Concurrences at Linnaeus University
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Leading European Centre for #Concurrences in Colonial & #Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University 🇸🇪. Archaeology, Literature, History, Sociology & more. DMs open!
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This past weekend, Concurrences brought the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival to Växjö. 10 films, inc. To My Father (Salam Shehada 2008), Maria (Abdelhakim Majed Abudaquen 2025), & An Orange from Jaffa (Mohammed Almughanni 2023), & a fantastic seminar with Wafá Jamil & Bisan Edwan.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This past weekend, Concurrences brought the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival to Växjö. 10 films, inc. To My Father (Salam Shehada 2008), Maria (Abdelhakim Majed Abudaquen 2025), & An Orange from Jaffa (Mohammed Almughanni 2023), & a fantastic seminar with Wafá Jamil & Bisan Edwan.
A recent workshop, Imperial Circuits: Production, Trade, & Regulation between the Atlantic & Pacific Worlds, 1530–1620, organized by GATPAC, brought together scholars from Latin America, Europe, and Asia in Seville to explore the roles of the Americas and Southeast Asia in the first globalization.
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A recent workshop, Imperial Circuits: Production, Trade, & Regulation between the Atlantic & Pacific Worlds, 1530–1620, organized by GATPAC, brought together scholars from Latin America, Europe, and Asia in Seville to explore the roles of the Americas and Southeast Asia in the first globalization.
Concurrences is a proud sponsor of the upcoming Växjö edition of the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival, we hope to see you on November 8! @npff.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Concurrences is a proud sponsor of the upcoming Växjö edition of the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival, we hope to see you on November 8! @npff.bsky.social
We spent the morning at the Welt Museum in Vienna and proved that adults appreciate the same kinds of activities as teenagers!
October 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We spent the morning at the Welt Museum in Vienna and proved that adults appreciate the same kinds of activities as teenagers!
Concurrences is on the road! We are very happy to be on a study trip in Vienna, meeting colleagues at CEU’s EurAsian Transformation cluster.
This morning we had a decolonial tour at the Museum of Applied Arts & we are spending the afternoon at CEU.
@historicalstudies.bsky.social
This morning we had a decolonial tour at the Museum of Applied Arts & we are spending the afternoon at CEU.
@historicalstudies.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Concurrences is on the road! We are very happy to be on a study trip in Vienna, meeting colleagues at CEU’s EurAsian Transformation cluster.
This morning we had a decolonial tour at the Museum of Applied Arts & we are spending the afternoon at CEU.
@historicalstudies.bsky.social
This morning we had a decolonial tour at the Museum of Applied Arts & we are spending the afternoon at CEU.
@historicalstudies.bsky.social
This Friday, Concurrences member Nadi Tofighian will be giving a guest lecture on Philippine film history for the Department of History at Stockholm University, ahead of a screening of Lino Brocka’s Bona (1980).
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September 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This Friday, Concurrences member Nadi Tofighian will be giving a guest lecture on Philippine film history for the Department of History at Stockholm University, ahead of a screening of Lino Brocka’s Bona (1980).
www.su.se/department-o...
www.su.se/department-o...
Check out this update from Concurrences member Peter Skoglund, currently in the field in Kenya!
“Making rock art today – encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters” is a collaboration with local stakeholders in northern Kenya to document the ongoing Samburu rock art tradition.
“Making rock art today – encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters” is a collaboration with local stakeholders in northern Kenya to document the ongoing Samburu rock art tradition.
September 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Check out this update from Concurrences member Peter Skoglund, currently in the field in Kenya!
“Making rock art today – encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters” is a collaboration with local stakeholders in northern Kenya to document the ongoing Samburu rock art tradition.
“Making rock art today – encounters with practicing Samburu rock art painters” is a collaboration with local stakeholders in northern Kenya to document the ongoing Samburu rock art tradition.
On 8–9 Sept, we hosted the summer school 'Towards Inclusive Global Histories', w/ @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social, the Global Diplomacy Ntwork, & the Asian Center at University of the Philippines
We gathered 22 PhD students & 11 scholars from 20 universities across 5 continents for 2 intensive days!
We gathered 22 PhD students & 11 scholars from 20 universities across 5 continents for 2 intensive days!
September 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
On 8–9 Sept, we hosted the summer school 'Towards Inclusive Global Histories', w/ @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social, the Global Diplomacy Ntwork, & the Asian Center at University of the Philippines
We gathered 22 PhD students & 11 scholars from 20 universities across 5 continents for 2 intensive days!
We gathered 22 PhD students & 11 scholars from 20 universities across 5 continents for 2 intensive days!
NEW from Concurrences member, Nadi Tofighian
'From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions' in Early Popular Visual Culture 23(1–2): 126–143.
doi.org/10.1080/1746...
'From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions' in Early Popular Visual Culture 23(1–2): 126–143.
doi.org/10.1080/1746...
