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Publications
Journals
CULTURE UNBOUND: Journal of Current Cultural Research
In June 2009 ACSIS launched Culture Unbound - a new academic journal for border-crossing cultural research, including cultural studies as well as other interdisciplinary and transnational currents. It is globally open to articles from all areas in this large field, easily accessible for downloading as open access. Culture Unbound has recently published its’ first thematic section entitled “What’s the Use of Cultural Research?”, featuring articles by Tom O’Dell, Orvar Löfgren, Billy Ehn, Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Mikko Lehtonen and Sharon Rider.
Conference Publications
Current Issues in European Cultural Studies 2011 - Conference Proceedings
There conference proceedings contains 64 papers from the ACSIS fourth, international, conferens on Cultural Research held in Norrköping on June 15-17 2011. All papers are in english and they are published by Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (No. 40)
Current Issues in European Cultural Studies 2011 - Programme
The complete program from the conference Current Issues in European Cultural Studies, containing abstracts for all presentations.
Kultur~Natur 2009 - Conference Proceedings
Here you can freely access almost 40 papers from the conferens Kultur~Natur that was held in Norrköping June 15-17 2009. Most of the papers are in Swedish and the are published by Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (No. 40).
This is a complete program (in Swedish) from the conference Kultur~Natur that was held in Norrköping June 15-17 2009.
Inter: A European Cultural Studies Conference in Sweden 2007 - Conference Proceedings
Here you find an Internet publication of seven plenaries and 63 papers from the European cultural studies conference "Inter" in Norrköping in 11–13 June 2007. They are a part of Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (No. 25).
Inter: A European Cultural Studies Conference 2007 - Programme
Download the programme from the conference "Inter" in Norrköping, June 11-13 2007.
Kulturstudier i Sverige 2005 - Conference Proceeedings
Almost 90 papers and a couple of plenary presentations are published as a part of Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (No. 15).
Kulturstudier i Sverige 2005 - Programme
The complete program of the first national conference for Swedish cultural studies, organised by ACSIS in Norrköping 13-15 June 2005, with 300 participants. 168 pp. 50 SEK. ISBN 91-975765-2-2
Reports
ACSIS Publications, ISSN 1653-1507 Limited editions of printed versions of the reports may be bought and ordered from ACSIS (cost for postage and invoicing added).
Advancing Cultural Studies (1999).
This is a report from the international workshop held in February 1999 and discussing the state and needs of the field as well as the proposal to start a national centre for transnational networking. 146 pp. 50 SEK. ISBN 91-975765-0-6
Advancing Cultural Studies in Sweden (2001)
This report from a national committee outlines the background and proposed model for ACSIS. 53 pp. 20 SEK. ISBN 91-975765-1-4
Kulturstudier i Sverige (2007) is a book about the most recent cultural studies research in Sweden. It contains 19 chapters all dealing with questions discussed at the 2005 ACSIS conference. The book is edited by Bodil Axelsson and Johan Fornäs.
Culture Unbound: Dimensions of Culturalisation (2007)
Johan Fornäs, Peter Aronsson, Karin Becker, Svante Beckman, Erling Bjurström, Tora Friberg, Martin Kylhammar & Roger Qvarsell
Tema Q Report 2007:5, 68 pages, 128 SEK.
Order from Tema Q, Linköping University, SE-60174 Norrköping, Sweden, martin.fredriksson@liu.se.
A critical perspective on current discourses on the changing roles of culture in society.
International perspectives on the conditions for Cultural studies
We asked some of our former ACSIS guests to send us some notes on the conditions for Cultural studies in their different countries of residence. These were primarily meant as sources for a larger article that summarizes the conditions for Cultural studies in different parts of the world. That article has been published in the the journal Kulturella perspektiv 2008:2, but here you can also read the reports in full text.
Cultural Studies in Australia, Naomi Stead
Cultural Studies in Finland, Giacomo Botta
Cultural Studies in Israel, Motti Regev
Cultural Studies in New Zeeland, Geoff Stahl
Cultural Studies in the UK, Mark Banks
Articles
This is a very special paper about Stockholm and urban tourism that our Postdoc Visitor Naomi Stead presented at the conference Sensory Urbanism in Glasgow January 2008.
Seminar papers
Text Wars: Textual Analysis in Cultural Studies
ACSIS workshop in Norrköping 16 March 2004 with Janice Radway.
Johan Fornäs: "Text wars: Textual analysis in cultural studies", introduction at the ACSIS "Text Wars" workshop, Norrköping 16 March 2004
Media and the Public Sphere
Heterogeneity and Representation: Borders and Communities in Theo Angelopoulos's Balkan Trilogy
ACSIS seminar, in cooporation with Ethnic Studies at the University of Linköping, 15 September 2004
Lasse Thomassen "Heterogeneity and Representation: Borders and Communities in Theo Angelopoulos's Balkan Trilogy". Open lecture.
