The Q-seminar is a meeting place for current research in culture and society.
The Q seminars are organized by the research environment Culture and Society in collaboration with the Forum for Form, Aesthetics, and Design. The seminar series are based on texts by the research environment's own researchers and doctoral students, as well as presentations by external guests.
Our seminars are open to anyone interested, except for our internal work seminars. They are held in hybrid mode. You can participate via Zoom or in person at Campus Norrköping.
The working seminars are normally given on Thursdays from 13:15 to 15:00 at Tvärsnittet (KH557, Campus Norrköping). If you would like to participate via Zoom, please email Anna Lundvall.
January 16, 09:15-11:00
Mansi Kashatria, PhD student, Tema Q, LiU (60% seminar).
Main opponent: Professor Dilip M Menon, Dept. of International Relations, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
February 6
Adam Bisno, Research coordinator, Tema Q, LiU
March 6
Adam Bisno, Reseach coordinator, Tema Q, LiU
A draft of a chapter for the edited volume, Cultural Histories of the Grand Hotel: Locally Grounded, Globally Networked, ed. Kevin James (London: Bloomsbury).
March 27
Texts selected by Adam Bisno, research coordinator, Tema Q, LiU
In mobilizing memory toward political ends, people often resort to lists – lists of accomplished members of a particular social group, lists of heritage sites of a particular country, lists of prestigious institutions in a particular city. Sometimes the ends aren’t overtly political, as in the case of archival finding aids and inventories of collections, yet these lists can reflect economies and cultures of collecting that shape and are shaped by political questions and claims. To initiate and structure our discussion of heritage, memory, and the politics of list-making – and bearing in mind that we can let our discussion take us elsewhere, too – I offer two readings:
Andrea Phillips, “List”, in Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford (eds), Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social, Routledge, London and New York 2012, 96–109.
Kara W. Swanson, " Inventing the Woman Voter: Suffrage, Ability, and Patents”, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2020), 19, 559–574.
April 10
Sebastian Rozenberg, PHD student, Tema Q, Liu
Thursday 10th of April
May 8
Bodil Axelsson, Professor of cultural heritage, Tema Q, LiU
