THE SEMINAR SERIES ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND ITS ORGANIZATIONS

The purpose of the cross disciplinary seminar series is to provide a meeting point and a discussion platform where research on (broadly defined) civil society and its organizational dimensions can be presented and discussed. Interest in civil society is growing among social scientists, and our ambition has been to create a forum for both dissemination of research and exchange of ideas, where scholars from different disciplines and universities can “talk civil society” with like-minded colleagues.

The seminar takes place two or three times each semester, and is based on different types of texts and presentations such as: papers-in-progress, new publications or planned/on-going research projects.

2020-02-19 presenterade Martin Gustavsson (Score) ett antologikapitel med titeln Klämd mellan stat och marknad. En ekonomisk historia om Folkrörelsernas Konstfrämjande 1947-2017.

2019-11-28 Niklas Hill (Stockholm University) and Malin Lindberg (Luleå University of Technology) presented their chapter Pedagogical innovations in civil society.

2019-05-14 gästades seminariet av Lisa Kings och Zhanna Kravchenko (Södertörns högskola) som presenterade utkastet till ett kapitel i den kommande antologin Resourceful civil society? Negotiations, contestations and strategies in the changing landscapes of CSOs.

2019-03-20 David Falk (Stockholm School of Economics) presented his paper “The multiplicity in constitutional hybridity: The case of preschool services in for-profit forms provided by a Swedish nonprofit organization with public sector roots.”

2018-09-18: Nils Gustafsson, Noomi Weinryb och Cecilia Gullberg presenterade sitt papper ”Social media and civil society organizations: Exploring the institutionalization of positive emotional vocabulary".

2018-05-08: Patrik Cras från SLU presenterar sin avhandling Landsbygdssamhällets medborgarskap. En studie av organisering av service och infrastruktur i gränslandet mellan det ideella, kommersiella och politiska. Tid kl. 10-12.

2018-03-16: Fredrik O Andersson (Indiana University) presenterade ett forskningsprojekt på temat Governance and Board Dynamics in New Nonprofit Ventures.

2018-02-23: Marta Reuter (SCCSS samt Stockholms universitet) och Filip Wijkström (SCCSS) presenterar pappret Linking public and organizational governance. Steering and control in nonprofit welfare providers - the case of Church of Sweden.

2017-06-02: Emilia Kvarnström, Uppsala University ”Institutionella samspel: Om möten mellan en kommersiell och en ideell logik”.

2017-04-19: Filip Wijkström, Marta Reuter och Abbas Emami (red) ”Civilsamhället i det transnationella rummet”.

2016-11-28: Florentine Maier, Michael Meyer och Martin Steinbereithner, Vienna University of Economics “Nonprofit Organizations Becoming Business-Like: a Systematic Review”.

2016-10-19: Katarina Friberg, SIR “The Organization of Voluntary Relief in the 1940s: government and voluntary society as linked ecologies”.

2016-09-21: Erik Amnå, Örebro Universitet och Marianne af Malmborg (red) ” För det allmänna bästa. Ett kungligt sällskap mellan stat och marknad under 250 år” Discussants Katarina Friberg, SIR och Susanne Wallman-Lundåsen, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola.

2016-05-25: Johan Hvenmark och Anna Fyrberg Yngfalk, Ersta Sköndal Högskola ” Changing perspectives – changing dynamics? On neoliberal capitalism’s impact on the government-nonprofit nexus”.

2016-03-09: Domika Polanska, Uppsala Universitet och Galia Chimiak, Polish Academy of Sciences ” Organizing without organizations: unexpected and unexplored dimensions of social activism in post-socialist context”.

2016-01-15: Kerstin Jacobsson, Göteborgs Universitet (red) “Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe” Discussant Anna Domaradzka from University of Warsaw.

2015-09-11: Norbert Götz och Katarina Friberg, Södertörns högskola present a special issue from Journal of Global Ethics which focuses on transational humanitarian networks.

2015-05-26: Philippe Eynaud IAE de Paris Frankrike och Kari Steen-Johnsen Institutt for samfunnsforskning Oslo Norge ”Civil Society, The Third Sector, Social Enterprise: Governance and Democracy"

2015-04-16: Apostolis Papakostas, Södertörns högskola ”De sociala mekanismerna bakom det medlemslösa civilsamhällets organisationer i Polen, Ryssland och Sverige”.

2014-12-11: Angela Eikenberry, University of Nebraska Omaha USA “Trends in Philanthropy: Collaboration vs. Marketization”.

2014-10-27: Noomi Weinryb, Uppsala Universitet ”Comparing philanthropists to other funders within and across societies - a study of human embryonic stem cell research funders”.

2014-05-22: Erik Sjöstrand Handelshögskolan i Stockholm ”Om processerna för fördelning av statsbidrag, samt statsbidragets roll i styrningen av studieförbunden”.

2014-03-25: Roseanne Mirabella, professor vid Steton Hall University "Isn't there an app for that? A case for developing NME education programs that move beyond 'solutionism'”.

2014-01-24: Michele Micheletti, Stockholms universitet ”Political Consumerism: Global Responsibility in Action”.

2013-11-21: Niklas Egels-Zandén från Göteborgs universitet ”Transnationellt samarbete kring fackliga rättigheter”

2013-09-13: Andrea Walter Münster University (Germany) ”Between Co-Producing, Policy-Making and Lobbying: How German Civil Society Organizations understand their Role in Local Level Politics – Self-Conceptions and Strategies of Interaction”

2013-05-29: Roberto Scaramuzzino Lunds Universitet och Magnus Wennerhag, Göteborgs Universitet och Södertörns högskola ”Europeisering av det svenska civilsamhället – en enkätstudie”

2013-04-09: Erik Lundberg, Örebro Universitet “An Archetype of Governance Network? The Position and Role of the Swedish Commission Process”

2013-02-30: Håkon Lorentzen, Senter for forskning på sivilsamfunn & frivillig sektor Oslo Norge ”Civilt engagemang, filantropi och stiftelser i de moderna samhället”

2012-12-10: Kerstin Jacobsson, Södertörns högskola “Fragmentation of the Collective Action Space: The Animal Rights Movement in Poland”

2012-10-05: Steven Rathgeb Smith, Georgetown University Washington USA “Civil society and hybridization”