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Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation
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Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation
Stureplan 3
SE-103 75 Stockholm
SWEDEN
www.axsonjohnsonfoundation.org
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Index
Forum Axess 1999–2004 by Kurt Almqvist 7
The Engelsberg Seminar 9
International Seminars 21
Swedish Seminars 31
Axess Magazine 37
Global Axess 43
Other Television Productions 51
Books 57
Chronological Report 59
Contributors 75
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Forum Axess
1999–2004
*
The objective of Forum Axess is to disseminate the results of
scholarly work and research and generate conditions for bringing
together academics, journalists, writers, the business community
and the general public.
The Foundation’s vision is to support individuals, ideas and
humanistic projects that run the risk of finding themselves
outside current trends, but which, in the long-term, are deemed
to be of decisive benefit to the public interest by preserving
traditions and by renewing and developing society. The motto
is “excellence and access”.
The Foundation focuses on a small number of humanistic
areas and projects that have prospects of providing effects
deemed to be long-term and of high quality. Driven by a sense
of civic responsibility, the Foundation is to conduct activities
of long-term, decisive importance for the development of
society from a comparative international perspective. The aim
of its activities is to initiate and explore new ideas and methods
and to transfer the knowledge to society.
A community thrives on human encounters. The Foundation
is to constitute a forum for independent, intellectual and
spiritual discussion in Sweden, for which an important element
is to introduce the international, interdisciplinary humanist
debate.
The Foundation’s publishing arm summarizes the diverse
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activities of the Foundation and makes them accessible to the
general public through publications in the form of books, a
humanistic scientific magazine and television programmes.
Kurt Almqvist
CEO
Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson
Foundation
Stockholm, May 4 th 2005
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The Engelsberg Seminar
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The Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation’s Engelsberg
Seminar is a forum for promoting independent discussion of
practical and spiritual matters of importance to Swedish society
and culture, and promotes Sweden’s ongoing contribution
to international, interdisciplinary humanist debate.
1999
The Swedish Success Story?
24th to 27th of august at engelsberg manor
The modern project promises that man can create the world
anew. Sweden in the 20 th century was a supreme embodiment
of that promise. During that century it evolved from a minor
state on the fringe of Northern Europe – with no foreign policy
function in the European system of states (other than as a potential
ally of Germany in a way against Russia), and with a
population many of whom dreamed of getting out of the country
as soon as possible – to a world ideological alternative.
The formula was already expressed in 1936, in Marquis
Childs’ book “Sweden: the Middle Way”, in which Sweden was
seen as a possible midway between the individualist USA and
the collectivist Soviet Union. Sweden seemed to represent compromise,
a balance between self-assertion and subjugation.
Modernity aims to eliminate contradictions between freedom
and equality, between state and society. In many people’s
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eyes, no state achieved more headway in these respects during
the 20 th century than Sweden. Sweden became a symbol of
modernity. The freedom which Sweden sought to realise has
been a “freedom to”, aimed at making possible a “freedom
from”. In this “freedom from” modernity seeks its own enigma,
its own inherent meaning.
Sweden in the 20 th century was also to actively assimilate
the notion that it could abolish the contradictions of modernity.
Modernity became Sweden’s self-image: the promise of a
future which had left historical ties behind it, a harmonisation
of modernity sustained by perpetual and continuous peace.
Sweden entered its fourth age of greatness: at one time (in
the 17 th century) a military power, in the 18 th century it had
become a great power in the field of science (Linnaeus, Celsius
and others) and then, in the late 19 th century, became a great
power in the field of engineering (“industries of genius”): telecommunications,
ball bearings, electronics. Starting in the
1930s, Sweden faced the modern age with its eyes wide open,
and the fourth age of greatness began. In this perspective, the
Second World War could only be termed a deviation, a temporary
dip in the development curve. The casus belli between
the great powers was really no concern of Sweden’s: the war
centred round problems which Swedish society had already left
behind it. Then, after the war ended, the modernity project
could be resumed with full vigour. Under Social Democratic
leadership a welfare state was formed, intended to give people
the freedom which would enable them to realise their nature
and in doing so find the meaning of secular life.
In one field after another Sweden, in relation to the size of
its population, took the lead. An advanced technological culture
resulted among other things in Sweden having two car manufacturers
when nearly all other comparable countries had none
at all. Swedish industry was able almost single-handed to rearm
the country’s armed forces with ultra-modern weaponry. A closeknit
social insurance system appeared to provide comprehensive
security. Equality between the sexes is another pivotal criterion
of a country’s modernity. Here again, Sweden took the lead.
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For just over a decade now, though, the Swedish self-image
has been disintegrating. “The world’s most modern country”
– the paradigm no longer serves as a benchmark for the future.
Sweden seems to have lagged behind; Swedish self-esteem is
rocking on its heels. The welfare consensus supporting postwar
society has been broken. What used to be the bulwark
against harmful influences from the outside world – the policy
of neutrality – seems to have lost its relevance in a world from
which the great power blocks have vanished. After accession
to the EU, NATO membership beckons: Sweden’s go-it-alone
is finished and the sense of leading the world and being unique
has gone. Sweden itself no longer believes in modernity – in
the model of progress, willingness to negotiate and technical
progress which was once fundamental.
Such, in part, is the perspective in which we have found the
themes for this conference, aimed at drawing up a balance sheet
for Sweden’s 20th century.
lecturers: Håkan Arvidsson, Henrik Berggren, Sheri
Berman, Per Olof Bolander, Göran Dahl, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman,
Jonas Frykman, Kristian Gerner, Kay Glans, Bernt Henningsen,
Madeleine Hurd, Anders Isaksson, Alf W Johansson,
Rune Johansson, Mikael af Malmborg, Per Molander, Ann-Sofie
Ohlander, Olav Riste, Hans Ingvar Roth, Kim Salomon, Patrick
Salmon, Fredrik Schoug, Bo Stråth, Rolf Torstendahl, Kjell
Östberg. Moderated by Kay Glans, Alf W. Johansson, Kristian
Gerner and Kim Salomon.
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2000
Visions of the Future
26 th to 28 th of august in association
with the odd engström foundation
at avesta manor and engelsberg manor
The 20 th century came to an unexpected ending. For a long
time during the Cold War, two evenly balanced blocks appeared
to be confronting each other, but suddenly the communist
empires collapsed, at the same time as the capitalist societies
introduced a revolution of information technology, the further
consequences of which we can, at present, only guess at. Meanwhile
the outlines are appearing of a genetic engineering revolution
which is probably going to change the world even more
than the IT revolution has done already.
There have been other periods in history when people have
felt themselves faced with steadily accelerating changes, but
never, it seems, has that feeling been more justified than today.
We have a profound crisis of orientation: everything that
used to be solid is evaporating; the old patterns of interpretation
are weighed and found wanting. What economic, political,
and technical opportunities and problems lie ahead of us and
by what values and norms are our actions to be governed? The
unexpected ending of the 20 th century reminds us of the unpredictability
of the future developments, but without asking
questions of this kind we will be less prepared than ever for
the complex issues with which we are going to be confronted.
The world that is now taking shape as we enter the 21 st century
seems different in many ways from the world we have been
accustomed to. What kind of society awaits us? What role will
be played by the national state and what future lies in store for
political democracy? What counterpoises will there be to global
capitalism? What will the working life of the future be like?
How will science and technology develop? What kind of wars
and conflicts will we see in the future?
What is the import of being human if we are able to take
evolution into our own hands, and what would be the political
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and cultural implications of such possibilities? What will become
of our collective and individual identity in a world so
changeable and devoid of frontiers? What will become of imagination
and artistic narrative in a culture where opportunities
for virtual experience and interactivity are so great and in which
reality itself is tending to become more and more virtual?
lecturers: Harold Bloom, Ingvar Carlsson, Martin van
Creveld, Rolf Ekéus, Bernt Ericson, Henry Etzkowitz, Kay
Glans, Nils Karlson, David Kimche, Allan Larsson, Dan Laurin,
Robert Jay Lifton, Mikael Löfgren, Michael Maccoby, Lars
Magnusson, Anders Mortensen, Ulf Pettersson, Agneta Pleijel,
Jeffrey Rosen, Johan Rådberg, Saskia Sassen, Robert J. Shapiro,
Joan Solomon, Johan Svedjedal, Peter Sylwan, John Ziman.
Moderated by Göran Rosenberg.
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2001
The Future of Religion
15 th to 17 th of june
at avesta manor and engelsberg manor
Why does religion matter? Many answers have been put forth
including that it grounds values, creates purpose and gives
meaning in an ontological sense to our existence. Often science
turns religious experience into epiphenomenona but unfortunately
offers nothing in return. How can modern society deal
with this deficit of meaning?
The position of religion in the western world today presents
a contradictory picture. On the one hand there are many indications
of a far-reaching secularisation having taken place.
Traditional religions are in many places losing adherents and
common knowledge of tradition is diminishing.
Has the individual, in religion as in other matters, become
an individualistic, “cherry-picking” consumer? There are indications
that the hectic pace of the information society and its
insistence on flexibility probably is transforming the conditions
governing religious experience.
Man’s increasing progression, through science and technology,
from being created to himself becoming a creator, is probably
also impacting on his relation to religion. On the other
hand, it is arguable that secularisation is a myth. Perhaps people
today believe in other things and in other ways and possibly
this really implies a revitalisation of religious life.
Now, just as previously, there is a great need of meaning and
coherence, and the discrediting of the political utopias, which
in many ways were substitute religions, has put religion back
in focus again. Science is triumphant but apparently has little
to say about the meaning of existence and the nature of good
and evil, even though it sometimes takes on an element of religious
conviction itself.
The new choices confronting us, for example due to the development
of biotechnology, are perhaps making the normative
system of religion still more important. There are fears today
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of western societies being fragmented, partly because they are
no longer held together by common convictions and norms,
and religion is perhaps necessary as an integrating force.
At the same time religion is obviously contributing towards
fragmentation by giving rise to sects and fundamentalist movements.
How can religious convictions be united with the pluralism
of modern society and its insistence on respect for dissidents?
Will the fundamentalist movements, like communism,
be vanquished by western liberalism, individualism and consumerism,
or will they, on the contrary, acquire added importance?
Or will the Gnostic ”tradition” instead shape the future,
with its scepticism towards doctrinal faith and its emphasis on
inward enlightenment?
lecturers: Whitney Bodman, José Casanova, Harvey Cox,
Erik Davis, Rolf Ekéus, Antoine Faivre, John Farrell, John F
Haught, Paul Heelas, Massimo Introvigne, Robert Jay Lifton,
Morton Narrowe, Elaine Pagels, Gilles Quispel. Moderated by
Michael Maccoby.
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2002
Consciousness, Genetics and Society
14 th to 16 th of june at avesta manor
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do
you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert back to the
beast rather than surpass mankind? What is the ape to a man?
A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just so shall a man be
to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.
You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you
is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of
an ape than any of the apes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Does scientific research exist for man, as we understand him
today, or is man something that exists for research, in its endeavour
to realize the new man? Friedrich Nietzsche prophesied
about this a little more than a hundred years ago, but
where do we stand today? Nietzsche’s interpretation of Darwin’s
theory interestingly portends present discourse.
The claims of the new biotechnology – apprehensions aside
– must be allowed to be tested and in routine democratic order
be addressed, in advance, by an earnest and serious debate concerning
its potential consequences. What prospects has mankind,
given the blessings of science in the shape of cloning,
artificial intelligence and organ banking? How do theologians,
philosophers, historians and social scientists look upon this progression?
What is the humanistic response to what appears to
be a new and seemingly victorious paradigm?
Is it due time to ask if evolutionary biology has gone too far
by claiming issues that perhaps only can be addressed by philosophy
and theology? Biology seems to maintain that it is
essentially only a matter of degree alone and not one of kind
that separates man from other animals. The resistance to the
new technological advancements in the field of biology and
genetics likely derives from this very demotion and even qualitative
deterioration in man’s status, value and significance in
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the cosmos. In short, his ontological significance, even his very
being, appears to be under attack from an apparently impersonal
rational demiurge lacking all accountability: an altogether
rational, free-floating, scientific reason.
Yet how does the present level of progress of science look
from an historical perspective? What about science’s history
of broken promises? On what exactly does this culture’s immense
optimism but also its apprehensiveness hinge? Are we
the victims of a utilitarian bordering on pedestrian philosophy
when individual suffering can be examined only in the
shadow of a far greater but entirely unpredictable future? Could
it be that we are facing a new battle of universals, out of which
will emerge a wholly new vision of man?
At the Engelsberg Seminar, no answers are taken for granted
and all avenues of approach are kept wide open. Yet one thing
is certain: if biotechnology is able to keep its promise, then we
are situated squarely in the middle of Nietzsche’s prophecy.
Perhaps nothing can prevent this development, but then
perhaps we can try to understand it, should we perchance remain
the same human beings following the future triumph of
biotechnology.
lecturers: Martin Alda, Luke Anderson, Erwin Bischofberger,
Leonard Guarente, Richard Heinberg, Evelyn Fox
Keller, Georg Klein, Kenan Malik, Johnjoe McFadden, Mary
Midgley, Max More, Raja Ramanna, Hilary Rose, Steven Rose,
Lee M Silver, Sverre Sjölander, Robert Wright, P. A. Zavos.
Moderated by Michael Maccoby.
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2003
Towards a Cosmopolitan Culture?
Future Consequences of Religion, Ethnicity and Migration
13 th to 15 th of june at avesta manor
Europe in recent decades has been increasingly characterised
by an ethnic and cultural diversity with a growing non-European
element. The conflicts and problems arising in this connection
are perhaps to be viewed as a species of teething trouble
on the road to a fruitful hybrid culture. Coupled with a
growth of socio-economic stratification, they can also mark the
beginning of a profound fragmentation whereby ethnic subcultures,
instead of being integrated with European societies,
reject the values and norms of the dominant culture. There are
fears of such a society becoming characterised by strong suspicion
and hostility, a “conflict of civilisations” in the everyday
context.
