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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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New book about Ocean Bound Women in the 19th century

World Scientific Publishing has published the book Ocean Bound Women. Sisters Sailing Around the World in the 1880s–The Adventures–The Ship–The People, written by Anders Hallengren, Associate Professor of Literature at Stockholm University.

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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.

Holocaust memory today and the promises of 'never forget' and 'never again' - Read the full article
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80% of alumni are satisfied with their time at Stockholm University

A survey sent out in the spring of 2021 to alumni who graduated in 2018 and 2019 shows that 80% of those who responded are satisfied with their time at Stockholm University. A strong contributing factor to a positive overall experience is whether and to what extent the alumni felt they had received information about job opportunities and career support.

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New book: Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art

Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe, associate professor in Art History at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, is the author of the new book Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art.

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The author Ulla Bjerne and the Politics of Female Embodied Experience

A new article about the authorship of Ulla Bjerne (1890–1969), written by associate professor in literature Boel Hackman at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, has been published in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.

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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".

Epicureanism and Stoicism in Women’s Literary Production in 16th and 17th Century Europe - Read the full article
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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.

Professor Meike Wagner encourages more scholars to apply for ERC Advanced Grant - Read the full article
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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 publication: Arts of Incompletion: Fragments, Drafts, Revisions in Words and Music

The new interdisciplinary anthology Arts of Incompletion: Fragments, Drafts, Revisions in Words and Music based on the 2017 Stockholm conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies held at the Department of Culture and Aestethics has been published.

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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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”The Art of Self-Defense: Literature At a Moment of Danger”

Professor Emeritus of Literary Studies at Stockholm University, Ulf Olsson, gave the keynote lecture ”The Art of Self-Defense: Literature At a Moment of Danger” at the international conference ”Memory Culture in Scandinavian Studies” in Vilnius, on Tuesday 3 August.

”The Art of Self-Defense: Literature At a Moment of Danger” - Read the full article
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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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Exploring the unfinished encyclopedias

Linn Holmberg, researcher in History of Ideas at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, and Maria Simonsen researcher at Aalborg University are the editors of Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000, a new anthology published by Palgrave Macmillan in the series ”New Directions in Book History”.

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Prestigious research grants for research on European amateur theatre’s impact on social change

Meike Wagner, Professor of Theatre Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, receives an Advanced Grant to the proposed project “Performing Citizenship. Social and Political Agency in Non-Professional Theatre Practice in Germany, France, Britain, Sweden and Switzerland (1780-1850)”.

Prestigious research grants for research on European amateur theatre’s impact on social change - Read the full article
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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.

"Entangled memories of violence", new article by Victoria Fareld - Read the full article
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