September 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
NEW from Concurrences member, Nadi Tofighian
'From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions' in Early Popular Visual Culture 23(1–2): 126–143.
doi.org/10.1080/1746...
'From Bombay to Singapore: Parsi theatre companies and early film exhibitions' in Early Popular Visual Culture 23(1–2): 126–143.
doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Welcome to PhD students and Erasmus+ ICM scholarship holders Ajayant Katoch and Khadiza Naufa Fatin from Ashoka University! They are joining us for 3 months this fall at Concurrences and are part of the Global Humanities graduate programme at @linneuni.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Welcome to PhD students and Erasmus+ ICM scholarship holders Ajayant Katoch and Khadiza Naufa Fatin from Ashoka University! They are joining us for 3 months this fall at Concurrences and are part of the Global Humanities graduate programme at @linneuni.bsky.social
We very happily welcomed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social to #Concurrences today, for a rousing seminar on Romani Europeans and the Challenge of Unthinkable Histories, underlining the necessity to understand the persistence of coloniality within Europe.
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We very happily welcomed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social to #Concurrences today, for a rousing seminar on Romani Europeans and the Challenge of Unthinkable Histories, underlining the necessity to understand the persistence of coloniality within Europe.
Our 2nd guest researcher this term is Prof Ajewumi Bli Raji from Obafemi Awolowo Uni. in Nigeria!
He will work on Dimensions of Gender in Recent African Fiction, which investigates how gender is represented in African literature, aiming to bring gender studies more centrally into the humanities.
He will work on Dimensions of Gender in Recent African Fiction, which investigates how gender is represented in African literature, aiming to bring gender studies more centrally into the humanities.
September 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Our 2nd guest researcher this term is Prof Ajewumi Bli Raji from Obafemi Awolowo Uni. in Nigeria!
He will work on Dimensions of Gender in Recent African Fiction, which investigates how gender is represented in African literature, aiming to bring gender studies more centrally into the humanities.
He will work on Dimensions of Gender in Recent African Fiction, which investigates how gender is represented in African literature, aiming to bring gender studies more centrally into the humanities.
Welcome to Dr. Pasoot Lasuka! He is visiting #Concurrences from Chiang Mai U. during the autumn term.
His project explores representations of the coast in Thai media arts & cinema, highlighting natural resource management & the politics embedded w/in the ontological relations of nature & culture.
His project explores representations of the coast in Thai media arts & cinema, highlighting natural resource management & the politics embedded w/in the ontological relations of nature & culture.
September 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Welcome to Dr. Pasoot Lasuka! He is visiting #Concurrences from Chiang Mai U. during the autumn term.
His project explores representations of the coast in Thai media arts & cinema, highlighting natural resource management & the politics embedded w/in the ontological relations of nature & culture.
His project explores representations of the coast in Thai media arts & cinema, highlighting natural resource management & the politics embedded w/in the ontological relations of nature & culture.
As part of the #Concurrences project ‘Living traditions & future heritages: Engaging with cultures & colonial legacies at the source of the White Nile, Uganda’, Terje Oestigaard recently travelled from Kampala & visited the Source of the Nile and the Kalagala waterfalls.
July 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
As part of the #Concurrences project ‘Living traditions & future heritages: Engaging with cultures & colonial legacies at the source of the White Nile, Uganda’, Terje Oestigaard recently travelled from Kampala & visited the Source of the Nile and the Kalagala waterfalls.
From June 25-27, Liv Nilsson Stutz collaborated with Audrey Horning & Sarah Tarlow on a workshop on Ethics in Archaeology for "Dialogues with the Past". The workshop was organized in Derry/Londonderry where students engaged with the local colonial history & disputed post conflict cultural heritage.
July 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
From June 25-27, Liv Nilsson Stutz collaborated with Audrey Horning & Sarah Tarlow on a workshop on Ethics in Archaeology for "Dialogues with the Past". The workshop was organized in Derry/Londonderry where students engaged with the local colonial history & disputed post conflict cultural heritage.
Congratulations to Torun Elsrud for the publication of her latest book, 'Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change', part of the Routledge series Studies in Migration & Diaspora.
Read more: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Open Access link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Read more: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Open Access link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
June 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Congratulations to Torun Elsrud for the publication of her latest book, 'Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change', part of the Routledge series Studies in Migration & Diaspora.
Read more: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Open Access link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Read more: lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
Open Access link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
We had a great end-of-semester gathering in sunny Växjö yesterday, with a presentation of PhD student projects, pub quiz, and kubb on the lawn. Thank you to all members for an invigorating semester, and we look forward to launching the fall programme!
June 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We had a great end-of-semester gathering in sunny Växjö yesterday, with a presentation of PhD student projects, pub quiz, and kubb on the lawn. Thank you to all members for an invigorating semester, and we look forward to launching the fall programme!