The trend towards even greater ethnic and cultural diversity
in Europe seems inevitable in the century that lies ahead
of us. The European population is ageing steadily, and all the
indications are that its low nativity will have to be made up
for by means of large-scale immigration. What will it take for
this kind of Europe to become a smooth-running society? What
demands will be made on European societies and on people
migrating to them? On what philosophical and political foundations
is such a society to rest? What, for example, will be
the role of religion? Will a cosmopolitan culture arise as a consequence
of generation changes, with new generations becoming
less and less tied to their ethnic identity and adopting a
global culture and lifestyle? Or will separate identities flourish
but prove less of a problem than expected; perhaps the fear of
them is just a legacy from the homogenisation ideals of modernism?
There are perhaps important lessons to be learned for the
future by studying the situation in present-day Europe. Different
countries – France, Britain and Germany, to take just a
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few examples – have adopted different standpoints on immigration,
and comparisons between them could provide important
clues for what a future policy might bring, and what can
Europe learn from the United States, with its long tradition of
being a melting pot?
lecturers: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Catherine Audard, Elazar
Barkan, Zygmunt Bauman, Norman Birnbaum, Philip Bobbitt,
Michael Bommes, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, Nathan Glazer, David
Goodhart, Christopher Hitchens, Russell Jacoby, Jytte Klausen,
Adam Kuper, Kenan Malik, Richard Swartz. Moderated by
Göran Rosenberg.
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2004
Media and Media Power
june 17 th to 19 th at avesta manor
It is a widespread perception today that reality and media images
are merging, the media becoming our reality. Shakespeare’s
words “All the world’s a stage” would today be expressed: ”All
the world’s a studio”. We are bombarded with images and information
from a global media network, which is spreading
an increasingly fine-meshed net over our everyday world and
our self-perception. Narcissus sees his reflection today not in
a pond, but a screen. What mind creates this symbiosis between
media and mentality? Power over opinion has always been an
important dimension in politics, but today the dramaturgy of
the media probably has more influence than ever before. How
does it affect politicians and the thrust of politics?
If the media really have such power over politics and the
mind, there is reason to ask who has power over the media and
what governs the actions of these players. How do editors and
journalists perceive the world? What do they base their stance
on? Do media owners have set agendas, or do they simply try
to adapt to whatever they think will sell? How do media moguls
deal with other centres of power – political, economic and
military? What power do advertisers have over the editorial
content of the media? What role do the media play in forming
the new world order, today seemingly dominated by the USA?
On the one hand, ownership in the media world is being
concentrated; on the other hand, control over information has
been much more difficult to acquire. During the war on Iraq, a
network of individuals in the USA created their own alternative
news agency, Commandpost.com. From Baghdad, via a webblog,
the Iraqi Salam Pax gave his views on the war – critical
both of Saddam and the USA. No discussion on media power
today can ignore the small players. They are developing new
behavioural patterns, both as producers and as consumers. The
question is if in the final analysis it is the consumers, through
their preferences, who have the last word, rather than the com-
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mercial media. Criticism of the media for “dumbing down”
could then be rephrased: where have all the thinking consumers
gone?
Or is it conceivably so that mass media and mass communication
require archetypal themes to dramatize the message in
order to capture its readers/spectators? Are mass media consumers
furthermore in fact stirred by low gossip and great
stories whether true or false in substance? If this is the formula
that media is, consciously or unconsciously, determined by –
where are we to end up in the future?
lecturers: Sidney Blumenthal, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Niklas
Ekdal, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Jonathan Fenby, David Frum,
David Goodhart, Roy Greenslade, Isabel Hilton, Shuli Hu,
Laurent Joffrin, John Lloyd, Edward Lucas, Adam Michnik,
Anna Politkovskaya, William H. Roedy, Nathan Shachar,
Thomas Steinfeld, Tarun Tejpal, Shashi Tharoor. Moderated
by Kay Glans, Ove Joanson and Christine Ockrent.
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International Seminars
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Psychological Utopias, symposium led by Petteri Pietikäinen at
Avesta Manor on the 16 th –18 th of June 2000. lecturers:
Jonathan Beecher, Paul Bishop, Alan C. Elms, Alexander
Etkind, Olav Hammer, Gottfried Hauer, Juhani Ihanus, Bruce
Mazlish, Inga Sanner, Janet Stewart and Lennart Warring.
The Gnostic Religion, seminar with Harold Bloom at Skeppsbron
24 on the 31 st of August 2000.
On Shakespeare, seminar with Harold Bloom at Skeppsbron 24
on the 2 nd of September 2000.
Violence in Schools Seminar with Allan Guggenbühl at Skeppsbron
24 on the 14 th of November 2000.
Right Livelihood Award 2000 Seminar with the Award Winners
at Skeppsbron 24 on the 12 th of December 2000 with Jakob
von Uexkull. lecturers: Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher,
(Ethiopia), Munir, (Indonesia), Birsel Lemke, (Turkey), Wes
Jackson, (USA).
Compact Cities, Green Cities or Network Cities? The Human City
Seminar at The Modern Museum in Stockholm on the 6 th of
February 2001. Moderated by Johan Rådberg.
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American Politics after Bill Clinton, , seminar with Robert J.
Shapiro at Skeppsbron 24 on the 22nd of May 2001.
The Reckoning Heart – An Anthropologist Looks at Her Worlds, seminar
with Manisha Roy at Skeppsbron 24 on the 27 th of August 2001.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar at Skeppsbron 24 on
the 26 th and 27 th of October 2001. lecturers: Jay Livernois
and Allan Guggenbühl among others.
Towards a Global Society? A one-day-conference at Stockholm
School of Economics in association with SSE and Finanstidningen
on the 21 st of February 2002.
Globalization is a pivotal and explosive concept in current debate,
but its meaning is uncertain. Both the advocates and the
opponents of globalization assume that a thoroughgoing change
has taken place. The advocates maintain that a global free market
will in the long term benefit everyone and promote a democratic
society. The opponents allege that globalization is creating a
world of growing inequality, with the strong exploiting the weak
and that it is fragmenting society and undermining democracy.
There are also sceptics who until recently have maintained
that today’s situation is not really all that different and that in
many ways the world was more global before the First World
War. If they are right, opposition to globalization is very much
concerned with other things, with responsibility for the shortcomings
of different political solutions being foisted on an
anonymous global capital, veiling our own responsibility, as
consumers, for the course of development. In this case, criticism
of a global commercial culture is perhaps more a matter
of doubting the ability of traditional culture to create identity
and meaning. What is reality and what is illusion in notions of
globalization? How much of the resistance to it is opposition
of the claims of the USA to set an example to other countries,
i.e. a reworking of anti-Americanism?
Who are the winners and the losers by globalization, if indeed
any such distinction is possible, and how are any political
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tensions arising to be dealt with? How do the advocates respond
to criticism of globalization for entailing heavy political
and social costs?
What do the opponents’ alternatives amount to on closer
inspection? How much of their criticism is rooted in old notions
of western imperialism?
What will the latest developments in the world, after the
terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, mean for globalization?
Can the reaction mean the end to globalization or
will it on the contrary speed up the process of global consolidation?
This conference is aimed at bringing together advocates, opponents
and sceptics to discuss the serious implications of globalization
and how it is viewed in different regions of the world,
not least outside the West.
lecturers: Jagdish Bhagwati, Rolf Ekéus, Bo Ekman, Shafik
Gabr, Viveca Ax:son Johnson, Sunil Khilnani, David Kimche,
Surin Pitsuwan, Magnus Ranstorp, Bassam Tibi, Hernando de
Soto, Robert J. Shapiro. Moderated by Ulf Wickbom.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar lecture by Paul
Roazen, “Psychoanalysis – Winners and Losers”, at Skeppsbron
24 on the 17 th of May 2002.
Literature Seminar with Katherine Hayles at Skeppsbron 24 on
the 28 th of May 2002.
Evolutionary Psychology, seminar with Robert Wright at Skeppsbron
24 on the 17 th of June 2002.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Stanislav Grof
”Psychology of the Future – Lessons from Modern Consciousness
Research” at Skeppsbron 24 on the 30 th of August 2002.
From Sick Care to Health Care in the Age of Learning at The Swedish
Medical Society led by Petteri Pietikäinen and Michael Maccoby
on the 7 th and 8 th of September 2002.
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The present day problems are well-known: rising costs, limited
access to treatment, an explosion of knowledge, variability
of treatments, and errors causing avoidable deaths. It is proposed
that these problems will not be solved without addressing
the mode of production of medical care, transforming a
craft industry focused on sick care to healthcare system organized
according to the knowledge-service mode of production.
This would involve patients in co-production facilitated by
new forms of partnering and use of the Internet. It would
require teams of physicians, nurses, and administrators using
informatics to determine common practice and pathways. It
would shift the logic of care from a biomedical to a biopsychosocial
and epidemiological model.
Unless this shift is made, there is a danger that policy makers
will try to fit care into a manufacturing mode of production as
a way of cutting costs and variability. The result would probably
be to limit the autonomy of physicians and their ability
to develop relations of trust and co-production with their
clients. This is, to some extent, already happening.
The purpose of the seminar is to discuss the following questions:
Do we agree that this change is necessary? If so, what
are ways of facilitating change?
lecturers: Lawrence Altman, Mats G. Hansson, Marie
Clark Nelson, Roger Bulger, David M. Lawrence, Richard
Normann, Johan Calltorp, Carola Lemne, Stanley Pappelbaum,
Göran Rosenberg.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Michael Maccoby
at Skeppsbron 24 on the 5 th of September 2002.
Identity and Globalization Seminar with Richard E Doner at
Skeppsbron 24 on the 27 th of September 2002.
New Urbanism – an Introduction to the Art of City Building, Urban
City Research Seminar at Tullhus 2 on the 11 th and 12 th of October
2002. lecturers: Ellen Dunham-Jones, David Rudlin
and Jeff Speck. Moderated by Jerker Söderlind.
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40 Years of The New York Review of Books, seminar with Robert B
Silvers at Skeppsbron 24 on the 3 rd of December 2002.
Identity and Globalization Seminar with Razeen Sally at Skeppsbron
24 on the 7 th of December 2002.
The Prospect of Prospect – Can Intellectual Journalism Succeed?,
seminar with Alexander Linklater at Skeppsbron 24 on the 12 th
of December 2002.
The Role of Sweden and Thailand in Their Respective Regions: Similarities
and Differences, a two-day-seminar at the Thammasat
University in Bangkok, Thailand on the 26 th and 27 th of
February 2003. lecturers: Anders Hellner, Theera Nuchpiam,
Pisanu Sunthraraks, Charit Tingsabadh and Sverker
Åström.
Hong Kong, China and the Future, lecture by Emily Lau in association
with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on
the 23 rd of April 2003.
A Study of Neo-Traditional Tourist Amenities, Urban City Research
Seminar with Claudia Trillo at Skeppsbron 24 on the 25 th of
April 2003.
The Modernity of Religion in India, seminar with Pankaj Mishra
at Skeppsbron 24 on the 16 th of May 2003.
Violence in Schools Research Seminar with Allan Guggenbühl at
Skeppsbron 24, on the 22 nd of May 2003.
Streets, Main Streets and Meeting Places, Urban City Research Seminar
at The Royal Coin Cabinet on the 3 rd and 4 th of June 2003.
lecturers: Karl-Olov Arnstberg, Jan Gehl, Charles C Bohl,
Louise Nyberg, Ray Oldenburg, Rick Hall and Ellen Dunham-
Jones.
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Is There An American Opposition: Democrats and Others, lecture by
Norman Birnbaum at The Swedish Institute of International
Affairs on the 12th of June 2003.
The Only Revolution in Town, lecture by author and journalist
Christopher Hitchens at Skeppsbron 24 on the 16 th of June
2003.
Poundbury – A Newly Built, Classical City, Urban City Research
Seminar with Robert Adams at Skeppsbron 24 on the 12 th of
September 2003.
The Legal Divide: The Real Problem with Globalization, lecture by
Hernando de Soto at Skeppsbron 24 on the 13 th of September
2003.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar, lectures by David
Healy “Risk Management – The New Pharmaceutical Marketplace”
and Edward Shorter “The Drug Industry and Academics
in Psychopharmacology: A Dance with the Devil?” at
Skeppsbron 24 on the 24 th of September 2003.
Modernity and Its Discontents: the Tyranny of Intimacy?, a conference
led by Petteri Pietikäinen at the Royal Coin Cabinet on
the 25 th of September 2003.
Does modern society produce distinctively psychological
forms of discontent? Swedes, like many other Westerners, are
plagued by mental depression, anxiety, burnout and other
modes of psychopathology.
Subjective feelings of discontent seem to have been on the
rise in recent decades – people who were once well are now ill.
During the last hundred years, an explicitly moral discourse
on the human predicament has given way to new, less visible
normative codes. These codes demand us to constantly monitor
our ’feelings’, give interpretations of our distress, and put our
faith in behaviour experts who know what is good and what is
bad for us. An increasing amount of psycho-services (psychotherapies,
psychopharmacological drugs, self-help literature,
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etc.) have become available to ease the suffering and unhappiness
of consumers. In particular, the psychopharmacological industry
is booming and even young children are treated with antidepressants.
The purpose of the seminar is to discuss this historical change
in our perception and understanding of discontent. Specifically,
the language and ideas that have characterised descriptions of
mental symptoms from the early 20th century onwards will be
examined. The seminar aims to elucidate the process whereby
particular modes of behaviour and specific emotional states
came to be considered abnormal and indicative of mental anguish.
The seminar will address the following questions:
• Do ’burnout’, ’stress’, feelings of fatigue and other psychopathological
diagnoses picture reality? Do they correspond
to extant disease entities or are they rather transient
cultural fabrications testifying to the triumph of
therapeutic culture? ’Burnout’ is one of the main reasons
why an increasing number of Swedes are on a long-term
sick leave. Has it become a convenient way for employees
to get a time-out from exacting work? Is it the ultimate
manifestation of discontent in the working life? As the
parameters of the diagnosis are extremely diffuse and
vague, it is very difficult to have a clear understanding of
what ’burnout’ is all about.
• What changes in our perception of mental health have
contributed to the psychopharmacological revolution? Is
there any scientific justification for the belief that antidepressants
are necessary for our well-being?
• Why is it considered ’healthy’ to communicate our intimate
feelings and motivations to others and feel good
about such openness?
