Research group Forum Modernism
Forum Modernism at Stockholm University is an association for researchers whose work in some way concerns modernism, both through studies of its various mainstream and marginalized expressions, and through critical examinations of the concept as such.
Group description
The objective is to be an interdisciplinary network for dialogue, ideas, events, and publications, while also highlighting the strong position of modernist research at Stockholm University.
Traditionally, modernism has been described as an aesthetic reaction against the social, scientific, religious, psychological, political, and economic changes of modernity. The term has been used to refer to works and practices that respond to what is perceived as a world and a time marked by disintegration and rootlessness. Historically, research typically sought to understand modernism as a specific period that culminated during the first decades of the 20th century. However, as a result of interrogations of Eurocentric perceptions of modernity, thinking of modernism as a phenomenon exclusively related to the social developments of Western Europe has become increasingly untenable.
Today, the spectrum of meanings carried by the term is both wider and vaguer, and it is continually adapted to global and transnational contexts as well as to inter-aesthetic renegotiations of the identities of different artforms. ‘Modernism’ no longer refers restrictively to the specifically Western highbrow culture that was for a long time considered its fundament, and the development of the term would seem to correspond to the internal premises of modernism, which are characterized by an exploration of the multiple, unstable, and precarious limits of the human and of art.
As the dynamic field of modernist studies expands, it becomes increasingly difficult to overlook and evaluate. In response, Forum Modernism assembles scholars from a broad range of disciplines and specializations in order to exchange knowledge and ideas and to keep each other up to date with developments within research on modernism.
Group members
Group managers
Axel Englund
Professor
Maria Trejling
Researcher
Members
Krzysztof Bak
Professor
Helena Bodin
Professor
Toivo Burlin
Senior lecturer, associate professor
Jacob Derkert-Rosenberg
Senior lecturer
Karolina Enquist Källgren
Senior lecturer, associate professor
Julia Fernelius
PhD student
Santi Luca Famà
Ph.D. student
Arne Florin
Senior lecturer
Carin Franzén
Professor
Ellen Frödin
Postdoc
Karin Grelz
Samverkansrådgivare
Ingemar Haag
Professor
Hans Hayden
Professor
Hanna Henryson
Senior lecturer
Hedvig Härnsten
Researcher
Anna Jörngården Galili
Senior lecturer, associate professor
Johan Klingborg
Research Officer
Andrea Kollnitz
Professor
Tora Lane
Universitetslektor
Hedvig Ljungar
PhD student
Axel Lindner Olsson
Doktorand
Roland Lysell
Professor emeritus
Caroline Merkel
Universitetslektor
Vera Maria Monus
PhD student
Catharina Nolin
Professor
Anna Näslund
Professor
Alice Pick Duhan
Researcher
Irina Rasmussen
Associate Professor (Docent)
Fredrik Renard
Researcher
Sofia Roberg
Postdoc
Torbjörn Måtte Schmidt
PhD student
Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
Professor
Maria Wahlström
Director of studies
Giles Whiteley
Professor
Martin Wiklund
Senior lecturer, associate professor
