Events at Circus

Circus is a program for finding new pathways for developing cross-cutting research collaborations, to stimulate innovative research by facilitating new patterns of collaboration.

We arrange events that are all distinctly multi-, inter-, or trans-disciplinary with a focus on developing collaborations within the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uppsala University. We also provide support to research teams to organise and conduct workshops and conferences.

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Autumn 2023

Symposium 2023 - Undisciplined Explorations

CIRCUS fifth interdisciplinary symposium!
Undisciplined Explorations: Celebrating Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge-Making about Culture and Society at Uppsala University

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Reading and discussing Boym’s The future of Nostalgia

The research network Heritage Transformation invite you to a seminar where we read parts of Svetlana Boym’s book The future of Nostalgia.

Reading and discussing Boym’s The future of Nostalgia part II

Research network Heritage transformations invites you to a seminar where we continue to read and discuss Boym’s book, part II

Historisk rättvisa i högstadiets historieundervisning: Elevperspektiv på de svenska romernas historia och mänskliga rättigheter

Uppsala universitet bjuder in till en öppen seminarieserie om rasism och förändringsarbete i förskola och skola.

Climate, Environment and Food connections – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Societal Resilience

This interdisciplinary workshop addresses drivers of climate and environmental change as well as societal responses towards these changes across time and space with a special focus on food production.

“Ett ständigt dåligt samvete” – Förskolepersonal tolkar diskrimineringslagen

Rasism i förskola och skola - seminarieserie höstterminen 2023 Föreläsare: Helena Hill, Södertörns högskola

Lärares derasifierande praktiker – Hur kan lärare tillvarata sina antirasistiska ambitioner i sitt arbete?

Uppsala universitet bjuder in till en öppen seminarieserie om rasism och förändringsarbete i förskola och skola. Föreläsare: Sara Nilsson Mohammadi, Malmö universitet

Spring 2023

Circus Interdisciplinary Summer School 2023

Possibilities, challenges & opportunities when engaging in cross-cutting research collaborations
In August CIRCUS offer an enriching three-day school where participants will have the opportunity to further develop their skills in cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Wednesday 16 August (start 08:30) to Friday 18 August (end 15:15).

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Circus i Almedalen: Hur kan forskning i samverkan med kultur och kreativa branscher bidra till en hållbar framtid?

I år håller vi ett panelsamtal på temat samverkan mellan forskning och kreativa branscher.

Plats: Sal B51, Campus Gotland
Tid: 29 juni, 16.00-17.00
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Fri entré – alla är välkomna

Circus' Traditional ”Interdisciplinary Garden Party” 2023

We all have some unfinished and half-baked ideas

- Do you want to share yours and engage with those of others?

Date: May 30, 15.00-16:30

Venue: the garden outside the Old Observatory, Kyrkogårdsgatan 8A

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Symposium: National Christianities in the Nordic Region: Past and Present

The Circus' Network Historical Study of National Christianities arrange a Nordic Symposium.

Democracies Erode from the Top - lecture by Larry Bartels

This is the second lecture in The Uppsala Lectures on Making Sense of Our Time - a cross-disciplinary lecture series in Humanistiska teatern.

Workshop: Migrationspolitik och demokrati

Att hantera migration, har alltid haft implikationer för samhällens karaktär och framtid. Dessa implikationer är dock olika i skilda politiska och historiska kontexter.

Applications to support the development of Cross-cutting research projects

Information meeting 8 March, 13:15–14:30 on Zoom

Migration Matters Screening:

The potential of digital storytelling for shifting migration narratives. Welcome to a film screening and interactive discussion regarding migration research.

The secret of Valsgärde seaxes (shortswords) explored

Welcome to a kick-off event and lecture where we introduce the new UTHN network.

Maintenance, ethnography and heritage transformations

This workshop approach studying heritage transformations through ethnographic research with a special focus on maintenance.

Nothing happened - absence, gaps and ignorance in the histories of heritage

This workshop invites you to continue to think about the meaning of absence, gaps and ignorance in the histories of heritage.

Towards a Political Economy of Technical Systems

Welcome to a seminar with Bernhard Rieder, Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam, and a collaborator with the Digital Methods Initiative.

Future(s) and heritage transformations

The CIRCUS' network Heritage Transformations invites to a workshop where we discuss the concept of future that is so prevalent in heritage practices and in heritage discourses.

Thinking Wildly with Jack Halberstam

This symposium invites scholars to a conversation about the state and future of queer studies and the role of Jack Halberstam’s work in the field in general and in relation to their own research.