• Is our concern with psychological well-being a trap rather
than liberation? Are we living under the tyranny of intimacy?
By seeking answers to these questions from various
perspectives, this seminar aims to provide fresh
insights into modernity and its discontents.
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lecturers: Tana Dineen, Lennart Hallsten, David Healy,
Anna Hedborg, Germund Hesslow, Arne Jarrick, Petteri
Pietikäinen, Eva Marie Rigné and Edward Shorter. Moderated
by Jan-Olov Johansson.
Perspectives on Russia in Transition, a conference arranged at Hotel
Kämp in Helsinki on the 8 th of October 2003.
Russia has, after more than 70 years of communistic rule,
moved in a direction of increased democratic rule since the fall
of the old regime in 1991. The developments in Russia have
always been of great importance to international politics. Today,
Russia in transition is seen with great anticipation and optimism
not least from its neighbouring countries like Finland
and Sweden. Considering the three countries long and partly
turbulent common history, this is a time of great importance
for the future of the region and exploring different aspects on
the developments is central to our task. What role will Russia
play in the new and larger Europe, for instance in the light of
the war in Iraq and the growing tension in the Middle East
which has made certain weaknesses in the European Union
clear? Will Russia approach the European Union and what difference
could Finland and Sweden make in this regard? Or will
we see Russia develop a closer relationship to the United States
in order to increase its chances to be a future super-power?
What will be the effects of an eventual political intimacy created
between France, Germany and Russia?
On issues regarding business and research there are more
pressing questions. What kind of business collaborations will
we see in the future between Russia and the EU? How is it
that Finland and Sweden have failed to attract the Russian
academics and researchers to their universities, who instead
have moved much further west? What are the differences that
distinguish the Finnish relation to Russia with the Swedish
today? What kind of cooperation will we see in the next ten
years in the areas of humanistic and social sciences between
Russia and the Nordic countries? Unfortunately, concerns
regarding human rights, and the freedom of speech as well as
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the integrity of the legal system still have to be voiced in the
case of Russia. Is it possible for Finland and Sweden to operate
in a more outspoken and active way to promote necessary
change for the Russian population?
The Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation has
gathered politicians, researchers, intellectuals and leading
thinkers to consider questions of interest to public debate. The
seminar touches upon the ongoing economic, political and
social situation in Russia and its effects on the neighbouring
countries Finland and Sweden.
lecturers: Mauno Koivisto, Matti Vanhanen, Viveca
Ax:son Johnson, Örjan Berner, Rolf Ekéus, Isabelle Facon,
Christer Pursiainen, Pekka Sutela, Heikki Talvitie, Lev
Timofeev, Krister Wahlbäck, Boris Kashnikov and Arkady
Moshes. Moderated by Anders Hellner.
Good Mixed-Use for the 21 st Century, Urban City Research Conference
at Stockholm City Conference Center on the 4 th and
5 th of November 2003.
lecturers: Andrés Duany, Robert Adam, Paul Murrain,
Luigi Mollo, Lucien Steil, Michael Stojan, Robert Gibbs, David
Taylor, Simon Conibear, Harald Kegler and Nathanea Elthe.
Moderated by Peter Elmlund.
A New Evaluation of Problems in Mandaean Research: Early History,
Influences and Gender, lecture by Professor Jorunn Jacobsen
Buckley at Skeppsbron 24 on the 23 rd of January 2004.
St. Petersburg in the 21 st Century – Views on Growth, Culture, Science
and Economics, an international conference at the Grand Hôtel
on the 19 th of May 2004, in cooperation with The City of Stockholm
and The Stenbeck Group.
lecturers: Valentina I. Matvienko, Annika Billström,
Hans-Holger Albrecht, Zhores I. Alferov, Viveca Ax:son
Johnson, Erik Berglöf, Alf Göransson, Sven Hirdman, Lars-
Johan Jarnheimer, Björn Rosengren. Moderated by Anders
Hellner.
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Axess Seminar with Hernando de Soto, Allan Larsson and
Joakim Ollén “The Legal Divide: The Real Problem with Globalization”
at ABF in Stockholm on the 24th of May 2004.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Mark S. Micale
“DSM and the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnostics in the Early
Twenty-First Century” at Skeppsbron 24 on the 27 th and 28 th
of May 2004.
Urban City Research Seminar with Stephen Marshall ”The Sustainable
Arterial Street” at Piperska Muren in Stockholm on
the 3 rd of June 2004.
What is George W Bush Doing?, a lecture by David Frum in cooperation
with The Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm
at Lilla Nygatan 23 on the 16 th of June 2004.
The American Crisis, a lecture by Sidney Blumenthal at Skeppsbron
24 on the 21 st of June 2004.
The Danish Media Situation in a Comparative Perspective, a lecture
given by Tøger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Denmark
at Stureplan 3 on the 20 th of September 2004.
Contemporary Feminism Seminar, Sex Lies and Feminism, lecture
by Christina Hoff Sommers at Skeppsbron 24 on the 3 rd of
November 2004.
Garden Architecture Seminar with lectures by Jacques Wirtz and
Peter Wirtz at Skeppsbron 24 on the 9 th of November 2004.
Media Arrogance – Is Journalism Capable of Self-Criticism? A debate
between John Lloyd, FT Magazine and Richard Sambrook,
BBC News, at 14 Queen Anne’s Gate, London, UK on the 22 nd
of November 2004.
Gulag, an evening with Anne Applebaum at Skeppsbron 24 on
the 10 th of December 2004.
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Swedish Seminars
*
Social Vulnerability Seminar at the Royal Swedish Academy of
Engineering Sciences on the 10 th of February 2000.
Renaissance Seminar at the Van der Noot Palace, Stockholm in
May 2000. lecturers: Bo Ralph, Eva Österberg, Göran
Dahlbäck among others.
The Human City Seminar at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering
Sciences, moderated by Johan Rådberg on the 28 th
of September 2000.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar at Skeppsbron 24 on
the 19 th and 20 th of April 2001. lecturers: Suzanne Gieser,
Lennart Warring, Petteri Pietikäinen, Peter Södergård, Kay
Glans, Inga Sanner, Kate Larson.
Meeting God in Dreams – The Dream as a Revelatory Genre, Late
Classical Antiquity Seminar at Skeppsbron 24 on 24 th of April
2001. lecturers: Jörgen Magnusson, J Peter Södergård,
Carl-Martin Edsman, Lars Hartman and Ezra Gebremedhin.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Petteri Pietikäinen at Skeppsbron 24 on the 7 th of February 2002.
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The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentations
by Lennart Warring and Ruth Rajamaa at Skeppsbron 24 on
the 6th of March 2002.
The Irony of Journalism and Journalistic Irony, lecture by Johan
Hakelius at Skeppsbron 24 on the 23 rd of April 2002.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Åsa Bergenheim at Skeppsbron 24 on the 2 nd of October 2002.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Franz Luttenberger at Skeppsbron 24 on the 22 nd of October
2002.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Eva Thulin at Skeppsbron 24 on the 4 th of December 2002.
Prayer, Invocation and Speaking in Tongues, Late Classical Antiquity
Seminar at Skeppsbron 24 on the 5 th of December 2002.
lecturers: J Peter Södergård, Jörgen Magnusson, Carl-Martin
Edsman among others.
Brave New Europe, lecture by Maciej Zaremba at Skeppsbron 24
on the 27 th of January 2003.
The Future of Europe, lecture by Carl Bildt in association with
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs on the 11 th of
February 2003.
What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Identity?, lecture by
Merete Mazzarella at Skeppsbron 24 on the 20 th of February
2003.
Shaping the City by the Public Space, Urban City Research Seminar
with Johan Rådberg at Skeppsbron 24 on the 28 th of February
2003.
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The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Petteri Pietikäinen at Skeppsbron 24 on the 13th of March 2003.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Eva Marie Rigné at Skeppsbron 24 on the 26 th of March 2003.
The Intellectual History of Swedish Modernism, Urban City Research
Seminar with Monica Andersson at Skeppsbron 24 on
the 28 th of March 2003.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Lennart Warring at Skeppsbron 24 on the 23 rd of April 2003.
Protokollet, book release and lectures by Susanna Popova and
Mats Holm on the subject of Estonia at Skeppsbron 24 on the
23 rd of April 2003.
Communicating with Mozart, lecture by Greger Hatt at Skeppsbron
24 on the 12 th of May 2003.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Suzanne Gieser at Skeppsbron 24 on the 14 th of May 2003.
The Life of Dr Axel Munthe lecture by Bengt Jangfeldt at Skeppsbron
24 on the 15 th of September 2003.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentations
by Inga Sanner and Håkan Eriksson at Skeppsbron 24 on the
15 th of October 2003.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Anna Nilsson at Skeppsbron 24 on the 19 th of November 2003.
From Ottoman Periphery to European Modernity, lecture by Nathan
Shachar at Skeppsbron 24 on the 24 th of November 2003.
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Urban City Research lecture “P O Hallman’s Importance for Urban
Planning Today” by Aleksander Wolodarski at Skeppsbron
24 on the 28th of November 2003.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentations
by Lennart Warring and Eva Thulin at Skeppsbron 24 on the
10 th of December 2003.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Petteri Pietikäinen at Skeppsbron 24 on the 21 st of January
2004.
Al-Jazeera – Terrorist TV or an Arabic CNN?, lecture by Thomas
Gür at Skeppsbron 24 on the 3 rd of February 2004.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Suzanne Gieser at Skeppsbron 24 on the 19 th of February 2004.
Axess Seminar – Career Barriers, a seminar on equal career opportunities
with Monica Renstig at Skeppsbron 24 on the 5 th of
March 2004.
The Johan Ludvig Runeberg Bicentenary Seminar with Merete
Mazzarella “Runeberg and the Finnish Folk Soul” at Finlandshuset
in Stockholm on the 9 th of March 2004.
The Johan Ludvig Runeberg Bicentenary Seminar with Matti Klinge
“The Political Runeberg” at Finlandshuset in Stockholm on the
23 rd of March 2004.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentations
by Inga Sanner and Suzanne Gieser at Skeppsbron 24 on the
24 th of March 2004.
The Johan Ludvig Runeberg Bicentenary Seminar with Agneta
Rahikainen “Johan Ludvig and Fredrika Runeberg” at Finlandshuset
in Stockholm on the 30 th of March 2004.
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Belief and Knowledge within Today’s Feminism – lecture by Susanna
Hakelius Popova at Skeppsbron 24 on the 31st of March 2004.
Lecture by Sigrid Rausing “History, Memory, and Identity in Post-
Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm” at the Stockholm
School of Economics on the 23 rd of April 2004.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with presentation by
Anna Nilsson at Skeppsbron 24 on the 28 th of April 2004.
Urban City Research Seminar with Krister Sernbo “How to Make
Green Structures Cohabit with Urban Structures” at Södra
Teatern, Stockholm on the 29 th of April 2004.
Axess Seminar with Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg “Free Research on
Collision with the Swedish Government’s Production of Ideology”
at Skeppsbron 24 on the 4 th of May 2004.
Axess Seminar with Alyson Bailes och Svante Cornell “The Market
of Insecurity” at Skeppsbron 24 on the 31 st of August 2004.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with lecture by Karin
Johannisson at Skeppsbron 24 on the 14 th of October 2004.
Urban City Research Seminar with lecture by Charlotte Holst
“Northwestern Kungsholmen” at Piperska Muren on the 10 th
of December 2004.
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axess magazine
Axess Magazine
*
Axess is a magazine, based in Stockholm, devoted chiefly to
the liberal arts and social sciences. The magazine strives, above
all, for quality of thought and writing, but without being
defined by a single political position. The hallmark of Axess is
the essay; characterised by a probing, investigative approach.
The magazine is open to differing arguments and standpoints,
driven by reason rather than polemic.
Axess aims to unite academic culture and publishing culture
to create a forum in which scholars in the humanities and liberal
arts can meet a wider public audience. Through an English-language
online edition, the magazine also wants to forge
relationships between scholars within and outside of Sweden.
In its theme section, Axess allows different academic disciplines
to focus upon central issues from various perspectives.
Diverse viewpoints are illuminated and juxtaposed. Axess begins
where discussions in most other media generally end and
scrutinises them analytically and empirically. Axess also attaches
great importance to the international range of its writers, including
an extensive review section to cover the most important
new books being published worldwide.
march 2002 no. 1 theme: globalisation
A ball has been set rolling. Sunil Khilnani writes about India
continuing to open up to the outside world and finding a new
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image of its identity. Hernando de Soto writes about the world’s
poor having received assets but being unable to convert them
into capital. Interview with Amartya Sen, in which he speaks
about our identities being manifold and impossible to capture
in such categories as civilisations.
april 2002 no. 2 theme: the greying society
We cannot scale down: Gunnar Wetterberg writes about all the
phases of life being prolonged – except for the working phase.
We need to work longer, but in different forms. Karl-Olov
Arnstberg writes about the impossibility of scaling down in
present-day society. Those who don’t stay young find their
value exhausted. Merete Mazzarella writes that to stay young is
to stagnate. Coherent living and wisdom are possible, even in
the fragmented world of today.
may 2002 no. 3 theme: the triple society
Drawing new boundaries on the computer screens: Lars
Magnusson writes that a taboo in Swedish economic debate is
about to be broken – national interest confronts the boundlessness
of globalisation. Mats Benner writes about Sweden being
divided in three – metropolises of knowledge and certain
branches of industry are growing stronger, other parts are on a
downward slope. Orvar Löfgren writes about the Öresund Bridge
having become a barrier, all Utopian dreams notwithstanding
– but now the real history is beginning to be written.
june 2002 no. 4 theme: genetics and integrity
A dangerous shortcut to the future: interviewing the German
philosopher Robert Speamann, who warns that the cannibalism
of genetics can lead to a new and hazardous view of humanity.
Ludvig Beckman writes that political answers are needed to the
ethical questions of genetics. The state must begin to act. Lynn
Åkesson asks who owns the genes. Violating the integrity of the
individual can be the same as violating the human race.
