Forskningsprojektet handlar om oväntade släktskaps betydelse för identitet och minnen och forskarna består av en grupp etnologer, historiker och arkivvetare.
I centrum för projektet står svensk släktforskning och vad som händer när släktforskare stöter på oväntade härkomster i släktleden. Hur det påverkar identitetsskapanden och kulturella minnen.
Humans and Ticks in the Anthropocene is an ongoing project that examines the multi-faceted relationship between humans and ticks from the perspective of environmental history and environmental humanities.
Please visit the website for more information about the project.
The project description from the website:
”Our research project examines the multi-faceted relationship between humans and ticks from the perspective of environmental history and environmental humanities. We aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of discussions about ticks in Finnish society from the late nineteenth century up to the present. Our goal is to increase the knowledge about human relations, not only to ticks but also insects in general. By so doing, we also hope to refine methods and concepts for studying invertebrate animals; a class of animals previously ignored in humanistic research.
We explore the formation and circulation of scientific as well as local knowledge regarding ticks. This analysis increases our understanding of how ticks have influenced human relation to and ways of enjoying nature. Furthermore, by examining ticks as part of the discourse about larger environmental changes, we aim at participating in the humanistic research on the Anthropocene. In the end, we hope to provide intellectual groundings also for the wider public to understand how the ongoing environmental crisis affects ecological networks and changes in the human relation to nature.
The project is funded by the Academy of Finland 2020-2024”
Northern nightmares 1400-2020 is an interdisciplinary research project that analyse nightmares and bad dreams drawn from Finnish history and contemporary culture. The research mainly employs concepts and methods derived from cultural and social history and folklore studies. Some information about the research project from the website:
”The research project ”Northern Nightmares 1400–2020”, funded by the Academy of Finland, studies nightmare experiences and the ways in which they have been narrated among populations in Finland. The project explores the circumstances and situations that have been seen as causing nightmares, and attempts to contextualise historically and culturally the bad dreams that have been described in a wealth of different historical and folklore sources. Another important question is the thematic content of bad dreams: what do dream themes tell us about past cultures and the people living in them? Have the themes changed over the course of time, or do people living in the 21st century have similar nightmares as people who lived in Finland centuries ago?”
The research project QUEERDOM will investigate how women and men with same-sex desires – about whom we use the term ‘queer’ – lived and organized their everyday lives across a complex domestic terrain in ways that unsettles customary understandings of private life and family organization in modern Norway (1842–1972). These ‘queer domesticities’ will be investigated through the intersecting lenses of time, space, class, and gender.
One of our central hypothesis is that it was not until after WWII that Norway became truly immersed in the increasingly universal modern discourse on ‘sexuality’.
QUEERDOM shifts the focus of queer historical research firmly from the global metropolises to rural regions of Europe, from the cities to the rural districts, from the courtrooms and asylums to the mundane and everyday, and from activism to domesticity and intimacy. The project will highlight the changing dynamics of societal norms and expectations, change and stability, processes of exclusion as well as of inclusion through the period 1842–1972.