Research group Network for the study of emotions
It is coordinated from the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, but includes researchers from all over SU, as well as nationally and internationally. It mainly brings together researchers in the humanities and social sciences, but also welcomes researchers in psychology, behavioural sciences, natural sciences, medicine and health sciences.
Anyone interested in joining the network can email to (please include all three addresses):
sara.ekstrom@idehist.su.se; annika.berg@idehist.su.se; nike.stolpe.wikstrom@idehist.su.se
Workshops
Our most recent workshop took place on 14 October, 2025. A chapter from Canadian-American psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett’s How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (2017) was discussed.
18 March 2025 the network arranged a workshop with keynote speaker psychologist Disa Sauter, University of Amsterdam. The workshop also featureed a multidisciplinary panel on methodology in the study of emotions.
The workshop 24 October 2024 was visited by Rob Boddice, renowned historian specializing in the History of Emotions, currently affiliated with the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence for the History of Experiences at the University of Tampere.