Institute for Futures Studies
Institute for Futures Studies
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Independent research foundation. We conduct research on issues of great importance for our future.
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Focuses on academic research across social sciences, political theory, and philosophy with episodes covering themes such as elite student socialization, trust in communities, historical narratives in conservatism, communication ethics in science, and the rationality of beliefs. Examples include discussions on the social tactics of business students and trust relationships in conflicts.
Independent research foundation. We conduct research on issues of great importance for our future.
We welcome back Lea Ypi, professor and award-winning author of the book Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. Now she returns to present her new book, Indignity: A Life Reimagined. In this work, she investigates the truth about her family's past by tracing the steps of her grandmother through the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, the horrors of war and the dawn of communism in the Balkans. Indignity is both about Ypi's personal journey, and about survival in an age of extremes, about what we can truly know about those closest to us, and about the moral authority with which we can judge the acts of previous generations.
Moderator: Gustaf Arrhenius, professor of practical philosophy and director of the Institute for Futures Studies.
If you are curious about Lea's research for this new book, listen to the talk she gave in our research seminar series in 2023.
If you are interested in listening to the conversation Lea had with Gustaf on her book Free, click here.
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