Jonas Mattsson |
Research & Progress Foundation |
Publication of the journal Forskning & Framsteg, digital and print in 2025 |
Other |
2024 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Research & Progress monitors research and research results and the role of research in society. The topics and research results covered must be relevant to society and individuals in society. Forskning & Framsteg's science journalism and popular science is at the forefront of knowledge, is educational, always deserves high credibility and is done with the reader in focus. By covering research and research achievements, the magazine will help to strengthen democracy and increase people's knowledge in society at large. |
Urban Lundberg |
The journal Respons |
Respons magazine - Review journal for the humanities and social sciences |
Other |
2024 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Respons is a politically independent and interdisciplinary journal that focuses on reviewing non-fiction in Swedish, including translations, in the humanities and social sciences. Our ambition is to maintain an important part of the infrastructure of the Swedish public sphere and to give the interested public the opportunity to survey and evaluate the publication of non-fiction. Our expert writers, mainly academic experts, review around 150 books annually. Respons has established itself as a leading journal for discussing and disseminating research in the humanities and social sciences, and is thus an important platform for universities to engage with the wider community. The journal also serves as a nursery by offering researchers at Swedish universities and colleges opportunities to develop the ability to communicate their knowledge in Swedish to a wider readership, at a time when what is rewarded in academia is to publish their results in English in specialized journals that often only reach those already familiar with the subject. The journal thus offers a Swedish forum where academics can have their research recognized and critically discussed, and where they can follow publications both in their own field and in other research disciplines. Respons also provides continuous training and an overview of the latest in non-fiction research and publishing to groups outside our universities, such as teachers, librarians and policy makers at various levels.
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Lin Annerbäck |
Medieval Museum |
Riddarholm Church's founders' graves - Magnus Ladulås project |
Other |
2024 |
Amount granted: SEK 175 000
Between 2011 and 2018, the Magnus Ladulås project carried out investigations in the founders' graves of Riddarholm Church. The original aim was to further verify the results of investigations carried out in Varnhem Abbey Church in 2002, where three skeletons were attributed to the historical figures Birger Jarl, Duke Erik and Queen Mechtild. Birger Jarl's son Magnus Ladulås is supposed to be buried in Riddarholm Church, and it was generally believed that the location of his grave was found in 1915. It turned out that the conclusions drawn after the 1915-1918 investigations were based on incorrect premises and that the graves did not contain the remains of Magnus Ladulås and his family. Instead, the Magnus Ladulås project shed light on an exciting part of 15th century history. It is clear that the two barrows have a common history and that they must be interpreted as part of a linked sequence of events. The project has shed light on issues such as how the choir was used for burials during the monastic period, which individuals were buried there and the relationship between the royal power and the Grey Friars. The results will now be published in a comprehensive scientific publication in the Stockholm City Museum's report series. |
Ove Bring |
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Sweden's alliances through 200 years. Neutrality's repeated farewell |
Other |
2024 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The subject is Swedish foreign policy history, from 1810 to Sweden's membership of NATO in 2024. This period is often cited as a period of non-alignment and neutrality to which we have now said goodbye. Since the short war against Norway in 1814, which resulted in the establishment of the Swedish-Norwegian Union, Sweden has been able to enjoy peace, but the manuscript in question argues that the thesis that we have left behind a period of 200 years of non-alignment and neutrality is simplified, not entirely correct and thus somewhat misleading. The author shows how the period provides several examples of non-alignment and conscious non-neutrality. This applies above all to the 19th century, which for a while was characterized by Scandinavian solidarity currents, but it also applies to the 20th century, where Oscar I's so-called November Treaty of 1855 with two Western powers continued to apply on paper until 1908. After that, Sweden was neutral during the First World War, but when the League of Nations (NF) was created, Sweden declared itself ex-neutral together with other states. Until 1936, we were part of an alliance of collective security. However, the credibility of Denna and the NF collapsed after Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia.
During the Finnish Winter War of 1939-40, Sweden opted out of neutrality to show solidarity with its neighbor. During the 1990-91 Kuwait War, Sweden was part of the UN alliance against Saddam's Iraq. The process towards NATO membership concludes the script, which fills a gap in the foreign policy literature. |
Tomas Tullberg |
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Monarchies in turmoil - from the perspective of Princess Ingeborg |
Other |
2024 |
Amount granted: SEK 80 000
The application is for a printing grant for a popular biography of Princess Ingeborg (1878-1958) and her family. She was born a princess of Denmark and married Swedish Prince Carl, brother of Gustaf V. She was very well known during her lifetime but is today completely forgotten. However, many people know about her daughters, Queen Astrid of Belgium and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway, about whom a number of books have been written. However, no one has written about Princess Ingeborg before.
The book spans several eras and countries, as Princess Ingeborg's brothers and cousins were monarchs in Norway, Denmark, England, Russia and Greece. Many letters and diary entries have never been published before, such as extracts from Tsar Nicholas II's diary during his famous state visit to Stockholm in 1909. Princess Ingeborg was closely associated with the dissolution of the Union, and her husband was long intended to be the new King of Norway, but it was her brother, Prince Carl of Denmark, who became King of Norway instead. During the First World War, most of Ingeborg's Russian relatives were murdered, and during the Second World War her children and grandchildren in Denmark, Norway and Belgium were forced to flee in dramatic circumstances or remain under German occupation. Princess Ingeborg herself was an active anti-Nazi and worked for the British resistance movement SOE. The book is based on extensive source research in various royal archives in Europe and on interviews with Princess Ingeborg's grandchildren. |
Mia Skott |
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Extension: The archive journey that became an artist portrait: Anna Maria Thelott |
Other |
2024 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
How can the engraver, illustrator and painter Anna Maria Thelott's driving forces, actions and opportunities on the art scene at the beginning of the 18th century be explained, and how do you find and interpret sources to formulate the answers? This is the question that historian Mia Skott explores with source pluralism and a microhistorical approach in this project. The aim of the resulting book is to contribute deeper and more nuanced knowledge to the collective memory and the state of research, and to show how to find and interpret sources to increase public understanding and utilization of cultural heritage.
Anna Maria Thelott was Sweden's, today known and documented by Mia Skott, first female professional engraver, a career she began at the age of fourteen. She produced more than 50 woodcuts, which were printed in, among others, Johan Peringskiöld's works and postal journals between 1706 and 1710. She was also Sweden's, today known and documented by Mia Skott, first female art teacher. Preliminary results show that her activities and strategies bore several similarities to her male competitors.
In her teaching, Anna Maria used a unique sketchbook with over eighty drawings and paintings, preserved at Uppsala University Library. In her own interpretations of established motifs and self-portraits, she conveys professional pride and individual artistry. Symbolically, she also expresses a desire to be inscribed in history, which is a powerful metaphor and driving force for the completion of the project. |
Jan Mispelaere |
National Archives Stockholm |
Through water, fire and earth. Field office papers, 1708-1720 |
Other |
2024 |
Amount granted: SEK 291 000
For more than eighteen years, the Royal Chancellery followed King Charles and his staff wherever they went. During the Great Northern War, the Field Chancellery was not only responsible for the archives and for contacts with foreign envoys and foreign powers, but it was assigned a number of special tasks. It functioned as a foreign ministry in the field with expanded powers. This became even more evident after the Battle of Poltava, when it was in the Ottoman Empire. In Bender, where the Swedes and their allies had retreated, new international treaties were drawn up. The famous Bender Constitution was written there and ratified by Charles XII in a royal proclamation. In it, the King and the hetman Philip Orlik promised to fight for an 'independent state' and the 'freedoms and rights of the Ukrainian people'. In addition to the huge losses in terms of human suffering caused by the war, many material assets were destroyed, as well as countless piles of irreplaceable documentation and correspondence. After arriving in Bender in 1709, diplomats, field clerks and bookkeepers had to establish new field archives. Through recently completed archaeological analyses of the soil particles left on the field office documents and the results of careful studies of primary sources, we can now recreate the history of our common cultural heritage. The studies contribute to the understanding of the early modern state formation in both Sweden and Ukraine. Funding is sought to write two articles on the extensive results of the studies. |
Roger Eliasson |
Aeroseum Foundation |
Workstations showing how electricity is produced |
Other |
2024 |
Amount granted: SEK 192 000
The Aeroseum aeronautical experience center in Gothenburg, located in a mountain hangar 30 m underground, has for many years been conducting curriculum-based school activities under the guidance of employed educators. The aim is to use the exhibits, airplanes, helicopters and other aircraft to create a greater understanding and interest in science and technology among visitors. In 2022, the decision was taken to develop part of the area on top of the Aeroseum mountain by building an aviation experience park where visitors are trained in problem solving, teamwork and motor skills, using various workstations. The facility has the working name "Höjdpunkten". This initiative also includes Aeroseum's school program where applicable. Aeroseum is now seeking funding for the construction of two new workstations at Höjdpunkten where we show how electricity is produced.
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Annelie Nitenberg |
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Appeasing the gods - new basic exhibition on sacrifice in ancient times |
Other |
2024 |
Amount granted: SEK 490 000
For a number of centuries during the Iron Age, from shortly after the year 0 to the end of the 5th century, objects, animals and even people were sacrificed in a wetland by the river Lidan at Finnestorp in Västergötland. But on repeated occasions over a two-hundred-year period, between 350 and 550, spoils of war were also sacrificed in the wetland. Beautiful and skillfully crafted objects made of bronze with silver and gold coatings from the battle equipment of the Migration Period have been found there. In a new exhibition, the Museum of Västergötland wants to showcase the amazing finds to the public and also explain them and put them in context. Although sacrifice as an act throughout prehistory will be touched upon through various features and examples in the exhibition, it is the finds from Finnestorp that will form the centerpiece.
Visitors to the museum will be able to take part in exciting stories from the past involving the sacrifice of people, animals and things in wetlands, on sacred mountains and in more everyday contexts in people's homes. The relationship between humans and animals will also be addressed. In ancient times, the boundary between humans and animals could be fluid. Stories and depictions show transgressive representations of humans, gods and animals. Animals played a very important role in people's lives in everyday situations as well as in socio-political and religious/ritual contexts, and this part of the exhibition will highlight the latter aspect in particular. |
Roger Eliasson |
Aeroseum Foundation |
Development of educational and experiential school and museum activities. |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The Aeroseum aeronautical experience center in Gothenburg, located in a mountain hangar 30 m underground, has for many years been conducting curriculum-based school activities under the guidance of employed educators. The aim is to use the exhibits, airplanes, helicopters and other aircraft to create a greater understanding and interest in science and technology among the visiting students. In 2022, the decision was taken to exploit part of the area on top of the Aeroseum mountain by building an adventure park where visitors are trained in problem solving, teamwork and motor skills, using different workstations. So far, two workstations have been acquired - a rope course and an obstacle course. The Aeroseum now intends to acquire additional items in the form of a fall protection mat covered in artificial grass to be applied under the workstations to allow up to 85 cm falls without injury. |
Jonas Mattsson |
Research and Progress Foundation |
Publication of the journal Forskning & Framsteg in 2024 |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 80 000
Forskning & Framsteg reports on research and research results and on the role of research in society. The topics and research results covered must be of interest to society and individuals in society. Forskning & Framsteg's science journalism and popular science are at the forefront of knowledge, are educational, always deserve high credibility and are done with the reader in focus. By reporting on research and research achievements, the magazine will help to strengthen democracy and increase people's knowledge in society at large. |
Anna Hamberg |
Uppsala University |
The University House in Uppsala. Construction, design and use |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 55 000
The time had finally come, with just two months to go before the inauguration of Uppsala University House. The final year had been waited for until the very last moment to be written on the inscription board on the south-west facade of the building: constructed during the reign of Oscar II in accordance with a royal and parliamentary decision, this building was inaugurated for Uppsala University in 1887. The new University House was to be a palace of education or wisdom, as representative as those of other European universities, and to a large extent it is the same building environment we still encounter today. The building has a special status as one of the few well-preserved and coherent environments in Sweden from the 1880s in terms of architecture, decorative painting, art and furniture, and which is also used for its original purpose, namely academic ceremonies and everyday life.
The University House was built during a time when its design and aesthetics have historically been criticized already in the present, but especially with the advent of modernism. This means that it has not been researched to the same extent as other eras. The thesis is thus a contribution to the expansive history of institutional construction in the second half of the 19th century through an in-depth study of a specific building project. In addition, the thesis work has enabled the necessary conservation measures of an unusual drawing material that will be published for the first time. |
Urban Lundberg |
The journal Respons |
Respons magazine - Review journal for the humanities and social sciences |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 80 000
Respons is a politically independent and interdisciplinary journal that focuses on reviewing non-fiction in Swedish, including translations, in the humanities and social sciences. Our ambition is to maintain an important part of the infrastructure of the Swedish public sphere and to give the interested public the opportunity to survey and evaluate the publication of non-fiction. Our expert writers, mainly academic experts, review around 150 books annually. Respons has established itself as a leading journal for discussing and disseminating research in the humanities and social sciences, and is thus an important platform for universities to engage with the wider community. Respons also functions as a nursery in that it offers researchers at Swedish universities and colleges opportunities to develop the ability to communicate their knowledge in Swedish to a wider readership, at a time when what is rewarded in academia is to publish their results in English in specialized journals that often only reach those already familiar with the subject. The journal thus offers a Swedish forum where academics can have their research recognized and critically discussed, and where they can follow publications both in their own field and in other research disciplines. Respons also provides continuous training and an overview of the latest in non-fiction research and publishing to groups outside our universities, such as teachers, librarians and policy makers at various levels.
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Peter Lindström |
Umeå University |
The relationship between Sweden and Turkey in historical perspective |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 549 000
In October 2022, Sweden's Prime Minister traveled to Ankara to try to persuade Turkey's leaders to approve Sweden's NATO application. The visit highlighted the long history of alliance building between the two nations. As a gift to the Turkish leader, the Swedish delegation brought a copy of the Treaty of Alliance concluded between Sweden and Turkey in December 1739. The history of the negotiations behind the treaty and Sweden's previous relationship with Turkey is largely unwritten. At the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the relevant translation of the treaty and information about the diplomatic negotiations leading up to the treaty could be handed over by the project leader to the delegation. This project aims to fill the current knowledge gap about the relationship between Sweden and Turkey from a historical perspective.
The study has two main objectives: One objective is to contribute to new knowledge about the background, purpose, implementation and results of the 1730s negotiations. The second goal is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the patterns of values and attitudes that were expressed during the negotiations, i.e. what the analysis says about the prevailing political culture - with a particular focus on the importance of trust at the actor level. Project funding is sought for the processing of already collected source material and the completion of a monograph. This is expected to take one year. |
Gullög Nordquist |
Swedish Humanist Association |
Svenska Humanistiska Förbundet årsskrift 147 Tellström, History of food culture |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 65 000
The book aims to give an 800-year overview of our Swedish food culture, from the moment we leave our mothers' breasts and eat the first piece of cultural food. There we start a lifelong food cultural process to be part of the group we want to be part of. Like all food culture in the world, the food and drink in our glasses tells us about the people and the values we like and want to share. A raw material cannot become a food until it has received our stamp of approval. Behind every dish and flavor there is a cultural and historical background. This book aims to provide the reader interested in food and history with that background, a food-historical "laundry line of ideas" stretching from the 13th century to our own time, where we can hang the right food expression in the right place and also ponder from which laundry basket we picked the food expression - from New York, London, Paris or more exotic places. Food culture can and should be approached in the same way that other cultural historians have tried to understand literature, music, art, theater, fashion. We are all part of a food culture, perhaps several. There is no individual food culture - it is always collective. The harsh conditions of our climate have deeply influenced our food culture. It is based on raw materials from a relatively short growing season that must last the whole year. Over time, technological developments, such as the iron stove, and food culture ideals have pushed against each other and food culture has been built up with eating habits and food choices from cultures that Swedes look up to. |
Fabian Arnhem |
Army Museum |
Sweden and Ukraine - where paths crossed |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 500 000
Since February 24, 2022, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is ongoing. News of the fighting dominates Swedish media. As a consequence, Sweden has applied for NATO membership and new investments in national defense have been initiated. Swedish museums are working on export plans with renewed vigor, and issues of history and cultural heritage are higher on the agenda than they have been for years. What many people do not know is that there are exceptional objects from Ukraine in several museums and archives in Sweden. Strangely, these objects have never before been exhibited together in Sweden. Here is a unique opportunity to showcase and bring together historical artifacts of high relevance to research fields with touchpoints in both our history and the present.
The Army Museum and the National Archives are working together with the National History Museums, the Ukrainian Embassy and the National Museum of Ukrainian History during the Second World War to produce a joint exhibition with the aim of spreading knowledge about the historical links between Sweden and Ukraine and thus problematizing the telling of history during war and conflict. The research collaboration is also an important support to Ukraine to strengthen cultural heritage institutions and assist in their resilience during ongoing war. It also develops our national knowledge on the protection of cultural heritage in war and strengthens the ability to collaborate with cultural heritage institutions in other countries.
The societal relevance of the exhibition is very high and its implementation is urgent. |
Ingemar Oskarsson |
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Visiting Sweden in the age of great power |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 30 000
The project concerns the publication of a book, "På besök i stormaktstidens Sverige", published by Natur & Kultur. In the book, I recount and comment on the travel accounts from the 17th century left by a total of eleven French-speaking visitors to Sweden, ten French and one Swiss, and which in several cases have never before received attention in Swedish research. Together, these accounts provide a detailed, partly new and in-depth picture of Sweden at the time and of how conditions were perceived by travelers from a country that, regardless of religious differences, was a political ally.
"A Visit to Sweden in the Age of Great Power" is also in many ways a continuation and expansion of my book "The Journey of the French Chamberlain", which was published in 2013 with substantial support from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. Nearly forty illustrations, some of which have rarely or never been reproduced in historical literature, contribute to the understanding of the text. They should be reproduced in the best possible technical quality, and my application is for a contribution to ensuring good image reproduction. |
Mats Malm |
The Swedish Academy |
Anniversary edition of the Swedish Academy's dictionary |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 500 000
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Gunnel Lindelöv |
T Carlsson Bokförlag |
Maja Sjöström - Swedish textile pioneer |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Maja Sjöström (1868-1961) came from humble beginnings in the countryside of Skåne, but succeeded at an early age in gaining admission to the new course in pattern drafting at the Technical School in Stockholm in 1889-1892. Thereafter, her work at Handarbetets vänner, Stockholm 1893-1916, for 24 years, was of great importance for the association's development into the leading textile studio in the Nordic region. Especially during the years 1897-1915, she became the most prominent artist there because of her innovation, the breadth and variety of patterns of high quality she designed. Sjöström created works for many private clients, for the Swedish royal family, for public environments such as the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the Swedish Medical Society, Stockholm City Hall, Sofia Church and Storkyrkan in Stockholm, as well as works for the many exhibitions in which Handarbetets Vänner participated, in Sweden and internationally.
Between 1916 and 1923, Sjöström was commissioned by architect Ragnar Östberg and the City Hall Committee to be responsible for the entire textile decoration of Stockholm City Hall, the largest textile commission of its time. Maja Sjöström was the only woman among all the men. After this commission, the artist moved to Rome, where she continued to work on private commissions and interior design projects. In 2023, it will be 100 years since Stockholm City Hall was inaugurated, and in 2024, the Friends of Needlework will celebrate its 150th anniversary, at least two good reasons in the near future to pay attention to Maja Sjöström's work again. |
Ann-Charlotte Hell |
Kungl. Musical Academies |
Music in military archives - not just military music |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 644 751
A large and, for most people, unknown treasure trove of Swedish music is hidden in the military archives. Today it is not only forgotten but also virtually inaccessible and we risk losing a large and important part of our musical heritage.
From the beginning of the 19th century until the middle of the last century, military musicians played a crucial role in Swedish musical life. Thanks to the music corps, many places around the country had a flourishing musical life and, alongside their service in the military, the musicians were of crucial importance to civilian musical life, where they often had a driving role. Many were also skilled composers who, in addition to marches and ceremonial music, also composed a lot of music for civilian contexts, from chamber music to orchestral works.
By establishing a database of the archives and creating an overview of the sheet music preserved in them, as well as publishing a number of new freely downloadable sheet music editions from this rich material, Living Music Heritage/Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien in collaboration with Försvarsmusiken wants to make the music available to musicians, music students, concert organizers, researchers and the music-interested public. In this way, it becomes a natural and living part of today's modern concert repertoire |
Stefan Günther |
Gunnebo Castle and Gardens |
Gunnebo Castle and the neoclassical villa's artistic program |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 400 000
When Gunnebo Castle was completed in 1796, it was one of the country's most lavish mansions, with architecture and decoration
inspired by the latest developments on the continent. The architecture followed different models than the
Stockholm-based, more researched, architecture. The decoration followed an artistic program, which in the years
1786-96 by the architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg and the Italian sculptor Gioacchino Frulli, and constitutes
one of the most significant decorative cycles of the second half of the 18th century in Sweden. Gunnebo's architect C.W. Carlberg
developed an independent design language in relation to the architects in Stockholm - but who were Carlberg's role models?
From the Renaissance onwards, complex iconographic programs - which celebrated the political, economic and
intellectual ambitions - formed the basis for the decoration of a building. These programs were developed in collaboration between
the client and his advisors, of which Gunnebo is a lavish example - but what was Gunnebo's artistic
program? Despite its importance, the background to one of the most prominent Swedish buildings of the 18th century is largely
unexplored. The aim of this project is to describe and analyze the architectural history of Gunnebo and the artistic
program behind its decorations based on an iconological and comparative study of contemporary
developments in Europe. The study will result in a monograph. The ambition is to publish a richly illustrated volume to increase knowledge of the site and its value. |
Kjell Bluckert |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The Swedish History Days is a non-profit organization, founded in 1993, which through annual conferences seeks to promote interest
in history and strengthen the importance of the subject. The regular meetings aim to create and maintain
contacts between representatives of historical research, museum and archive institutions, book publishers
school education and the general public interested in history, and are held in a different location each year (mostly in Sweden, but also in Finland, Germany and the Baltic countries, i.e. parts of historical Sweden). |
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Radiohjälpen - Children of the World. For Ukrainian children suffering from mental illness. |
Donation on the occasion of HM The Queen's 80th birthday |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
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The Crown Princess Couple Foundation |
Donation on the occasion of HRH Prince Daniel's 50th birthday |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
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Gunilla Linde Bjur |
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Architects and facades. Gothenburg 1850-1920 |
Other |
2023 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
The project concerns the reprint of the book "Architects and Facades. Göteborg 1850 - 1920 to which the foundation has previously contributed funds for research and printing. Part two of the book, "Women take place. Architects in 100 years, Gothenburg 1920 - 2020" is currently underway, also with support from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation.
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Nina Due |
Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg |
Donation to the Röhhska Museum in memory of Dr. h.c. Tomas Söderberg |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 5 000 000
Due to the former chairman of the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, phil.dr h.c.. Tomas Söderberg's many years of extensive contributions to the Foundation, the Foundation has decided to donate SEK 5 million to the Röhsska Museum in his memory.
The donation will enable the museum to develop its collection of Nordic design and craft objects through new acquisitions, thereby strengthening the research base in the field.
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Jonas Mattsson |
Research and Progress Foundation |
Publication of the journal Forskning & Framsteg in 2023 |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 60 000
The journal Forskning & Framsteg reports on research, research results and the role of research in society. The topics and research results that are highlighted should primarily be of interest to society and the individual in society. Forskning & Framsteg works at the forefront of knowledge, is general education, should always deserve high credibility and be made with the reader in focus. By reporting on research and research achievements, the magazine will contribute to strengthening democracy and increasing people's knowledge in society at large. |
Kay Glans |
The journal Respons |
Respons magazine - Review journal for the humanities and social sciences |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 60 000
Respons is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on reviewing non-fiction in Swedish, including translations, in the humanities and social sciences. Our ambition is to maintain an important part of the Swedish public infrastructure and give the interested public the opportunity to review and evaluate non-fiction publications. Our expert writers, mainly academic experts, review around 200 books annually. Respons has established itself as a leading journal for discussing and disseminating research in the humanities and social sciences and is thus an important platform for universities' interaction with society. The journal also functions as a nursery by offering researchers at Swedish universities and colleges opportunities to develop the ability to communicate their knowledge in Swedish to a wider readership, at a time when the reward in academia is to publish their results in English in specialized journals that often only reach the already familiar. In this way, the journal offers a Swedish forum where academics can have their research noticed and critically discussed, and where they can follow publications both in their own field and in other research disciplines. Respons also provides continuous training and an overview of the latest in research and non-fiction publishing to groups outside our universities, such as teachers, librarians and decision-makers at different levels. |
Petra Söderlund |
Swedish Society of Literature |
Text-critical publication of Olof von Dalin's Poetry 1751-1761 |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 225 000
The project application concerns the Swedish Literature Society's (SVS) publication of four volumes in the series Olof von Dalin's Collected Writings. The first volume of this text-critical edition was published in 2008 and so far nine volumes have been published: Poetry (up to and including 1750), Drama and Letters. The language pioneer Dalin has a unique position in Swedish literary history and more than 2 500 of his poems have been preserved. The poems testify to his remarkable skill in a variety of poetic genres and contexts, whether they are tributes to the royal family, funerals, politics, religion, philosophy, satire or simply nonsense. Many of his lyrics both reflected and developed a table or drinking song tradition, the existence of which has previously received little scholarly attention. Co-editor James Massengale's discovery that a significant proportion of Dalin's poems were performed as songs has already provided a new perspective on Dalin and his poetry.
The present application concerns volumes I:4-I:5 (text) and II:4-II:5 (commentary), containing poems from 1751 to 1761. The commentary presents a number of textual witnesses, variant readings, glosses and a musical commentary. The editors are Dr. Ingemar Carlsson, Prof. em. James Massengale, Gun Carlsson and Dr. Barbro Ståhle Sjönell, who have also published the already published volumes of Dalin's Collected Writings. SVS was founded in 1907 and aims to publish text-critical, i.e. scientific, editions of older Swedish fiction. |
Fedir Androshchuk |
State Historical Museums |
Sweden and Ukraine in museum collection history and exhibition narratives |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 608 000
The Russian invasion of Ukraine raised public concerns about not only the country's independence but also the established democratic world order. Vladimir Putin's distorted interpretation of historical sources and denial of Ukraine's independence provided the theoretical basis for the start of the war. In these circumstances, Ukrainian cultural heritage was threatened by both Putin's ideology and Russian missiles. Today, when Russian museums are used as an important instrument of colonial state propaganda, it is extremely important to examine the role of museums in the creation of local national identities and highlight their international and multicultural context. This project focuses on a comparative study of collection history in Swedish and Ukrainian history museums. Swedish museums hold archaeological artifacts and historical objects and documents of Ukrainian origin, some of which came to Sweden during the Viking Age, the early Middle Ages or the Reformation and constitute material evidence of contacts between the countries.
The main focus of the project is collection history based on Ukrainian objects in Swedish museums and Swedish (or more broadly, Nordic) objects in Ukrainian museum collections. The aim is to draw attention to and account for this material and explore how knowledge of the collections can influence national narratives in both countries. Another task is to elaborate some theoretical and methodological views that can help Swedish and Ukrainian museums to resist Russian state propaganda. |
Ninni Trossholmen |
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Partille mansion through the ages - cultural-historical considerations |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: 125 000 SEK
While other mansions in western Sweden appear to be fairly well documented, Partille Manor does not seem to have attracted the same attention. The origin and development of the manor over time and not least the varying ownership conditions, which in turn may have left their mark on the design of the building, its inherent atmosphere and life in the surrounding community, seems to be a fascinating story and very important to document and tell for posterity. A previously approved research project has shed new light on the unique cultural-historical character of Partille Manor, findings that will be published in printed form with the help of this grant. |
Olle Josephson |
Swedish Humanist Association |
Kristoffer Leandoer: The unfinished literature |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
Every year, the 2000 members of the Swedish Humanities Association receive a newly written book in the Swedish humanities. For 2023, a book is planned by the author and critic Kristoffer Leandoer with the preliminary title "Den oavslutade litteraturen. An essay on everything that was not finished". In eighteen chapters, the book takes on unfinished great works of Western literature - Leandoer gives several examples from different eras, such as Geoffrey Chaucer's famous Canterbury Tales (14th century), Edmund Spenser's verse epic The Faire Queen (16th century) and Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities (20th century) - if one thinks of these works as complete and finished.
Leandoer poses a number of questions that such a library might raise. Do works from different times and languages have anything in common? What do we mean by the word (or concept) "end"? Here Leandoer draws on international research in this area, such as Frank Kermode's well-known The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1967). Leandoer brings up a number of interesting aspects of unfinished literature, including what it does to its authors and how it relates to nothing less than life itself, specifically how we imagine its end or, alternatively, how we dream that it will never end. It also includes interesting aspects of the reading of literature - both how it has been read and how it wants to be read. |
Peter Fischer |
Association of Friends of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition |
Intercultural relations in the Bronze Age: the geographical dimension |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
The project intends to continue in the coming years the study of interregional contacts during the Bronze Age of Europe and neighboring cultures (ca. 1630-1150 BC). This will be done through the Söderberg expedition's excavations in the Cypriot trading metropolis of Hala Sultan Tekke.
In recent years, work has concentrated on the burial site which is exposed to destruction by agriculture and looting. Exploration with georadar and magnetometer shows that many tombs are only a few centimeters below the surface and are thus highly exposed. Based on the geophysical survey results, the most vulnerable graves will be located and carefully documented during the excavation.
One example is Tomb UU from the 15th century BC, which was discovered in spring 2022 when it was partially exposed by the plow. So far, 20 individuals and 141 complete objects, many of which were imported, have been found. The imports indicate extensive interregional contacts, which is in line with the main objective of the project. Currently, the expedition can report imported objects from the cemetery that confirm contacts with areas from Sardinia to Afghanistan and from the Baltic Sea to Nubia. The results have been reported in the international media.
As only a very limited part of the tomb could be uncovered in 2022, the excavation will continue in the coming seasons. In addition to advanced excavation techniques, sophisticated scientific analysis methods are also used. |
Joachim Östlund |
Lund University |
Swedish early modern Egyptology 1677 - 1739 |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 354 000
With the establishment of the College of Antiquities in Sweden in 1666, an ordinance on the preservation of ancient monuments was written to gain knowledge of Sweden's oldest history. The old Icelandic and Norwegian literature was also studied, until the activity slowed down around 1720. This project aims to draw attention to equally ambitious, but almost unknown, Swedish research on Egyptian antiquity during the same period. A central figure in this project was Charles XII, who commissioned the three orienteering expeditions during his exile in Bender. The expeditions started from Bender and consisted of chaplains and fortification officers of the Carolinian army. They also wrote treatises and several literary works on ancient Egypt during this period. As with the study of ancient remains in Sweden, the study of Egyptian artifacts put established knowledge in a new light. The exploration of monuments and ancient texts created - what I call - cracks in time due to discoveries that suggested that the history of the Egyptian dynasty was older than the biblical creation story. The purpose of this project is twofold: to define the form and content of early modern Swedish Egyptology and to analyze this knowledge in a contemporary historical perspective. The project will result in a book in Swedish for the public interested in history. The book will fill a gap in knowledge as it addresses a fascinating quest for knowledge about Egypt's ancient history long before the emergence of modern Egyptology in the 19th century. |
Dag Klackenberg |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2023 |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The Swedish History Days (DSH) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1993, which seeks to promote interest in history and strengthen the importance of the subject through annual conferences. The regular meetings aim to create and maintain contacts between representatives of historical research, museum and archive institutions, book publishers, school teachers and the public interested in history. The DSH is held every year in a new location, usually in Sweden but also in Finland, Germany and the Baltic countries, i.e. parts of historical Sweden. |
Susanna Oom |
Acta Konserveringscentrum |
Preservation of heritage textiles through wet cleaning. |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: 133 750 SEK
We accept students from the conservation program at the University of Gothenburg and also from foreign universities. The profession of conservator is interdisciplinary. It includes natural science, cultural history and not least practical knowledge of the materials you handle. We see it as an important part of our business to be able to receive conservators in training. It is a way for us to keep abreast of new research and new methods in conservation while contributing our experience.
In our work with conservation of cultural heritage textiles, wet cleaning is often an important part of the work process. To carry out wet cleaning in the best possible way, textile conservators rely on a specially made washing table. A washing table also provides us with opportunities for method development and for testing new cleaning methods. The grant enables the textile department to carry out the wet cleaning process in a professional manner, to carry out method development and ultimately to preserve our textile heritage. |
Brita Planck |
Västergötland Museum Foundation |
Bearers of gods - Finnestorp sacrificial site |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 25 000
Between Floby and Larv, a sacrificial site was found in 1902 in a wetland at Finnestorp. Repeated sacrifices have taken place here from the beginning of our era and 500 years later. The finds consist of skeletal parts of horses, sheep and pigs, as well as humans, but above all parts of metal objects from weapons and horse equipment.
There are various explanations as to why these items were placed in the bogs, but most commonly it is linked to cult, religion and sacrifice. Before being placed in the water, the objects were destroyed by bending or cutting them.
The research project "Victim Site Finnestorp" was carried out in two fieldwork rounds, a first phase in 2000-2004 and a second in 2008-2012. The first round includes almost 300 objects plus bone/horn material. Since 2021, the finds from Finnestorp have been at Västergötland Museum. Work is currently underway to catalog and preserve them. The idea is that the finds will form the backbone of a new basic exhibition. The project enables a preliminary study for the exhibition. |
Mia Skott |
Stockholm City Museum |
The archival journey that became an artist's portrait: Anna Maria Thelott (c1683-1710) |
Other |
2022 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
How does one achieve historical knowledge about a relatively unknown and little researched woman's artistic professional activity at the beginning of the 18th century, and what does this knowledge tell us about women's driving forces and scope of action on the art scene of the time? The question will be answered through this project and presented in a monograph. The aim is to contribute with in-depth and nuanced knowledge, and to show how to find and interpret sources, thereby encouraging others to take on similar projects.
As a result of the subordination and marginalization of women in the 17th and 18th centuries, existing research suggests that the opportunities for women to train and be active in the art scene were very limited. However, the painter and engraver Anna Maria Thelott (c.1683-1710) stands out. Her clients included Charles XII, Olof Rudbeck the Elder and Johan Peringskiöld. Until her death in 1710, she managed to support herself and her parents through her professional activities.
Despite these long-established facts, no one had previously researched her, largely because it was assumed that no relevant sources had been preserved. However, this changed ten years ago when Mia Skott discovered, for example, that Thelott had taught drawing, making her the first known female art teacher in Sweden. The project had to be shelved, but is now resumed with a microhistorical approach that builds on the one presented in Mia Skott's book Tapetmakerskor - Självständiga yrkeskvinnor i 1700-talets Stockholm. |
Jonas Mattsson |
Research & Progress Foundation |
Publication of the journal Forskning & Framsteg in 2022 |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 60 000
The journal Forskning & Framsteg reports on research, research results and the role of research in society. The topics and research results that are highlighted should primarily be of interest to society and the individual in society. Forskning & Framsteg works at the forefront of knowledge, is general education, should always deserve high credibility and be made with the reader in focus. By reporting on research and research achievements, the magazine will contribute to strengthening democracy and increasing people's knowledge in society at large. |
Johan Stenfeldt |
Lund University |
Thede Palm, Jan Rydström and the liberal democratic paradox |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 930 000
This project is about the Swedish intelligence service, its operational culture and internal norm system during the Second World War and the post-war period. The focus is on Thede Palm and Jan Rydström, two men with leading positions in the intelligence sphere, and their until recently classified documents. The aim is essentially political and philosophical, and is based on the paradoxical fact that liberal democracy accepts its opponents. Thus, the system has its allure but also its potential downfall. In order to protect themselves from destruction, the representatives of the democratic system are therefore sometimes forced to resort to non-democratic methods. In doing so, they run the risk of becoming like their opponent. What can be allowed in the name of prevention is therefore subject to individual opinions and attitudes and is in a gray area. Intelligence organizations have a constitutional protection goal, but achieving this goal sometimes requires unconstitutional, or at least dubious, means. Thus, the intelligence service has to deal with the grey area mentioned above, and different actors' - Palm's, Rydström's but also others' - perceptions of where the boundaries in this grey area lie reflect the culture that prevails within the organization. Which norm system should prevail? What can be allowed in the name of constitutional protection, and what cannot be allowed? Where does the line go? It is questions like these that the actions of Palm and Rydström can shed light on. |
Kay Glans |
Responses magazine |
Respons magazine - review journal for humanities & social sciences |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The journal Respons focuses on reviewing non-fiction in Swedish, including translations, in the humanities and social sciences, although we also have some other material, such as interviews, reports and debates. Each year we review around 150 books. Our reviewers are experts and are given space to both explain and critique the book in question. The journal is designed to work on two levels: it guides readers to individual books, but because the reviews are so detailed, reading Responses is inherently educational; the reader can absorb the essence of the books and get a solid overview. The overwhelming majority of our writers are academic experts but the texts are written and edited to be read by a general audience and, of course, by academics in other disciplines. This makes the response both interdisciplinary and educational.
Respons was launched in 2012 because it was clear that daily newspapers were no longer covering non-fiction to any significant extent, while small publishers were increasingly responsible for publishing interesting books. An important part of the infrastructure of the Swedish public sphere was collapsing, which meant that the interested public lost the opportunity to survey and evaluate the publication of non-fiction and book publishers found it increasingly difficult to find their audience. Respons works to recreate this infrastructure.
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Kent Andersson |
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Secrets big and small. More stories about the Iron Age |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Ancient objects and other remains need to be interpreted in order to be understood. Often they contain multiple layers of knowledge that together increase our understanding of the past. "Big and Small Secrets" presents objects and remains from the Iron Age that hide "secrets", things that are not obvious at first glance. For example, the book tells how the Romans inspired the Norse to develop their own written language and how this was used in different ways by men and women. Later on, during the Viking Age, the runes can also be used to shed light on the literacy of the period in a slightly unexpected way. The book also shows how identity was created in different ways during the Iron Age. Through jewelry of various kinds, but also by grinding one's teeth. Individual objects can also be used to understand the development and change of political power and to trace political alliances and the like. Through thorough studies of, for example, burnt bones from graves, it is also possible to get close to individual people. Who they were, how old they were when they died, in some cases how they died and what their lives were like before they died. All in all, this makes the picture of the Iron Age a little clearer and brings us closer to the people of that time. The book will be richly illustrated with color photos of objects, ancient remains, etc. |
Anders Johansson |
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Across the border: return trip Norway-Sweden 1940-45 |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Over the Border" manifests the importance of Swedish soil for Norwegian irregular military resistance to Nazi Germany's occupation in the latter half of World War II. Europe's longest land border (160 miles), which both divides and unites the Scandinavian peninsula, does not prevent armed Norwegians from increasingly crossing the boundaries of Swedish 'hospitality'. Agents, commandos and saboteurs use Swedish borderlands for courier routes, staging areas, supply lines and even bases and weapons depots. Persecuted and threatened resistance fighters - and women - escape the Gestapo by fleeing to Sweden. All kinds of people in the border areas, from individual civilian Swedes to tax collectors, soldiers and customs officers, stand up for the "brotherly people".
On the Swedish side, the informal response of the authorities during the last years of the war was to push the boundaries of the official neutrality policy and even in some cases to abandon it in favor of the Norwegians. At the end of World War II, US General Eisenhower even considered an Allied invasion of Norway - across the border from western Sweden - if the German armed forces refused to surrender. But after Hitler commits suicide in the bunker in Berlin, the resolution is peaceful - a miracle. Senior German officers realize that resistance is hopeless, despite numerically superior occupation troops in Norway. The book is based on the stories of a dozen personalities, Swedes and Norwegians, British and Germans, who all experienced the 'Border'. |
Hans Malmström |
Chalmers University of Technology |
Teaching in English, language proficiency and quality of education |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: 263 500 SEK
The use of English as a language of instruction in higher education, commonly referred to as 'EMI' after 'English Medium Instruction', is becoming increasingly widespread throughout the world. In Sweden, for example, 64% of all education at master's level is now conducted in English. The overall knowledge of the consequences of EMI is inadequate, and particularly little is known about the effects of EMI on the learning of subject content. EMI typically means that neither teachers nor students have English as their first language, i.e. both teaching and learning take place in a foreign language. Consequently, teachers' English language skills are extremely important - a key factor for effective education is that students understand the content of the teaching.
The overall aim of this project is to contribute to the long-term quality assurance of EMI by investigating the relationship between teachers' English language skills and the quality of teaching. The following two questions guide the work: (i) What are the English language skills of teachers teaching in EMI contexts? (ii) Is there a link between teachers' language skills and their attitudes to learning and the quality of learning? Data is collected in the form of language tests, teachers' description (self-assessment) of teaching and interviews with teachers. The study is a first step towards understanding what expectations universities can reasonably have of EMI teachers' English, and whether language proficiency is linked to the quality of learning. |
Olle Josephson |
Swedish Humanist Association |
SHF Yearbook 2022 Sofia Häggman: mummies |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Every year, the 2 200 members of the Swedish Humanities Association receive a newly written book in Swedish humanities research. For 2022, "Mummies" is planned by Sofia Häggman, antiquarian at the Mediterranean Museum in Stockholm. The book is about Egyptian mummies. It provides an accessible overview of the history and methods of mummification and summarizes the latest findings in mummy research. For the first time, Egyptian mummies are placed in a Swedish context.
The first two chapters of the book describe the ancient Egyptians' views on life after death, mummification and the development of the art of embalming. The rest is devoted to Egyptian mummies in Europe, especially in Sweden. As early as the Middle Ages, ground mummy was imported into Europe, and in the 16th century it appeared in Swedish pharmacy lists. In the 18th century, whole mummies were exhibited instead. In the wake of Napoleon's military expedition to Egypt at the turn of the 19th century, a whole new interest in Pharaonic Egypt was awakened throughout Europe. The 19th century saw more or less public mummy exhumations. At the beginning of the 20th century, X-ray examinations were introduced. In the 21st century, advances in technology and medicine have opened up completely new opportunities to study the health status and dietary habits of the ancient Egyptians through their mummified bodies. Mummy research has thus been transformed from a hobby into a rapidly growing field of research.
In a special catalog section, those interested can find more information about the mummies that are currently in Sweden. |
Christian Mühlenbock |
University of Gothenburg |
The pilgrimage church in Edsleskog |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: 465 000 SEK
The pilgrimage church in Edsleskog has long been known because it was dedicated to one of Sweden's first known saints, Nils. But since the church was destroyed in a fire in 1568, much knowledge about the building has been hidden underground. In 2019, staff at Lödöse Museum decided to carry out archaeological investigations at the site. After three seasons, the results are sensational to say the least. The church turned out to be a three-nave basilica that was one of the largest buildings in medieval Sweden in terms of size. Edsleskog is located in northern Dalsland, an area that in the Middle Ages was a forested and inaccessible place in the buffer zone between what became Sweden and Norway. The church was also built in brick and dates show that the church was already built at the end of the 12th century. The Pilgrim Church in Edsleskog is thus the oldest brick building in medieval Sweden. In the following research project, the aim is to go in depth with the pilgrimage church in Edsleskog. Through studies of the church's dating, design and style, I want to place the church in a Swedish and Scandinavian perspective. How and why did brick technology come to medieval Sweden and how was the new technology incorporated into church building? Coin finds and grave material, especially skeletons, will be used with the support of scientific analysis to investigate who visited Edsleskog and who was buried there. Finally, a model will be created for how Edsleskog fits into Sweden's religious and political landscape during the 12th and 13th centuries.
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Peter Fischer |
The Association of Friends of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition |
Intercultural relations in the Bronze Age: the geographical dimension |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 595 100
The project aims to define the geographical dimension of trade in desirable goods and the spread of cultural and technological trends during the Bronze Age of Europe and neighboring cultures through new excavations in a trading metropolis in Cyprus.
The Torsten Söderberg Foundation has been a key funder of the current excavations at the 50 ha Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus, which is reserved for Swedish research by agreement with the local authorities. The city is one of the largest in the Bronze Age and existed from 1650-1150 BC. The findings confirm cultural and material interactions within an increasingly large geographical area.
Essential to the project are studies of locally produced and desirable goods, their distribution and the nature and origin of imports. Through previous excavations, we have identified three sectors that are suitable for the purposes of the project. In these, limited excavations can provide cost-effective results: 1. a district including textile and copper industries whose products were the basis of the city's trade; 2. an administrative area with large warehouses near the Mediterranean port; and 3. a cemetery with tombs containing imported luxury goods from a culture that has been continuously expanded by new discoveries.
The project manager's experience in excavations in Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Palestine and the scientific and technical excellence of the participating researchers are crucial to the success of the project.
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Frederick Whitling |
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Gustaf VI Adolf as archaeologist and patron of culture |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 120 000
The project sheds light on Gustaf VI Adolf as an archaeologist, cultural patron and chairman of the board, and provides an overall picture of the emergence of Nordic, classical and East Asian archaeology and museum institutions in Sweden. Focusing on Gustaf Adolf's long period as Crown Prince (1907-1950), the project generates new knowledge about the patronage of individual actors. It is based on previously unpublished archive material, and contributes to a deeper understanding of cultural history, art and archaeology in Sweden and abroad. Following previous generous project support from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, this application is for a publishing grant. |
Simon Olsson |
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I hereby respectfully submit |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 35 000
The Swedish military preparedness of 1939-1945 claimed many casualties among the conscripts. In the spring of 1945, the media reported that 782 Swedish soldiers died, but statistics from Statistics Sweden show that 1 836 died during the same period. However, this figure does not include all categories in the armed forces and over 2 000 deaths is not unreasonable.
