Department of Culture and Aesthetics

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Welcome to the Department of Culture and Aesthetics!

We conduct research and offer education in the History of Ideas, Art History, Literature, Musicology, Theatre and Performance Studies, Curating, and Cultural Heritage Studies.

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Education

We offer courses and programmes in Art History, History of Ideas, Literature, Musicology, Theatre and Performance Studies, CUltural Heritage Studies and Curating.

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Research

We offer a dynamic and interdisciplinary research environment in the field of humanities.

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Art History

Research on art and architecture, images and built environment, material and visual culture.

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Cultural Heritage Studies

An interdisciplinary research field studying how the past is used, valued, and institutionalized in contemporary society.

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History of Ideas

We explore ideas, discourses, expressions or experiences in the past, which must be understood on their own historical terms.

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Literature

The literary researcher comments, analyses, historicizes and interprets literature.

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Musicology

Studies of music as a sounding, notated and mediated phenomenon in structural, historical, ethnological and multimedia contexts.

Open-air theatre in a town square.

Theatre Studies

Theatre Studies, which also includes Dance Studies and Performance Studies, is an active and internationally oriented research environment

Accelerator

The Stockholm University exhibition space where art, science and societal issues meet. Next door to our department.

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