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september 2002 no. 5 theme: war in peace
The fronts have vanished: Martin van Creveld writes of terror
as the face of the new warfare. In the era of terrorist outrages,
the distinction between military and civilian is being lost. Lars
Nicander writes of how, in the war of information, the boundaries
between peace, crisis and war are obliterated. Policing and
military activity cannot be separated. Caroline Holmqvist writes
about military assignments on contract making war, formerly
the concern of states, a market commodity.
october 2002 no. 6 theme: stoicism
Controlling oneself or being controlled: Eva-Carin Gerö writes
of how, by mastering extensive fields of knowledge, the Stoics
found the way to self-control. Bo Lindberg writes of how the
Stoic attitude has provided inspiration and firmness in hard
times throughout history. Karin Johannisson writes that in contemporary
society self-control has acquired a double meaning,
leading to both deadlock and passion.
november 2002 no. 7 theme: eu off-beat
The Union isn’t in unison: Lars Magnusson writes that previously
the welfare system gave the EU political legitimacy. The
Union lacks a sustaining idea for the future. Fritz W. Scharpf
writes that the EU’s rival models of welfare must be allowed
to remain. It is in relation to the outside world that we should
act of one accord. Nicholas Fraser writes of anxious Europeans
using the United States as a hate image. The fortress now under
construction leads to constriction.
december 2002 no. 8 theme: co-op capitalism
Big participation gave little power. Eva Redhe, Karin Thorburn
and Lena Torlegård write that if owner power fails to materialise,
the whole business sector risks losing credibility. Christina
Garsten and Anna Hasselström write that in global money markets,
local networks are decisive. Sofia Nerbrand writes of the
paleness of ownership, despite more and more people owning
shares. The Swede is a small saver and no capitalist.
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february 2003 no. 1 theme: africa’s renaissance
Innovation encountering tradition: Patrick Chabal writes that
the 1960’s hopes of democracy and prosperity have not been
fulfilled. An Africanisation of Africa is in progress. Anders
Carlsson writes of science and technology as important ingredients
of South Africa’s vision of the future. The aim is an
African renaissance. Pernilla Ståhl writes that the Rainbow
Alliance’s election victory in Kenya put an end to dictatorship.
Now the corruption of the old regime must be banished.
march 2003 no. 2 theme: after the corporate giants
A new economic model for Sweden: Mats Benner writes about
the consequences of the big corporations being bought up by
other countries and Sweden lacking a nursery for new talents.
Denmark has never had any companies in the top division and
therefore, Klaus Nielsen maintains, is better equipped for coping
with economic change. In Sweden the hope is that a spate
of SMEs will arise from the ashes of the big corporations, but
a case study from Uppsala by Alexandra Waluszewski does little
to corroborate any such phoenix vision.
april 2003 no. 3 theme: generation shift
Security in sight: Neil Howe and William Strauss of the American
millennium generation engineering a social security revolution.
Jürgen Zinnecke writes about consumption and loyalty
to the system being at the focus of attention for young
people in Germany. Kay Glans writes about Swedish youngsters
being collective individualists, building their identity in the
group.
may 2003 no. 4 theme: poor middle class
Grim outlook for the industrious: Paul Krugman writes that
America’s hardworking middle class has lost its standing. The
money flows into the pockets of the few. Fredrik Bergström and
Robert Gidehag write that honest toil is wretchedly rewarded in
Sweden. It is impossible for people to improve their lot by
working. In an interview, Ulrich Beck describes cosmopolitan
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commitment as the middle stratum’s only chance. That is how
global capital can be challenged.
june 2003 no. 5 theme: the resurrection of truth
The soap of truth is slippery, but it exists by Arne Jarrick
Revisionism is next to relativism by Sten Widmalm
Truth exists, but the question is how by Dag Prawitz
september 2003 no. 6 theme: the renaissance of
the city state
Does Stockholm need Sweden? by Håkan Forsell
London Limited by Paul Barker
Spaghetti Junctions by Lisa Irenius
october 2003 no. 7 theme: the disorder of things
The value of junk by Mats Burström
The religion of refuse by Lynn Åkesson
Fragments by Susanne Ewert and Lynn Åkesson
november 2003 no. 8 theme: shadow economy
Sweden’s black economy by Fredrik Bergström
and Robert Gidehag
Learning to love black labour by Karl-Olov Arnstberg
A little economy on the side by Kay Glans and Sofia Nerbrand
december 2003 no. 9 theme: Voting by shopping
Shopping as political activity by Michele Micheletti
The protest of the individual by Adrienne Sörbom
The dilemmas of political consumerism by Kay Glans and Sofia
Nerbrand
february 2004 no. 1 theme: the future of the city
is here
Street Life by Peter Elmlund
The Curse of Sprawl by Karl-Olov Arnstberg
Renaissance of the Traditional City by Matthew Hardy
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march 2004 no. 2 theme: india unleashed
The invention of the Hindu by Pankaj Mishra
Putting India to Work by Subhash Agrawal
India in the balance by Sten Widmalm
april 2004 no. 3 theme: the cluster economy
The state can’t make clusters by Joakim Stymne
If you try to control networks, they die by Alexandra Waluszewski
The fragility of economic ”cluster” theory by Lars Magnusson
may 2004 no. 4 theme: the swedish school must
change its course
The model of English education by Inger Enkvist
Consigning history to the past by Hans Albin Larsson
The crisis in maths by Olle Häggström
june 2004 no. 5 theme: press under pressure
A European Media Manifesto by John Lloyd
Who’s watching the watchdogs? by Olav Anders Øvrebø
The responsibility of average citizens by Kay Glans
september 2004 no. 6 theme: the security trade
The business of security by Alyson Bailes
Crime without borders by Svante Cornell
Securing Information by Mats Bergström
october 2004 no. 7 theme: turkey at the crossroads
Turkey’s Modernity by Nathan Shachar
The Turkish Crossroads by Thomas Gür
Fears for Turkish Membership are unfounded by Yalçin
Akdogan
november 2004 no. 8 theme: the reluctant empire
Lessons from a difficult war by Paul Berman
Who oppresses whom? by David Frum
Interview with Fareed Zakaria by Thomas Gür
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december 2004 no. 9 theme: the future is so passé
Nostalgia for the Modern by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
After paranoia by Carl Cassegård
End of the Future by Kay Glans
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global axess
Global Axess
*
An intellectual television programme about humanistic and
social scientific issues. Global Axess, produced by Axel and
Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation in association with
Modern TV, a company part of MTG (Modern Times Group)
one of Sweden’s largest private media corporations.
Global Axess highlights international research and brings
international debate to the Swedish public.
The interviewees and participants are internationally eminent
researchers, thinkers and politicians. Global Axess is
hosted by Mr. Thomas Gür. He is a columnist at Svenska Dagbladet’s
editorial pages with experience from press, radio and
television. Other contributors are: Erik Davis, Kay Glans, Björn
Linnell, Anders Hellner, Tomas Larsson, Agneta Pleijel, Susanna
Popova, Nathan Shachar, David Ståhl, Jan Söderqvist and
Sten Widmalm.
…the evening’s and the entire TV line-up’s most
interesting programme ’Global Axess’ on TV8.
Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s leading daily
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Spring 2002
Globalization
1. Talks in Engelsberg – The New Wars
mary kaldor interviewed by Kay Glans.
2. The Editors in Dialogue – Talks on Globalisation
hans bergström, mats johansson and kay glans.
3. In Israel’s Service
david kimche interviewed by Anders Hellner.
4. The Man Who Discovered the Wealth of the Poor
hernando de soto interviewed by Anders Hellner.
5. Freedom through Trade
jagdish bhagwati interviewed by Thomas Gür.
6. Islam’s Choice – Politics or Religion?
bassam tibi interviewed by Kay Glans.
7. The New Asian Super-Power
sunil khilnani interviewed by David Ståhl.
8. UN’s Future Secretary General?
surin pitsuwan interviewed by Tomas Larsson.
9. The Hidden History of Psychoanalysis
paul roazen interviewed by Kay Glans
10. Global Axess Special – – ekéus vs. bildt
Excerpt from Global Axess: Ekéus vs. Bildt telecast by TV2 Denmark
on the 24 th of March 2002.
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Fall 2002
The Limits of Science
1. Dr Frankenstein of Our Age?
panayiotis zavos interviewed by Thomas Gür.
2. The Evolutionary Basis of Gender
robert wright interviewed by Kay Glans.
3. Dangerous Genetics
hilary rose interviewed by Agneta Pleijel.
4. Animals as Angels – Humans as Animals?
kenan malik interviewed by Erik Davis.
5. The Mocking Gene
evelyn fox keller interviewed by Björn Linnell.
6. Nuclear Shadow Over Asia
raja ramanna interviewed by Sten Widmalm.
7. If the War Comes
alyson j k bailes, rolf ekéus and sverker åström
interviewed by Anders Hellner.
8. A Network for Profit and Terror
manuel castells interviewed by Thomas Gür.
Spring 2003
Brave New Europe
1. Sartre and Ethics
czeslaw milosz interviewed by Anders Hellner.
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2. Kristian Gerner
kristian gerner interviewed by Anders Hellner.
3. On the Future of Europe
carl bildt interviewed by Anders Hellner.
4. USA and Europe, Power and Weakness
robert kagan interviewed by Anders Hellner.
5. Anti-Europeanism
timothy garton ash interviewed by Anders Hellner.
6. On the Future of Russia
michail gorbatjov interviewed by Anders Hellner.
7. EU – The Fortress of Bureaucracy
günther verheugen interviewed by Anders Hellner.
8. Where is Turkey Heading?
seyfi tashan interviewed by Anders Hellner.
9. Danger Zone Hong Kong
emily lau interviewed by Jan Söderqvist.
Fall 2003
Cosmopolitan Outlook
1. A Woman’s Struggle against the Pressures of Patriarchy
ayaan hirsi ali interviewed by Anders Hellner.
2. A Moral Intellectual
christopher hitchens interviewed by Christine Ockrent.
3. Garbage and Globalisation
zygmunt bauman interviewed by Anders Hellner.
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4. War and Peace in the Market State
philip bobbitt interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
5. Citizens without Background
catherine audard interviewed by Björn Linnell.
6. The Multicultural Dead End
nathan glazer interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
7. An American Social Democrat
norman birnbaum interviewed by Anders Hellner.
8. The European Betrayal
david frum interviewed by Kay Glans.
9. World Order or Human Rights?
deepak kumar lal interviewed by Thomas Gür.
Spring 2004
The Freedom of Press Outside the West
1. An Ounce of Freedom in the Arab World
wadah kanfar, head of Al-Jazeera, interviewed by Thomas
Gür.
2. The Power of Bribes
tarun tejpal, editor of the Indian magazine Tehelka, interviewed
by Thomas Gür.
3. From White to Black Dictatorship
geoffrey nyarota, former Editor-in-Chief of Zimbabwe’s
Daily News interviewed by Thomas Gür.
4. The Palestinian Oppression
bassem eid, head of The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring
Group, interviewed by Thomas Gür.
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5. Islam – An Obstacle to the Freedom of Expression?
ali lmrabet, Moroccan editor and journalist, interviewed
by Axel Odelberg.
6. The Cuban Dictatorship
huber matos, Cuban democrat living in Miami, interviewed
by Nathan Shachar.
7. The Freedom of Press and Putin’s War
anna politkovskaya, Russian journalist, interviewed by
Thomas Gür.
8. China and the Freedom of the Press
hu shuli, Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese magazine
Caijing, interviewed by Thomas Gür.
Fall 2004
The Power of Media
1. Press as Propaganda
roy greenslade interviewed by Thomas Gür.
2. The Need for Quality Marking of News
edward lucas interviewed by Thomas Gür.
3. The Foreign Correspondent
isabel hilton interviewed by Björn Linnell.
4. The Journalists and the Politicians – An Unholy Alliance?
john lloyd interviewed by Thomas Gür.
5. The UN and The Media
shashi tharoor interviewed by Thomas Gür.
6. Clinton’s Man of Media
sidney blumenthal interviewed by Susanna Popova.
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7. Ideal Journalism
nicholas lemann interviewed by Thomas Gür.
8. David Frum – An Intellectual Neo-Con
david frum interviewed by Thomas Gür.
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Other Television Productions
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The Engelsberg Dialogue
In the programme The Engelsberg Dialogue Swedish intellectuals,
politicians and scholars are interviewed once a week. What
is really happening? What is going on behind the scenes? Cultural
editor of Expressen Per Svensson, journalist Göran
Rosenberg, political editor of Dagens Nyheter Niklas Ekdal,
journalist Peter Wolodarski, political editor of Svenska Dagbladet
P J Anders Linder, editor of Dagens Media Rolf van den
Brink, journalist Susanna Popova Hakelius, Editor-in-Chief of
Axess Magazine Kay Glans, and journalist Björn Linnell are
some of the prominent Swedish interviewers participating in
the series.
Fall 2003
1. The State and Social Democracy
professor bo rothstein interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
2. Behind the Gay Movement
author petra östergren interviewed by Susanna
Popova Hakelius.
3. Public Service
chairman of swedish radio ove joanson interviewed
by Per Svensson.
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4. There is Something Rotten in the State of Sweden
former auditor general of sweden inga-britt
ahlenius interviewed by Niklas Ekdal.
5. Sick Sweden – On Black Economy and Taxes
chief economist stefan fölster interviewed by Kay
Glans.
6. The Ravaged Artist
author björn ranelid interviewed by Björn Linnell.
7. A Swedish Tony Blair?
chief economist anders borg interviewed by Thomas
Gür.
8. Dagens Industri and Decency
editor-in-chief gunilla herlitz interviewed by
Susanna Popova Hakelius.
9. The UN – A Beauty Queen?
author and journalist david rieff interviewed by
Per Svensson.
10. The Swedish Arch Bishop and the Flight from the Church
arch bishop k g hammar interviewed by Niklas Ekdal.
Spring 2004
1. Who Will Pay when ”Folkhemmet” Becomes an Old People’s Home?
gunnar wetterberg interviewed by Per Svensson.
2. A Defence for Europe
lars wedin from Swedish National Defence College
interviewed by Kay Glans.
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3. Svenska Dagbladet – A Silenced Dragon?
lena k samuelsson, Editor-in-Chief of Svenska Dagbladet
interviewed by Rolf van den Brink.
