Research at Uppsala University

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

Ansökan avser finansiellt stöd för 2 publikationer: 1. Katalogen skall omfatta beskrivning av den samling av 219 handskrifter i Gunda Gundeklostret som jag studerar inom det nuvarande projektet. Detta ...

Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31

This project aims to critically map and analyse literature that emerges in and is shaped by the social factors determining everyday life in sub-Saharan Africa’s megacities. African cities are concentrated ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31

Combining close reading with methods taken from the digital humanities, this project analyzes how American writers in the long nineteenth century (1776-1898) engaged with revolutionary movements in the ...

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 ...

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

The aim of this project is to analyse the import of foreign books to Sweden and the export of Swedish books to other countries between 1720 and 1820, with a focus on the organised book trade and the mutual ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

The purpose of this project is to investigate the complex relation between philosophy and literature through a study of the Swedish modernist author Sara Lidman (1923-2004). At the center of the investigation ...

Research project from 2015-08-27 to 2015-08-29

Security is one of the major keywords of our contemporary, US-centric era. Security thinking—conventionally associated with military-political domains—has intensified, and is saturating everyday life, ...

Research project from 2014-09-01 to 2017-02-28

This research network will bring together four experts from a range of disciplinary specializations and institutions in Sweden, Britain, and the Low Countries, who share a common interest in the special ...

Research project from 2018-05-14 to 2018-05-15

This conference will gather researchers from multiple disciplines in order to discuss early initiatives to documents and spread information about the Holocaust. The collections of testimonies and the efforts ...

Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2015-06-30

The Swedish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies aims to organise its second annual conference in Uppsala, 7-8 May 2015. The theme of the conference is Everyday life in the eighteenth century: experience ...

Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31

The project aims to investigate colloquialization in the history of Swedish (c. 1830—c. 1930) by exploring fictional prose. The term colloquialization refers to the incorporation of colloquial linguistic ...

Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Rape is what Taussig has called a “public secret”, something everyone in a society knows about but cannot speak of openly. What creates and sustains this public secrecy? This project examines the role ...

Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31

Rape is what Taussig has called a “public secret”, something everyone in a society knows about but cannot speak of openly. What creates and sustains this public secrecy? This project examines the role ...

Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

Research project from 2019-03-07 to 2019-03-09

The symposium "Multilingual Literature and the Reader" explores multilingualism in contemporary literature from the Nordic countries. The Nordic region has always been a crossroads, rich in diverse languages ...

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

The purpose of this project is to make a holistic analysis of contemporary bestsellers by combining different methods (distant and close, inductive and deductive, probabilistic and historic-empiric), materials ...

Research project from 2017-08-04 to 2017-08-06

Classical reception in modern speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy) is an old field, with roots in the academy and the popular press. However, much as Classics is often reluctant to look beyond ...

Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31

The project will investigate the German author, artist, and scientist, J.W. Goethe´s (1749-1832), extensive production of writings on aesthetics. The aim is to disclose the aesthetic experience that constitutes ...

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

International Conference on Persian Exilic Literature 13-14 December 2015, Uppsala University The Islamic Revolution in Iran, especially the great wave of repression in the 1980s, led many Iranians to ...

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

Shahname ´Book of Kings´, written by Abu al-Qasim Hasan Ferdousi, is the Iranian national epos from the early 11th century. It is one of the major authentic documents of New Persian that has been credited ...

Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31

This project aims to investigate the representation of interracial love in novels and short stories from South Africa and Zimbabwe, 1900-1950, when ideas of race held a crucial role in society. It will ...

Research project from 2015-10-29 to 2015-10-31

Intimacy has become a key term in the academic discourse of this century. Across disciplines such as psychology, economics and the social and political sciences, it has proved to be particularly crucial ...

Research project from 2017-10-19 to 2017-10-21

To call economic inequality a ‘problem’ is probably to say too little about it. Equality is not just a function of modern life, which may fail to work under certain conditions. Equality is a horizon of ...

Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

In recent years, many new reading groups have started among Swedish readers. Despite this, there is still little research on reading groups, based on Swedish conditions. This sociologically oriented project ...

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

What does motherhood mean today in a society with an advanced but negotiated welfare system? The question is intimately related to notions of gender equality and welfare regimes, and the aim of the project ...

Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

The project aims at shedding light on the processes of Russian identity formation, still a burning issue today. The investigation focuses on the Russian messianic myth, which in its modern forms traces ...

Research project from 2013-07-01 to 2016-06-30

Poetic Modernisms: Styles of Introspection and Engagement revises a largely unchallenged assumption about literary modernism: the notion that the modernist privileging of interiority - the inner world ...

Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31

The aim of this project is to examine the ways in which music absorbs, constructs, and dissolves the boundaries of its conceptual and acoustic environments in the High Middle Ages. This includes how music ...

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

This project examines the ways in which music absorbs, constructs, and dissolves the boundaries of its conceptual and acoustic environments in the High Middle Ages. This includes how music maps and is ...

Research project from 2019-07-01 to 2022-06-30

This project aims to consider how speakers conceive the concept of integration and how they formulate it in their own mother tongues in two different geographical and socio-cultural contexts, namely France ...