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Students wanted for photo shoot

Stockholm University is looking for students to take part in a half-day photo shoot to help showcase university life. The shoot will include both still images and short video clips. Are you outgoing, positive, and patient ? Then you might be just who we’re looking for!

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New reading group of Speculative Fiction within Environmental Humanities

On May 15 the reading group of Speculative Fiction within the open seminar series of the Master's Programme in Environmental Humanities will have it's fourth meeting. It is lead by professor Andrew Jones, Department of Archaeology and Classical studies and Elisa Viteri Márquez, PhD student at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

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Social Anthropologists call for more complexity in biodiversity debate

Increasingly, animal and plant species are being moved, or migrating to new places as a result of climate change, trade and new infrastructure. While often referred to as ‘invasive’, the researchers behind the BIOrdinary project prefer to speak of migratory species. They want to shift the debate to focus on local contexts and contribute to a more nuanced understanding of biodiversity.

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Sweden's first Master's programme in Environmental Humanities inaugurated

The university's exhibition space Accelerator was at capacity when the Master's Programme in Environmental Humanities was inaugurated on 5 September. Students, visitors, colleagues and researchers from several departments and other universities came together.

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Accessibility this summer

Information on opening hours at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics.

Hans Adolfsson proposed as Stockholm University’s new President

The University Board at Stockholm University decided today, Friday 14 June, to propose Professor Hans Adolfsson, President of Umeå University, as the new President of Stockholm University. His candidacy will be considered by the Swedish Government, which takes the final decision on the matter.

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Time to apply for Spring Semester 2025

Admission for courses spring semester 2025 at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics is open. Last day to apply is 15 August.

afterlife Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus 11/4 kl. 18–17/4
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After Life: Mapping The Unknown

Exhibition 11 – 17 April arranged by students at Konstfack and MA Curating Art students.

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"I want to make a snowman"

Snowflakes swirled through the air as new international students were welcomed during Arrival Service.

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Research on national art and global movements

Ewa Machotka receives funding from the Swedish Research Council for the research project “Can Art be National? Japonisme and Transculturation in Turn of the Century Sweden and Poland”

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Alice Duhan, Romklass, awarded Swedish Research Council grant

Alice Duhan, currently postdoctoral research fellow at Romklass, has been awarded research funding from the Swedish Research Council in the annual call for humanities and social sciences. Her three-year project, "Translingual Writing post-1945 and the Multilingual Spaces of French Fiction", examines literary texts written by second language authors in French and asks how this literature can contribute to a re-reading of recent French literary history from the vantage point of multilingualism.

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Study with us – apply now

Applications for international courses and programmes beginning in the autumn 2024 are now open.

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Students curate exhibition in Arjeplog

”Intuition at Hand” at Silvermuseet is curated by Ester d'Avossa, Jeanette Gunnarsson och Nathalie Viruly

Occultism, survival and understanding the universe

Are you interested in the occult life of August Strindberg or how humanity can steer away from ecological and social catastrophe? Do you want to explore reality based on the deep revelations of modern science? Here are some tips on books with connection to the research at Stockholm University.

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Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux visited Stockholm University

Literature laureate Annie Ernaux visited Stockholm University on Friday to meet students and researchers. She candidly answered questions from the visitors who, among other things, wondered if she thinks we can escape our heritage and asked for her view of society's harsh treatment of the elderly. The conversation can be viewed digitally in French and Swedish in this article.

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Nobel laureates lecture at Stockholm University

18 Nobel laureates visit Stockholm University during this year's Nobel Week. Listen to this year's Nobel laureates in the Aula Magna on Thursday December 8 at KVA's official Nobel lectures.

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Apply for Spring Semester now

International courses Spring Semester 2023 are available for application 15 September - 17 October.

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Apply now for Spring 2023

The application period for courses in Spring semester 2023 is open. The last day to apply in this first admission round is 15 August 2022.

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Problems with university accounts

Due to an error during a maintenance job, a large number of passwords to university accounts for students and employees have been reset. This results in the account being locked. We are sorry for any inconveniences caused.

Tanja Schult framför en vägg med bokhyllor.
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Holocaust memory today and the promises of 'never forget' and 'never again'

Tanja Schult, Associate Professor of Art History, participated in an online talk arranged by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm, on January 27, together with Diana I. Popescu, Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London.

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Epicureanism and Stoicism in Women’s Literary Production in 16th and 17th Century Europe

Carin Franzén, literature professor at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics has organized the panel "Epicureanism and Stoicism in Women’s Literary Production in 16th and 17th Century Europe" within the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference (SCSC) 2021. The panel was organized within the research project "Another Humanism: Gendering Early Modern Libertinism and the Boundaries of Subjectivity".

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Two new books about Mozart's Don Giovanni

The Original Portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni, written by theatre and performance studies scholar Magnus Tessing Schneider is now available in open access. Also published his year is the work of essays Don Giovanni’s Reasons: Thoughts on a masterpiece, written by Felicity Baker, Reader Emeritus in French, University College London and edited by Tessing Schneider.

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Professor Meike Wagner encourages more scholars to apply for ERC Advanced Grant

Theatre and Performance Studies professor Meike Wagner at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics received the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for her research project “Performing Citizenship. Social and Political Agency in Non-Professional Theatre Practice in Germany, France, Britain, Sweden and Switzerland (1780-1850)”. Now she wants more researchers from the humanities to apply for ERC Advanced Grants, awarded by the European Research Council.

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New biography on the archaeologist Olov Janse, and the world politics of the 20th century

The biography "The Archaeologist In-Between: Olov Janse 1892-1985" (2021) is authored by Anna Källén from the Department of Culture and Aesthetics and Johan Hegardt from Södertörn University, both researchers in critical heritage studies. They describe how Olov Janse's works and networks connected museums and political institutions over the world, without him becoming known to history.

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A new international anthology on Silence and Silencing in Children's Literature

The anthology Silence and Silencing in Children's Literature is written in cooperation between Stockholm University, the Swedish Institute for Children's Books, Malmö University and Åbo Akademi University, with nineteen contributions by researchers from all over the world, about the central role of silence and silencing in the history of children's literature.

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New article about the Swedish Million Programme high-rise suburb in the 1970s children’s literature

Lydia Wistisen, PhD in Literature, has contributed with the article "Concrete Possibilities: The High-Rise Suburb in Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Literature", in the new book Literatures of Urban Possibility. In the article Wistisen examines the representations of the suburban environment in Children’s and Young Adult Literature.

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Research in the border zone between literature and music

In his new research project, literature professor Axel Englund studies the corporeality of music in novels written by modernist writers, including Proust, Mann and Musil. By studying the relationship between music, corporeality and sexuality among these modernist writers, he wants to provide a new understanding of music’s central role in the modern novel.

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Ocean Bound Women in the 19th century

This spring World Scientific Publishing will publish the book Ocean Bound Women (London och Singapore: WSPC, 2021), written by Anders Hallengren, associate professor in Literature at Stockholm university. The book presents unique materials from a sailor's coffin with hitherto unpublished materials from Swedish seafaring women from the 19th century.

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"Entangled memories of violence", new article by Victoria Fareld

In a new article in the journal Memory Studies (16/2 2021), Victoria Fareld, associate professor in History of Ideas, Stockholm University, analyzes how the Austrian writer Jean Améry formulates his memories of the Holocaust in the contemporaneous situation of decolonisation.

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