On June 11, Nicole Crescenzi defended her PhD thesis at IMT Lucca: Exhibiting Human Remains: an issue at the intersection of ethics, museology and law. Nicole has been a guest researcher at Concurrences working closely with her co-supervisor Liv Nilsson Stutz & her project Ethical Entanglements.
June 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
On June 11, Nicole Crescenzi defended her PhD thesis at IMT Lucca: Exhibiting Human Remains: an issue at the intersection of ethics, museology and law. Nicole has been a guest researcher at Concurrences working closely with her co-supervisor Liv Nilsson Stutz & her project Ethical Entanglements.
Yesterday we held a panel discussion after the screening of No Other Land. With Rebecca Duncan (chairing), Anders Persson (LNU), Nina Gren (Lund), & Wafá Jamil, (founder of the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival), we had a rich discussion about this powerful film & the occupation of the West Bank.
May 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Yesterday we held a panel discussion after the screening of No Other Land. With Rebecca Duncan (chairing), Anders Persson (LNU), Nina Gren (Lund), & Wafá Jamil, (founder of the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival), we had a rich discussion about this powerful film & the occupation of the West Bank.
#Concurrences Seminar on 10 April, 15:15-17:00 (CET). ‘Cultural Heritage & Local Empowerment: The Importance of Community Conversations Among the Samburu in Northern Kenya’ by Steven Labarakwe (Samburu Elder), Peter Skoglund and Ebbe Westergren (LNU)
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April 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
#Concurrences Seminar on 10 April, 15:15-17:00 (CET). ‘Cultural Heritage & Local Empowerment: The Importance of Community Conversations Among the Samburu in Northern Kenya’ by Steven Labarakwe (Samburu Elder), Peter Skoglund and Ebbe Westergren (LNU)
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Tomorrow! Welcome to ‘Arctic Futures’, a seminar with Prof. Maria Lindgren Leavenworth (Umeå University).
13:15-15:00 (CET) on 2 April. To register for zoom, email rebecca.duncan@lnu.se
13:15-15:00 (CET) on 2 April. To register for zoom, email rebecca.duncan@lnu.se
April 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Tomorrow! Welcome to ‘Arctic Futures’, a seminar with Prof. Maria Lindgren Leavenworth (Umeå University).
13:15-15:00 (CET) on 2 April. To register for zoom, email rebecca.duncan@lnu.se
13:15-15:00 (CET) on 2 April. To register for zoom, email rebecca.duncan@lnu.se
Welcome to Joseph Manock, a PhD student from the Uni. of Manchester who will be visiting #Concurrences as a guest researcher during the spring.
His research explores the history of famine & disease in South Asia through the lens of emotional history, stay tuned for a seminar about his work in May!
His research explores the history of famine & disease in South Asia through the lens of emotional history, stay tuned for a seminar about his work in May!
March 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Welcome to Joseph Manock, a PhD student from the Uni. of Manchester who will be visiting #Concurrences as a guest researcher during the spring.
His research explores the history of famine & disease in South Asia through the lens of emotional history, stay tuned for a seminar about his work in May!
His research explores the history of famine & disease in South Asia through the lens of emotional history, stay tuned for a seminar about his work in May!
Liv Nilsson Stutz @livnstutz.bsky.social gave a lecture about her research project Ethical Entanglements at a workshop for museum professionals at the University Medical Center in Amsterdam on March 27. The project explores the ethics of care for human remains in museums and research.
March 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Liv Nilsson Stutz @livnstutz.bsky.social gave a lecture about her research project Ethical Entanglements at a workshop for museum professionals at the University Medical Center in Amsterdam on March 27. The project explores the ethics of care for human remains in museums and research.
Welcome to Dr. Huemac Escalona Lüttig (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) who will be a #Concurrences guest researcher this spring.
He is researching the organization of the production of cochineal red & indigo, from the perspective of producers located in different territories of New Spain.
He is researching the organization of the production of cochineal red & indigo, from the perspective of producers located in different territories of New Spain.
February 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Welcome to Dr. Huemac Escalona Lüttig (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) who will be a #Concurrences guest researcher this spring.
He is researching the organization of the production of cochineal red & indigo, from the perspective of producers located in different territories of New Spain.
He is researching the organization of the production of cochineal red & indigo, from the perspective of producers located in different territories of New Spain.
We are very happy to welcome PhD candidate Nicole Crescenzi back to #Concurrences, visiting from the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca & hosted by @livnstutz.bsky.social
Nicole’s research investigates the ethical implications of exhibiting human remains in museums from different backgrounds.
Nicole’s research investigates the ethical implications of exhibiting human remains in museums from different backgrounds.
February 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
We are very happy to welcome PhD candidate Nicole Crescenzi back to #Concurrences, visiting from the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca & hosted by @livnstutz.bsky.social
Nicole’s research investigates the ethical implications of exhibiting human remains in museums from different backgrounds.
Nicole’s research investigates the ethical implications of exhibiting human remains in museums from different backgrounds.