Research at Uppsala University

• "European Studies in Symbolic Interaction: Traditions, Contemporary Perspectives, and Challenges" (The IVth Annual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)

  Research project from 2013-04-01 to 2013-12-31

  The proposed conference (28-30 August 2013) will be hosted by the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. It is intended to be an interdisciplinary venture of social and humanitarian sciences that ...

• "Mamabies" among the Afro-Baloch community: Social status and cultural heritage of a low caste community in Iran

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  Proposed project is about songs sung by women for women during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. I will call these songs "mamabies". Mamabies are recited in the Afro-Baloch community along the coast ...

• "Unseen, unheard and unnoticed": Swedish Wildlife Photography ca 1890 - 1970

  Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31

  The project analyzes the development of wildlife photography in Sweden ca 1890 - 1970. With the purpose of outlining the historical development of the today generally accepted representational code in ...

• "Queer and Transgender Reproduction with ART: Legal, Cultural and Socioeconomic Challenges"

  Research project from 2018-05-03 to 2018-05-04

  Changes in the legal access to ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) for queer and transgender people in different countries have created both challenges and possibilities for reproduction of LGBTQ-people ...

• #ProtestBaku. Is Azerbaijan next in line for a Democratic Revolution?

  Research project from 2013-05-20 to 2013-05-22

  I am applying for funds to organise an international round-table debate at the Uppsala Centre for Russian Studies on civic activism in Azerbaijan. After the so-called "colour revolutions" in other post-Soviet ...

• Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic

  Research project from 2017-02-20 to 2017-02-24

  This proposal searches funding for the conference "Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic", to take place in Uppsala on 21-23 February 2017. Communities throughout the North are affected by ...

• Assessing Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices

  Research project from 2014-05-12 to 2014-05-15

  Education policy is a salient example of the implementation of New Public Management. Most of the debate and research concerning NPM has focused on the prospects or dangers posed by managerialism in schools ...

• 2019 workshop on New institutionalism in organization theory

  Research project from 2019-03-14 to 2019-03-16

  This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and academic systems who share an interest in pushing forward theoretical and/or empirical frontiers of organizational institutionalism ...

• A Collection of French Music at the Swedish Royal Court from 1690-1726: A cataloging and digitization project

  Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2015-12-31

  The purpose of this project is to catalogue and digitize a collection of French baroque music from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, today preserved in Uppsala University Library. The ...

• A Corpus based Orthographic and Morphosyntactic Description of the New Persian of the 16th–18th Centuries

  Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2020-07-31

  The period of the 16th to the 18th century, is an important era for Persian linguistic evolution; a transitional period that links the late Classical Persian of the 14th–15th centuries with Modern Persian ...

• A Psychological perspective on early moral judgements

  Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2012-01-01

  Moral judgements of actions take into account not only the actions’ outcomes but also the intentions behind them. An action with an unintended harmful outcome is not necessarily judged as morally ...

• A Swedish Model of Administration? State level Agency Autonomy from a Multi-Dimensional Perspective

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  Governments today face complex problems such as migration and environmental threats, problems which cut across territorial and sectoral borders and are truly hard to handle. Politicans and scholars alike ...

• A cosmopolitan language: Hindustani in Surat - 300 years ago

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31

  Our project aims to produce a documentary film on the blossoming of a cosmopolitan language in one of the most vibrant cities in pre-colonial Asia around 1700 and its codification. We will illustrate how ...

• A new platform for Island studies: Workshop at Uppsala univeristy Campus Gotland, April 7-8, 2016

  Research project from 2015-11-01 to 2016-04-15

  The study of islands and islanders and their integration into the global community has rendered increasing international interest in the recent past and created a new academic discipline: island studies ...

• A treason of the intellectuals? International scientific and intellectual relations with Germany during the Nazi era

  Research project from 2016-12-07 to 2016-12-09

  Research on Swedish relations with NS Germany is extensive, as can be seen from Klas Åmark s voluminous overview from 2011, "Att bo granne med ondskan". At the same time this overview shows that research ...