Serious accidents such as Armasjärvi in 1940, the Hårsfjärd disaster in 1941, the Wolf in 1943 and Hansa in 1944 are well documented and remembered, but the vast majority of soldiers who died are little documented and today forgotten. Many of them died in drowning and traffic accidents. Others died more dramatically in plane crashes, friendly fire and explosions. A significant number died by suicide and a very large number of deaths were due to diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia. Some died at the hands of foreign powers.
After several years of archival research, I have written a manuscript on these deaths, how they were investigated, how lessons were learned to avoid repetition, how relatives were treated and compensated, and how the memory of those who died has been preserved. However, the 2020 pandemic put an end to my studies and I will need to spend further time in the archives to supplement with data from investigations, courts martial and not least the contemporary press. The idea is to publish a book in 2022 that both draws attention to these forgotten victims and can serve as an archival guide for their survivors as well as for further research.
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Enel Melberg |
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Jaan Kross' work Between three plagues |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 60 000
Jaan Kross, Estonia's greatest contemporary writer passed away in 2007, several of his books have been translated into Swedish and admired, but his great work "Kolme katku vahel", (Between three plagues) written in 1970-80, has not yet been published here. The novel is in four parts of about 1000 pages. It should attract special interest in Sweden, mainly because it is a major novel that gives Swedes an insight into the history of a neighboring country, but not least because it also touches on Swedish history: Sweden was very much a part of Estonian history during the period in question. The work is based on Balthasar Russow's (1536-1600) Livonian Chronicle and follows his life story: coming from the Estonian peasantry and with a father as a city coachman, he is given the opportunity to study (including in Germany) via patrons, to rise from the subjugated Estonian peasant class to the ruling German-Swedish one and finally to become a priest in the Church of St. John the Baptist in Reval (Tallinn). Today, as Estonia struggles towards a new independence that is under constant threat, it is all the more important to understand something of its history and culture. Kross's great work was produced with great effort and skillful navigation at a time when the written word was censored and could have fatal consequences; today it is just as important to keep it alive. |
Martina Böök |
Linnaeus University |
Dressed togetherness. The importance of outdoor clothing in Virestad parish 1750-1850. |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 66 000
Our clothes help us understand the world around us and ourselves. Some items can be dispensed with, but we all need clothes. If you want to understand a culture, clothing is a great way to get close to that culture. In the late 19th century, ethnologists went to Sweden to document ancient traditions that they believed were disappearing with the industrial revolution. Using clothing and other objects, they identified areas that were particularly old-fashioned, known as relict areas. Subsequent researchers found that there were no such areas that had remained stagnant, but everywhere there had been change.
In her thesis, Martina tries to build a bridge between the older ethnologists and today's researchers. Using the clothing of the common people of the Virestad parish in southern Småland, Martina examines estate records from 1750 to 1850 to see what clothing people left behind. Together with many other sources, she creates a micro-historical puzzle.
The analysis of the sources reveals different results than previously known. The local population has created an image of ancient clothing but their tradition has been renewed as needed. In terms of trade, economy and politics, the area is not old-fashioned, but rather at the forefront. In order to be modern, tradition is sometimes needed as a counterpoint and this can be seen in Virestad.
People emerge who create their own tradition.
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Kåa Wennberg |
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Mère Moreau - Gumman in Grez |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 90 000
In the artists' colony of Grez-sur-Loing, 70 kilometers south of Paris, there was a lady called Mère Moreau, also called "Gumman in Grez" by the Swedish artists. She was often used as a model by the Swedish artists, but also by artists from other countries living in Grez at the time, in the 1880s.
The book will cover Mère Moreau with all the paintings in which she appears and biographies of the artists who painted her. It is a work in progress for many years - especially finding these works of art.
I have also spent many years searching for information about Mère Moreau and have now managed to find everything I was looking for: where and when she was born, her parents, who she was married to, where she lived, what she did outside of modeling, and the year she died.
I have also been collecting old photos and postcards from Grez for several decades which will be included in the book to get a clear picture of what the whole of Grez looked like at that time. Many of the photographs have never been published before. |
Bengt Nordqvist |
Finnestorp Archaeology Foundation |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 454 000
In 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. A site that turned out to contain a find material that belongs to the category - 'the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era' and it belongs to one of the most important remains from Nordic prehistory. At Offerplats Finnestorp, warrior after warrior has been sacrificed along with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These mighty men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords, lances and golden horse equipment. Magnificent objects of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time. The ongoing research work includes international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book (Vol. I, III) and a popular science book (Vol. II). During 2020-2021, work has progressed on the manuscripts for two book volumes on Finnestorp. These are practical work I - 'Fyndens i fokus' and practical work II - a "Coffee Table Book". In addition, Practice III presents the results of the side projects that concerned, among other things, the gold neck collar from Möne and the gold neck ring from Bragnum. The isotope analyses concern studies of horse and human teeth. A selection of analyses have been carried out and show that several of the sacrificed horses come from different regions, such as north and west of Västergötland. The osteological analyses concern 4000 skeletal fragments and the results have been compiled. |
Kristoffer Arvidsson |
Gothenburg Art Museum |
Gothenburg colorism. Network, context, canon |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 252 000
In a research and exhibition project, the Gothenburg Museum of Art intends to deepen, broaden and nuance the image of Gothenburg Colorism, while examining the myths and historiography of the movement. The project will result in a research-based exhibition catalogue and an exhibition at the museum in the summer of 2023. Gothenburg Colorism is one of the most beloved art movements in the Gothenburg Museum of Art's collection, as well as the movement that is nationally most associated with Gothenburg's art scene in the 20th century. The Gothenburg Colorists have been featured in a number of exhibitions over the years but have not been shown in Gothenburg recently. Most recently, Ivan Ivarson was recognized with a solo exhibition at the Gothenburg Museum of Art in 2010, but without a catalogue. It may therefore be justified to present the direction to new generations of visitors, but also to broaden and update the perspective and critically examine some of the romanticizing myths that have flourished around the so-called Gothenburg colorists. The purpose of the project is to approach Gothenburg colorism from new critical perspectives, historiographical canon criticism and feminist perspectives, criticism of myth formation and artist myths, inclusion of a broader context chronologically and geographically and to study networks and relationships. In this way, the Gothenburg Museum of Art hopes to offer an updated, nuanced and in-depth picture of the direction. |
Göran Ulväng |
Föreningen Bebyggelsehistorisk Tidskrift |
Journal of urban history |
Other |
2021 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift (BHT) is the leading Nordic journal in the field of building history. The journal is peer-reviewed and Open Access. All articles are published, with a six-month delay, in digital format in DIVA (Digitalt Vetenskapligt Arkiv) and are thus searchable via Google Scholar and other search sites.
Over the past nine years, the editorial team has worked hard to improve BHT. As a result of better marketing, the number of subscribers has increased from 220 in 2013 to 300 today, and the number of submitted manuscripts has increased, especially from Finland, Norway and Denmark, which means that the relevance of BHT has increased in the Nordic region. In 2021, further measures were taken to increase accessibility and impact, including the digitization of all published articles since the start in 1981.
BHT is one of the journals that for a long time (with the exception of 2014 and 2018-2020) has received support from the Swedish Research Council (VR) and has during these years met all the high requirements set by VR for scientific journals in the humanities and social sciences area. However, the association is dependent on an external grant of about 100,000 annually to ensure publication.
The funds go in full to cover the costs of design, distribution, website and printing. The 14 members of the editorial committee work entirely on a voluntary basis, putting in around 500 hours a year. |
Marie Arvinius |
Arvinius + Orpheus Publishing |
Norway in Sweden - Embassy of Norway in Stockholm |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The Norwegian Embassy in Stockholm is perhaps Norway's most beautiful representative building outside its borders. The project is architect Knut Knutsen's masterpiece, and has attracted considerable attention since it opened in 1952. This book documents the embassy through new photographs and texts about the architect and the building, the collaboration with his wife Hjördis Knutsen, the interior and the art.
Museum representatives from Stockholm, Norwegian architects and art historians contribute with texts to highlight the work of art that the embassy is. The book also contains in-depth texts on Norwegian artists and Swedish collectors, their collaborations and relationships at the turn of the century.
The book "Norway in Sweden" is a Norwegian-Swedish collaboration and is intended to present a piece of Norwegian art from the 1950s in Stockholm. The book becomes an important messenger of the relationship between Norway and Sweden; history, cultural heritage, geographical proximity and fundamental values together form a unique platform for cooperation. This is manifested in the building. Through the book, more people will have the opportunity to discover this Norwegian treasure on Gärdet in Stockholm.
The embassy building - Norway's window to Sweden has here also become a window to the world, showing Norwegian building art in Stockholm from the 1950s of international world class.
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Olle Josephson |
Swedish Humanist Association |
SHF Yearbook 2021, Jakob Christensson 'Water worlds' |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
Jakob Christensson's book Water Creatures is an accessible account of the history of ideas and knowledge about animals that live their lives in the oceans and lakes or have their hunting grounds or reproduce there. It also describes how the West has viewed them from antiquity to the present day.
After an introductory overview chapter, "At the edge of the water", each chapter describes twelve animals that have made their mark on the Western tradition of thought. It concludes with a chapter on Pliny the Elder, who had a major influence on scholars well into the 19th century.
The crocodile, the leech, the eel, the crayfish, the shark, the sucker, the turtle, the octopus, the sole, the Steller's sea cow, the whale and the jellyfish are presented in turn. The reader will learn something new about humans as actors and observers in nature and about animals in their own right. The presentation crosses over between different subject areas and genres. Sometimes the emphasis is on aspects of the history of biology, sometimes geology or economics. In addition to non-fiction, sources include fiction, travelogues, newspapers, cookbooks and children's books.
The book is about 320 pages long, abundantly illustrated (about 70 pictures, many of them in color), and is published in a hardcover book with a dust jacket. The book is published as a yearbook 2021 for the 2,200 members of the Swedish Humanist Association. The publisher is Bladh by Bladh AB. |
Claes Caldenby |
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Landshövdingehuset. Typical Gothenburg! |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 80 000
Landshövdingehuset is a residential building with a brick ground floor and wooden second and third floors. It was introduced in the 1870s in Gothenburg to alleviate the housing shortage in the rapidly growing industrial city. The local building regulations allowed only two-storey wooden houses for fire protection reasons. The county governor granted an exemption for two-storey wooden houses with 'basements above ground', hence the name. This type of house is unique to Gothenburg. In the 1930s, half the city's population lived in such houses. Around 1940, the construction of landshövdingehus was stopped and from the 1960s many of the oldest were demolished. Nowadays, the many remaining houses are mostly well looked after and are valued homes for many Gothenburg residents. Much has been written about Landshövdingehusen, but until now there has been no major book documenting what remains of the unique buildings. Nor is there any summary discussion of the qualities of this type of house. It is partly about larger wooden houses, which today have once again become possible to build with new rules for fire protection. On the other hand, it is also about the residential qualities of the narrow house and moderately exploited neighborhood development. The enclosed block is a building type that has also come back into use, albeit often with (too) high levels of development. This book summarizes the background history, makes a detailed review of the districts with landshövdingehus that remain in Gothenburg and discusses the narrow and light wooden house as housing and urban development and as a possible model today.
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Karin Elfström |
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Book for children on Swedish architecture |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Today there is a lack of books for children about Swedish architecture. I am an architect SAR/MSA and have written the manuscript for a book on this subject. The main purpose of the book is to spread knowledge - to teach children about Swedish architecture and Swedish architectural history in a fun and interesting way. The main part of the book consists of stories about a number of houses, because I think it is easier and more fun for children to read about specific houses than to read general sections on architecture. The book ends with a summarizing factual part.
I have written the book mainly for children aged 9-12, but my ambition is that younger children will also enjoy it. This is reinforced by the book's educational and playful illustrations and layout (see appendix). At the same time, the book should also be interesting and fun for adults reading together with children. A book on Swedish architecture should also be useful in schools. Architecture is included in the primary school curriculum for both history and art, but with the exception of some teacher's guides, teachers currently have no literature on Swedish architecture to use in their teaching.
The book will be published by DIBB förlag, based in Linköping. Cartoon illustrations, photos and high quality design are of course an important part of a book on architecture. We will use a professional illustrator/designer, this project intends to enable us to use her and a professional photographer. |
Elin Manker |
Appell Publishing |
Selma Giöbel and Swedish Art Nouveau textiles |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The project 'Selma Giöbel and Swedish Art Nouveau textiles' examines Art Nouveau textiles as a commodity and design phenomenon in Sweden between 1885-1915. The fact that many craftsmen around the turn of the century 1900 worked in the borderland between an artistic career and an industrial practice is today a relatively well-known phenomenon. The fact that they also worked to a large extent through trading in various ways is less studied. Based on Selma Giöbel's (1843-1925) activities as a textile craftswoman and owner of various trading businesses, the project examines how textiles functioned as a commodity and design practice in Sweden. The project thus highlights a time and activity that laid the foundations for today's design culture. The study creates a deeper understanding of how design, crafts and trade had a synergistic effect on each other and shows how textile entrepreneurship around the turn of the century 1900 worked in practice. The research is based on studies of a wealth of previously unexplored archive material. Through a publication in book form, an in-depth picture of the practical work of textile design in combination with traders at the turn of the century will be conveyed to a wide audience.
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Per Arne Skansen |
Partille Hembygdsförening |
Villastaden Paradiset. A book about people, houses and development over 120 years. |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
A book about the villa town Paradiset - but also a book about the development of Partille municipality during the 20th century. Paradiset holds the key to the early industrial establishments, with the Harbeck, Jebsen and Eck families, each of whom is given a separate chapter. The description extends from the 1890s to the present day, with some completely new knowledge about the origin of the architecture and the connection with Utbynäs Villastad. Professor emeritus Claes Caldenby begins with an architectural history overview of the villa town as a phenomenon, and places Paradiset in context.
The book also provides interesting personal and cultural history in various areas. Main author Per Arne Skansen. With text contributions by Claes Caldenby, Bo Eek, Michael Eriksson, Leif Jebsen, Eva Nielsen, Fritz Olausson and Bo Renander. The book is richly illustrated with both historical and recent photographs. |
Lars Larsson |
Lund University |
Analysis of ritually deposited rock axes during early agrarian culture |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
The Stensborg site in Grödinge Sn is the most important site for the destruction of objects from the Early Neolithic period (early agrarian society c. 5500 BC) in central Sweden. Objects from both southern and northern Scandinavia show that the site had a special role in the contacts between south and north in Scandinavia and that its ritual role for destroyed and subsequently deposited objects was unique. Previously, the flint objects have been treated. This project aims to analyze the large number of rock axes and chisels to determine which quarries were used to produce the raw materials. By identifying the quarries used for axe production, the origin of the areas from which the objects come can be determined. Through a petrographic analysis of the rocks, it is possible to see the site as a whole. This is of particular importance since, in addition to flint tools destroyed by fire, the site has the largest material of destroyed rock art objects in Scandinavia. |
Caroline Ahlström Arcini |
State Historical Museums |
The mystery of Gårdby |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 73 600
A few years ago, archaeologists conducted an archaeological survey of the remains of Gårdby's medieval church. It was in connection with a major renovation of the 19th century church that the older foundation walls could be excavated under the floor of the current church. The investigation resulted in the entire church and all the graves in it being affected. The medieval church's roof trusses had been used for the current church's floor joists. A tree-ring analysis of the wood showed that the church was built in the early 12th century. All graves in the church have been investigated, a very special grave with a stone coffin can be linked to the original owner of the church.Based on the fine material with great potential for further research, we have worked on different types of scientific analysis. The County Administrative Board but also funds have contributed with applications for funds for several different scientific analyses of the skeletal material. A total of 25 of the 31 skeletons found have been dated by carbon 14 analysis. This means that we have a good insight into when the burials took place in the church. A large number of the skeletons have also been DNA-analyzed, in order to clarify any relationship between the individuals. A large part of the individuals have been strontium analyzed with regard to geographical origin. The investigation and the subsequent analyses have no equivalent in the country, which is why we see it as extremely important to get these results, both for the locals but also for a collective research community. |
Ida Maria Dicksson |
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Port and industrial heritage inventory of Gothenburg - part 3 |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 180 000
At the same high rate as Gothenburg's buildings are now being transformed and renewed, the city's historic port and industrial environments are disappearing. The knowledge base required to take industrial history into account in this renewal is weak. We have therefore begun a port and industrial history inventory of Gothenburg. The project has been initiated by the Gothenburg City Museum and a preliminary study and pilot inventory has been carried out under their auspices. Further inventory is being carried out independently by us, the industrial antiquities experts Ida Dicksson and Lena Knutson Udd, with the Gothenburg City Museum as a reference group. The inventory is divided into 13 stages and is being carried out in stages as funds can be obtained.
The inventory will focus on physical remains such as buildings, cranes, docks, quays, etc. to increase insight into how this identity-creating cultural heritage has enriched and shaped Gothenburg, the possibility of taking greater account of this history in the city's renewal and the possibility of communicating this knowledge to residents and visitors. The inventory of each area will result in a public and richly illustrated text that will be freely available on the internet, as well as maps and inventory forms that can be used by architects and urban planners in Q-gis. The material produced will also be designed so that it can be published in its entirety as a book. Funding to complete a book is only sought after the entire inventory has been completed. |
Gunnar D. Hansson |
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Publication of Sturlunga saga in three volumes |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 90 000
Sturlunga saga is the name of a coherent compilation of so-called contemporary sagas or chronicles from 13th century Iceland. It is an extensive work - about 1000 pages of running text - which has never before appeared in Swedish translation. Sturlunga saga describes the feuds between the great chieftain families of the time, including the family of the historian and poet Snorri Sturluson. Sturlunga saga is one of the most important works of medieval Nordic literature. In recent years, Sturlunga saga has attracted increasing interest from both scholars and contemporary fiction writers. Sturlunga saga is an extraordinarily important Nordic source for knowledge of the economic, social and political conditions of the period. The entire work exists in a preliminary translation by Sten Kindlundh, who died in 2019. The translator submitted his Sturlunga manuscript to the editors of Islänningasagorna I-V (2014) a few months before his death. The present translation requires thorough and extensive editing and processing in order to be published in a planned three-volume edition - as well as a commentary section. This work has been initiated by Gunnar D Hansson, Kristinn Jóhannesson and Joakim Lilljegren.
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Mattias Legnér |
Uppsala University |
Cultural preparedness. Cultural heritage, air defense and propaganda in the Nordic countries 1939 -1945. |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 45 000
The notion that the next major war would involve civil society and be devastating was widespread in the 1930s. It would not just be a conflict between warring powers but between cultures, where the civilian population would be severely tested. If a society was to survive the next war at all, it needed to develop ways to protect its culture and heritage. The project explores how this was done and how the strategies were linked to broader notions of Nordic and national history. History was used extensively in public speeches, churches and monuments were built into various shelters, museum objects were evacuated to bomb shelters, museum staff were instructed on how to protect collections in case of bombing. Cultural heritage was also used to boost defense morale and to identify enemies. The Nordic countries could not agree on a common foreign policy; instead, cultural exchanges that emphasized solidarity and historical ties between peoples became important for contact between the countries. In Norway and Denmark, cultural heritage was used for ideological purposes by the occupying power after 1940, and in Finland it was used to describe the enemy Russia as barbaric. The Nordic countries thus represent different approaches to war and cultural heritage. In all cases, cultural heritage was actively used by museums to construct visions of the future, when society could return to normal. The study is based on archival material and literature from the period.
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Marie-Louise Franzén |
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Inger Estham and medieval embroidery - a legacy of research material |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Albertus Pictor's frescoes are found in churches, mainly in the Mälar landscape. At the end of the 19th century, Hans Hildebrand discovered in medieval documents that Albertus Pictor was both a painter and an embroiderer. Albert signed some of the frescoes but not the embroideries. Scholars such as Agnes Branting, Andreas Lindblom and Agnes Geijer studied Albert's paintings, compared them to embroidery and attributed church embroidery to him. The attributed embroideries were re-studied by Inger Estham, PhD in art history, PhD in theology at Uppsala University and former head of the former textile unit at the Swedish National Heritage Board and the National History Museums. Inger Estham studied the embroideries attributed to Albert with slightly different eyes. She studied them from a historical perspective, such as who might have acquired, donated or worn them. She also looked at them from the perspective of textile technology. Albert was not the only pearl embroiderer in Sweden at the time. She also dealt with other pearl embroiderers who were contemporaries of Albert and who are known in sources. In her research, she also presented a previously unknown bead embroiderer in the context of textile research. When Inger Estham passed away in 2016, her work was in an incomplete manuscript draft. She bequeathed her research material to Mari-Louise Franzén. |
Kay Glans |
Responses magazine |
Respons magazine - review journal for the humanities and social sciences |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The journal Respons is aimed at those working in the academic world and an interested public who want to keep abreast of the qualified discussion in the humanities and social sciences. Respons provides readers with orientation, not least in the publications of small publishers, and gives Swedish academics an opportunity to communicate with other disciplines and a wider readership. The journal is also a forum for cultural debate and discussion of research issues affecting the humanities and social sciences.
Response thus takes place at an intersection where several needs are met. The review activities of daily newspapers have deteriorated dramatically in recent years. Either non-fiction is not reviewed at all, or it is written briefly, often by someone who has no in-depth knowledge of the subject. It is becoming increasingly difficult for the general quality-oriented audience to find their way around and increasingly difficult for small quality-oriented publishers to find readers. For its part, the academic world risks losing contact with the national audience and with other disciplines, partly because it lacks platforms in the Swedish public sphere and partly because the focus is now on publishing in English in specialist journals. Responses thus also play an important role in safeguarding the Swedish language against English in the humanities and social sciences.
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Stefan Günther |
Gunnebo Castle and Gardens |
Gunnebo Castle and the neoclassical villa's artistic program |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 732 500
When Gunnebo Castle was completed in 1796, it was one of the country's most lavish mansions, with architecture and decoration inspired by the latest developments on the continent. The architecture followed different models than the more studied Stockholm-based architecture. The decoration followed an artistic program carried out in 1786-96 by the architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg and the Italian sculptor Gioacchino Frulli, and constitutes one of the most significant decorative cycles of the second half of the 18th century in Sweden. Gunnebo's architect C.W. Carlberg developed an independent design language in relation to the architects in Stockholm - but who were Carlberg's role models? Ever since the Renaissance, complex iconographic programs - celebrating the political, economic and intellectual ambitions of the client - formed the basis of a building's decoration. These programs were developed in collaboration between the client and his advisors, of which Gunnebo is a lavish example - but what was Gunnebo's artistic program? Despite its importance, the background to one of the most prominent Swedish buildings of the 18th century remains largely unexplored. The aim of the project is to describe and analyze the architectural history of Gunnebo and the artistic program behind its decorations based on an iconological and comparative study of contemporary developments in Europe. The study will culminate in a monograph. The ambition is to publish a richly illustrated volume to increase knowledge of the site and its value. |
Bengt Nordqvist |
Archaeology Victim site Finnestorp |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 499 850
In 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. A site that turned out to contain a find material that belongs to the category - 'the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era' and it belongs to one of the most important remains from Nordic prehistory. At Offerplats Finnestorp, warrior after warrior has been sacrificed along with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These mighty men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords, lances and golden horse equipment. Magnificent objects of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time. The ongoing research work includes international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book (Vol. I, III) and a popular science book (Vol. II). During 2020-2021, work has progressed on the manuscripts for two book volumes on Finnestorp. These are practical work I - 'Fyndens i fokus' and practical work II - a "Coffee Table Book". In addition, Practice III presents the results of the side projects that concerned, among other things, the gold neck collar from Möne and the gold neck ring from Bragnum. The isotope analyses concern studies of horse and human teeth. A selection of analyses have been carried out and show that several of the sacrificed horses come from different regions, such as north and west of Västergötland. The osteological analyses concern 4000 skeletal fragments and the results have been compiled.
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Håkan Håkansson |
Lund University |
Transcription of the Ravensbrück archive |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: 125 000 SEK
The Ravensbrück Archive is one of the world's most comprehensive testimonies to the Nazi crimes against humanity. Immediately after the end of the war, a large number of interviews were conducted with Holocaust survivors, describing their experiences in the concentration camps of the Nazi regime. Within the framework of the Witnessing Genocide project, the University Library has made the interviews digitally available via a web portal that opened in 2017 and currently has about 10,000 unique users per year. The intention is also that all Polish-language interviews will be translated into English, a task that is taking longer than expected due to the often difficult-to-read handwriting. To streamline the translation process, our ambition is therefore to have an experienced native Polish transcriber transcribe the original text, which would free up the translator's time and significantly increase his capacity. However, this service does not fit within our current budget, so we are applying to the Torsten Söderberg Foundation for an additional grant.
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Roger Eliasson |
Aeroseum |
The Flying Barrel - a unique, educational, interactive exhibition |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 140 000
The Aeroseum Foundation operates an aviation experience center in a 22,000 square meter underground mountain hangar. The mountain is classified as world unique by the National Defense History Museum. For the third year in a row, the facility is number 1 on Tripadvisor among all museums in western Sweden. The exhibition concept is designed to trigger children and young people's interest in science and technology. |
Christina Gunneriusson Wistman |
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Museum creation in the Swedish art field |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Based on museum creation and Swedish museums in the mid-20th century, this project examines art collections, the importance of art and its social function. The overall aim is to provide an overview of the ideas behind the founding of a number of museums, and a selection of museums are examined more closely, particularly with regard to their foundation: the collections. Where did the collections come from and how are they managed and administered today? The social function of the collections is an important aspect. In 1958, Moderna Museet opened in Stockholm. Ten years earlier, at the end of June 1948, Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde was opened, a museum that by definition became Sweden's first museum for modern and contemporary Swedish art. These museums are examples of two different types of museum foundations and also only two examples of new Swedish (art) museums around the middle of the 20th century. As for the donor museums and the county museums, the driving forces behind the creation of each museum are interesting and rewarding to investigate. How did these collections become museums, and what is a museum collection? It is clear that the regional museums that actively work with art today remain more relevant and attractive than those that focus more on general cultural history. The artists' homes that were museumized around the middle of the 20th century have chosen different survival strategies. Is the original protagonist of these museums today a burden or a valuable starting point for museum activities? Are artists' homes an obsolete phenomenon? |
Viveka Ljungström |
Research and progress |
Publication of the journal Research and Progress in 2021 |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The journal Forskning & Framsteg reports on research, research results and the role of research in society. The topics and research results that are highlighted should primarily be of interest to society and the individual in society. Forskning & Framsteg works at the forefront of knowledge, is general education, should always deserve high credibility and be made with the reader in focus. By reporting on research and research achievements, the magazine will contribute to strengthening democracy and increasing people's knowledge in society at large. |
Dag Klackenberg |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2021 |
Other |
2020 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The Swedish History Days is a non-profit organization, founded in 1993, which seeks to promote interest in history and strengthen the importance of the subject through annual conferences. The regular meetings aim to create and maintain contacts between representatives of historical research, museum and archive institutions, book publishers, school teachers and the public interested in history, and are held every year in a new location (usually in Sweden but also in Finland, Germany and the Baltic countries, i.e. parts of historical Sweden). |
Josephson, Olle |
Swedish Humanist Association |
SHF Yearbook 2019 "The Word and the Wine" |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
The Swedish Humanist Association's yearbook 2019, Professor Johan Stenström's "The Word and the Wine". The book is distributed to SHF's approximately 2300 members and is also sold in bookstores.
Since ancient times, the use of wine has been a recurring motif in fiction. In Sweden, certain authors such as Bellman or Strindberg stand out; in others, wine plays a lesser role but is nevertheless frequent, sometimes as a sign of social status, often to describe festivities and important turning points in the plot: Almqvist, Runeberg, Bremer, Benedictsson, Lagerlöf, Söderberg. In French literature, wine is naturally a frequent feature. Ties between Britain and the wine-producing eastern parts of France have existed since the Middle Ages and have left many traces in English literature.
In Ordet och vinet, Johan Stenström describes in 19 chapters how wine is depicted in Western literature, from antiquity to the present day. Stenström has been Professor of Literature at Lund University since 2009. |
Gräslund, Bo |
Uppsala University |
The Beowulf story. The Nordic background |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Translation into English of the book "The Beowulf Words. The Nordic Background". |
Andersson, Tommy |
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Foot figures on rock carvings |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: 108 000 SEK
Foot figures, also called foot soles, footprints etc., are a common type of figure on southern Scandinavian rock carvings. In some areas they are the dominant representational figure. There are different variants of foot figures, from naturalistic carvings with toes, to contour carved ovals. They can be in pairs or as individual feet. In this project I will describe, analyze and try to date and explain the foot figures. The geographical area that I mainly focus on is the landscapes Bohuslän, Dalsland, Skåne and Västergötland. From there I will also look in other directions. |
Björk, Tony |
Kristianstad Regional Museum/South Swedish Archaeology |
Big Free Farm |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 78 000
In the 1950s and 1960s, an unusually large burial ground was investigated at Store Frigård on Bornholm, which was in use from about 500 BC to about 400 AD (Pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age). In total, more than 1200 sites were examined, mostly graves, with a large number of objects. Some of the objects contain textile remains and there are also human remains in the form of burnt bones. Almost all individuals had been cremated. Unfortunately, the archaeologist who led the investigation died prematurely and there is still no comprehensive analysis or publication of the rich material. Store Frigård is valuable for knowledge of the pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age in the southern Baltic Sea area. A project has therefore been initiated that will result in a scientific publication within the next few years.
Bornholm is rich in finds, as are the other large islands in the Baltic Sea. The material from Store Frigård has interesting parallels, not least in Skåne, Öland and Gotland. The islands have been important for contacts across the Baltic Sea, which is reflected in the burial conditions and grave goods, which have features of surrounding regions. An important category of finds is ceramics. There are clay vessels from about 340 graves. The pottery provides great opportunities to date individual graves, to show the changes in burial customs and to discuss contact patterns in the Baltic Sea region. |
Svensson, Andreas |
Lund University |
By the anvil and out of the crucible - Iron Age metalwork in south-eastern Scandinavia |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 155 833
The dissertation project "Vid städ och ur degel" deals with the complex metal craftsmanship of the Iron Age, its actors and landscape and economic conditions. The project analyzes metalworking sites where traces of several different types of metalworking can be found. Are different types of metal crafts or metal handling spatially separated or do they occur together? What role did the metalworking sites play in the overall cultural landscape of the Scandinavian Iron Age and the socio-economic climate this reflects? These basic questions are addressed by analyzing raw materials, production and waste products, and how these are distributed in the landscape. The results are then interpreted from the perspective of economic theory and socio-economic interpretation of society.
Metals and metal craftsmanship have always played a central role in the interpretation of the social structure of the Iron Age. The By the anvil and out of the crucible project tests many long-established models of the socio-economic structure of the Iron Age, while adding new perspectives on metal handling actors - from producers, to distributors and finally consumers - to the picture of Scandinavian Iron Age society. |
Werkelid, Carl Otto |
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Signum 100 years |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
The magazine Signum, in its first decades Credo, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. The magazine provides information on church, culture and society from a Catholic Christian perspective. It constitutes a forum for reflection and exchange of ideas, where an international conversation on science, culture, social issues, philosophy and theology also takes place, and strives for accessibility without compromising a qualified level of appeal and stylistics. The anniversary anthology "Signum 100 years" contains a dozen thematically organized texts and reflects the journal's areas of interest. The writers are drawn from outside the journal's staff with the aim that their independent texts will give an idea of Signum's publishing in an appropriate social and cultural context and in a historical perspective. Topics covered include religious freedom, literary monitoring, dialog, integration/immigration, Catholicism and intellectuals. |
Gloss, Kay |
Responses magazine |
Respons magazine - review journal for the humanities and social sciences |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The journal Respons is aimed at academics and interested members of the public who want to keep abreast of informed debate in the humanities and social sciences. It has a circulation of 1800, geographically concentrated in the university cities. Respons provides readers with orientation, not least in the publications of small publishers, and gives Swedish academics an opportunity to communicate with other disciplines and a wider readership. The journal is also a forum for cultural debate and discussion of research issues in the humanities and social sciences.
Response thus takes place at an intersection where several needs are met. The review activities of daily newspapers have deteriorated dramatically in recent years. Either non-fiction is not reviewed at all, or it is written briefly, often by someone without in-depth knowledge. It is becoming increasingly difficult for the general quality-oriented audience to find their way around and increasingly difficult for small quality-oriented publishers to find readers. The academic world, for its part, risks losing contact with the national audience and with other disciplines, partly because it lacks platforms in the Swedish public sphere and partly because the focus is now on publishing in English in specialist journals. The journal thus also plays an important role in protecting the Swedish language against English in the humanities and social sciences. |
Lindblad, Thomas |
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Pierre Forssell - designer in silver, stainless steel, aluminum and brass |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
Pierre Forssell was a student at Konstfack's metal department between 1943 and 1949, when he received his journeyman's certificate. Erik Fleming was his teacher and mentor. Between 1952 and 1960, Forssell taught metal at Konstfack. He was involved in building up contacts between Konstfack and industry. Forssell was also involved in the Slöjdföreningens Facksektion. From 1953 to 1965 he was a designer at Gense. In 1956 he succeeded Erik Fleming as designer at Skultuna, in the aluminum cookware department. During the fifties he taught at the handicraft teacher seminar in Nääs and he was involved in setting up the handicraft teacher seminar in Linköping in 1960.
Some brass products that he made for Skultuna in the 1950s led to a job at the brass factory there in 1965. Forssell was given a free hand to renew Skultuna's brass production. A rich and very special world of forms is now emerging. Basic stereometric shapes in brass: balls, spheres, cones, dice, cubes, cylinders, etc. become vases, candlesticks and boxes. Forssell worked there until he retired in 1986. His brass has experienced a renaissance in recent years and has been shown in several exhibitions, most recently at the Västerås Art Museum. While working on the book, I had access to Pierre Forssell's archive, which is in the family's possession. The photographs in the book are partly taken by him and most of them have not been published before. |
Stenfeldt, Johan |
Lund University |
Political culture in Swedish intelligence services. Thede Palm and Jan Rydström |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: 232 500 SEK
The project is about the Swedish intelligence service studied from a political-cultural perspective. More specifically, the project focuses on a dispute between two intelligence officers in the early post-war period, Thede Palm and Jan Rydström, studied as a dispute about the internal norm system of the organization. The purpose is basically philosophical, and is based on the paradoxical fact that liberal democracy accepts its opponents. Thus the system has its allure but also its potential downfall. In order to protect themselves from destruction, the representatives of the democratic system are therefore sometimes forced to resort to non-democratic methods. In doing so, they run the risk of becoming like their opponent. What can be allowed in the name of prevention is therefore subject to individual opinions and attitudes and is in a gray area. Intelligence organizations have a constitutional protection goal, but achieving this goal sometimes requires unconstitutional, or at least dubious, means. The intelligence service thus has to deal with the grey area mentioned above, and different actors' perceptions of where the boundaries of this grey area lie reflect the culture that prevails within the organization. Which normative system should prevail? What can be allowed in the name of constitutional protection, and what cannot be allowed? Where is the limit? These are questions that a close study of the relationship between Palm and Rydström can shed light on. |
Josephson, Olle |
Swedish Humanist Association |
SHF Yearbook 2020 Jan Retsö: From Sinai to Ethiopia |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
Every year, the 2200 members of the Swedish Humanities Association receive a newly written publication in Swedish humanities research. For 2020, a book is planned by Jan Retsö, Professor of Arabic, "From Sinai to Ethiopia - the legend of the Israeli Ark of the Covenant". The Ark of the Covenant is first mentioned in the Old Testament Book of Exodus (Exodus 25:10-16), where the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments of God are kept, and the Ark contains supernatural powers that give the Israelites success in battles with other tribes. The Ark of the Covenant disappears relatively early in biblical history, but lives on in Jewish and Christian legends. In popular culture, it played a central role in the first Indiana Jones movie. There are reports today that the Ark is preserved in the Zion Cathedral in Axum, Ethiopia.
Retsö's book provides an account and critique of the stories of the Ark up to the present day. The (tentative) 20 chapters of the book are grouped into three sections: The Ark in the Old Testament; The Ark in post-biblical early Jewish and Christian tradition; The Ark tradition in the Red Sea countries. The reader not only learns about the stories of the Ark, but above all how science - religious history research, archaeology and text-philologically oriented oriental studies - has dealt with these stories since the end of the 18th century. The book thus also provides a historical perspective in today's discussion of factual resistance and the responsibility of research. |
Vesterberg, Karl |
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Historical reconstruction of Gothenburg in 1713 |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
In 1917, second city engineer Arvid Södergren began work on producing a Historical Map of Gothenburg, depicting the development of the city from its foundation to 1923, when the city celebrated its 300th anniversary. The work includes a map showing the approximate appearance of the city's plots and parts of the buildings in the 1790s, making it the only representation of all the city's plots in the 18th century.
Is it possible to produce a similar map of Gothenburg's plots and buildings in the early 18th century for the 400th anniversary of Gothenburg? The purpose of the following project is to visually reconstruct Gothenburg's plots and buildings in the early 18th century. Between 1717 and 1721, the first city engineer Johan Eberhard Carlberg produced about a hundred small plot and block maps of Gothenburg. The maps are fragmentary and difficult to interpret, but in combination with contemporary written and visual source materials can be used to compile a representation of the city's appearance in the early 18th century, based on empirical research.
The results of the project create the conditions for conducting in-depth microhistorical research on cultural, economic and social variation in the city center of Gothenburg, with an innovative methodology that can contribute to the development of the city's history. The project will be presented in a book publication where the method for reconstructing the city's appearance is described in detail. |
Kozma, Cecilia |
Royal Institute of Technology |
A starry sky in the basement |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 625 000
The starry sky is something that is not at all obvious to today's urban children. Many have never marveled at the multitude of stars, tried to distinguish the different constellations, followed the course of the planets or experienced the Milky Way's path across the sky. Astronomy and space physics are areas that fascinate most children and young people, and are a good gateway to science and technology in general. We need more scientists and engineers in our companies, but we also need more general education in science and technology for everyone for a sustainable development of society.
Vetenskapens Hus runs activities for pupils and teachers in primary and secondary schools. Every year we meet about 80,000 teachers and students in various hands-on activities in science, technology and mathematics with the aim of increasing interest and knowledge in these areas.
We want to invite children, young people, teachers, student teachers and to some extent also interested members of the public to get acquainted with the starry sky in a more tangible way in a planetarium. We estimate that about 5000 visitors per year will be able to take part in our activities in a planetarium. Today, there is no opportunity for children and young people to visit a planetarium in Stockholm to get acquainted with the starry sky and be fascinated by the universe we can see with the naked eye. By bringing a planetarium to Vetenskapens Hus, we want to contribute to an increased fascination, interest and knowledge of astronomy and natural science in general. |
Rech, Carina |
Stockholm University |
Self-images of Nordic women artists in the late 19th century |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 66 000
"Artists are migratory birds without a permanent city", writes the artist Jeanna Bauck in a letter from 1883 to her friend Hildegard Thorell. Bauck and Thorell are two less well-known names among the many Nordic women artists who traveled to the continent to train as professional artists at the end of the 19th century. They exhibited extensively abroad, studied at private women's academies, established friendships and maintained their own studios. Within a few years, they evolved from bourgeois girls living in their parents' homes to independent professional women. This free and independent life eventually takes on completely new expressions in painting: suddenly the women depict themselves in simple work clothes or a painter's coat, sitting on the floor in the studio or in a nightgown and slippers in the company of the model in relaxed privacy. The thesis examines these multifaceted self-images in relation to the professionalization and cosmopolitan lifestyle that characterized the artists in question. Selected self-portraits, pictures of peers and studio interiors by Eva Bonnier, Mina Carlson-Bredberg, Hanna Hirsch-Pauli, Asta Nørregaard and Bertha Wegmann, among others, are analyzed in detail in a comparative study, where the central role of community and collaboration, as well as the importance of the studio for the artists' identity creation, is highlighted. Alongside known and unknown works of art, the study also presents extensive, hitherto unpublished archive material from across the Nordic region. |
Haglund, Tuva |
PhD student |
Together in Engelsfors. Social fiction use in digital fan communities |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 93 500
Fan cultures are a widespread phenomenon in social media and have over the last decade become an increasingly important context for readers to meet and discuss literature. The dissertation project Tillsammans i Engelsfors, is the first major study of Swedish fan communities about Swedish literature, specifically the Engelfors trilogy by Sara Bergmark Elfgren and Mats Strandberg (2011-2013). The project identifies a popular cultural practice that today engages more and more, especially young readers and audiences to take an active approach to the culture they consume.
The thesis deals with material published in the 2010s, and thus the study captures the new forms of communication and social interaction made possible by digitalization and especially social media. The sharing of users' own texts, images and films constitutes an important structure. Within fan culture, there is a particular tradition of disseminating one's own creative works of art (such as fan art, fan fiction and fanvids), created with inspiration from the fictional world. This practice has benefited from the digital infrastructure.
In addition to a more general mapping of communicative patterns, the thesis project also includes close readings of the fans' own artworks and collective fiction creation. The readings are based on fan-specific genres such as "shipping" and "fluff", but also include perspectives such as fictionality, literariness, emotional readings, and types of girls and femininity. |
Christensen Sköld, Beatrice |
Association of Women Academics |
Biography of Karolina Widerström, Sweden's first female doctor |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 112 000
This is a biography of Sweden's first female doctor Karolina Widerström (1856-1949) in the form of an anthology. Seven authors, all with research degrees, will contribute to the book, which will have twelve chapters. The editor of the book will be Ann-Katrin Hatje, Professor of History. The authors of the different chapters are Beatrice Christensen Sköld, Christina Florin, Lena Hammarberg, Ann-Katrin Hatje, Ulrika Nilsson, Gunnel Svedberg and Lisa Öberg.
A common thread running through the anthology is Karolina Widerström's great contribution to popular education. She propagates hygiene, she is a pioneer in sex education and sex education in schools, she works for better child care and greater opportunities for working mothers to take care of their children's health. She spreads knowledge about how legislation prevents female academics from being employed by the state. Important arenas included the Fredrika Bremer Association, the National Association for Women's Political Suffrage, the Stockholm City Council and many other associations and institutions. Her books, pamphlets and writings were widely distributed. For example, her book Kvinnohygien went through seven editions between 1899 and 1932. |
Åkerlund, Andreas |
Södertörn University |
German anti-Versailles propaganda in Swedish newspapers 1919-1939 |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 310 000
The project examines the activities of German actors in placing articles with propaganda content in Swedish newspapers during the period 1919-1939. The main object of study is the "Aufklärungsausschuss Hamburg-Bremen" at the Chamber of Commerce in Hamburg, which mainly distributed articles to the foreign press, including the Swedish. This 'information committee' was itself part of the German nationalist anti-Versailles movement. The central intermediary in Sweden was the journalist Paul Grassmann, who after 1933 became press attaché at the German legation in Stockholm. This also identifies an interesting continuity between interwar and Third Reich propaganda.
Based on archive material in Hamburg, Stockholm and Berlin, the project will investigate how newspaper articles were conveyed to the Swedish press, which newspapers published these articles, and what image of the world in general, and Germany in particular, the German propaganda sought to spread in Sweden. This is possible because at least some of the records relating to the Aufklärungsausschuss Hamburg-Bremen have survived the war, and because Paul Grassmann's heirs have recently made his personal archive available at the National Archives in Stockholm. |
Shot, Mia |
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Wallpaper makers - self-sufficient and skilled in 18th-century Stockholm |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 44 000
Eleven women were granted permission to print and paint wallpapers as manufacturers in Stockholm during the period 1739-1759. Based on existing research, wallpaper makers should not have existed. Professional skills in the capital's manufactories should have been an exclusive male monopoly, but this study shows that the wallpaper makers' performance was very much comparable to that of the wallpaper makers.
The aim of the project is to provide in-depth and nuanced knowledge of women's agency and independent professional activity in the early modern period. Thanks to the microhistorical method and the biographical presentation, important and often surprising causes and driving forces behind women's independent professional activities have been identified. The comparison of wallpaper makers among themselves offers a colorful and varied palette of social identities, material resources and skills, from which three rather distinct profiles of female agency emerge that do not follow expected patterns.
