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Division of Language, Culture and Interaction (SKI)

The department includes professional languages, English as well as research and teaching in the field of interaction studies.

We offer professional language courses in French, German, Spanish and English.

Research and doctoral studies

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The Language and Culture research environment

The Language and Culture research environment is a meeting place for linguistic and literary research in a cultural context.

Doctoral Studies in Language and Culture

Doctoral studies in language and culture are multi- and interdisciplinary. Our doctoral students have typically studied modern foreign languages, Swedish, Swedish as a second language, general linguistics or comparative literature.

Doctoral programme

Doctoral programme

The doctoral programme in language and culture is multi- and interdisciplinary. It comprises 90 ECTs of courses and a doctoral dissertation of 150 ECTs.

The programme takes in the following three perspectives as its point of departure: a culture and media analytical perspective, a literature analytical perspective and a language and interaction analytical perspective. The doctoral programme is run within the research environment Language and Culture which spans the subjects general linguistics, comparative literature and different languages including English, Modern Languages (e.g. French, German, Spanish), Swedish and Swedish as a Second Language.

Education

A Degree in English

English consists of three parts: language, literature and culture. There is a clear focus on developing one’s own language proficiency, and an increasing emphasis on the American and British social, cultural and historical context.

News

Emile Farmer Bellewes.

Emile Farmer would like a greater Scrutiny of Ecological Narratives

”We are in a biodiversity and climate crisis, society needs to be able to both critique and celebrate narratives relating to our relationship with nature. Ecolinguistics can play a crucial role in education at the university level and in schools.”

Poet to become visiting professor in Tage Danielsson’s name

She devotes herself to the power of words and sees poetry as a tool of knowledge. Athena Farrokhzad steps into academia with the ambition to shake up the templates with the help of rhymes and humour.
Keti Chukhrov.

“The Swedish academic world is very unique”

Keti Chukhrov has appreciated her year at LiU as the Tage Danielson visiting professor. She is impressed by the democratic organisation and the true spirit of assistance and collaboration at IKOS, LiU.

Seminars and conferences

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AI in Society Seminar

An interdisciplinary forum for discussing Humanities and Social Science perspectives on AI. We trace the historical fascination with building smart machines and discuss implications that machine learning has on everyday lives, culture and society.

Contact us

Head of Division

 
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Mats Tholander

Head of Administration, Head of Division
 
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Julien Renard

Lecturer, Head of Division

Staff

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Lene Asp Frederiksen
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Sophia Björsner
Lecturer
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Mathias Broth
Professor
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Burak Alp Çakar
PhD student
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Gwenaelle Clairet
Lecturer
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Rusalina Ehnvall
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Emile Farmer
PhD student
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Emily Hofstetter
Associate Professor, Docent
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Amanda Hoskins
PhD student
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Mikael Jungevall
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Lars Jämterud
Head of Department, Lecturer
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Leelo Keevallik
Deputy Head of Department, Professor
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Silvia Kunitz
Associate Professor
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Elin Käck
Senior Associate Professor
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Lars Liljegren
Associate Professor
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Louise Mullavey
PhD student
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Nigel John Musk
Senior Associate Professor
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Sergio Passero
PhD student
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Hannah Pelikan
Postdoc
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Julien Renard
Lecturer, Head of Division
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Jonas Rentner
Lecturer
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Wolfgang Schmidt
Associate Professor
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Michael Smith
Associate Professor
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Maria Strääf
Associate Professor
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Lars-Håkan Svensson
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Victoria Thörnryd
Associate Professor
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Shelley Torgnyson
Lecturer
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Therese Örnberg Berglund
Associate Professor

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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