4. Aftonbladet – Anders Gerdin’s Success Story
anders gerdin, Editor-in-Chief of Aftonbladet interviewed
by Susanna Popova Hakelius.
5. Does Sweden Lack Defence?
håkan syrén, Sweden’s Commander-in-Chief interviewed
by Niklas Ekdal.
6. Sveriges Television – Burning Hot Public Service
christina jutterström, CEO of Sveriges Television
interviewed by Susanna Popova Hakelius.
7. Expressen – Paparazzi Makes the Sales Fly High
otto sjöberg, Editor-in-Chief of Expressen interviewed
by Susanna Popova Hakelius.
8. Dagens Nyheter – The Last Publicist?
jan wifstrand, Editor-in-Chief of Dagens Nyheter interviewed
by Susanna Popova Hakelius.
9. TV4 – Jan Scherman Speaks His Mind
jan scherman, CEO of TV4 interviewed by Susanna
Popova Hakelius.
10. Media and Media Power
Round table talks with Sweden’s leading newspaper editors
led by Susanna Popova Hakelius and Rolf van den Brink:
christina jutterström, otto sjöberg, anders
gerdin, gunilla herlitz and lena k samuelson.
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11. Personified Business – The Power and Agenda of Swedish Business
Journalism
Discussion between jan wifstrand, Editor-in-Chief of
Dagens Nyheter and weje sandén, Editor-in-Chief of
Veckans Affärer, led by Thomas Gür.
Fall 2004
1. The Yes-Men
hans l zetterberg, sociologist and public opinion analyst,
interviewed by Susanna Popova Hakelius.
2. How to Handle Power
kjell-olof feldt, former Minister of Finance, interviewed
by PJ Anders Linder.
3. A Non-Socialist Advocate of Change
mauricio rojas, Member of Parliament, interviewed by
Peter Wolodarski.
4. A Right-Wing Alliance
hans bergström, former Editor-in-Chief of Dagens Nyheter,
interviewed by Peter Wolodarski.
5. How are Elections Won?
agneta dreber, CEO of Livsmedelsföretagen, interviewed
by Peter Wolodarski.
6. In Defence of Capitalism
johan norberg interviewed by Per Svensson.
7. The Strengths of the Right
roland poirier martinsson interviewed by Susanna
Popova Hakelius.
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8. Robin Hood in the Shape of a Legal Expert
gunnar strömmer, founder of The Centre for Justice, interviewed
by PJ Anders Linder.
9. Secret and Successful
janerik larsson, journalist and consultant, interviewed by
Susanna Popova Hakelius.
10. Pippi Longstocking of the Right-Wing
marit paulsen, Member of the European Parliament, interviewed
by Peter Wolodarski.
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Media 8
We receive a large part of our sense of reality from the mass
media. Media’s tremendous impact has today become so great
that we may speak of its power over the truth. But how truthful
are the media really? Media 8 will check and review the
content and quality of Sweden’s media. In the studio: Susanna
Popova Hakelius, journalist, and Mats Ekström, Professor
of Media and Communications, Örebro University.
Fall 2004
1. The End of Publicists
With Arne Ruth, professor of journalism, Carin Stenström,
editor of the Christian daily Världen i dag, Staffan Erfors, Editor-in-Chief
of Kvällsposten, Ulrika Saxon from Bonnier
Tidskrifter and Mattias Göransson Editor-in-Chief and founder
of Offside Magazine. Also taking part in the programme: late
Foreign Minister Anna Lindh’s close friend Eva Franchell and
Thomas Mattsson, editor of Expressen.
2. Who Owns the Media?
With Prime Minister Göran Persson, head of the Social Democratic
Party Marita Ulvskog, Chairman of TV4 and Expressen
Thorbjörn Larsson, journalist and writer Lars Weiss, Kerstin
Brunnberg, head of Swedish Radio, Editor-in-Chief of Metro
Stockholm Sakari Pitkänen, Minister of Family and Children
Berit Andnor, Editor at Aftonbladet Niklas Silow and Per
Bering.
3. The Principle of Free Access to Public Records
With finance reporter and journalist Olle Rossander, former
head of the Swedish National Audit Office Inga-Britt Ahlenius,
journalist Ylva Nilsson, Swedish Radio’s journalist Cecilia
Uddén, Chief Executive of Swedish Television Leif Jakobsson
and Per Frykman.
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4. Media and Power
With journalist at Dagens Nyheter Henrik Brors, project leader
for the TV programme Uppdrag Granskning (SVT) Nils Hansson,
author and journalist Jan Guillou, Political Commentator
for SVT KG Bergström, Eva Wikberg, Swedish Radio’s journalist
Jan Mosander, Writer and Critic at Svenska Dagbladet
Mats Gellerfeldt.
5. The Consultants and the Lobbyists
With journalist at Effektiva Media Richard Björk, editor at
Expressen Thomas Mattsson, PR consultants Fredrik Andersson
and Martin Borgs, Lobbyist of the Year Ann-Thérese Enarsson,
Editor-in-Chief of Norrländska socialdemokraten Lennart
Håkansson, Jonas Larsson and Editor-in-Chief of Västerbottenkuriren
Torbjörn Bergmark.
6. Copied Journalism
With Consul General Olle Wästberg, Editor-in-Chief of Dagens
Nyheter Jan Wifstrand, writer at Stockholm Spectator (webblogg)
Paul O’Mahony, author and journalist Jan Guillou, news
editor of Ekot Rolf Stengård, former CEO of Ericsson Kurt
Hellström and Editor at Expressen Thomas Mattsson.
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TV Productions for
Swedish Television (SVT)
Why Do We Read?
harold bloom interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
(Interview made in connection to the Engelsberg Seminar 2000
“Visions of the Future”)
The Loss of God
(Five interviews made in connection to the Engelsberg Seminar
2001, “The Future of Religion”)
The Fundamentalist Temptation
robert jay lifton interview by Göran Rosenberg.
The Revenge of the Sacred
leszek kolakowski interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
The God Within
elaine pagels interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
Our Need for Narrative
kerstin ekman interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
Allah for All?
tariq ramadan interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
What is Man?
(Five interviews in connection to the Engelsberg Seminar 2002,
”Consciousness, Genetics and Society”)
Man is a Vehicle for His Genes
richard dawkins interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
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Man is a Moral Being
erwin bischofberger interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
Man is Man and Woman
camille paglia interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
Man is a Cultural Being
paul ehrlich interviewed by Göran Rosenberg .
Man is His Own Creator
lee m silver interviewed by Göran Rosenberg .
Engelsberg Documentaries
Visions of the Future, based on the Engelsberg Seminar 2000.
The Future of Religion, based on the Engelsberg Seminar 2001.
Consciousness, Genetics and Society, based on the Engelsberg Seminar
2002.
Towards a Cosmopolitan Culture?, based on the Engelsberg Seminar
2003.
Media and Media Power, based on the Engelsberg Seminar 2004.
Other TV Productions for TV8
Interview with Robert J Shapiro, Former Under Secretary of Commerce
made by Author and Journalist Axel Odelberg (2001).
Genetic Axess – Man from Creature to Creator (2002). The 20 th century
was dominated by a number of utopian movements such
as communism and Nazism which in a fundamental sense radically
endeavoured to transform human nature. In biological
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science today, advanced efforts are being made to change the
basic terms of human life. Biological science will perhaps succeed
where the ideologies failed – in creating a new human being.
That which, until now, we have only been able to see in
sci-fi films is on the point of coming true. He whom some have
called the Dr Frankenstein, Dr Panayiotis Zavos, of our time
appears in the series Genetic Axess: Man from Creature to
Creator.
Three documentaries introduce us to some of Sweden’s and
the world’s leading researchers and critics of genetic research.
Provocateur Dr Zavos claims to be already capable of cloning
human beings, and Georg Klein argues that science must work
with no regard for opinions. They are strongly opposed by the
feminist research and critic Hilary Rose. Meet Sverre Sjölander,
Kenan Malik, Lee M Silver and others.
Genetic Axess part 1. A Brave New World
Genetic Axess part 2. The Moral Animal
Genetic Axess part 3. The New Human Being
The Royal State Visit by the King and Queen of Sweden to Thailand
in February 2003. Interviews made by Anders Hellner (2004).
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Books
*
Den svenska framgångssagan? Edited by Kurt Almqvist and Kay
Glans. Published by Fischers förlag in December 2001.
Axess 2002 Från stoicism till konsumkapitalism published by Bonnier
Fakta in December 2002.
Drömmarna och Gud – Essäer om att möta Gud i drömmen, edited by
J. Peter Södergård and Erik Wallrup. Published in December
2002.
Fönster mot framtiden edited by Kurt Almqvist, Kay Glans and
Erik Wallrup. Published in September 2003.
Axess 2003 Från svart ekonomi till sanningens återkomst, published
in December 2003.
The Swedish Success Story? edited by Kurt Almqvist and Kay Glans,
published in August 2004.
Visions of the Future, ed. Kurt Almqvist, Kay Glans and Erik
Wallrup. English ed. Georgina Laycock. Published in December
2004.
Kapitalets mysterium (“The Mystery of Capital”) by Hernando
de Soto, published by Atlantis förlag. Published in December
2004.
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Axess 2004 Indien kastar loss – Press under press, published in December
2004.
Modernity and Its Discontents, ed. Petteri Pietikäinen. Published
in January 2005.
Forthcoming 2005
The Future of Religion, ed. Kurt Almqvist, Kay Glans, Erik Wallrup.
English ed. Judith Dollenmayer.
Consciousness, Genetics and Society, ed. Kurt Almqvist and Kay
Glans.
Towards a Cosmopolitan Culture?, ed. Kurt Almqvist and Kay
Glans.
Media and Media Power, ed. Kurt Almqvist and Kay Glans. English
ed. Alex Linklater.
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Chronological Report
*
1999
august
The Engelsberg Seminar 1999 – The Swedish Success-Story? at
Engelsberg Manor.
2000
february
Social Vulnerability Seminar at IVA.
may
Renaissance Research Seminar at Van der Nootska Palatset.
june
Seminar on Psychological Utopias with Petteri Pietikäinen at Avesta
Manor.
august
The Engelsberg Seminar 2000 – Visions of the Future at Avesta
Manor and Engelsberg Manor.
Seminar with Harold Bloom – The Gnostic Religion at Skeppsbron
24.
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september
Seminar with Harold Bloom – On Shakespeare at Skeppsbron 24.
The Human City Seminar with Johan Rådberg at IVA.
october
Harold Bloom – an interview by Göran Rosenberg is broadcasted
on SVT.
november
Violence in Schools Seminar with Allan Guggenbühl at Skeppsbron
24.
december
Lectures with the Right Livelihood Award Winners Tewolde
Berhan Gebre Egziabher, (Ethiopia), Munir, (Indonesia),
Birsel Lemke, (Turkey), Wes Jackson, (USA) at Skeppsbron
24.
2001
february
The Human City Seminar at The Modern Museum in Stockholm.
april
The Reception of the Dynamic Psychology Seminar at Skeppsbron
24.
Late Classical Antiquity Seminar at Skeppsbron 24.
may
American Politics after Bill Clinton, seminar with Robert J. Shapiro
at Skeppsbron 24.
june
The Engelsberg Seminar 2001 – The Future of Religion at Avesta
Manor and Engelsberg Manor.
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august
Anthropological Seminar with Manisha Roy at Skeppsbron 24.
october
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology, a two-day seminar at
Skeppsbron 24.
december
The Swedish Success-Story? is published by Fischers förlag.
Interview with Robert J Shapiro by Axel Odelberg broadcasted on
TV8.
The Loss of God part 1 with Robert Jay Lifton is broadcasted on
SVT.
2002
january
The Loss of God part 2, 3, and 4 with Kerstin Ekman, Leszek
Kolakowski and Elaine Pagels is broadcasted on SVT.
february
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar at Skeppsbron 24.
The Loss of God part 5 with Tariq Ramadan is broadcasted on
SVT.
Global Axess Talks in Engelsberg – The New Wars – an interview
with Mary Kaldor by Kay Glans is broadcasted on TV8.
Global Axess In Israel’s Service – an interview with David Kimche
by Kay Glans is broadcasted on TV8.
Towards a Global Society? Conference at the Stockholm School
of Economics. Broadcasted during the day on TV8.
Global Axess The Editors in Dialogue – Talks on Globalisation with
Hans Bergström, Kay Glans and Mats Johansson, broadcasted
on TV8.
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march
Axess No. 1 March 2002 Globalization is published.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess Hernando de Soto – The Man Who Discovered the
Wealth of the Poor interviewed by Anders Hellner broadcasted
on TV8.
Global Axess Freedom Through Trade – Jagdish Bhagwati interviewed
by Thomas Gür broadcasted on TV8.
april
Axess No. 2 April 2002 The Greying Society is published.
Global Axess Islam’s Choice- Politics or Religion? Interview with
Bassam Tibi by Kay Glans, is broadcasted on TV8.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess Special – Ekéus vs. Bildt is broadcasted on TV8 and
TV2 Denmark.
Global Axess India – The New Asian Super Power, Sunil Khilnani
interviewed by David Ståhl, is broadcasted on TV8.
The Irony of Journalism and Journalistic Irony, lecture by Johan
Hakelius at Skeppsbron 24.
may
Axess No. 3 May 2002 The Triple Society is published.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Paul Roazen
at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess UN:s Next Secretary General?, an interview with Surin
Pitsuwan by Tomas Larsson is broadcasted on TV8.
Global Axess The Hidden History of Analytical Psychology, an interview
with Paul Roazen by Kay Glans, is broadcasted on
TV8.
Literature Seminar with Katherine Hayles at Skeppsbron 24.
june
Axess No. 4 June 2002 Genetic Integrity is published.
The Engelsberg Seminar 2002 – Consciousness, Genetics and Society
at Avesta Manor.
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Evolutionary Psychology, lecture by Robert Wright at Skeppsbron
24.
august
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Stanislav Grof
at Skeppsbron 24.
september
Axess No. 5 September 2002 War in Peace is published.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Michael Maccoby
at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess Dr Frankenstein of Our Age? Interview with Panayiotis
Zavos by Thomas Gür, is broadcasted on TV8.
