Research

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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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Becoming Leonor Fini

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

August

Poetry and the Other (or, why political extremists rarely create great art)

Lecture

August

On the concept of l’autre (the other)

Lecture

The downside of being an artist – with Moomin humour

Professor Elina Druker writes in The Conversation how Tove Jansson used her Moomins comic strip to critique the financial and creative pressures of being an artist.

Current research projects

Find out more about the current research projects at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

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

PhD Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

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

News

2025-06-26

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

The Network for the Study of Emotions receives funding from Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse

Researchers of History of Ideas Sara Ekström and Annika Berg have been granted SEK 55,000.

Painting of a woman sitting by a window. The painting is from 1802.

Culture and Media

2025-06-26

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Accessibility this summer

Information about opening hours and accessibility at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics during summer 2025.

A male student is sitting under a tree, reading a book.

2025-06-01

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Becoming Leonor Fini

Andrea Kollnitz, Professor of Art History, has written a monograph on the surrealist artist.

Culture and Media

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August

Lecture

Poetry and the Other (or, why political extremists rarely create great art)

Open Guest Lecture with Mara Lee.

Poetry and the Other (or, why political extremists rarely create great art)

Open Guest Lecture with Mara Lee.

Culture and Media

August

Lecture

Guest Lecture with Mladen Dolar: The Other

Welcome to a lecture on the concept of l’autre (the other), delivered by Mladen Dolar, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.

Guest Lecture with Mladen Dolar: The Other

Welcome to a lecture on the concept of l’autre (the other), delivered by Mladen Dolar, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.

Culture and Media

September

Seminar

Monuments as Tools for Democratic Artivism

Tim Cole (Bristol) and Tanja Schult (Stockholm) invite to discuss their book manuscript.

Monuments as Tools for Democratic Artivism

Tim Cole (Bristol) and Tanja Schult (Stockholm) invite to discuss their book manuscript.

Culture and Media

Research

Forskningspuffar engelska

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PhD Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics

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