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The function of laughter
Aki Siegel has published an article on the function of laughter when speakers from different language backgrounds talk in English. Laughter isn’t just a reaction to something funny!
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Lecture: The To-day and To-morrow reader
Professor Max Saunders will introduce a brilliant series of short books from the 1920s and early 30s about the future of almost everything, during his lecture on Campus Frescati, Tuesday, February 24th.
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Podcast on Charles Dickens
Professor Giles Whiteley of the English department is one of the scholars who discusses the decadent side to Dickens' writing in the very first podcast of The Literary Encyclopedia, entitled 'De-Cosifying Dickens'.
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RJ Sabbatical grant to Josep Soler Carbonell
Professor Josep Soler Carbonell is among the researchers who have been granted project support from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond to complete his research project Linguistic Justice at the University.
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Stefan Helgesson led discussions during symposium in South Africa
Stefan Helgesson, Professor of English at Stockholm University, led a conversation between Nobel laureates J. M. Coetzee and Abdulrazak Gurnah last night, during the ongoing Nobel Symposium in Literature at STIAS in South Africa.
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Research project explores the relationship between memory and the future
A new interdisciplinary research project at Stockholm University, "Beyond Trauma: Futures of Memory and the Memory of Futures," investigates the relationship between memory and the future by integrating perspectives from multiple academic disciplines. The project focuses on analyzing how literary texts and cultural narratives envision the future by engaging with the past. By broadening memory studies beyond its traditionally trauma-oriented and retrospective focus, the project introduces a theoretical framework that emphasizes the possibilities of future memories and memories of the future. The researchers will examine literary works and narratives from various cultural contexts, such as Taiwanese, Ukrainian, African, Caribbean, Slavic, Irish, and Nordic, to analyze how these texts articulate alternative and speculative futures that can impact cultural identities, collective agency, and historical consciousness. The aim is to contribute to a paradigm shift in memory studies that emphasizes futurity and narrative experimentation, while also challenging linear conceptions of time. The research project is led by Professor Irmy Schweiger at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Other project members from Stockholm University include: Professor Victoria Fareld , Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Associate Professor Olena Jansson , Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Associate Professor Anna Jörngården Galili , Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Postdoctoral Researcher Alice Sundman , Department of English, Professor Joakim Wrethed , Department of English, and Postdoctoral Researcher Maria Ioana Zirra , Department of English. The project also involves several international researchers, such as: Dr. Richard Crownshaw , Goldsmiths, University of London, Professor Elisabeth Herrmann , University of Warwick, Professor Justyna Tabaszewska , Polish Academy of Sciences, Professor Emerita Andrea Riemenschnitter , University of Zurich, Professor Pieter Vermeulen , KU Leuven, and Professor Jenny Wüstenberg , Nottingham Trent University.
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