This project builds on the research project Staging Migration, which creates new knowledge on the potential of children's theater to stage an inclusive Sweden. The results point to the ways that theater creates meeting places for psychosocial identification, social analysis, and critical reflection that contribute to civil repair.

Welcome to the research project Another Humanism: Gendering Early Modern Libertinism and the Boundaries of Subjectivity.

This research project investigates the complex interplay between Art and Natural Sciences during the first half of the 18th century. Based on interdisciplinary collaboration, the synergies of the project are multiple.

Circumpolar Performance Cultures, financed by a four-year grant from the Swedish Research Council, analyses the history and decolonial labour of contemporary Sámi performance in the Swedish part of Sápmi. It is conducted in consultation and close dialogue with Giron Sámi Teáhter in Kiruna/Giron.

Classical music for a mediatized world: visual and audio-visual representations of Western art music in contemporary media and society.

Code, Narrative, History: Making Sense of Ancient DNA in Contemporary Society is an interdisciplinary research project based at Stockholm University in Sweden. The project aims to investigate how archaeogenetic research is crafted into historical narratives.

This project develops the subproject on Constantinople as a multilingual literary world within the research programme “World Literatures: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics” (PI Stefan Helgesson, 2016–2021, worldlit.se).

The modern era has seen an emergence of technologies for portraying the earth from above. Balloons, aircraft and satellites have literally produced pictures of the whole world. This project explores the emergence of such viewpoints.

Research project in Theatre Studies by Magnus Tessing Schneider, PhD at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.

This project offers a historical perspective from the 16th century until today on how literature and art explore questions around the Anthropocene, ecologies, climate change, and sustainability.

How do positive emotions help scientists create knowledge?

Research project based at Stockholm University and funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and the Social Sciences, 2019-2021.

Metadata Culture is a research project led by Anna Dahlgren, Professor of Art History at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, and Karin Hansson, artist and research fellow at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University.

This study will reinterpret Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment (1535-1541) in the Sistine Chapel.

Creating Sites for Participation, Social Justice & Critical Discourse.

Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this research project studied Nell Walden’s significant impact on the Sturm organisation through a feminist reading of supportive labour that highlights the centrality of collaborative work within the modern art world.

Performing Citizenship: Social and Political Agency in Non-Professional Theatre Practice in Germany, France, Britain, Sweden and Switzerland (1780-1850).

Performing Premodernity is a five-year research project based at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at the University of Stockholm.

A research project between image science and media history.

The project addresses the question of how queer and transfeminist theories contribute to our understanding of feminist and intersectional performance studies today and investigates new generations of performance artists to expand the boundaries of intersectional queer and transfeminist performance studies in a global perspective.

Interdisciplinary research project in Art history and Historical geography at Stockholm University and University of Bristol.

Soviet design: Modernism from the Baltic States and the Nordic countries - An official anomaly within Socialist Realist aesthetics during the Cold War.

The purpose of the project Staging Migration is to produce theoretical and empirical knowledge about the potential of children's theater to stage an inclusive Sweden, and to investigate whether and how social boundaries between ”us” and ”them” may be reproduced as an unintended consequence.

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We are living in an age when accelerating technological development seems to render handwriting and penmanship superfluous or obsolete. Handwriting, however, has had a deep historical impact that the advent of digital media allows us to analyze anew.

The overall aim of the study is to describe and analyse the history, function and meaning of the photo album in a cultural historical, art historical and media historical context with Sweden as case study.

The purpose of the study is to explore the many functions of waste in Swedish children’s picture books, television series, and theater performances from 1967 to 1977, a period that has been highlighted by previous research as notably concerned with green politics, environmental degradation, and recycling.

Modernity and authenticity in relation to housings from the turn of the last century in contemporary Sweden.

International postdoc in Theatre Studies by Petra Dotlačilová, PhD at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics of Stockholm University, in collaboration with Centre de musique baroque Versailles. The three-year project is supported by The Swedish Research Council. In this research project power and ideology in the 18th century theatre costumes is examined.

Research project in Art history that examines sketches as working material in architecture during the first half of the 18th century.

The project aims to revisit and re-interpret a period celebrated as the breakthrough of modern theatre.

This project brings more nuance to the history of suffrage in Sweden. As history is usually written, 1921 marks the end of the struggle for suffrage. But rather than regarding the reform of 1921 as a definitive democratic breakthrough, the research project examines the events of the following century as a continuing but non-linear process of democratisation.