2023-05-05

Astrid Söderbergh Widding appointed new Chair of the Nobel Foundation

Astrid Söderbergh Widding, President of Stockholm University, has been appointed new Chair of the Nobel Foundation.

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2023-04-13

Department of Media Studies

Marie Ulväng: "Maybe fast fashion is a parenthesis"

"Maybe fast fashion is a parenthesis," Marie Ulväng told BBC Culture on April 1. "Maybe, later, we'll return to the wiser approach we had before." Perhaps, our brief love affair with fast fashion is about to end.

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2023-02-24

Department of Media Studies

Dr. Chafic Najem successfully defended his PhD thesis today

Dr. Chafic Najem successfully defended his PhD thesis "Smuggle, Frame, Shoot. Illicit Media Practices and Visual Insurgency from Lebanese Incarceration" at Stockholm University today. The examination committee announced its unanimous verdict on February 24 at 16:10, saying that he had passed.

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2023-02-17

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Dr. Joy Kibarabara successfully defended her PhD thesis today

Dr. Joy Kibarabara successfully defended her PhD thesis "The Discourse and Practice of Constructive Journalism" at Stockholm University today. The examination committee announced its unanimous verdict at 16:30 Friday afternoon, saying that she had passed.

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2023-02-10

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Dr. Martin Karlsson successfully defended his PhD thesis today

Dr. Martin Karlsson successfully defended his PhD thesis "Governing the news - A study of problems and solutions in Swedish public service broadcasting news and policy between 1954 and 2015" at Stockholm University today February 10, 2023. The examination committee announced its unanimous verdict in the afternoon, saying that he had passed. Senior Lecturer Simon Dawes, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, was his External reviewer.

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2022-11-02

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New web pages on open science at Stockholm University

By 2026 all Swedish universities should have converted to an open science system. Here you will find a selection of articles, films and podcasts on the subject of open science.

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2022-10-04

The Swedish academic system – this is how it works

Some unwritten rules in the Swedish academic system might be difficult for researchers from other countries to undertand. How does it work with ethics review, social security number and research funding? A new Guidebook intends to provide some answers.

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2022-10-04

Stockholm University condemns violence against students in Iran

President’s blog 3 October, 2022

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2022-09-30

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Professor: "Everyone assumed that men founded the film industry"

"Sometimes we say about history, that it is written by those victors. Friends of those heads of industries wrote those first versions of what happened. And little by little it was forgotten that women were instrumental", said Professor Jane Gaines, Columbia University, N.Y., who for many years has done research about women film pioneers.

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2022-08-16

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An exploration of Sweden's Golden Age of silent cinema

In his new book Jan Olsson, professor emeritus in Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, describes how Sweden’s Golden Age of silent cinema came to be.

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2022-05-18

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Kristyn Gorton: 'They saw this massive decline in numbers when they came back'

On Tuesday afternoon, Bonnier guest professor Kristyn Gorton, delivered a speech on 'Media, Emotion and Resilience' at Stockholm University. After the pandemic she found out how the conditions for the production of tv fiction drastically had changed as the Covid-19 virus swept around the globe.

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2022-02-03

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Researcher: ”Arctic climate change is a supreme issue of planetary significance”

”As you know, we hit a record low Arctic sea-ice minimum this year, so unfortunately the stakes are even higher in many ways”, professor Miyase Christensen, Stockholm University, told IMS website on Monday.

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2022-01-20

Honorary Doctors 2022

Stockholm University appointed already in 2020 nine honorary doctors, all of whom have contributed in distinctive ways to the University’s activities in research and education. The new honorary doctors are: Jane Gaines, Tobias Svanelid, Lars Hörngren, Yuto Kitamura, Ann Åberg, Karen Kohfeld, Fernando Martín, Joanna Rose and John Rubinstein. They will be conferred their honorary doctorates on 30 September 2022.

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2021-10-04

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Incoming exchange students Spring 22- what courses we offer

We have a number of courses taught in English. Find out what course might suite you.

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