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12 January 2026

Please find below this term's seminar series in Language and Culture.
Do join us!

At higher seminars current research is presented, often by invited guests but on special occasions also by researchers and doctoral students at SoK. The seminars are usually held on Tuesdays at 3.15-5 pm in (on top floor of Key Building).

At research seminars ongoing research is presented by doctoral students and researchers from SoK. The seminars are held on Wednesdays at 10.15-12.00 in (on top floor of Key Building).

AUTUMN TERM 2026

Week 35
27-28/8 SoK’s retreat, Arkösund

Week 36
2/9 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research seminar
Work in progress (peer-review of article/chapter)
Hannah Pelikan (SoK, SKI) & ?

4/9 (NB Friday) 9:00 am-4:15 pm in Wadströmska villan, Norrköping
Research application day (see )

Week 37
9/9 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research cluster seminar: Aesthetics and Form

Week 38
16/9 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research seminar
Rehearsal of presentations at OFTI

Week 39
23/9 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research cluster seminar: Time, Place & Mobility

Week 40
29/9 1:15-3 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Niina Lilja (Tampere University)

29/9 at 5 pm Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

30/9 10:15-12 in Comenius
90% seminar
Amanda Hoskins (SoK, SKI)
Commentator: Niina Lilja (Tampere University)

30/9 kl 13:15-15 in Språklådan
90% seminar (continued)

Week 41
6/10 1:15-3 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Anna Lindström (Uppsala University)

6/10 at 5 pm Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

7/10 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research seminar

Week 42
13/10 1:15-3 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Book release
Johanna Vernqvist (SoK, KLS)

13/10 at 5 pm Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

14/10 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research seminar
Presentation of research plan
Sumudu Bandara (SoK, SKI)

Week 43
21/10 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research seminar
Presentation of research plan
Ingrid Johanson (SoK, KLS)

Week 44
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Week 45
4/11 10:15-12 in Comenius
Supervisors’ meeting (in Tage) och PhD student meeting (in Språklådan)

Week 46
11/11 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research cluster seminar: Languaging & Multilingualism

Week 47
18/11 10:15-12 in Comenius
Planning seminar

Week 48
25/11 10:15-12 in Comenius
Mid-term seminar
Burak Alp Çakar (SoK, SKI)

Week 49
2/12 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research seminar
Research project ideas
Upload text by noon on Monday 30 November

Week 50
9/12 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research seminar

Week 51
16/12 10:15-12 in Comenius
Research seminar

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SPRING TERM 2026

Week 4
21/1 10.15-12 in Comenius
Peer review of research applications 1 (upload drafts by 19/1)

21/1 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Sylvaine Tuncer (King’s College London)
Materiality, asymmetrical perspectives and resources for actions, and the enactment of multifaceted and fluctuating role relations: Surgeons and their assistants in robotic surgery (link to SoK's Lisam room)

21/1 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 5
28/1 -

Week 6
4/2 10.15-12 in Comenius
Planning seminar

Week 7
11/2 10.15-12 in Comenius
Peer review of research applications 2 (upload drafts by 12 noon 9/2)

Week 8
18/2 10.15-12 in Comenius
90% seminar
Carl-Wilhelm Siwers (SoK, KLS)
Upprepning och dokumentarism: Per Olov Enquist, collaget och 1960-talet
(in Lisam)

18/2 13.15-15 in Tage
90% seminar (continued)

18/2 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Hedvig Härnsten (Stockholm University)
Vad är litterär gestik? (link to SoK's Lisam room)

18/2 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 9
25/2 10.15-12 in Comenius
Research cluster seminar
The Body in a Material World

25/2 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Lynn de Rijk (Radboud University)
What can we do together? How human participants work to connect with nonhuman agents and embed them into the human social world. (link to SoK's Lisam room)

25/2 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 10
4/3 10.15-12
PhD supervisors’ meeting and PhD Students’ meeting (in parallel); Supervisors in Tage; PhD students in Språklådan

Week 11
Previously advertised seminars have been postponed.

Week 12
18/3 (Pedagogikdagen – in Swedish)

Week 13
25/3 10.15-12 in Comenius
Presentation of research outline
Ingrid Johansson (SoK, KLS)

Week 14
1/4 10.15-12 in Comenius
Presentation of research outline
Sumudu Bandara (SoK, SKI)

1/4 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Theopistin Stylianou-Lambert (Moa Martinson professor)
From Digitization to Artificial Intelligence: The Archive of Grigoris Antoniou. (link to SoK's Lisam room)

1/4 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 15
8/4 (Easter)

Week 16
15/4 10.15-12 in Comenius
Seminar on writing strategies

15/4 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Cathryn Halverson (SoK, SKI)
African American Women’s Biography, Region, and Archives: Juanita Harrison and Era Bell Thompson. (link to SoK's Lisam room)

15/4 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 17
22/4 10.15-12 in Comenius
Text "data session"

Week 18
29/4 10.15-12 in Comenius
Research cluster seminar
Gender and Sexuality

Week 19
6/5 NOTE: 10.00-12 in Form 2 (opposite the smaller staffroom)
Research cluster seminar
We who eco

6/5 3.15-5 pm NOTE: in Form 2 (opposite the smaller staffroom)
Higher seminar
Lisa Grahn (SoK)
Looking Back at the Anthropocene: Ecocritical Perspectives on the Historical Novel. (link to SoK's Lisam room)

6/5 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 20
13/5 (Ascension Day)

Week 21
20/5 10.15-12 in Comenius
PhD supervisors’ meeting and PhD Students’ meeting (in parallel); Supervisors in Tage; PhD students in Språklådan

20/5 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Eric Laurier (University of Edinburgh)
The Experience of Friendship. (link to SoK's Lisam room)

20/5 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 22
27/5 10.15-12 in Comenius
Planning seminar

27/5 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Closing lecture as Tage Danielsson professor
Athena Farrokhzad (SoK)

Week 23
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Week 24
8/6 9.00-5 pm, Note: Monday
IKOS Day

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