CREST forskarseminarier

A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.
                                                           Michel Foucault, 1981

Måndagar, 13.15 – 15.00, Karlstads universitet

5 oktober, Minerva och Zoom
Experiences of (Non-)support from a Life Story Perspective of Girls and Young Women in Criminal Gangs: A Critical Welfare Studies Approach. Paper by Maria Moberg Stephenson 

12 oktober, Minerva och Zoom
Free Together: An Existentialist Guide to Intercultural Living. Fred Dervin, Routledge, 2026. Literature seminar with Fred Dervin 

19 oktober, Humlan och Zoom
Workers in Elderly Care Speaking about the Lack of Opportunity to Voice their Experiences: Epistemic Injustice and Resistance. Presentation by Caroline Östman 

26 oktober, Minerva och Zoom
Interaction, Emotions and Memories: Experiences of Theatre in Nursing Homes. Paper by Satu Heikkinen 

2 november, Minerva och Zoom
Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0: Glissant on Religion, A Conversation between An Yountae and Benjamin P. Davis 
The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and the Poetics of World-Making, An Yountae, Duke UP, 2024.
Critical Secularism Studies in These Times, Charles McCrary, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2025. Literature Seminar

9 november, Minerva och Zoom
A Long Journey Home: Losing and Remaking Home following Conflict and Displacement, Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia, Berghahn Books, 2025. Literature Seminar with Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia

16 november, Humlan och Zoom
Violent Homes and the Uneven Geographies of Care Infrastructures. Paper by Lisa Hillerbrand Martín 

23 november, Minerva och Zoom
Visualising Music Advertising in Nairobi’s Eastlands: Some Initial Reflections on Ephemeral Materials as Research Data. Paper by Nicklas Hållén and Mbugua Wa Mungai 

30 november, Minerva och Zoom
Preparing Student Teachers to Teach Interculturally: Practicum Possibilities and Challenges. Paper by Valerie Margrain and Nina Thelander 

7 december, Minerva och Zoom
Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful. Mirca Madianou, Polity, 2024. Literature Seminar 

14 december, Humlan och Zoom
On the Inconvenience of Other People, Lauren Berlant, Duke UP, 2022. Literature Seminar 
 

Tidigare seminarier

28 september, 2026, Minerva och Zoom
When Conflict Produces Solar Waste: Salvage Economies and the Gendered Lives, Afterlives, and Deaths of Solar Technologies in Yemen. Paper by Ekatherina Zhukova 

21 september, 2026, Humlan och Zoom
Between Home and Non-home: Approaching Home through the Lens of Ambivalence. Presentation by Anna Pecurina 

14 september, 2026, Minerva och Zoom
The Childhood and Adolescence of Girls and Young Women in Criminal Gangs in Sweden. Presentation by Maria Moberg Stephenson 

7 september, 2026, 12C501 och Zoom
Rethinking Racism Again: Theorizing the Racial Structure ‘For Real, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2026.
Rethinking Racism Again? Assessing Conceptual Deadlocks and Innovations in Race Theory, Ali Meghji, Critical Sociology, 2026.
Literature Seminar 

31 augusti, 2026, Minerva och Zoom
Difference and Togetherness: Everyday Race and Conviviality among Youth in Colorblind Sweden. Paper by Shahab Mirbabaei 

8 juni, 2026, 3A340 och Zoom
Relational worldmaking: Connectivity and Collaboration in Current Cultural Practices. Presentation by Doris Posch 

1 juni, 2026, Minerva och Zoom
Technologies of (In)security: Masculinity and the Complexity of Neoliberalism, Steve Garlick, Feminist Theory, 2023
The Nature of Markets: On the Affinity between Masculinity and (Neo)liberalism, Steve Garlick, Journal of Cultural Economy, 2020. Literature Seminar 

18 maj, 2026, Humlan och Zoom
Bodies Out of Place: Girls’ and Young Women’s Orientations in Racially Diverse Neighbourhoods and Urban Spaces in Sweden. Paper by Maria Moberg Stephenson 

11 maj, 2026, 3A340 och Zoom
Deconstruction and the Sociological Relationship Concept: Mutuality Reconsidered. Paper by Andreas Henriksson 

20 april, 2026, Humlan och Zoom
Multiple Energy Transitions in Conflict Geographies: Parallel Institutions and Gendered Care Labour in Households of Yemen. Paper by Ekatherina Zhukova 

13 april, 2026, Minerva och Zoom
Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage, Duke UP, 2025. Literature Seminar