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This project builds on the research project Staging Migration, which creates new knowledge on the potential of children's theater to stage an inclusive Sweden. The results point to the ways that theater creates meeting places for psychosocial identification, social analysis, and critical reflection that contribute to civil repair.
The #metoo petitions in Sweden describe the structural oppression exercised through sexual harassment and sexual violence that takes place in most professions and contexts.
Did the popular movements of the 20th century also cause counter movements and protests? That is the focus of this research project.
How have people and societies historically adapted to climate change? This project investigates how people in the early modern era were affected by, and adapted to, climate variation in the northern Baltic region.
The project ”Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures” studies moving image advertisements from different angles and in this way develops new historical, methodological, and theoretical perspectives.
Consider a detective who investigates a burglary. She is faced by a number of pressing questions: How did the burglar get in? What was stolen? Is the strange mark on the floor a footprint from the culprit?
During the period of 1870–1920, Nordic cities took ever greater responsibility for services that were perceived vital for economic development and the citizens’ wellbeing. What discussions and motivations preceded this development? How did the cities’ governing bodies set out to expand the scope of public services?
The project sets out to depict the Swedish history of the legendary documentary Finally Got the News (1970), a collaboration between Newsreel and The League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit.
Although much research on the Gotlandic picture stones has been carried out since the early 1940s, most of this research, by necessity, has been based on Sune Lindqvist’s edition “Gotlands Bildsteine”.
Welcome to the research project Another Humanism: Gendering Early Modern Libertinism and the Boundaries of Subjectivity.
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This research project investigates the complex interplay between Art and Natural Sciences during the first half of the 18th century. Based on interdisciplinary collaboration, the synergies of the project are multiple.
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Project about Swedish literary authors working for the film industry in the classical period (1930s-1950s). Case studies on Astrid Lindgren and Stina Bergman are in process, and will be followed by studies on Ulla Isaksson, Vilhelm Moberg, Per Anders Fogelström and Ivar Lo-Johansson.
This project addresses the fundamental question at the heart of the mind-body problem: what is the nature of the mind, and how does it relate to the physical world? Two main views have traditionally been defended: physicalism, on which matter is more fundamental than mind; and dualism, on which matter and mind are equally fundamental.
This long-term, multidisciplinary research project explors the relationship between memory and futurity by uniting scholars from memory studies, literary studies, intellectual history, postcolonial, and ecocritical fields.
Bioethics and Political Philosophy: Nordic Perspectives is a workshop series that brings together philosophers, bioethicists, and other researchers from Nordic and Baltic countries whose work is at the intersection of bioethics and political philosophy.
Biodiversity dilemmas in ordinary places
The new digital age that took off in the 1990s has created more opportunities for filmmakers and artists to visualize new imaginary futures and to raise questions about human embodiment and gender norms in a highly technological society.
The project Can Art Be National? Japonisme and Transculturation in Turn-of-the-Century Europe investigates how concepts of “national art” were constructed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe through global transcultural exchange, advancing an understanding of the role of Japonisme in shaping modern national cultures.
This project aims to investigate a less explored aspect of global mobility by examining the political, philosophical, cultural, experiential, and material dimensions of hospitality through empirical research.
