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Reimagining Dance Education for a Complex World

19 December, 2025

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

How the Indo-European peoples imagined death – Language, myth and archaeology in a new book

11 November, 2025

 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 book with translated works by Peter Artedi – world-renowned, yet unknown, Swedish naturalist

26 September, 2025

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

New book explores the ecological worldview of the early Indo-European communities

18 August, 2025

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

New book explores the dynamics of cultural transfer between the francophone Maghreb and the West

10 June, 2025

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

Specialpedagogisk forskning och tidiga insatser – andra boken i ny bokserie

3 June, 2025

Den 28 maj var det fest på Specialpedagogiska institutionen på Albano, Stockholms universitet. Den nya boken Specialpedagogisk forskning och tidiga insatser släpptes och finns nu öppet tillgänglig. Bland de närvarande för att fira boksläppet fanns en av bokens redaktörer, Mara Westling Allodi, flera av författarna i antologin, inklusive Samuel L. Odom från University of North … More Specialpedagogisk forskning och tidiga insatser – andra boken i ny bokserie

Ny bok utforskar litteraturens och känslornas roll i undervisning

9 January, 2025

Skönlitteraturens betydelse i undervisningen har blivit en viktig fråga i skoldebatten. Vad händer om vi aktualiserar känslornas betydelse i relation till de didaktiska frågorna vad, vem, hur, när och varför? I antologin Litteraturdidaktik och känslor: Litteraturdidaktisk nätverkskonferens 2021 presenteras nya insikter kring litteraturdidaktisk forskning. Boken bygger på Litteraturdidaktiskt nätverks (LDN) konferens 2021 som anordnades av … More Ny bok utforskar litteraturens och känslornas roll i undervisning

Ny bok i ny bokserie: Specialpedagogik som politik och praktik

8 January, 2025

Specialpedagogik som politik och praktik: Specialpedagogiska professioner i den svenska skolan sedan 1980 handlar om den svenska skolans speciallärar- och specialpedagogprofessioner från 1980-talet fram till 2020-talet. Boken syftar till att belysa orsaker till att vi har två professioner med specialpedagogisk inriktning samt att utifrån ett vetenskapligt perspektiv förtydliga specialpedagogers och speciallärares roll i svensk skola. … More Ny bok i ny bokserie: Specialpedagogik som politik och praktik