Activities Spring 2024
Seminar materials are distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these e-mails should feel free to contact us.
Our seminars and other events are open to anyone who is interested!
JANUARY
Thursday, 18/1, 8:15-12:00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo workshop: Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers, especially for RJ applications. Send texts to Maria no later than January 15 (noon).
FEBRUARY
Thursday, 15/2, 9:00-17:00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo workshop: Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers (VR applications and other texts). Send texts to Maria no later than February 7 (noon).
Tuesday, 20/2, 15.15–16.45, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo PhD seminar. James Lees presents what GIO (Grants and Innovation Office) has to offer PhD students and early career scholars, but all are welcome.
MARCH
Tuesday, 12/3, 13.15–16.00, 12A225 Humlan, ISLI PhD seminar. Double seminar. Jessika Sundin presents work from her dissertation project (readers Sofia Oldin Cederwall & Liliann Byman Frisén, senior reader Anna Linzie). Liliann Byman Frisén presents work from her dissertation project (readers Rickard Nilsson & Jonas Hoeck, senior reader Ying Wang). Chair Anna Forssberg.
Wednesday, 20/3, 12A225 Humlan, ISLI & History & KuFo PhD student day.
Tuesday, 26/3, 13.15–15.00, 12A225 Humlan, ISLI PhD seminar. Jonas Hoeck presents work from his dissertation project (readers Jessika Sundin & Rickard Nilsson, senior reader Christina Olin-Scheller). Chair Alfred Sjödin.
APRIL
Wednesday, 10/4, 9.00–17.00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo workshop. Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers. Send texts to Maria no later than April 2 (noon).
Thursday & Friday, 18-19/4, KuFo symposium on literary value, organised by Anna Forssberg & Anna Linzie.
Tuesday, 23/4, 13.15–15.00, 12A225 Humlan, ISLI PhD seminar. Rickard Nilsson presents work from his dissertation project (readers Liliann Byman Frisén & Zdravka Katinic, senior reader Erica Sandlund). Chair Andrea Schalley.
MAY
Thursday, 2/5, 9:30-11:00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo guest lecture (with lecturer online): "Recovering SNCC’s Narrative Culture and Building on SNCC’s Stories.” Sharon Monteith, Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Cultural History at Nottingham Trent University. Sharon Monteith will reflect on the different methodologies she used to recover the civil rights organisation’s internal culture in her award-winning book and discuss her current project on the personal and psychological costs of activism. Contact Peter Wikström, peter.wikstrom@kau.se, if you want to participate via Zoom
Monday, 13/5, 15:15-17:00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo guest lecture: "Addressing a Difficult History: Representations of Sarah Baartman by three South African artists" Brenda Schmahmann, Professor and South African Research Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg.
Thursday, 23/5, 9.00–17.00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo workshop. Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers. Send texts to Maria no later than May 15 (noon).
Thursday, 23/5, 9.00–10.00, 12A225 Humlan, KuFo & Religion joint guest seminar with Amrita Ghosh, Assistant Professor, South Asian Literatures, Department of English, University of Central Florida. Amrita Ghosh will present her book Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts (Lexington Books, 2023).
JUNE
Monday, 10/6, 9.30–11.30, 3A 340, KuFo, Sociology & Centre for Gender Studies joint guest seminar on aging and Roald Dahl’s short story ”The Landlady” with Ieva Stončikaitė, PhD, Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain
Tuesday, 11/6, 13.15–16.00, 12A225 Humlan, ISLI PhD seminar. Double seminar. Zdravka Katinic presents work from her dissertation project (readers Saga Bokne & Sofia Oldin Cederwall, senior reader Anna Swärdh). Sofia Oldin Cederwall presents work from her dissertation project (readers Zdravka Katinic & Saga Bokne, senior reader Peter Wikström).Chair Maria Holmgren Troy.
Monday, 17/6, 13:15-15:00, 12A225 Humlan, PhD mock defense (hybrid format): Judith Kiros presents her dissertation project. The opponent is Nahem Yousaf, Associate Dean for Research, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University. Contact Peter Wikström, peter.wikstrom@kau.se, if you want to participate via Zoom.