Cultural Perspectives on Threats, War and Security
This transdisciplinary course provides you with the tools to interpret and critically interrogate how issues of threat, war and security politics are manifested in the cultural sphere.
This course aims to offer a historical overview of the emergence of the “apocalypse” as a specific religious category and as a distinct literary genre.
The course provides knowledge about how environments and remnants of 20th century Sweden and Europe today are re-interpreted and used for new purposes.
How did practitioners of learned magic in the late Middle Ages think they could summon spiritual beings and how did they believe they could create safe spaces for interactions with these beings? These are a couple of the research questions that Andrea Franchetto answers in his recently published thesis "Rituals of perceptual presence".