The upcoming conference Critical Costume 2020: COSTUME AGENCY in Oslo this August will be hosted in a new format, as a digital/online event. The conference will take place on the same dates as planned; August Friday 21st till Sunday 23rd 2020. Here is some information on the updated plans:

Nu har äntligen min och Eszter Szalszers artikel om Carl Grabow kommit. Vi gör en dialogisk omläsning av Grabows i tidigare forskning nedvärderade och utskällda skisser till urpremiären av Strindbergs Ett drömspel (1907). I vår undersökning använder vi kritisk arkivteori, ikonografi och ny scenografiteori i för att skapa en konstruktiv...

New multisensory research at the department of cultural sciences, presented at the research day 5 February 2020. Viveka Kjellmer on scent as communication tool, Astrid von Rosen on physical action as research method and Helena Holgersson on how to take anxiety seriously.

Call for Participation: Critical Costume 2020: COSTUME AGENCY

4.2 is soon to be published! Guest edited by Rachael Grew, whose editorial sets out a post-humanist frame, this issue emerges from the Bodily Scenography: The Body in 20th-Century Stage Design symposium held at Loughborough University, organised by Grew. It includes articles by Rebecca Merriman, Viveka Kjellmer and Urs Georg Dierker, visual essay...

Multisensory learning for the humanities! Together with our colleague Helena Holgersson, Cultural sciences, we shared examples from our multisensory teaching at the HKG 2019 (Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, at the Gothenburg university).

Viveka was invited to Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm to discuss scent as communication tool with the Visual Communication students. A fragrant workshop about scent as art, scenography and communication. Multisensory learning smelling of blood, sweat and roses!

Den internationellt välrenommerade scenografiteoretikern Rachel Hann har blivit utsedd till gästforskare på Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Göteborgs universitet. Hann kommer att vara hos oss vid tre tillfällen fram till december 2020. Den 3 december 2019 ger Hann sitt första publika framträdande (se kalendariet på kultur.gu.se). Här nedan...

Sök grundkursen i konst- och bildvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet HT19!

Another scented experience! Viveka participated in the Fashion, Costume and Visual Culture conference in Roubaix/Lille 9-11 July 2019.