För närvarande undervisar jag på kursarna

• Historia I. Världens och Sveriges historia: modern tid
• History II: Att forska om historia
• Masterprogram: Historievetenskapernas kunskapsteori och vetenskapsetik
• Masterprogram: Metodkurs
• Doktorandkurs: Introduktionskurs till forskarutbildningen i historia

Jag handledar gärna uppsatser som rör turism, kulturella möten och internationell politik under perioden ca 1870 till idag. Jag välkomnar även uppsatsämnen om europeisk integration, kalla kriget, kulturelle minnen och digital historia.

In the current project, Tourism Governance and the Making of Europe, funded by the Swedish Research Council 2023-25, and undertaken in collaboration with Igor Tchoukarine (University of Minnesota), we study the intertwining of tourism governance, mobility, and diplomacy. Our argument is that between 1918 and the early 1960s, tourism emerged as a site for imagining and constructing European integration. During this period, tourism transformed from a poorly understood, unregulated, and largely elite phenomenon to one that was academically and politically institutionalized, involved broad swathes of society, and was regulated at multiple levels of governance.

In my previous project, Holidays behind the Iron Curtain, funded by the Swedish Research Council 2018-20 and based at Lund University and University of Amsterdam, I studied the politics and practices of western tourism to Communist Europe, e.g. in diplomatic negotiations, holiday photography and guidebooks.

I completed my doctoral project, Reel Socialism, in 2015 at Lund University. In this project I studied cinema and memories of the communist past in Germany and the Czech Republic after 1989.

I urval från Stockholms universitets publikationsdatabas

• Historical GIS and Guidebooks: A Scalable Reading of Czechoslovak Tourist Attractions

  2023. Sune Bechmann Pedersen, Mathias Johansson. Digital Humanities Quarterly 17 (2)

  Artikel

  This article demonstrates the value of “scalable reading” of historical travel guides, combining traditional close reading with computer-assisted distant reading. Aiming to scrutinize the persistence of older tourist attractions under communism, we analyse guidebooks intended for similar audiences but produced under different political regimes. More specifically, we compare three travel guides to the same geographical area produced between 1905 and 1959: one to communist cold war Czechoslovakia, one to democratic interwar Czechoslovakia, and one to the Habsburg-era Czech lands and Slovakia. We analyse the geographic distribution of attractions by geolocating the guidebook toponyms and visualizing them with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This distant reading is complemented with a hermeneutic analysis grounded in a close reading of the guidebook text. The combination of these approaches documents the similarities in the symbolic representation of the country’s attractions across political caesuras and provides a methodological template for future explorations of travel guides with historical GIS.

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• Expanding media histories: Cultural and material perspectives

  2023. .

  Bok (red)

  Mediehistoria är ett snabbt växande fält som omfattar mer än studier av medieteknologier eller institutioner som press, radio och tv. I antologin visar författarna på styrkorna med att använda ett brett mediebegrepp och analyserar i boken allt från vardagsnära trycksaker till transnationella politiska fenomen med exempel tagna ur bl.a. spiritistiska seanser, gallupundersökningar och Ikeakataloger.

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• Midlife media history: Turen går til and tourist guidebooks in the era of mass travel

  2023. Sune Bechmann Pedersen, Henning Hansen. Expanding media histories, 197-220

  Kapitel

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