon-one-many-interesting-presentations-graduate-student-conference - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Magdalena Bexell has contributed the chapter "The Post-2015 Consultations: Fig Leaf Policy or Test Bed for Innovation?" in the newly published book "Global Trends. Prospects for World Society" Abstract:The United Nations (UN)-led global consultations on new development goals, which will replace the Millennium Developm

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/magdalena-bexell-discussions-about-new-un-millennium-development-goals - 2026-06-19

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/quality-government-well-influence-democracy-prevents-war - 2026-06-19

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/large-grant-research-opioid-epidemic - 2026-06-19

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/parallel-network-based-biocomputation - 2026-06-19

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-future-primates-conservation-struggles-forests-cross-river-state-nigeria - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees. The ban on neonicotinoids, approved by member nations today, is expected to come into force by the end of 2018 and will mean these insecticides can only be used in closed greenhouses.This

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/eu-agrees-ban-use-neonicotinoids - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. While attending the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology organized by the Society for Conservation Biology last week in Jyväskylä, Finland, CEC's Lovisa Nilsson was awarded First Place for her outstanding student poster. Lovisa has studied annual flower strips used to compensate for biodiversity losses in agr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lovisa-nilsson-awarded-outstanding-student-poster - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen invites all Nordic colleagues in Asian studies for a conference entitled ”NORDIC Asian studies in the 21st century - Stocktaking for the future” to be held 7-9 December 2016. (actThe reason behind the conference is, according to NIAS Director Geir Helgesen, is

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nias-conference-nordic-asian-studies-21st-century - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond has recently published a book chapter titled “Celebrity global motherhood: Maternal care and cosmopolitan obligation” in the edited collection “Troubling Motherhood Maternality in Global Politics”, edited by Lucy B. Hall, Anna L. Weissman, and Laura J. Shepherd, Oxford University Press, 2020. T

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-celebrity-global-motherhood - 2026-06-19