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• Cultural Colonialism

  Research project

  Project that have been awarded funding from the Area Committee for Humanities, Stockholm University, call for proposals to promote new research and education collaborations in profile areas.

• Cultural Economy

  Research subject

  Ethnologists study how economic activities are culturally shaped.

  

• Cultural evolution in digital societies

  Research project

  This project adopts the novel approach of applying evolutionary analyses to the study of the consequences of Digital Information Technologies (DITs) for individuals and society.

• Cultural Heritage Studies

  Research area

  Cultural Heritage Studies is a growing interdisciplinary research field studying how the past is used, valued, and institutionalized in contemporary society. Heritage is also a profile area for research at Stockholm University.

  

• Cultural heritage transformations in times of insecurity and war preparedness

  Research project

  This project aims to understand how military conflict and a deteriorating security environment influence the production of collective memories and historical narratives of war and conflict.

  

• Cultural History

  Research subject

  Cultural history deals with broad themes and long chronologies. Researchers in this field are united by an interest in meaning-making, symbols, materiality and cultural practices. There is also an interest in memory cultures and critical heritage studies.

  

• Cultural History (Ethnology)

  Research subject

  Ethnology has a wide interest in cultural history. The past can be approached either in its own right, for the study of historical processes and phenomena, or used as a resource in studies focused also on the present.

  

• Cultural memory studies

  Research group

  What is the cultural significance of memory? How and why do we remember the past, not only as individuals but across generations, as social and cultural communities? And how do these memory practices relate to politically and emotionally charged questions of national or ethnic identity, historical traumas, and experiences of dislocation, loss and forgetting?

  

• Cultural politics

  Research subject

  The focus of research on cultural politics is the role of the performing arts in politics with a special focus on audience research.

  

• Cultural Sociology

  Research subject

  The research area focuses on the cultural dimensions of social life with diverse points of departure: both cultural perspectives on the social in general and sociological perspectives on cultural objects and institutions. Studying different lifestyles is often of particular interest.

  

• Cultural Theory and Ethnological Fieldwork

  Research project

  How is the concept culture understood and theorized, and how is it used in ethnological research? How is the concept understood and used in everyday life, work life and in public debate? These questions have been the focus of my writing on and off for several years.

  

• Cultural utterances, Rituals and Play

  Research subject

  "Form" = how something is said or done. "Expressive" = expressive, something that attracts attention.

  

• Culture, Politics and Society, German

  Research subject

  Culture, Politics and Society studies are conducted at the Department of German.

• Culture and Nature

  Research subject

  How people and culture influence and are influenced by what we perceive as nature is a common theme in ethnological research.

  

• Culture of silence

  Research project

  The me-too petition #TystnadTagning received media- and political attention in Sweden and the performing arts became a case illustrating a larger problem on the Swedish labor market: health effects of sexual harassment and sexual violence and the culture of silence that surrounds them.

  

• Cumulative impact assessment of marine benthic habitats (“Carambha”)

  Research project

  The cumulative effects of various human activities on coastal and marine ecosystems are a pressing problem. The seafloor is subject to physical pressures from e.g. construction, dredging, marine traffic and bottom trawling, which may co-occur with each other and with climate change and eutrophication.

• CVA – Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

  Research project

• Cyber Security

  Research subject

  As more and more aspects of our lives move online, information flows freely and knowledge can be accessed easily. This also means an increased vulnerability, for individuals, organisations and societies.

  

• CYCLE: Coordination & valuation of short-cycle accelerated training for the green transition

  Research project

  Uncertainty and urgency around the green transition have manifested around skills and labour shortages: who will work in jobs that require skills for the green transition and how will they be prepared?

• Czech studies

  Research subject

  At the Slavic department, research is conducted in both Czech linguistics and Czech literature.