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Six subjects within the humanities at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Research in Art History, Cultural Heritage Studies, History of Ideas, Literature, Musicology and Theatre and Performance studies

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Christel Copp, Modus movendi, Nationalmuseum, NMG 6/2004:3.

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Back cover to Astrid Lindgren and Anna Riwkin’s picturebook Lilibet Cirkusbarn (1960).

May

Photography in children’s literature

Seminar

The coffin of Gustav II Adolf is opened in 1832, oil on canvas, Skokloster Slott.

Captured Colours: The agency of military flags in Early Modern Swedish heritage production

New dissertation in Art History

Interior of Lesbian Herstory Archives: Bookshelves - Brooklyn, NYC.

May

Labor and Power in the Modernist Archive: Mary Butts and Ford Madox Ford

Lecture

Maria Trejling's doctoral thesis Creaturely Metaphors in D.H. Lawrence, H.D., and Virginia Woolf.

New dissertation in the field of literary animal studies

Creaturely Metaphors in D.H. Lawrence, H.D., and Virginia Woolf by Maria Trejling.

Painting of 18th century men in Theatrical Costumes.

An open database of 18th century European stage costumes

Created by Petra Dotlačilová in a research project at Stockholm University and Centre for baroque musique Versailles.

She researches 19th century images of arctic nature

Katarina Wadstein MacLeod is professor of Art history at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics.

PhD Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

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

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2025-04-25

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Åsa Simma appointed honorary doctor at Stockholm University

The artist, director, playwright and activist has contributed to the university's research and education.

Culture and Media

2025-04-15

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

New reading group of Speculative Fiction within Environmental Humanities

On May 15 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. 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.

Climate and Environment Language, Literature and Culture Worldviews, Ethics and Philosophy History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage

2025-04-14

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

The agency of military flags in early modern Swedish heritage production

New dissertation in Art history by Karin Tetteris.

Culture and Media History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage

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May

Lecture

Labor and Power in the Modernist Archive: Mary Butts and Ford Madox Ford

Open Guest lecture with Seamus O’Malley, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University.

Labor and Power in the Modernist Archive: Mary Butts and Ford Madox Ford

Open Guest lecture with Seamus O’Malley, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University.

Culture and Media Language, Literature and Culture

May

Lecture

Guest lecture: How do we talk to children about war? Focusing on six picture books

A guest lecture by Kim Inae Sujung, Korean writer, literary critic and translator.

Guest lecture: How do we talk to children about war? Focusing on six picture books

A guest lecture by Kim Inae Sujung, Korean writer, literary critic and translator.

Language, Literature and Culture

May

Seminar

Higher seminar: Ethical and Small-Scale Witnessing in Adania Shibli’s Masas/Touch (2001)

Presenter: Associate Prof. Johanna Sellman, The Ohio State University. Discussant: Elisa A. Viteri Márquez, PhD student at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Stockholm University.

Higher seminar: Ethical and Small-Scale Witnessing in Adania Shibli’s Masas/Touch (2001)

Presenter: Associate Prof. Johanna Sellman, The Ohio State University. Discussant: Elisa A. Viteri Márquez, PhD student at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Stockholm University.

Language, Literature and Culture

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Forskningspuffar engelska

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PhD Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

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