This weekly digest is a collection of news, upcoming events and other opportunities from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University and the wider area, compiled for Graduate School students.
Online webinar on residence permit extensions
Invitation to all current international degree students at Lund University
The External Relations team at Lund University invites all students who currently hold a one-year residence permit for studies to an information webinar on permit extensions:
“We warmly welcome you to an online webinar on residence permit extensions for all current international degree students at Lund University. You are receiving this email because, based on our records, we believe that you could be applying for a residence permit in the coming months. If this isn’t the case, please feel free to ignore this invitation.
As you know, residence permit applications are handled completely by the Swedish Migration Agency and not by Lund University. However, we have seen that some of our current students have had their extension applications rejected by the Migration Agency for reasons that could have been avoided. Therefore, we want to welcome you to this webinar, so that you can be as prepared as possible to make a successful application.”
Date and time: Wednesday, 5 March, at 5 pm (Swedish local time)
Location: Online, on Zoom
For more information, visit this page.
Scopus AI – A new tool for finding research articles
From February 1st, students and staff at Lund University have access to Scopus AI, an AI-based search service that should make it easier to find research articles.
What is Scopus AI?
Scopus AI is an advanced version of the Scopus database. The tool helps you to:
– Search for research articles using natural language, both in Swedish and English.
– Get summaries based on article abstracts and references.
– Create search strings with Boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT) for more accurate searches.
How do I access Scopus AI?
All students and staff at Lund University have free access to Scopus AI throughout 2025. You can find the service in the Scopus database. Log in to the Scopus website using your LUCAT account. Students log in to the same page with their student accounts.
Log in to the Scopus database – scopus.com
Read more about Scopus and Scopus AI on LUB’s database list – emedia.lub.lu.se
Do you have questions? Contact the libraries at Lund University. Contact us – lub.lu.se
For more information, visit this page.
Europe and Russia – Security and human rights in a volatile future
Seminar
Welcome to the second event in Fokus framtid. Main presentation by Karin Olofsdotter, Swedish Ambassador to the Russian Federation.
Shorter presentations covering relevant Lund University research and interests by:
Johanna Lindbladh, Russian Studies
Peter Lundberg, Raoul Wallenberg institute
Jessica Almqvist, International Law and Human Rights (Deputy coordinator LU Profile area: Human Rights)
Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, Ethnology (PI: Conflicts over conspiracy theories)
Ida Börjel, poet.
Welcome!
Date and time: 4 March 2025 10:00 to 12:00
Location: LUX:C126, Helgonavägen 4, Lund
For more information, visit this page.
AI Lund lunch seminar: Who decides what’s trustworthy? Standards development for the EU AI Act
Seminar
In a report published early this year, Corporate Europe Observatory made the claim that global tech companies (such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google) are actively working to undermine the AI Act through the creation of weak and permissive standards. How is this possible? What’s the relationship between these standards and the AI Act? And how did global tech companies come to play such a central role in their development? In this seminar, we address these questions by introducing CEN/CLC/JTC 21, its mandate from the European Commission, and opportunities for the politicisation of its standards development. We hope that this seminar will prompt university-based AI researchers to engage more meaningfully with the standards community.
Speakers:
James White, Technology and Society, LTH, Lunds University
Stefan Larsson, Technology and Society, LTH, Lunds University
Date and time: 5 March 2025 12:00 to 13:00
Location: Zoom
Register here
Welcome to SAMarbete, the career fair for Social Science students!
SAMarbete 2025 returns on March 5 at Eden
Here, you have the opportunity to engage with a variety of organisations seeking future employees! Take this chance to present yourself to recruiters and gain valuable insights into building your CV.
For more information, visit our website samarbete.org or follow us on Instagram at @samarbetelund
If you have any questions or inquiries, do not hesitate to contact us at arbetsmarknad@samvetet.lu.se.
We look forward to welcoming you to SAMarbete 2025!
Date and time: 5 March 2025
Location: Eden, Allhelgona kyrkogata 14, Lund
For more information, visit this page.
Tender Threads: Patchworking Memory, Hope, and Regret
Come work with fabric, thread, words and memory as part of Medea Lab’s Tender Time collaborative artistic research project
Journeying from the vastness of the interstellar to the intricacies of the interpersonal, join us as we collectively reflect on the vulnerabilities that haunt our planet.
We’ll be building on the work first presented at the 2023 Time Space Existence exhibition in Venice. We’ll provide creative prompts, and you’re invited to contribute in words (in any language), images, or needlework. We’ll have fabric panels available, or feel free to bring your own. Draw, write, or embroider your reflections onto the fabric, weaving together stories of memory, hope, and regret – threads that connect us all in this historical moment, our own tender time. The resulting tapestry will be displayed at Malmö University later in 2025.
In the evening, Medea Lab will present the Tender Time project, followed by an open mic for anyone who would like to read or perform work (finished or in-progress) on the themes of memory, home, regret, and tenderness. We will end the evening with music & mingle.
Join us in stitching a collective story, one thread at a time. (see more)
Date and time: 8 March 2025 12:00 to 21:00
Location: Inter Arts Center, Bergsgatan 29, 214 22 Malmö (Black Room)
For more information, visit this page.
PhD Opportunities
Centre for Preparedness and Resilience (LUPREP)
The University is establishing a new Centre for Preparedness and Resilience (LUPREP) at Campus Helsingborg. By strengthening research, collaboration and education in total defence and preparedness, the aim is to meet society’s increasing need for security and crisis management.
The faculty is advertising four doctoral student positions linked to LUPREP. The following areas are of particular interest:
– Communication, disinformation and psychological defence
– Governance of communities, agencies, other public activities and enterprises with a focus on security and crisis preparedness
– Organisation and management of critical societal activities and organisational dependencies
– Critical infrastructures and security of supply
– Geopolitics and security policy
The news about the establishment of LUPREP can be found here: https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-centre-preparedness-and-resilience-be-established
For more information, visit this page.