Research

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Six subjects within the humanities at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Research in Art History, Cultural Heritage Studies, History of Ideas, Literature, Musicology and Theatre and Performance studies

Our publications

Find the latest publications from the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Christel Copp, Modus movendi, Nationalmuseum, NMG 6/2004:3.

Our research projects

Find all the research projects from the Department of Culture and Aesthtetics

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The coffin of Gustav II Adolf is opened in 1832, oil on canvas, Skokloster Slott.

April

Captured Colours: The agency of military flags in Early Modern Swedish heritage production

Thesis defence

Main entrance of the Department of Culture and Aesthetics. A brown brick three floor building

PhD Student Positions in History of Ideas, Musicology and Theatre Studies

Last day to apply is 15 April

Maria Trejling's doctoral thesis Creaturely Metaphors in D.H. Lawrence, H.D., and Virginia Woolf.

New dissertation in the field of literary animal studies

Creaturely Metaphors in D.H. Lawrence, H.D., and Virginia Woolf by Maria Trejling.

Painting of 18th century men in Theatrical Costumes.

An open database of 18th century European stage costumes

Created by Petra Dotlačilová in a research project at Stockholm University and Centre for baroque musique Versailles.

She researches 19th century images of arctic nature

Katarina Wadstein MacLeod is professor of Art history at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics.

Live Sense, the cover of Leo Marko's dissertation

New dissertation in Theatre and Performance Studies

Leo Marko has defended his doctoral thesis Live Sense: Rethinking Liveness through Zeami’s Concept of the Flower.

PhD Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

We offer a dynamic interdisciplinary research environment for post graduate research.

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Creaturely Metaphors in D.H. Lawrence, H.D., and Virginia Woolf

New dissertation in Literature by Maria Trejling at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.

Culture and Media

2025-02-21

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PhD Student Positions in History of Ideas, Musicology and Theatre Studies

Last day to apply is 15 April, 2025.

Culture and Media

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April

Thesis defence

PhD defence in Art History

Karin Tetteris defends her doctoral thesis Captured Colours: The agency of military flags in Early Modern Swedish heritage production.

PhD defence in Art History

Karin Tetteris defends her doctoral thesis Captured Colours: The agency of military flags in Early Modern Swedish heritage production.

Culture and Media

April

Seminar

Life with forest loss: renewed relations and ritual re-enchantments

Lotten Gustafson Reinius and Flora Bartlett present their research project: “Life with forest loss: renewed relations and ritual re-enchantments".

Life with forest loss: renewed relations and ritual re-enchantments

Lotten Gustafson Reinius and Flora Bartlett present their research project: “Life with forest loss: renewed relations and ritual re-enchantments".

Plants, Animals and Nature Worldviews, Ethics and Philosophy Climate and Environment

April

Seminar

Making Monuments Matter in 21st Century Democracies

Tim Cole (Bristol) and Tanja Schult (Stockholm) invite to discuss their book manuscript.

Making Monuments Matter in 21st Century Democracies

Tim Cole (Bristol) and Tanja Schult (Stockholm) invite to discuss their book manuscript.

Culture and Media

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