Stockholm university
Department of Romance Studies and Classics

Hospitality: Concept, Practices, and Tensions

Conference

Start date: Wednesday 11 March 2026

Time: 09.00

End date: Friday 13 March 2026

Time: 12.30

Location: Stockholm University, NILAS Library, Universitetsvägen 10 B (house B, 5th floor)

The multidisciplinary conference Hospitality invites PhD and early-career researchers in the Humanities to explore hospitality — not just as a theme, but as a way of meeting, working, and imagining together. The conference will be held at Stockholm University (NILAS Library) on 11–13 March 2026.

One of the seven Acts of Mercy: Extend Hospitality to those who arrive. Line engraving by S. Bourdon
Image: See page for author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons*

"Stranger, it is not right for me, even if one worse than you came, to dishonor a stranger. All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is welcome."
—Odyssey 14.56–58, Murray translation

“Non nobis solum nati sumus.” —"We are not born for ourselves alone."
—Cicero, De Officiis, I.22

Hospes venit, Deus venit. "A guest comes, God comes."
—Latin proverb

What does it mean to think, research, and create together with openness? The conference explores hospitality as both an ethical gesture and a practice: an ongoing effort to create spaces of exchange that remain porous, attentive, and responsive. It asks how we receive ideas, disciplines, and perspectives that challenge our own — and how this act of reception transforms both host and guest. To practice hospitality is to allow our research to be unsettled by what it encounters, to open our methods and vocabularies to the presence of the other, and to cultivate forms of collaboration that resist closure.

Organized by doctoral students, the event offers a space to cross departmental and institutional boundaries — to share ideas, exchange experiences, and find new interlocutors. It aims to foster a form of intellectual exchange that is open, reflective, and grounded in dialogue.

 

Keynote Speakers

Christophe Premat (Stockholm University - Department of Romance Studies and Classics)
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (University of Oslo - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History)

 

Round Table

Participants would be announced.

Comité scientifique

Anna Jörngården Galili (Department of Culture and Aesthetics)
Beata Megyesi (Department of Linguistics)
Kathrin Kaufhold (Department of English)
Malin Roitman (Department of Romance Studies and Classics)
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm (Department of Linguistics)
Maria Olson (Department of Teaching and Learning)
Mattias Frihammar (Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies)
Olof Sundqvist (Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies)

 

Call for papers

Call for papers - Conference Hospitality: Concept, Practices, and Tensions

Contact information of the organizing committee

hospitality.romklass@su.se 

Anna Terzi, PhD student in Italian Linguistics: anna.terzi@su.se
Carla Alanis, PhD student in Spanish Literature: carla.alanis@su.se 
Mahdî Brecq, PhD student in French Philology: mahdi.brecq@su.se 
Marta Mundo Guinot, PhD student in Spanish Linguistics: marta.mundo@su.se 
Yann Batto, PhD student in French Literature: yann.batto@su.se 

*Image: See page for author,(wellcomecollection.org)CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Last updated: November 10, 2025

Source: Department of Romance Studies and Classics

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