What remains is the editing of the collective biography of the wallpaper makers, which will be published by Stockholmia Research and Publishing in 2020. |
Gunneriusson Wistman, Christina |
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Museum creation in the Swedish art field around the middle of the 20th century |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The research project deals with Swedish museums and museum creation in Sweden. It aims to investigate new museums in Sweden at the middle of the 20th century. A number of museums of different types were opened at that time: regional museums, personal museums and e.g. Moderna Museet. The starting point is the founding of Moderna Museet. How were the discussions conducted and what role may have been played by Prince Eugen's art collection and Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, which opened in 1948. How and why were other museums established? The so-called Folkhem period roughly coincides with the time this project examines - is this relevant for interpretation and analysis? An important part of the investigation concerns the museums' art collections: what has the collection looked like, what significance does art have for the collections and for the museum? The social function of art is a particularly important factor. Art is obvious at Moderna Museet and Waldemarsudde, but has a different role to play in the regional museums. Are the museums and collections still important and relevant? These are some of the questions the study focuses on, and which, regardless of how they are answered, will contribute to the story of Swedish museums and museum education and provide answers of importance and value for our time as well. |
Linde Bjur, Gunilla |
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Women take their place. Architects in 100 years. Gothenburg 1920-2020 |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 90 000
Gothenburg's architectural history over the past 100 years has been characterized by a large number of university-educated architects. In the early 1900s, the profession was practiced exclusively by men, while today more than half of all architects in Sweden are women. The working title of the project is Architects in Gothenburg in a hundred years. Women take place in the 20th century. The previous book Arkitekter och fasader. Göteborg 1850-1920 described the period until women in Sweden were allowed to train as architects in the 1920s. This project highlights some 40 architects, all women, whose work has shaped Gothenburg at different times and highlights the development of the architectural profession and Gothenburg's architectural history over 100 years. Archival research and in-depth interviews form the basis for a number of short professional biographies. Historical pioneers such as Dagmar Hall, Anna Lous Mohr and Ingrid Wallberg have been highlighted in previous research. Several living architects born as early as the 1920s and 1930s have been interviewed. For example, Ingegerd Ågren and her long activity starting in the 1940s is highlighted through interviews and documents. There is very little written about women architects in Gothenburg during the latter half of the 20th century and up to our time. Several of the youngest architects interviewed in the study will probably be active long after Gothenburg's 400th anniversary in 2021. The research will be published as a book in 2020, Kvinnor tar plats. Architects in 100 years. Gothenburg 1920-2020. |
Malmstedt, Göran |
University of Gothenburg |
Enchanted world/An enchanted world |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
An English translation enables the publication of the monograph 'An Enchanted World. Premodern beliefs and Bohuslän witchcraft trials 1669-1672" (2018) by the prestigious international publisher Palgrave Macmillan. There are few international publications dealing with Swedish witchcraft trials and no single major work dealing with the Bohuslän trials. A publication of "An Enchanted World" by the aforementioned publisher would contribute to the internationalization of Swedish humanistic research and to an increased knowledge of Swedish conditions during the current era. |
Nordqvist, Bengt |
Archaeology Victim site Finnestorp |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 485 650
During 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. This site contains finds that belong to the category "the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era" and is one of the most important remains from Nordic prehistory. At Offerplats Finnestorp, recurring warriors have been sacrificed along with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These mighty men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords, lances and golden horse equipment. Magnificent items of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time.
The ongoing research work includes international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book and a popular science book. The metallurgical analysis shows that the objects were made by highly skilled smiths. Lead isotope analysis shows that the copper ores used can be traced to the north of England.
In 2018-2019, the manuscript for two book volumes on Finnestorp will be completed. These are Practice I - "Fyndens i fokus" (the section on horse equipment) and Practice II - a "Coffee Table Book". Paper III presents the results of the research on the gold neck ring from Bragnum, the gold neck collar from Möne, and several side projects. The upcoming isotope analyses concern studies of horse and human teeth. The aim of these analyses is to shed light on the important question of provenance and geographical mobility. |
Nilsen, Andrine |
University of Gothenburg |
Wooden buildings and people in early modern society |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 93 500
The dissertation focuses on early modern wooden urban settlements (c. 1400-1799) and their social aspects, mainly focusing on Swedish conditions but also looking at other countries. Swedish wooden buildings can in many ways represent a cross-section of society from the hut, to burgher houses and wooden castles. Wooden houses are often seen as hovels and unstable, even though houses have been preserved from the 13th century. Today there are only a few early modern wooden houses left in our cities, a consequence of the demolition frenzy of the 1960s, therefore archaeological urban surveys are our main source of knowledge about these environments. The survey includes houses built in; knotted timber, half-timber or cross-timber. Research on archaeological remains and antiquarian studies of the preserved houses can be combined. Farm environments in relation to the city plan and infrastructure are examined. Wood was ubiquitous and played a major role in the creation of early modern living culture. Other important aspects of wooden cities are their role in building the nation state. The period saw a change in urban society. Cities underwent regularization, meaning that houses and blocks had to be moved to fit into a new city plan with straight streets, some cities were relocated for defence purposes and a number of new cities were established. In the wake of this reorganization, combined with fires and wars, large-scale production of houses was required, with the movable wooden house being crucial. |
Ljungström, Viveka |
Research and progress |
Publication of the journal Forskning & Framsteg in 2020 |
Other |
2019 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The journal Forskning & Framsteg reports on research, research results and the role of research in society. The topics and research results that are highlighted should primarily be of interest to society and the individual in society. Forskning & Framsteg works at the forefront of knowledge, is general education, should always deserve high credibility and be made with the reader in focus. By reporting on research and research achievements, the magazine will contribute to strengthening democracy and increasing people's knowledge in society at large. |
Zamore, Gustav |
Stockholm University |
Botulf of Gottröra and the hunt for heretics in the European periphery |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: 108 375 SEK
Botulf of Gottröra (d. 1311) is, as far as we know, the only person executed for heresy in the Swedish Middle Ages. The only document that testifies to Botulf's fate is his death sentence issued by Archbishop Nils Kettilsson, but this text contains important information about the inquisition process and how a heretic was perceived in Sweden in the early 14th century. Although Botulf's case is well known among Swedish historians, there are only a few studies that analyze the source text in detail, and these are only available to a Swedish-speaking audience.
My project examines Botulf's death sentence based on the last decades of research on medieval heretic movements. In particular, I examine how the heretic Botulf is constructed in this text based on literary and rhetorical themes that existed in medieval antiheretical literature. I also show how the procedure was inspired by continental practices and in what respects it deviated from them. A comparison of Botulf's case with similar cases in the European periphery also demonstrates the links between heresy trials outside the areas where the Inquisition was mainly active. The article is accompanied by the source text in Latin with an English translation to make this unique event in Swedish history accessible to international researchers and students.
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Whitling, Frederick |
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Gustaf VI Adolf as archaeologist and patron of culture |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: 190 000 SEK
The project is a study of Gustaf VI Adolf (1882-1973, King of Sweden 1950-1973) as archaeologist, cultural patron and chairman of the board; it aims to provide a comprehensive and contextual picture of Gustaf VI Adolf's archaeological activities and interests, with a special focus on the late crown prince period, 1920-1950. The project has a historical as well as ideological profile and character, and is based throughout on previously unpublished archive material. It is expected to contribute to a deeper understanding of classical archaeology in the Mediterranean region and of Gustaf VI Adolf's role in Swedish ancient studies and in the history of Swedish science. The project analyzes national aspects of the extensive search for origins and identity after the turn of the last century, and for the first time draws a comprehensive picture of the emergence of Nordic, Classical and East Asian archaeological projects under Swedish auspices in the first half of the 20th century, by exploring Gustaf VI Adolf's hitherto largely unexplored role in the history of Swedish science as an initiator, organizer and common denominator in a large number of simultaneous decision-making networks. The project also places earlier archaeological research tasks and results in their contemporary contexts and respective intellectual history contexts, and demonstrates change over time and the impact on prevailing social structures.
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by Ehrenheim, Jacob |
Grönsöö Castle |
Everyday life on Grönsöö |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 60 000
The idea of the 2019 book and exhibition is to highlight the everyday, unglamorous life on Grönsööö, as it was lived behind the facades. The theme naturally includes everything from the careful care and maintenance of the house and furnishings to clothing and personal hygiene. These perspectives on high society environments are quite rare, so it is important to publish an issue in the series entitled "Everyday life on Grönsööö", which is estimated to comprise about 100 pages, based on Carl Gustaf von Ehrenheim's detailed memories, relevant material in the Grönsöö archive, and records in the Nordic Museum's archive.
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Trossholmen, Ninni |
Ethnological Association of West Sweden |
Partille mansion through the ages - cultural-historical considerations |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
My interest in Partille and its mansion was awakened during my several years of work with the district of Utby, which until 1928 belonged to Partille before it was incorporated into Gothenburg. While working on Utby, many people and events that could be directly linked to Partille Manor appeared, which increased my curiosity about the building and its history. While other mansions in western Sweden appear to be fairly well documented, Partille Manor does not seem to have attracted the same attention.
The emergence and development of the manor over time and not least the varying ownership conditions, which in turn may have left their mark on the design of the building, its inherent atmosphere and life in the surrounding community, seems to be a fascinating story and very important to document and tell for posterity.
Through our research, my colleague Dr. Eva Wolf and I intend to shed light on the unique cultural-historical character of Partille Manor.
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Strannegård, Claes |
Chalmers University of Technology |
From special to general artificial intelligence |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: 256 000 SEK
Today there are AI programs that can drive a car, beat the world go champion and write summaries of medical research papers. There are also industrial robots that can work very efficiently in precisely designed environments. These successes are largely due to the relatively new technology of deep learning, which is based on artificial nervous systems.
Despite many impressive advances, deep learning and current AI techniques have major limitations. Problems that are simple for humans are often impossible for today's AI programs. For example, there are no household robots today that can help with dishes, laundry and cleaning in our homes. Building such robots requires a radical increase in the adaptability of AI systems. One difficulty in this context is that deep learning generally uses fixed architectures that must be tailored by programmers for each individual application. In this way, severe limitations are built into the systems from the start.
In projects, we start from the unique ability of animals to adapt to different environments. Our approach is to mimic a number of fundamental mechanisms for how animals learn and make decisions. In particular, we mimic the malleability of natural nervous systems, resulting in a dynamic architecture that constantly adapts to new situations. The project is a collaboration between researchers in cognitive science, dynamical systems and biology from Chalmers, Harvard University (USA) and Deakin University (Australia).
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Quinlan, Meghan |
Uppsala University |
Political songs in France 1226-1270 |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: 247 500 SEK
Louis IX of France (reigned 1226-1270) is one of France's most idealized kings, a position confirmed by his canonization in 1297. Nevertheless, his reign was affected by controversies and challenges from the nobility, which gave rise, among other things, to political songs (serventois) preserved in songbooks from the end of the 12th century. These serventois were created from existing trouvères (the northern French equivalent of the troubadours in the south) and not only used the original melodies, but also quote and allude to important parts of the original text of the melody in a way that transforms the court songs into political rhetoric.
My project examines these political songs during the reign of Louis IX, 1226-1270. During this time, the kingdom was at times ruled by the queen mother Blanche de Castile while the king was still a minor and later when he was on crusade. Therefore, several songs are aimed at Blanche and her policies. Both Louis and Blanche implemented a number of controversial centralizing reforms that undermined the nobility. The nobles responded by, among other things, creating satirical songs that attacked the king and his advisors, portraying Blanche as a gender hybrid and a powerful ruler who challenged the masculinity and traditional values of the nobility.
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Pihlgren, Victoria |
Linköping University |
Farriers and veterinarians in Swedish regiments in the 19th century |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 320 000
The application concerns a historical research project on the activities of regimental farriers and veterinarians in 19th century Sweden. Horses were a central part of the 19th century infrastructure, not least in the military, before mechanization finally took over in society. The horse was a resource that to a large extent provided the conditions for many activities, but has nevertheless been largely forgotten in historiography. The first trained veterinarians in Sweden were often employed by regiments and could also serve as farriers, but we do not know enough in detail about their activities. At the beginning of the 19th century, these professions were not entirely distinct from each other. The aim is to deepen the picture of how the military activities shaped the development of the farrier and veterinary professions and also how the interaction with the surrounding civilian society worked, including the relationship with the medical profession. The 19th century saw profound social, technological and scientific (medical) changes in society. Military activities still permeated society to a large extent, both at local and national level. The research project therefore contributes to linking military history with cultural and medical history. This knowledge is needed, partly to understand how a particular activity, its practice and specific needs, shape the development of knowledge and society, and partly to be able to reconstruct and understand how boundaries and interfaces between professions and different disciplines arise.
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Parker, Kerstin |
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The Jews in Linnaeus City |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
During the period 1850-1914, a Jewish group immigrated to Gothenburg from Russia and settled in Linnaeus City. The Russian Jews were fleeing pogroms, anti-Semitism, poverty, poor living conditions and military service. Because they were so poor, many of them had to stay in Gothenburg to earn the money for the ticket and some of them stayed.
The group differed from the Swedish Jews who had immigrated around a century earlier. They were poor, orthodox, spoke Yiddish and had a colorful folklore culture. Initially, many settled in Haga and rented beds. Later, when their financial situation improved, they moved to the stone houses on Linnégatan, Olivedalsgatan and other addresses. Many of them also continued with the work they had done in Russia, i.e. as craftsmen and farm traders. Eventually they were able to open shops and businesses, some of which became successful.
The Russian immigrants left their mark on the neighborhood. They built an Orthodox synagogue, known as a minyan, which was located at Andra Långgatan 6 for a long time. There was also a kosher shop, a bakery, several Jewish shops and associations, and not least an amateur theater group that put on plays in Yiddish. The Russian Jews left their mark on the neighborhood.
Despite the harshness of life in Russia, culture flourished. It was here that Yiddish writers, Isaac B Singer and Marc Chagall had their roots and brought Russian Jewish culture to the West.
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Olsson, Agneta |
Västra Frölunda pastorate |
Styrsö Chamber Soloists |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
To support new activities in the field of folk and world music, particularly aimed at new audiences.
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Olsen, Kim |
University of Gothenburg |
The bailiffs, the networks and the collection institution |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 124 667
In 1693, shortly before his death, the then Governor-General Rutger von Ascheberg wrote an account of his time as Governor-General of Scania (1680-1693) and the efforts of his predecessors (1658-1679) in the same post. Ascheberg pointed out that the time before him, i.e. the first period under Swedish rule after the Peace of Roskilde in 1658, when Scania was transferred to Sweden from Denmark, had been fraught with hardship when the governor-general's office was to be established in Scania. This changed when Ascheberg took over as governor-general, and by the time he wrote his report, the governor-general's office had already been successfully established. In plain language, this meant that Scania had been provided with a fully functioning Swedish administration and the traces of the previous Danish administration had been virtually swept away. In a contemporary European perspective, this was something quite unique, as the norm was that newly conquered areas kept large parts of their administration intact and in cases where attempts were made to adapt the administration, it took a long time and many compromises had to be made along the way. The success in Skåne thus needs to be explained. Previous research has clarified Skåne's formal Swedification, but little is known about how it happened in practice. The following doctoral project aims to do this through a case study focusing on the work of the bailiffs - strategies and opportunities - to introduce and establish a Swedish tax system in Skåne 1658-1700, the very foundation of other state activities.
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Nyberg, Klas |
Stockholm University |
Elsa Gullberg - textile pioneer |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The book Elsa Gullberg - Textile Pioneer is probably Dr. Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark's last book. Gullberg was a family friend and a guest at the many parties for artists, museum people and architects held in the Stavenow home. Elisabet got to know Elsa's children and they met regularly for many years. During Gullberg's last active period, Elisabeth made visits and took the opportunity to collect material.
Elsa Gullberg (1886-1949) studied at the Technical School and worked at the Association for Swedish Handicrafts. She spent her money on study trips in Europe, and in 1913 she visited Germany with the Deutscher Werkbund in Hellerau. There she came into contact with the radical aesthetic ideas of creating industrial goods of the same quality as handmade ones. In 1917 she was hired by the Svenska Slöjdföreningen to put these ideas into practice. She was appointed head of Förmedlingsbyrån, the Slöjdförening's tool for a 'more beautiful everyday product' for the people. Together with Erik Wettergren, she brought Edward Hald to Rörstrand's porcelain factory, Wilhelm Kåge to Gustafsberg's porcelain factory, Edvin Ollers to Kosta Glassworks and Arhur Percy to Gefle's porcelain factory. For the Kåberg wallpaper factory, she arranged for Carl Malmsten, Gunnar Asplund and Uno Åhrén to make designs. In 1927, Elsa Gullberg founded Sweden's first modern interior design company. The book is based on an extensive archive, textile samples donated to the National Museum by her daughter Medann G. The interior design archive is stored in the National Archives.
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Nyberg, Gudrun |
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Crafts & Design - One hundred years in Gothenburg |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: 136 000 SEK
In preparation for Gothenburg's 400th anniversary in 2021, a series of nine volumes will be published, depicting the city's development over the last hundred years. They cover Medicine, Fiction, Learning & Education, Art, Cityscape, Sports, Crafts & Design, Small Industries and the Stage. The book on arts and crafts begins with an overview of the Röhsska Museum's changing policy on collecting and exhibitions during the period. In addition, six art historians discuss crafts at the 1923 Jubilee Exhibition in Gothenburg, the home furnishing company Boet, the development of jewelry art, fashion exhibitions at the Röhsska Museum, textile art and crafts collectives. The book will be richly illustrated in color.
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Norrhem, Svante |
Lund University |
Alliance partner or subject? Sweden and French subsidies 1630-1800 |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 148 000
The manuscript deals with French subsidies to Sweden in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is known that Sweden received subsidies from France during parts of the 17th and 18th centuries, but most people do not know that it was 89 out of a total of 166 years from 1631 to 1796. The present study deals with the reasons why France during the period 1631-1796 repeatedly and for long periods gave Sweden subsidies, and the reasons why Sweden received them. Furthermore, the manuscript deals in detail with the effects of the French-Swedish subsidy relationship in Sweden in particular. Subsidies were part of the early modern period's way of creating alliances and therefore the French-Swedish relationship is placed in a larger international perspective where alliances with Sweden became part of a French great power strategy.
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Nordqvist, Bengt |
Archaeology sacrifice site Finnestorp |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 495 900
During 2000-2012, research investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. A site that turns out to contain a find material that belongs to the category - "the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era" and it belongs to one of the more important remains from Nordic prehistory. At Offerplats Finnestorp, warrior after warrior has been sacrificed along with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These powerful men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords and shiny gold horse equipment. Magnificent objects of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time. The ongoing research work includes international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book and a popular science book.
The metallurgical analysis shows that the objects were made by highly skilled smiths. Lead isotope analysis shows that the copper ores used can be traced to the north of England.
Two book volumes on Finnestorp will be completed in 2018. These are the magnum opus (I and II) - "Fynden i fokus" (section horse equipment) and - a "Coffee Table Book". The third publication presents the results of the investigation of the gold neck ring from Bragnum, the gold neck collar from Möne, and several side projects. The upcoming isotope analyses concern studies of horse and human teeth. The purpose of these analyses is to shed light on the important question of provenance and geographical mobility.
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Nilsson, Isabella |
Royal Academy for the Liberal Arts |
Publication of the 1806 Library of the Academy of Fine Arts |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 300 000
Thanks to generous grants from the Söderberg Foundations in 2001 and 2007, the internationally important art and architecture library at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts was preserved and housed in the room furnished by member Åke Axelsson. The collection has a unique core of study and teaching material from the 18th and early 19th centuries, and the 1806 library contains around 1200 books of considerable value.
An important cataloging of the collection is currently being completed, which has been made possible by support from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. The fact that this cataloging can then be the subject of a publication also increases our country's reputation in international research, in cultural history with its various branches of art, learning and book history, but also in libraries, antiquarian bookshops and auction houses worldwide. The publication would offer an overview of a representative selection of the more important older art and architecture literature that contemporary databases can never provide. The printed publication of around 600 pages will be illustrated with beautiful photographs and will begin with a short text on the history of the Academy and the collection.
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Neuding Skoog, Martin |
The National Defence College |
Military entrepreneurs in 16th century Sweden |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: 465 000 SEK
This research project studies mercenaries as economic actors in the Baltic Sea region's early modern recruitment market. In recent years, the study of military entrepreneurs has received considerable international attention. The aim of the research is to study the market with a focus on the Scottish, English, German, Livonian and Dutch mercenaries who served the Swedish crown during this period.
The role of military contractors in the Baltic Sea region is a relatively unresolved issue. The study examines the contracts, service conditions and profit margins of military contractors, their careers, social conditions and geographical mobility, the function of recruitment agents and the role of international political networks in the procurement of soldiers during the many wars of the period.
The overall objective is to try to move away from the national perspective that has long dominated military history research. Instead, I want to highlight the function and importance of the international military market for the expansive foreign policy in the east, which the Swedish crown initiated during this period. The study generates new knowledge about geographical and social mobility, about economic and fiscal problems, and about changing political networks in the Baltic Sea region. The results also shed light on the dynamics of the older Swedish state formation process, with the potential to redefine the usual picture of Sweden's path to great power.
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Maassen, Barbro |
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Diary of an Ingarö farmer, 1860-1914 |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
In the diary, we follow Axel Wennberg in his daily work, meet the girls he loved, read about dancing and card games, about the happiness of his young children, about illness, death, grief and worry. He went to Stockholm to sell herring, medicinal plants and agricultural products and to make his own purchases. He rowed, sailed, skated and walked. He traveled by steamboat all or part of the way, by horse and cart on bad roads, and by sled across ice-covered bays. The steamboats brought summer guests to the farm. As director of the poorhouse and foster father, he lets us meet the vulnerability of many people. It was a time of migration and emigration. A time of great change, but where most things at home on the island remained the same. The notes give the reader fragments of life on Ingarö. Wennberg wrote for his own sake, to give structure to his everyday work and for his desire to tell stories. Based on the notes, other sources, literature and contacts, I have created a context and give the reader a picture of people's everyday life and living conditions in a Stockholm archipelago during the years 1860-1914, a time of great social change. Dr. Hedvig Schönbäck writes "the manuscript deserves to be a book because it is a story not only about the individuals but also about a Sweden that no longer exists".
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Ljungström, Viveka |
Research and Progress |
Publication of the journal Forskning & Framsteg in 2019 |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: 49 280 SEK
The project concerns the publication of the journal Forskning & Framsteg in 2019. The purpose of the journal is to report on research and research results and the role of research in society. The topics and research results that are highlighted should primarily be of interest to society. Forskning & Framsteg should operate at the forefront of knowledge, be general education, deserve high credibility and be made with the reader in focus.
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Lagerkvist, Cajsa |
Mölndal Municipality/Mölndal City Museum |
Time travel 3: Fylgia for the future |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 520 000
In the fall of 2011, the Mölndal City Museum launched the digital adventure game Fylgja, based on the project Tidsresan, with support from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. The aim of the game was to bring ancient worlds to life through experience-based learning. The player is taken on an adventure in the Bronze and Iron Ages. The starting point of the story is two existing archaeological sites and all the material in the game is based on solid research work, where museums, archaeologists and experts from all over the Nordic region have contributed their expertise and material.
The game was developed for Mac and PC computers and has been widely used in schools since its launch. Fylgia continues to attract an audience and is requested by schools as well as other museums in the country. However, technological developments have meant that the game is no longer adapted to either tablets or touchscreens, so its use is slowly declining. Therefore, the game now needs to be translated into the tools used today through reprogramming. Fylgia will then be available for download as an app in the App-Store. The purpose of the project Tidsresan 3: Fylgia for the future is thus to secure the solid work that has been done in the Tidsresan project and make the Fylgia game ready to accompany the digital journey for several years to come.
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Kvicklund, Karin |
Tjolöholm Castle |
The book about Tjolöholm Castle |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 400 000
The purpose of the project is to clarify and make accessible the significance and special position of Tjolöholm Castle in Swedish architectural and cultural history through in-depth texts and illustrations compiled in book form. The Tjolöholm estate is a remarkable facility created with clear visions and artistic goals, rooted in an exciting art history. In 1898-1904, the castle and its associated workers' village and church were built as a work of art based on the trends of the time: Arts and Crafts, National Romanticism and the Aesthetic Movement. Today it is a well-visited and growing destination with a high ambition to convey its unique cultural history. The facility is unique in Sweden and attracts international interest. To deepen and broaden the knowledge of the Arts and Crafts movement's impact in Sweden and the uniqueness of Tjolöholm Castle, a book should be compiled about Tjolöholm. The intended author is Elisabeth Svalin Gunnarsson, a well-known writer/author in the field. The ambition is to investigate Tjolöholm from several perspectives: architectural, cultural history, art history of the garden and interiors, and personal history of both the lords and servants. Within these areas, the author highlights Tjolöholm with the help of in-depth discussions and interviews with researchers and relevant people. The book is also intended for an international audience through a parallel English text.
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Klackenberg, Day |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2019 |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The Swedish History Days is a non-profit organization with the purpose of creating annual opportunities for contacts between representatives of historical research, practitioners in the museum world and archive institutions, history teachers and a public interested in history. The purpose of the association is to, in collaboration with member organizations and other co-organizers, be responsible for the program activities within the framework of the history days and develop these into an annual opportunity for contacts and thus increase the historical knowledge of as many groups in society as possible. The ambition is therefore to present historical subjects and historical research in a way that is at a popular science level but also accessible to participants without specialist training.
For many history teachers, the History Days have become the main, even the only, opportunity for continuing education, especially in terms of reconnecting with the research community, and for historians, this forum provides a unique and widely appreciated opportunity to make new research results available. Several of the lectures are published in printed form.
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Johnny, Hagberg |
Skara Stiftshistoriska Sällskap |
The Old Swedish Legend. Edition and translation |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
With the edition of the Old Swedish Legend, in translation and with commentary, this important medieval work is published for the first time in its complete form. The text is a cornerstone in our knowledge and understanding of the early Swedish language and writing. It is also an early work of church history that is important both in Sweden and internationally.
That one of our country's foremost connoisseurs of the early Swedish language, Professor Per-Axel Wiktorsson, has now translated this large and important work can be considered a significant scientific achievement. It is published in four solid volumes totaling 1600 pages by the Diocesan Historical Society of Skara. In this way, a medieval text will become possible to study and get to know for a wider public.
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Johansson, Anders |
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Malcolm Munthe - myths and mysteries of the Anglo-Swedish war hero |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
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Hell, Ann-Charlotte |
Kungl. Musical Academies |
Publication of works by Wilhelm Stenhammar in source-critical note editions |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The pianist and conductor Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927) is one of Sweden's foremost composers of all time. He was also one of the driving forces behind the development of 20th century modern music in Sweden, not least in Gothenburg, where he became chief conductor of the Gothenburg Orchestra Society in 1907.
His works for orchestra, his chamber music, his songs and his piano works are of the highest international standard and belong to the very best of the Swedish musical heritage. Despite his high artistic level, large parts of his musical creation are unknown territory for most people. This is largely due to the fact that his music can be difficult to obtain, and in many cases is only available in autographs. Several of his most important works still exist only in manuscript or in older - not always reliable - editions of sheet music. It is therefore extremely important to make these treasures from our Swedish musical heritage available and bring them to life in a professional and modern way.
The promotion of Wilhelm Stenhammar's music through source-critical sheet music editions will not only benefit Swedish music at home and internationally, it will also put Gothenburg even more clearly on the map as a cultural city of rank.
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Günther, Stefan |
Mölndal municipality/Gunnebo castle |
Furnishing the garden cave in the Gunnebo orangery |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 300 000
Gunnebo Castle was built in 1782-1796 for the merchant John Hall to the designs of Gothenburg city architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg. It was one of Sweden's most lavish mansions with surrounding gardens and pavilions at the end of the 18th century, but the estate fell into disrepair after a bankruptcy in 1807. The last surrounding buildings disappeared in 1833, beginning a long period of decay. Carlberg's surviving drawings have enabled parts of Gunnebo to be recreated throughout the 20th century and into the present day. In 1996, the project "Gunnebo back to the 18th century", now more than two decades long, was launched and since then the wings, servants' quarters, greenhouses, kitchen gardens, trellis, balustrades and urns in the French garden and the castle's façade have been reconstructed.
The most ambitious reconstruction, the recreation of the Gunnebo Orangery, started in 2013 and is expected to be completed in 2020. The orangery was the main park pavilion, a building for both utility and pleasure. In the southern wing with two corner pavilions, exotic plants were overwintered. The western wing contained lavish parlors with an ornate portico facing the park and a garden grotto in the northern pavilion.
Preserved drawings show that the cave's brickwork and flat dome (completed in 2015) will be covered with stucco in the form of dripstone, rocailles and a mixture of minerals, fossils, shells, glass and reliefs. Gunnebo Palace and Gardens is now recreating the interior of the orangery's garden cave.
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Fischer, Peter |
University of Gothenburg, Friends of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition |
The Söderberge expedition: the economic center of a Bronze Age city |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 191 000
The 2010-2018 South Mountain Expedition excavations have been carried out at Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus, which with a size of 50 hectares constituted one of the largest Bronze Age cities in the Mediterranean. The results of the excavations are now published in book form (Åströms förlag, Uppsala, 2018). The findings have attracted considerable international interest (TV, radio and newspapers). Geophysical exploration in 2017-2018 led to the discovery of the largest continuous city block to date (at least 120x100 m): a rectangular street system leading to the nearby harbor connects massive stone buildings. Their size suggests that they served a function as administrative complexes. Test excavations in 2018 exposed a bathroom with an advanced hydrological structure and a 20 m long corridor with a large number of 1-2 m high ceramic vessels for olive oil, wine and water. Purple paint, one of the most expensive products of the time, was also stored there. The findings suggest that the economic heart of the city has been found. Trade was the backbone of the city's economy, based on locally produced copper and purple cloth and access to the most protected port in Cyprus. Imports point to trade with Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, Greece/Crete, Italy and Central and Northern Europe in the period 1600-1100 BC. Cypriot copper was found in Sweden and Denmark, for example, during the Bronze Age. The expedition now plans to uncover some of the buildings to study the city's economic system and trade with other cultures.
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Bortolozzi, Anna |
National Museum |
Catalog of the Italian architectural drawings in the Cronstedt collection |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
The purpose of the application is a scholarly catalog of 180 Italian architectural drawings from c. 1575-1620 previously owned by the architect Carl Johan Cronstedt (1707-1777). The catalog presents new proposals for identification and attribution based on current research and careful examination of the material properties of the drawings. The publication will contribute significantly to the knowledge of architecture in Rome around 1600. The first section (110 issues) documents ancient Roman buildings (the Pantheon, the temples of the Roman Forum, the Marcellus Theater, the Triumphal Arch of Constantine and others) as well as works by the most famous architects of the modern Renaissance, such as Bramante and Michelangelo. The second main group of the catalog consists of 70 original projects by Roman architects, including Carlo Maderno and Francesco da Volterra, dated around 1590-1620. These are projects for churches, palaces, gardens, fountains and more, which constitute almost completely unknown sources of Roman architecture. The intention is to publish the volume in 2019 with the German publishing house Hatje Cantz, with which Nationalmuseum has established a collaboration on research publications for some years.
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Borgehammar, Stephan |
Frontside Chamber Music Association |
Frontside - Gothenburg International Chamber Music Festival |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
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Björk Lindahl, Maja |
Gothenburg City Museum |
Catalogue for an exhibition on fashion from a cultural and historical perspective |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 205 000
The City Museum's warehouse holds a treasure in the form of a very extensive collection of clothes. Rarities from the 17th century are interspersed with dozens of items such as bodices and well-worn v-jeans. The sensitivity of the textiles to light, climate and wear makes the collection very demanding to exhibit.
The museum is now investing heavily in an upcoming exhibition and catalog on the theme of historical fashion. By following fashion from 1850 to 1970, we can show a collective history. On an individual level, it has gradually given us greater freedom to express ourselves on our own terms through our clothes. We move from the 1850s industrialization and migration from the countryside to Gothenburg, and on to the 20th century's continuing tug-of-war between tradition and modernity. The catalog and exhibition will explore the link between fashion and the difference in living space that people from different parts of society have had.
The catalogue plays an important role in the documentation of the exhibited objects, especially after the end of the exhibition, when the objects are made available for research purposes and a larger audience for a longer period of time. Supporting texts are written by the museum's experts and the texts are edited in a popular science style to reach a wide audience. High-quality photography and printing are essential for this type of image-based product.
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Bjerrhede, Staffan |
Kållereds hembygdsförening |
Kållereds hembygdsarkiv |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
To enable local and genealogical research based on Kållered parish, Mölndal, the newly built archive will now be furnished with archive shelves. In the homestead Långåker, an archive of about 40 square meters has been built to accommodate the association's current collections and also for future archive documents. The main part of the archive consists of farm documents and farm monographs arranged by Karl Bjernerstad through a grant from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. A second grant was awarded to Staffan Bjerrhede, who organized the large archive from the Sagered farm and researched its connection to the East India Company in Gothenburg. The association's approximately 4000 photos will also be added to this. Thereafter, the archive can be kept open for research by local and genealogical researchers and hopefully by others interested in history.
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Bergman, Lars |
Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt |
Censored letters of the Carolinian prisoners |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: 449 000 SEK
After the Swedish defeats in 1709 in what is now Ukraine, 23 000 Carolinians were taken into Russian captivity. They ended up in various parts of Russia, including Siberia. Many were well educated and were needed for various tasks. They organized building projects and founded schools that also attracted Russian students from leading families. The Swedes were generally appreciated. Many went into hiding after the end of the peace, while others remained voluntarily. The vast majority, however, were constantly longing for home. Some fled, many died of starvation and hardship.
The Carolinians' life in captivity is described in diaries and letters, some of which have been published. However, several letters never reached their addressees in Sweden or Russia because they were caught up in the censorship. But many were archived, and these can now be studied after the Russian archives were opened in the 1990s.
The project was carried out with financial support from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation in 2015, 2017 and 2018. Previously unknown letters have been located in Russian archives, copied and digitized. Scientific analysis is ongoing. More letters than expected have been found. These are of a state law and national policy nature or purely private. They are written in Swedish and German, some in French or Latin. Since their content was previously unknown, they can be expected to shed new light on the conditions at the time. After the peace of 1721, a new Sweden was emerging. The letters were written during a crucial period of change.
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Aspeborg, Håkan |
Lund University |
The emergence of a central place - actors, settlements and landscape around Uppåkra |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 440 000
Uppåkra is a unique Iron Age site. It is Sweden's largest settlement from the period and has existed for about 1000 years. In Uppåkra, an enormous amount of finds have been found and with great variety. These include outstanding exclusive finds of precious metal, glass and other materials. The finds are partly made on the site but also come from the surrounding area, neighboring regions and the continent. The site has been a political and religious center of the highest order. It was the residence of a chieftain or king. Why does this site emerge in the century before Christ and how did it persist throughout the turbulent Iron Age? These are the questions I will try to answer. I will do so by studying Iron Age settlements in the vicinity of Uppåkra. The people on these farms and villages should have been influenced and interacted economically and socially with the rulers of Uppåkra. My thesis is that these farms are an important part of the background to the existence of Uppåkra.
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Andersson, Stig |
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A history of health care from a primary care perspective with Värmland as an example |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The major epidemics and common diseases are described. For most of history, academic doctors served only the elite. When ordinary people fell ill, they turned to local healers and midwives or to itinerant clerks, barbers and medicine men. In the 18th century, priests were made responsible for the health of the population. Until the end of the 19th century, doctors and midwives worked in patients' homes. Hospitals and clinics served mainly as places of detention. From the turn of the 20th century onwards, modern, specialized hospitals emerged. During the 19th century, a number of biomedical discoveries were made and new examination methods were developed. The nursing profession was established and midwives were employed across the country. A lively debate on sexuality, prostitution, abortion and contraception took off and reached its peak in the following century. The great fight against tuberculosis in the 20th century is given a lot of attention. The discovery of sulfa, penicillin and insulin and the development of drugs for cardiovascular diseases are described, as is the plight of the mentally handicapped and the mentally ill. The role of women in the predominantly patriarchal history of health care is highlighted. A number of strong players among midwives, early female doctors and nurses are presented.The final part describes the emergence of contemporary primary care with its opportunities and challenges. It also presents the criticism that modern medicine has been subjected to.
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Ahlbom, Katinka |
The Royal Library |
Gesta Danorum with notes by Olaus and Johannes Magnus |
Other |
2018 |
Amount granted: SEK 480 000
Churchman Olaus Magnus' handwritten account of the Stockholm bloodbath has been found in a unique and previously unknown copy of the Danish chronicle Gesta danorum. The Gesta danorum ('The exploits of the Danes') was written by the historian Saxo Grammaticus, who worked in Denmark in the 12th century. The work itself is one of the most important sources of early Danish and Scandinavian history, but the copy of the first edition from 1514 acquired by KB is also of great importance for Sweden. It was used by the brothers Olaus and Johannes Magnus, who later published their own important works on Swedish history.
Extensive marginal notes in Latin reveal which parts of the Gesta danorum were of particular interest to the two history-writing brothers. Even more remarkably, the book contains Olaus Magnus's handwritten account of the Stockholm bloodbath of 1520 - probably one of the earliest sources on the event. It can be related to a similar passage in his great work 'History of the Nordic Peoples'. Moreover, both Olaus and his brother John, who published the 'History of all the kings of the Goths and Swedes', frequently refer to Saxo Grammaticus in their works. In 1519, their working copy was donated to the Birgitta House in Rome. Subsequently, the book ended up in a Carthusian monastery in Avignon. During the French Revolution, the monastery library was seized, and the volume probably hit the book market in the mid-19th century.
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Ralph, Bo |
The Swedish Academy |
Olaus Magnus 'Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus', original edition 1555 |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
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Josephsson, Olle |
Swedish Humanist Association |
Around the Roman Empire in 480 days. Yearbook Svenska Humanistiska Förbundet 2018 |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The book Around the Roman Empire in 480 Days is arranged as a fictional journey through virtually the entire Roman Empire. The aim is to offer readers an easy-to-read description of the ancient Roman Empire in its size and diversity.
The two main characters of the text, Quintus and Sextus, have not been given clear character traits but are mainly used to focus the reader's attention on different places along the journey. At the same time, they are both allowed to react to what they see. In doing so, they help the reader to perhaps empathize with the reality that the two fictional travelers may have experienced during the journey.
The men's journey is believed to take place during the latter part of the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius (he reigned from 138 to 161 AD), i.e. the journey took place sometime in the 150s AD. At that time, the Roman Empire was still at the height of its power. The two travelers themselves would have considered that they traveled in the early 9th century, counting as the Romans did from the foundation of Rome (which they dated to 753 BC).
Images and maps have been included in the text to help understand what the two men experienced on their journey. Obviously, however, the images reflect what can be seen today, not what the travelers saw during their journey. Similarly, the maps presented are the result of modern knowledge. The book has 18 chapters. |
Hansson, Ulf R. |
The Swedish Institute in Rome |
Professor Axel Boëthius, Gothenburg and (the study of) antiquity |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 240 000
The application concerns a pilot study on the classical archaeologist Axel Boëthius (1889-1969) who was one of the main actors in the establishment of the study of antiquity and its early professional and institutional history at the University of Gothenburg, later the University. Boëthius was also the university's rector during the period 1946-51, during an important phase shortly before its transformation into a university. The project is based on extensive unpublished archival material (correspondence, notes, photographs, etc.) of considerable institutional, disciplinary and local historical interest. As Boëthius was, and still is, a major name internationally, the study is expected to attract both national and international interest. However, the pilot study focuses on his broad leadership, research and educational activities at the University of Gothenburg and in local cultural and educational circles in Gothenburg. Special interest is given to Boëthius' extensive network of contacts and involvement in the transformation of the college into a university. The results will be presented in a scientific article and an exhibition in conjunction with the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the City of Gothenburg and the 130th anniversary of the University of Gothenburg in 2021. The pilot study is a stand-alone part of a larger, multi-year project that aims at a systematic mapping and critical analysis of Boëthius' broad institutional and professional achievements and legacy, as well as the full digitization and electronic open access publication of Boëthius' personal archive. |
Strannegård, Claes |
Chalmers University of Technology |
From special to general artificial intelligence |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: 414 000 SEK
Alan Turing laid the foundation for the modern computer in the 1930s, building machines that could break secret codes and play chess. In doing so, he also founded the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The 2010s have seen significant developments in AI. For example, there are now programs that can drive a car, beat the world go champion and write summaries of medical research papers.
Despite many impressive advances, modern AI programs still have major limitations. Problems that are easy for humans to solve are often impossible for AI programs. For example, there are no household robots today that can help with the dishes, laundry and cleaning in our homes. On the other hand, there are industrial robots that can work in precisely designed and predictable environments. The problem is that modern AI programs have very limited adaptability. This is because they are equipped with a fixed architecture that is then trained once and for all to perform a specific task. Thus, severe limitations are built into the systems from the start.
In this project, we start from the unique ability of animals to adapt to different environments. Our approach is to mimic a number of fundamental mechanisms for how animals learn and make decisions. In particular, we mimic the plasticity of natural nervous systems, providing a dynamic architecture that constantly adapts to new situations. The project is a collaboration between researchers from Chalmers and Harvard. |
Gustafsson, Sofia |
Linköping University |
Joen Petri Klint's book of yarns |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 152 625
Texts from the second half of the sixteenth century often express the idea that natural phenomena such as comets, the northern lights and weather suns are omens that warn of coming misfortunes. Deformities in humans and animals could also be perceived as signs of doom, as could fictional visions of dragons or fighting Turks in the sky.
Recent research has highlighted that texts on the signs of the zodiac were mostly written by representatives of the Protestant church, expressing the view that the signs were sent by God to warn of the coming punishment of sin and ultimately the apocalypse. From being regarded as a ridiculous interest among older peoples, the doctrine of signs has been recognized as a central component of early Lutheranism.
In Sweden, there is a manuscript created by Joen Petri Klint, a vicar in Östergötland at the end of the 16th century. In 400 pages, it describes iron signs in words and pictures. My studies have shown the clear connection between this and other similar texts from different parts of Europe at the same time. The leaves of the manuscript have been bound in a completely different order than they were originally. Therefore, I have tried to restore the order digitally and found that the manuscript mainly deals with iron signs between 1550 and 1601, presented in chronological order. The project aims to complete a transcription of the manuscript and to present my research on Joen Petri Klint and his book of yarns. |
Kärfve, Fanny |
Lund University |
Roman greetings. A study in Pompeian entrance mosaics |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 205 000
For those familiar with Pompeii, the mosaic with the guard dog and its Latin inscription Cave canem (Warning of the dog) is a well-known symbol of the Roman city that was fatally buried in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. Less well known is that this entrance mosaic is not the only one of its kind from Pompeii.
For the Roman official, the atrium was a place for both private life and public light. In the morning, the doors to the house could be left open and show the entrance fauces as well as the atrium, for example during the salutatio when the house owner was being courted by his clients. Some house owners chose to present themselves at the threshold with a mosaic floor, as is the case with some 30 in Pompeii.
In my doctoral thesis in Ancient Culture and Society, Greeting the visitor in Pompeii. Roman fauces mosaics contextualized, I have collected all the fauces mosaics in Pompeii with the aim of gaining new knowledge about the entrance of the atrium house as a borderland between the street space and the private property - both public spheres, albeit in different ways. The black-and-white mosaics are dated from the Late Republic to the Early Imperial period (c. 80 BC-79 AD). The iconography includes both figurative and ornamental motifs as well as Latin inscriptions. Based on studies of mosaic iconography, the function of the entrance and the location of the houses in the city, I ask the main question of whether the mosaics, more than other art forms, reflected the house owner's own voice in a dialog with the outside world. |
Shot, Mia |
Uppsala University |
Wallpaper makers - self-sufficient and skilled in 18th-century Stockholm |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 116 667
The thesis "Tapetmakerskorna - Självförsörjande och skickliga i 1700-talets Stockholm" contributes with new and in-depth knowledge about women's independent professional activities in Swedish early modern times. One of the most important results is that gender influenced the activities of the wallpaper makers to a much lesser extent than would be expected from previous research.
In the middle of the 18th century, women painted and printed wallpapers in Stockholm, in their own name and with the permission of the Hall- and Manufakturrätten. This authority's rich source material includes records of the form and sometimes conditions of the permits, the organization and workforce of the wallpaper makers, and how many wallpapers were produced. With additional material from the Manufakturkontoret and Kommerskollegium, as well as biographical sources, I can draw individual portraits of the wallpaper makers and conduct a deep comparative gender analysis.
Using this thorough source review, I answer questions about both law and practice:
- What was the legal context of the wallpaper makers and how was it gendered?
- who were the wallpaper makers and what were their activities?
- how can the possibilities and limitations of the wallpaper makers be explained (using gender and intersectionalist theory)?
- from a larger theoretical perspective, why did the wallpaper makers exist at all in a seemingly male-dominated professional world? |
Jönsson, Love |
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Book on the ceramicist Ryozo Miki |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The project aims to publish a book on the ceramicist Ryozo Miki, a Japanese-Swedish ceramicist born in Osaka in 1942 and active in Sweden and Denmark since 1966. Despite his half-century of activity in Scandinavia, Ryozo Miki still works in a typically Japanese style. His well-turned, resilient stoneware vessels are often adorned with quickly executed calligraphic decorations. In his sculptures and reliefs, he cultivates a somewhat lighter, sometimes humorous spirit with people, birds and fish as recurring motifs. During his years in Sweden and Denmark, Ryozo Miki has had solo exhibitions at major institutions such as the Museum of Decorative Arts in Copenhagen, the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg and the Porcelain Museum in Gustavsberg. Yet he has remained something of a doldrums in ceramics. No book or even exhibition catalog about his work has ever been published.