The symbiotic relationship between statistical and empirical research

Are you using statistical methods in your research? Are you curious about the role of statistics in cross-cutting research collaborations? Welcome to this Circus' seminar.

Autumn 2022

Narrative and/as Heritage - A Heritage Transformations workshop

Workshop around Nigel Walter’s 2020 book Narrative Theory in Conservation: Change and Living Buildings,

Socio-Hydrogeology and the power of transdisciplinary sciences

Socio-hydrogeology has been proposed as a new approach targeted to the assessment of the reciprocity between people and groundwater.

Arts-based Research and Creative Research Methodologies

A lecture by Dr. Sarah Sartori, Maynooth University, Irland

Online Inauthentic Coordinated Behavior: Background, theory, and applications

Welcome to a seminar with Luca Rossi, Associate Professor Digital Design, IT University Copenhagen.

Free - Coming of Age at the End of History – lecture by Lea Ypi

This is the first lecture in The Uppsala Lectures in Making Sense of Our Time - a cross-disciplinary lecture series in Humanistiska teatern.

En skola utan rymlighet: ungdomars upplevelser av rasism i skolan

Fjärde seminariet i en öppen seminarieserie om rasism och förändringsarbete i förskola och skola.

Uses and abuses of baroque music - A Heritage Transformations seminar

Against the background of radical aesthetics of reception, suggesting that the meaning of a particular musical artifact is nothing but the complex sum of historically associated meanings.

Situating anxiety - Perspectives on a dreaded emotion

For the past two years, an interdisciplinary network has been discussing the many facets of anxiety. Now, we invite you to an open symposium on this dreaded – but perhaps misunderstood – emotion.

Förekomst av och orsaker till diskriminering vid skolval: resultat från ett fältexperiment

Circus-nätverk Rasism och diskriminering i den svenska förskolan och skolan bjuder in till digitala seminarier under hösten.

Symposium 2022 - Conducting Research Together

Unpacking Erasure: On the Promise and Challenges of an Elusive Object of Study

While collecting has received a vast amount of attention over the past few decades, the notion of erasure—that is, the deleting, removal, destruction of material, whether conscious or otherwise—has mostly remained in the shadows.

Rasism mot samer i skolan - Erfarenheter och strategier

Circus-nätverk Rasism och diskriminering i den svenska förskolan och skolan bjuder in till digitala seminarier under hösten.

Spatialities of Uppsala’s upper secondary schools - Seminar and vernissage

A vernissage of the photo exhibition Spatialities of Uppsala’s upper secondary schools will take place in collaboration with CIRCUS seminar series Interdisciplinary possibilities, practices and challenges – an exploratory seminar series.

In this workshop, we discuss Celia Lury’s book on the idea of problem spaces and how it can help us develop interdisciplinary research methods.

Barns perspektiv på svensk vardagsrasism

Circus-nätverk Rasism och diskriminering i den svenska förskolan och skolan bjuder in till digitala seminarier under hösten.

Första forskarträff för nätverket Uppsala Human Rights Research Network

Human Rights Research Network är ett nätverk som är till för de forskare vid universitetet som bedriver forskning om mänskliga rättigheter.

Circus' Interdisciplinary Summer School

In August offered we at CIRCUS an enriching three-day school where participants will have the opportunity to further develop their skills in cross-disciplinary collaborations.

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Spring 2022

Democracy under duress: how to defend and revitalize it?

What is the main threat to democracy today, and how can it be defended and revitalised anew? Welcome to a public event at the Humanities Theatre where we will address these issues with the help of three distinguished scholars in the field.

Date: 18 May, 14:30–16:30
Location: Humanistiska teatern
Organiser: Sofia Näsström/Marianne & Marcus Wallenbergprojektet "Demokratiskt självförsvar", CIRCUS and Programmet Demokrati and Högre Utbildning.

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Researcher and speakers

Sheri Berman
Jan-Werner Müller
Nadia Urbinati

The event will be chaired by Jenny Andersson
Introductory comments: Sofia Näsström.

Circus’ annual “Interdisciplinary Garden Party” - Thursday 2 June

Circus’ annual “Interdisciplinary Garden Party” is a place to mingle and take part in activities. The garden party is for researchers and others at Uppsala university who are involved in, or curious about, cross-cutting research collaborations.

Date: 2 June, 15:30–17:00
Location: The Observatory Park Kyrkogårdsgatan 8A

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Welcome!