Identity and Globalization Seminar with Richard E Doner at
Skeppsbron 24.
october
Axess No. 6 October 2002 Stoicism is published.
Global Axess The Evolutionary Basis of Gender, interview with
Robert Wright by Kay Glans is broadcasted on TV8.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Åsa Bergenheim
at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess The Dangerous Genetics, interview with Hilary Rose
by Angeta Pleijel, is broadcasted on TV8.
Urban City Research Seminar, a two-day seminar on New Urbanism
at Tullhus 2, Stockholm.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Franz Luttenberger
at Skeppsbron 24.
november
Global Axess. The Mocking Gene, interview with Evelyn Fox Keller
by Björn Linnell, is broadcasted on TV8.
Axess No. 7 November 2002 EU Off-Beat is published.
Global Axess Animals as Angels – Man as Animal? Interview with
Kenan Malik by Erik Davis, is broadcasted on TV8.
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december
Axess No.8 December 2002 Co-Op Capitalism is published.
Global Axess Nuclear Shadow over Asia, interview with Raja
Ramanna by Sten Widmalm is broadcasted on TV8.
40 Years of The New York Review of Books, seminar with Robert
B Silvers at Skeppsbron 24.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Eva Thulin at
Skeppsbron 24.
Late Classical Antiquity Seminar at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess If the War Comes, interviews with Alyson J K Bailes,
Rolf Ekéus and Sverker Åström by Anders Hellner is broadcasted
on TV8.
Identity and Globalization Seminar with Razeen Sally at Skeppsbron
24.
The Prospect of Prospect- Can Intellectual Journalism Succeed?, seminar
with Alexander Linklater at Skeppsbron 24.
Axess 2002 – From Stoicism to Co-Op Capitalism is published by
Bonnier Fakta.
Drömmarna och Gud – Essäer om att möta Gud i drömmen is published.
Global Axess Network for Profit and Terror, interview with Manuel
Castells by Thomas Gür is broadcasted on TV8.
2003
january
Global Axess Sartre and Ethics, interview with Czeslaw Milosz
by Anders Hellner is broadcasted on TV8.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Anna Nilsson
at Skeppsbron 24.
Brave New Europe, lecture with Maciej Zaremba at Skeppsbron
24.
february
Axess No. 1 February 2003 Africa’s Renaissance is published.
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Global Axess Kristian Gerner interviewed by Anders Hellner is
broadcasted on TV8.
The Future of Europe, lecture with Carl Bildt in cooperation with
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
Global Axess The Future of Europe, interview with Carl Bildt by
Anders Hellner, is broadcasted on TV8.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Inga Sanner
at Skeppsbron 24.
What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Identity?, lecture by
Merete Mazzarella at Skeppsbron 24.
The Role of Sweden and Thailand in Their Respective Regions: Similarities
and Differences. A two-day seminar at the Thammasat
University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Shaping the City by the Public Space, Urban City Research Seminar
with Johan Rådberg at Skeppsbron 24.
march
Axess No. 2 March 2003 After the Corporate Giants is published.
Global Axess USA and Europe, Power and Weakness, interview
with Robert Kagan by Anders Hellner is broadcasted on
TV8.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Petteri Pietikäinen
at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess Anti-Americanism, interview with Timothy Garton
Ash by Anders Hellner is broadcasted on TV8.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Eva Marie Rigné
at Skeppsbron 24.
The Intellectual History of Swedish Modernism, Urban City Research
Seminar with Monica Andersson at Skeppsbron 24.
april
Axess No.3 April 2003 Generation Shift is published.
Global Axess The Future of Russia, interview with Michail Gorbatjov
by Anders Hellner is broadcasted on TV8.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Lennart Warring
at Skeppsbron 24.
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Global Axess EU – The Fortress of Bureaucracy, interview with
Günther Verheugen by Anders Hellner is broadcasted on
TV8.
Hong Kong, China and the Future, lecture by Emily Lau in association
with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
Protokollet, book release and lectures by Susanna Popova and
Mats Holm on the subject of Estonia at Skeppsbron 24.
A Study of Neo-Traditional Tourist Amenities, Urban City Research
Seminar with Claudia Trillo at Skeppsbron 24.
may
Axess No. 4 May 2003 Poor Middle Class is published.
Global Axess Where is Turkey Heading? interview with Seyfi
Tashan by Anders Hellner is broadcasted on TV8.
Communication with Mozart, lecture by Greger Hatt at Skeppsbron
24.
Genetic Axess part 1. A Brave New World is broadcasted on TV8.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Suzanne Gieser
at Skeppsbron 24.
The Modernity of Religion in India, seminar with Pankaj Mishra
at Skeppsbron 24.
Violence in Schools Research Seminar with Allan Guggenbühl at
Skeppsbron 24.
Genetic Axess part 2. The Moral Animal is broadcasted on TV8.
Global Axess Danger Zone Hong Kong, interview with Emily Lau
by Jan Söderqvist, is broadcasted on TV8.
Genetic Axess part 3. The New Human Being is broadcasted on TV8.
june
Axess No. 5 June 2003 The Resurrection of Truth is published.
Urban City Research Seminar, “Streets, Main Streets and Meeting
Places” at The Royal Coin Cabinet.
Lecture by Norman Birnbaum at The Swedish Institute of International
Affairs.
The Engelsberg Seminar 2003 – Towards a Cosmopolitan Culture?
at Avesta Manor.
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The Only Revolution in Town, lecture by Christopher Hitchens
at Skeppsbron 24.
september
Axess No. 6 September 2003 The Renaissance of the City State is published.
Global Axess A Woman’s Struggle Against the Pressures of Patriarchy,
an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali by Anders Hellner is
broadcasted on TV8.
Axel Munthe Lecture by Bengt Jangfeldt at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess A Moral Intellectual, an interview with Christopher
Hitchens by Christine Ockrent, is broadcasted on TV8.
Urban City Research Seminar at Skeppsbron 24 Poundbury, a lecture
by Robert Adams.
The book Fönster mot Framtiden, “Visions of the Future”, is published.
The Legal Divide: The Real Problem with Globalization, lecture by
Hernando de Soto at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess Garbage and Globalisation, an interview with
Zygmunt Bauman by Anders Hellner, is broadcasted on
TV8.
What is man? Man is a Vehicle for His Genes is broadcasted on
Swedish Television. Richard Dawkins interviewed by Göran
Rosenberg.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with David Healy
and Edward Shorter at Skeppsbron 24.
Modernity and Its Discontents: The Tyranny of Intimacy? Conference
at the Royal Coin Cabinet.
What is Man? Man is a Moral Being is broadcasted on Swedish
Television. Erwin Bischofberger interviewed by Göran
Rosenberg
Global Axess War and Peace in the Market State, an interview with
Philip Bobbitt by Göran Rosenberg, is broadcasted on TV8.
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october
Axess No. 7 October 2003 The Disorder of Things is published.
What is Man? Man is Man and Woman is broadcasted on Swedish
Television. Camille Paglia interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Göran Rosenberg
interviewed Bo Rothstein.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. The Multicultural Dead End,
an interview with Nathan Glazer by Göran Rosenberg.
Perspectives on Russia in Transition, an international conference
in Helsinki, Finland.
What is Man? Man is a Cultural Being is broadcasted on Swedish
Television. Paul Ehrlich interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Citizen without Background,
an interview with Catherine Audard by Björn Linnell.
The Engelsberg Dialogue No. 2 is broadcasted on TV8. Susanna
Popova Hakelius interviewed Petra Östergren.
What is Man? Man is His Own Creator is broadcasted on Swedish
Television. Lee M Silver interviewed by Göran Rosenberg.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. An American Social Democrat,
an interview with Norman Birnbaum by Anders
Hellner.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Per Svensson
interviewed Ove Joanson.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Niklas Ekdal
interviewed Inga-Britt Ahlenius.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. The European Betrayal, an
interview with David Frum by Kay Glans.
november
Axess No. 8 November 2003 Shadow Economy is published.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Kay Glans interviewed
Stefan Fölster.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Order or Human Rights?, an
interview with Deepak Kumar Lal by Thomas Gür.
Good Mixed-Use for the 21st Century Urban City Research Conference
at Stockholm City Conference Center, Stockholm.
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The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Björn Linnell
interviewed Björn Ranelid.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Thomas Gür
interviewed Anders Borg.
From Ottoman Periphery to European Modernity, lecture by Nathan
Shachar at Skeppsbron 24.
Urban City Research lecture by Aleksander Wolodarski at Skeppsbron
24.
december
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Susanna Popova
Hakelius interviewed Gunilla Herlitz.
Axess No. 9 December 2003 Voting by Shopping is published.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Per Svensson
interviewed David Rieff.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Niklas Ekdal
interviewed K G Hammar.
2004
january
A New Evaluation of Problems in Mandaean Research: Early History,
Influences and Gender, lecture by Professor Jorunn Jacobsen
Buckley at Skeppsbron 24.
february
Axess No. 1 February 2004 The Future of the City is Here is
published.
The Engelsberg Dialogue No.1 is broadcasted on TV8. Per Svensson
interviewed Dr. Gunnar Wetterberg.
Al-Jazeera – Terrorist TV or an Arabic CNN?, lecture by Thomas
Gür at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Thomas Gür interviewed
Wadah Khanfar, head of Al-Jazeera.
The Engelsberg Dialogue Kay Glans interviewed Lars Wedin from
Swedish National Defence College.
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Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Thomas Gür interviewed
Tarun Tejpal, editor of the Indian magazine Tehelka.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Rolf van den
Brink interviewed Lena K Samuelsson, Editor-in-Chief of
Svenska Dagbladet.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Thomas Gür interviewed
Geoffrey Nyarota, former Editor-in-Chief of Zimbabwe’s
Daily News.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Susanna Popova
Hakelius interviewed Anders Gerdin, Editor-in-Chief of
Aftonbladet.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Thomas Gür interviewed
Bassem Eid, head of The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring
Group.
march
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Niklas Ekdal
interviewed Håkan Syrén, Sweden’s Commander-in-Chief.
Axess No. 2 March 2004 India Unleashed is published.
Global Axess No. 5 is broadcasted on TV8. Axel Odelberg interviewed
Ali Lmrabet, Moroccan editor and journalist.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Susanna Hakelius
Popova interviewed Christina Jutterström, CEO of Sveriges
Television.
Career Barriers – a seminar on equal career opportunities with
Monica Renstig from the Stockholm School of Economics
at Skeppsbron 24.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Nathan Shachar interviewed
Huber Matos.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Susanna Hakelius
Popova interviewed Otto Sjöberg, Editor-in-Chief of
Expressen.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Thomas Gür interviewed
the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
The Johan Ludvig Runeberg Bicentenary Seminar with Merete
Mazzarella “Runeberg and the Finnish Folk Soul” at Finlandshuset
in Stockholm.
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The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Susanna Hakelius
Popova interviewed Jan Wifstrand, Editor-in-Chief of
Dagens Nyheter.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Thomas Gür interviewed
Hu Shuli, Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese magazine Caijing.
The Johan Ludvig Runeberg Bicentenary Seminar with Matti Klinge
“The Political Runeberg” at Finlandshuset in Stockholm.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar at Skeppsbron 24.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Susanna Hakelius
Popova interviewed Jan Scherman, CEO of TV4.
Belief and Knowledge within Today’s Feminism – lecture by Susanna
Hakelius Popova at Skeppsbron 24.
The Johan Ludvig Runeberg Bicentenary Seminar with Agneta
Rahikainen “Johan Ludvig and Fredrika Runeberg” at Finlandshuset
in Stockholm.
april
Axess No. 3 April 2004 The Cluster Economy is published.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Susanna Hakelius
Popova and Rolf van den Brink discusses with the editors:
Christina Jutterström, Otto Sjöberg, Anders Gerdin, Gunilla
Herlitz and Lena K Samuelson on the topic of media power.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar at Skeppsbron 24.
Urban City Research Seminar with Krister Sernbo “How to Make
Green Structures Cohabit with Urban Structures” at Södra
Teatern, Stockholm.
Lecture by Sigrid Rausing “History, Memory, and Identity in Post-
Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm” at the Stockholm
School of Economics.
may
Axess No. 4 May 2004 The Swedish School Must Change Its Course
is published.
Axess Seminar with Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg “Free Research on
Collision with the Swedish Government’s Production of
Ideology” at Skeppsbron 24.
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St. Petersburg in the 21st Century – Views on Growth, Culture, Science
and Economics, an international conference at the Grand
Hôtel, Stockholm in cooperation with The City of Stockholm
and The Stenbeck Group.
Axess Seminar with Hernando de Soto, Allan Larsson and
Joakim Ollén “The Legal Divide: The Real Problem with
Globalization” at ABF in Stockholm.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Dr. Mark S.
Micale “DSM and the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnostics in
the Early Twenty-First Century” at Skeppsbron 24.
june
Special programme produced by the Foundation is broadcasted
on TV8. The Royal State Visit by The King and Queen of Sweden
to Thailand.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Personified Business-
The Power and Agenda of Swedish Business Journalism
with Jan Wifstrand, Editor-in-Chief of Dagens Nyheter
and Weje Sandén Editor-in-Chief of Veckans Affärer. Discussion
led by Thomas Gür.
Urban City Research Seminar with Stephen Marshall ”The Sustainable
Arterial Street” at Piperska Muren in Stockholm.
Axess No. 5 June 2004 Press Under Pressure is published.
What is George W Bush Doing?, a lecture by David Frum in cooperation
with The Institute of International Affairs in
Stockholm.
The Engelsberg Seminar 2004 “Media and Media Power” takes
place at Avesta Manor in Avesta.
The American Crisis, a lecture by former Clinton Advisor Sidney
Blumenthal, at Skeppsbron 24.
august
Axess Seminar “The Market of Uncertainty” with Alyson Bailes
and Svante Cornell at Skeppsbron 24.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Petteri Pietikäinen
at Skeppsbron 24.
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september
Axess No. 6 September 2004 The Market of Uncertainty is published.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Hans L
Zetterberg interviewed by Susanna Popova.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Roy Greenslade interviewed
by Thomas Gür.
