7 maj 2025 13:00 till 14:30 | Seminarium The situation for freedom of speech in Turkey has been under international scrutiny and critique for quite some time. In Sweden, not least so since the Swedish application to become a member of Nato, where Turkish opposition to this raised a lot of media interest in Turkey. But how is the reality in Turkey today? We will look at this both from an artistic a

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Historik över tidningen Lundagård med anledning av dess 100-årsjubileum.

This chapter discusses the question of mind in space. It aims to lay the ground for an emerging research field, astrocognition, studying the origin, evolution, and distribution of intelligence in the universe. The first section concerns terrestrial intelligence, the cognitive phenomena involved in human search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence. Intelligence could be explained as a cogniti

Researcher Contact details Email: ilkin [dot] mehrabov [at] iko [dot] lu [dot] seOrganisation Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) Service point: 18 WebpageIlkin Mehrabovs profile in Lund University research portalOther affiliations Researcher MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World Teaching staff Department of CommunicationIlkin Mehrabov is a Senior Lecturer at the Department

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The purpose of this volume is to show how different national contexts affected the proliferation of anti-Catholic messages over the course of four centuries of European history, from 1600 to 2000. Factors such as the legal status of various faiths and their opportunities for proselytising, the relation between state and church, transnational cultural relations, and the development of different med

This thematic issue of the Journal of Digital History focuses on different digital tools that are used to study, explore, and narrate the past. Our idea has been to collect a broad range of articles that demonstrate and critique new ways of exploring the past through computational means—all in order to open up and problematize the use of digital methods in historical research, including analytical

Based on research in the archive of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society in Stockholm, this article sheds light on the complex production history behind Peter Watkins’ fourteen-and-a-half-hour documentary Resan (The Journey) (1987). Set in a dozen countries around the world, the film presents a complex web of thematic tropes about global peace, consistently highlighting the connection between

Thomas Aerts Doctoral student, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg Email: thomas [dot] aerts [at] sprak [dot] gu [dot] se Telephone: +46 31 786 19 80 Personal webpage Ning Ao Doctoral student, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University Email: ning [dot] ao [at] ace [dot] lu [dot] se Personal webpage Chontida Auikool Doctoral student, Centre for East

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The article presents and analyses the editorial ideals and practices of the Enlightenment press with regard to their participatory elements. The decline of these ideals and practices, during the era of the establishment of the modern press in the 1820s, 1830s and 1840s, is discussed with regard to its advocates’ self-legitimating ambitions. These professional efforts were carried out in various wa

In 1968, Swedish insurance company Folksam launched the information campaign Front mot miljöförstöringen (“Front against Environmental Degradation”). The campaign culminated in 1969 with large public hearings where young people addressed local politicians and industry leaders about environmental problems. Throughout this campaign, the aim was to activate youth and make them co-creators of large-sc

This thesis examines The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) by Junot Díaz as an example of postmodern fiction. The thesis begins with a background chapter that outlines the central characteristics of postmodern fiction, followed by three chapters that tackle one main postmodern aspect of the novel each: fragmentation, metafiction and intertextuality. First, the novel’s use of fragmentation is