19 February. Open Lecture with Helena Wulff: Rythms of Writing- The Crux of Composing an Anthropological Text

Date: 19 February 2026, 16:15–17:30

Location: Humanities Theatre

Type: Lecture

Lecturer: Helena Wulff

Organiser: Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology

Helena Wulff is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Her research interests include expressive cultural form – dance, art, images, text. Key engagements are now in the anthropologies of literature and writing. Among her publications are the monographs Migrant Writing in Sweden: Diversifying from Within (2026) and Rythms of Writing: an Anthropology of Irish Literature (2017), as well as the edited volumes The Anthropologist as Writer: Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century (2016), and Anthropological Approaches to Reading Migrant Writing: Reimagining Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge, and Power (with Deborah Reed-Danahay, 2024). She sometimes writes creatively such as the story "Gifts, Unwanted and Ungiven" (2022) in Anthropology and Humanism.

The Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology co-hosts this public lecture together with C-Urge: Anthropology of Global Climate Urgency.

C-URGE is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network (101073352) – C-Urge HORIZON – MSCA – 2021 – DN funded by the European Union.

All welcome, no registration or fees!