Q-seminariet är en mötesplats för aktuell forskning inom kultur och samhälle.

Q-seminariet organiseras av forskningsmiljön Tema kultur och samhälle i samarbete med Forum för form, estetik och gestaltning.

Våra seminarium är både arbets- och forskarutbildningsseminarium med texter av forskningsmiljöns egna medarbetare samt presentationer av externa gäster.

Öppna seminarium

Arbetsseminarium HT 2026

Seminarium ges torsdagar 13:15 - 15:00 i Tvärsnittet (KH557 Campus Norrköping) om inget annan anges. Skriv ett mejl till Anna Lundvall om du vill delta via Zoom.

Torsdag 24 september

Cultural memory and social change seminar series

Nafiseh Mousavi, ass. Professor, KSFM/Tema Q, Minoo Koefoed, ass. Professor, KSFM/Tema Q, Johanna Dahlin, ass. Professor, KSFM/Tema Q.

Primary reading: Erll, Astrid. "Travelling memory." parallax 17, no. 4 (2011): 4-18.

Suggested reading: Keightley, Emily. "Rethinking technologies of remembering for a postcolonial world." Memory, Mind & Media 1 (2022): e17.

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Torsdag 12 november

Post defenses seminar: reflections 

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Torsdag 19 november, rum: Martinsson KH404

Cultural memory and social change seminar series

Nafiseh Mousavi, ass. Professor, KSFM/Tema Q, Minoo Koefoed, ass. Professor, KSFM/ Tema Q, Johanna Dahlin, ass. Professor, KSFM/Tema Q.

Primary reading: Connerton, Paul. (2008). “Seven types of forgetting.” Memory Studies, 1(1), 59-71.

Suggested reading: Wessel, Ineke, and Michelle L. Moulds. "How many types of forgetting? Comments on Connerton (2008)." Memory studies 1, no. 3 (2008): 287-294. 

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Torsdag 26 november

Artistic and curatorial decasteization: Anti-caste processes in the global art world

Anna Laine, PhD, KSFM/Tema Q

I will present my ongoing project that investigates emergent anti-caste processes within contemporary art and curating. It focuses on how young transnational artists and curators i) research, materialise and perform experiences of casteism and visions of its annihilation, and ii) navigate between opportunities and risks in relation to the caste system and its intersections with power hierarchies of the global art world and regional art scenes in Europe and India. 

Caste is pursued as a globally networked social structure and a base for discrimination. The project builds on evidence against elite claims of a casteless contemporary public where caste is a private matter for Hindus in India, and on the recognition of epistemologies of the continuously caste-oppressed and their desire for emancipation and a casteless humanity. 

The conceptualisation of the theoretical and methodological processes of dismantling caste and casteism in civil society, state and academia as decasteization will be expanded into the social dynamics of anti-caste processes in the global art world.

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Torsdag 3 december

60% seminar: Imaginaries of the Future home among Palestinians living in Germany

Hossam Sultan, PHD student KSFM/Tema Q

Opponent: Shahram Khosravi, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. Readers: Anette Wickström, Professor, Tema barn, Linköping University, and Dalia Abdelhady, Senior Lecturer, Ass. Professor, Department of Sociology, Lund University.

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