Research

Welcome to our research pages!

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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Portrait of Swedish author August Strindberg

August Strindberg’s The Occult Diary

The Occult Diary is published free online through Stockholm University Press in a final revision by Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams and with an introduction by Per Stam.

Annie Ernaux on stage with interpreters and moderator

Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux's visit

Met students and researchers in Literature and French

9 February

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10 February

Another Humanism: Traditions of Critique and Resistance

Conference

Detail of the cover of Colonial Objects by Mårten Snickare

New book about Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond

Mårten Snickare, Professor of Art History at Stockholm University, has written about objects acquired in colonial contact zones and displayed by Swedish elites in the seventeenth century.

Current research projects

Find out more about the current research projects at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Our book series

The Department of Culture and Aesthetics has three book series through Stockholm University Press

PhD Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

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

News

2023-01-31

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

New research on the film adaptation of Tosca

Musicologist Johanna Ethnersson Pontara writes in the American magazine Literature/Film Quarterly.

2023-01-18

New book about Fluxus

PhD in Art history Magdalena Holdar has written the new book Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things The Agency of Chance Collaborations.

Detail of the cover of Fluxus as a Network och Friends, Strangers, and Things (Brill 2022)

Culture and Media

2022-12-20

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Opening Hours During the Christmas Holidays

The Department will be closed 23 December – 2 January. During this time you can contact us via email or visit the Student Services – Infocenter.

Winter at Stockholm University campus Frescati

Calendar

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Conference

Another Humanism: Traditions of Critique and Resistance

International Conference in Stockholm 9–10 February 2023.

Another Humanism: Traditions of Critique and Resistance

International Conference in Stockholm 9–10 February 2023.

Culture and Media Gender and Equality History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage

February

Seminar

Seminarium inom digital humanvetenskap: Restaureringen av Notre Dame

Livio De Luca från Digital Data Working Group på CNRS, Frankrike, besöker Stockholms universitet. Han kommer att presentera pågående forskning som rör restaureringen av katedralen Notre Dame i Paris.

Seminarium inom digital humanvetenskap: Restaureringen av Notre Dame

Digitalisering och AI Historia, arkeologi och kulturarv

June

Thesis defence

Dissertation in Musicology: Elin Kanhov

Elin Kanhov defends her doctoral thesis Encounters Between Music and Nature. Transversal Connections in Contemporary Music Analysis.

Dissertation in Musicology: Elin Kanhov

Elin Kanhov defends her doctoral thesis Encounters Between Music and Nature. Transversal Connections in Contemporary Music Analysis.

Research

Forskningspuffar engelska

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PhD Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

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