Research group Forum Modernism
Forum Modernism at Stockholm University is an association for researchers whose work in some way concerns modernism, both through studies of its various mainstream and marginalized expressions, and through critical examinations of the concept as such.
![Paul Cézanne, Les Grandes Baigneuses](/polopoly_fs/1.610956.1651728511!/image/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/widescreen_690/image.jpeg)
Group description
The objective is to be an interdisciplinary network for dialogue, ideas, events, and publications, while also highlighting the strong position of modernist research at Stockholm University.
Traditionally, modernism has been described as an aesthetic reaction against the social, scientific, religious, psychological, political, and economic changes of modernity. The term has been used to refer to works and practices that respond to what is perceived as a world and a time marked by disintegration and rootlessness. Historically, research typically sought to understand modernism as a specific period that culminated during the first decades of the 20th century. However, as a result of interrogations of Eurocentric perceptions of modernity, thinking of modernism as a phenomenon exclusively related to the social developments of Western Europe has become increasingly untenable.
Today, the spectrum of meanings carried by the term is both wider and vaguer, and it is continually adapted to global and transnational contexts as well as to inter-aesthetic renegotiations of the identities of different artforms. ‘Modernism’ no longer refers restrictively to the specifically Western highbrow culture that was for a long time considered its fundament, and the development of the term would seem to correspond to the internal premises of modernism, which are characterized by an exploration of the multiple, unstable, and precarious limits of the human and of art.
As the dynamic field of modernist studies expands, it becomes increasingly difficult to overlook and evaluate. In response, Forum Modernism assembles scholars from a broad range of disciplines and specializations in order to exchange knowledge and ideas and to keep each other up to date with developments within research on modernism.
Group members
Group managers
Axel Englund
Professor
![Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Axel Englund](/polopoly_fs/1.631434.1665601350!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Maria Trejling
PhD student
![Maria Trejling](/polopoly_fs/1.632933.1666413182!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Members
Krzysztof Bak
Professor
![Krzysztof Bak. Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Krzysztof Bak](/polopoly_fs/1.646075.1675773595!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Helena Bodin
Professor
![Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Helena Bodin](/polopoly_fs/1.631641.1665661827!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Toivo Burlin
Senior lecturer, associate professor
![Toivo Burlin 2016. Toivo Burlin 2016.](/polopoly_fs/1.277348.1502783824!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Jacob Derkert-Rosenberg
Senior lecturer
![Jacob Derkert-Rosenberg. Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Jacob Derkert-Rosenberg](/polopoly_fs/1.455834.1569566650!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Karolina Enquist Källgren
Senior lecturer, associate professor
![Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Karolina Enquist Källgren](/polopoly_fs/1.633155.1674726882!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Julia Fernelius
PhD student
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Santi Luca Famà
Ph.D. student
![Santi Picture](/polopoly_fs/1.485286.1581710364!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Arne Florin
Senior lecturer
![ArneFlorin](/polopoly_fs/1.566394.1628598922!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Carin Franzén
Professor
![Carin Franzén. Carin Franzén](/polopoly_fs/1.518320.1601016271!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Ellen Frödin
Postdoc
![Ellen Frödin](/polopoly_fs/1.579925.1635278239!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Karin Grelz
Samverkansrådgivare
![porträtt KG](/polopoly_fs/1.719693.1709646865!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Ingemar Haag
Professor
![Ingemar Haag. Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Ingemar Haag framför en vägg med bokhyllor.](/polopoly_fs/1.464104.1574350386!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Hans Hayden
Professor
![Hans Hayden](/polopoly_fs/1.27460.1320940898!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Hanna Henryson
Senior lecturer
![Hanna Henryson](/polopoly_fs/1.647091.1676384980!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Markus Huss
Universitetslektor, Docent
![Markus Huss](/polopoly_fs/1.395674.1534239355!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Hedvig Härnsten
PhD student
![Hedvig Härnsten, doktorand i litteraturvetenskap](/polopoly_fs/1.74647.1328515172!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Anna Jörngården Galili
Senior lecturer, associate professor
![Anna Jörngården](/polopoly_fs/1.401530.1647540060!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Johan Klingborg
Research Officer
![Johan Klingborg. Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Johan Klingborg](/polopoly_fs/1.646016.1675758495!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Andrea Kollnitz
Professor
![Andrea Kollnitz](/polopoly_fs/1.461004.1572518714!/image/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpeg)
Tora Lane
Universitetslektor
![Tora Lane](/polopoly_fs/1.691911.1700473518!/image/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpeg)
Roland Lysell
Professor emeritus
![Roland Lysell](/polopoly_fs/1.287994.1466587821!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Caroline Merkel
Universitetslektor
![ImageMerkel](/polopoly_fs/1.293784.1472127949!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Catharina Nolin
Professor
![Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Catharina Nolin](/polopoly_fs/1.631510.1665601213!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Anna Näslund
Professor
![Photo: Patrick Miller portrait anna dahlgren](/polopoly_fs/1.551150.1618599193!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Alice Pick Duhan
Postdoctoral researcher
![Alice Duhan](/polopoly_fs/1.626284.1663139145!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Irina Rasmussen
Associate Professor (Docent)
![Irina Rasmussen photo](/polopoly_fs/1.599089.1645197632!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Fredrik Renard
PhD, Postdoc
![Fredrik renard](/polopoly_fs/1.635840.1668672207!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Sofia Roberg
Postdoc
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Torbjörn Måtte Schmidt
PhD student
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Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
Professor
![Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe](/polopoly_fs/1.631787.1665689280!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Maria Wahlström
Director of studies
![Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Maria Wahlström](/polopoly_fs/1.631673.1665664829!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Giles Whiteley
Professor
![Giles Whiteley](/polopoly_fs/1.575471.1632923837!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Martin Wiklund
Senior lecturer, associate professor
![Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Martin Wiklund](/polopoly_fs/1.631648.1665662357!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)