It is urgent that Ryozo Miki's work be documented in book form. The book would fill a gap in the existing literature on post-war Swedish ceramics and introduce a distinctive and original artist to a wider audience. The planned book on Ryozo Miki will describe both his upbringing and education in Japan and his professional life in Sweden and Denmark. Authors Love Jönsson and Petter Eklund have both followed the artist's work for several years, and have previously, both individually and together, published several books on modern and contemporary ceramics. |
Malmstedt, Göran |
University of Gothenburg |
An enchanted world |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
"An Enchanted World" examines the Bohuslän witchcraft trials of 1669-1672 and the ideas about the world that formed the basis for belief in witchcraft and other supernatural powers, both before and after the time of the great witch trials. The presentation is based on the many statements made by witnesses and accused in the detailed protocols of the searches. The design and course of the Bohuslän trials are dealt with in the introductory part of the book, while other parts deal with various aspects of the world of imagination and the perception of reality at the time. Among the topics covered are perceptions of the relationship between dream and reality, notions of shape-shifting, supernatural soul forces and the magical power of words, and the images of God and the devil that appear in the accounts of witnesses and the accused. |
Botwid, Katarina |
Lund University |
Cemeteries and farms - life and death in the Swedish Bronze Age |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: 143 500 SEK
In the project Grave Fields and Farms - Life and Death in the Swedish Bronze Age, grave field ceramics are being revitalized through studies of material from the Norrköping area. New settlements are currently being excavated. The possibility of linking the new excavations with previously researched burial sites such as Fiskeby and Ringeby and large Bronze Age settlements such as the nearby Pryssgården makes the project particularly interesting. The investigation sheds new light on the craftsmen who worked and lived on the farms and who placed their cremated relatives in burial urns. The area around Bråviken's inlet from the Baltic Sea is known for its extensive Bronze Age remains and, not least, it is a rich rock carving area. The new method used in the project is craft interpretation, which provides knowledge of the ancient potter and the craft. The analysis is carried out by the applicant himself, who is both a doctor of archaeology and a professional potter. Investigating the level of knowledge of ancient potters has yielded interesting results, including an earlier study of artifacts from Pryssgården, which showed that a Bronze Age child had already developed good craftsmanship at the age of nine. The method has enabled completely new interpretations of how knowledge was transmitted and the importance of children in society to gain a foothold in our picture of the Bronze Age in Sweden. The practical research field is linked to a long tradition of interdisciplinary cooperation and, together with natural science disciplines, has opened up a new and exciting archaeology. |
Bagge, Martin |
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Johan Runius' songs and hymns |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 158 000
Edition of Johan Runius' songs and hymns, with melodies. Runius' songs were intended to be sung, but most of the melodies are lost. He himself provided some of the melodies - other melodies have been sought in contemporary sources. A songbook with the melodies has so far been lacking, we now want to put Runius in his proper context for the first time, and give people interested in music and culture an opportunity to get to know his life and poetry properly, to sing the songs again. Therefore, a biographical overview of his life is provided, as well as an explanatory section on the musical context and the environments in which Runius worked. Illustrations and facsimiles provide the necessary period accuracy. A CD with ten songs accompanies the book. |
Andersson, Tommy |
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Gotland's rock carvings |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 73 500
The aim of the project is to investigate, document and discuss the rock carvings on Gotland, and to publish them. There are currently about 60 known rock carvings on Gotland, of which three are pictorial carvings. The others are bowl pits. In a quick review, I have been able to see that Gotland's rock carvings have a different location and distribution compared to, for example, Orust's rock carvings in Bohuslän. This is despite the fact that the rock carvings on Orust also consist predominantly of bowl pits. |
Sjöberg, Daniel |
The National Archives |
Fish in research |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The book Fisken i forskningen is geographically based on West Sweden and its natural interaction with the sea areas of Kattegat, Skagerrak, the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean and the associated coastal areas.
The West Swedish and interdisciplinary perspective on the history of fishing opens up a research area that has been neglected since the Second World War. The major herring fishing periods have been highlighted, but the history of fishing is more complex and is characterized by mobility and adaptation and the ability to cope with extensive economic fluctuations.
Olof Hasslöf's 1949 dissertation Svenska västkustfiskarna: studier i en en yrkesgrupps näringsliv och kultur (Swedish West Coast Fishermen: Studies in the Economy and Culture of a Professional Group) remains the standard work on the history of fishing. Hasslöf's work is encyclopedically detailed in terms of the importance of fishing for social organization and values. However, it lacks a new problematizing and multidisciplinary perspective on the history of fishing that highlights the importance of the many and crucial links between countries around Skagerrak and Kattegat.
The publication will highlight fishing practices and how the fishermen themselves perceived their work situation. In the same spirit, the publication will also highlight the gender perspective and the need to highlight the role of women in maritime culture in research.
It is high time that the problems of fisheries are highlighted from different subject perspectives and that knowledge of the multifaceted archive material is broadened. |
Due, Nina |
Municipality of Gothenburg, Röhsska Museum |
Digitization of the Otto Schulz archive in the Röhsska Museum's collections |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 520 000
This project digitizes and makes available collections in the Röhsska Museum's archives. The aim is to enable design history research so that researchers and the public can study Schulz's activities as a designer, interior architect, writer and publicist. Today, Schulz is best remembered as the owner of Firma Boet, a long-established interior design firm in Gothenburg. Its heyday was in the 1920s and 1940s and the shop had few equivalents in Sweden. Many of Schulz's interiors were published in the magazine Boet, an influential monthly magazine in the fields of home decoration, crafts and art industry, published between 1927 and 1938. Schulz was the magazine's editor and he also published colleagues' designs, articles on design exhibitions and other coverage of the field. Several of the leading critics of the time contributed texts and, along with the journal of the Swedish Crafts Association, the journal Boet was an important forum for debate on design and interior design-related topics. For a period, Schulz also ran his own training program, Bo-studio, where young couples could train in home decoration. The project aims to make the legacy of Otto Schulz and Firma Boet - 1600 watercolors and Boet magazines - searchable on the Röhsska Museum's website. The content of the journal Boet is also made available through lectures and introduced articles published on the Röhsska Museum's website. |
Nordqvist, Bengt |
Archaeology sacrifice site Finnestorp |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 396 000
During 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, research investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. A site that turns out to contain a find material that belongs to the category - "the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era" and it belongs to one of the most important remains from the prehistory of the Nordic region. At Offerplats Finnestorp, warrior after warrior has been sacrificed along with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These mighty men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords, lances and golden horse equipment. Magnificent objects of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time. The ongoing research work includes international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book and popular science book. The metal analyses carried out show that the objects are made by highly skilled blacksmiths. The isotope analyses show that the ores used probably come from parts of the British Isles. In 2017/2018, two book volumes on Finnestorp will be completed. These are the practical work (I and II) - "Fyndens i fokus" and - A "Coffee Table Book". The upcoming isotope analyses are intended to perform analyses on horse teeth and on human teeth and bones. The purpose of these analyses is to shed light on the important question of provenance and geographical mobility. A website about Victim Site Finnestorp will be completed in the fall of 2017. |
Hasslöf, J.O. Rune |
Bohuslän Defense Museum |
Riders in Bohuslän |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
The project "Ryttare i Bohuslän" deals with the period 1685 ̶ 1727 and complements previously published documents by Bohusläns Försvarsmuseum . The research, which has been going on for about three years, has been done voluntarily by former officers at Bohuslän's regiment.
Information about Rutger von Ascheberg's enlisted riders and newly recruited men, who were enlisted in 1685 in Bohuslän as the northern squadron of the Queen's Life Regiment on horseback, is the starting point for the project's documentation. The information has been followed up by the divisions in 1689 and 1696. Further on, information on officers and riders, homesteads, root or armorers and other facts have been collected by district from rolls up to and including 1725. Lantmäteriet's maps and documents have provided facts about homesteads and villages. An account of the Bohuslän horsemen's participation in wars has been collected in a separate chapter. |
Eliasson, Roger |
Aeroseum |
The Flying Barrel - a unique educational interactive exhibition |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
The Aeroseum Foundation operates an aviation experience center in a 22,000 square meter underground mountain hangar. The mountain is classified as unique in the world by the National Defense History Museum. For the third year in a row, the facility is number 1 on "Trippadvisor" (the world's largest travel site) of all museums in western Sweden. The exhibition concept is designed to trigger children and young people's interest in science and technology. |
Husebye, Alexander |
The Center for Business History Association |
Swedish industrial design pioneers - A&E design |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 138 000
A&E Design is the oldest independent industrial design office in Sweden. The two founders, in 1968, were Hans Ehrich and Tom Ahlström. In addition to ergonomic design, this office has contributed greatly to making Swedish design known internationally. A&E Design has had and still has a large number of clients both in Sweden and abroad. Their designs have attracted attention for their aesthetic and innovative qualities, resulting in numerous design awards and magazine articles, as well as purchases for the permanent collections of many museums, such as the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, Die Neue Sammlung in Munich, MoMA in New York and the National Museum in Stockholm. Their work has been featured in most international surveys in the field of design. So far, however, nothing has been published in book form about this interesting era in Swedish industrial design history. One of the aims of this book project is to place A&E Design's activities in a context, describing the relationship to societal changes and to the design debate that has taken place during the almost 50 years of A&E Design's existence. Another aim is to provide an in-depth insight into the design process, which is rarely done in a time as obsessed with trends as ours. Several of A&E Design's products from the 1970s and 1980s are still in production today - examples of sustainable design. The Museipallen Stockholm, commissioned by Helena Dahlbäck Lutteman, then head of the crafts department at the National Museum of Denmark, is in thousands of museums and art galleries around the world. |
Wennberg, Kåa |
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Allan Österlind - the Swedish artist who became French |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
Allan Österlind (1855-1938), painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and sculptor. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1874-76, Osterlind went to Paris in 1877 where he became a student of the sculptor P. J. Cavelier at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He then worked in France until his death, with the exception of study trips to Italy and Spain and occasional visits to his home country.
Österlind was initially most active as a sculptor, but in France he soon switched to painting and became above all a skilled watercolorist. He can best be characterized as a good representative of the French naturalistic plein air painting as represented at that time by Bastien-Lepage and others. He painted figures and portraits as well as landscapes.
August Strindberg was one person who really appreciated Osterlind's painting and he expressed his enthusiasm for Österlind, who he considered to be perhaps Sweden's greatest painter, 'peut-être le premier peintre de Sude'.
On January 15, 1895, it was announced that Allan Osterlind had been awarded the Legion of Honor - France's highest order, established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte. |
Günther, Stefan |
City of Mölndal/Gunnebo Castle |
Gunnebo Castle and the neoclassical villa's artistic program |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 360 000
When Gunnebo Castle was completed in 1796, it was one of the country's most lavish mansions, with architecture and decoration inspired by the latest developments on the continent. The architecture followed different models than the more studied Stockholm-based architecture. The decoration followed an artistic program carried out in 1786-96 by the architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg and the Italian sculptor Gioacchino Frulli and constitutes one of the most significant decorative cycles of the second half of the 18th century in Sweden. Gunnebo's architect C.W. Carlberg developed an independent design language in relation to the architects in Stockholm - but who were Carlberg's role models? Ever since the Renaissance, complex iconographic programs - celebrating the political, economic and intellectual ambitions of the client - formed the basis of a building's decoration. These programs were developed in collaboration between the client and his advisors, of which Gunnebo is a lavish example - but what was Gunnebo's artistic program? Despite its importance, the background to one of the most prominent Swedish buildings of the 18th century remains largely unexplored. The aim of the project is to describe and analyze the architectural history of Gunnebo and the artistic program behind its decorations based on an iconological and comparative study of contemporary developments in Europe. The study will culminate in a monograph. The ambition is to publish a richly illustrated volume to increase knowledge of the site and its value. |
Melberg, Arne |
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Madame de Sevigné in selection and translation |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 60 000
Madame de Sevigné (1626-1696) became famous during her lifetime as a letter writer. These letters to her many friends were read in the salons and contributed to the lively salon culture. Above all, they were letters to her daughter, who moved with her husband to Provence in 1671. Madame wrote two long letters to her daughter every week: rich, emotional letters, invaluable in contributing to the picture of the external and internal life of the French aristocracy.
Madame's letters began to be published after her death. By the 19th century, 14 small volumes had been published, and her reputation was confirmed by Marcel Proust, who likes to quote and allude to her in his great work In Search of Lost Time. In the 20th century, her reputation as a living classic has been consolidated by monumental French editions in addition to translations into a wide range of languages. A selection was published in Swedish in 1948 in a translation by Stig Ahlgren, an edition that is long out of print and also outdated.
The present project aims at a translated selection of about 250 pages, corresponding to about one tenth of her collected letters. One often sees references to Madame de Sevigné also in Swedish literary discourse. This volume will provide a basis for both references and discussions. |
Bergstrand, Thomas |
Bohuslän Museum |
Marstrand Monastery |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 563 000
In 2017, archaeologists from Bohuslän Museum conducted an investigation at Marstrand, Kungälv municipality, where remains of the town's medieval Franciscan monastery were found. The find is considered to have great archaeological potential, and the site also has good potential to be developed into a significant visitor destination in a cultural tourism context. Bohusläns museum wants to be able to continue the archaeological investigation in the coming year, 2018. The project also includes several communication activities, which are planned to be carried out in collaboration with Marstrand's hembygdsmuseum. Bohusläns Museum's ambition is to investigate the entire monastery site in a few years' time and establish it as a permanent visitor destination. |
Nyberg, Gudrun |
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Crafts & Design - 100 years in Gothenburg |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: 129 000 SEK
The Röhsska Museum, Sweden's only museum dedicated to design, and the School of Design and Crafts (HDK) are two strong representatives of the subject of crafts and design in Gothenburg. As a book series on the development of Gothenburg over the last 100 years is planned, it is therefore natural that a volume is devoted to this subject. The book will be an anthology with four authors/researchers who have had a strong connection to the Röhsska Museum or otherwise to Cultural Studies in Gothenburg. The basis is a comprehensive history of the Röhsska Museum with a focus on how the attitude to the mission has changed over the years and been decisive for the objects collected and the exhibitions and other activities arranged. The subject is exemplified and deepened in an article about the early purchase of a large collection of Japanese art objects, which came to characterize the view of Japan as an art nation in the Nordic countries. Craftsmanship in Gothenburg is portrayed through a presentation of the collectives that have worked and in some cases still work with exhibitions and sales, and through a conversation between craftsmen from several generations working in different techniques. In recent years, fashion has emerged as an important part of the Röhsska Museum's mission. Maud Fredin Fredholm was a strong representative of clothing design in Gothenburg during the 1950s and 1960s and deserves the detailed presentation that will be included in the volume. |
Hansson, Gunnar D. |
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New edition of Snorri Sturluson's Norwegian King's Tales I-III |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 70 000
Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla is, next to the so-called Icelandic sagas, the most important prose work from the Nordic Middle Ages. In 2014, a new translation of all the Icelandic sagas was published within the framework of a joint Nordic project under the editorship of Kristinn Jóhannesson, Gunnar D. Hansson and Karl G. Johansson: Islänningasgorna - samtliga släktsagor och fyrtionio tåtar I-V. The Swedish publication was made possible by support from the Torstens Söderberg Foundation. Snorre's work Heimskringla was published in a new translation by Karl G. Johansson. Johansson in 1991-1993: Nordiska kungasagor I-III. This work has been out of print for a long time from the now defunct Fabel Förlag - and is only partially available in antiquarian form. A new edition of Snorri's Nordic King Sagas is planned in collaboration with the Anthropos publishing house. Since the Icelandic sagas I-V are now available to readers in new translation, it is our wish that Snorri's historical chronicles should also be made available to a wider public and for teaching purposes. The new edition will have a partly new look - with a cover by the Swedish artist Roj Friberg. |
Åkerblom, Claes |
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Seffle Möbelfabrik - AB String-Seffle: a company monograph |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 60 000
Seffle Möbelfabrik was founded in 1909. A number of cabinetmakers had become unemployed during the Great Strike and found work by setting up a worker-owned factory. Until 1957, the company was owned and operated by the 70 or so employees. With determination and intensive marketing, the company grew to become one of West Sweden's largest furniture industries in 1930. In 1957, the company was sold to Kaj Bonnier/String Design AB. In 1971, String-Seffle was taken over by Varia Industrier AB in Flen, which during these years was owned by Edvard Söderberg. He was also CEO of String-Seffle from 1972 to 1976. The company was declared bankrupt in 1979, and the company archives were dispersed. The project aims to document Seffle Möbelfabrik and its 70-year history. In addition to a description of the products and operations in Säffle, the documentation provides a picture of the development of Swedish furniture manufacturing - from craftsmanship to rational industry. Like many other companies, in the 1950s they made a major investment in design. In 1960 every third piece of furniture was exported. In the 1970s, String-Seffle was not alone in being affected by the recession, changing consumer habits and competition in the form of increasing furniture imports. Seffle Möbelfabrik belonged to the group of furniture companies that focused on high quality furniture. The result of the documentation will be published in book form, with factual text and rich images. Material and knowledge will be obtained from archives and a large number of private individuals. |
Bodensten, Erik |
Lund University |
Public diplomacy and foreign information influence in Sweden 1719-72 |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: 247 000 SEK
This research project focuses on how incipient democratization in several European states in the 18th century made them vulnerable to public diplomacy and foreign information and influence campaigns in a qualitatively new way. The aim of the project is to investigate how other states (France, Russia, Great Britain and Denmark) sought to influence the foreign policy decision-making process in one such democratic state - libertarian Sweden (1719-72) - via domestic public opinion. Analytically, the focus is on how foreign disinformation in particular circulated in the Swedish media system. The overall question is how public diplomacy was used towards public opinion, voters and elected officials in Sweden during this period. By combining the research fields of international relations, diplomatic history and media history, this project provides new historical perspectives on an important contemporary social phenomenon. |
Sterner, Johan |
Lund University |
Neanderthals and fire: Routine or opportunistic users? |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 145 833
When humans learned to control fire is controversial in archaeology. It is an important question because, according to many researchers, fire control defines the beginning of human behavior and culture. The oldest archaeological evidence of fire comes from Africa and dates to the early Stone Age. The problem with these fire findings is that they are ambiguous in terms of their correlation with archaeological material and therefore whether the fire evidence is actually caused by the great apes living at that time. Over the past decade, the relationship of Neanderthal man to fire has been debated. What has caused this debate is mainly the lack of fire-making tools from Neanderthal settlements and the fact that several sites lack traces of fire. Thus, some researchers have argued that Neanderthals were not able to make fire themselves, but collected and used it when it was available through natural fires (the opportunistic fire use hypothesis). In this research project, the hypotheses regarding Neanderthals' relationship with fire (routine or opportunistic users) are evaluated on a large source material from Western Europe. The research project documents the presence and absence of fire traces from Neanderthal settlements and compares them statistically with fire traces from early modern human settlements. This comparison is intended to provide a framework for evaluating the hypotheses of routine versus opportunistic fire use, as it is recognized that modern humans used and produced fire routinely. |
Öhrström, Åke |
History of the Life Guards |
History of the Life Guards |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
On January 14, 1521, the day of Felix the Confessor, Gustav Eriksson (Vasa) was elected by the people of the East and West valleys as their chieftain and appointed leader of the liberation struggle against the Danes. At the same time, he was assigned a bodyguard of 'sixteen young men to watch over him and look after him'. This bodyguard accompanied him throughout the war of liberation and surrounded him when he arrived in Stockholm as King Gustav in midsummer 1523.This bodyguard is seen as the origin of today's Livgarde, which means that in 2021 the regiment will celebrate its 500th anniversary.
The planning of these jubilee activities has begun, and part of it includes supplementing the regimental history of the infantry up to 1976 and the cavalry up to 2000 with a description of the development 1977-2021. This will be done in two volumes. The historical works will be designed so that they are easily accessible to a wider readership but at the same time rest on a scientific basis. |
Planck, Brita |
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Reason or emotion? Nobility, love and marriage 1750-1900 |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 30 000
There is a common belief that marriage in the past had nothing to do with love. That marriage was more about alliances and property than individual happiness. Added to this is the idea that marriage was something in which the individual had little say, and that the family was in charge of choosing a marriage partner. The higher the status, the greater the role of property and birth, and the less influence the individual had over the choice. But is this true?
In 2014, I defended my thesis 'The Language of Love: Nobility, Love and Marriage 1750-1900', which showed that pragmatism was by no means the guiding principle in marriage. On the contrary, it was love that took center stage when marriage was discussed. But the results led to another question: did they mean the same thing as we do when talking about love? In a further study of two correspondence between engaged couples, I was able to show that in the 18th century correspondence the focus was on emotion, while the 19th century letters were more concerned with relationship building.
My thesis has attracted a lot of attention (among other things, it was awarded the Per Nyström Science Prize by the Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället i Göteborg) and the subject seems to interest a wider public. Since the edition of theses is small, and these contain a lot of scientific reasoning of little interest to non-historians, it will now be published in a popular science version. |
Nitenberg, Annelie |
West Swedish archaeology |
Rulers in life and death. Power strategies in the Late Iron Age |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: 82 500 SEK
The thesis project "Rulers in life and death. Social exclusivities and power strategies in Vänerbygd during the Late Iron Age" attempts to study and capture how social elites during the Vendel and Viking Age achieved and maintained positions of power in Vänerbygden, but also in the rest of Scandinavia. Between 2000 and 2012, the Sunnerby archaeological research project undertook annual excavations on an island in Lake Vänern in Västergötland. Sunnerby's soil proved to have a fantastic history, including a magnificent chief's burial in a large mound and a large farm with a hall building. Large mounds and large farm complexes with halls are the categories of archaeological traces that form the starting points of the thesis. The material traces of the events of the time constitute the main source material, but written material (runic inscriptions, Ynglingatal and Beowulf) is also analyzed based on a practice-oriented and connection-oriented analysis method. The aim is thus to study how the leading social elites, through specific actions, a certain lifestyle and with the help of socially exclusive objects, strategically acted in the socio-political arena, how they created and used a ruling ideology and expressed and maintained (negotiated, confirmed and renegotiated) power in a time before national formations and established royal powers. |
Gunneriusson Wistman, Christina |
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Museum creation in the Swedish art field around the middle of the 20th century |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 160 000
The research project deals with Swedish museums and museum creation in Sweden. It aims to investigate new museums in Sweden at the middle of the 20th century. A number of museums of different types were opened at that time: regional museums, personal museums and e.g. Moderna Museet. The starting point is the founding of Moderna Museet. How were the discussions conducted and what role may have been played by Prince Eugen's art collection and Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, which opened in 1948. How and why were other museums established? The so-called Folkhem period roughly coincides with the time this project examines - is this relevant for interpretation and analysis? An important part of the investigation concerns the museums' art collections: what has the collection looked like, what significance does art have for the collections and for the museum? The social function of art is a particularly important factor. Art is obvious at Moderna Museet and Waldemarsudde, but has a different role to play in the regional museums. Are the museums and collections still important and relevant? These are some of the questions the study focuses on, and which, regardless of how they are answered, will contribute to the story of Swedish museums and museum education and provide answers of importance and value for our time as well. |
Klackenberg, Day |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2018 |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The Swedish History Days is a non-profit organization with the purpose of creating annual opportunities for contacts between representatives of historical research, practitioners in the museum world and archive institutions, history teachers and a public interested in history. The purpose of the association is to, in collaboration with member organizations and other co-organizers, be responsible for the program activities within the framework of the history days and develop these into an annual opportunity for contacts and thus increase the historical knowledge of as many groups in society as possible. The ambition is therefore to present historical subjects and historical research in a way that is at a popular science level but also accessible to participants without specialist training.
For many history teachers, the History Days have become the main, even the only, opportunity for continuing education, especially in terms of reconnecting with the research community, and for historians, this forum provides a unique and widely appreciated opportunity to make new research results available. Several of the lectures are published in printed form. |
Kleberg, Lars |
Södertörn University |
Translated drama in Sweden. Survey and bibliography |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 52 350
Drama has long been a central part of Swedish cultural life. This also applies to translated drama, which has brought new ideas and aesthetic methods to Swedish theater and cultural life. The study of translated drama in Sweden can therefore provide interesting insights into different times' perceptions of the theater and translated drama as well as of art and society in general.
Yet there is no coherent research on the history of translated drama in Sweden. Even the most basic sources - the repertoire lists - have lacked a systematic review. Today there is hardly even a satisfactory overview of which translators have been the most important in our theater history. Even more limited is our knowledge of what they have actually done in bringing world literature to Sweden.
The editorial board of the Swedish Translator's Lexicon wants to make a comprehensive inventory of the translated dramatic repertoire in Swedish theaters around 1750-1910. The aim is to publish a bibliography with great potential usefulness for Swedish theater and literary historians as well as for the history of Swedish translation.
The inventory of unpublished translated drama will gather invaluable knowledge for further research. The picture of our theatrical and literary history will be broadened and deepened in a very important and hitherto neglected area. |
Nilsen, Andrine |
University of Gothenburg |
Wood, people and society; social dimensions of urban built environments |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 176 833
The thesis focuses on early modern wooden urban settlements (c. 1400-1799) and their social aspects, mainly focusing on Swedish conditions but also looking at other countries. Swedish wooden buildings can in many ways represent a cross-section of society from the hut, to burgher houses and wooden castles. Wooden houses are often seen as hovels and unstable, even though houses have been preserved from the 13th century. Today there are only a few early modern wooden houses left in our cities, a consequence of the demolition frenzy of the 1960s, therefore archaeological urban surveys constitute our main source of knowledge about these environments. The survey includes houses built in; knotted timber, half-timber or cross-timber. Research on archaeological remains and antiquarian studies of the preserved houses can be combined. Farm environments in relation to the city plan and infrastructure are examined. Wood was ubiquitous and played a major role in the creation of early modern living culture. Other important aspects of wooden cities are their role in building the nation state. The period saw a change in urban society. Cities underwent regularization, meaning that houses and blocks had to be moved to fit into a new urban plan with straight streets, some cities were relocated for defence purposes and a number of new cities were established. In the wake of this reorganization, combined with fires and wars, large-scale production of houses was required, with the movable wooden house being crucial. |
Neuding Skoog, Martin |
Stockholm University |
In the service of the kingdom - war, state and society in Sweden 1450-1550 |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: 87 500 SEK
In his thesis, Martin Neuding Skoog shows how war and war preparations affected political development and changed the social organization of the Swedish Empire during the period 1450-1550. The study's institutional analysis presents for the first time a comprehensive and detailed picture of how the war organization of the late medieval Swedish empire looked like and in what way changing military conditions over time also affected the development towards the early modern state of the Vasa dynasty. The extensive empirical study deals with the importance of the salvation group, the church institution, the urban bourgeoisie, the peasants and the foreign warriors during the period.
In the larger social process that is highlighted, the transition from a coordinating to an organizing state is the central theme. The chronological delineation of the study innovatively bridges the usual periodization of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, providing new perspectives on a particularly important political transition period in Swedish history. The author shows, for example, how Gustav Vasa's elimination of military competitors, innovative use of resources and introduction of a tax-financed war organization became instrumental for the ability to achieve political and dynastic consolidation in the kingdom. The study constitutes an important piece of the puzzle to illustrate how Swedish society was transformed from a medieval kingdom to an early modern state in military and political terms. |
Nilsson, Isabella |
The Royal Academy for the Liberal Arts. |
Publication of the so-called 1806 Library of the Academy of Fine Arts. |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 182 000
In 2001 and 2007, the internationally important art and architecture library at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts was preserved and housed in the room created by member Åke Axelsson thanks to generous grants from the Söderberg Foundations. The collection has a completely unique core of study and teaching materials for students and members from the 18th and early 19th centuries and serves one of the world's oldest surviving schools of architecture and the library. The 1806 library contains around 1200 works of significant value.
An important cataloging of the collection is currently being completed, made possible by the support of the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. This cataloging is being carried out by one of Sweden's foremost experts, Olof Kåhrström. The fact that this comprehensive catalogue will be the subject of an attractive, illustrated publication will also enhance our country's reputation in international research, in cultural history and its various branches of art, learning and book history, but also in libraries, antiquarian bookshops and auction houses worldwide. This catalog would offer an overview of a representative selection of the more important older art and architecture literature that databases can never provide. The printed publication of some 600 pages will be illustrated with beautiful photographs of frontispieces, illustrations and book volumes. It will begin with a short text on the history of the Academy and the collection. |
by klinteberg, Kristina |
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Jewellery as the main |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: 110 000 SEK
A long-standing interest and collection of both antique and modern hair jewelry, with provenance from large parts of Europe, has provided a special competence that is incorporated into general cultural history knowledge. The resulting book, "Jewelry as a Mainstay", thus provides an interesting and educational overview of how material and cultural history has developed in the field. Explanatory pictures of manufacture, design and use provide a vivid insight into the use of hair jewelry by the broader social strata in both joy and sorrow. The book combines theoretical and practical knowledge that appeals to both knowledge seekers and practical users. Peer reviewers, according to the appendices, in addition to approving the content and language, have also pointed out the lack of this segment in existing literature and other knowledge dissemination; both Swedish and English-language literature focuses only on the precious royal jewelry and not, like this, on a broader cultural history and use by larger groups of the population. |
Fischer, Peter |
Friends of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition |
Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: Exploration of the Bronze Age city and port |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
In international archaeological circles, the Cypriot Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke, excavated by the Söderberg expedition led by the University of Gothenburg applicant, is widely recognized as one of the most important during the period 1600-1150 BC. The protected location of the port city favored long-distance trade with cultures around the Mediterranean including Egypt but also with Mesopotamia, Central Europe and the North. Cyprian copper from this period has been found e.g. on Öland, in Uppland and Värmland and on Jutland. The aim of this subproject is to map the extent of the Bronze Age city and harbor and to search for possible shipwrecks. Preliminary surveys in 2017 with several magnetometers mounted in parallel on a cart enabled a scanning width of 5 meters, allowing a 20 hectare area within the city to be surveyed in one week. The objective of the complementary project is to 1. determine the total area of the city through continued magnetic prospecting which is fast and efficient but does not provide details of buried structures; 2. complete the survey of interesting structures with georadar providing more detailed information; 3. survey the harbor/shipwreck with magnetometer and georadar. According to Cypriot law, all areas where ancient remains can be detected by exploration are protected. The results of the project will therefore contribute to the protection of our common cultural heritage and provide opportunities to continue a Swedish archaeological tradition in Cyprus that dates back to the 1920s. |
Andersson, Kent |
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Iron Age Clenodes - 30 Archaeological Finds with Hidden Stories |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The monograph "Klenoder" presents 30 selected objects/finds from the Iron Age (c. 400 BC-1050 AD). The selected "clay objects" are placed in their cultural-historical context and with their help tell the story of a relatively unknown period in Swedish history. The presentation is not only limited to the historical context of the objects, but the stories also include those who found them, those who researched and interpreted them and those who exhibited them in different contexts. In this way, the reader gains an understanding and knowledge of the historical period of the Iron Age, but also an insight into how history is constantly interpreted and reinterpreted. And also how, through new knowledge, museum objects can be reconstructed in new ways as a result of changes in the state of knowledge. The "gems" selected range from a gold collar, a Vendel helmet from Vendel to an insignificant Chinese silk fragment found in a Viking Age grave at Birka. With the help of the objects/finds, the reader becomes acquainted with those who once used the objects but also with the period to which they belong. The presentation is illustrated with a number of pictures of objects, investigators, discoverers, exhibition pictures, ancient site environments and people who in some way came into contact with the objects. The language is written to attract a public interested in cultural history. |
Lennartsson, Rebecka |
Medieval Museum |
Among these walls of Sodom. Prostitution in the 18th century city |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
In 1747, 17-year-old Lena Cajsa Bohman is brought to court, accused by her own father, master carpenter Anders Bohman, of disobedience. She soon confesses to contact with the procurer Lovisa von Plat. This is the beginning of a unique, detailed and puzzling insight into 18th century prostitution. The trial material allows us to follow Lena Cajsa through her life. In combination with a variety of sources from 4 years of research, it forms the basis for a rich, broad and analytical history of prostitution in 18th century Stockholm, at a time when the word prostitution was not used and all extramarital and premarital sex was illegal for both women and men. A patriarchal social structure based on God's commandments was reflected in the laws. Horstigmat was reproduced at all levels of society, from legal practice to a popular tradition of grotesque 'hordes'. At the same time, a young girl from the bourgeoisie could live more or less openly as a 'publican' and still escape punishment and marry nobly. With a micro perspective and in comparison with the regulated prostitution of the 19th century, the picture of 18th century Stockholm becomes more multifaceted. While other early modern stigmas - the rascal, the executioner, the witch - have withered away with changing laws and norms, horstigmat persists. The project seeks to explain why horstigmat has survived the Enlightenment, Romanticism, modernity and the sexual revolution, and provides new knowledge to a strangely unhistorical contemporary prostitution debate. |
Norrby, Göran |
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Rivals for power |
Other |
2017 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
The book 'Maktens rivaler 1755-1792' examines the fierce struggle for political power in Sweden between the Royal House and the House of Lords - for parliamentary power or royal autocracy - which went on continuously for forty years, from the Estates of the Free State to the Gustavian autocracy. The struggle was sometimes open, sometimes hidden, but it was always very much alive. It was also fought with surprisingly dirty means on both sides: repeated constitutional violations, military-led coups and treasonous conspiracies on one side, corruption, political courts and covert intrigues on the other. The investigation focuses on the four personalities at the center of the conflict: Queen Lovisa Ulrika, her son Gustav III, the leader of the House of Lords, Axel von Fersen, and the 'schemer' Carl Fredrik Pechlin. |
Olsson, Agnets |
Styrsö parish |
Styrsö Chamber Soloists |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 30 000
Styrsö Chamber Soloists 2016 |
Neijman, Thomas |
Stockholm University |
The opponents at the Battle of Gotland in 1361 |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 80 000
On July 27, 1361, there was a battle outside the ring wall of Visby. An army from Gotland tried to defend their island. Their opponent was the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag with his experienced army. The Gotlanders suffered a severe defeat. The remains of the mass graves testify to the brutality of the battle. Most of the graves were excavated in the early 1900s. From 1361 until today, there have been various legends about the events. These have evolved over time. Modern history often portrays the Gotlanders as ill-equipped with old equipment and disorganized. The Danish army is given the opposite description, in positive terms. The question is whether this use of history is accurate?
This project seeks to re-approach the sources of the events of 1361 through a combination of written and archaeological research. By using new scientific analysis methods, such as isotope analysis, new information can be obtained from the archaeological material. Analysis of those individuals where equipment can be linked to that particular individual provides vital information about their origins. This gives a new picture of the armies that met and a new picture of the historical event. |
Keränen, Andreas |
University of Gothenburg |
On metrical zeugman in pre-classical Latin verse |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 239 167
The subject of my doctoral thesis deals with so-called metrical zeugmas in pre-classical Latin verse. The term zeugma is Greek for "yoke" and denotes a place in the verse line where a word boundary is avoided or conditioned. My starting point is that these metrical zeugmas are linguistic phenomena directly linked to Latin prosody and not verse metrical subtleties, as they are usually described in older literature. An illustrative example is Meyer's zeugma in iambic verse. An iamb consists of a short + long syllable = (u -). The short syllable can be replaced by a long syllable to form a spondee = (- -). However, the spondee should preferably not be the end of a word. For example, in the following spondee-heavy verse sequence (Ne̅ptu̅́-)(-nu̅r-)(-tu̅́te̅m) (Vi̅cto̅́-)(-rĭām) there is a violation of Meyer's zeugma, namely -tu̅́te̅m. As can be seen, the word accent here is on the left side of the verse foot, unlike the other verse feet where the accent is on the right. This is a consequence of the Latin accent rule. It stipulates that the penultimate syllable should be accented if it is long. By aiming for the accents to be to the right in each iambic foot, the metrical structure is such that a spondee is very rarely accompanied by a word boundary. Meyer's zeugma can thus be understood and described as an accent phenomenon. Metrical zeugmas such as this one thus give us valuable clues about how the Latin language was once pronounced and rhythmicized. |
Pedersen, Daniel |
Stockholm University |
"Dear son, we write from the carriage...": Some voices from Jászberény |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 102 917
The title of the project is the opening of a small card found along the railroad tracks in Jászberény. It is a couple of parents writing to their son to tell him that they are on the train to be deported. The card was thrown from the carriage and someone found it on the embankment. A card the son finally got in his hand through a kind fellow human being. Today it can be found in the Tomas Kertész collection, which documents Jewish life in the Hungarian town of Jászberény with over a thousand photographs, interviews and other materials (dolls, documents, etc.). The archive is the result of 20 years of work collected by Kertész (a librarian at Stockholm University) and constitutes an enormous documentation of Jewish life in Jászberény up to and including the Holocaust. Both the town and the life of its Jewish population form a mirror, a kind of micro-history showing the whole tragic fate of Hungarian Jewry, but also the multicultural life that was typical of many towns in Central Europe before the Second World War. The book recounts the fate of some families. Some survive, others escape or go into hiding. However, most are murdered by the Nazis. By linking the fates of a few families, you will be able to see how families' lives are turned upside down by Nazi racial policies and deportations. The book will have five main chapters presenting the background of the different families and a final chapter introducing Kertész himself and his work in creating this unique collection. |
Persson, Fabian |
Linnaeus University |
Living in the house of power: A survey of residents at Stockholm Castle |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 295 000
Being present matters, and the person who lives in your home is the most present. In the Royal Palace in Stockholm from Gustav Vasa to the palace fire in 1697, a number of people lived in the same house as the king. Today, it may not matter much who lives under the same roof as the king, but in the 16th and 17th centuries, royal power was strong and personal. Those who lived in the castle lived close to people who wielded great power. Living next to power meant potential power but also the ability to influence the attitudes of the royal family and their knowledge of the world outside the castle walls. |
Günther, Stefan |
City of Mölndal/Gunnebo Slott |
Gunnebo Castle and the neoclassical villa's artistic program |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 450 000
When Gunnebo Castle was completed in 1796, it was one of the country's most lavish mansions, with architecture and decoration inspired by the latest developments on the continent. The architecture followed different models than the more studied Stockholm-based architecture. The decoration followed an artistic program, carried out between 1786 and 1796 by the architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg and the Italian sculptor Gioacchino Frulli, and constitutes one of the most significant decorative cycles of the second half of the 18th century in Sweden.
Gunnebo's architect C.W. Carlberg developed an independent design language in relation to the architects in Stockholm - but who were Carlberg's role models? Ever since the Renaissance, complex iconographic programs - celebrating the political, economic and intellectual ambitions of the client - formed the basis of a building's decoration. These programs were developed in collaboration between the client and his advisors, of which Gunnebo is a lavish example - but what was Gunnebo's artistic program? Despite its importance, the background to one of the most prominent Swedish buildings of the 18th century remains largely unexplored.
The aim of the project is to describe and analyze the architectural history of Gunnebo and the artistic program behind its decorations based on an iconological and comparative study of contemporary developments in Europe. The study will culminate in a monograph. The ambition is to publish a richly illustrated volume to increase knowledge of the site and its value. |
Husebye, Alexander |
The Center for Business History Association |
Swedish industrial design pioneers - A&E design |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 536 000
A&E Design is the oldest independent industrial design office in Sweden. The two founders, in 1968, were Hans Ehrich and Tom Ahlström. In addition to ergonomic design, this office has contributed greatly to making Swedish design known internationally. A&E Design has had and still has a large number of clients both in Sweden and abroad. Their designs have attracted attention for their aesthetic and innovative qualities, resulting in numerous design awards and magazine articles, as well as purchases for the permanent collections of many museums, such as the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, Die Neue Sammlung in Munich, MoMA in New York and the National Museum in Stockholm. Their work has been featured in most international surveys in the field of design. So far, however, nothing has been published in book form about this interesting era in Swedish industrial design history. One of the aims of this book project is to place A&E Design's activities in a context, describing the relationship to societal changes and to the design debate that has taken place during the almost 50 years of A&E Design's existence. Another aim is to provide an in-depth insight into the design process, which is rarely done in a time as obsessed with trends as ours. Several of A&E Design's products from the 1970s and 1980s are still in production today - examples of sustainable design. The Museipallen Stockholm, commissioned by Helena Dahlbäck Lutteman, then head of the crafts department at the National Museum of Denmark, is in thousands of museums and art galleries around the world. |
Sjöström, Oskar |
Stockholm University |
Honour and war: reasons behind 18th century Swedish wars of aggression |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 205 000
In the 18th century, Sweden launched three wars of aggression: against Russia in 1741, Prussia in 1757 and Russia again in 1788. The rationality of these attacks has been severely questioned in historiography. The Empire's military and economic strength was never sufficient to go to war, and therefore all ended in costly failure. The reason why the wars still happened is usually explained by the hubris or incompetence of the decision-makers themselves, who were allegedly blinded by dreams of grandeur and thus mistook hope for reality. In this thesis, I challenge this view by adopting a cultural-historical perspective on an otherwise classic topic of public policy. Above all, I have analyzed how contemporary notions of honor and glory influenced the thinking and practice of these events. In all cases - I argue - the protection of Sweden's honor was the central driving force for going to war. The wars were therefore not a consequence of inept kings or statesmen, but on the contrary were appropriate in their cultural and historical context. The results of the research mean that many accepted perceptions of early modern politics will be nuanced. The thesis thus contributes to a deeper understanding of the political processes and decisions in the past that may appear difficult to understand or irrational to a modern observer. In addition, it sheds new light on some of the most forgotten events in Swedish history. |
Dierks, Michael |
German parish of St Gertrude |
Documentation and restoration of the historic Åkerman & Lund organ of 1884 |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 300 000
The great tower fire in the German Church in October 1878 completely destroyed the tower, the organ and the gallery. A new organ was designed by organ builder Per Larsson Åkerman and was completed in 1884. This organ was typical of Swedish contemporary organ building tradition, with both tonal and technical solutions inspired by German, French and English organ builders, some of them unique in Sweden. Despite the relatively small number of voices, the organ's sound was symphonic and orchestral. This type of organ came to be strongly questioned by the "Orgelbewegung" - the Organ Movement (which can best be described as the "Back to Nature" of organ history), which arose in Germany in the 1920s. In this spirit, the organ was redesigned in 1959, replacing a number of typically romantic, soft-sounding stops with more sharp and "baroque" sounding voices (e.g. the pointed flute and krummhorn).
In 1971, the decision was made to build a completely new organ in the organ movement style. In the 1960s and 1970s, many Romantic organs were scrapped and replaced by poorly crafted instruments. Only three organs from the late 19th century were preserved in the Diocese of Stockholm. The Åkerman organ in the German Church was stored in the parish basement in 1972. There are now plans to document, restore and supplement, and to reinstall the historic Åkerman organ. This will also restore the architectural homogeneity of the church. In connection with the inauguration, a scientific documentation of the organ will be published. |
Nilsson Schönborg, Göte |
University of Gothenburg |
Trade contacts between Sweden and China in the 18th century |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 205 000
Completion of a dissertation in the field of historical archaeology. The project aims to provide a picture of Sweden's trade contacts with China in the 18th century, i.e. during the time of the Swedish East India Company. The research uses archaeological material, written source material and personal history data to see a picture of the spread of mainly porcelain imports during this period. |
Dierks, Michael |
German parish of St Gertrude |
Memorial carillon |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Erection of a plaque commemorating the carillon and its restoration and enlargement in 2008. |
Lagerkvist, Cajsa |
Mölndal City Museum |
Places - co-creating history in the local environment |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 680 000
The project aims to raise awareness of the historical depth of the local environment and stimulate a shared sense of responsibility for a place and its development. The project wants to further develop methods to include residents in taking responsibility for our cultural heritage and thereby also contribute to the development of the cultural heritage sector. By linking building history perspectives with human experience and individual narratives, and documenting contemporary relationships with and narratives about places in Mölndal, the Mölndal City Museum's local history collection and archives will be enriched. Based on new and updated knowledge about cultural environments in Lindome, Kållered and Mölndal, the results are presented in a knowledgeable and enjoyable publication that is accessible to a wide audience. The project also creates site-specific interpretations of the historical period using new technology. |
Nordby, Peter |
The National Archives |
The National Archives' archive holdings from the private sector |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: 157 500 SEK
A main task of the state archive organization is to preserve and make available the public documents of state authorities, which by law are part of the national cultural heritage. The departments of the National Archives also have the opportunity to receive archives from the private sector (so-called individual archives), i.e. from companies, associations, private individuals, families, farms, foundations, etc. In order to increase the use and show the research potential, the archives of authorities are often highlighted, which is not as common in the case of the individual archives. The book "Ett västsvenskt kulturarv: de enskilda arkiven i Riksarkivet Landsarkivet i Göteborg" aims to provide an in-depth account of Landsarkivet's archive holdings from the private sector, mainly in Västra Götaland County. The reader gets a description of the individual archives from a number of different perspectives, an insight into how they have been handled and an understanding of the historical context of the archives. The book's ambition is also to shed light on the concept of archives by discussing some so-called archive landscape traces in time and space.
In addition to general information about the National Archives' 2,200 individual archives, which comprise more than 22,000 shelf meters, a large number of entries in the archive documents are presented with examples of the content. The National Archives want to be a natural part of the research infrastructure, and with the help of the book the author highlights the research potential, both for private individuals, family and local history researchers and academic research. |
Ohlsson, Jon |
Stockholm University |
ADHD, high-functioning autism spectrum conditions and support in the career choice process |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 402 008
ADHD and high-functioning autism spectrum disorder are neuropsychiatric disabilities that can cause various difficulties for the person with the diagnosis. ADHD can mean concentration problems, hyperactivity, impulsiveness, etc. High-functioning autism spectrum disorder (formerly called Aspberger's syndrome) can mean difficulties in social contacts, a strong focus on special interests, language difficulties, etc. People with neuropsychiatric disabilities often have difficulty entering the labor market today. The purpose of the study is to investigate how people with the diagnoses ADHD and high-functioning autism spectrum condition feel that career choice support activities, such as study and vocational guidance and employment services, should be organized to meet their needs. The study will answer questions about both the counseling method and other treatment from the professional counselor as well as the individual's own frame of reference regarding factors affecting career choice. The survey will be conducted using biographical interviews with people over 18 years of age. |
Emanuelsson, Anders |
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The land between Älven and Idefjorden ca 500-ca 1520 |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
A comprehensive study of the areas that make up the current landscape of Bohuslän from a settlement, agricultural and economic history perspective. The project is not only comprehensive in terms of the time period studied but also in terms of the level of detail. All available source material for the period is examined, including not only traditional historical sources such as land registers, laws, diplomas, literary sources, maps, etc. but also archaeological material, place names, dialect research, ethnographic sources, art historical material (mainly churches) and some sources of a scientific nature. The results of the project are published in two volumes: a volume dealing with the period from a more general perspective and a volume with detailed settlement and agricultural history maps and tables at parish level. The two works together contain over 100 maps and some 50 pictures/illustrations. The project is not only regional historical, but the geographical location of the area inevitably means that the general historical development in Scandinavia during the period is taken into account. |
Eliasson, Roger |
Aeroseum |
Cold War |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: 130 000 SEK
In 2010, the Aeroseum started a project to open the aviation experience center/museum for education. In 2013, the project moved to the Aeroseum becoming a Science Center. This meant that our various workstations had to be rebuilt to meet new requirements.
