Julia Stina SkoglundPhD student
About me
Since September 2022 I have been working as a Doctoral Researcher within the European Research Council-funded research project "Performing Citizenship."
I am employed at the Institute of Theatre Studies at LMU and work both in Stockholm and Munich. During the academic year 2023-2024, I was a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics in the frame of the Erasmus+ scholarship programme. Since April 2024, I am conducting my doctoral research in co-tutelle with LMU and Stockholm University.
With a background in the international performing arts, where I worked parallel to my academic career, I am always curious to exlore new ways in which the cultural sphere and the academy can collaborate.
Education
Master of Arts, Performance Studies, Stockholm University, 2022, grade for MA thesis: A (excellent)
Bachelor of Arts, Applied Theatre Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, 2018, final grade: 1,0 (excellent)
Teaching
During the autumn semester of 2024, I am taking the professional development course Teaching and Learning (UL1), which is a foundational higher education pedagogy course for university teachers and qualifies for teaching positions at the university.
Research
My PhD project analyzes the history of amateur theatre and its contribution to fostering citizenship between 1780 and 1850 in Sweden.
My research interests include theatre and performance in the Nordics (Sweden, Norway, and Denmark), critical historiography, theatre and democracy, theatre for young audiences as well as questions around theatre ethics and accessibility.
My project is supervised by Professor Dr. Meike Wagner (LMU) and Associated Professor Dr. Rikard Hoogland (SU).
Lectures
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2024): "Democratizing Theatre in the Suburbs? Field Research at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Skärholmen", Paper in the frame of the Postgraduate Course "Cultural Studies of Production" at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden (09 September 2024)
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2024): "Amateur Theatre’s Silent Tragedy. Redefining Archives", Paper at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Annual Conference General Panel, Conference Theme: "Our States of Emergency: Theatres and Performances of Tragedy", University of the Philippines Diliman, Manila, Philipines (18 July 2024)
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2024): "(Re-)Searching the Amateur: Critical Theatre Historiography and Non-Professional Theatre Makers in the Archive", Paper at the Symposium "Contested Sites of Memory", organized by the Network for Cultural Memory Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (18 January 2024)
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2023): "A Performance of Democracy? Investigating Swedish Amateur Theatre between 1780 to 1850", Paper at the IFTR Annual Conference New Scholars Forum, Conference Theme: "The Stories We Tell — Myths, Myth Making and Performance", University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana (25 July 2023)
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2023): "A Glimpse into Amateur Theatre in Sweden: The Case of the Löfholmen Theatre Society", Paper at the Centre d'étude de la langue et des littératures françaises (CELLF) Doctoral Seminar, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France (11 March 2023)
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2021): "Dramaturgies of Deprecarization: On Creative Labour and Structural Precarity in the Independent Performing Arts Scene in Sweden", Paper at the IFTR Annual Conference New Scholars Forum (online), Conference Theme: "Theatre Ecologies: Environments, Sustainability and Politics", National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland (14 July 2021)
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2021): "Dramaturgies of Deprecarization: On Institutional Transformation and Structural Precarity in the Nordic Independent Performing Arts Scene", European Association for the Studies of Theatre and Performance (EASTAP) Young Scholars Forum (online), Aarhus University, Denmark (21 June 2021)
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2019): "Heterotopia and Power: On Immersive Performance-Installations by SIGNA and T. B. Nilsson", Paper at the Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars (ANTS) Annual Conference (online), Conference Theme "SCAN [Scandinavian]-AESTHETICS", University of Bergen, Norway (26 November 2020)
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2019): "Curatorial Dramaturgy in the Performing Arts", Invited Speaker at the Third International Conference on Culture and Art Management, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China (November 2019)
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2019): "Moving in the Third Space: Orientalist Media Discourse and Hybridization in Chinese theme towns ‘One City and Nine Towns’ and Tianducheng", Paper at the IFTR Annual Conference New Scholars Forum, Conference Theme: "Theatre, Performance and Urbanism", Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China (July 2019)
Skoglund, Julia Stina (2018): "More than just a Copycat: Researching Orientalism and Hybridization between China and the West in Western-Themed Towns in China", Winter School at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (December 2018)
Academic Publications
"On the Potential of Curatorial Dramaturgy in the Performing Arts: A Case Study of Carte Blanche’s contribution "Lyshus" to Aarhus 2017 – European Capital of Culture", in Shanghai: Journal of Arts Management, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2019, pp. 45-49.
Non-Academic Publications and Reviews
"Introduction", Stockholm: SOS! Theatre, Zine, Turteatern, 2021, pp. 3.
"Nourishing Theatre", Stockholm: SOS! Theatre, Zine, Turteatern, 2021, pp. 4-5.
"Gullig som fan: Cuteness Overload på cyberscenen", Review for Frilanskritiker.com and Hangö teaterträff's publication HTT-skrift, 15 juni 2020.
"Hyllning till mellanrummet när Hangö Teaterträff går online", Review for Frilanskritiker.com and Hangö teaterträff's publication HTT-skrift, 15 juni 2020.