12 January 2026

Please find below this term's seminar series in Language and Culture.
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At research seminars ongoing research is presented by doctoral students and researchers from IKOS. The seminars are held on Wednesdays at 10.15-12.00 in Comenius (on top floor of Key Building).

At higher seminars current research is presented, often by invited guests but on special occasions also by researchers and doctoral students at IKOS. The seminars are usually held on Wednesdays at 3.15-5 pm in Comenius (on top floor of Key Building).

Week 4
21/1 10.15-12 in Comenius
Peer review of research applications 1 (upload drafts here by 19/1)

21/1 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Sylvaine Tuncer (King’s College London)
Materiality, asymmetrical perspectives and resources for actions, and the enactment of multifaceted and fluctuating role relations: Surgeons and their assistants in robotic surgery abstract (link to SoK's Lisam room)

21/1 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 5
28/1 -

Week 6
4/2 10.15-12 in Comenius
Planning seminar

Week 7
11/2 10.15-12 in Comenius
Peer review of research applications 2 (upload drafts here by 12 noon 9/2)

Week 8
18/2 10.15-12 in Comenius
90% seminar
Carl-Wilhelm Siwers (SoK, KLS)
Upprepning och dokumentarism: Per Olov Enquist, collaget och 1960-talet
Seminar manuscript (in Lisam)

18/2 13.15-15 in Tage
90% seminar (continued)

18/2 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Hedvig Härnsten (Stockholm University)
Vad är litterär gestik? abstract (link to SoK's Lisam room)

18/2 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 9
25/2 10.15-12 in Comenius
Research cluster seminar
The Body in a Material World

25/2 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Lynn de Rijk (Radboud University)
What can we do together? How human participants work to connect with nonhuman agents and embed them into the human social world

25/2 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 10
4/3 10.15-12
PhD supervisors’ meeting and PhD Students’ meeting (in parallel); Supervisors in Tage; PhD students in Språklådan

Week 11
11/3 10.15-12 in Comenius
90% seminar
Sergio Passero (SoK, SKI)
Commentator: Jakub Mlynář; Readers: Wyke Stommel & Christian Greiffenhagen

11/3 13.15-15 in Tage
90% seminar (continued)

11/3 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Jakub Mlynář (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland)
Topicalizing the miracles of ordinary society: Some reflections on descriptive adequacy in naturalistic research

11/3 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 12
18/3 (Pedagogikdagen – in Swedish)

Week 13
25/3 10.15-12 in Comenius
Presentation of research outline
Ingrid Johansson (SoK, KLS)

Week 14
1/4 10.15-12 in Comenius
Presentation of research outline
Sumudu Bandara (SoK, SKI)

1/4 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Theopistin Stylianou-Lambert (Moa professor)
Photographic Archives, Colonialism and Museums

1/4 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 15
8/4 (Easter)

Week 16
15/4 10.15-12 in Comenius
Athena Farrokhzad (SoK)
Athena berättar om sitt skrivprojekt om flerspråkighet (in Swedish)

15/4 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Cathryn Halverson (SoK, SKI)

15/4 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 17
22/4 10.15-12 in Comenius
Relay seminar with senior researchers

Week 18
29/4 10.15-12 in Comenius
Research cluster seminar
Gender and Sexuality

Week 19
6/5 10.15-12 in Comenius
Research cluster seminar
We who eco

6/5 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Lisa Grahn (SoK)

6/5 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 20
13/5 (Ascension Day)

Week 21
20/5 10.15-12 in Comenius
PhD supervisors’ meeting and PhD Students’ meeting (in parallel); Supervisors in Tage; PhD students in Språklådan

20/5 3.15-5 pm in Comenius
Higher seminar
Eric Laurier (University of Edinburgh)

20/5 at 5 pm
Post-seminar (sign up beforehand)

Week 22
27/5 10.15-12 in Comenius
Planning seminar

Week 23
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Week 24
8/6 9.00-5 pm, Note: Monday
IKOS Day

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