One of the largest and earliest workstations were those dealing with the Cold War. During the year these have started to be rebuilt.
Now it turns out that the interest in this area of history was much greater than we planned for. In order to accommodate the greater interest from teachers and students (as well as ordinary visitors, students from study circles, etc.), the exhibitions must be expanded and also take advantage of the unique construction of the mountain hangar.
The total number of visitors to the Aeroseum has increased greatly, partly because we have been named one of the best destinations in Western Sweden (according to www.Tripadvisor). |
Olsson, Irja |
National Association of Finnish War Children |
Jubilee book with stories written by Finnish war children |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
An anniversary book with stories about what it was like to come to Sweden as a Finnish war child and what happened next. |
Nordqvist, Bengt |
Place of sacrifice Finnestorp |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: 427 200 SEK
During 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, research investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. A site that turns out to contain a find material that belongs to the category - "the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era" and it belongs to one of the most important remains from the prehistory of the Nordic region. At Offerplats Finnestorp, warrior after warrior has been sacrificed along with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These mighty men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords, lances and golden horse equipment. Magnificent objects of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time. The ongoing research work includes international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book and popular science book. The metal analyses performed show that the objects are made by highly skilled blacksmiths. The isotope analyses show that the ores used probably come from parts of the British Isles.
In 2016/2017, two book volumes on Finnestorp will be completed. These are the practical work (I and II) - "Fyndens i fokus" and a "Coffee Table Book". The upcoming isotope analyses are intended to make analyses on horse teeth and on human teeth and bones. The purpose of these analyses is to shed light on the important issue of provenance and geographical mobility. A new website about Victim Site Finnestorp will be completed in the fall of 2016. |
Andersson, Christer |
The project group for the archaeological investigations of Ås monastery |
Ås kloster - project plan for phase 2 |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 120 000
In the valley of the river Viskan, about 15 km north of Varberg, on a hill within sight of Klosterfjorden, there was a Cistercian monastery in the Middle Ages, founded in 1194 by monks from Sorö Abbey in southern Zealand. Made possible by land donations from the spiritually and secularly powerful Archbishop Absalon, the monastery developed into a real powerhouse and its brick buildings are considered among the largest in Halland. At the height of its development, Ås Monastery encompassed more than 250 farms in Northern Halland.
Today, no remains of the monastery are visible above ground. After the Reformation, the church and other buildings were demolished and the bricks were reused to repair Varberg Fortress. In the early 19th century, the main building of a royal estate was built within the monastery area.
Uniquely, no archaeological excavations at all had been carried out on the monastery hill before the project started, meaning that both the location and extent of the monastery were completely unknown. The monastery project carried out excavations in 2011 and 2012 in parts of the eastern wing after the monastery plan had largely become known through ground penetrating radar surveys in 2009 and 2010. In 2013, an excavation was carried out west, southwest and south of Kungsgården.
The aim of phase 2 is to link these parts into a single unit through excavations over three years starting in 2018. The grant application is for research initiation, networking and seminars in 2017 to develop a project plan. |
Nilsson, Andreas |
Lund University |
The path of knowledge |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 80 000
Scandinavian bronze craftsmanship during the Bronze Age has been discussed in many different contexts countless times. This discussion can continue thanks to new discoveries and new ways of investigating the material. I investigate Bronze Age bronze craftsmanship and mainly how accessible bronze craftsmanship has been for people in southern Scandinavia in particular. Has it been a technology that was available to many or have the craftsmen kept their knowledge and only spread the technology to selected people? What routes have the technology and knowledge taken? Was there room for local part-time bronze casters or did the technology require so much knowledge that the craftsman had to be a specialist? These are questions I approach by examining the different stages of the craft through the Chaîne opératoire. By breaking down and discussing the different stages of the craft, I hope to approach the bronze craftsmen and their skills. I also examine casting crucibles, molds and other technical ceramics. My main material, however, is in wood axes. The single largest group of bronze artifacts from the Scandinavian Bronze Age and a type of object that must be classified as everyday objects. |
Carlsson, Carl Henrik |
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History of the Jews in Sweden |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
The aim is to write a book (popular science/scientific synthesis) on the history of the Jews in Sweden that will summarize what we currently know about this subject. The target group is anyone with an interest in Swedish history in general and Swedish-Jewish history in particular, whether they are researchers, teachers, students, pupils or members of the interested public.
There is a great need for such a synthesis. The last one was written by Professor Hugo Valentin in the early 1960s (249 pages) and was largely based on research carried out around 1920. Interest in Swedish-Jewish history has increased greatly in recent years and the field of research has grown strongly. The Swedish-Jewish population group is now one of five recognized national minorities. It has had great significance for Swedish history, social development and cultural heritage with a cross-fertilization that can be said to have been successful. For various reasons, it is an ideal object for general studies on minorities, integration, discrimination, identity, etc. Such a history is also very valuable from an international perspective: the "Swedish-Jewish experience" has certain parallels with developments in the rest of Europe, but also distinctive features.
The book should be scientifically based and well-referenced, but the presentation should not be too "academic" but appealing to an interested public. |
Ivarsson, Carl-Johan |
Diocesan Historical Society |
The history of Karlstad bishop's farm |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 70 000
Karlstad has been a diocesan town since 1647. Since the 1680s, the head of the diocese has lived at the current location in the Udden block. The current building was built in the 1770s and is one of the few buildings in Karlstad's inner city that remained standing after the devastating fire of 1865. Biskopsgården is now a listed building. The project aims to analyze the building and the cultural environment that this listed building constitutes from an architectural history perspective. The result will be published in book form with a rich image material with both archive images and contemporary photographs. |
Magnusson, Reidar |
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The person buried in Håga 'nothing prevents the bones from being a woman's'. |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
Hågahögen contained one of the more publicized grave finds from the Bronze Age in Sweden. The person buried in the main grave was assumed to be a man based on the grave goods, although the anatomy professor who examined the burnt bones explained that they could very well come from a woman. Our hope is to determine the sex of the buried person as the science of osteology has advanced in the hundred or so years since the bones were last examined. If it turns out that the bones come from a man, the conclusion drawn from the grave goods is confirmed; if it turns out that the bones come from a woman, it shows that the Bronze Age burial system was more complex. Even if we cannot say for sure about the gender of the individual (if there are only burnt bones from one individual in the main grave to begin with), we can get indications in one direction or another from the burnt bone material. |
Lysén, Svante |
Royal Institute of Technology |
The Bohus coast - a grumpy paradise |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
"Bohuskust - ett vresigt paradis" is a documentary film of about 58 minutes intended for SVT about the nature, animal and plant life of the Bohus coast during four seasons experienced through the eyes of a kayaker, but also about the change of the coastal landscape, ecology and environmental threats.
The Bohus Coast, with its bare, well-polished islands, is a unique archipelago that cannot be found anywhere else. For two months each summer, it is a vacation paradise with an extensive boating community. For the rest of the year, the same area presents itself as an almost deserted wilderness. Numerous rock carvings and Bronze Age tombs, as well as remains from quarries and various herring periods, testify to a fascinating history that is the direct cause of the coastal area's appearance. Apart from a few special programs about fishing, archipelago communities and underwater life, there has never been a more comprehensive film about the nature of Bohuslän. In 2013, the Bohus Coast was named the seventh most beautiful wilderness area in the world by the American broadcaster CNN.
The common thread in the nature documentary is the changing seasons as seen through the eyes and reflections of a kayaker. In addition to facts and scientific findings, the personal narrative will allow thoughts and philosophical speculations about animals and nature that can be both thought-provoking and lead to new insights. Scientists, fishermen, sea farmers and others in close contact with the nature of Bohuslän will participate. |
Hadenius, Patrik |
Science media in Sweden |
Publication of Popular Archaeology in 2017 |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
Popular Archaeology has been published in various forms for 20 years. Now the magazine is facing a major change. The former publisher and editor is retiring and wants to hand over to Vetenskapsmedia.
We want to make Populär Arkeologi with the same popular science ambition as we take on the publisher's other magazines - Språktidningen, Modern Psykologi and Modern Filosofi and Forskning & Framsteg, with which we share the editorial board. The leading archaeological and historical researchers will contribute and report on their findings. |
Bergman, Lars |
Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt |
Censored letters of the Carolinian prisoners |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 893 000
After the defeats at Poltava and Perevolotjna in 1709, more than 23 000 prisoners of war from the Swedish army were deployed across Russia, particularly in Siberia. Many were well-educated and played an important role locally. They led advanced construction work, and Swedish schools attracted many Russian pupils from leading families (often taught in German). There were conflicts, but the Swedes were appreciated. In cities like Tobolsk, the tradition lives on.
Conditions are recorded in diaries and letters. Many letters from and to Swedish prisoners of war were caught by Russian censorship. Since the Russian archives where they were stored were opened in the 1990s, the letters have become accessible in principle. The project will provide Swedish, Russian and international researchers and the public with these letters.
A number of letters (a total of about 900 pages) have been located in Russian archives and largely copied. After a preliminary review, a scientific analysis now follows, which mainly requires linguistic and historical expertise. An edition is the natural product.
The peace of 1721 marks a turning point in Swedish history. During the following period of freedom, the country underwent an unprecedented economic, scientific and cultural boom. Sweden becomes a world leader in the natural sciences. The returning prisoners of war (a quarter) are likely to have played an important role in further developments, but their role is insufficiently studied. The hitherto censored letters offer a fortunate opportunity. |
Sjöbrandt, Anders |
Stockholm University |
The future is not what it used to be. Stories of the transformation of Stockholm |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 287 500
The thesis is about the major urban transformation in Stockholm after the Second World War, but not about how the transformation process itself took place. Instead, it aims to shed light on perceptions, interpretations and reactions to what is sometimes called one of Europe's largest and most radical urban development projects. The overall objective is to study the process of change in Stockholm during the 1950s and 1960s from a cultural-historical narrative perspective. I intend to describe, compare and analyze values, underlying driving forces, rhetoric and counter-rhetoric behind the great urban transformation. I want to capture the thoughts and perceptions of the social actors; the legitimizing narratives of different interests will be juxtaposed. The main sources are newspapers and magazines from the current study period, articles that allow urban planners, politicians and other Stockholmers to have their say.
I want to investigate whether there was an undercurrent of critical voices that were later forgotten and more or less disappeared from the collective memory. The thesis is about how people used to look at urban buildings and their value. The great modernization process of Stockholm meant building a new society but also demolishing what was considered to belong to a past era. This transformation still evokes strong emotions among Stockholmers today, and the narrative about it differs depending on who is describing it and in which era. |
Tornberg, Anna |
Lund University |
Agriculture, health and the secondary product revolution 2300-1100 BC. |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 205 000
"You are what you eat" is a saying. Diet and environment affect our bodies and are reflected in our health. This is true today and it also applies to the people who lived in southern Sweden 4 000 years ago. Therefore, the skeletal material from the people who lived in the past can also provide information about the life that was lived then.
During the last part of the South Scandinavian Stone Age, the Late Neolithic, and the first part of the Bronze Age (c. 2300-1100 BC), major social changes took place that resulted in a more hierarchical society. One of the reasons for this is the so-called secondary product revolution. This means shifting the economic focus from using the primary products of livestock, i.e. meat, to using the secondary products, i.e. milk, wool and labor. The economy becomes broader, creating an economic surplus and engaging in trade. This opens the door to a power elite with greater resources than others.
Such major societal changes also have consequences for human diet and health. By examining the skeletons, I study people's height, diseases/injuries and demographics to determine whether health has changed during this time. In addition, by conducting biochemical analyses, I study the diet of people during this period and whether the diet was the same for everyone. The results can provide a deeper understanding of the changes that led to the society we have today. |
Backman, Christina |
The Jewish community in Gothenburg |
Old Jewish cemetery |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The Old Mosaic Cemetery in Gothenburg project has started the renovation of the Mosaic (Jewish) cemetery at Svingeln in Gothenburg.
The site is of great cultural and historical value, dating back to the 18th century and is one of five Jewish cemeteries in Sweden. The cemetery was established when the first Jews to come to Sweden settled on Marstrand in 1775. When Kungl. Maj:t issued a decree in 1782 that gave Jews the right to settle in Gothenburg, the site was expanded. Gothenburg later became a city with a significant Jewish population.
The site and the environment are completely unique and have great cultural-historical value in preserving the cultural heritage of a vulnerable minority. The site has been subjected to normal wear and tear over the years, as well as damage of various kinds, often with political overtones. The site is today very neglected in terms of maintenance and has severe damage to both graves and the fence that surrounds the site.
The idea is that the renovation will be completed for Gothenburg's 400th anniversary. The site is often visited by guided groups interested in the Jewish cultural heritage of the Västra Götaland region and the history of Gothenburg. |
Bergerbrant, Sophie |
University of Gothenburg |
Study on the baseline level of strontium content in Skåne |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Mobility studies have become increasingly popular in archaeology. An example of the increased understanding it can provide is the study of the so-called Egtved girl published in 2015. Analyses of strontium isotope values are becoming increasingly common in Sweden and the world. However, in order to give good interpretations of the values, knowledge of the local values is required. This project intends to analyze the basic level of strontium concentrations in Skåne, in order to get a basis for future and already made analyses of archaeological material. |
Arvidsson, Kristoffer |
Gothenburg Art Museum |
The universal language. International Abstraction in Sweden 1945-1970 |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 240 000
The project examines the role that notions of abstraction as an international language played in Swedish art life from 1945 to 1970. The focus is on abstract expressions, especially in painting, and how these came to conquer and dominate the international art world. Abstraction was perceived as a universal language with different national dialects, which differs from today's dominant approach where the globalization of art is rather understood as a hybridization of different traditions. Abstract art could be understood by everyone and was thought to distill the essence of all art: the inner dynamics of the image. While conceptual art and postmodernism have strongly dominated the understanding of art in recent decades, this generation of abstract artists has been overshadowed by the pioneers of modernism and 1960s pop art. Around 1960, abstract art was completely dominant and abstract was synonymous with modern.
What values and ideas were attached to abstract expression? What did the Swedish reception of international abstraction look like? These questions are examined based on analyses of the exhibition history of Moderna Museet and the Gothenburg Museum of Art, as well as the art magazines Konstrevy and Paletten. The perspective is discourse analytical and includes analyses of exhibitions and art reviews. The aim of the project is to investigate notions of abstraction and how these functioned as normative interpretative perspectives during the period 1945-1970. |
by Ehrenheim, Jacob |
Grönsöö |
Feast and celebration at Grönsööö |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 111 900
The circumstances of life that we wish to highlight in 2017 are how the celebrations of life and the year have been manifested in different ways. The book and exhibition will be titled "Fest och högtid på Grönsöö" and will comprise about 100 pages. Håkan Liby, head of the Uppland Museum, has made himself available as author. The photographer is Gabriel Hildebrand, photographer at Kungl. Myntkabinettet. |
Larsson, Mikael |
Lund University |
The green wealth - agricultural resources and consumption in Iron Age Uppåkra. |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: 115 700 SEK
Agricultural grain production - the green wealth - was the basis for the economic and material prosperity associated with the Iron Age settlement of Uppåkra. Questions about the provisioning of large-scale food consumption at densely populated settlements have not previously been addressed in archaeological research in Scandinavia. The project will investigate how the large-scale consumption at the settlement affected the village's handling of vegetable resources and whether it created the need for a larger resource area, revealed by agricultural raw materials being sourced from further afield. With extensive plant remains preserved at Uppåkra and settlements in the surrounding area, the current study has an opportunity to link this important power center with its agricultural production and resource management. By analyzing isotope values of carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N) and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) in fossil grains and seeds handled at settlements in the study area, a local variation of cultivation conditions and the province can be investigated. The methods thus aim to understand the extent of agrarian production and to identify the extent of localities that may have been involved in supplying the central site. But also whether nutritional conditions may have varied over time as a result of increased cultivation pressure on surrounding farmland. The study is expected to initiate a discussion on how household food resources at prehistoric settlements were organized to meet the consumption and demand for vegetable raw materials. |
Gunneriusson Wistman, Christina |
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Museum creation in the Swedish art field around the middle of the 20th century |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The research project deals with Swedish museums and museum creation in Sweden. It aims to investigate new museums in Sweden at the middle of the 20th century. A number of museums of different types were opened at that time: regional museums, personal museums and e.g. Moderna Museet. The starting point is the founding of Moderna Museet. How were the discussions conducted and what role may have been played by Prince Eugen's art collection and Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, which opened in 1948. How and why were other museums established? The so-called Folkhem period roughly coincides with the time this project examines - is this relevant for interpretation and analysis? An important part of the investigation concerns the museums' art collections: what has the collection looked like, what significance does art have for the collections and for the museum? The social function of art is a particularly important factor. Art is obvious at Moderna Museet and Waldemarsudde, but has a different role to play in the regional museums. Are the museums and collections still important and relevant? These are some of the questions the study focuses on, and which, regardless of how they are answered, will contribute to the story of Swedish museums and museum education and provide answers of importance and value for our time as well. |
Lönnroth, Lars |
Swedish Humanist Association |
From Tacitus to Tolkien. Yearbook of the Swedish Humanities Association 2017 |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The book "From Tacitus to Tolkien. The Germanic Trail in Western Poetry" is planned as a yearbook for the Swedish Humanities Association in 2017.
The book deals with what has traditionally been called Germanic poetry, from how narrative poems emerged among Germanic tribes during the Migration Period and eventually, in the course of the Middle Ages, developed into masterpieces such as the Old English heroic poem Beowulf, the Old High German knightly poem Nibelungenlied, the Norse Poetic Edda, Old Norse skaldic poems such as Egil Skallagrimsson's The Loss of the Son and Icelandic ancestral sagas such as Njal's Saga. The traces of this poetry in the literature of recent centuries are also discussed.
No comprehensive overview of the subject has been published since Andreas Heusler's (1865-1940) Die altgermanische Dichtung (1929), which quickly became an influential classic. However, Heusler's account has aged considerably, mainly because the term 'Germanic' has become obsolete. Modern research has shown that the texts in this tradition were strongly influenced by Latin, Christian and Romanesque medieval literature. Original ideas have been transformed in the Christian spirit and adapted to the medieval European world of thought. The view of oral tradition has also changed. The new book has been written in the light of a completely new research situation and with different scientific starting points. |
Granberg, Jan |
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Villa Baggås |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Villa Baggås, one of Saltsjöbaden's landmark buildings, was popularly known as Söderberg's church. The villa was built in 1909 to designs by two of the leading architects of the time, Fritz Ulrich and Edvard Hallquisth, on behalf of Consul General Olof Söderberg. With its monumental location, lavish Art Nouveau architecture and four-storey tower, the villa is highly visible in the landscape, where it resembles a church building.
The magazine Idun presents Villa Baggås in 1916: "One enters a hall with beautiful proportions and slightly rounded arches, around which the rooms on the lower floor are grouped. In the middle of the entrance is the large salon, which is divided by a balustrade in part of its length, so that you get a flower room with palm trees near the high windows and a more winter-like part of the large room for socializing. The works of art on the walls are from Hesselbom, O.W. Nilsson and Thörne. Nilsson and Thörne, the latter, who is represented by several panels in the other rooms, has taken his motifs from Consul General Söderberg's property Gryt in Närke." |
Lööf, LarsOlof |
The National Archives |
East Indian book project: 'Seafarers and Supercargoes' |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: 146 500 SEK
Register of all officers of the Swedish East India Company who sailed between 1731 and 1805, with life history and family relations and an accompanying catalog of monogrammed porcelain.
The result is also intended to be used as a key to identify personal monograms on Chinese imported porcelain. There is currently no similar reference work for researchers, collectors, antique dealers and the public interested in history.
The collection work itself has been going on for 25 years, through museum and archive studies. The National Archives in Gothenburg have been the main source of knowledge in this work, but the collections of the current Gothenburg City Museum have also been important for the acquisition of knowledge. |
Herjulfsdotter, Ritwa |
Röhsska Museum |
The collections and history of the Röhsska Museum |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 385 000
The purpose of the research project is to use relevant and current humanistic perspectives to highlight and reflect on the basis on which the Röhsska Museum's collections were created. In order to increase awareness of the Röhsska Museum's collections and to place them in a larger context and inspire a critical approach to the collections, continuous research is required on the museum's intentions and the context in which the collections were created. The examination of one's own history takes place with the help of cultural history research by highlighting and analyzing when, by whom, in what way and on what grounds the Röhsska Museum's collections were created. It is also valuable to study how the collections have been viewed over time in order to make them understandable and useful today.
Few of the museum's 50,000 objects are digitized. Most of the collections in the Röhsska Museum are therefore completely unknown to the outside world. For the digitization work, increased knowledge of the objects is needed. An important purpose of continued research on the Röhsska Museum's collections is to fill such a gap.
In addition, all research at the museum contributes to enriching other museum activities with new perspectives and questions. Research results are continuously made available in articles, lectures, catalogs, publications, exhibitions, internal seminars, conferences and on the museum's website. Research on the Röhsska Museum's collections and the history of their creation also increases the opportunities for collaboration with universities and other institutions. |
Hadenius, Patrik |
Research & Progress |
Publication of Research & Progress in 2017 |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: 44 800 SEK
The aim of the journal is to report on research and research results and the role of research in society. The topics and research results that are highlighted should primarily be of interest to society. Forskning & Framsteg should work at the forefront of knowledge, be general education, deserve high credibility and be made with the reader in focus. |
Widenberg, Johanna |
Swedish University of Agriculture |
The great cattle death - cattle plague and anthrax in the 18th century |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
"The Great Cattle Death. Kampen mot boskapspest och mjältbrand i 1700-talets svenska rike" is a Swedish-language monograph based on a multi-year research project funded by the Swedish Research Council. Carlssons förlag plans to publish the book in spring 2017. The book contains many new empirical results and current research perspectives. The book is aimed at all historians who study the agrarian economy, society and sciences of the 18th century. It may also appeal to readers outside of academia, as it is written in an easy-to-understand manner and contains many illustrations.
The book deals with the infectious and fatal cattle diseases that ravaged the Swedish Empire in the 18th century and their importance for the agrarian society, economy and veterinary medicine of the time. The diseases that caused the most serious outbreaks were rinderpest and anthrax. Rinderpest is a now, since 2011, eradicated cattle disease. The disease ravaged the Swedish Empire between 1720 and 1772. More than three hundred and fifty thousand cattle died during these years. Many thousands of cattle also died of anthrax during these years. As cattle were of great importance in Swedish agrarian society - as draught animals, food, fertilizer and raw material producers - the disease outbreaks had major consequences for farmers and traders. The diseases of rinderpest and anthrax are therefore very interesting in terms of agricultural and economic history. |
Wistisen, Lydia |
Stockholm University |
From staircase to tunnel: Urban themes in Swedish youth literature |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: 87 500 SEK
The project aims to examine urban motifs in Swedish youth literature from the turn of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century. Although several of the aspects that have been identified as crucial to the development of youth literature in the 20th century are directly related to the urban, no previous study of the genre's urban motifs exists. By analyzing motifs such as the department store, the hustler and the Million Dollar Program, I will be able to say something new about Swedish youth literature and contribute to the knowledge of the connections between youth, urban life and modernity.
Changes in society and the city have had a significant impact on the portrayal of maturity in youth literature. The city and its varied environments have been used both to educate and train and to entertain and inspire. New youth culture phenomena have been used both to set a warning example and to show the young reader new possibilities. The representation of urban youth culture has moved around the urban landscape during the century: from the backyards of Emil Norlander's Anderssonskan's Kalle (1901) and Kar de Mumma's Två år i varje klass (1923) to Harry Kullman's and Peter Pohl's Södermalm, in novels such as Den svarta fläcken (1949) and Janne min vän (1983). From Martha Sandwall-Bergström's 1950s Tempo department store to Kerstin Thorvall's 1970s Million Project suburbs. From Astrid Lindgren's Kati on Kaptensgatan (1952) to Mats Wahl's Vinterviken (1993). From the stairwell to the pedestrian tunnel. |
Klackenberg, Day |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2017 |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Interest in history is strong and growing. The need for a deeper understanding of history is often highlighted, not least in debates on the role of schools and in the context of social issues at the heart of current political debate.
The Swedish History Days work to promote this interest in history through annual conferences. The aim is to maintain the History Days as a meeting place for representatives of historical research, practitioners in the world of museums and archives, history teachers and a public interested in history. The ambition is therefore to present topics and research in a way that is of high quality but also accessible to non-specialist participants. The long-term goal is to use teachers and other professionals as channels to increase the historical knowledge of the public at large, especially the younger generations.
For many history teachers, the History Days are the main opportunity for continuing education, particularly in terms of reconnecting with the research community, and for professional historians this forum provides an opportunity to make new research findings available. |
Bergstrand, Thomas |
Bohuslän Museum |
Marstrand Monastery |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 228 800
In 2014, Bohuslän Museum conducted a ground penetrating radar survey of the old cemetery at Marstrand church. The results show that a large foundation wall (34×12 m) is hidden in the southern part of the area. A project group at Bohuslän Museum now wants to try to confirm what kind of building remains it is. One hopeful hypothesis is that the remains are the medieval Franciscan monastery that operated on Marstrand from the 13th century onwards. However, the monastery building has not been found so far. The archaeological effort is planned for a few days of exploratory investigation and documentation, but also includes public tours for school children and the public. The project is a collaboration with the Marstrand Hembygdsförening. |
Ragnarsson, Per |
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The Jemseby book |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
The Jemseby method is a patented photographic reproduction method invented by Anton Jemseby in the 1940s and subsequently developed and refined by Anton's son, co-applicant in this application, Bo Jemseby. The Jemseby method was used in the 1970s by more than 50 companies in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria, England, Australia, Kuwait, Iraq, Bhutan and Portugal. Today, the development of the graphic industry has eliminated the method, but in the graphic arts business the craft is still alive and well. I, Peter Ragnarsson, came into contact with Bo as a printer and graphic designer in 1984 and have since then done my own repro and produced several acclaimed art and photo books using the Jemseby method. Among the more famous are Tomtebobarnen by Elsa Beskov and Svenskt fågellexikon from 1984. Over the years, Bo Jemseby has sketched a book about the method and his own professional graphic life with it. I am now helping Bo, in my role as editor and ghost writer, to ensure that we can complete his book together. The goal is a technical-historical and richly illustrated book with Bo Jemseby and the Jemseby method at the center. |
Rosenberg, Tiina |
Stockholm University |
The Sons of Joseph. When Europe came to Sweden |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The book is about Ludvig Josephson (1832-1899), Sweden's first professional theater and opera director, also active as a debater with a combative art policy and cosmopolitan agenda. His life is presented against the backdrop of changing European cultural life and the way in which he brought this new performing arts culture to Sweden by laying the foundations for the theater and opera repertoire in Stockholm that still forms the backbone of European repertory theater.
In addition to the performing arts, this book is about Jewish identity at a time when new career paths were opening up for European Jews and the composers Giacomo Meyerbeer and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, the writer Heinrich Heine and the actress Rachel began to make their presence felt in Europe. The legacy of the 19th century in Europe was largely made up of the opera and the changing cityscape. The mental heritage of the era includes the emotional culture, which certainly had a long history, but which now came to affect more and more people. Ludvig Josephson not only sought inspiration in his travels, but was drawn to the freedom offered by continental European urban culture. His great dream was to bring Sweden closer to Europe and the world and to transform the provincial performing arts in Sweden into something more grand and artistically ambitious. |
Weiss, Nadja |
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Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt - 100 years of Peter Weiss |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: 130 000 SEK
This year Peter Weiss would have been 100 years old. His life's work is being commemorated through a number of projects both in Sweden and Germany during the year. Nadja Weiss will be responsible for a major dark documentary project related to the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt, where the SS men who worked in Auschwitz were put on trial and witnesses were heard. Peter Weiss wrote a documentary piece on the Auschwitz trials, The Search.
Research on the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt, as well as on Peter Weiss' documentary piece on the same, consists of:
- Historisches Museum in Berlin, documentation on the two camps including notes and smuggled photos from Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
- Akademien der Kunstes - including Peter Weiss' collection of photos and notes on Theresienstadt. The studies will be led by Dr. Jörg Fessman.
- Visit and documentation of Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.
- Study trip to Jerusalem to study material there, including photographic material from the two camps.
- Frankfurt.
- Professor Jürgen Schutte emeritus who researched Peter Weiss Rannsakningen and his archive is also important.
The work will mainly result in a new production of the documentary play The Search in a collaboration between Orionteatern and Dramaten. |
Olsson, Agnets |
Styrsö parish |
Styrsö Chamber Soloists |
Other |
2016 |
Amount granted: SEK
Styrsö Chamber Soloists 2016 |
Wiktorsson, Per-Axel |
Stockholm University |
Chess board game |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
The application concerns the costs of printing the text 'Schacktavelslek'. The value of the edition - beyond the purely linguistic - lies in the fact that it gives us a unique insight into the structure of medieval society. The text describes the social structure of the time in allegorical form, where the different chess pieces represent different parts of society - from the king and queen down to the peasants. |
Wennberg, Kåa |
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Landscape painter Elias Erdtman |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: 110 000 SEK
The artist Elias Erdtman left Sweden at a young age to study art in Europe. After completing his studies in Germany, France and Belgium, Erdtman returned to Sweden. He then continued painting in Östergötland, Halland, Södermanland and also in Jämtland. Many of his motifs are from the Misterhult archipelago in Småland. It was with paintings in this spirit that he participated in the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900. Elias Erdtman has left behind a large number of paintings that will be included in the artist book about Elias Erdtman. |
Welander-Berggren, Elsebeth |
Sven-Harry Art Museum |
Axel Sjöberg - among islands and skerries |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The artist Axel Sjöberg (1866-1950) is one of the foremost artists of the archipelago, he often depicted the difficult living conditions of the resident population and the barren everyday life in the outer archipelago. Axel Sjöberg was a photographer, illustrator, draughtsman, graphic designer, writer and artist. 2016 marks the 150th anniversary of Axel Sjöberg's birth. Sven-Harry Art Museum wishes to produce a catalog and an exhibition (December 8, 2016 - February 19, 2017).
The museum has asked Olle Granath, former chief curator at Nationalmuseum, to be the catalog author and guest curator. In connection with the review of the material, Olle Granath has found a very interesting hitherto unpublished material by the artist. |
Warnqvist, Åsa |
Swedish Institute for Children's Books |
The history of Swedish children's and youth literature |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 549 000
The project aims to provide a completely new historical account of children's and youth literature c. 1300-2010, focusing on describing the scope, transformations, function and significance of this literature over the centuries. An important starting point is to make children's literature visible as an essential source of knowledge for society's view of children, childhood, literature, aesthetics, art, ethics and learning in different times. Much new research has been required for this new standard work, and in several areas the contributing scholars revise the history of children's literature as we know it today. |
Trossholmen, Ninni |
Ethnological Association of West Sweden |
Architectural details and lives in the Utby/Utbynäs district |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The book on architect Arvid Bjerke and his work begins with an account of the social climate and architectural ideals that prevailed in the early 20th century. This is followed by a presentation of Arvid Bjerke and of Anders Mattson and his wife Hulda, initiators of the villa town Utbynäs. Anders Mattsson, who was Arvid Bjerke's uncle, is also considered responsible for his training as an architect. Utbynäs Villastad was one of the first houses the young Arvid Bjerke designed and the work went on from 1905 to 1918, interspersed with designs for other buildings both in Gothenburg and around the country. Arvid Bjerke also lived for a few years in Utbynäs in a villa designed by himself. Later, he was active in the creation of Lorensbergs villastad and lived in one of the terraced houses on Dicksonsgatan in that area. Bjerke also contributed to the construction of the buildings for the great jubilee exhibition in 1923, including the Art Museum at Götaplatsen and several of the buildings at the Liseberg amusement park. |
Sörman, Anna |
Stockholm University |
Arenas of craftsmanship - bronze casting in the South Scandinavian Bronze Age |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 60 000
In recent decades, large-scale archaeological excavations have led to more and more traces of Bronze Age metalwork being found in Sweden. Finds of crucibles, molds and metal drops that indicate that bronze casting was carried out are not only increasingly common, but can now also be linked to many different types of sites. This makes it possible to explore Bronze Age metal craftsmanship based on the production sites themselves rather than the finished objects: In which environments was bronze cast? How widespread was the craft and under what conditions did it take place? How was bronze casting perceived by people during the Bronze Age and what can the organization of metal craftsmanship say about the role of bronze and craftsmanship in society?
These questions are explored in the dissertation project "Arenas of craftsmanship - bronze casting in the South Scandinavian Bronze Age". The starting point is to map and study bronze casting sites in detail to understand how casting was organized and experienced. The thesis results in a new interpretative model for the organization of craftsmanship during the Middle and Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia. The results show a craft organization that is very different from today's experiences and views on technology in modern society. Bronze Age metal craftsmanship is thus a fascinating basis for reflection on the social significance of production, both now and then. |
Stymne, Anna-Carin |
Stockholm University |
How understandable is history? |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 205 000
Society is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. With increased knowledge production, information dissemination and specialization, the teaching of history in schools faces major challenges. Students are not only expected to learn historical facts, they are also expected to be able to apply and evaluate facts, for example by explaining and assessing different interpretations of past events.
My dissertation project studies students' learning of history in the classroom. The aim of the project is to gain new knowledge and increased understanding of the relationship between teaching and learning history in schools. I have been particularly interested in the learning of historical explanations and students' understanding of historical motivations. My research is based on extensive field studies and analysis of student data. For an entire semester, I have followed and documented the history teaching in a middle school class as they studied the Iron Age and the Viking Age. By documenting and following the students' learning over a longer continuous period, it is possible to analyze and describe the concrete opportunities and difficulties that students and their teachers encounter in the classroom.
Research on history teaching and learning in schools, especially in the lower grades, is neglected. My results are directly applicable to strengthen and further develop history teaching in schools. This gives my project academic relevance and concrete importance for schools. |
Slöör, Susanna |
Academy of Arts |
Scientific cataloging and analysis of a unique 18th century library |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 721 876
In 2001 and 2007, the internationally significant art and architecture library at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts was preserved and housed in the room created by member Åke Axelsson, thanks to generous grants from the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations. The collection has a unique core of study and teaching materials for students and members from the 18th and early 19th centuries and serves one of the world's oldest surviving schools of architecture.
The library contains around 1200 works, including rarities such as Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili from 1545, Dürer's anatomy for artists in the first French edition from 1550, the first edition of Piranesi's Le Antichita Romane from 1776, the first French edition of Palladio from 1650 and the richly illustrated first edition of the work Ludwig Gottfried: Historia Antipodium oder Newe Welt from 1631 - all of considerable value.
A major shortcoming is the cataloging of the collection; the only catalog is still a booklet from 1806 that gave the library its name. The collection has therefore remained unknown to the scholarly and museum world.
The application aims to have one of Sweden's leading experts carry out a scientific cataloging in English, highlighting the value and uniqueness of each volume. The aim is to make the catalog available online and at the same time publish a richly illustrated volume. This will enhance the country's reputation in international research. |
Sjöbrandt, Anders |
Stockholm University |
The future is not what it used to be. Stories of the transformation of Stockholm |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 60 000
The thesis is about the major urban transformation in Stockholm after the Second World War, but not about how the transformation process itself took place. Instead, it aims to shed light on perceptions, interpretations and reactions to what is sometimes called one of Europe's largest and most radical urban development projects. The overall objective is to study the process of change in Stockholm during the 1950s and 60s from a cultural-historical narrative perspective. I intend to describe, compare and analyze the values, underlying driving forces, rhetoric and counter-rhetoric behind the great urban transformation. I want to capture the thoughts and perceptions of social actors; the legitimizing narratives of different interests will be contrasted. The main sources are newspapers and magazines from the current study period, articles that allow urban planners, politicians and other Stockholmers to have their say. I want to investigate whether there was an undercurrent of critical voices that were later forgotten and more or less disappeared from the collective memory. The thesis is about how people used to look at urban buildings and their value. The great modernization process of Stockholm meant building a new society but also demolishing what was considered to belong to a past era. This transformation still evokes strong emotions among Stockholmers today, and the narrative about it differs depending on who is describing it and in which era. |
Olsson, Agneta |
Styrsö parish |
Styrsö Chamber Soloists |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 25 000
With three chamber music concerts in Styrsö Church in August 2015, members of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra are given the opportunity for further training and skills development by working with chamber music works that orchestral musicians rarely come into contact with in their regular work. The audience from Gothenburg's southern archipelago is given the opportunity to get to know chamber music at a high professional level through the educational setting of the concerts. |
Nyberg, Harry |
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The church bells in Bolstad's medieval church. Culture, history and message |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 25 000
The project aims to correct previous research on Bolstad church in Dalsland. It will provide a reasonable and reliable explanation of the history of the three church bells. This applies in particular to the origin of the middle bell, which has not been explained for a hundred years. Everything must be placed in the cultural context of the 18th century, where the dominance of orthodoxy was slowly diminished by the church representatives of the emerging Enlightenment.
Bolstad Church is the only preserved medieval stone church in the Diocese of Karlstad. It was built around 1150 and was expanded in the 17th century and again in 1759-1761. Population growth and compulsory church attendance forced the measures. The latter construction period was preceded by a ten-year period of decay. The then vicar was characterized by the utilitarian inventiveness of the 18th century, had academic qualifications but neglected the care of the parish. His successor also had considerable academic credentials. He was a member of the Karlstad cathedral chapter, served in the cathedral but was also a practically gifted priest.
The relationship between the diocesan cathedral, which is Karlstad's cathedral, and Bolstad's church turns out to be special. The project will analyze this and report the consequences. |
Nordqvist, Bengt |
Archaeology sacrifice site Finnestorp |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 500 000
During 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, research investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. A site that turns out to contain a find material that belongs to the category - "the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era" and it belongs to one of the most important remains from the prehistory of the Nordic region. At Offerplats Finnestorp, warrior after warrior has been sacrificed along with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These mighty men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords, lances and golden horse equipment. Magnificent objects of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time. The ongoing research work includes international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book and a popular science book. In 2013, analysis of the metal objects from Finnestorp began. In 2015, the first analysis results of the metal objects from Finnestorp were completed. These concerned metal analyses and lead isotope analyses. The metal analyses show that the objects were made by highly skilled blacksmiths. The isotope analyses show that the ores used probably come from parts of the British Isles.
In 2016, the first volume of a book on Finnestorp will be published. It is the magnificent work - The objects in the center. |
Nord, Anders |
The Nordic Museum |
Color studies of six Norrland churches' murals |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 37 000
Sweden's medieval churches are often painted inside. These murals are sometimes well preserved, other times fragmentary and in poor condition. The project participants, with a solid background from the Swedish National Heritage Board, the Nordic Museum and the Swedish Museum of Natural History, have previously carried out many advanced analyses of the unique cultural treasure that the medieval church paintings represent. In particular, church murals have been studied in Uppland, Skåne and Gotland. We now wish to extend these studies to medieval churches in Norrland, whose murals have never before been examined by chemical analysis. The working group wishes primarily to analyze color pigments and compare the results with previous data produced by ourselves or by other researchers on the continent. However, Norrland is very large, which means that in this first study we limit ourselves to medieval churches on the east coast of Norrland. We have chosen three churches in Hälsingland (Trönö old church, Enånger and Hälsingtuna churches), two in Medelpad (Alnö old church and the medieval church in Liden) and one in Ångermanland (Grundsunda). We will also try to draw conclusions about the origin of the pigments. |
Nilsson, Andreas |
Lund University |
The path of knowledge |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 255 000
Scandinavian bronze craftsmanship during the Bronze Age has been discussed in various contexts countless times. This discussion can continue thanks to new discoveries and new ways of investigating the material. I investigate Bronze Age bronze craftsmanship, primarily how accessible it was to people in Scandinavia. Has it been an accessible technology or have the craftsmen kept their knowledge and only spread the technology to selected people? What routes have the technology and knowledge taken? Was there room for local part-time bronze casters or did the technology require so much knowledge that the craftsman had to be a specialist? These are questions I approach by examining the different stages of the craft through the Chaîne opératoire. By breaking down and discussing the different stages of the craft, I hope to approach the bronze craftsman and his skill. I also examine casting crucibles, molds and other technical ceramics. My main material, however, is in wood axes. The single largest group of bronze artifacts from the Scandinavian Bronze Age and a type of object that must be classified as everyday objects. |
Neiss, Michael |
Uppsala University |
Transformations in Viking animal ornamentation |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
Viking Age images rarely appear as independent monuments. Most often they are decorations on everyday objects. Therefore, animal ornamentation has mostly been treated as meaningless decoration. But in the oral culture of the Viking Age, it would have been a waste of resources not to take advantage of the potential of the decoration for visual messages. For this reason, animal ornamentation has been discussed in connection with Viking sagas. Indeed, a recurring story in medieval literature is that of a Viking poet who happened to see a beautiful image, which prompted him to improvise a visual poem. This raises the question of whether Viking utility objects could give rise to similar situations. Did the decoration serve as a memory aid, or are they just nonsense motifs? Over the past few years, I have analyzed the animal ornaments from the perspectives of archaeology, design, art history and cognitive theory. I did this as a self-funded PhD student. The work has led to exciting results that have been published in a number of scientific articles. In connection with this, I have pursued a continuous methodological development. This is necessary as archaeology has long neglected its main source material - the objects - in favor of theoretical thought exercises. It is hoped that my new standard will contribute to the revitalization of archaeology. Nevertheless, every doctoral student has to take stock sooner or later. I am achieving this by completing my monograph at Uppsala University. |
Mårdh, Hedvig |
Uppsala University |
Retro-Gustavian - shaping the past for the future |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
In various ways, the reuse of Gustavian has played an important role in the persistent effort to create a specific Swedish cultural heritage and something that could be described as a Swedish aesthetic. This may involve new production of textiles and furniture, but also the staging of entire environments and their use. But how is it that the images of the Swedish, the authentic and the good taste are so closely associated with the Gustavian style and what role has art history played? The dissertation in art history examines the entire 20th century, but focuses specifically on the function this reuse, the retro-Gustavian, played during the breakthrough of functionalism in the 1930s and during the so-called cultural heritage boom of the 1990s.
The thesis also examines who the actors are and how they influence each other. The retro-Gustavian reflects well the meeting between the officially sanctioned cultural heritage and private and commercial initiatives. The thesis therefore describes the role of art history and museums in relation to private actors and interest groups such as the Swedish Craftsmen's Association and historical associations. The study is based on an empirical material consisting of magazines, exhibitions, catalogs, furniture and environments. By following the career of the retro-Gustavian, the study explores the networks and ideologies that in different ways convey, stage and reuse the Gustavian - a part of the past that has created visions for the future. |
Lööf, LarsOlof |
The National Archives |
East Indian book project: 'Seafarers and supercargoes' |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 315 000
Register of all officers of the Swedish East India Company who sailed between 1731 and 1805, with life history and family relations. The result is also intended to be used as a key to identify personal monograms on Chinese imported porcelain. There is currently no similar reference work for researchers, collectors, antique dealers and the public interested in history.
The collection work itself has been going on for 25 years, through museum and archive studies. The National Archives in Gothenburg have been the main source of knowledge in this work, but the collections of the current Gothenburg City Museum have also been important for the acquisition of knowledge. |
Lundgren, Helena |
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Fire station inventories 2012-2015 |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: 256 300 SEK
Fire stations are an important part of Swedish industrial heritage. Before 2012, no inventories of this category of buildings had been made. Nor was there a suitable inventory method for smaller but numerous objects such as fire stations, nor any directly applicable principles for assessing the industrial and cultural heritage values of fire station buildings.
Throughout the country, there is a lack of collective knowledge about the number and location of fire stations and spray houses, which means that during our inventories we have met a great deal of interest from authorities, firefighters and the public. In order to meet the demand for knowledge about these buildings and for the knowledge to be disseminated to a larger public, we want to print these documents. The project involves printing previously conducted inventories of fire stations and spray houses in Gävleborg County, Stockholm County, Södermanland County and Uppsala County during the years 2012-2015. |
Krispinsson, Charlotta |
Stockholm University |
Getting close to great men: portrait research and portrait collecting |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 95 000
The thesis deals with how portraits from the early modern period were inventoried, collected and researched in Swedish art history during the period around 1880-1950. It also deals with national portrait galleries and portrait collections as exhibition phenomena in Europe from the 1780s onwards. In the Swedish context, the State Portrait Collection at Gripsholm Castle is of particular interest, as is the Swedish portrait archive initiated and built up at the National Museum during the first half of the 20th century.
