2019-10-06 by Michal Smrek, all photos by Mikael Wallerstedt
The 25th Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science has been formally conferred to Margaret Levi on September 28, 2019. The prize was awarded by Nils-Axel Mörner, the current patron of the Johan Skytte Foundation. We would like to share some pictures with you from the prize winner’s lecture delivered by Professor Levi as well as the banquet at Värmlands nation that followed. All pictures were taken by the talented Mikael Wallerstedt.
2019-09-15 by Michal Smrek
Margaret Levi, Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University; and also Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington, will be awarded the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science on September 28, 2019. During her stay in Uppsala, Professor Levi will deliver two lectures to which the members of the public are cordially invited. The abstracts for both lectures can be found at the end of this article.
2019-09-03 by Michal Smrek, photo of the three book authors by Michal Smrek.
In the fall of 2016, the Skytte Foundation has had the pleasure to hold a Skytte Manuscript Workshop for authors Prof. Claire Annesley (Sussex University), Prof. Karen Beckwith (Case Western Reserve University) and Prof. Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary). During three days, a distinguished group of international and Swedish scholars discussed the book manuscript “Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender”. The manuscript has now been published by Oxford University Press.
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2019-06-25 by Michal Smrek, photo collage by The New School
We are delighted to announce that the book Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (OUP) authored by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph, which benefitted from a Skytte Manuscript Workshop, was awarded the 2019 Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
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2019-04-02 by Li Bennich-Björkman, portrait by Anna Ileby
As per custom, the winner of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science is announced on the pages of the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet. The prize announcement article is penned by the sitting Johan Skytte Professor in Political Science and chair of the Skytte Prize Committee Li Bennich-Björkman. What follows is an English translation of the article.
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2019-03-28 by Michal Smrek, photo credit: APSA on Twitter
Professor Margaret Levi at Stanford University and University of Washington has been named the 25th recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. She is awarded the prize for:
having laid the foundations of our understanding of why citizens accept state coercion, by combining theoretical acumen and historical knowledge.
Margaret Levi is Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) and professor of political science at Stanford University. She is also Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita in International Studies at University of Washington.
The prize conferred by the Skytte Foundation will be awarded on September 28, 2019.
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2019-02-25 by Michal Smrek
On March 1, the Department of Government at Uppsala University will hold an inauguration ceremony of the Ostrom Lecture Hall, named in honour of Elinor Ostrom, the fifth laureate of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. To mark the occasion, the patron of the Skytte Foundation, Nils-Axel Mörner, will unveil a painting of Ostrom which the Foundation has financed and which was painted by Johan Patricny.
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2019-02-22 by Michal Smrek
This year’s Skytte Prize Committee’s annual meeting was hosted by Donatella dela Porta and held at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence on February 15, 2019. All six Skytte Prize Committee members have gathered to discuss the nominations for this year’s Johan Skytte Prize.
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2019-02-06 by Michal Smrek
The Skytte Foundation hereby announces a call for applicants for the 2019 Skytte Manuscript Workshop. The Skytte Manuscript Workshop provides the unique opportunity of two days of concentrated intellectual discussion on an entire book manuscript, which is rare in these days of short panel presentations, article-writing, and multi-tasking in academia. The two-day workshop will be held at the Department of Government, Uppsala University in the autumn of 2019. The exact date will be agreed upon with the chosen applicant.
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2018-11-17 by Michal Smrek
During her visit to Uppsala in September, our colleague Gina Gustavsson had a chance to interview this year’s Skytte Prize laureate Jane Mansbridge. We now welcome you to watch this interview in which Jane shares her views on democracy, political leadership, representation and gives advice to young women who aspire for a career in academia.
The interview can be accessed through our Vimeo channel.
Address: Skytteanum, Valvgatan 4, 753 10 Uppsala, Sweden
Telephone: 0046 700664926. Email: michal@skytteprize.com
