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Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Department of Culture and Aesthetics 10 years

The Department of Culture and Aesthetics celebrated its anniversary at the turn of the year 2024-2025. It was celebrated with panel discussions and lectures on 17 January.

Cake and flowers. People meeting in a library.
Celebration in the department´s library.
A choir of 12 people singing.
The department's choir performed.
Woman in lectern. Second picture shows three people in panel discussion in front of audience.
Deputy head of department Catharina Nolin opened the celebration. Then followed a panel discussion with Axel Englund, literature, Johanna Ethnersson Pontara, musicology, led by Rebecca Brinch, theatre and performance studies.

Staff, colleagues from other parts of the University and students gathered in the Auditorium of the Manne Siegbahn Buildings to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Department. The Department of Culture and Aesthetics was formed on 1 January 2015 through a merger of the Department of Literature and History of Ideas, the Department of Music and Theatre Studies and the Department of Art History. There was already active collaboration between several of the subjects. The new department built on this and developed intensive interdisciplinary activity.

Two men and two women in a panel discussion.
Dirk Gindt, Theatre and Performance Studies, Mårten Snickare, Art history, Anna Jörngården Galili, Literature, in a talk led by Christina Svens, Theatre and Performance Studies.

The celebration this day was a good example of this. Several panel discussions brought together researchers from different disciplines at the Department to discuss many commonalities. All discussions were centred on the theme of emotions. Examples of talks: ‘Love and Power in the Early Modern Era’, ‘Curating Feeling’ and ‘Joy, Beauty and Sublime Horror in 20th Century Physics’. In addition, the department's choir performed and Anders Cullhed, professor emeritus, rounded off the day with a lecture on love in early modern literature. The celebration ended with a viewing at the neighbouring exhibition hall Accelerator.

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Last updated: January 27, 2025

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