The thesis shows that portrait painting constituted a quantitatively large part of the total amount of visual art in European countries during the early modern period (1500-1789), while the status of the portrait as art has subsequently been strongly questioned by art historians. Therefore, attention is also drawn to the personal history approach in art history research, which during the period 1880-1950 was devoted to comparing and analyzing the total amount of preserved portraits of rulers from the early modern period, in order to try to determine the real appearance of the depicted person. This in turn raises questions about why it was so important to seek knowledge about how, for example, Gustav Vasa or Gustav II Adolf actually looked? This is also the subject of the final chapter of the thesis, where the interest in the appearance of historical persons is put in relation to a scientific-historical context through physiognomy, i.e. the quasi-scientific doctrine of how external appearance reflects an inner personality. |
Klackenberg, Day |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2016 |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Interest in history is strong and growing. The need for a deeper understanding of history is often highlighted, not least in debates on the role of schools and in the context of social issues at the heart of current political debate.
The overall purpose of the Swedish History Days is to encourage contacts and exchanges between professionals from different professions related to the subject of history, and history enthusiasts in general, and thus increase the historical knowledge of as many groups in society as possible. The ambition is therefore to present historical topics and historical research in a way that is at the level of popular science but also accessible to non-specialist participants.
For many history teachers, the History Days are the main opportunity for continuing education, especially in terms of reconnecting with the research community, and for historians, this forum is an opportunity to make new research results available. Several of the lectures are published in printed form. |
Karlsson, Krister |
City of Mölndal/Gunnebo Slott |
Gunnebo back to the 18th century phase 3, reconstruction of lidded urns |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
In 2013-2018, the orangery building designed for the Hall family by city architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg, but which fell into disrepair after the Hall bankruptcy, will be reconstructed. Based on Carlberg's drawings, project manager Stefan Günther, PhD in architectural history, has produced architectural and structural drawings. Carpenters, masons and carpenters are working on the construction and the work is proceeding according to plan. The completed orangery will have its original use and house examples of the rich plant collection that Christina Hall listed in an inventory dated July 3, 1809.
The Orangery was the most important park building at Gunnebo, a building for both use and pleasure. The southern wing with two corner pavilions served as winter storage for exotic trees and plants, while the portico and the northern pavilion (grotto) were exclusive social rooms. The portico opened out onto two sunken lawns, boulingrins. The eight corners of the lawns were each adorned with a lidded urn and richly decorated with ribbon braids and eagles with spread wings, also designed by C.W. Carlberg. Four urns were produced and put in place for Göteborgs Lustgårdar 2008. Buildings, decorations and vegetation interacted as a whole and gave a feeling of being in more southern latitudes, which deeply impressed the contemporaries. Johan Tobias Sergel wrote, after a visit to Gunnebo in 1801, that he thought he had been in the surroundings of Rome, Tivoli or Frescati. |
Håkansson, Håkan |
Lund University |
Digitization of the Ravensbrück archive at the Lund University Library |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
In 1945, over 20,000 liberated prisoners from German concentration camps arrived in Sweden on the so-called white buses. Their experiences during the war are documented in a unique archive material that is now stored at the University Library in Lund. In order to make this internationally significant material available to researchers and the public, extensive digitization and registration work is required.
Among other things, the archive consists of more than 500 in-depth interviews with survivors - a total of more than 5,000 document pages - which are completely unique, as the interviews were conducted in the months immediately after their liberation. In addition, the archive includes a large amount of other material brought to Sweden by the survivors: notebooks, diaries, letters, poems, photographs and drawings, as well as official documents reflecting the Nazi administrative apparatus around the concentration camps.
The archive's great international research value has been underlined by the US Congress, which in June 2015 formally recognized the archive as 'a critical link to the history of the Holocaust'. In spring 2015, with the help of private donations, the University Library started a project to record, index, digitize and translate the interviews into English and publish them in a searchable database. Subsequently, the remaining material will be registered and indexed, and a selection will be digitized and published in the same database. |
Håkansson, Anders |
Lund University |
The medieval wandering village - social farm hierarchies in Halland 1000-1300 |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: 167 000 SEK
The thesis studies a particularly dynamic and revolutionary period in Scandinavian history. During the Early Middle Ages, major social changes took place such as village formation, urbanization, state formation, feudalization and Christianization. In Halland, these phenomena have proved difficult to analyze. The emergence of towns, villages and the cultural landscape seems to have been characterized by discontinuity, which distinguishes Halland from large parts of the rest of southern Scandinavia. The research project sheds light on medieval village formation based on newly excavated settlement archaeological source material. The concept of village formation has had a vague definition in archaeological research, but refers to the period when villages are formed in the transition between the Younger Iron Age and the Middle Ages. This is when the historically known villages are established. The main questions are: what was the built and social environment in the countryside during the Early Middle Ages? How was the village and landscape organized and who were the actors? Through an interdisciplinary approach, which includes archaeological and historical sources as well as cultural-geographical and quaternary geological analyses, completely new aspects of rural organization in the early Middle Ages are exposed. Based on studies of some villages in Halland, a picture emerges of an early medieval village landscape, completely different from what we see in the historical maps. Here, different social groups make themselves known, which can be linked, for example, to village agriculture, trade and craftsmanship, and local and regional power. |
Husebye, Alexander |
Center for Business History |
Peder Herzog - Jewish migrant, successful entrepreneur |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: 410 000 SEK
The Center for Business History is conducting a combined research preparatory archive and book project to shed light on Peder Herzog (1838-1920) as an entrepreneur and the companies he started and ran during his life.
Herzog worked as an immigrant entrepreneur during a dynamic period of the emergence of modern Sweden. He operated in an industry, bookbinding and printing, that was characterized by strong growth and new technological innovations that developed book and newspaper reading into a mass market. Studies of this development and the actors are lacking except for small parts that are included in other research. The biography of Peder Herzog as a person has so far been only modestly elucidated.
The project is carried out in two stages, the first of which is to inventory and compile material from various public and private archives. A selection will also be digitized and published on the internet as a supplement to the book's content. In the second stage, a book is produced with the writer Per T.H. Dahl as author and richly illustrated with images and original documents from the archives. The book will be launched at the Göteborg Book Fair in September 2016. |
Herjulfsdotter, Ritwa |
Röhsska Museum |
The collections and history of the Röhsska Museum |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 380 000
The aim of the research project is to investigate and analyze the Röhsska Museum's background and collections from a cultural analysis perspective. The focus is on the intersection between issues of cultural heritage, historical use, and collection policy at the beginning of the 20th century. The project contributes to making the Röhsska Museum's extensive collections visible and accessible to both researchers and visitors and contributes to the museum's own knowledge building. The study lays the foundation for a deeper understanding of the museum's background and growth and the object collections the museum currently manages. Within the project, the museum's extensive 18th century collections are now highlighted for closer study. |
Hartman, Jenny |
Lund University |
Meaning-making for autism, ADHD, OCD and Tourette Syndrome |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 561 390
This research project looks at three different types of written communication that address the neuropsychiatric disabilities of autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Tourette Syndrome (TS) in different ways: medical articles, patient-oriented information, and narratives from a user/patient perspective. An important assumption made in the study is that the language we use when communicating about disabilities both reflects and shapes how we perceive, understand and value them. By examining how language is used, we can describe the differences and similarities between the different types of communication and find out, for example, which meanings are evoked and how language shapes these meanings, which concepts are put in focus and which are given less space and, not least, which understandings and conceptual structures are based on and maintained through language. In this way, we can investigate whether medical professionals and patients/users create and maintain common understandings and values of autism, ADHD, OCD and TS through language and whether they express similar or different experiences and priorities. |
Hampf, Jan |
Särö cultural heritage |
Digitization of Särö Cultural Heritage, from database to virtual museum: part II |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 300 000
The purpose of this project is to develop the Särö Cultural Heritage database and interface to meet the high demands of the public, researchers, authorities and the EU in terms of quality, accessibility, usability and transparency.
This application is a further development of the project for which Särö Kulturarv was granted funding in December 2011. This grant has been used to implement fundamental changes in the database and interface that have contributed to increasing both quality and accessibility.
Further resources are required to develop the database and interface into a virtual museum that meets the high standards of quality, accessibility, user benefit and transparency required by different target groups. Important target groups with particularly high demands are younger generations and various organizations with which Särö Cultural Heritage seeks exchange and collaboration.
A fundamental requirement is therefore to adapt the virtual museum so that it is easy to access and use with mobiles and tablets. It is also important to prepare the museum for new and future platforms. The search methodology will be central to how Särö Cultural Heritage reaches out to the public and researchers. Showing relationships in time and linking these to geographical locations and individuals will be an important cornerstone. |
Hadenius, Patrik |
Research & Progress |
Publication of Research & Progress in 2016 |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: 44 500 SEK
The purpose of the journal is to report on research and research results and the role of research in society. The areas covered should be of significant scientific interest or of interest and importance to society. |
Gunneriusson Wistman, Christina |
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Museum crews in the Swedish art field in the mid-20th century |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The project "Museiskapanden in the Swedish art field in the middle of the 20th century. An investigation of art, art collections, the importance of art and its social function" aims, as the title indicates, to investigate the many museums of various kinds founded in Sweden between about 1930 and 1960. The main focus of the study is on possible connections between the opening of Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde in 1948 and Moderna Museet in 1958. Waldemarsudde can, by definition, be considered Sweden's first museum for modern and contemporary art; was this why the modern art museum so sought after by the art world's stakeholders took so long? These two museums are also examples of two different founding spirits: the individual and the public. In parallel, a number of county museums and other donor museums opened their doors to the public. Many of these contain art collections, and some focus on art in particular. What is the importance of art in cultural history museums, and what social function are they allowed to have? Another question of importance to the study is the role of museums today, especially donor museums - are they still relevant or has their content outlived its usefulness? Swedish art museums are a largely unexplored area and the art sociological perspective used in this study will provide results both for basic knowledge in the field and serve as a basis for further analysis of the role of art museums in society yesterday, today and tomorrow. |
Fischer, Peter |
Friends of the Swedish Cyprus expedition/University of Gothenburg |
The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: a palace complex from 1200 BC. |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 600 000
The results of the new Swedish excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke, one of the largest Bronze Age cities in the Mediterranean, have attracted international attention. A 50x60 m palace complex was discovered in 2014 using radar about 20 cm below ground level. Test excavations at the edge of the complex resulted in numerous finds from the period around 1200 BC. The expedition exposed part of a defensive structure where a number of lead projectiles were found indicating a military attack. The palace contained the remains of the production of purple cloth, one of the most expensive goods of the time, and numerous figurines of gods and animals. Finds from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Levant indicate extensive trade links including Sweden: Cypriot copper was exported to the North during this period. The palace was destroyed in a violent fire after 1200 BC, after which the entire city was abandoned. The time around 1200 BC is the period during which the 'Sea Peoples' appeared. Very little is known today about these mysterious people who may have started a migration from Italy. This resulted in the decline of several high-level cultures: the Mycenaean in Greece, the Minoan in Crete and the Hittite in Turkey. Cities in Cyprus and the Levant were destroyed. Egypt was also attacked. The attack, destruction and abandonment of Hala Sultan Tekke is apparently related to these dramatic events. The expedition's task is to clarify these events through further excavations. |
Eliasson, Roger |
Aeroseum |
Cold War a Science Center project |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 120 000
In 2010, the Aeroseum has started a school project with the aim of opening the aviation experience center/museum for teaching students from pre-school to university level. In 2013, the original project switched to the Aeroseum becoming a Science Center. The reason was that this is now a condition from the authorities to be granted public funds for school activities in the future. This has placed new demands on our workstations for the students. In total, about 60 workstations will be developed or rebuilt according to the new requirements. About 50% of the workstations are now ready. One of the largest and earliest workstations was the one dealing with the Cold War. The interest in this subject area has greatly increased due to what is now happening in the world. Rebuilding these workstations with modern technology that meets the requirements of the Science Center is a top priority. The knowledge of this period with links to current events is in high demand from schools. |
Ekerlid, Bertil |
Ekerlids publishing house |
Testimonies on the Holocaust |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
Polish national Zygmunt Lakocinski interviewed 500 refugees from the Ravensburg concentration camp upon their arrival in Lund. The interviews were previously untranslated, but are now being translated within the university. One of the interviewees, Helena Dziedzicka, helped with the interviews and she was then called as a witness at the court in Hamburg in 1946/1947 when several of the camp guards were sentenced. She wrote her own memoirs, which the author will translate. The book is based on her notes, other interviews at Lund University and possibly contact with relatives of Dziedzicka. |
Dahlström, Gunnar |
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The writings of Martin Fritz - an annotated bibliography |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 123 000
Martin Fritz's scientific activity spans more than fifty years. He has managed to combine strict scientific requirements with a linguistic form that can engage a wide readership. The subject matter is broad but mainly includes industrial and business history, economics and trade. To this should be added general history, history of foundations and organizations and much more. Much is rooted in West Sweden but also deals with conditions with both national and international bearing. The bibliography is intended to be organized thematically with introductory comments written by Martin Fritz. This makes the illustrated bibliography, which will contain about 100 publications, something more than a "catalog". |
Campbell, Susanna |
Ratos |
Söderberg & Haak and Ratos - a Swedish corporate history |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
Ratos is a Swedish listed company that owns and develops Nordic companies. Ratos's history began in 1866 when the trading company Söderberg & Haak was formed to trade as a wholesaler of iron and steel products. Förvaltningsaktiebolaget AB Ratos was formed in 1934 and Ratos was listed on the stock exchange in 1954 as a mixed investment company. The Söderberg family have been committed and far-sighted owners throughout the 150 years. The company's business strategies are characterized by a long-term approach combined with modern thinking and a focus on developing and creating value.
Ratos wants to document these 150 years of long-term and successful operations through one of the most historically interesting epochs in Swedish industry and business. There are a number of books already written, focusing on different time periods and on members of the Söderberg families. This book is intended to depict, above all, the development of the company Ratos in an international perspective, over the entire 150-year period. |
Bennich-Björkman, Li |
Uppsala University |
The project society: the threats to academia and what we can do about them |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Democracy is a blessing. As a politician, you can't get away with just anything. But the political time horizon is short, and for parties and individual politicians, election cycles frame their lives. In this way, political life in a democracy resembles a giant project. The short time horizon and the constant threat of 'evaluation' are now leaving their definitive mark not only on politics but on public life in general. This book is about the project society and its challenges. About how short-term project thinking is changing what we value, what we prioritize, and how we work. In particular, it is about what happens in a key area where the project society meets its opposite: research and higher education. So what happens when the project society, with its logic of short-term delivery, thorough planning, and evaluation by the so-called clients, starts to make its presence felt in areas where 'delivery' is slow and perhaps even sometimes non-existent? This is the question we ask in this book. We have chosen to shed light on it by writing about what is happening in academia right now, in universities and other institutions of higher education, what values are at stake, but also what we can do to safeguard the norms and structures that have been proven throughout the 20th century to be conducive to free inquiry and critical review. |
Areskoug, Nils-Göran |
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Arena for interdisciplinary discussions |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The Arena for Interdisciplinary Dialogues involves integrative conversations across disciplines and generations, connecting senior researchers with junior entrepreneurs and bridging the gap between city (research frontlines at Nobelforum, Stockholm) and countryside (nature as a source of power, recreation and inspiration). Bryggsamtal develops creative processes in one of the country's most intensive entrepreneurial clusters (e.g. Sandsbro, Växjö in Kronoberg County) where access to industrial production factors is good with innovative knowledge processes for cross-fertilization between academia, business, culture and politics.
Our dialogues are conducted through selected media platforms and communication channels that promote a Nordic knowledge exchange based on shared values and common history. An increased strategic and critical dialogue about the future through constructive cultural exchange aims to deepen the sense of belonging and improve the conditions for value creation and growth through cooperation in business, politics, academia and culture.
The network of dialogue partners includes dialogues at a high strategic level (entrepreneurs, ministers, academics). Some completed knowledge dialogues are reflected in online arenas for opinion and debate, others in publications under continuous production. This networked knowledge integration will develop a basis for future project and programme organization that generates stability and sustainability in the cultivation of culture as the root of science-business dialogue. |
Andersson, Kent |
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The boat graves in Valsgärde |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The tombs in Valsgärde are characterized by being very rich and contain large and noble sets of weapons including helmets and shields etc. The boats, which make up the tomb itself, are divided in a systematic way to reflect the living life in the aristocratic halls where the buried ruled during their lives. Therefore, the tombs contain kitchen equipment including large cauldrons, meat forks, skewers and precious glass vessels imported from the continent. There are also game boards with game pieces and hunting birds for aristocratic hunting with trained falcons. In addition, there are fully equipped riding horses with saddles and harnesses, etc. The equipment also included expensive textiles and bedding, tools, etc.
The graves in Valsgärde are internationally renowned, but because they have only been published in German, they have previously been relatively unknown in Sweden except in trade union circles. The book Båtgarvarna i Valsgärde gives such a detailed yet popular presentation of the graves and their contents that they will be usable by both laymen and professionals. Because the book will be richly illustrated with newly taken color photographs and some drawings, the objects can be studied in detail alongside their descriptions. |
Alströmer, Anna Margaretha |
Gräfsnäs nursery |
My dearest darling Margareta! - a book about Queen M. Leijonhufvud |
Other |
2015 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Queen Margareta Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud was born on January 1, 1516 (almost 500 years ago) and grew up on the island of Loholmen in Lake Anten, Alingsås municipality. She was a much-loved queen both by her husband Gustav Vasa and the entire Swedish people. When her father died during the Stockholm bloodbath in 1520, she moved with her mother Ebba Eriksdotter Vasa and five siblings to Loholmen. She lived here for sixteen years until Gustav Vasa took her away to make her his queen in 1536. Her marriage to Gustav Vasa was very happy; her time with her has been considered the happiest of his life. He often listened to her wise judgment and thoughtful suggestions. As queen, she was also popular, liked and admired by the Swedish people. She was given far more powers than queens generally receive, which shows her importance in our history. She was also the ancestor of all the reigning royal houses in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century - and she comes from Alingsås. Our King Carl XVI Gustaf is a direct descendant of her.
We therefore want to draw attention to her in various ways for the 2016 anniversary year. Several lectures have been held, a bust of her is underway, a mini exhibition has been held and an exhibition with Alingsås municipality, leaflets etc.
We are therefore applying for funding for a book, which is planned to be published in 2016. There has already been interest from Västergötland's Fornminnesförening to publish this publication to their members. |
Normark, Staffan |
Kungl. Academy of Sciences |
Ingvar Lindqvist Prize 2015 |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 300 000
Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien wants to show Sweden's teachers in mathematics and science their appreciation, and at the same time draw society's attention to the teachers' important role in the country's development. The prize is named after Professor Ingvar Lindqvist, who was President of the Academy from 1987 to 1991. He initiated a number of Academy activities to highlight the importance of teachers in society. The prize has been awarded since 1991.
Colleagues, principals, students and parents are invited to nominate candidates. After preparation by the Academy's Committee on School Affairs, the proposals for winners are submitted to the members of the Academy, who decide on the winners at a regular meeting. The Committee on School Affairs consists of representatives of the Academy's classes of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, technology and social sciences, as well as didacticians and former laureates.
The award ceremony takes place on the Academy's anniversary day. A half-day symposium is also held in conjunction with this event, where the laureates present their work and Academy members give scientific lectures. |
Fischer, Peter |
University of Gothenburg |
The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: a palace complex from 1200 BC. |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 022 000
Excavations in the Bronze Age town of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus - supported by the Torsten Söderberg Foundation - have resulted in exceptional finds from the period 1600-1100 BC. The results have attracted considerable international attention. The Swedish expedition has been able to provide evidence for long-distance connections with southern, central and northern Europe including Sweden, the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, the Levant and Egypt.
A large-scale geophysical exploration using georadar and magnetometer and a radio-controlled helicopter drone with camera led to the discovery of a monumental 50 x 40 meter building, which due to its size and the width of the walls was given the working name "palace". This new discovery makes Hala Sultan Tekke the largest Bronze Age city not only in Cyprus but also in the entire Eastern Mediterranean. Test excavations in 2014 in the eastern part of the palace verified the geophysical findings: the expedition found stone foundation walls and outstanding finds that include human/god and animal figurines. The finds are from the period 1300-1150 BC.
The project provides for advanced archaeological research in connection with the uncovering of this palatial building complex, thus ensuring the continued existence of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition in the years 2016-2018. |
Arvidsson, Kristoffer |
Gothenburg Art Museum |
Overview work for the Gothenburg Museum of Art - English edition |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 350 000
In February 2014, the book Samlingen Göteborgs konstmuseum was published with the support of the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. The book, which comprises 497 pages with 350 color illustrations, presents the museum's collections in an appealing design. Popular science essays are interspersed with shorter texts to present the latest research on the collection in an accessible form. The museum now wants to publish an English-language version of the book entitled The Collection. Gothenburg Museum of Art.
The Gothenburg Museum of Art has previously lacked an up-to-date overview of its internationally sought-after collections. The museum therefore wanted to create a book that would serve as both a catalog of a selection of works and a popular science presentation of the collection. An English-language book on the collection is particularly needed.
A previous project to create an online catalog of the collection has provided the basis for the book. The texts in the book have been produced by museum staff in collaboration with the research department. Project management and editing took place at the museum. |
Herjulfsdotter, Ritwa |
Röhsska Museum |
The collections and history of the Röhsska Museum |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 335 000
There is a lack of research and compiled knowledge about the emergence of the Röhsska Museum and the development of its collections, which is regrettable as this is an important social institution with great influence in design. In this respect, the Röhsska Museum differs from other major museums for which thorough historical work has been done. The aim of the Röhsska Museum is to exhibit high quality craftsmanship and to inspire innovation. Much of the inspiration has come from the East. The 18th century is another important area of interest for the museum. The research project Röhsska Museum Collections and History now focuses on the museum's 18th century collections.
The museum's 18th century objects come mainly from high society environments. Late Baroque, Rococo and Gustavian styles are represented, both imported and Swedish-made. The museum also manages several 18th century interiors and a gazebo. But what kind of 18th century is the Röhsska Museum showing? The choice of collections has been influenced by a number of factors such as personal interests and fashion trends of the time.
The purpose of the research project is therefore to fill the knowledge gap that exists through broad cultural history research. The project aims to contribute to making new knowledge about the Röhsska Museum and its collections available for further research and to provide a broader perspective on the museum's activities.
The research results will be presented in an exhibition in collaboration with the Gothenburg Museum of Art, web text and in articles. |
Klackenberg, Day |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2015 |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The overall aim of the Swedish History Days is to encourage contacts and exchanges between professionals from different professions related to the subject of history, and history enthusiasts in general, thereby increasing the historical knowledge of as many groups in society as possible. The ambition is therefore to present historical topics and historical research in a way that is popular science but also accessible to non-specialist participants. For many history teachers, the History Days are the primary opportunity for continuing education, particularly in terms of reconnecting with the research community, and for professional historians this forum is an opportunity to make new research results available. Many of the lectures are published in print. |
Larsson, Annika |
Uppsala University |
Bumps on the head 2 - in-depth practical studies and reconstructions |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: 157 500 SEK
In 2008, research into Viking Age women's dress began. It was soon established that the oval buckles, so specific to the female burial costume, disappeared at about the same time as the male costume became Christianized. The initial hypothesis was that the changes from pre-Christian to Christian society should not only be seen in the burial customs themselves, but also reflected in the change in the female burial costume. The dress became the key to an entirely new understanding of norms and rituals in pre-Christian society - a problem area that will be presented in a forthcoming book.
In connection with the presentation of the project in an exhibition in the fall of 2014 at Uppsala University's Museum Gustavianum, sewn-up reconstructions and drawn illustrations with great importance for communication have been used. It is of great importance for the final book product that these presentations can be reworked and adapted to the script and its layout. Stage 2 of the project involves a couple of months of work for microscopic studies and subsequent practical reconstruction, and a couple of months of work for cartoon illustrations where photographs cannot be published. The applicant is the project manager for the manuscript work, which is expected to be completed by the end of June 2015. The ongoing research is presented on Museum Gustavianum's website. |
Wilhelmson, Helene |
Lund University |
Öland's Iron Age population: bioarchaeological studies of migration, diet and demography |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: 190 000 SEK
The thesis project aims to study the Iron Age population of Öland based on the graves, in order to highlight the structure and dynamics of the society. Öland had an extensive flow of goods and people during the Iron Age and has varied and rich archaeological sources. The material is both large and well dated to sub-periods of the Iron Age and covers the entire period 500 BC-1050.
Based on isotope tests on bones and teeth, I discuss variations in migration and diet in comparison with, among other things, health and disease, traces of violence, body length, gender and age of death as studied osteologically in the skeleton. I also compare these results with the archaeological aspects of the graves (grave shape, finds, etc.) to get a multifaceted picture of social structure and identity at both the individual and community level. Since the different results reflect different specific periods in an individual's life, they are interpreted in relation to the life cycle as well, something that is rarely fully taken into account in the interpretation of isotope analyses.
A similar study, which integrates the isotope results in an osteological and archaeological context in this way, has never before been done in Scandinavia. The study takes advantage of the exceptionally rich burial material from Öland in a broad and interdisciplinary way and contributes to broadening the perspective on Iron Age society while developing the field of bioarchaeology. |
Bjerrhede, Staffan |
Kållereds hembygdsförening |
The Sagared farm in Kållered - linked to the East India Company. |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 216 000
Kållereds Hembygdsförening has an extensive archive consisting of documents and photos. This material was inventoried in the spring of 2014 with a grant from the foundation. The very extensive and interesting farm archive from the Sagered farm in Kållered will also be inventoried this fall with a grant from the Foundation. Sagered has a strong connection to the East India Company, which makes it even more attractive to historical researchers.
Now that the Sagered archives have been listed, further research on the estate and compilation of the material is needed. Above all, it is the ownership list with families and their connection to the East India Company that should be explored. The history of the farmhouse, interior design, furnishings through estate inventories, stories through archive searches and other aspects of the farm are also included. |
Areskoug, Nils-Göran |
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Transdisciplinary dialogues |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 120 000
The aim of this network of interdisciplinary dialogues is to create an infrastructure for a strategic observatory and a meeting place for integrative discussions to better address the complex challenges facing the future society, the solutions to which require a particularly broad range of skills. Decision-making with far-reaching consequences depends on considerations that affect an increasing number of adjacent areas. There is a great need for action models that provide new ways to develop knowledge-based policies for coordination across disciplines.
These dialogues are conducted in selected media platforms and communication channels that promote a Nordic knowledge exchange and aim to actualize a future potential based on shared values and common history. An increased strategic and critical dialogue on the future through constructive cultural exchange aims to deepen the sense of belonging and improve the conditions for value creation and growth through cooperation in business, politics, academia and culture. The network of dialogue partners includes face-to-face dialogues at a high strategic level (entrepreneurs, ministers, researchers).
Completed knowledge dialogues are published in online arenas for opinion and debate and in topical publications under production. With network-based knowledge integration, a basis for future project and programme organization is developed that generates stability and sustainability with the cultivation of values rooted in a creative dialogue between science and business. |
Nordqvist, Bengt |
Archaeology Victim site Finnestorp |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 695 000
During 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, research investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. A site that turns out to contain a find material that belongs to the category - "the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era" and it belongs to one of the most important remains from the prehistory of the Nordic region. At Offerplats Finnestorp, warrior after warrior has been sacrificed along with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These mighty men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords, lances and golden horse equipment. Magnificent items of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time.
A very limited fieldwork concerned the Finnestorp sacrificial site and one of the most spectacular gold finds, such as the site of the gold collar from Möne (north of Ulricehamn) and the battlefield at Varola. The ongoing research work includes a small excavation (search for helmet details), conservation of a small amount of objects, international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book and a popular science book. In 2013, analysis of the metal objects from Finnestorp began. The first book volume on Finnestorp will be published in 2014-2015. |
Rollenhagen Tilly, Linnéa |
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Carl Johan Cronstedt, architect and organizer - a man of his time |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Printing of a book on the activities and collections of the superintendent Carl Johan Cronstedt (1709-1777).
Count Carl Johan Cronstedt is mentioned in numerous studies on 18th century Sweden: as the rationalizer of the tiled stove, as a superintendent or in connection with the world-famous collection bearing his name at the National Museum. Unlike the other superintendents, Cronstedt showed a great interest in economics and his very pragmatic approach is one reason why he has not gone down in history as a 'great' architect. However, his activities are often considered boring or uninteresting, which has led to the lack of a biographical account of him so far. However, a compilation of existing research and a closer examination of an incredibly rich archive material suggests that his role in Swedish architectural history should be re-evaluated. There is every indication that through his pragmatic approach he very actively contributed to the modernization of our Swedish architecture, urban planning and living environment.
The aim of this book is therefore to provide a better insight into Cronstedt's theoretical and practical contribution to Swedish architectural history. Four chapters present Cronstedt's education, a selection of his activities as a civil servant and architect, and the history and content of the library. |
Wadell, Leif |
Freemasonry in Gothenburg |
Louis Jean Desprez, ceiling painting 'Apollo the Sun God' |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
The ceiling painting is irreplaceable and unique to Gothenburg, and if it were left to undergo further degradation, an object of cultural-historical value and national interest would be lost. |
Eliasson, Roger |
Aeroseum |
Aeroseum Science Center |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 90 000
The Aeroseum launched a school project in 2010 with the aim of opening up the aviation experience center/museum for teaching students from pre-school to university level. The motivation was to increase interest, motivation and understanding in MNT - math, science and technology. In the future, our subjects will cover everything from our cultural heritage to different subject areas according to the new curriculum. A large part of the teaching is based on practical teaching, which is why we build up different stations and environments in an interdisciplinary way. The aim is to accommodate around 500 school classes per year.
The original project has now moved on to the Aeroseum becoming a Science Center. The reason for this is that it is now a condition from the authorities to be granted public funds for school activities in the future. This places new demands on our school activities. More interactive workstations are required today. All this places new demands on our computer network, which is under-dimensioned and must be developed to cope with the approximately 60 Science Center stations required. At present, 6 stations are up and running and more are under construction. The Torsten Söderberg Foundation has funded 4 of these in 2014. The project is a continuation of our last application and the project will continue until the Aeroseum is approved by the authorities so that financial support can be obtained. |
Andersson, Christer |
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Abbey, ground penetrating radar 2015 |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Ground penetrating radar as part of archaeological research is a method that has become increasingly common. The reason is, of course, the rapid development of electronics, with smaller and cheaper components for ground penetrating radar, but also increasingly sophisticated software in line with the development of computers.
Ground penetrating radar is similar to the sonar used by fishermen to locate schools of fish, but instead of sound waves, it uses radio waves that are reflected from the ground when the radio wave encounters another medium. A radar wave transmitted through the ground is reflected when it hits a rock in the same way that a wave on a line attached to a wall is only reflected when it hits the wall. If you know how fast the wave is traveling, you can calculate the distance to the wall and the same is true for ground penetrating radar waves.
We can also get some information about what the ground penetrating radar's radio waves were reflected against by studying the reflected wave. A line attached to a solid wall will also produce a reflected wave that is different than if the line is attached around a narrow flexible tree branch.
The advantage of using only ground penetrating radar in an archaeological survey is that it is a non-destructive method. During an archaeological excavation, the soil is inevitably disturbed and any subsequent excavation on the same site has been deprived of any information. Using ground-penetrating radar in an archaeological excavation also avoids the need to dig up a large area and allows you to go directly to the desired location. |
Botwid, Katarina |
Lund University |
Skärvan's Renaissance - a new method of analysis for the interpretation of archaeological pottery |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: 121 125 SEK
As a researcher and archaeologist, I work to convey the stories that can be interpreted from the concrete material that emerges from an archaeological excavation. The craftsman is often the focus of today's archaeology, and in the future we may be able to identify individuals or small groups that have specialized in crafts.
There are several challenges in the craft perspective. Some challenges may be to investigate how people in the past organized their craft environment and how they made use of the surrounding resources. Other questions may concern how the environment and climate change may have affected the situation and development of crafts. The ancient craftsman probably had to change his way of working when the climate became colder or more humid. In ceramic artifacts, fingerprints and marks from different tools can be left for us to interpret. You see the traces burnt and solidified into the shape that can now give us the information we so eagerly seek.As a potter and archaeologist, I can read the vessels. My ability to see how an ancient colleague suddenly went into a hurry and hastily finished an initially meticulous job two thousand years ago allows these wordless events to be verbalized and understood over time. Being able to see and make use of this information provides another opportunity to see the vast archaeological pottery material in museum stores as a highly interesting source of new knowledge. |
Söderberg, Elisabet |
Stockholm University |
The aspirants - young people with disabilities and their career choices |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 305 000
Choosing a study and career path can be tricky for everyone. What am I good at, what do I enjoy, what are the opportunities in the labor market, etc. are reasonable questions to ask. If you have difficulties in the form of disabilities, this can cause you and others to doubt your abilities, which makes the choice no easier.
The thesis deals with inhibiting and promoting factors in career choice. The inhibiting factors have so far in the thesis work proved to be e.g. poor accessibility, complicated rules and an environment that tries to limit the individual's room for maneuver. Many of the respondents have proved to be exposed to overprotection by the environment, which has constituted a strong inhibiting force in their lives and negatively affected their confidence in their abilities. These inhibiting factors together provide incentives for a vicious cycle that leads to a devalued self-image. This, in turn, reduces the room for maneuver in the choice of study and career. A strong facilitating force seems to be the goal of an independent and professional life, based on one's own conditions. Another important facilitating factor is an environment, such as family and friends, which affirms the individual and encourages them to dare to do more than they may think they can. |
Hadenius, Patrik |
Research & Progress |
Publication of Research & Progress in 2015 |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: 44 500 SEK
Forskning & Framsteg is one of Sweden's leading popular science journals. It was founded in 1966 and has been published by a non-profit foundation since 1979. The foundation is supported by a large number of research funding organizations. The journals operate at a loss. Without external funding, continued publication would not be possible. Since 2010, several measures have been taken to strengthen the finances, including an increase in publication to 10 issues, advertising sales, a new layout and editorial collaborations. By providing grant funding for some of its activities, the Foundation can staff a qualified editorial team with expertise in the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, and maintain a broad coverage and reporting of Swedish research. The content of Forskning & Framsteg should not only be governed by demand, but also by the Foundation's purpose of broadly communicating the results of Swedish research and stimulating interest in science. |
Gunneriusson Wistman, Christina |
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Museum crews in the Swedish art field in the mid-20th century |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
In 1958, Moderna Museet opened in Stockholm. The museum collections then consisted largely of art transferred from Nationalmuseum, but also of purchases, gifts and donations intended specifically for a future Swedish modern art museum. Ten years earlier, at the end of June 1948, Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde was inaugurated, a museum that by definition can be considered Sweden's first museum for modern and contemporary Swedish art. In his will, Prince Eugen handed over his former home with the art collections to the Swedish state with the aim of turning it into a public museum. This gave the prince's art collection of more than 2,000 works, as well as his own artistic production, a permanent place of display.
These two museums are examples of two different types of museum foundations: one is a private initiative, the other a publicly founded institutional museum. They are also only two examples of new Swedish art museums opened around the middle of the 20th century. A number of county museums have focused on art in their collections and a number of donor museums/artists' homes also opened at this time. Swedish art museums are a largely unexplored area and the art sociology perspective used in this study will provide results both for basic knowledge in the area and serve as a basis for further analysis of the role of art museums in society yesterday, today and tomorrow. |
Ivansson, Birgitta |
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Documentation of local history interviews |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 15 000
Transferring some 50 cassette and reel-to-reel tapes of local history interviews to modern technology to make the material more accessible and preserve it for the future. |
Rydin, Urban |
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The Röhss brothers - the Röhsska Museum's first donors |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The present work is a study of the entrepreneurial activities of the first two generations of the Röhss family in Swedish industry from about 1825 to the turn of the century. With this starting point, important parts of Gothenburg's history as well as the breakthrough and development of industrialism in Sweden are touched upon. Wilhelm Röhss the elder and his sons Wilhelm and August were important parts of the leap in prosperity that Sweden took from being a poor agricultural country to becoming one of the richest countries in the world. The Röhsska trading house began with a rather scattered business but soon specialized in wood and iron.
As these capital-intensive activities required more capital for their development, the initiative was taken to set up banks, which then took over the role of the trading houses as credit intermediaries. Not surprisingly, the Röhsska trading house was also involved in the development of transportation, particularly railways. Almost as natural was the activity in insurance companies.
The development of Gothenburg is very much linked to the business community. Growth then created major social problems for the working class. This gave rise to individual initiatives and donors made large amounts of capital available to the city for social purposes. The Röhs family is an important part of the spirit of donation in Gothenburg and their donations are covered in the work.
The book also touches on the Röhs family's origins in Germany and Denmark and other members of the family. |
Sidén, Karin |
Prince Eugene's Waldemarsudde |
Prince Eugene 150 years |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
In connection with Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde organizing a major anniversary exhibition to mark the 150th anniversary of Prince Eugen's birth, a magnificent and comprehensive book on Prince Eugen's art and life will be produced.
Prince Eugene (1865-1947) was one of the foremost landscape painters of his generation and an important art collector, patron and cultural politician. The book, which will include new research and numerous articles by expert writers, will describe Prince Eugen's political activities and his active opposition to Nazism during the Second World War, as well as his relations with the writer Verner von Heidenstam, the musicians and composers Wilhelm Stenhammar and Tor Aulin, and his collaboration with the architect Ferdinand Boberg. Articles on the landscape painter, patron, art collector and person of Prince Eugen will also be published. Waldemarsudde's park and garden will also receive a chapter in the book.
The book will be published in collaboration with Bokförlaget Atlantis. |
Nyqvist Thorsson, Anna |
University of Gothenburg |
12th and 13th century lily pads and staff crosses in the Venetian landscape |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 195 000
The application concerns funding for the completion of my dissertation, which is based on a medieval material called lily stones and staff cross plates. At present, some text production and editing remains, about six months of work, to complete the thesis for printing and distribution. The chapters covering the introduction and research history, theory and method, and the three analytical chapters are in principle completed.
Lily stones and staff cross stones are grave stones, usually in sandstone with images in the form of plant vines, trees of life and staff crosses. The stones can be linked to the oldest medieval stone churches and can be dated to the 12th and 13th centuries. Instead of understanding them from the perspective of art history, as before, I discuss the stone slabs as an archaeological material. Lily stones and stone crosses do not only provide knowledge about the visual world and artistic expression of the Middle Ages. As grave monuments, they also provide knowledge about social conditions, how death and the dead were viewed and related to, and how grave monuments and church sites played an active role in social strategies and the formation of social groups in medieval society. An important question to discuss has therefore been why it became so important for a certain group of people in the 12th and 13th centuries to express their identity through these specific grave monuments. |
Lysén, Svante |
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The Bohus coast - a grumpy paradise |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
In recent decades, only a handful of films on the Bohuslän coast have been produced, such as lobster fishing, archipelago communities and underwater films, but no comprehensive film on the flora and fauna of Bohuslän's coastal nature over four seasons.
BOHUS COAST - an angry paradise (58 min) is a nature documentary about the nature of the Bohus coast during four seasons as seen through the eyes of a kayaker, but also about its change, ecology and environmental threats. It is a depiction of both the familiar where the viewer recognizes himself and the unfamiliar where experiences, facts, current scientific findings and philosophical observations will be thought-provoking and lead to new insights.
The film will search for the soul of the Bohus coast and above all depict animals, plants and nature in changing light throughout the year. It will also give an insight into the exciting history of the coastal area from Bronze Age graves to more recent herring periods and quarries. Environmental problems such as oil spills, beach litter and overfishing will also be highlighted. The common thread will be a kayaker who in a personal way discovers and experiences diverse environments during his trips along the coast and who creates a sense of water from a close perspective.
The fully edited nature documentary is planned as a screening right for SVT and neighboring countries' TV channels to give a wide audience insight into the unique landscape and nature of the Bohus coast. |
Linde Bjur, Gunilla |
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Architects in Gothenburg over a hundred years. Women take their place in the 20th century |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
Gothenburg's architectural history over the last hundred years has been characterized by a large number of university-educated architects. In the early 1900s, the profession was practiced exclusively by men, while today more than half of all architects in Sweden are women. The working title of the research project is Architects in Gothenburg during a hundred years. Women take place in the 20th century. It is a continuation of the research presented in 2013 in the book Architects and Facades. Gothenburg 1850-1920. The breakpoint in 1920 is justified by the fact that women emerged as architects in Sweden during this decade. The development of the architectural profession and the city's architectural history over a hundred years will be highlighted by focusing on some thirty architects, all women, whose work has shaped Gothenburg.
Through archive research and in-depth interviews, a number of short professional biographies are presented. Pioneers such as Dagmar Hall, Anna Lous Mohr and Ingrid Wallberg have been glimpsed in previous research, while Ingegerd Ågren (b. 1922) and her long activity starting in the 1940s remains to be highlighted. There is very little written about women architects in Gothenburg during the last fifty years. Several of the youngest architects in the study will probably remain active long after Gothenburg's 400th anniversary in 2021. |
Bergman, Lars |
Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt |
Censored letters of the Carolinian prisoners |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 375 000
After the defeats at Poltava and Perevolotjna in 1709, 23 000 prisoners of war from the Swedish army were deployed in Russia, many in Siberia. The real Swedish city was Tobolsk. The Swedes were relatively well educated and therefore played a major role locally. Engineers supervised construction work, and Swedish schools attracted Russian pupils. There were conflicts, but the Swedes' efforts were appreciated. This is still talked about in Siberian cities. For example, the mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Rojzman, has a strong interest in history and is a great friend of Sweden.
Conditions are described in diaries and letters. Many letters from and to Swedish prisoners of war were caught by Russian censorship. Since the Russian archives were opened in the 1990s, the letters have become available. The planned project will primarily make these letters available to Swedish, Russian and international researchers and the general public. An edition of some kind (as a book and/or in electronic form) is the natural product.
The project can be expected to provide historians with new information. Above all, the letters seem to shed light on the prisoners' own situation, their thoughts and beliefs, but also on daily life. The peace of 1721 marked a significant change in Swedish history. The prisoners of war who returned home (about a quarter of them) probably played an important role in further historical developments, but their role has been insufficiently investigated. The hitherto censored letters offer a fortunate opportunity. |
Nitenberg, Annelie |
West Swedish Archaeology |
Ruling identities in life and death in Vendel and Viking Age Västergötland. |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 273 000
In the landscape, there are many different types of material remains that constitute the traces of human activity in the past. These traces can provide clues to the life, conditions and thoughts of the people of that time. In my dissertation Härskaridentiteter i liv och död: maktuttryck och maktstrategier i Västergötland under vendel- och vikingatid, I want to use status graves and the social elites' living and representation environments to study these elites' strategies for achieving the possibility to exercise power. I am also interested in ideologies of domination and the actions required to achieve and maintain positions of power. Furthermore, I want to examine what the positions of power were and what they contained and meant, so to speak. The goal is also to discuss and try to understand the formation of Västergötland.
The starting point for the thesis is the results of the excavations I conducted at Sunnerby on Kållandsö in Västergötland between 2000 and 2012. However, Sunnerby will be placed in a larger geographical context, which is why both regional analyses and comparative studies in a broader perspective are included in the thesis. The source material is primarily the archaeological material, but as a frame of reference to the archaeological material I will use historical sources in the form of runic inscriptions and to some extent Old Norse and Old English literature. |
Nisser Dalman, Margareta |
Courts of Appeal |
Hedvig Eleonora - Queen of the Swedish Baroque era |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 490 000
For more than sixty years, Queen Hedvig Eleonora (1636-1715) was Sweden's most powerful woman. Her achievements are largely characterized by the dynastic and political ambitions of this period in European history. Her environments and court culture manifested the increasing power of the royal family, as well as Hedvig Eleonora's self-perception and strategies for dealing with the tension between power and gender. This visual rhetoric was addressed to her contemporaries, but also to posterity - Hedvig Eleonora has deliberately left a message for us today.
The research on the queen of the realm connects to several current and vibrant fields of research, especially on the importance and conditions of princesses and northern European cultural relations. It also contributes to a deeper understanding of the Carolingian era as a whole, from a political, economic, intellectual, spiritual and artistic perspective.
On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Queen Hedvig Eleonora's death in 2015, Kungl. Husgerådskammaren will draw attention to her great importance with, among other things, a publication. An important starting point is the contributions to the symposium A Queen Emerges. Hedwig Eleonora and Court Culture around the Baltic, which the Kungl. Several of the prominent Swedish and international baroque researchers who participated in the symposium will write contributions to the publication. |
von Ehrenheim, Carl Gustaf |
Grönsöö |
The art of Grönsööö |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Through long successions, especially in the von Ehrenheim, von Engeström, Benzelius, Mörner and Blomstedt families, a collection of visual art, broad in time and genre, has been gathered at Grönsööö. Portraits, paintings and copperplate engravings provide an outlook on art history with Grönsöö as a starting point. The book and exhibition will be titled "The Art of Grönsööö" and will comprise about 100 pages. Fil.mag Greger Sundin has made himself available as author and the photographer is Gabriel Hildebrand, photographer at Kungl. Myntkabinettet. |
Johansson, Anders |
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The forgotten blockade runners - Norwegian-Swedish war drama in several acts 1940-1945 |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 25 000
The occupation of Norway and Denmark by Nazi Germany in spring 1940 meant that Sweden's exports and imports were severely restricted by the 'Skagerack barrier'. Britain needed ball bearings and steel products for its armaments industry and tried to defy the blockade with freighters from the west coast of Sweden to Scotland. At the same time, the Norwegian High Command in London wanted to transfer male refugees in Sweden to Allied troops in the UK. A first escape with five Norwegian ships in January 1941 was successful, while the next attempt with twice as many boats in March/April 1942 was a disaster. Outside Gothenburg, the German fleet waited, sank three of the ships and captured 236 people, most of them Norwegian refugees, including seven women and a girl. Three ships were sunk by their own crews, two managed to get past the barrier to Scotland and two returned to Gothenburg.
