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Department of History

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We offer a variety of courses and programs in History and in Cultural Studies. Our courses and programs are mainly with Swedish as language of instruction.

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Fractures of Empire: A Global History of the Philippines

Electable course for Historia II, fall semester 2025.

Painting depicting a city in the 1600ds
City of Manila as an oil painting, circa 1645.

This is one of six electable courses for the second period of History II. Here you find information on the other five options (Swedish page):

Electable courses for History II, 2nd period Autumn 2025 (Swedish)

This course encourages students to engage with alternative interpretations of empire and colonial expansion. Introducing the latest research in critical global history, it focuses on questions of violence, resistance and agency in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Southeast Asia with a particular focus on the Philippines as long-time territorial colony under Spanish control. 

Methodologically, the course is designed to help students to develop and improve their competences as historians working with the colonial archive, including reading and interpreting original sources and finding alternative voices on the one hand, and synthesizing, presenting and narrating complex empirical data compellingly on the other. 

Course teacher: Birgit Tremml-Werner

Student group at lecture. Photo: Nikas Björling
Student group at lecture. Photo: Nikas Björling

Besides a variety of courses in history, the department offers courses in Curatorship Studies and Cultural Management Studies, and a second cycle course in Publishing Studies, three undergraduate programs, one in close collaboration with Political Science and another more to be compared to a Liberal Arts program, and two Master’s programmes in history. The PhD program  consists of three years of dissertation work and one year of course work.

 

Courses

Our courses and programs are mainly with Swedish as the language of instruction.

At advanced level, we usually give a few courses with English as the language of instruction. The range of courses varies depending on the autumn or spring semester .

And at undergraduate level we give the courses Nordic History I, Nordic History II every autumn semester. And Studies in Visual and Material Culture on summer semester.

Exchange student

If you would like to study at the department as an exchange student, please contact our Study Counsellor and International Exchange Coordinator.

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PhD in History Programme

The PhD programme is the highest level of study at the University.

Find out more about our PhD programme:

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Last updated: September 23, 2025

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