Skytte Prize News

(Updated on September 5) The 2024 Skytte Prize Award Ceremony will be held on September 14 between 15:45 and 17:15 in the Grand Auditorium of the Main University Building in Uppsala.

Read the English translation of the 2024 Skytte Prize announcement article, penned by Li Bennich-Björkman.

The Johan Skytte Foundation is delighted to announce that Jürgen Habermas is awarded the 2024 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.

The annual nomination period for the Johan Skytte Prize is currently open. We invite you to nominate a scholar or a group of scholars who have significantly contributed to the field of political science. Deadline for submitting nominations is January 22, 2024.

On September 29 at 15:15 the 2023 Skytte Prize laureates Martha Finnemore and Alexander Wendt will hold their prize winners’ lectures. The event takes place at the Department of Government, in Brusewitzsalen, Östra Ågatan 19, Uppsala.

The Johan Skytte Foundation is delighted to announce that Alexander Wendt and Martha Finnemore have been jointly awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. The prize is a recognition of their exceptional contributions to the field, particularly in advancing the constructivist approach to the study of international relations.

Read Li Bennich-Björkman's essay about this year’s recipients of the Johan Skytte Prize, Alexander Wendt and Martha Finnemore.

Just before Christmas, European political science lost one of its greatest champions. Jean Blondel (1929–2022), the 2004 Johan Skytte Prize winner, was Professor Emeritus at the European University Institute in Florence and renowned both as a specialist in comparative politics and an outstanding institution-builder.

On October 1, 2022 it is exactly 400 years since Johan Skytte, then vice-chancellor of Uppsala University, signed off a donation through which he founded the Johan Skytte Chair in Eloquence and Political Science. Today, the chair is the oldest, still surviving political science chair in the world.

On January 21, the Johan Skytte Foundation board has taken a unanimous decision to remodel the format of the Skytte Prize conferment ceremony. The ceremony will from now on become a biannual event.

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