Platser för bildning

FEMTE SEMINARIET I SERIEN ”BILDNINGENS NYA VÄGAR”

Tid: fredagen den 20 maj kl. 13.15-16.00 (inklusive fikapaus)
Plats: Geijersalen, Engelska parken hus 6, vån. 1
Detta seminarium utforskar samband mellan bildning och hälsa.

Inbjudna gäster:

Jan Larsson, läkare och docent i anestesiologi
Merete Mazzarella, professor emerita i nordisk litteratur vid Helsingfors universitet
Torsten Pettersson, professor i litteraturvetenskap vid Uppsala universitet och skönlitterär författare
Anders Rosengren, läkare och professor i molekylär medicin, Göteborgs universitet
Birgitta Wistrand, författare, forskare och feminist

Anmälan: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/55033
Seminarieserien arrangeras med stöd från Uppsala Forum för Demokrati, Fred och Rättvisa & CIRCUS.

Varmt välkomna!
Alexandra Borg & Julie Hansen
alexandra.borg@nordiska.uu.se
julie.hansen@moderna.uu.se

Groundwater Research - Making the Invisible Visible - World Water Day 2022 Symposium

Jenny Grönwall, PhD, Advisor at Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
“Our common groundwater: from household arrangements to peace-building agreements” (in English)

Lars Rosén, PhD, Professor in Engineering Geology at Chalmers University of Technology
“Grundvatten – från doldis till huvudroll i samhället” (in Swedish)
Time: March 22, 15.00-17.00
Place: Universitetshuset, sal IV

Welcome!

Autumn 2021

Debating Research Together

Explorations in the excellence and shoddiness in how we in academia engage in cross-cutting scholarly debates

Circus' annual Symposium - 6-7 December

Venue: Humanities Theatre, Uppsala University

The aim of Circus’ third annual symposium is to explore the qualities of debate, discussion and exchange in research and in public debates.

Day 1: Debating Research Together

Day 2: Should we just accept this dismal state of public debate? Or can academia constructively contribute to improve on the present societal condition?

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Day 1 Confirmed speakers

Karen Tracy, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lambros Roumbanis, Stockholm University
Marie Cronqvist, Lund University
Ulrike Schnaas, Uppsala University
Alex Csiszar, Harvard University
Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Uppsala University

Interdisciplinary possibilities, practices and challenges – an exploratory seminar series

The aim of the seminar series is to expand our collaborative understanding of different aspects of performing interdisciplinary research. The series is meant to be a collectively maintained venue for discussing the practices, challenges, and opportunities with cross-disciplinary research endeavours.

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Spring 2021

Upcoming calls from the Swedish Research Council - what can we expect from the Government’s research bill?

The new research bill contains several new strategic initiatives relevant for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The new initiatives have headings such as “Democracy and strong society”, “National research programme in the consequences of digitalisation”, “Cyber and information security”, and “Educational boost – reinforcement of humanities”.

Circus' Traditional ”Interdisciplinary Garden Party” - 3 June 2021

At our Garden Party, you get the opportunity to mingle between different areas in the garden. Choose one or visit them all!

Scholarly personae at work - in media, culture and the office next door
This part of the garden turns any self-centredness into a curiosity about academic identities. Come as you are or whoever you want to be!
Meet our Circus' Networks There are currently some 150 researchers involved in our 16 networks at Circus. Take the opportunity to meet some of them in person.
Magic show - Johan (winner of Talang) is back again with a new fantastic show, learn a trick to impress your friends. You don’t want to miss this.
Circus' Antiques Zoom Show - share your desktop favourite item or object from your research. Things close to you but never mentioned in your acknowledgements.
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Fromt the Autumn 2020

Career – Academic Housekeeping and its Effect on Interdisciplinary Early-Career Development

Welcome to Circus' seminar series: Interdisciplinary possibilities, practices and challenges.

Leadership – Lessons from Editing Cross-Disciplinary Scholarly Collections

Welcome to Circus' seminar series: Interdisciplinary possibilities, practices and challenges.

Career - Interdisciplinarity and the craft of writing and publishing

Welcome to Circus' seminar series: Interdisciplinary possibilities, practices and challenges.

Interdisciplinarity and the academic seminar

Welcome to Circus' seminar series: Interdisciplinary possibilities, practices and challenges.

Leadership – Building and Forging an Inter- or Multi-Disciplinary Team

Welcome to Circus' seminar series: Interdisciplinary possibilities, practices and challenges.