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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, English, Japanese and Chinese.

Research and doctoral studies

Le mur des je t'aime. Place des Abbesses, Paris. By Britchi Mirela [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons.

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.

Calendar

Calendar

30 April 2024

Seminarieserie "Negative Modernity: The War of Ideas" 4. From Avant-Gardes to Contemporaneity 

3.15 pm – 5.00 pm Tage, Keyhuset Valla, Linköping

IKOS’s current Tage Danielsson Professor, Keti Chukhrov, will be holding an open series of seminars entitled: "Negative Modernity: The War of Ideas". The seminars are open for everyone, the language is english. More information in the PDF. Sign up with either of the contact persons. The fourth seminare is: From Avant-Gardes to Contemporaneity. Adorno, Benjamin, Groys, Agamben.
Contacts
Nigel John Musk
Ketevan Chukhrukidze

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

First snow at Campus Valla in Linköping, Sweden

SEK 15.5 million to LiU from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation

Three researchers will receive funding. Their research projects concern topics as diverse as how we vocalise, educational reforms, and drawing boundaries between states in conjunction with the pandemic.
Victorian romantic couple whirls while dancing together.

A translated book is not the same as the original

When Lars Liljegren started to study English translations of works by Swedish author August Strindberg, he discovered that some had been given a completely new guise.

They examine our interaction in detail

It’s easy to think that communication consists mainly of speech. But much of it takes place through gesture, facial expression and sound. Researchers study how we use much more than words in interaction with other humans as well as with robots.

Seminars and conferences

Robot

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.

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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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Ann Bergstrand Tybåhl
Adjunct Assistant Lecturer
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Sophia Björsner
Lecturer
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Mathias Broth
Professor
Gwenaelle Clairet
Lecturer
Rusalina Ehnvall
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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Adrian Kerrison
Associate Professor
Silvia Kunitz
Associate Professor
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Elin Käck
Associate Professor, Docent
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Jakob Lien
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Lars Liljegren
Associate Professor
Angelika Linke
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Ragnild Lome
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Louise Mullavey
PhD student
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Nigel John Musk
Senior Associate Professor
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Karin Mårdsjö Blume
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Mirko Nikolic
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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
Michael Smith
Associate Professor
Maria Strääf
Associate Professor
Lars-Håkan Svensson
Victoria Thörnryd
Associate Professor
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Burak Alp Çakar
PhD student
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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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