How can schools ensure that gifted students receive the support they need while staying true to the Nordic ideals of equality, inclusion, and high-quality education for all? The new book Nordic Perspectives on Gifted Education takes an in-depth look at this important question by presenting the latest research and practice in gifted education across Denmark, … More Gifted Education in the Nordic Countries
New book published by Stockholm University Press offers a critical reread of the humanist tradition. In an attempt to give formulation to a sustainable humanism, a number of scholars explore various forms of subjectivity and critique within the humanist tradition. Another Humanism – Subjectivity and Critique, edited by Carin Franzén, professor of Comparative Literature at … More An Updated Humanism
Antologin Historiografi: Teoretiska tillämpningar i konstvetenskap 6 presenterar och problematiserar tillämpningen av historiografi i konstvetenskaplig praktik. Den centrala ambitionen är att visa hur historiografi kan användas som ett samtidigt kartläggande och kritiskt perspektiv i konstvetenskapliga studier. Redaktör för boken är professor Hans Hayden. Till vem vänder sig boken? Boken Historiografi: Teoretiska tillämpningar i konstvetenskap 6 … More Ny kurslitteratur i konstvetenskap – Historiografi
Den 28 april anordnade Stockholm University Press ett frukostwebbinarium tillsammans med våra samarbetspartners vid Norges teknisk-naturvetenskapliga universitet (NTNU) och Arktiska universitetet i Tromsø (UiT), för forskare vid deras lärosäten. Temat för webbinariet var “Hur är det att publicera med Stockholm University Press?”. Svar på frågan levererades av två av våra författare, Håkan Rydving och Tone … More Vad tycker våra författare om oss?
How can dance education respond to our time? Dance Education and Pedagogies in Contemporary Contexts reimagines dance education as a site for critical inquiry, artistic innovation, and social change. This volume explores the practices of dance educators active in glocal, contemporary contexts to promote critical change, work for the decolonisation of higher dance education, and challenge ableism … More Reimagining Dance Education for a Complex World
By interweaving philological analysis, archaeological evidence and mythological narratives, Indo-European Afterlives offers new perspectives on how notions of death and the beyond were embedded in early Indo-European belief systems. From poetic visions of the afterlife to the ritual logic of cremation and the etymology of mourning, Indo-European Afterlives examines how the transition from life to death was conceptualized … More How the Indo-European peoples imagined death – Language, myth and archaeology in a new book
New – and old – journal sees the light of day. Our two journals Tellus A and Tellus B have transformed into Tellus. With a focus on research that deepens the understanding of how biological, chemical, and physical processes interact to shape the Earth system in a changing climate, it is now open for submissions. … More The relaunch of Tellus
This Sunday, September 28th, marks the 290th anniversary of Artedi’s seemingly accidental drowning in an Amsterdam canal. The life and work of this undeservingly unknown zoologist and ichthyologist – a long time friend and collaborator of Carl Linnaeus – is now openly available in a two volume publication. With the publication of Peter Artedi: Reformer of 18th … More New book with translated works by Peter Artedi – world-renowned, yet unknown, Swedish naturalist
How did the early Indo-European communities understand and mythologise their natural and social environments? The edited volume Indo-European Ecologies: Cattle and Milk – Snakes and Water introduces ecological perspectives into the study of Indo-European traditions. The main focus is on the early Indo-European beliefs surrounding the most important elements of the household, above all cattle … More New book explores the ecological worldview of the early Indo-European communities
This edited volume, Passages francophones du Maghreb et transfert culturel, brings together six researchers from the University of Rabat and the University of Stockholm to explore the dynamics of cultural transfer between the francophone Maghreb and the West. The chapters examine Maghrebi travellers’ perspectives on the West, representations of francophone Maghrebi literatures in Sweden, the … More New book explores the dynamics of cultural transfer between the francophone Maghreb and the West
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