As SCAS is located in the Botanical Garden in Uppsala, researchers stationed in Uppsala have a great opportunity to attend open research seminars at the research institute. Many seminars can be followed on Zoom, but physical meetings naturally have some advantages.
SCAS is a national research institution that aims to establish optimal research conditions for those researchers currently working at the institute. The institute offers research stays for researchers in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences from across the globe.
Wittrock Lecture
The institute has an open programme in which its scholarship holders take part.
On 16 February 2023, for example, it will be once again be time for the fifth ‘Wittrock Lecture’, at which Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, will hold a lecture with the title: "Writing a Political Life: On the Challenging Relationship Between Biography and History".
After the lecture there will be a panel discussion with the theme: "The promise and peril of biography". Register by 9 February 2023.