Research at Uppsala University

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

Esters karaktär och berättelsen om henne har överlevt under tusentals år inte bara som en del av boken Ester i det Gamla Testamentet (GT) utan har också en regelbundet återkommande plats i judendomens ...

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 2020-01-01 to 2027-12-31

During the long eleventh century (c. 950–c. 1100 CE), a host of core narratives that form the substructure of what we know today as Christian Orthodox culture were established in the ‘Byzantine’ world. ...

Research project from 2019-07-01 to 2020-06-30

Aurora von Königsmarck (1662–1728) is one of the very few Swedish women of the seventeenth century, who are still generally well known. In the 1680s, she and her sister Amalia Wilhelmine had a central ...

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

European culture bears a great deal of responsibility for the emergence of the contemporary ecological crisis. It has sometimes been claimed that the misuse of the material world in the Anthropocene has ...

Research project from 2016-04-29 to 2016-04-30

The so-called Byzantine world chronicle has for a long time been seen as a ’low’ genre with no or very modest literary aspiration – endless lists of historical and ecclesiastical events drawn from previous ...

Research project from 2013-07-01 to 2017-06-30

The project aims at developing and reinforcing an already established cooperation between internationally leading and younger historians and philologists from Sweden, Russia and the USA. Focus will be ...

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 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31

Slavery and colonialism were debated in Sweden in heated political terms from around 1750. Slavery was criticized, Swedish colonies were promoted, and news about e.g. the Haitian Revolution was in 1802 ...

Research project from 2016-09-22 to 2016-09-24

Many things ’began’ in ancient Greece. In the case of European civilisation, it is usually held that its tradition of political thought began in Greek culture. We will meet in Uppsala to address the question ...

Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31

“Fictions of the Real” explores the influence of investigative journalism as a literary discourse on the British novel between 1840 and 1930. Investigative journalism in Britain, which was only recently ...

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 2017-10-01 to 2017-12-31

The aim of this project is to finish a monograph on authorship in twelfth-century Constantinople. Greek literature flourished in the twelfth century, especially at the court of the capital Constantinople ...

Research project from 2014-10-09 to 2014-10-12

The research initiation consists of an international conference, “Roundtrip to Hades: visits to the underworld in the eastern Mediterranean tradition”, taking place at Uppsala university October 9-12 2014 ...

Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31

The first purpose of the project is to produce critical editions and English translations of four selected Indo-Persian music theoretical writings written between ca. 1550 and 1850, and present them in ...

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 2017-03-04 to 2017-03-07

The aim of the workshop is to initiate the research project The Miracles of the Virgin Mary: Medieval Narratives Wandering through Time and Space. Starting point for discussions on the subject are collections ...

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

The project explores the nature of manifestations of state ideologies in Neo-Latin poetry produced in Sweden c. 1550-1650, the period when the foundations of the Swedish military state were laid. Humanism ...

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 2015-10-01 to 2016-09-30

Once intended to counteract vulnerability among Citizens in Sweden, the housing project The Million Program nowadays is seen as Sweden’s most frail, run-down and unsustainable living environment, negated ...

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 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31

This project investigates how the securitization of mobility is reshaping the aesthetic traditions of writing about migration in contemporary Arab literature, and analyzes the new forms and modes of narrative ...

Research project from 2015-05-28 to 2015-05-29

In a context where theatre historiography is being reevaluated, especially when it comes to the definition of French “romantic drama”, the colloquium aims to problematize the definition of this genre, ...

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

The purpose of the project is a study of the Ethiopian dissident (?heretic?) monastic community of the Stephanites (from the name of its founder Stephen, 15th cent.). The community he had established had ...

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

Swedish travel literature from Italy during the Age of Liberty (Frihetstiden, 1719-72) approaches some of the main cultural and political debates of the time. Nevertheless, this literature stemming from ...

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

Catharine Trotter har på senare tid blivit återupptäckt som feminist och filosof. Det är mindre känt att hon också var en framfångsrik dramatiker på Londonscenen vid sekelskiftet 1600-1700. Min edition ...