The Department of Culture Studies (Tema Q), Linköping University
The Department of Culture Studies (Tema Q) is one of Linköping University’s interdisciplinary units for research and postgraduate education. The department has close collaboration with neighbouring units such as the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS) and the Swedish Cultural Policy Research Observatory (SweCult). Research at Tema Q is focused on three main areas: 1) cultural economics and politics; 2) culturalisation, mediatisation and representation; and 3) cultural history, uses of history and modernisation.
Linköping University is responsible for overall management, scientific coordination and dissemination. The Department of Culture Studies leads the comparative analysis of the histories of national museums and participates with case studies on Museum policies and The Museologies of Europe.
Project Coordinator:
Peter Aronsson
Project co-ordinator
Professor at Tema Culture Studies
Linköping University
SE 601 74 Norrköping
Telephone: +46 (11) 36 30 96
petar@isak.liu.se
Peter is professor in cultural heritage and uses of the past. He has successfully coordinated a Marie Curie programme, NaMu, the Making of National Museums 2007-2008, www.namu.se, and is currently directing a project investigating how the concept of Nordic culture developed in various museum related contexts in the Nordic and Baltic countries in the 19th and 20th Century, www.nordicspaces.eu.
More information on research and publications here.
Dissemination:
Bodil Axelsson
Dissemination manager and assistant project coordinator
Assistant professor at Tema Culture Studies
Linköping University
SE 601 74 Norrköping
Telephone: +46 (11) 36 34 26
bodil.axelsson@liu.se
Bodil Axelsson develops Eunamus' dialogue with museum professionals, cultural policy makers and civil society stake-holders. In her role as dissemination manager she combines several research interests of hers: the popular culture of history, educational science and art based research practice.
Researchers:
Gabriella Elgenius
PhD. British Academy Research Fellow
Nuffield College/ Department of Sociology
University of Oxford
Oxford, OX1 1NF
gabriella.elgenius@.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Gabriella is currently holding an award from the British Academy at University of Oxford and as Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. She is working on the comparative variables of Eunamus. Gabriella recently published a monograph on related identity symbolism called Symbols of Nations and Nationalism: Celebrating Nationhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Vanja Lozic
PhD
Department of Historical Studies, Malmo University
email: vanja.lozic@mah.se
Lozic explores history teaching in so-called multicultural societies, as perceived by the teachers, authors of textbooks and students. He attempts to show how history, as a school-subject is perceived and how it contributes to the construction of ethnic and other identities. The title of his doctoral thesis is In the Shadow of a History Canon. For Eunamus project Lozic will analyse national museums in Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Egle Rindzeviciute
PhD, Post-doctoral fellow
Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture (Tema Q)
Linköping University
egle.rindzeviciute@liu.se
Egle Rindzeviciute’s interests involve history and theory of state cultural policies in liberal democratic and authoritarian regimes, the governmental role of culture in social change and general history of modern knowledge-based governance, especially the use of technologies of calculation. Much of Egle's work is inspired by Foucauldian perspective of governmentality and the methodological approach of Actor-Network-Theory. Her dissertation "Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy: Cybernetics and Governance in Lithuania after World War II" was published by Linköping University Press in 2008. For Eunamus project Egle will contribute with a report about Lithuanian national museums.
Emma Bentz
Participates as researcher in WP 2: Mapping and framing institutions 1750-2010.
Tobias Harding
Participates as researcher in WP 5: Museum policies 1990-2010: negotiating political and professional utopia
Magdalena Hillström
Participates as researcher in WP 3.
Maria Höglund
Participates as researcher in WP 5: Museum policies 1990-2010: negotiating political and professional utopia
Susanna Pettersson
Participates as researcher in WP 2: Mapping and framing institutions 1750-2010.
Henrik Zipsane
Participates as researcher in WP 2: Mapping and framing institutions 1750-2010.
Per Widén
PhD, Researcher
perwiden@gmail.com
Per Widén participates as researcher in WP 2: Mapping and framing institutions 1750-2010. Per has a PhD in the History of Ideas from the university of Gothenburg and his research interests include museum history, heritage studies, art history and the study of historical elites and their manifestation of their status as elite. His dissertation “Från kungligt galleri till nationellt museum” was published in 2009. In Eunamus he does research on Swedish museums.