The Danish Media Situation in a Comparative Perspective, lecture
by Tøger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Denmark
at Stureplan 3.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Kjell-Olof Feldt
interviewed by PJ Anders Linder.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Edward Lucas interviewed
by Thomas Gür.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Petteri Pietikäinen
at Skeppsbron 24.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Mauricio Rojas
interviewed by Peter Wolodarski.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Isabel Hilton interviewed
by Björn Linnell.
october
Axess No. 7 October 2004. Turkey at the Crossroads is published.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Hans Bergström
interviewed by Peter Wolodarski.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. John Lloyd interviewed by
Thomas Gür.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with lecture by Karin
Johannisson at Skeppsbron 24.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Agneta Dreber
interviewed by Peter Wolodarski.
The Swedish Success Story?, is published.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Shashi Tharoor interviewed
by Thomas Gür.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Johan Norberg
interviewed by Per Svensson.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Sidney Blumenthal interviewed
by Susanna Popova.
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The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Roland Poirier
Martinsson interviewed by Susanna Popova.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. Nicholas Lemann interviewed
by Thomas Gür.
november
Contemporary Feminism Seminar “Sex, Lies and Feminism”, lecture
given by Christina Hoff Sommers at Skeppsbron 24.
Media 8 No. 1 The End of Publicists with Susanna Popova and Mats
Ekström is broadcasted on TV8.
Axess No. 8 November 2004 The Reluctant Empire is published.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Gunnar Strömmer
interviewed by PJ Anders Linder.
Media 8 No. 2 Who Owns the Media? with Susanna Popova and
Mats Ekström is broadcasted on TV8.
Global Axess is broadcasted on TV8. David Frum interviewed
by Thomas Gür.
The Pleasure of Mixing Formal and Organic Design in Private and
Public Gardens, lectures by Jacques Wirtz and Peter Wirtz
at Skeppsbron 24.
Media 8 No. 3 The Principle of Free Access to Public Records with
Susanna Popova and Mats Ekström is broadcasted on TV8.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Janerik Larsson
interviewed by Susanna Popova.
Media Arrogance – Is Journalism Capable of Self-Criticism? A debate
between John Lloyd, FT Magazine, and Richard Sambrook,
BBC News, at 14 Queen Anne’s Gate, London, UK.
The Reception of Dynamic Psychology Seminar with Petteri Pietikäinen
at Skeppsbron 24.
Media 8 No. 4 Media and Power with Susanna Popova and Mats
Ekström is broadcasted on TV8.
The Engelsberg Dialogue is broadcasted on TV8. Marit Paulsen
interviewed by Peter Wolodarski.
december
The History of Gulag, an evening with Anne Applebaum at
Skeppsbron 24.
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Media 8 No. 5 The Consultants and the Lobbyists with Susanna
Popova and Mats Ekström is broadcasted on TV8.
Modernity and Its Discontents is published.
Axess No. 9 December 2004 The Future is so Passé is published.
Media 8 No. 6 Copied Journalism with Susanna Popova and Mats
Ekström is broadcasted on TV8.
Axess 2004 Indien kastar loss – Press under press is published.
Urban City Research Seminar with lecture by Charlotte Holst at
Piperska Muren.
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contributors
Contributors
*
Adam, Robert, University of Minnesota, USA
Ahlenius, Inga-Britt, Former Auditor General of Sweden
Albrecht, Hans-Holger, President and Chief Executive, Modern Times
Group AB (MTG), Stockholm, Sweden
Alda, Martin, Dept. of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University Medical
School, Canada
Alferov, Zhores I., Professor and Director of A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical
Institute, S:t Petersburg, Russia
Almqvist, Kurt, President and CEO, Axel and Margaret Ax:son
Johnson Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
Altman, Lawrence, MD, Medical Correspondent, New York Times,
USA
Anderson, Luke, Author, London, UK
Andersson, Monica, M.A. Doctoral Student, Stockholm University,
Sweden
Applebaum, Anne, Journalist and Author, Washington Post, USA
Arhippainen, Max, Editor-in-Chief, Hufvudstadsbladet, Helsinki, Finland
Arnstberg, Karl-Olov, Professor of Ethnology, Stockholm University,
Sweden
Arvidsson, Håkan, Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
Audard, Catherine, Professor at London School of Economics, Forum
of European Philosophy, London, UK
Ax:son Johnson, Viveca, Chairman, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson
Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
Bailes, Alyson J K, Ambassador and Director of SIPRI, Stockholm,
Sweden
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contributors
Barkan, Elazar, Claremont Graduate University, Dept. of History and
Cultural Studies, USA
Barker, Paul, Author and Journalist, London, UK
Bauman, Zygmunt, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of
Leeds and Warsaw, UK/Poland
Beecher, Jonathan, Professor at the University of California, Santa Fe,
USA
Berggren, Henrik, Editor-in-Chief of the Arts section, Dagens Nyheter,
Sweden
Berglöf, Erik, Professor, Director of SITE, Stockholm School of Economics,
Sweden
Berglund, Kerstin, The Municipality of Vallentuna, Sweden
Bergström, Hans, Journalist, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden
Berman, Sheri, Ph D, Department of Politics, Princeton University, USA
Berner, Örjan, Former Swedish Ambassador to Soviet Union/Russia,
Germany and France
Bildt, Carl, Former Prime Minister of Sweden
Billström, Annika, Mayor of the City of Stockholm, Sweden
Birnbaum, Norman, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law
Center, USA
Bischofberger, Erwin, Professor of Medical Ethics, Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, Sweden
Bishop, Paul, Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, UK
Bloom, Harold, Professor Yale University and New York University,
USA
Blumenthal, Sidney, author and journalist, Salon.com, USA
Bobbitt, Philip, Professor at Texas University School of Law, USA
Bodman, Whitney, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Divinity School,
Harvard University, USA
Bohl, Charles C., Associate Professor and Director of the Knight Program
in Community Building, School of Architecture, University
of Miami, USA
Bolander, Per Olof, Journalist, Stockholm, Sweden
Bommes, Michael, Professor Dr., University of Osnabrück, Institute
of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Germany
Borg, Anders, Chief Economist, The Moderate Party, Sweden
Brink, Rolf van den, Editor-in-Chief of Dagens Media.se, Stockholm,
Sweden
Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen, Assistant Professor of Religion, Bowdoin
College, USA
Bulger, Roger MD, CEO of Academic Health Centres, USA
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contributors
Chongkittavorn, Kavi, Editor-in-Chief, The Nation, Bangkok, Thailand
Calltorp, Johan, Professor, Director of County Health Care Unit,
House of Regions, Skövde, Sweden
Carlsson, Ingvar, Former Prime Minister of Sweden
Casanova, José, Professor of Sociology, New School of Social Research,
New York, USA
Castells, Manuel, Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and
Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, USA
Chaiyasoot, Naris, President of Thammasat University, Bangkok,
Thailand
Conibear, Simon, Poundbury Development Manager, UK
Cornell, Svante, PhD, Department of Peace and Conflict Research,
University of Uppsala, Sweden
Cox, Harvey, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity
School, Harvard University, USA
Creveld, Martin van, Professor of Military History at Hebrew University,
Israel
Dahl, Göran, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden
Dahlbäck, Göran, Professor of Medieval History, Stockholm University,
Sweden
Davis, Erik, Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine, USA
Dawkins, Richard, Charles Simonyi Professor for The Understanding
Of Science at Oxford University, UK
Dideen, Tana, PhD, Consultant, Author and Journalist, Victoria, B.C.,
Canada
Doner, Richard E, Professor, Department of Political Science, Emory
University, USA
Dreber, Agneta, CEO, Livsmedelsföretagen, Stockholm, Sweden
Duany, Andrés, Architect and Town Planner, Duany Plater-Zyberk
& Company, USA
Dunham-Jones, Ellen, Architect, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute
of Technology, USA
Edsman, Carl-Martin, Professor Emeritus of the History of Religion,
Uppsala University, Sweden
Egziabher, Tewolde Berhan Gebre, Right Livelihood Award Winner,
Ethiopia
Eid, Bassem, Head of The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring
Group, Jerusalem, PA
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contributors
Ekdal, Niklas, Political Editor, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden
Ekéus, Rolf, Ambassador and Member of the Board, Axel and Margaret
Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Sweden
Ekholm Friedman, Kajsa, Associate Professor at the Department of
Social Anthropology, Lund University, Sweden
Ekman, Bo, Founding Partner and Chairman of Nextwork, Stockholm,
Sweden
Ekman, Kerstin, Author, Member of the Swedish Academy, Sweden
Ekström, Mats, Professor of Media and Communication, Örebro University,
Sweden
Elmlund, Peter, Project Leader, Urban City Research, Axel and Margaret
Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
Elms, Alan C., Professor, Department of Psychology, University of
California, USA
Elte, Nathanea, Dr.sc.techn. ETH, Austria
Ericson, Bernt, PhD, LM Ericsson, Sweden
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Professor, Dept. of Social Anthropology,
University of Olso, Norway
Etkind, Alexander, Professor at the European University, St. Petersburg,
Russia
Etzkowitz, Associate Professor State University of New York, USA
Facon, Isabelle, Researcher of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique,
Paris, France
Faivre, Antoine, Professor and Director at E.P.H.E., Sciences Religeuse,
Sorbonne, France
Farrell, John, Associate Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna
College, USA
Feldt, Kjell-Olof, Former Minister of Finance, Sweden
Fenby, Jonathan, Author and Editorial Director, EarlyWarning.com,
UK
Forsell, Håkan, PhD in History at Stockholm University, Sweden
Forshed, Kjell, Architect SAR, Brunnberg & Forshed, Sweden
Frum, David, Journalist, Author and Resident Fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C., USA
Frykman, Jonas, Professor at the Department of Ethnology, Lund
University, Sweden
Fölster, Stefan, Chief Economist, The Confederation of Swedish
Enterprise
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contributors
Gabr, Shafik M., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Artoc Group
for Investment & Development, Egypt
Garton Ash, Timothy, Author and Journalist, Director of the European
Studies Centre at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, UK
Gebremedhin, Ezra, Associate Professor, Department of Theology,
University of Uppsala, Sweden
Gehl, Jan, Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture,
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gerdin, Anders, Editor-in-Chief, Aftonbladet, Stockholm, Sweden
Gerner, Kristian, Professor of History, Lund University, Sweden
Gibbs, Robert, Landscape Architect, Gibbs Planning Group, USA
Gieser, Suzanne, PhD, Department of History of Science and Ideas,
Uppsala University, Sweden
Gilhus, Ingvild Saelid, Professor of Religion, University of Bergen,
Norway
Glans, Kay, Editor-in-Chief, Axess Magazine, Stockholm, Sweden
Glazer, Nathan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Harvard University,
USA
Goodhart, David, Editor-in-Chief, Prospect Magazine, UK
Gorbatjov, Michail, Former President to the Soviet Union
Greenslade, Roy, Professor, City University, London, UK
Grof, Stanislav, M.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, San
Francisco, USA
Guarente, Leonard, Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA
Gür, Thomas, Journalist and Consultant, Stockholm, Sweden
Göransson, Alf, President and CEO of NCC, Stockholm, Sweden
Hakelius, Johan, Journalist and Writer, Stockholm, Sweden
Hall, Richard A, Professor at Florida State University, Department of
Urban and Regional Planning, USA
Hallsten, Lennart, PhD, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm,
Sweden
Hammar, K G, Arch Bishop of Sweden
Hammer, Olav, PhD, History of Religion, Lund University, Sweden
Hansson, Mats G., Docent at Uppsala University, Sweden
Hartman, Lars, Professor Emeritus, Department of Theology, University
of Uppsala, Sweden
Hatt, Greger, Communication Advisor to the Swedish Government,
Strategic Leadership Communication, Stockholm, Sweden
Hauer, Gottfried, Doctoral Student at the University of Essex, UK
89

contributors
Haught, John F., Professor at the Department of Theology, Georgetown
University, USA
Hayles, Katherine, Professor of English, University of California, USA
Healy, David, PhD, University of Wales, College of Medicine, Wales,
UK
Hedborg, Anna, Director General, National Social Insurance Board,
Sweden
Heelas, Paul, PhD, Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University,
UK
Heinberg, Richard, Author and Lecturer, New College of California, USA
Hellner, Anders, Programme Director of the Swedish Institute of
International Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden
Henningsen, Bernt, Professor at University of Humboldt, Berlin,
Germany
Herlitz, Gunilla, Editor-in-Chief, Dagens industri, Stockholm, Sweden
Hesslow, Germund, Professor, Dept. of Physiological Sciences, Lund
University, Sweden
Hilton, Isabel, Author and Journalist, The New Yorker and The Guardian,
USA/UK
Hirdman, Sven, Ambassador of Sweden to Russian Federation
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, Member of Parliament, Volkspartij Voor Vrijheid
en Democratie, Holland
Hitchens, Christopher, Author and Journalist, Washington D.C., USA
Holm, Mats, Freelance Journalist, Stockholm, Sweden
Holst, Charlotte, Architect, Stockholm City Planning Committee,
Sweden
Hu, Shuli, Editor-in-Chief, Caijing Magazine, Beijing, China
Hurd, Madeleine, Associate Professor at Södertörn University College,
Sweden
Ihanus, Juhani, Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland
Introvigne, Massimo, Dr, CESNUR, Turin, Italy
Irenius, Lisa, Journalist, Stockholm, Sweden
Isaksson, Anders, Author and Journalist at Dagens industri, Sweden
Jackson, Wes, Right Livelihood Award Winner, USA
Jacoby, Russell, Professor of History, UCLA, USA
Jangfeldt, Bengt, Author, Stockholm, Sweden
Jarnheimer, Lars-Johan, President and CEO, Tele2, Stockholm,
Sweden
Jarrick, Arne, Professor, Dept. of History, Stockholm University, Sweden
90

contributors
Jersenius, Håkan, Town planner, Småstaden Architects AB, Sweden
Joanson, Ove, Chairman of Swedish Radio, Sweden
Joffrin, Laurent, Editor-in-Chief, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, France
Johannisson, Karin, Proffessor of History of Ideas, University of
Uppsala, Sweden
Johansson, Alf W, Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History
at Södertörn University College, Sweden
Johansson, Jan-Olov, Head of Science Radio, Swedish Radio, Uppsala,
Sweden
Johansson, Rune, Professor, Ethnic Studies, Linköping University,
Sweden
Jutterström, Christina, CEO, Sveriges Television, Stockholm, Sweden
Kagan, Robert, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, Brussels, Belgium
Kaldor, Mary, Professor and Director of the Programme on Global
Civil Society at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance,
London School of Economics, UK
Karlsson, Nils, PhD, Ratio Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Kashnikov, Boris, Director of the International Crisis Group, Moscow,
Russia
Kegler, Harald, Dr, Labor für Regionalplanung, Germany
Kelbaugh, Dough, Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan,
USA
Keller, Evelyn Fox, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science in
the Program in Science, Technology and Society at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA
Khanfar, Wadah, Head of Al-Jazeera, Doha, Qatar
Khilnani, Sunil, Director of New South Asia Program, Paul H. Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, USA
Kimche, David, PhD, Israel Council for Foreign Relations, Israel
Klausen, Jytte, Professor at the Dept. of Politics at Brandeis University,
USA
Klein, Georg, Professor Emeritus, Microbiological and Tumour Biological
Centre, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Klinge, Matti, Professor, Department of History, University of Helsinki,
Finland
Koivisto, Mauno, Former President of Finland
Kolakowski, Leszek, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Committee on
Social Thought, University of Chicago and Fellow of the British
Academy, UK
91

contributors
Kuper, Adam, Professor at Brunel University, Dept. of Human
Sciences, UK
Lal, Deepak Kumar, James S. Coleman Professor of International Development
Studies, University of California, USA
Larson, Kate, Doctoral Student, Department of Philosophy, University
of Uppsala
Larsson, Allan, Chairman of Swedish Television, Sweden
Larsson, Janerik, Consultant, KREAB, Stockholm, Sweden
Lau, Emily, Member of the Legislature, representing the Liberal Party,
Hong Kong
Laurin, Dan, Professor at The National University for Fine Arts and
Music, Tokyo and Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of
Music, Sweden
Lawrence, David, MD, Chairman of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan,
Oakland, USA
Lemke, Birsel, Right Livelihood Award Winner, Turkey
Lemne, Carola, MD, General Manager of Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm,
Sweden
Lifton, Robert Jay, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
at the Graduate School University Center and Director of The
Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of
Criminal Justice at The City University of New York, USA
Linklater, Alexander, Co-Editor, Prospect Magazine, UK
Livernois, Jay, Director of Eranos Foundation, Switzerland
Lloyd, John, Editor-in-Chief, FT Magazine, London, UK
Lmrabet, Ali, Editor and Journalist, Marocco
Lucas, Edward, Editor, The Economist, London, UK
Luttenberger, Franz, PhD, Department of History of Science and
Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden
Löfgren, Mikael, Editor, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
Maccoby, Michael, President, The Maccoby Group, Washington, D.C.