These ten ships were referred to as the "quarantine boats" after a long British-German process up to the Swedish Supreme Court. In addition to these two British-led blockade runs, there were several little-known Norwegian-British operations from Bohuslän. The majority of those involved were Norwegian citizens, but there were also British marines and sailors stranded in Sweden, as well as some Swedes. The prime mover was George Binney, whose clients were Churchill's sabotage organization Special Operations Executive (SOE) and Ministry for Economic Warfare (MEW). |
Aminoff, Christina |
Linköping University |
Activities in pre-primary and 1st grade of primary schools |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 380 000
The pre-school class was introduced into the school and became a separate school form in 1998. With the establishment of the preschool class, there was an ambition to bring together the educational traditions of preschool and school. The starting point was that there should be a smooth transition and this would create a homogeneous education system.
The study is aimed at deepening the understanding of the activities that take place in the preschool class and the first year of primary school, as well as the transition between the activities. A special focus is directed towards how the work with early written language learning is designed in the preschool class and how this work is then received in grade 1. The area is particularly interesting as there are few classroom-based studies that have examined this transition from an early literacy didactic perspective. |
Olofsson, Sofie |
Lund University |
Green future - Botanical Gardens focus on children and science |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Children and young people's time in nature has halved over the last 20 years. At the same time, their ability to understand and learn about it is deteriorating. They miss out on understanding how life is connected and how we are ultimately dependent on nature. This is at odds with the fact that the challenges of the future are largely environmental (climate change, sustainable consumption and globalization).
One of the Botanical Garden's most important tasks is to inform and inspire people to learn more about nature. It is now planning an educational initiative aimed at children and young people. The project involves exhibitions, teaching and activities for all interested school children in 2015. The overall aim of the initiative is to increase children's interest in natural science. |
Andersson, Tommy |
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Bronze Age tombs |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
During the ongoing documentation of the rock carvings in the Kiviksgraben, we have found several never before observed figures. We already know that the results will exceed our expectations. This has inspired us to also want to document the other 20 or so ancient sites with Bronze Age-type rock carvings that have been found in or on prehistoric graves in Sweden.
Although the carved grave slabs have a prominent place in rock carving research and are of great importance for the chronology of rock carvings, most of the depictions are outdated or substandard. Many have not been documented since the beginning of the 20th century. We therefore believe that it is important that a professional and uniform documentation of all of Sweden's figurative carved grave slabs from the Bronze Age is carried out. |
Andersson, Kent |
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Gödåker - a burial site from the Old Iron Age in Uppland. |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 20 000
The cemetery at Gödåker was investigated on various occasions during the 20th century and very remarkable graves and finds emerged. Despite its great significance for the understanding of Uppland and central Sweden during the period around 100 to 400 AD, the cemetery has never been published in its entirety. Instead, individual graves or finds have been discussed in smaller essays. In the book "Gödåker - an Uppland cemetery from the older Iron Age", this internationally and nationally significant material is published for the first time and analyzed in the light of modern research findings. Through a detailed analysis of the objects from the graves, it is possible to date the cemetery in a way that has never been done before and to link the objects to status groups. Using these analyses, it is possible to show that Gödåker is completely different from contemporary cemeteries in central Sweden. No cemetery has so many finds of Roman import objects and gold objects and the status continuity that has been demonstrated, which extends over about 300 years, is unparalleled in the region. The results of the analyses show that the grave field belonged to a settlement that was a regional center, perhaps a predecessor of Gamla Uppsala.
In addition to the analyses of the objects from the graves, the book also contains an analysis of the graves, both the superstructures and the internal construction, a report on the osteological analysis of the bone content of the graves made especially for this publication, and a catalogue of all the graves. |
Nyberg, Gudrun |
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Sisters of learned men - 18th century |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Sisters of Learned Men is an account of the lives of eight women in Sweden in the 18th century. The women are historical and chosen because their brothers were educated and successful. Facts about the women have been found in documents of many kinds, preserved since that time in various archives and libraries. The women were subject to certain common laws and customs, but met different fates in completely different environments: a priest's daughter in Piteå and Northern Ostrobothnia, three sisters in Åmål with links to the town's government and to the timber and iron trade, an academic's wife in Lund, and three noble sisters who grew up in Stockholm but were married and lived on small farms on the Uppsala plain.
Since events in the lives of other women, such as their daughters and servants, have also been woven into the narrative, the stories together constitute a broad portrayal of women's conditions during this period. There are dramatic, comic, moving and tragic elements, and all are true. The manuscript is accompanied by 150 photographs of environments, objects and people, illustrating both the individual stories and the general styles of the period. |
Stolpe, Jan |
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Dialogues of Rousseau |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 30 000
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 'Rousseau juge de Jean Jacques. Dialogues' is probably the author's most unknown work, hardly read by anyone other than specialists. It was only translated into English in 1989. This 400-page work was written after Confessions and before The Dreams of a Solitary Wanderer, towards the end of the author's life, and describes in the form of dialogues how the author, who at that time was severely harassed by opponents, experienced his situation. Conspiratorial ideas are mixed with deep analysis of the struggle of a famous and acclaimed writer to be understood and perceived correctly. The work provides new perspectives on a peculiar and complex authorship. |
Larsson, Daniel |
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Cholera - society, ideas and disaster in 1834 |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
At the end of the 1810s, worrying reports began to emerge from Asia: a dreaded plague called cholera had begun to move out of its old territory around the Ganges delta. Just a decade later, it was clear that the disease was headed for Europe. People everywhere began to wonder how to protect themselves from the plague - a plague that seemed to kill everything in its path, and was completely new to the European medical profession. Did it spread from person to person? Or was it bad air, and more a matter of dirt and lack of morals that made people sick and dead? Did the quarantines not help? What steps were actually taken at a time when the existence of bacteria was not known?
In this book, we follow the fight against cholera from a Swedish perspective. How they tried to build up protection, how the cholera nevertheless broke in, what was done once the cholera had gained a foothold, the debates about the quarantines, who died, what the care looked like and, not least, what ideas formed the basis for all this. The focus is on the first, most devastating epidemic in 1834, and for the first time in this book, the pathways of cholera have also been mapped in detail using GIS technology. Were some areas of the country worse affected than others? How did the plague actually spread? |
Nyström, Bengt |
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Ceramics & porcelain in Sweden for 7 000 years |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
Ceramics & Porcelain in Sweden during 7,000 years is a scholarly, well-illustrated overview of interest to both the general public and universities. It should be cultural-historical and transnational ("ethno-archaeological", "ethno-art-historical") where, in addition to "development", the types of objects, production, technology, use, etc. are presented. This gives more aesthetic aspects to the prehistoric material, more functional aspects to the traditional art history.
The book spans the early Neolithic to the modern period. The ceramics are described according to common periods that relate to both technical and aesthetic changes and fashions, e.g. German stoneware in the Middle Ages, Dutch faience in the 17th century, Wedgwood and other English influences from the end of the 18th century. The oldest prehistoric periods have indeed been depicted in archaeological contexts, but rarely in relation to later periods, e.g. the Middle Ages and "common" ceramics. Also new is Chinese porcelain and stoneware ordered with drawings from Sweden and how it has influenced Swedish ceramics to this day. There will also be sections on tiles and kilns, technical porcelain, building ceramics, etc. at various stages. Modern utility and art ceramics and ceramic design are described in two sections. A separate chapter presents the factories with signatures. A final chapter discusses which other materials ceramics have replaced and are being replaced by in our time. |
Hagberg, Johnny |
Skara Stiftshistoriska Sällskap |
Printers in medieval Sweden |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: 125 000 SEK
Swedish and foreign archives contain a number of medieval diplomas, letters and other documents where scribes have imprinted text. Some of these have been known and their identity has been established, but many have of course remained unknown until now. Among the known scribes are Birgitta Birgersdotter, Bishop Hans Brask, Birgitta's confessor Peter Olofsson of Skänninge and Bishop Henrik Tidemansson. Many scribes have been linked to various monasteries and convents.
Through great expertise and diligence, Per-Axel Wiktorsson, professor emeritus of the Swedish language and associate professor of Nordic languages at Uppsala University, has now been able to identify 934 of the medieval Swedish scribes. This is a 30-year collection period that Wiktorsson has spent time analyzing the writing styles of these scribes. Based on eight letters, Wiktorsson tries to analyze the writing style. The letters selected are: g, w-, æ, ø, y, -n, k and h. At least in diplomas, the letters in the first line often show a different design. For this reason, letters have primarily been chosen from the following lines of the diplomas. Hereafter, some forms of writing are given, which may tell us something about the language of the writer. Where possible, it is also indicated how the scribe wrote his own name. Finally, some sources for our knowledge of each scribe are mentioned.
Wiktorsson defended his doctoral thesis in 1976 on Södermannalagen's B-handwriting and has published a number of linguistic works. He published a new edition of Äldre Västgötalagen in 2011. |
Rydinger Alin, Cecilia |
Royal College of Music in Stockholm |
Building for the future - technical resources for research and education |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
KMH is facing major challenges. The global landscape for music production and consumption is undergoing rapid transformation, with partly new demands on music experiences and their development. KMH intends to use its own and the Swedish music industry's internationally strong position to become an important force in the transformation. This applies not least to a strategic investment in infrastructure for research and education in the form of modern and appropriately built premises, which create the conditions for researchers, teachers and students to conduct a developed and future-oriented activity unlike any other music school in Sweden today. For this purpose, KMH is building a new campus area in central Stockholm.
The campus area will be a new home for music and a cultural nexus for Stockholm, but also a central point for high-tech music research in Sweden and northern Europe. The advanced and dynamic spaces in the future studio complex and concert halls point to a modern concept with variable acoustics, flexible audience areas and high-tech audiovisual solutions - designed for research and musical performances.
KMH's new premises will contribute to the possibility of exploring new aspects of the expanding field of interaction between live music and mediated/recorded music. This exploration also goes beyond the traditional focus on music production as it also includes research on perception: the listener's relationship to the music. |
Ulväng, Göran |
Journal of urban history |
Support for Bebyggelsehistorisk magazine |
Other |
2014 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Bebyggelsehistorisk Tidskrift (BHT), the leading Nordic journal in the field of building history and a forum for scientific exchange between disciplines such as art history, architectural history, agricultural history, economic history, cultural geography, history, archaeology, ethnology, and park and garden history. The journal is peer-reviewed and is Open Access. Each issue is published, with a six-month delay, in digital format on the website and is indexed in EBSCO.
BHT is one of the journals that has long received support from the Swedish Research Council (VR), but the support was withdrawn at short notice in December last year. The annual support from VR has amounted to between 165 000 and 200 000 SEK. Since then, the board has taken a number of measures to save BHT, including raising the subscription price and increasing the number of subscribers from 230 to 300. The aim is to have 500 subscribers across the Nordic region within three years, which would make BHT less dependent on external funding. BHT has previously received a grant of SEK 150,000 from Handelsbanken's research foundations to be used for a period of three years, and has a promise of a grant of the same size from the Swedish Fire Insurance Agency's foundation.
The support from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation secures the 2015 publication. |
Wiktorsson, Per-Axel |
Uppsala University |
Acquisition of older texts for young researchers |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 000 000
Svenska fornskriftsällskapet (SFS) has been publishing writings in Old Swedish and Latin from the Swedish Middle Ages for more than 150 years (since 1844). Unfortunately, some of SFS's most popular editions are now completely out of print. This causes considerable inconvenience to younger researchers (doctoral and undergraduate students) who have not previously been able to obtain them. This is particularly true of the textual editions and other publications on the Middle Ages that are constantly cited in scholarly discussions. These works need to be reprinted to meet the existing demand. This is primarily the case with the text editions and commentaries on ancient Swedish published by the Swedish Society of Medieval Studies after 1900. |
Whitling, Frederick |
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Gustaf VI Adolf as archaeologist and patron of culture |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 140 000
The project concerns a study of H.M. Gustaf VI Adolf (1882-1973) as an archaeologist, cultural patron and chairman of the board, and aims to provide a comprehensive and contextualized picture of Gustaf VI Adolf's archaeological activities and interests 1898-1973, with a special focus on the period 1920-1950. The project is part of a long-term research focus, intended to contextualize and critique traditions and perceptions of Western identity and self-image (see project description). It has a historical as well as ideological profile and character. The project is based on archival research in (primarily) the Bernadotte Archive, Gustaf VI Adolf's Archive I (see project description). The research project is expected to contribute to a deeper understanding of classical archaeology in the Mediterranean region through Gustaf VI Adolf's role in Swedish ancient studies and in the history of Swedish science, as well as of Swedish neutrality (political as well as cultural) before, during and after the Second World War. |
Wickman, Kerstin |
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Swedish industrial design pioneers |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 258 000
A&E Design is one of the oldest independent industrial design offices in Sweden. The two founders, in 1968, were Hans Ehrich and Tom Ahlström. Alongside Ergonomidesign, this office has contributed greatly to making Swedish design known internationally. A&E Design has had and continues to have a large number of clients both in Sweden and abroad. Their designs have attracted attention for their aesthetic and innovative qualities, resulting in numerous design awards and articles in magazines, as well as purchases for the permanent collections of many museums, such as Röhsska in Gothenburg, Die Neue Sammlung in Munich, and others. |
Varberg, Ulla-Karin |
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When the color came to the village - the decorated cabinets and chests of folk art |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
In a rapidly changing world, there is a growing need to search for one's cultural, historical and geographical roots. This is particularly evident in the ever-increasing interest in older cultural objects and their history. This includes folk art and its manifestations in the form of customs and traditions, interiors and furniture, all of which, by their very nature, represent different geographical areas in Sweden. The purpose of our book is to compile the specific characters of the Swedish landscapes in terms of the decorated storage furniture of the peasant society during the period 1750-1850. Our hope is that the book will serve as a guide for anyone with an interest in the painted furniture of Swedish folk art, and that it can be used as a course book on the subject. With the book we want to convey the knowledge of how to learn to read the characteristics of a painted piece of furniture, which in turn can provide the key to the furniture's origin, age and in some cases author. As well as distinguishing original paintings from later overpaintings. Raising awareness of the unique cultural heritage of decorated folk furniture in Sweden should lead to greater caution in the care and preservation of these objects. The greater the knowledge, the greater the respect for what is a historical document, regardless of repairs and centuries of wear and tear. |
von Ehrenheim, Carl Gustaf |
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Mirrors and crowns at Grönsööö |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Manor houses have long served as a bridge between national and international cultural development and local cultural life. They are thus a mirror of local cultural history. It is therefore important to make available the multifaceted collections at Grönsöö Castle, which lose much of their cultural-historical and educational value if they cannot be displayed. Against this background, we annually show, in our own museum room, thematic exhibitions from the castle's collections. However, some groups of objects in the Grönsöö collections can hardly be presented in our exhibition room due to their size. It is of great value that they are nevertheless presented and commented on in the Grönsööö Cultural History Foundation's publication series. The object groups that we now wish to present are mirrors and chandeliers. Superintendent Elsebeth Welander-Berggren has made herself available as the author of a publication on these object groups at Grönsöö. |
by Wachenfeldt, Paula |
Stockholm University |
The Swedish desire. Centuries of luxury consumption 1660-1937. |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 265 000
In the anthology, which has already been accepted for publication by Carlsson's publishing house, eight historians and fashion experts address the problems of luxury in a long-term historical perspective. Criticism of overindulgence through so-called excess regulations as well as the plea for the economic importance of luxury are important socio-political elements historically and in the present. For example, the criticism of luxury and opulence was at the center of the animated economic debate of the early free period when a new economic policy was formulated. A new class of merchants: the Old Town's shipping brothel, emerged - for them and many other social elites, the overt luxury consumption of new goods: clothing, colonial goods, porcelain, furniture and art, was a way to manifest their social distinctiveness from the nobility, the old social elite. While luxury is an extensive international research area - scholars such as Maxine Berg and Linda Levy Peck point in their recent works to the luxury industry and its global context with imperialism and the colonies as central research areas - there is no comprehensive work on luxury in a historical perspective for Sweden. The anthology is intended for use in the academic teaching of fashion studies and history at Swedish universities and colleges, but will also be sold in bookshops. |
Söderlund, Göran |
Prince Eugene's Waldemarsudde |
Bruno Liljefors and the Nature Photographers |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The project includes a richly illustrated publication of about 150 pages linked to an exhibition intended to take place at Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, Stockholm during the period 2013-03-23-2013-08-25. The publication/exhibition catalog will contain texts written by Göran Söderlund (Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde) and Henrik Ekman, journalist and photographer. The starting point for the project is Bruno Liljefors as an animal and nature painter and author of The Kingdom of the Wild. In addition to a rich selection of Bruno Liljefors' paintings from the 1880s and 1890s and the time around the turn of the century, a commentary section is presented with current nature photographs taken by some of the country's leading nature photographers. To what extent and in what way has the artist Bruno Liljefors influenced our contemporary way of looking at nature, wildlife and birds? This investigative part of the project will be addressed by Henrik Ekman in the planned catalog. Göran Söderlund will write about Bruno Liljefors more generally and the view of nature he represented, a view of nature that permeates his paintings but also his photography. A selection of his own nature photographs, on loan from Uppsala Art Museum, will be included in the exhibition and also in the catalog. |
Tistedt, Petter |
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Civic audiences: Media and social reformism in the 1930s |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 90 000
The research project combines media history with a political history of Swedish social reformism and welfare construction in the 1930s. The thesis explores how concrete contexts were created to encourage citizens to participate in discussions on current social issues. These contexts included public debates, exhibitions, newspaper surveys and radio's popular education activities. Previous research has mainly explored the more purely intellectual and social science dimensions of interwar discussions on citizenship, advertising and mass media. The thesis thus contributes to the international research situation by examining projects that aimed to tangibly establish an active, debating public. The study also contributes to several ongoing discussions in both academic history research and the general public debate. These include questions about the symbiosis of politics with advertising and mass media, and the role of social engineering in the process of modernization. The thesis shows how advertising and popular mass media could be used with democratic society-building ambitions, while the role of social engineering in the social discussions of the time has generally been overestimated in previous research. |
Ulrichs, Martina |
My Big Day |
Making the dreams of seriously ill children come true |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
Children's imagination does not work less well because their bodies do. This summarizes the guiding principle of MinStoraDag. MinStoraDag helps seriously ill children in Sweden to realize their dreams. The children do not care about research and progress, about money and new treatment methods. Their thoughts revolve around play and living as normal a life as possible. They may dream of driving a racing car, meeting their idol, travelling, having a 'princess room' or driving a backhoe. The wish may be big or small, but the happiness you feel when your dream comes true is the same. MinStoraDag works with all university hospitals and many pediatric and adolescent clinics in Sweden. The selection is made by the attending physician or healthcare professional and all applications are treated individually. Hundreds of StoraDag events are held each year. In addition, group activities such as concert visits, hospital cafés and camps are organized. In 2011, 550 projects were carried out across Sweden, including 214 individual StoraDagar. More than 2000 children were given a much-needed break from sickness. |
Sjöström, Oskar |
Stockholm University |
The honor, security and rise of the empire: motives behind the 18th century Swedish war of aggression. |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
In the 18th century, Sweden launched three wars of aggression: against Russia in 1741, Prussia in 1757 and Russia again in 1788. The rationality of these attacks has been severely questioned in historiography. The Empire's military and economic strength was never sufficient to go to war, and therefore all ended in costly failure. The reason why the wars still happened is usually explained by the hubris or incompetence of the decision-makers themselves, who were allegedly blinded by dreams of grandeur and thus mistook hope for reality. In this thesis, I challenge this view by adopting a cultural-historical perspective on an otherwise classic topic of public policy. Above all, I have analyzed how contemporary notions of honor and glory influenced the thinking and practice of these events. In all cases - I argue - the protection of Sweden's honor was the central driving force for going to war. The wars were therefore not a consequence of inept kings or statesmen, but on the contrary were appropriate in their cultural and historical context. The results of the research mean that many accepted perceptions of early modern politics will be nuanced. The thesis thus contributes to a deeper understanding of the political processes and decisions in the past that may appear difficult to understand or irrational to a modern observer. In addition, it sheds new light on some of the most forgotten events in Swedish history. |
Sandquist Öberg, Christina |
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Medieval textual treasure in Uppland churches |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
Medieval church paintings with integrated captions, usually in Latin, form an important part of our cultural heritage. These often insufficiently considered texts provide invaluable information about the medieval world of concepts and ideas. However, the texts of the language tapes have only been documented to a limited extent. Nor have they been philologically examined and evaluated except in exceptional cases. For our time, however, they often provide a key to the interpretation of the paintings and their function and thus deepen our understanding of the works and their authors. This is clearly demonstrated by the only example of Albertus Pictor already examined. It is extremely important that similar pioneering work, also of international importance, is also carried out for other late medieval church painters. This disparate material in terms of time and execution presents new challenges, not least when it comes to identifying the models used. The current project aims to investigate the texts of such church painters in 70 churches in Uppland, a politically and ecclesiastically central region at that time. The work will result in a linguistically elaborate edition with translation, comments and individual and summary analyses of all preserved language tapes. Thus, the results of the project will significantly increase the knowledge of a long-neglected genre in medieval Latin and promote the accessibility of this textual treasure also for researchers in related fields as well as for the interested public. |
Sjögren, Karl-Göran |
University of Gothenburg |
Analysis of Neolithic settlement material from Karleby, Falbygden |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 248 333
The project application concerns the analysis of animal bones (osteological analysis, carbon-14 dating and isotope determinations) from the Neolithic settlement at Karleby Logården in Falbygden. So far, investigations at the site have revealed an extensive and well-preserved animal bone material from the time around 3500-3000 BC, i.e. contemporary with the large gaiters in the area.Through new investigations that began in 2012 and will continue in 2013, we want to take new steps towards understanding what the Stone Age diet looked like, what cultivation methods were used and how livestock management worked. One aim of the investigations is to collect animal bone material, i.e. 5000-year-old food remains. We know that the site contains bones from livestock (cattle, pigs and sheep). By studying the content of different isotopes in the bones, we can find out, among other things, in which areas the animals grew up, and thus find out how the cattle were part of exchange systems that also covered larger areas. Through new detailed investigations, we can also obtain remains of cereals and other plants which, through various analyses, can provide important pieces of the puzzle in understanding the composition of the Stone Age people's diet. An analysis of the material can contribute to the understanding of the nature of Stone Age agriculture and how important cultivation was in relation to livestock management. |
Regebro, Margareta |
Stockholm University |
Representations of underground mythical beings in Norse literature |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 180 000
Ideas and beliefs about subterranean beings are very common in Nordic culture, in both older myths and younger folklore, but have so far not been investigated in a more systematic way. In my doctoral thesis, I want to show how these representations differ between different genres in Norse (Fornish and Norwegian) literature from the Middle Ages onwards, and contribute new knowledge about this material. Representations of elves and similar subterranean creatures differ between, on the one hand, so-called Old Age tales, which are set in the distant past and are often translations or adaptations of continental stories, and, on the other hand, Icelandic tales set in or around the Middle Ages in Iceland. Further variants appear in poetry and in medieval Christian laws. Examples of different beliefs about elves and goblins, which appear in the Icelandic manuscript material, include that they live in the earth, often in a special hill or stone near the people's settlements, that they are pathogenic but also assist in curing diseases, that they bring good luck/bad luck to farms, hunting, fishing and similar activities. In some literary genres, these mythical beings also seem to legitimize land ownership and, in some cases, kingship. |
Rundkvist, Martin |
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In the landscape and between worlds. Bronze Age sacrificial sites in the Mälar/Hjälmar area |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: 189 000 SEK
Many of the finest artefacts from the Bronze Age in the Mälar/Hjälmar landscapes have not been found at settlements or in graves, but at sacrificial sites. They are often located in wetlands: as a rule, the objects have come to light when people have drained bogs for cultivation or dredged rivers. There are exquisite bronze weapons, jewelry and tools and carefully crafted stone axes. Archaeologists have hardly ever been involved until the finds reach the museums. On the whole, archaeologists in the area have done very little wetland excavation, probably because it is so heavily forested that there has never been any significant peat extraction. The aim of this project is to get to grips with the sacrificial sites, which nobody has done anything with for a very long time. The main objective is to examine the pattern of where already known sacrificial sites are located in the landscape and establish a model for where field archaeologists can expect to find them. Wetlands offer exceptional preservation conditions where you have the chance to find things that are not found in any other environment. In the case of the sacrificial finds, we are also dealing with practices that did not take place elsewhere. In both these respects, the project has the opportunity to produce completely new knowledge about Bronze Age society in the Mälar/Hjälmar landscapes. |
Röstorp, Vibeke |
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The myth of the journey home, Scandinavian artists in France 1889-1908 |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: 130 020 SEK
The Myth of the Journey Home deals with the Swedish and Norwegian artists in France during the years 1889-1908. According to the conventional wisdom, this is a period when Scandinavian artists went home. Interest in France would not resurface until after 1908 when Matisse taught many Scandinavian artists. A systematic review of the Paris exhibition catalogs, in which over 380 Swedes and Norwegians participated with over 3000 works of art during this period, proves that although some Scandinavians left the country, just as many artists went to Paris. The artists' travel letters to the Swedish Academy, their correspondence with Auguste Rodin, and the positive reception of their art by the French press, are a clear indication that the hypothesis of repatriation after the 1870s and 1880s in France is a myth created by a distorted art history. Many Scandinavian artists who chose to work in France between 1889 and 1908 received medals, were bought by the French state or by private collectors. They developed a 'third culture' that emerged from the encounter between their original culture and more recent French influences, producing original works of art with which French critics still felt a certain affinity. However, both the careers of emigrants and the importance of France have been downplayed in Swedish art history. But dismissing the myth of the return journey opens up the possibility of seeing the Scandinavian artists around 1900 in a more balanced and international perspective. |
Olsson, S Bertil |
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Adler's journal |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 126 967
Carl Fredrik Adler, a teacher of linen, was a surgeon with the Swenska Ost-Indiska Compagniet. During the company's longest completed expedition 1753-1756, he kept a ship's doctor's journal of all his patients, unique in its detail, also containing vivid descriptions of life on board. This document has since been kept and handed down within the family, but has otherwise been completely unknown. A few years ago, the then owner of the document made contact and expressed his wish that it be published. The transcription of the handwritten journal has now been completed, along with extensive additional work with informative text chapters and explanatory lists, and the entire manuscript is ready for publication. Adler's journal is a unique document in the history of medicine. It is the oldest known medical document of Swedish origin that describes in detail the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of patients in the mid-18th century and covers more than 200 different cases of illness. Corresponding documents from 18th-century Swedish hospitals appear sparse in terms of content compared to Adler's journal. |
Planck, Brita |
University of Gothenburg |
Reason or emotion: noble conceptions of love and marriage 1750-1900 |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: 190 000 SEK
The overall purpose of the dissertation project is to map norms and beliefs about love and marriage among the Swedish nobility during the period 1750 to 1900, to highlight the changes that took place, and to analyze how and why these changes occurred from an emotional history perspective. A common perception of marriages in historical times, especially among the nobility, is that they were primarily pragmatic settlements, where greater emphasis was placed on economics and birth, rather than the individuals' feelings for each other. On the contrary, a study of diaries and letters from this period shows that love was discussed and desired by both men and women. The first part of my project aims to map out how conceptions of love and marriage looked like and changed over time through a systematic review of these materials, which are both abundant and easily accessible as much is in print. The second part of the project consists of a comparative study of two letters between engaged couples from an emotional history perspective. Emotional history is a new research field that still contains a variety of theories and methods, and the field has not yet been introduced to any great extent in Sweden. By analyzing the "language of love" in these letters based on emotional history theory, I intend to uncover aspects that can explain how and why changes took place. |
Rahe, Ulrike |
Chalmers University of Technology |
Future visualization for innovative forms - a study of the design process |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 600 000
Innovative product forms drive consumer choice in today's competitive market. The creation of innovative products with aesthetic quality is one of the most distinctive outcomes of a successful design process. As the creative design process has a major impact on the aesthetic expression of products, it is important to both understand the creative design process and to be able to communicate it, e.g. in educational contexts. An important step in the design process is the moment when the designer realizes his/her ideas using visualization tools such as sketches, prototypes, or computerized 3D modelling. Choosing the most suitable tools from the wide range of available tools poses a problem for the designer as all tools have their advantages and disadvantages. In addition, it is not clear how the tools affect the design process or how they affect the aesthetic expression of the products being designed. To address the above mentioned difficulties, a research project is proposed at the division of Design & human factors at Chalmers University of Technology. The results of the research project will be of value to (i) design education by further developing teaching methods in design, (ii) industry by supporting the creative design work and decision making during the design process and (iii) developers of visualization tools by contributing knowledge so that better visualization tools can be developed. |
Norrhem, Svante |
Umeå University |
Europe in the North 1648-1735 |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: 125 000 SEK
From the 1650s, the Nordic Region began to be increasingly drawn into the political power play in the rest of Europe, which consisted of alliance building between emerging strong nation states. At the same time, there was a power struggle in the Nordic Region between Denmark and Sweden. It was therefore important for both countries to forge strong alliances with outsiders while also trying to strengthen their own internal capacity to act forcefully. The latter was part of a state-building process. Previously, this process has been studied from a national perspective, but here the development is placed in a broader context. Drawing on Swedish, Danish, French and Austrian sources, we study the relationship between these countries and how the two great powers attempted, and sometimes succeeded, in influencing Swedish and Danish politics. For this purpose, subsidies at the state level, long-term patron-client relationships at the family level and bribes at the individual level were used. We show that there is reason to question whether freedom-era Sweden was as special in this respect as it has been portrayed. The project provides new knowledge about both the relationship between Denmark and Sweden in a time of conflict, and between the Nordic countries and the rest of Europe in a time of stronger European integration. Overall, the project provides a deeper understanding of the importance of Europe in the Nordic region. |
Normark, Staffan |
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
Ingvar Lindqvist Prize 2013 |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 290 000
Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien wants to use the Ingvar Lindqvist Prize to show Sweden's teachers of mathematics and science their appreciation, and at the same time draw society's attention to the important role of teachers in the country's development. The prize is named after Professor Ingvar Lindqvist, who was President of the Academy from 1987 to 1991. He initiated a number of Academy activities to highlight the importance of teachers in society. The prize has been awarded since 1991. Colleagues, principals, students and parents are invited to nominate candidates. After preparation by the Academy's Committee for Science and Education, the members of the Academy decide on the winners at an ordinary meeting. The Committee on Science and Education consists of representatives of the Academy's classes of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, technology and social sciences, as well as educationalists, school developers and professional teachers. The award ceremony will take place on the Academy's celebration day on April 5. In connection with this, a half-day symposium is held where the laureates present their work and Academy members give scientific lectures. Ingvar Lindqvist Day 2012 was highly appreciated. The Academy's ambition is to continue working to raise the status of the teaching profession. |
Nyberg, Gudrun |
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Biography of naturalist Bengt Andersson Euphrasén (1755-1796) |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
Bengt Andersson Euphrasén was born in 1755 in Habo as the son of a poor farmer. However, he had access to a school and gymnasium on Visingsö and traveled to both China and the West Indies (especially the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy) where he reported extensively on both plant and animal life and the customs of the people. Essays on ten different fish species were printed during his lifetime in the papers of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and a book on Saint Barthélemy and two neighboring islands was published in 1795, the year before his death. Euphrasén's name is now scientifically associated with six species of fish. Sometimes his book on Saint Barthélemy is quoted, but no thorough analysis of the work has been done before. Nor has his unpublished manuscript of an overview of all the fishes of Sweden, an Ichtyologia Svecica, been subject to closer analysis. His working methods reflect the scientific approach of the time. Euphrasén faced major setbacks in both his scientific and private life, which in their own way also reflect the times. The description of his life and work is richly illustrated with photographs from nature, Euphrasén's publications, his herbarium and, above all, his scientific references, which in many cases have beautifully colored illustrations. |
Nitenberg, Annelie |
Lake Vänern Museum |
The Sunnerby project |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 400 000
Since 2000, the Sunnerby project has conducted archaeological research with annual excavations on Kållandsö in Västergötland. An aristocratic habitat including a hall building from the Younger Iron Age and graves on the adjacent burial ground have been investigated as well as the remains of a medieval church and cemetery. One of the investigated graves is Kungshögen, a large mound from the 6th century. It is important to note that similar burial environments have not been investigated archaeologically before in western Sweden. The hall in Sunnerby is contemporary with Kungshögen and it is easy to imagine that one of the men buried in Kungshögen sat as a chief in the hall. The hall has been a magnificent building, about 11.5 m wide and over 40 m long with large posts that in pairs carried the roof. From the traces in the ground we understand that the building was of impressive size and fully comparable with similar buildings from aristocratic environments in the rest of Scandinavia. We only have a few examples of aristocratic habitats with hall buildings in the West Swedish context. After 13 years of archaeological research, it is now time to summarize and present the results. |
Nord, Anders |
The Nordic Museum |
The origin of medieval pigments |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 97 000
Sweden's medieval churches are often decorated with beautiful murals. Sometimes the authors are known, such as Albertus Pictor, Johannes Iwan or Johannes Rosenrod. Other times they are only named as "Egypticus", "Passion Master", "Roslag Master" etc. The project group has previously identified about twenty different color pigments in these medieval paintings. However, we do not know where the pigments come from. Are they domestic or imported? Are they naturally occurring minerals or synthetic products? The planned investigations are limited to church paintings in Mälardalen, Skåne and Gotland. The composition of the pigments is first determined using a scanning electron microscope. In cases where the pigments contain lead, the origin of the lead can often be determined by determining the isotopic composition with a mass spectrometer. The values obtained constitute a 'fingerprint' which may be specific to a particular mine or region. Other pigments may contain metals such as copper, iron, cobalt, mercury, etc. In these cases, isotope studies rarely provide information on the origin, and we have to search the literature for probable medieval sites. Our interdisciplinary research group consists of natural scientists and conservators with backgrounds from the Swedish National Heritage Board, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the Nordic Museum and Byggnadshyttan on Gotland. The results may therefore be of great interest to art historians, antiquarians, conservators, architects and mineralogists. |
Nordqvist, Bengt |
Swedish National Heritage Board UV |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 723 500
During 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, research investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. A site that turns out to contain a find material that belongs to the category - "the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era" and it belongs to one of the most important remains from the prehistory of the Nordic region. At Offerplats Finnestorp, warrior after warrior has been sacrificed along with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These mighty men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords, lances and golden horse equipment. Magnificent items of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time. The fieldwork primarily concerns the Finnestorp site with its fantastic finds. But our research also includes studying several of the most spectacular gold finds such as the site of the gold neck collar from Möne (north of Ulricehamn), the neck ring from Bragnum and the arm ring from Snösbäck (both from Falköping). The research work also aims to investigate the possible site of a migratory battlefield at Varola (near Skövde). The ongoing research work includes excavations, conservation of objects, international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book and a popular science book. |
Ling, Jan-Åke |
University of Gothenburg |
Herbert Blomstedt Collection - A Musician Returning Home. Project Phase II |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 000 000
Over the next two years, a collection of source material will take place around Herbert Blomstedt and his activities as a conductor, while the collection will be supplemented with material from various mass media, concert halls and universities around the world, including some research in San Francisco. In a unique collaboration with the Swedish National Orchestra GSO, a living documentation will be carried out. Blomstedt's many years of activity have left important traces around the world, especially in the orchestras where he has been chief conductor. Here Swedish musicological research has a unique opportunity to document one of the greatest conductors of our time, a conductor who "happens" to be Swedish. There is no similar documentation of a living musical cultural personality, and we expect great international interest in this work. |
Lundgren, Helena |
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Methodology development and inventory of fire stations |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 278 600
The project is a continuation of the inventory project initiated and carried out in 2012. This year's project includes an inventory of fire stations and method development for inventories of fire stations. The method is being developed in parallel with ongoing inventories in three selected counties, Västmanland, Stockholm and Örebro. The 2013 continuation project aims to refine the inventory method in parallel with inventories in another three counties, Uppsala County, Södermanland County and Dalarna County. The method must be given greater flexibility in order to make it generally applicable to fire station inventories throughout the country. The principles for grading the cultural-historical value of the objects should be developed to include different levels of detail in the object descriptions, as well as principles for sleeping. The 2012 project shows large, unexplained variations between the building stocks in the first three test counties, which requires that the inventory method be further developed with more material. In addition, the number of objects has turned out to be significantly larger than could reasonably be expected, which means that the method must be adapted for a very large number of objects, especially for future regional or national compilations and assessments of the industrial and cultural history values of buildings. |
Nilsson, Lars Erik |
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Rock carvings. New interpretations |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
The third and final part of a project dealing with new interpretations of rock carvings based on technical analysis. A number of rock carvings with technical motifs have been misinterpreted. Perspectives have been misunderstood, mechanisms that are actually clearly shown have not been understood, and tools and their role in the motifs have not always been understood. A motif with an unusually large number of technical details is studied particularly closely. Many of the details have not been observed before. The motif is about manufacturing. A new category of rock carvings begins to emerge, carvings that deal with manufacturing. In parallel with the examination of the technical motifs, slightly less technical motifs have also been studied, documented and given alternative interpretations. The new interpretations can be compared with the traditional ones. For some motifs, it is clear that the new interpretations are better supported if one looks primarily at the function of the objects. Many objects on the rock carvings are easy to identify because they appear in graves or are discovered as soil finds. This does not apply to all objects. Some can be difficult to explain because they are made of perishable materials. One such object with great symbolic value has been puzzling. The symbol appears in only one place in Central Europe and has been interpreted there. This interpretation could also apply to the corresponding symbol on the rock carvings. |
Lind, Liselotte |
University of Gothenburg |
Gothenburg International Science Festival |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
Through various science-based activities, the Science Festival aims to inspire children and young people to pursue further studies, to see education as a possible path in life. On the other hand, the Science Festival should also contribute to increased dialog and meetings between the research community and society in general - an arena for discussion on the role of research in society. Within the framework of the activities, a school program, a program for the public and a professional program are carried out. |
Lindholm, Sebastian |
Stockholm University |
Research Days 2013 |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
The Research Days take place over two days in October. The program consists mainly of around fifty researchers giving between 60 and 70 popular science lectures and discussions that take place in parallel in different rooms. Since 2005, panel debates have also been arranged during the Research Days under different themes. The event presents a variety of subject areas. This year, for example, visitors can listen to lectures in subjects such as natural sciences, psychology, literature, economic history, physics, law, computer and systems science, German, social work, French, plant ecology, astronomy, business administration and much more. So there is something for everyone. The Research Days are organized to present and make current research conducted at the university more accessible to the outside world. The event enables an exchange between researchers and people who would otherwise not come into contact with research. The event also aims to spread knowledge about and arouse interest in individual subjects, to promote interdisciplinary contacts and to strengthen the contact between undergraduate and postgraduate education. The Research Days are thus important in strengthening the image of Stockholm University and in the long-term recruitment of students and postgraduate students. |
Leander, Anne-Marie |
Lund University |
Pompeii - the return. A collaborative project between academia and cultural institutions |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 126 667
Millesgården and the Swedish Pompeii Project at Lund University have initiated a collaboration based on the Swedish archaeologists' excavations in Pompeii. The project involves a large popular science exhibition with finds from the Swedish archaeological group's research space - a Pompeian quarter, combined with a staging of the Pompeian house and various expressions of inspiration created after Swedish cultural workers' encounters with the site. It will be an exhibition about Pompeii as a place, about archaeology as a science, but perhaps mostly about experience and interpretation. The exhibition will mix original objects - loans from the Archaeological Museum in Naples, 3-D modeling and art. Part of the exhibition will be artist Ola Billgren's Pompeian Suite. Various texts will be produced for the exhibition, including a journal designed as a lifestyle magazine. It combines articles on the "banker" Caecilius Iucundus, on Italian food, on travel, on the plumbing in Pompeii. Highs and lows are dressed in graphic forms borrowed from popular culture. Making this exhibition at Millesgården is congenial in two ways. On the one hand, the Konsthallen is built in the form of an atrium house, and on the other hand, there are many environments in the artist's home that are neo-Pompeian, directly inspired by Pompeii. The project is innovative in nature because it seeks to bridge the distance between the university and the museum. Here the distance is overcome and the research is used in a direct and communicative way directly towards the visitor. |
Kristoffersson, Sara |
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Ikea. Swedish design and design of the Sweden image |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 330 000
IKEA's blue stores with a yellow logo on the facade around the world are reminiscent of Sweden. The global company has a distinctly Swedish identity and promotes the concept of 'democratic design' widely. IKEA also uses other positively charged words such as equality and justice. Is this based on a social pathos or crass calculations? Is it "Swedish design" or a kind of globalized aesthetic? The project aims to study IKEA with a focus on the 1980s and 1990s: a time when the symbolic link to Sweden was strengthened. Can IKEA be seen as Sweden's myth about itself - a kind of national self-image that does not match reality? From IKEA's enormous production, the company's style program and a selection of collections are studied. The topic is discussed in the light of the concepts of 'nation branding' and 'storytelling'. Although the company has played an important role in Swedish society, there is little research on IKEA, and especially few humanistic studies. For over fifty years, the mass media have provided information about the company, which in Sweden is regarded as a kind of national treasure. The lack of design history research on IKEA's aesthetics is surprising, but makes studies all the more urgent. IKEA is an element in the history of ideas in the Swedish home, but also one of Sweden's public faces, and it is important to investigate the image given to the outside world. |
Kuusela, Tommy |
Stockholm University |
Giants and giantesses in Norse mythology |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: 135 000 SEK
The aim of the thesis is to investigate the role and function of these epic figures in the myths. The giants have often been interpreted as representatives of chaos, death or natural forces in relation to the cosmos or culture. This simplistic model is not sustainable and requires an analysis of how they are described in different genres. The study will therefore include a genre analysis, thus revealing beings of a more complex nature and puncturing the notion of primitive chaos beings. Giants are not exclusively enemies of the gods, and giantesses in particular enter into amorous relationships with gods whose offspring then become prominent figures. The gods themselves are also related to and dependent on the giants, who are described as the oldest in the cosmos and thus wise and owners of objects of power. With close reading and a broad perspective that spans the entire area of Norse culture, my hope is that I can document and extensively analyze the importance of the giants in the myths, and thus also for humans. The latter is particularly evident in flour symbolism. The flour is stolen from the giants and becomes culturally acceptable to humans and the most important component of the cult union and the inspiration of the poets. Notions of giants are very old and can be traced through skaldic poems to at least the 9th century, and not least through the Swedish Rökstenen where the oldest written evidence of the word appears. |
Larsson, Annika |
Uppsala University |
Bumps on the shoulders. Viking Age women's costume in a pre-Christian context |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 636 000
The stories of the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages are important components of historical identity in Scandinavia. The female costume with its distinctive oval buckles are distinctive symbols of Viking Age historiography, and are traditionally associated with a faithfully weaving wife in the safety of the peasant home. But are these interpretations based on empirical evidence? Is it a relevant and thoroughly scientific image of women, Viking Age society and its norms that the costume conveys? In 2008, research into the Viking Age women's costume began. It was established early on that the burial costume with its specific, oval buckles disappeared around the year 1000 - at the same time as a new era, defined by, among other things, Christian rune stones, began. The applicant's interdisciplinary skills in pattern construction, costume history and Viking Age archaeology show breathtaking results based on the female burial costume, challenging the traditional image of a weaving Viking Age woman. The project involves work on the completion of a scientific book with extensive pictorial material on the subject. The work will be located at Uppsala University Museum Gustavianum's archaeological object archive. |
Karlander, Olof |
Mounted High Guard |
Purchase and training of a horse for Beridna Högvakten |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: 130 000 SEK
Formed in 1985, the Association of the Mounted High Guard has the task of safeguarding the tradition of horses in the mounted garrison service and the culture and history surrounding this activity. The association cooperates with the independent Foundation for the Mounted High Guard, which is the owner of the horses used for mounted garrison service. The Foundation is also responsible for 60% of the operating costs of the horses, which are at the disposal of the Armed Forces. The Foundation's activities are financed by the Association. The cooperation with the Armed Forces is regulated by a special agreement. This unique structure is based on cooperation between individuals, the business community, the City of Stockholm and the state. The activities are financed through membership fees from 22,000 members and contributions from companies and foundations. |
Karlsson, Krister |
City of Mölndal |
Restoration of the dining room chairs, Gunnebo Castle |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
On behalf of the merchant John Hall, Gothenburg city architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg designed Gunnebo Castle, its interiors and furniture as well as the surrounding buildings and large parts of the garden between 1782 and 1784. Construction was not completed until 1796, when the Hall family moved into their expensive summer residence, which was called the most magnificent small wooden castle in the kingdom at the time. More than 200 of Carlberg's drawings of Gunnebo have been preserved and are owned by the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg. The drawings are an invaluable source of knowledge about Gunnebo's original appearance and have been used to guide a number of reconstructions from 1950 onwards. Gunnebo Castle was emptied of its original furniture in 1828, but much of the original furniture has been reacquired through purchases and donations. With contributions from the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations, a fund was established in 2005 for the purchase of original furniture or relevant objects related to Gunnebo, the Hall family or architect Carlberg. In the summer of 2011, five heavily restored chairs that once stood in Gunnebo's dining room were purchased. There were already four other original chairs of the same model. Gunnebo now wishes to restore these nine chairs and reupholster them in a black horsehair fabric, in accordance with the information provided by Christina Hall in the preserved inventory lists. |
