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IAS Annual Research Symposium

Every year IAS arranges a research symposium where researchers at IAS and invited guests present their research and discuss questions of relevance for the various research areas of IAS.

This year the symposium took place May 20-21 at Villa Fridhem, together with among others SweCSS visiting fellows Neha Gondal, Dustin Stoltz and Marshall Taylor, as well as Ozan Aksoy, Associate Professor at the UCL Social Research Institute, University College London.

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Maria Brandén, Director of the IAS, gives the opening speech at the 2025 research symposium.
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A meeting where one person presents.
A group of people working together and talking.

Programme

Interview with Peter Bearman

Peter Bearman.

"We can see what humans do when they create bonds. It's revolutionary."

”No one has ever seen this before.” World-leading sociologist Peter Bearman talks about the connection between activity in the brain and our feelings towards other people.

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS)

IAS conduct cutting-edge research on important social, political and cultural matters. The research is sociological - in its original and broadly conceived meaning.

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