Workshop in Filmhuset: “Gender and Sexuality in Film and Media: Bridging Theory and Practice.”

Workshop

Date: Thursday 11 December 2025

Time: 12.00 – 19.00

Location: F-salen, Filmhuset

Panel with research presentations, Film screening with filmmaker keynote, and Roundtable.

Organisers: Esmé Fransen (IMS, Cinema Studies), Anna Sofia Rossholm (IMS, Cinema Studies), Saki Kobayashi (IMS, Cinema Studies) and Louise Wallenberg (IMS, Fashion Studies)

Through initiatives such as the Swedish Film Institute’s #5050x2020 campaign, Sweden has gained international recognition as a leading country when it comes gender and film. Yet, when looking closer at the work done on gender and sexuality in film and media within Sweden, and specifically Stockholm, we see a fragmented landscape divided along disciplinary and institutional lines.

This workshop aims to bridge those divides by placing research from multiple fields (including Child and Youth Studies, Art History, Cinema Studies and Gender Studies) in conversation with cultural practice. Combining scholarship from different departments at SU with practical work taking place in the Swedish cultural industry at various levels – from the leadership of the Swedish Film Institute to on the ground by filmmakers – we aim to establish a cross-disciplinary network across Stockholm University and build connections between work on gender and sexuality in the academic realm and the cultural industry in place in Stockholm.

Schedule
12.00-12.10 Welcoming words

12.10-13.50 Research Presentations
Anne Bachmann (IMS, Fashion Studies) – “Film costume at Swedish Biograph, 1919: unobscuring elements of women's film work”
Rickard Grimefall (BUV, Child and Youth Studies) – “Unrequited: Queer Boyhoods and Erotic Triangles in Contemporary Swedish Children’s Cinema”
Lisa Käll (ERG, Gender Studies) – “Feminist film-phenomenology: Intercorporeality, Exposure, Desire”
Jason Meredith (IMS, Cinema Studies) – “Exploitation Film and Trans Cinema: the Activism of Anssi “Kim” Kansas”

13.50-14.50 Lunch break

14.50-17.20 Screening of Beyond the Straight and Narrow: Queer and Trans Television in the Age of Streaming (Katherine Sender, USA, 2023).
Keynote by professor and filmmaker Katherine Sender (Cornell University, USA)

17.20-17.30 Coffee Break

17.30-18.30 Roundtable discussion with Melissa Lindgren (Producer at Story and cofounder/director of Cinema Queer); Anna Serner (former CEO of the Swedish Film Institute); and Tove Thorslund (former director of Nordic Women in Film)

18.30-18.40 Closing words

Theme

Culture and Media

Last updated: November 24, 2025

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