Magnusson, Jörgen, Doctoral Student of the History of Religion, Dept.
of Theology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Magnusson, Lars, Professor of Economy, Uppsala University, Sweden
Malik, Kenan, Author and Journalist, London, UK
Malmborg, Mikael af, Associate Professor, Department of History,
Lund University, Sweden
Marcus, Lars, PhD, Architect, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,
Sweden
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contributors
Martinsson, Roland Poirier, Philosopher and Author, University of
Lund, Sweden
Matos, Huber, Miami, USA
Matvienko, Valentina I., Governor of S:t Petersburg, Russia
Mazlish, Bruce, Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA
Mazzarella, Merete, Professor of Nordic Literature, University of
Helsinki, Finland
McFadden, Johnjoe, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Head of Microbial
Sciences Group, Deputy Head of School of Biomedical and Life
Sciences University of Surrey, UK
Michnik, Adam, Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland
Midgley, Mary, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Newcastle,
UK
Milosz, Czeslaw, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Nobel
Price Laureate 1980, Warsaw, Poland
Mishra, Pankaj, Author and Writer, India
Molander, Per, Research leader and author, SNS, Stockholm, Sweden
More, Max, PhD, Extropy Institute, California, USA
Mortensen, Anders, PhD, Department of Literature, Lund University,
Sweden
Moshes, Arkady, Senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International
Affairs, Helsinki, Finland
Munir, Right Livelihood Award Winner, Indonesia
Murrain, Paul, Urban Designer, The Prince’s Foundation, UK
Narrowe, Morton, Chief Rabbi Emeritus, Stockholm, Sweden
Nelson, Marie Clark, Professor at Linköping University, Sweden
Nilsson, Anna, Doctoral Student, Dept. of the History of Ideas, Stockholm
University, Sweden
Norberg, Johan, Head of Political Ideas, Timbro, Stockholm, Sweden
Normann, Richard, Professor, Management Consultant, La Celle
Saint Cloud, France
Nuchpiam, Theera, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of the “Asia-
Europe Studies Programme”, Thailand Research Fund, Bankok,
Thailand
Nyarota, Geoffrey, former Editor-in-Chief, Daily News, Harare, Zimbabwe
Nyström, Louise, Professor of Spatial Planning at Blekinge Institute
of Technology and Director of the Swedish Urban Environment
Council, Sweden
93

contributors
Ockrent, Christine, Journalist and Author, Paris, France
Odelberg, Axel, Author, Stockholm, Sweden
Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Professor of History, Örebro University, Sweden
Oldenburg, Ray, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of West
Florida, USA
Oldfelt Christina Ekéus, Psychoterapist, Jungian Analyst, Stockholm,
Sweden
Ollén, Joakim, President, Akademiska Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
Pagels, Elaine, Harrington Spear Pain Professor of Religion, Princeton
University, USA
Paglia, Camille, Professor of Humanities, University of the Arts, Philadelphia,
USA
Pappelbaum, Stanley, MD, Managing Partner, Pappelbaum, Turner
& Associates in Del Mar, USA
Paulsen, Marit, Member of European Parliament
Persson, Göran, Prime Minister of Sweden
Pettersson, Ulf, Professor, Department of Genetics and Pathology,
Uppsala University, Sweden
Pietikäinen, Petteri, PhD, Department of History, University of Helsinki,
Finland
Pitsuwan, Surin, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Member of
Parliament, Thailand
Pleijel, Agneta, Author, Stockholm, Sweden
Politkovskaya, Anna, Journalist, Novaya Gazeta, Moscow, Russia
Popova, Susanna Hakelius, Journalist and Author, Stockholm, Sweden
Pursiainen, Christer, Senior Researcher Fellow at Nordregio, Stockholm,
Sweden
Prawda, Marek, Ambassador of Poland to Sweden
Quispel, Gilles, Professor Emeritus of the History of Religion, University
of Utrecht, Holland
Rahikainen, Agneta, Author and Head of Archive, The Archive of The
Swedish Literature Society in Finland
Rajamaa, Ruth, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University,
Sweden
Ralph, Bo, Professor of Nordic Languages at the Department of Swedish
Language at Gothenburg University and Member of the Swedish
Academy, Sweden
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contributors
Ramadan, Tariq, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Ramanna, Raja, Dr, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore,
India
Ranelid, Björn, Author, Stockholm, Sweden
Ranstorp, Magnus, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of
Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews,
Scotland, UK
Rausing, Sigrid, PhD, Dept. of Anthropology, University College London,
UK
Razeen, Sally, PhD, at International Relations Department, London
School of Economics, UK
Renstig, Monica, Resercher and Consultant, Women’s Business School
AB, Sweden
Rieff, David, Journalist and Author, The New York Times, USA
Rigné, Eva Marie, Research Fellow at the University of Linköping,
Sweden
Riste, Olav, Professor at Institute of Defence Studies, Olso, Norway
Roazen, Paul, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University, UK
Roedy, William H, President, MTV Networks International, New
York, USA
Rojas, Mauricio, Member of Parliament, Sweden
Rose, Hilary, Professor of Sociology, City University, London, UK
Rose, Steven, Professor of Biology, The Open University, Milton
Keynes, UK
Rosen, Jeffrey, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University,
USA
Rosenberg, Göran, Journalist and Author, Stockholm, Sweden
Rosengren, Björn, Senior Advisor, The Stenbeck Group, Stockholm,
Sweden
Roth, Hans Ingvar, Theol. Dr, Centre for Multiethnic Studies, Uppsala
University, Sweden
Rothstein, Bo, Professor, Department of Political Science, Gothenburg
University, Sweden
Roy, Manisha, PhD, Anthropologist and Author, USA
Rudlin, David, PhD, Director, Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Initiative,
UK
Rådberg, Johan, Professor, Urban Planning, Department of Architecture,
Lund University, Sweden
Rådlund, Christopher, Artist, Stockholm, Sweden
Salmon, Patrick, Professor of History, University of Newcastle, UK
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contributors
Salomon, Kim, Professor of History, Lund University, Sweden
Sambrook, Richard, Head of BBC News, UK
Samuelsson, Lena K, Editor-in-Chief, Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm,
Sweden
Sandén, Weje, Editor-in-Chief, Veckans Affärer, Stockholm, Sweden
Sanner, Inga, Research Fellow, Department of the History of Ideas,
Stockholm University, Sweden
Sassen, Saskia, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University
of Chicago, Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School
of Economics, USA/UK
Sathirathai, Surakiart Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand
Scherman, Jan, CEO, TV4, Stockholm, Sweden
Schoug, Fredrik, PhD, Department of Ethnology, Lund University,
Sweden
Sernbo, Krister, Social Ecologist, Stockholm, Sweden
Seidenfaden, Tøger, Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark
Shachar, Nathan, Author and Journalist, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Shapiro, Robert, PhD, Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic
Affairs, Washington D. C., USA
Shorter, Edward, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of
Toronto, Canada
Silver, Lee M, Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs, Department
of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, USA
Silvers, Robert, Editor, New York Review of Books, New York, USA
Sjöberg, Otto, Editor-in-Chief, Expressen, Stockholm, Sweden
Sjölander, Sverre, Professor of Zoology, Department of Biology,
Linköping University, Sweden
Solomon, Joan, Professor at the Centre for Science Education, Open
University, UK
Sonne, Wolfgang, PhD, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Sommers, Christina Hoff, Author and Journalist, Washington D.C. USA
de Soto, Hernando, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy,
Lima, Peru
Speck, Jeff, Director of Town Planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk, USA
Steffner, Lena, Doctoral Student of Architecture, Lund Institute of
Technology, Sweden
Steinfeld, Thomas, Editor, Süddeutche Zeitung, München, Germany
Stewart, Janet, Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, UK
Stråth, Bo, Professor, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
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Ström Pernilla, Columnist and Writer, Stockholm, Sweden
Strömmer, Gunnar, Founder of Center for Justice, Sweden
Sunthraraks, Pisanu, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science,
Thammasat University, Thailand
Sutela, Pekka, Head of the Bank of Finland Institute for Economic
Transition, Helsinki, Finland
Swartz, Richard, Author and Foreign Correspondent, Stockholm and
Vienna, Sweden/Austria
Svedjedal, Johan, Professor of Literature, Uppsala University, Sweden
Svensson, Albert, Architect, Stockholm, Sweden
Svensson, Per, Author and Editor of the Cultural Pages, Expressen,
Sweden
Sylwan, Peter, PhD, Freelance science writer, Sweden
Syrén, Håkan, Sweden’s Commander-in-Chief
Södergård, J Peter, Doctoral Student of the History of Religion, Dept.
of Theology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Söderlind, Jerker, Architect, MSA, Researcher, Royal Institute of Technology,
Sweden
Söderqvist, Jan, Editor, Axess Magazine, Stockholm, Sweden
Talvitie, Heikki, Ambassador and Chairman of the Finland-Russia
Society, Finland
Tashan, Seyfi, Professor and Director of the Turkish Foreign Policy
Institute at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Taylor, David, Alan Baxter Associates, USA
Tejpal, Tarun, Editor-in-Chief, Magazine Tehelka, New Delhi, India
Tharoor, Shashi, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and
Public Information, United Nations
Thulin, Eva, Doctoral Student at Lund University, Sweden
Tibi, Bassam, Professor at the Dept. of International Relations at
Institute of Political Science, University of Göttingen, Germany
Timofeev, Lev, Director of the Centre for Research on the Illegal
Economic Systems, Russian State University for the Humanities,
Moscow, Russia
Tingsabadh, Charit, Assistant Professor, Director of the Centre for
European Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Torstendahl, Rolf, Professor, Department of History, Uppsala University,
Sweden
Trillo, Claudia, Architect, Università Federico II, Facoltà di Architettura,
Italy
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Ulvskog, Marita, SDP Party Secretary, Stockholm, Sweden
Verheugen, Günther, EU Commissioner responsible for enlargement,
Brussels, Belgium
Wahlbäck, Krister, Ambassador and Expert on security policy issues
at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden
Wallrup, Erik, Editor, Axess Magazine, Stockholm, Sweden
Warring, Lennart, MA, Doctoral Student of Cinema Studies, Stockholm
University, Sweden
Wedin, Lars, Commander, Swedish National Defence College
Wetterberg, Gunnar, Political Director, SACO – The Swedish Confederation
of Professional Associations, Stockholm, Sweden
Wickbom, Ulf, Author and Journalist, Stockholm, Sweden
Widmalm, Sten, Department of Political Science, Uppsala University,
Sweden
Wifstrand, Jan, Editor-in-Chief, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden
Wirtz, Jacques, Landscape Architect, Antwerp, Belgium
Wolodarski, Aleksander, Architect, Stockholm, Sweden
Wolodarski, Peter, Journalist, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden
Wright, Robert, Author, New Jersey, USA
Zaremba, Maciej, Journalist and Editor, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
Zavos, Panayiotis, Professor Emeritus of Reproductive Physiology-
Andrology at the University of Kentucky, USA
Zetterberg, Hans L, Author and former Editor-in-Chief of Svenska
Dagbladet, Stockholm, Sweden
Ziman, John, Fellow of the Royal Society and Emeritus Professor of
Physics of the University of Bristol, UK
Åström, Sverker, Former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Ministry
for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Öberg, Shirin Ahlbäck, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science,
University of Uppsala, Sweden
Östberg, Kjell, Associate Professor, Institute for Contemporary History,
Södertörn University College, Sweden
Österberg, Eva, Professor of History, Lund University, Sweden
Östergren, Petra, Author, Stockholm, Sweden
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