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Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media (KSFM)

The division conducts problem-oriented cultural science research and teaching at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences. It includes Culture and Society (Tema Q), Culture Society & Media Design (KSM), and Craft & design.

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Our activity aims to develop a critical/analytical understanding of the role of culture in society, both in the present and in the past.

Research and doctoral studies

Research on Culture and Society

Researchers in the research environment Tema Q share an interest in a critical/analytical understanding of the social, creative, economic, legal and political dimensions of the circulation of knowledge and cultural heritage

Culture and society (Tema Q)

Tema Q/Culture and Society research environment is an interdisciplinary unit that seeks to foster a critical outlook on the multiple roles played by culture in society, in the present as well as in the past.

Doctoral Programme

Decision Arena in Norrköping.

Doctoral studies in Culture and Society

The Culture and Society research environment has since the autumn term of 2002 offered research education of duration four years, leading to a doctoral degree (240 credits), or two years, leading to a licentiate degree (120 credits).

News

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The PIE Podcast Broadens the Perspective on LiU’s Education

The project, that has come halfway, aims to explore how the podcast format can be integrated into LiU’s education. It is an interdisciplinary project in collaboration between two institution

Virtual worlds and 3D objects – the digital future of museums

Virtual environments or 3D objects printed directly into the classroom. Linköping University and the Museum of Östergötland are starting a research collaboration to find new and better ways to utilise technology.
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Symposium sheds light on intellectual property and global health

Intellectual property laws can affect access to medicines or medical equipment, which has consequences for global health. At a symposium problems that arise at the intersection between intellectual property and global health were discussed.

Calendar

19 December 2023

Spikprat: Victoria Van Orden Martinez, IKOS/KSFM

10.00 am – 10.30 am Third floor in Studenthuset, Campus Valla

Victoria Van Orden Martinez, PhD student at the Department of Culture and Society, talks about her dissertation ”Afterlives: Jewish and Non-Jewish Polish Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Sweden Documenting Nazi Atrocities, 1945-1946.” Everyone is welcome!
Contacts
Benjamin Forsberg

20 December 2023

Spikprat Victoria Martinez IKOS/KSFM

3.00 pm – 3.30 pm Outside the entrance of Campus Norrköping Library

Victoria Martinez, PhD student at the Department of Culture and Society, talks about her dissertation ”Afterlives: Jewish and Non-Jewish Polish Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Sweden Documenting Nazi Atrocities, 1945-1946.” Everyone is welcome!
Contacts
Cia Gustrén

19 January 2024

Public defence of doctoral thesis in History: Victoria Van Orden Martínez

1.00 pm – 5.00 pm K2, Kåkenhus, Campus Norrköping

Victoria Van Orden Martínez, Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), defends her doctoral thesis "Afterlives: Jewish and Non-Jewish Polish Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Sweden Documenting Nazi Atrocities, 1945-1946". The opponent is Professor Tony Kushner, University of Southampton, Storbritannien. Everyone are welcome, the defence is held in English.
Contacts
Camilla Rosén

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Head of Division

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Konstantin Economou

Associate Professor, Head of Division

Staff

Jesper Alkarp
PhD student
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Bodil Axelsson
Professor
Svante Beckman
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Anna Berglind
Associate Professor
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Ingrid Bergqvist
Lecturer
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Lars Bergwall
Lecturer
Daniela Dahl
PhD student
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Johanna Dahlin
Associate Professor
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Konstantin Economou
Associate Professor, Head of Division
Mattias Edborg
Lecturer
Hans Elfvingsson
Lecturer
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Per-Anders Forstorp
Professor
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Martin Fredriksson
Senior Research Coordinator
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Michael Godhe
Associate Professor, Docent
Ingemar Grandin
Associate Professor, Docent
Helen Gustafsson
Lecturer
Anette Hallberg
Maria Hansevi
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Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Professor
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Ulf Härdner
Lecturer
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Polina Ignatova
Postdoc
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Katarina Jonsson
Lecturer
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Mansi Kashatria
PhD student
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Martin Kylhammar
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Helene Kåberg
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Johan Larson Lindal
PhD student
Kerstin Lind
Lecturer
Anna Lundvall
PhD student
Hannah Malzoff
Research Assistant
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Victoria Martinez
PhD student
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Anders Narbrink
Lecturer
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Annelie Norberg
Lecturer
Stellan Nordrup
Lecturer
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Roger Qvarsell
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Jonas Ramsten
Lecturer
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Paul Resch
PhD student
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Sebastian Rozenberg
PhD student
Ann-Sofie Svansbo
Gabriel Thott
Lecturer
Björn Waagaard
Lecturer
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Olga Zabalueva
Research Assistant
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Boel Zetterman
Lecturer

Organisation

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.

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