Seminarier om civilsamhälle, sociala rörelser och motstånd
Forskningsgruppen anordnar öppna seminarier och workshops med syfte att utveckla och fördjupa förståelsen av sociala rörelser, motstånd och social förändring. I över tio år har vi bjudit in nationella och internationella forskare att presentera sina arbeten.
CSM-RESIST SEMINARS
Forum for civil society and social movement research (CSM) and The Resistance Studies research group (RESIST).
When and where
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in room F417, Skanstorget 18, at 13:15-15:00. Most seminars are also hybrid. If you intend to join us via zoom, please notify us via e-mail.
Seminars will be held in English unless otherwise noted.
Papers are distributed latest one week in advance if not otherwise noted.
Thursday 18 September
NOTE: Room G213
The Nature of Politics and the Politics of Nature in the Discourses and Practices of Climate Justice Movements: The Cases of Fridays For Future and Extinction Rebellion
Davide Giordanengo, Universities of Turin and Florence
Davide Giordanengo is a PhD student in Social and Political Change. After studying International Relations in London, he is currently enrolled in a joint PhD programme between the Universities of Turin and Florence. His research interests intersect the investigation of social movements and theories of environmental sociology through qualitative methods of analysis, particularly the study of discourses.
Thursday 16 October
From Autonomous Factory Rog to Center Rog: Squatting, Cultural Revitalization, and Conflict in the Creative City
Nathan Siegrist, University of Gothenburg
Nathan Siegrist is a PhD student in sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at GU. His research is about the urban squatters’ movement’s conditions and constraints under contemporary patterns of increased commodification of urban spaces across Europe. For this, he has a particular interest in Central and Eastern European contexts broadly, and contemporary developments in Ljubljana, Slovenia specifically.
Wednesday 29 October
(General seminar series, please note weekday)
Inaugural professorial lecture: Narratives in processes of collective action
Mattias Wahlström, University of Gothenburg
Mattias Wahlström has recently been appointed Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science. The theme of the lecture brings together different aspects of Wahlström’s research on social movements, repression, and political violence, through a particular focus on the role of narratives in collective action.
Thursday 13 November
(in collaboration with the Working Life and Welfare seminar series)
From metalworkers to climate activists? Climate justice and the case of ex-GKN for Future
Eugene Nulman, University of Florence
Eugene Nulman is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Florence. He is the author of a number of books, including Climate Change and Social Movements: Civil Society and the Development of National Climate Change Policy (2015), Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television (2025), and Social Movements and Social Change: An Applied Introduction (forthcoming). The paper to be presented is co-written with Daniela Chironi.
Thursday 27 November
NOTE: Room G213
PM Seminar: Multimodal Climate Obstruction Narratives on Short-Form Video Platforms
Victoria Vallström
Victoria Vallström is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, working on the research project “In the Eye of the Storm: Climate Adaptation in Times of Increasing Polarization and Disinformation.” With a background in computer science, she combines technical expertise with sociological research. Her dissertation focuses on climate misinformation on social media, particularly multimodal climate obstruction narratives on short-form video platforms like TikTok.
Thursday 11 December
Past and future retold: making sense and moving forward
Anders Svensson, Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence
Anders Svensson is a doctoral student at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. His research examines strategy in social movements, and in his thesis he investigates how activists in the new climate movement strategize
Thursday 15 January
When War-Children Turn to Enemies – Political and discursive challenges in the Swedish mobilization for Finnish children during the Winter War and Continuation War
Malin Ekerstedt, University of Gothenburg
Malin Ekerstedt is a Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at Gothenburg University. With a focus on the reception of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Sweden, her doctoral thesis explores how discourses are used in politics and media to construct shifting claims of reality and build a national self-image.
Thursday 29 January
(in collaboration with FemSem)
Three waves of fatherhood activism in Europe
Katarzyna Wojnicka, University of Gothenburg
Katarzyna Wojnicka is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg and a 2025 Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. She does research on men and masculinities, social movements, and migration and integration. She is also co-editor-in-chief of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies.