Stockholm university
Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Research

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View towards Hallsnäs Manor, Ramkvilla Parish - Småland. Painting by Carl Jonas Linnerhielm 1790.
Cool Nature: Utopian Ecologies in Sweden 1780–1840

This interdisciplinary project focusses on the interplay between nature and culture, and how nature became a central site for creating utopian visions and forging national identity. Financed by Olle Engkvists Stiftelse.

Detail of the book cover of Becoming Leonor Fini. Bloomsbury.
Becoming Leonor Fini

Andrea Kollnitz, Professor of Art History, has written a monograph on the surrealist artist Leonor Fini and her self-representations.

PhD Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

We offer a dynamic interdisciplinary research environment for post graduate research.

Siora Photography, Unsplash.

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Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Research project explores the relationship between memory and the future

A new interdisciplinary research project at Stockholm University, "Beyond Trauma: Futures of Memory and the Memory of Futures," investigates the relationship between memory and the future by integrating perspectives from multiple academic disciplines.

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Language, Literature and Culture - Theme page History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage - Theme page Worldviews, Ethics and Philosophy - Theme page
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

The reading group of Speculative Fiction during fall semester 2025

On December 11th the reading group of Speculative Fiction within the open seminar series of the Master's Programme in Environmental Humanities will have it's fourth meeting of fall semester 2025. It is lead by professor Andrew Jones, Department of Archaeology and Classical studies and Elisa Viteri Márquez, PhD student at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Speculative fiction
Climate and Environment - Theme page Language, Literature and Culture - Theme page Worldviews, Ethics and Philosophy - Theme page History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage - Theme page

Calendar

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December

Seminar

Prefiguring Futures We Want: Community Engaged Scholarship and the Environmental Humanities

This lecture, part of The Green Zone Seminar Series, explores how community-engaged scholarship can expand the environmental humanities. Drawing on a decade of public projects, Bethany Wiggin reflects on how university-community collaborations can build democratic, transdisciplinary research networks for more sustainable futures.

Prefiguring Futures We Want: Community Engaged Scholarship and the Environmental Humanities

This lecture, part of The Green Zone Seminar Series, explores how community-engaged scholarship can expand the environmental humanities. Drawing on a decade of public projects, Bethany Wiggin reflects on how university-community collaborations can build democratic, transdisciplinary research networks for more sustainable futures.

Climate and Environment - Theme page Social and economic sustainability - Theme page

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