• Altruism, bequests and charitable giving

  Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31

  Humans frequently engage in prosocial behavior by helping family members, friends and strangers or by contributing to charitable causes. But when are pro-social behaviors motivated by self-interest and ...

• An example for all seasons? The theory of history in contemporary economic thought.

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-30

  This study seeks to bridge the theory of history prevalent in the humanities with the arguably most influential sphere of ideas in contemporary society, namely economics. For quite some time research in ...

• Ancient love letters – towards a research network

  Research project from 2018-03-23 to 2018-03-24

  Ancient love letters form a large and surprisingly neglected body of text, both by modern translators and by scholars. Most of the work has been undertaken on the Latin side, while both the idea of an ...

• „Comics and satire – Cultural History Records & Cultural Heritage?“ - grant for a conference in Visby

  Research project from 2015-10-08 to 2015-10-09

  This conference puts the comics as influential mass media and part of the cultural heritage in focus; possibilities to archive and study comics and cartoons will be discussed. The conference relates to ...

• Application of funding for the 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender 2015

  Research project from 2015-06-11 to 2015-06-13

  Between June 11 – 13 2015 the Department of Government, Uppsala University will host the 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender (http://www.ecpg.eu/ ). The conference takes place every second year ...

• Foreign policy change and continuity

  Research project from 2016-02-04 to 2016-02-05

  This application concerns a workshop in Uppsala on the theme “Foreign policy change and continuity” to be jointly organized by the Departments of Government and Peace and Conflict Research on 4 and 5 of ...

• The Labour Movement Gone Digital: Preservation of organizational activities in the On-line Era

  Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  The Internet has become an increasingly important forum for political activism and social movements (SM). Actions themselves have moved on-line. The situation is challenging for those interested in citizens ...

• Archaeological Imagery as Works of Art– Changing Perspectives and Paradigms (workshop)

  Research project from 2017-09-20 to 2017-09-23

  The study of past art and imagery is still theoretically and methodologically underdeveloped in archaeology. Approaches to prehistoric imagery and art have traditionally circled around representation, ...

• Archaeologies of "Us" and "Them" - debating the ethics and politics of ethnicity and indigeneity in archaeology and heritage discourse

  Research project from 2013-10-24 to 2013-10-26

  In 2013, the international workshop “Archaeologies of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ – debating the ethics and politics of ethnicity and indigeneity in archaeology and heritage discourse” will be arranged at Uppsala ...

• Art, career and gender. The career pathways of male and female artists and the recruitment of professors at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Valand Art Academy 1945-2000

  Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31

  Men have dominated the most prestigious positions as art teachers throughout the twentieth century. At the Royal College of Art alone, 44 men were appointed professors between 1945 and 2000. The first ...

• Nature via Nurture: Using novel methods to shed new light on how gene-environment interactions shape social, economic and political attitudes and behavior

  Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31

  Why are some people more likely to be highly educated, end up in high status jobs, be healthier and live longer, be more politically engaged, and, in general, happier than others? Understanding the origins ...

• Atlas of Values and Ethics: A Historical Approach to Axiology Using Overviews and Thematic Outlines, Surveys and Summaries in the Form of Charts, Diagrams, Maps and Tables

  Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2017-12-31

  This project has grown out of what I believe to be a good idea concerning visualization. The approach I present with this project can perhaps be regarded almost as constituting a new kind of genre – presenting ...

• To do research with nose and tongue: Smell and taste in the history of science

  Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2011-12-31

  Since the 17th century visual observation of nature, directly or by experiment, has been a fundament for science. Knowledge based on smell and taste has often been considered vague and subjective, since ...

• Researching Ecclesial Bodies. Challenges of Particularity and Coherence in Ecclesiology.

  Research project from 2015-10-26 to 2015-10-27

  The many embodiments of the Christian church take new shapes, as the number of Christians increase worldwide. This is a theoretical and methodological challenge for the academic field of ecclesiology, ...

• Developing Swedish-American Studies: A Theoretical and Methodological Workshop

  Research project from 2017-08-01 to 2017-08-30

  This is an application to explore theoretical and methodological issues in the field of transnational Swedish-American relations. We do this by arranging a workshop in August 2017 provide a novel and useful ...

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