Seminar Series Fall 2019

Tuesday, August 27 at 10.15-12.00

Johan Farkas, PhD student in Media and Communication Studies, K3

Beyond Fake News: Examining reflections on election coverage of disinformation.

30 percent PhD seminar.

Discussant: Jakob Svensson, Professor in Media and Communication Studies, K3

Wednesday, September 4 at 10.15-12.00

Michael Degerald, Visiting Researcher, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University

Heritage, archives, and state power: Digital traces of Iraq’s cultural and political history in state media and publications.

Wednesday, September 11 at 10.15-12.00

Joshka Wessels, Senior Lecturer in Communication for Development, K3

Why we need more empathy: Syrian video activism, immersive cinematic VR and emotional intelligence.

Wednesday, September 18 at 10.15-12.00

Roel Roscam Abbing, PhD student in Interaction Design, K3

Welcome to The Federation.

Hugo Boothby, PhD Student in Media and Communication Studies, K3

Listen up!

Wednesday, September 25 at 10.15-12.00

Veera Virmasalo, PhD Student in Media and Communication Studies

Discursive construction of citizenship in communication for inclusive development.

50% PhD seminar.

Discussant: Florencia Enghel, Senior Researcher in Communication for Development, K3

Wednesday, October 2 at 10.15-12.00

Anne-Marie Hansen, Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design, K3

Designing for relations between people beyond technology supported interaction.

Wednesday, October 16 at 10.15-12.00

Maria Hellström Reimer, Professor in Design, Erin Cory, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies and Per Möller, Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, all K3

Cast shadows of elsewheres: Translocal subjectivities and dissensual aesthetics in the light of urban planning for social sustainability.

Wednesday, October 23 at 10.15-12.00

Therese Hellberg, PhD student in Media and Communication Studies

Den villkorade gemenskapen: folkhem, kön och nationell identitet i svensk litteratur 1940-1955.

50% percent PhD seminar.

Discussant: Tina Askanius, Senior Lecturer and Docent in Media and Communication Studies, K3

Wednesday, October 30 at 10.15-12.00

Florencia Enghel, Senior Lecturer in Communication for Development, K3

Prime-time protest? Screening the news coverage of transnational women’s protests in global TV networks (2017-2019).

Wednesday, November 6 at 10.15-12.00

Sara Gottschalk, PhD Student in Interaction Design

Living in loops.

Juliana Restrepo, PhD Student in Interaction Design

Practical tales about care – Exploring speculative guidelines for sustainable homemaking.

Monday, November 18 at 15.15-17.00

Sarah Fox, Postdoctoral Fellow, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Looking Out from the Stall: Hygiene Resources, Maintenance, and the Internet of Things.

Wednesday, November 20 at 10.15-12.00

Robert Appelbaum, Senior Professor of English Literature, K3

The Renaissance Discovery of Violence.

Wednesday, November 27 at 10.15-12.00 13.15-15.00

Luka Zhang Lei, visiting PhD student

“The specter of workers”: The (im)possibilities of working-class literature from Asia

Wednesday, December 11 at 10.15-12.00

Postponed until the spring

Maliheh Ghajagdar, Associate Senior Lecturer in Interaction Technologies

Aesthetics of everyday use interactive objects for energy management: A literature study.

Wednesday, December 18 at 10.15-12.00

Magnus Nilsson, Professor of Comparative Literature, K3

Poetry, Publics and Politics.