Program VT 2021
Seminar materials are normally distributed via the KuFo and ISLI mailing lists. Anyone not reached by these lists should feel free to contact us – our seminars and other events are open to anyone who is interested!
Until further notice, seminars and workshops will be in Zoom unless otherwise advertised. Contact Maria Holmgren Troy for access if you wish to attend.
JANUARY
Tue 12/1, 13.00–15.15, Zoom: KuFo workshop. (RJ applications and other application texts) Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers. Submit texts to Maria no later than 8/1, noon.
FEBRUARY
Tue 2/2, 13.15–15.00, Zoom: ISLI PhD seminar. New PhD students Marie Wejrum and Annelie Johansson present preliminary plans for their respective dissertation projects. Chair Maria Holmgren Troy.
Thu 11/2, 09.15–17.00, Zoom: Symposium. Full-day text symposium on the notions of race and racism in Swedish discourse post WW2, based on work-in-progress manuscripts from a forthcoming anthology edited by Tobias Hübinette and Peter Wikström. Contact Tobias if you are interested in participating.
Tue 23/2, 15.15–17.00, Zoom: ISLI PhD seminar. New PhD students Annika Malmsten and Pernilla Olsson present preliminary plans for their respective dissertation projects. Chair Maria Holmgren Troy.
MARCH
Thu 4/3, 09.00–17.00, Zoom: KuFo workshop. (VR applications and other texts) Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers. Submit texts to Maria no later than 23/2, noon.
Tue 23/3, 13.15–15.00, Zoom: KuFo/ISLI PhD seminar. Seminar on publishing (books, articles, and more) organized by KuFo and ISLI's PhD student supervisors. It is foremost intended to benefit PhD students and early career researchers, but all are welcome.
APRIL
Fri 9/4, 13.15-15.00, 1B364 and Zoom: PhD defense. Andreas Nyström defends his doctoral thesis, Places of Rest in Worlds of Ruin: The Haven in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction. Opponent Mathias Clasen, Associate Professor of English, Aarhus University.
Thu 15/4, 09.00–17.00, Zoom: KuFo workshop. Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers. Submit texts to Maria no later than 6/4, noon.
Tue 20/4, 13.15–15.00, Zoom: ISLI PhD seminar. Jonas Hoeck presents work from his dissertation project (reader Jakob Olsson, senior readers Anna Linzie & Christina Olin-Scheller). Chair Morten Feldtfos Thomsen.
MAY
Tue 4/5, 13.15–16.00, Zoom: ISLI PhD seminar. Double seminar: Sebastian Malinowski presents work from his dissertation project (reader Liliann Byman Frisén, senior readers Silvia Kunitz & Kristian Petrov). Judith Kiros presents work from her dissertation project (reader Saga Bokne, senior readers Alfred Sjödin & Nicklas Hållén). Chair Andrea Schalley.
Tue 18/5, 13.15–16.00, Zoom: ISLI PhD seminar. Double seminar: Saga Bokne presents work from her dissertation project (reader Sofia Oldin Cederwall, senior readers Anna Forssberg & Sofia Wijkmark). Zdravka Katinic presents work from her dissertation project (reader Jonas Hoeck, senior readers Erik van Ooijen & Johan Wijkmark). Chair Nicklas Hållén.
Thu 27/5, 09.00–17.00, Zoom: KuFo workshop. Work-in-progress workshop with KuFo researchers. Submit texts to Maria no later than 18/5, noon.
JUNE
Tue 1/6, 13.15–16.00, Zoom: ISLI PhD seminar. Double seminar: Tim Roberts presents work from his dissertation project (reader Sebastian Malinowski, senior readers Pia Sundqvist & Tobias Hübinette). Sofia Oldin Cederwall presents work from her dissertation project (reader Judith Kiros, senior readers Maria Holmgren Troy & Erica Sandlund). Chair Anna Forssberg.
Tue 15/6, 13.15–16.00, Zoom: ISLI PhD seminar. Double seminar: Jakob Olsson presents work from his dissertation project (reader Zdravka Katinic, senior readers Anna Swärdh & Morten Feldtfos Thomsen). Liliann Byman Frisén presents work from her dissertation project (reader Tim Roberts, senior readers Marie Tåqvist & Andrea Schalley). Chair Christina Olin-Scheller.
SEPTEMBER
Fri 24/9, 10.15-12.00, Zoom, PhD defense. Grace Zhu Yuanyuan defends her doctoral thesis on biblical allusions in works by Charles Dickens. Opponent Dominic Rainsford, Professor of Literature in English, Aarhus University.
Thu 30/9, 13.15–16.00: Mock defense. Seminar on Alexander Kofod Jensen's PhD thesis-in-progress. Opponent Markus Huss, German Studies, Stockholm University.