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Courses
Since autumn 2003, ACSIS organises a programme for separate PhD courses, in co-operation with other university departments. These courses are offered nationwide to doctoral students with an orientation towards interdisciplinary cultural studies. Most of them are in Swedish but occasionally we also give courses in English:
Past Courses
Media & Popular Culture (7,5 / 15 HP)
In April and May 2010 ACSIS gave a PhD course entitled “Media & Popular Culture”. The course was supervised by Ann Werner and explored how developments in mediated popular culture relate to discourse and society. During the course participants will investigate the relationships between the media and its content, cultural and social practices and technological developments. Perspectives include theories of cultural economy, media consumption, risk communication, historical analysis and gender analysis. The course was a part of the international research project Culturalisation and Globalisation and was consequently held in English.
Cultural Studies in Swedish
A course on Swedish cultural studies was organised in May-September 2005, centred around the national conference in Norrköping, 13-15 June. It was led by Johan Fornäs, was held in Swedish and made use of the wide overview of the field offered by conference panels and sessions. The idea was to discern multiple geneaologies and trends, in relation to the topics of aesteticisation or culturalisation that have provided one motivating context to this cultural turn in various disciplines and research areas. The course ended 5 September with a workshop where the participants' papers were discussed, identifying key aspects, characteristics and problematics of cultural studies in Swedish.
Globalisation in/of Cultural Studies
ACSIS PhD-course at Linköping University in February-May 2005, in collaboration with the Departments of Ethnic Studies (Tema E) and Culture Studies (Tema Q). The course aims at providing theoretical and analytical tools for understanding globalisation processes in a cultural perspective. Interlocking processes of globalisation and localisation – summed up by the term "glocalisation" - are prominent in culture as well as in cultural research. Cultural phenomena spread fast along global networks of interaction and communication, but they also always develop site-specific forms anchored in specific places and spaces. And the same applies for cultural studies as an intellectual field. This course combines these aspects, as they are related to the transnational field of cultural studies.
Mediated Culture
September-November 2004, Tema Q (Department of Culture Studies) and ACSIS (Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden) jointly organised a 10 points PhD course called "Mediated Culture: Media, Experience and Cultural Production". It was led by Erling Bjurström and Johan Fornäs, with Karin Becker, Thomas Götselius, Orvar Löfgren, Tom O'Dell, Jenny Sundén and John Urry as additional teachers. The course was divided into three main sections: mediated culture, cultural production, and experience production and tourism. They covered theories of mediatisation, remediation, media history, performance, visual culture, globalisation and experience economy. The course was offered in English and attracted a dozen PhD students from a range of universities and disciplines.
Interfaces of Cultural Studies
In October-December 2003, the course on "Interfaces of Cultural Studies" led by Johan Fornäs, together with the teachers Erling Bjurström, Hillevi Ganetz, Ulf Lindberg and Britt-Marie Thurén. It scrutinized the interfaces between cultural studies and other intellectual fields and disciplines such as critical theory, cultural sociology, postcolonialism, social anthropology, ethnography, subject theory, feminist theory, aesthetics, literature, media studies and STS. The course was held in Swedish, in co-operation with the Linköping University Department of Culture Studies and Department of Gender Studies. It attracted more than 20 PhD students from all over Sweden.
