The Price of Doing Nothing: An Evening with Gunnar Strömmer
Sweden’s Minister for Justice, Gunnar Strömmer, visited Studentafton on October 20 to reflect on four years of criminal justice reform. The discussion explored punishment, personal freedom and whose rights society should protect.
What to do this (Swedish) summer?
How do you make the most of the Scandinavian summer? Here are some of Sweden’s main summer events and possible activities, to help you plan this summer break.
Tulpanomania: The Madness of Man
The colour orange can be attributed to many different things: the name of a famous fruit, the skin color of a particularly rowdy world leader, and, of course, the Orange Kingdom, the Netherlands.
Lundtan’s flower guide
Flowers are one of the most common gifts today. Maybe you have received flowers, maybe you have given flowers, or maybe you have stood in a flower shop completely lost, trying to figure out what any of them actually mean. We all like flowers, but which ones are worth loving?
Lupef & UPF: Party Debate
Palaestra is far from quiet when we enter the auditorium for this semester’s first and only party debate. The expectations are high and a short while after we have sat down, eight people enter – one representative of each Swedish party in parliament.
Somewhere Between Sunrise and Sunset
Three years at LUSEM finished. It feels strange to write that, like holding onto something as it is beginning to fade.
Were We Training AI While Catching Pokémon?
The nibbling feeling that something you are interacting with will be tracked, recorded and used against you is always there, but only when something as innocent as Pokémon Go turns out to be another way for multi-million-dollar AI companies to use our data, it begins to feel like a betrayal.
Between Him and Her: The Voting Gap
On the 13th of September this year, me and millions of other Swedes will step into the voting booth. The people in the booths will constitute a diverse gathering. Still, it might possible to accurately predict which political side each person will vote for by using a single metric: Their Gender.
How to: Travel with Flixbus
Summer break is around the corner, and it is soon time to leave Lund. Although many of us have been dreaming of the season’s adventures, most budgets remain small, with low-paying summer jobs and few coins saved from CSN. How do you manage to see the world with a student’s wallet?
The Contradictory Nature of Coachella
In 1999, a music festival in the middle of the California desert lost nearly 1 million dollars. It was so bad that Rage Against the Machine gave back half of their fee, and at the time, it looked like one of the worst ideas in festival history.