Klackenberg, Day |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2013 |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The overall aim of the Swedish History Days is to encourage contacts and exchanges between professionals from different professions related to the subject of history, and history enthusiasts in general, and thus increase the historical knowledge of as many groups in society as possible. The ambition is therefore to present historical subjects and historical research in a way that maintains a popular science level but is also easily accessible to non-specialist participants. For many history teachers, the History Days are the main opportunity for continuing education, especially in terms of reconnecting with the research community, and for historians, this forum is an opportunity to make new research results available. Many of the lectures are published in printed form. |
Herjulfsdotter, Ritwa |
Röhsska Museum |
Röhsska Museum - collections and history |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 335 000
The history of the Röhsska Museum is part of the cultural history of Gothenburg, but also of Sweden. Röhsska has played a significant role in shaping the Swedish view of crafts, design, handicrafts and good form. There is a lack of research and compiled expertise on the emergence of the Röhsska Museum and the creation of its collections, which is regrettable as this is an important social institution that has had a major influence on crafts, design and design as well as on society in general. In this respect, the Röhsska Museum differs from, for example, the National Museum and the Nordic Museum, for which thorough historical studies exist. There is a knowledge gap that should be filled. The aim is to study, analyze and compile the history and development of the Röhsska Museum in a monographic work where the description and analysis of people, events and stories will form the basis for a better understanding of today's museum. It is also of importance for other researchers to have the opportunity to study the past and emergence of the Röhsska Museum. Illuminating the history of the Röhsska Museum can help to find new ways of approaching the collections and one's own history. |
Håkansson, Carina |
University of Gothenburg |
Renewal of the permanent exhibition in the Museum of Antiquities, Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg. |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 400 000
The Museum of Antiquities' permanent exhibition at the University of Gothenburg is in great need of renewal and modernization. The proposal includes a new floor plan, color scheme and new images that illustrate and frame the content of the exhibition. New complementary stands for larger pots and pedestals for sculptures. New LED spotlights and new LED lamps for existing luminaires. Different thematic sections are created alongside existing geographical and chronological displays. The exhibition opens with blue Mediterranean images in a marine section as you enter, contrasting with warmer terracotta colors in the museum's section of objects in cases. A Cyprus section is created. Headlined vespers and short texts for enlarged details of objects at each stand create interest. Illustrated A3 compendiums on inclined shelves at each stand offer in-depth study of the respective geographical and chronological area. Dark grey-black background walls in the exhibition space highlight the colors in the images. Soft, dark gray carpet between the columns muffles the sound and scratching of chairs and tables. The purchase of new tables and new light, elegant chairs creates contrast, "modern design meets antiquity." Music with reconstructed instruments from different cultures, such as Greek and Etruscan flute music, illustrates the time periods in the exhibition. Digital screens further illustrate and deepen the exhibition. The proposal also includes a new text layout, new fonts and new labels. |
Jönsson, Love |
Röhsska Museum |
Implementation of the 10th European Academy of Design Conference at the Röhsska Museum |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 140 000
On 17-19 April 2013, the 10th European Academy of Design Conference will be held at the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg. The event is organized in collaboration with the Business & Design Lab (BDL) and the School of Design and Crafts (HDK), both part of the University of Gothenburg. The conference marks the Röhsska Museum's close collaboration with GU and the museum's commitment to research issues related to design. The academic network European Academy of Design (EAD) was founded in 1995 and is a world-leading forum for research in design and design management, focusing on new research areas as well as areas such as sustainability, global issues and the societal role of design. Every two years a conference is organized within EAD. The 2013 edition of the conference is particularly prestigious as it is the tenth time it is organized and therefore takes the form of a jubilee. The location of the conference in Gothenburg is proof of Sweden's and GU's strong position in design research. The driving force behind the planning of the conference has been Ulla Johansson, holder of the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Professorship in Design Management. In addition to the regular conference program, the Röhsska Museum will also offer some more popular science events aimed at the public. |
Grant, Gunnar |
Kärrbo Bygdegårdsförening |
Book about Kärrbo parish in Västmanland |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 215 000
The proposed book on Kärrbo parish in Västmanland, with the preliminary title "Kärrbo parish from the Middle Ages to the present", is based on source research and interviews with people in the parish. The manuscript comprises more than 30 chapters and is estimated to be about 200 pages long, including images. The latter is largely collected in the parish's village farm archive and has been scanned for reproduction. The basis for the book has been produced by a group of senior people with links to the parish. A number of them have previously published books and scientific articles with historical connections. Magdalena Hellquist, PhD, has written several books on proverbs and has edited editions of Provost Muncktell's diaries from Västmanland in the early 19th century, including the one on Kärrbo. Professor emeritus Gunnar Grant at Karolinska Institutet, has published a book on the Frösåker farm in Kärrbo, published by Atlantis in 2008, as well as several articles in international journals in the field of "history of neuroscience". Elisabeth Westerdahl, an antiquarian writer, has published two books on the farm Kusta, located in the neighboring parish of Irsta. Sture Källberg grew up in Kärrbo and began working as a freelance author and writer in the 1960s. He has 13 titles in his bibliography. Among these is 'Rapport från medelsvensk stad - Västerås', which deals with his childhood in Kärrbo and the migration of people from the village to the city. |
Hadenius, Patrik |
Research & Progress |
Publication of Research & Progress in 2013 |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 44 000
The project concerns the publication of Forskning & Framsteg in 2013. The purpose of the journal is to report primarily on Swedish research and the role of research in society. According to the editorial policy adopted by the board, the content must be factual and relevant. The areas that are highlighted must be of significant scientific or societal interest. Other popular science magazines in Sweden write exclusively about science and history. In Forskning & Framsteg, 60% of the articles are based on natural sciences and 40% on humanities and social sciences. The editorial material should be designed so that it invites readers to read, is understandable even for non-experts and consolidates the readers' interest in research. Emphasis will be placed on images, as skillfully executed images motivate readers, explain complex passages and highlight key sections. In 2013, the journal will be published in 10 issues. In addition, a number of special issues are planned (in 2011 and 2012 special magazines on the brain, food and languages in the Nordic countries were produced). contributing organizations. The editorial team consists of four specialist editors, three of whom have doctoral or licentiate degrees in their areas of coverage, and an editor responsible for editorial planning and electronic publishing on the web and for tablets. The editorial team is led by Patrik Hadenius, who is also editor-in-chief of the popular science journals Språktidningen and Modern Psykologi. |
Hellsing, My |
Örebro University |
The Duchess, the court and the political space |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 97 520
Duchess Charlotte (1759-1818), Queen of Sweden from 1809, has been remembered for the political notes she kept in French for more than forty years. The translation, known as the Diary of Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte, has become a standard work on the Gustavian era. Historians constantly use it as a source for people and events at court. Less well known is that the diary is part of an extensive collection of letters, accounts and manuscripts written by the Duchess. Together, this collection opens up new perspectives on the conditions of court life and the Duchess's political role. Was she really the neutral observer of political life that she wanted posterity to believe? The doctoral thesis discusses court society based on recent theories, with particular attention to the opportunities for women and men. It focuses on the international nature of the court, its social practices and values. It was a world of court politics: a social gathering with political dimensions, where even everyday life could have national political dignity. |
Dahlin, Michael |
Linnaeus University |
Misterhult Bronze Age |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 47 200
The project aims to analyze and discuss the Bronze Age of Misterhult, one of the largest concentrations of Bronze Age remains on the east coast. The emphasis in this work and in this application is to highlight previous and older archaeological investigations, but not previously analyzed. A large number of archaeological investigations are available in the archives and with renewed analysis of burnt human bones, pottery shards and objects, important information can be obtained about people's standard of living, pottery craftsmanship and its cultural connection to the rest of Europe. The subject of this study is a previously investigated burial field RAÄ14 at Imbramåla in Misterhult parish and no in-depth analysis of the material from this burial field has ever been carried out. It is also the only investigated cemetery in this large area and the analysis of the cemetery would be of great value for further research. |
Domeij Lundborg, Maria |
Lund University |
The Weave of Happiness. Animal ornamentation and skaldic poetry in a long-term perspective, c. 350-1150 AD. |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 305 000
Scandinavian animal ornamentation was the most characteristic imagery of the Late Iron Age. It was produced from the end of the 3rd century to the middle of the 12th century. Despite an obvious stylistic variation over time, the central motifs remained the same. The focus was on stylized animal and human figures whose bodies were often stretched out lengthwise and bound in more or less complicated weaving patterns. In its oldest variants, animal ornamentation can be found on weapons and armor in the large southern Scandinavian weapon sacrifice finds, but also on costume buckles and monumental stones. At the time of Christianization, rune stones, church buildings and church furnishings were also decorated with animal ornamentation. The fact that animal ornamentation was produced over several centuries suggests that it had deep social and cultural meanings in contemporary Scandinavia. The question is what these meanings were. The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the symbolic meanings of Scandinavian animal ornamentation in a long-term perspective, from the end of the Roman Iron Age to the middle of the 12th century. The focus is on animal ornamentation as a centuries-old pictorial tradition in relation to social and cultural conditions in contemporary Scandinavia, not least the change of religion. In order to deepen our understanding of animal ornamentation as a traditional, but at the same time innovative expression, comparisons are made with the partly contemporary Norse skaldic poetry. |
Fredricson, Ingvar |
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Flyinge - hippology from medieval to modern times |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 155 000
The project involves printing a book on the Scandinavian cultural heritage of Flyinge. As early as the 12th century there was a Danish archbishop's seat with horse breeding at Flyinge. After Skåne became Swedish, a royal stud farm was established at Flyinge Kungsgård in 1661. The operation was transferred in 1814 to the State Stallion Depot and Stud Farm, which was responsible for the operation until 1983. The Flyinge Foundation, formed by the country's largest equestrian and horse breeding organizations, then took over responsibility for the operation and development of the business. Its aim was to transform the rather run-down state institution into a modern center for breeding, raising and training warmblood horses, as well as for applied equine research and qualified vocational training. The project was successful and, among many other positive results, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) now runs a three-year academic hippology program at Flyinge and Strömsholm. Research at Flyinge, which was financially supported by SLU, the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Memorial Fund, the Crafoordska Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, led to veterinary surgeon Mikael Holmström obtaining his doctorate. In 2011, SLU established two adjunct professorships in equestrian science, linked to the equestrian studies program. Sweden is thus the only country in the world that has made this qualified investment in the development of the horse industry. |
Brodin, Louise |
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Laurentius, the patron saint of Lund Cathedral - "Laurentius Patronus Ecclesiae Cathedralis Lundensis". |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
Lund Cathedral, the seat of the Archbishop of Lund, was the main cathedral of the Catholic Church in the Nordic region in the Middle Ages. It was built at the beginning of the 12th century and consecrated to the Virgin Mary and the holy martyr Laurentius. The museum director, Dr. Göran Axel-Nilsson (1907-1999), was a prolific writer on art and cultural history. His most recent works include Thesaurus Cathedralis Lundensis, a book on the medieval treasure collection of Lund Cathedral, published by Göteborgs Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhälles skriftserie 1989. He completed another work on Laurentius, the patron saint of Lund Cathedral - "Sanctus Laurentius Patronus Ecclasiae Lundensis" - before he passed away, but without being able to complete it for publication. The book can be understood as a continuation of the "Thesaurus" and deals with the medieval bronze sculpture in Lund Cathedral, representing the saint and martyr Laurentius, which according to the author is in fact a reliquary. Laurentius is one of the most famous of the depicted martyrs, many churches in Europe are dedicated to him, which are described in the text. Not only the Laurentius figure but also the other medieval bronze objects in the choir of Lund Cathedral are described in detail and photographed in minute detail. The essay, after review by the researcher in medieval archaeology Professor Hans Andersson, has been approved by the Royal Society of Science and Letters in Gothenburg to be included in its publication series. The project aims to complete Axel-Nilsson's work. |
Blennow, Anna |
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Vilhelm Lundström and Rome - a biographical project |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 180 000
The project aims to compile a biography of Vilhelm Lundström (1869-1940), the first professor of Latin at the University of Gothenburg, and his relationship with and research on Italy and ancient Rome. He was not only a classical philologist, but also active as a right-wing politician and newspaperman, both as a writer and editor, and founded several associations and journals. Almost every year from the 1890s until the First World War, he travelled to Italy for research and study purposes, the country that for the romantically influenced Lundström symbolized 'the home of all longing' - only there could the Nordic man realize his true self and reconnect with his classical origins. The philological-archaeological college course Lundström completed in Rome in 1909 led to the founding of the Swedish Institute in Rome in the 1920s, and he was a keen debater of the importance of classical studies for the modern era. The crisis that both the humanities and classical languages are experiencing today makes a biographical project on Vilhelm Lundström both urgent and relevant for a continued reflection on how we use and manage the classical heritage in education and research in Sweden. |
Bodin, Helena |
Uppsala University |
Publication of the interdisciplinary volume Byzantine Gardens and Beyond |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 59 000
In the interdisciplinary anthology Byzantine Gardens and Beyond, an international group of scholars from different disciplinary traditions contribute to the study of the Byzantine garden and its survival and significance after the fall of Byzantium. Just as the Byzantine Empire in historical times united different cultures and constituted a borderland between East and West, the garden theme in this volume serves as a meeting point for studies in Byzantine philology, archaeology, Islamology, botany, literature, and Nordic and Slavic languages. Both utilitarian and aesthetic issues are addressed, and both contemporary and historical phenomena are considered. The research contributions gathered here were originally presented at the symposium "Byzantine Gardens and Beyond" in Uppsala in April 2011, organized by the Nordic Byzantine Network in collaboration with SCAS. One of the articles in the anthology is a revised and expanded version of one of the most important studies of Byzantine gardens for twenty years. The other eight articles are based on completely new material. The visual material is very rich and partly previously unpublished in color. The project concerns the publication of the volume in the Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia series, with funds intended to cover the cost of images, proofreading and printing. |
Annerbäck, Lin |
Medieval Museum |
Magnus Ladulås project |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 245 000
In spring 2012, the project group opened Karl Knutsson's grave in Riddarholm Church. Modern analytical methods showed that Magnus Ladulås is not among those buried here, nor, as found in 2011, in the tomb under the northern tumba. However, a new opportunity to recover King Magnus' remains has been discovered: in the burial chamber under Karl Knutsson's tumba, there is only one medieval wall, which forms the northern wall of the tomb. This wall was probably added as part of another construction and built from the other side. It is most likely that there is another grave space in front of the altar in the church. The location along the central axis of the church, directly in front of the altar, is the most prominent position a person could have. It is reasonable that such a grave was reserved for the monastery's founder and donor Magnus Ladulås. The purpose of a further investigation in the chancel of the church is to locate the grave of King Magnus and to increase knowledge of the history of the monastery church. The documents from Riddarholm Church's renovation do not indicate that the space was previously investigated. In April this year, with the permission of RMÄ, SFV, the County Administrative Board and RAÄ, a small test investigation was carried out. One of the bricks from 1916 was loosened and removed and a test hole was drilled in a joint further down the wall. The investigation showed that the space behind the wall is sand-filled and at least 70 cm wide. It is thus an archaeological excavation that is relevant in this context. |
Areskoug, Nils-Göran |
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Research costs |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Nordic Arena for Strategic Dialogue: Development of a virtual platform for knowledge integration. Against the backdrop of worrying trends of increasing disintegration and confrontation in trade, politics and coordination in Europe and globally, the Nordic region appears to be a safe haven. Strategic dialogues promoting Nordic knowledge exchange therefore represent an opportunity to actualize a future potential based on shared values and deeply shared history. An increased strategic and critically constructive dialogue on the future through uncontroversial cultural exchange aims to increase the sense of solidarity and improve the conditions for value creation and growth through cooperation in business, politics, academia and culture. The network of dialogue partners (Transdisciplinary Dialogues) is now further developed through face-to-face dialogues at a strategic level. Part of the knowledge dialogues are reflected on an evolving online platform. This network-based knowledge integration now needs a base in the form of a more solid organization that can provide stability and sustainability to the cultivation of strategic dialogues between leading representatives from "small countries" on the European map: above all, this is about ways to address very similar challenges for the countries of the Nordic region and Switzerland through increased "cross-border" communication with the benefits implied by the concept in sight. |
Back Danielsson, Ing-Marie |
Stockholm University |
Size as a strategy II. On manipulations in the small and the large during the Late Iron Age in Sweden. |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 290 000
The project aims to achieve a new and deeper understanding of why size manipulations in both the small and the large format were made during the Late Iron Age (550-1050 AD) in Sweden. Above all, it examines how these manipulations created space for negotiations about people's different identity positions. Central to the relationship between the diminished and the enlarged is the human body, which serves as a reference for the manipulation of size. The body belongs to a number of different subject or identity positions that can be linked to age, gender, social position, specialist position, regionality and affirmation or rejection of specific mythological/religious beliefs in such a way that the different positions can intersect. The manipulations are therefore analytically examined based on the concepts of body and embodiment, agency and performativity, identity and subject position, and memory, power and oblivion. Size manipulation is a neglected research area that also has great potential. In addition to the material phenomena that are characterized by reduction and enlargement, the rituals and ceremonies of the Late Iron Age at so-called cult sites, in funerary contexts, in the more individual daily situation and in the landscape in general - i.e. the places where size manipulations occur. In addition to generating new and important knowledge about the Late Iron Age, the project is also expected to enable the development of both theory and methodology. |
Andersson, Christer |
Halland county museums |
Investigation of the monastery of Ås |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 400 000
In the valley of the river Viskan, about 15 km north of Varberg, there was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1194 by monks from Sorö Abbey on Zealand. The monastery, which was made possible by large land donations from the Danish king Valdemar and the spiritually and secularly powerful bishop Absalon, developed into a real powerhouse and its brick buildings are considered to be the most powerful in Halland. At the height of its development, Ås Monastery encompassed about 250 farms in northern Halland. Today, no remains of the monastery are visible above ground. After the Reformation, the church and other buildings were demolished and the bricks were reused to repair the Varberg fortress after the Nordic Seven Years' War. Uniquely, no archaeological excavations at all have been carried out on Halland's first, largest and richest monastery before our project started. This means that the statements about the exact location of the monastery that can be read on the official information board in the area are not correct. In the summer of 2010 we located the entire monastery building with ground penetrating radar and in 2011 the archaeological excavation began. In 2012, this continued in order to gain knowledge of the eastern wing and the walls of the church, while an extensive archival study of the monastery's properties was begun. Before the major international conference on Ås Monastery in 2013, a major excavation is planned to investigate the western wing of the monastery. |
Andreasson, Lars |
Bohuslän Defense Museum |
Sotenäs Company 1727-1901 |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 220 000
Since 1992, former officers of the defunct Bohuslän regiment, in consultation with local history and genealogy researchers with ties to Bohuslän, have been conducting voluntary research into the defense of the region. One of the projects concerns the Sotenäs Company, which in 1727-1901 had Sotenäs and part of Kville härad as its company area. Research in the National Archives, the War Archives and the National Archives in Gothenburg has provided facts from general pattern rolls and sighting protocols and other archived sources. At Lantmäteriet in Gävle and the unit in Gothenburg, parcel maps and documents have been studied, photographed or copied. This has facilitated fieldwork with studies and measurements as far as possible at the location of the officers' residences and the soldiers' cottages. The photographs illustrate both past and present reality. Compilation of the activities of serving officers and the lives of soldiers has been going on for several years. The result of research and fieldwork can now be published as "Konglig Bohus Läns Regemente Sotenäs kompani 1727-1901". |
Andreeff, Alexander |
University of Gothenburg |
Stones and people: Vendel and Viking pictorial stones from Gotland. |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
My thesis deals with the late Vendelian and early Viking Age picture stones of Gotland. The pictorial stones constitute a rich source material for studies of the relationship between materiality, identity, iconography and landscape, all themes that have recently become central in the field of archaeology. In addition to the archaeological investigations mentioned below, the study has also been supplemented with iconographic and spatial analyses to gain new knowledge about the function and meaning of the image stones. Within the framework of my thesis work, I have conducted two archaeological excavations on Gotland at the picture stone sites Fröjel Stenstugu and Buttle Änge. My dissertation project studies the communicative and social role of picture stones in contemporary Gotland society. Throughout the centuries, the significance of picture stones was certainly multifunctional and varied as a territorial marker, memorial, preserver of oral tradition, burial site and religiously charged artifact. Picture stones played a key role in Gotland society during the late Iron Age and early Middle Ages, being a focal point for social and ideological communication between the people of the time. |
Andersson, Kent |
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In the shadow of Rome - Roman cultural influence in the Nordic countries |
Other |
2012 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
In the 1st millennium AD, the Nordic region was affected in various ways by the superpower of the day: the Roman Empire. Initially, it was primarily the western parts of the empire that were important. Over time, however, power shifted to the east, and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, it was the Byzantine Empire that became the dominant force. It is no exaggeration to say that the encounter between Rome and the peoples of the north was one of the most important cultural encounters in history. Its effects can still be seen today. For contemporaries, the encounter was even more significant. It took place in both direct and indirect ways. Nordic lords and chieftains served in the Roman army and learned to live in the Roman way. They brought various types of news with them to the North. The Romans also exported goods to the North and many Roman bronze and glass vessels have been found here. The book "I skuggan av Rom - romersk kulturpåverkan i Norden" (In the shadow of Rome - Roman cultural influence in the Nordic countries) tells how Roman objects reached the Nordic countries as diplomatic gifts from the Romans to the Norwegians. But it also shows how, under Roman influence, the Norse invented their own written language, how their religion and the view of their own gods were influenced by the Roman imperial cult, how the Norse adopted the Roman way of naming the days of the week, how the indigenous rulers adopted Roman symbols of rulership, etc. All this shows how permeated the North was by Roman influence and how Romanized the North was despite being outside the Empire. |
Wilson, Olle |
Uppsala University |
Refined rooms |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 20 000
The purpose of the thesis "Refined rooms, gas stations and precision culture in Sweden 1926-1956" is to examine an architectural design language based on the conditions of the gasoline trade in the 20th century. A highly distinctive visual culture emerged as the gasoline companies in the 1920s began to compete more and more fiercely to attract customers to one and the same product - they sold more or less the same fuel. Motorists were predominantly men, which gave rise to a distinctly masculine attitude in the business. The study will therefore include a gender perspective. Since the appearance and function of gas stations have been continuously adapted to the prevailing conditions, few individual buildings have been preserved in their original condition. However, there are gas stations scattered in different parts of Sweden that can be studied on site, and an essential purpose of my project has been to document and analyze them in detail. |
Wennberg, Kåa |
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Julia Beck |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 73 700
Swedish artist Julia Beck (1853-1935) went to Paris at the age of 28 and remained in France for the rest of her life. She became a highly regarded artist both in Sweden and in France. She began her studies in France at the Académi Julian and was also a student of Léon Bonnart, Jean Léone Gérome and Alfred Stevens. For the last 30 years, Beck lived in the town of Vaucresson, just west of Paris. Three significant years for Beck were spent in Grez-sur-Loing in the mid-1880s. In the later part of her life, many of her subjects were drawn from around Normandy. Her success as an artist resulted in Beck receiving the Legion of Honor. Only Anna Branting had previously received this award. Julia Beck also received gold medals in Vienna, Chicago and Paris as well as several other awards. There has been no previous biography of this artist. |
Wilhelmson, Helene |
Lund University |
Provenance and migration - the example of Öland during the Iron Age |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: 115 500 SEK
The project aims to study the Iron Age population of Öland based on the graves, to highlight the structure and dynamics of society. A very important part of this is migration, which is particularly appropriate to study on an island like Öland with an extensive flow of goods and people during the Iron Age. Isotope samples (strontium, lead, sulphur and oxygen) will be taken on enamel and bone from 150 individuals to study provenance. The samples reflect the local geology and climate of the place where the individual lived when the bones or enamel were formed. The size of the material makes it possible to discuss variations in migration over time (chronologically), as well as between different groups (e.g. males and females, individuals with rich grave goods - those with few/none, individuals with pathological changes) and also the life histories of individuals. A similar study, which places the isotope results in an osteological and archaeological context, has never before been done in Scandinavia. It is a unique opportunity to take advantage of the exceptionally rich grave material from Öland to broaden the perspective on Iron Age society. My osteological foundation provides a depth in the interpretation of the isotope analyses, which together with the in-depth study of grave goods/form (archaeological) has previously been completely lacking in research and can be said to be both unique and groundbreaking. |
Widén, Per |
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The first and the last. Biography of Charles XIII |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
Charles XIII is one of the most interesting political figures in Swedish history. Active in the turbulent years around 1800, marked by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, he was apparently torn between loyalty to his princely lineage and the new ideals of freedom. At the same time, he was a deeply faithful Christian with a penchant for the mystical and a driving force in the transformation, or perhaps more accurately the creation, of the Swedish Masonic Order. Towards the end of his life, he - the last Gustavian - became Sweden's first constitutional monarch under the new constitution of 1809. Although Charles XIII was active in the centre of power throughout his life, during one of the most revolutionary periods of Swedish history - a period that includes three coups, a regicide, a royal deposition and the lynching of the state's highest official in 1810, as well as four revolutionary war ventures - he has never before been biographed in its entirety. A biography would thus fill a function and a gap in Swedish history. |
Ulrichs, Martina |
My Big Day |
Making the dreams of seriously ill children come true |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
The MinStoraDag Foundation helps seriously ill children in Sweden to realize their dreams. The children's imagination when it comes to wishing for a BigDay is endless and it is a great challenge to make it as good as possible. It could be swimming with dolphins, meeting their idol, taking their family on a trip or flying in a helicopter. Every year, around 100 Big Days take place. Doctors at the treating hospitals around Sweden assess which children are most in need of encouragement and a little joy in their everyday life filled with treatments. The MinStoraDag Foundation also organizes group activities such as concerts, hospital cafés and camps, giving over a thousand children a year a much-needed break from their hospital stay. In 2010, MyBigDay managed to organize 185 individual BigDays, 230 group activities and 4 camps. A group activity is at least as important as a Big Day as it allows children suffering from their various illnesses to connect with other children who have similar experiences and treatments. The goal is to reach all seriously ill children in Sweden. The foundation's motto is JOY and to focus on the healthy beyond the sick. |
Vikström, Lena |
City of Mölndal |
Preliminary study/design for the reconstruction of the orangery building - Gunnebo back to the 18th century, phase 3. |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 300 000
Gunnebo Castle and Gardens intends to fulfill the vision of recreating the country estate Gunnebo according to the intentions and efforts of the Hall family and Carl Wilhelm Carlberg. The desire is to create a coherent cultural-historical built environment in which buildings, gardens, park and landscape form a whole for deeper understanding and experiences linked to the late 18th century. An important further step in this direction is to explore the possibility of rebuilding the site's orangery: admired by its contemporaries and often described as the jewel of the property. For the overall understanding of the historic Gunnebo, the building is of great importance both aesthetically and functionally. The first stage of the project includes a research-based feasibility study that will form the basis for the reconstruction. The architecturally perfect orangery was used for both business and pleasure. Practically functional as a space for winter storage of the Hall family's extensive holdings of exotic fruit trees. The building was also used for socializing, celebrations and as a first-class attraction for visiting guests. In 1829, the orangery building burned down after a long period of neglect and decay. |
Welander-Berggren, Elsebeth |
Prince Eugene's Waldemarsudde |
Eugène Jansson's 150th anniversary in connection with an exhibition at Prince Eugene's Waldemarsudde "Blue Twilight and Naked Athletes". |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 89 000
The artist Eugène Jansson (1862-1915) was a pioneer of modern painting, active in the years around the turn of the century 1900. He helped to bring Nordic atmospheric painting to an appreciative world. His reputation as an innovator in the genre has only grown stronger in recent years. His paintings are part of a cultural heritage that will be highlighted in a major exhibition at Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde.
In connection with the exhibition, the department wishes to publish a catalog with new research written by the museum's first curator Göran Söderlund and Dr. Patrik Steorn. Major works on Eugène Jansson's art have been published in 1920 and 1997. The museum's intention is to highlight Eugène Jansson's oeuvre in its entirety, with an emphasis on the atmospheric Stockholm paintings, when Jansson came to be known as "The Blue Painter", but also the final period of his work, which began in 1905. This period focused on the naked male body and figure painting with sailor balls and circus motifs. Only in 1907 did he dare to show these works in an exhibition context. These paintings were probably not appreciated by his contemporaries, but over the years they have gained all the more recognition and deserve a detailed presentation. |
Schmidt, Torbjörn |
Stockholm University |
"I den forsande stäven är vila" - studies in Tomas Tranströmer's poetry |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 30 000
Tomas Tranströmer is one of Sweden's most internationally acclaimed writers. His poems have been translated into more than fifty languages and his name regularly appears in speculations about possible Nobel Prize winners in literature. The thesis "I den forsande stäven är vila" seeks to present a new interpretation of his work, partly based on extensive manuscript material that has previously only been available to researchers in parts. The study is organized in three main sections. The first chapter deals with the writing process and the connection between life and poem. The second chapter is a thematic study of how movement is portrayed in Tranströmer's poems; the dynamics of movement are perceived as constitutive of his poetry and of just as much importance as other, more circumscribed characteristics. In a final chapter, I study the poetic form, emphasizing the great flexibility and inventiveness that characterizes the poems. |
Trinks, Immo |
Swedish National Heritage Board UV Mitt |
Archaeological exploration of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Birka-Hovgården and the Iron Age town of Uppåkra using airborne laser scanning. |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 400 000
A new European archaeological research initiative has started mapping two important Viking Age central sites in Sweden: Uppåkra in Skåne and the UNESCO World Heritage Site Birka-Hovgården in Lake Mälaren. The aim of this project, unique in Sweden, is to develop the latest technology and methodology for high-resolution, non-destructive archaeological mapping of ancient sites - from single postholes to entire landscapes. Currently, there is no accurate terrain model for Uppåkra and Birka-Hovgården - the existing ones are not accurate enough for archaeological analysis. The topography of Birka-Hovgården contains a large number of archaeological remains in the form of defense walls, house terraces, Sweden's largest collection of burial mounds and port facilities. The topography around Uppåkra plays an important role in the location and structure of the central place. Through airborne laser scanning and hyperspectral analysis, a very accurate terrain model can be generated for Uppåkra and Birka-Hovgården. The model will be of great importance for detailed mapping of ancient remains in open landscapes and in areas covered by forest, for 3D processing and visualization of the exploration data, and for the development of new cost- and time-efficient documentation methods for use in Swedish archaeology. The expected archaeological results of the project will generate significant new knowledge about two of Sweden's most important archaeological sites - knowledge of value to research, the public and cultural heritage work. |
Ulin, Jonna |
Mölndal Museum |
Time travel sub-project - supplementary materials for teaching purposes |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
Fylgja is a computer game for children created by the Mölndal City Museum to bring ancient worlds to life. It takes place at two archaeologically unique sites in Kållered, Mölndal. The project was originally called Time Travel and has resulted in a high-quality computer game, where children can experience an adventure in the Bronze Age and Iron Age in a 3D environment. There is great interest from schools, students and teachers in using the game as part of their teaching. Through experience-based learning, students can immerse themselves in the teaching of antiquities. To make this possible, the museum now wants to supplement the game with educational material linked to the game's website and a special teacher's guide. The museum also intends to carry out a follow-up and evaluation of how pupils experience the game and what effects it has on teaching. The evaluation will be used to demonstrate results and to develop future games and educational methods in an interactive environment. |
Rahe, Ulrike |
Chalmers University of Technology |
The generative design process - basic research on the formation of a design language |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: 190 000 SEK
What is significant for good shape? How is good shape achieved? What are the factors that make up a beautiful product shape? These fundamental questions have concerned people since Greek antiquity. Good form appeals to people on an aesthetic level. An awareness of this has made product design one of the most important tools for marketing today. It is therefore of great importance to have knowledge of the form design process and form quality. The project investigates form development and form creation with aesthetic aspects in focus. The goal is to describe and gather knowledge about the mental process of working with form design and to develop a design tool to support a structural and creative form development process. The aim is also to develop new concepts to be able to talk about good form. Based on the hypothesis that methodology generates creativity, the aim is to understand how the design process works, including investigating the role of three-dimensional drawings and images in the development of form and as a communication tool, exploring whether it is possible to systematize creative creation and investigating how different design tools affect the generation of form in a design process. The research results are expected to contribute with actual solutions so that existing design methodology can be made more efficient and lead to new methodology for the creation process. |
Sabatini, Serena |
University of Gothenburg |
Bronze Age Europe and beyond |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 138 150
Bronze Age research has recently been the focus of international archaeological research. The book Bronze Age Europe and Beyond is an international publication that brings together much of this new knowledge. The aim is to disseminate Scandinavian Bronze Age research in an international perspective. However, the publication contains authors from large parts of Europe and the USA. Several of the authors are recognized specialists in their field. |
Ragnesten, Ulf |
University of Gothenburg |
The Viking Age Kungahälla and the Iron Age around the Nordre River |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 600 000
The aim of the project is to spend three years investigating the area of prehistoric and historic remains found at the large burial ground in Ytterby. Nordic experts believe that the area contains aristocratic house remains that can probably be linked to the Norse and historical sources of Kungahälla. The project also aims to place the settlement in a larger regional context with the ancient remains rich area around Nordre älv, where a social organization can be discerned already during the oldest Iron Age. Smaller investigations in the immediate area around Ytterby can provide important clues to the development that made the site so important during the Late Iron Age and the Middle Ages. The project is based on three years of field investigations comprising three months of fieldwork and five months of finds processing and report writing. |
Oskarsson, Ingemar |
Lund University |
Memories of a journey in the northern countries in 1663 |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 142 500
The project concerns the publication (in Swedish) of a French travelogue from the 17th century that mostly concerns Sweden, "Minnen från en resa i länderna i norr år 1663". The original is in manuscript in Orléans, France. The document has never before been published or discussed in literature. It is also unusual in its kind partly because of its large size, about 45 000 words in translation, and partly because only a handful of similar foreign travel accounts from 17th century Sweden are known. The traveler came to Sweden in September 1663 and stayed until June 1664. In the travelogue, he first describes a short stay in Skåne and then his stay in Stockholm. From the capital and its surroundings, as well as from a visit to the Falu mine, he has a wide range of experiences and observations to report. His narrative is given a special character by the fact that he does not - like other contemporary travel writers - travel on diplomatic business, as a businessman or for formal study or research purposes. What we have here is something so unusual in the travel literature of the period: a young man without such special conditions, who nevertheless had the opportunity to see more of the world and who freely and unaffectedly tells of his experiences. |
Lundgren, Helena |
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Inventory of fire stations |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
Fire stations are industrial buildings, which due to their function and architecture are important symbols of industrial heritage. No known inventories have previously been made, and therefore the stock of Swedish fire stations should be inventoried from a cultural-historical perspective. The project consists of: 1. Developing a method for inventories, with classification according to, among other things, building types, age, condition, threat of demolition, insensitive conversion, damage and decay. The method should be able to be used in inventories from county level up to national level. 2. Test and refine the method through inventories primarily in Västmanland, Stockholm and Örebro counties. The inventory method will be developed from previously conducted, county-by-county inventories of smaller industrial buildings. The method will be developed and tested during the inventory of fire stations in Västmanland County. The method will then be refined during an inventory in Stockholm and Örebro counties. The method will ensure quality assurance that inventories made in geographically different areas are uniform and comparable. The results of the inventories can be used by research institutions, county museums and municipal antiquities, among others. |
Nitenberg, Annelie |
Lake Vänern Museum |
The Sunnerby project |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 500 000
The investigations of Kungshögen, a large mound from the 6th century, have been completed. The archaeological work at Sunnerby continues to map and understand the contemporary settlement and the large longhouse that was probably the chief's hall. From the traces in the ground, we understand that the building was of impressive size and fully comparable with similar buildings from aristocratic environments in the rest of Scandinavia. After several years of investigations, the Sunnerby project has been able to demonstrate the existence of a rich and dynamic Iron Age settlement. The investigation of the large mound in relation to the settlement provides a unique combination of information that makes it possible to shed light on the background to the political, social and economic development and importance of Västergötland in the future. The results from the settlement and the large mound enable us to understand the role of Västergötland at a time when Sweden as a kingdom was being created. Around the hall building there are more traces of buildings. A magnetometer survey around the excavation site that will be carried out this fall will help in the project's continued work to understand and interpret the distribution and character of the settlement. The final field season of the Sunnerby project, 2012, will be based on the results of the magnetometer survey and with a machine track of larger areas to try to put the hall building in context. This will be followed by work to summarize all the knowledge gained through several years of archaeological investigations within the Sunnerby project. |
Nord, Anders |
The Nordic Museum |
Unique color traces on Gotland's medieval portals |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 94 000
Gotland's medieval churches often have beautiful murals inside the church, but not many people know that the outer portals were also painted in the Middle Ages. Unfortunately, only faint traces of paint remain today on a few churches. These traces of paint have never before been analyzed. It is therefore both important and urgent to perform chemical analysis on these medieval pigments, before they have completely disappeared. The churches we intend to investigate are located in the parishes of Martebo. Bro, Källunge, Garde and Lye. Martebo church on northern Gotland is most interesting. Its beautiful limestone portals and capital bands (with carved pictorial suites) were made by "Bygghyttan Egypticus" in the 14th century. Although the church building otherwise shows clear signs of weathering and biological growth, the capitals are exceptionally well preserved. Some of the churches' limestone capitals have a yellowish color, which may explain why they are still in such good condition. Therefore, the yellow color should of course be analyzed chemically. The structure of the limestone and its toxic pigments (acting as biocides) may also have contributed to its preservation. Our interdisciplinary research group aims to solve these problems. It consists of experienced chemists and conservators with backgrounds from the Nordic Museum, the Swedish National Heritage Board and the Byggnadshyttan Foundation on Gotland. |
Nordqvist, Bengt |
Riksantikvarieämbetet Undersökningsenheten Väst (National Heritage Board) |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 693 210
During 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, research investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. A site that turns out to contain a find material that belongs to the category - "the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era" and it belongs to one of the most important remains from the Nordic prehistory. At Offerplats Finnestorp, warrior after warrior has been sacrificed along with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These mighty men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords, lances and golden horse equipment. Magnificent items of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time. The current research is a 4-year project (2011-2014). The fieldwork primarily concerns the Finnestorp site with its fantastic finds. But the research also includes studying several of the most spectacular gold finds such as the site of the gold neck collar from Möne (north of Ulricehamn), the neck ring from Bragnum and the arm ring from Snösbäck (both from Falköping). The research work also intends to investigate the possible site of a migratory battlefield at Varola (near Skövde). The ongoing research work includes excavations, conservation of objects, international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book and a popular science book. |
Normark, Staffan |
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
Ingvar Lindqvist Prize 2012 |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: 247 500 SEK
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences wishes to show its appreciation to Sweden's teachers of mathematics and science, and at the same time draw society's attention to the important role of teachers in the country's development. The prize is named after Professor Ingvar Lindqvist, who was President of the Academy from 1987 to 1991. He initiated a number of Academy activities to highlight the importance of teachers in society. The prize has been awarded since 1991. Colleagues, principals, students and parents are invited to nominate candidates. After preparation by the Academy's Committee for Science and Education, the members of the Academy decide on the winners at an ordinary meeting. The Committee on Science and Education consists of representatives of the Academy's classes of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, technology and social sciences, as well as didacticians and professional teachers. The award ceremony takes place on the Academy's celebration day on March 31, and is accompanied by a half-day symposium where the winners present their work and Academy members give scientific lectures. The Academy's ambition is to continue working to raise the status of the teaching profession. |
Lekholm, Kerstin |
Röhsska Museum |
Japanese woodcuts from the Röhsska Museum's collection |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: 49 800 SEK
The Röhsska Museum's collection of Japanese woodcuts amounts to approximately 380 woodcuts that have been acquired by the museum through gifts and purchases from the 1920s onwards. The collection contains images by artists such as Toyokuni, Kunisada, Utamaro, Hiroshige, Hokusai and others, and spans a period from the 1680s to the end of the 19th century. In addition to their artistic value, the woodblock prints provide a cultural and historical insight into Japanese society during the more than 250-year period of Japanese history known as the Edo period. The collection reflects the development of the art of woodblock printing from black and white prints to multi-colored images printed with many woodblocks. A prerequisite for the high quality of the images was great craftsmanship, the unique Japanese paper, dyes and printing techniques. All this contributed to the fascination with the art form. Japanese woodblock prints have had a major impact on the development of arts and crafts in the West, inspiring designers and craftsmen since the mid-19th century when interest in Japanese design spread to the West. By publishing a book, richly illustrated with images, the museum wishes to provide an introduction to the art of woodblock prints and a deeper insight into the museum's collection of Japanese woodblock prints for a broad public. |
Lind, Liselotte |
University of Gothenburg |
Gothenburg International Science Festival |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
Through various science-based activities, the Science Festival aims to inspire children and young people to pursue further studies, to see education as a possible path in life. On the other hand, the Science Festival should also contribute to increased dialog and meetings between the research community and society in general - an arena for discussion on the role of research in society. Within the framework of the activities, a school program, a program for the public and a professional program are carried out. |
Linde Bjur, Gunilla |
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Architects and facades in Gothenburg - an architectural history research project |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: 110 000 SEK
The project is a development and reworking of the book Fasader i Göteborg (1996) in which the photographer Hans Hammarskiöld's black and white images dominated. Gunilla L. Bjur expands the new book with fifteen years of architectural history research on architects working in Gothenburg, presented in pictures and text with short biographies. They were active during the period when Gothenburg was transformed into an industrial city. The book describes Gothenburg's architecture from the breakthrough of industrialism to around 1920. Looking at a facade can be as challenging as meeting the face of an unknown person. At a casual encounter, the facade may seem indifferent, attractive or repulsive. A detail can stop the gaze and create curiosity. Facades form a screen to the life behind them. We experience, act and think as much between the facades of the outer walls as in the rooms inside. Photographer Krister Engström and architect Gunilla Linde Bjur have together portrayed an era in Gothenburg's history from the mid-18th century to the post-19th century. The photographer's camera eye amplifies the present and sharpens the eye for what everyone can see. The architect interprets the facades, contemplates their creation and allows historical colleagues and builders to emerge. Gothenburg's buildings are brought to life in a way that makes every city walk a journey of discovery. |
Kumlin, Ewa |
The Swedish Design Association |
Swedishdesign: website and database of Swedish design |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 100 000
The aim is to build an open website that provides a good overview of current Swedish design products and services. There is currently no such platform. There is a need to inventory contemporary Swedish design and to make the range available, not least internationally. The website is therefore made directly in English. The funds applied for are intended to be used over three years for investment in the technical platform and to ensure a qualitative basic basis. Initially, we will rely on Svensk Form's professional members and submitted entries in the Design S and UNG design awards. After the construction phase, the intention is for the website to become self-sufficient through companies and designers who upload material for a fee in predetermined templates and categories. The content will be digitally archived on a continuous basis, including factual information of research preparation relevance. Some data is locked in the system, others are open source. Thanks to the internet and the technical methods available today, the website can be used for selection based on various criteria, both publicly and in purely professional contexts. The project is a collaboration between Svensk Form and the Centre for Business History. We are already working together on a digital archive of Swedish design history www.designarkiv.se and are now continuing to develop the database through this mapping of the present for future research. The project is based on CfN's digital archive system. |
Klackenberg, Day |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2012 |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The overall aim of the Swedish History Days is to encourage contacts and exchanges between professionals from different professions related to the subject of history, and history enthusiasts in general, and thus increase the historical knowledge of as many groups in society as possible. The ambition is therefore to present historical subjects and historical research in a way that maintains a popular science level but is also easily accessible to non-specialist participants. For many history teachers, the History Days are the main opportunity for continuing education, especially in terms of reconnecting with the research community, and for historians, this forum is an opportunity to make new research results available. Many of the lectures are published in printed form. |
Kristensson, Dan |
Mölndal Hembygdsförening |
The mill tells us |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 180 000
The documentary film project "Bruket berättar" is based on the fact that a more than 350-year-long tradition of paper production on an industrial scale came to an end in Mölndal with the bankruptcy of Klippan in 2006. AB Papyrus, which started in 1895, and its predecessors have had a huge impact on Mölndal, western Sweden and the whole of Sweden. However, paper production in Mölndal dates back to the 17th century and we will also showcase some of this history. The project aims to reflect both the technical and social aspects of Papyrus' operations in Mölndal. However, the emphasis is on in-depth interviews with people who have worked at the mill, both officials and workers. Both women and men, although women were few. Many started early and worked all their lives at the mill, some for over 50 years. There was a "mill spirit" that is important to bring out in the film. The project wants to show the younger generation in particular what industrial work and life around it could look like in bygone times, but not so long ago. It is only a couple of generations away. The idea is that there will be two films. A longer one of maximum 1 hour for TV broadcast and DVD distribution and a shorter one of about 5-8 minutes, suitable for e.g. exhibitions and web viewing. |
Hagberg, Johnny |
Skara Stiftshistoriska Sällskap |
The sacred pilgrimage route |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The Skara Diocesan Historical Society has published valuable literature on the history of the Diocese of Skara and Swedish church history. Mention can be made of Vår Frus tider and Äldre Västgötalagen. Now an edition of Lars Skytte's book Peregrinatio sancta is planned in Swedish translation. from Latin. The book was printed in Rome in 1658 and is extremely rare. Lars Skytte, 1610-1696, was born in Nyköping. His father (knighted in 1619) eventually became governor of Uppsala County. His uncle was the famous Johan Skytte, councillor and university chancellor. The family had close contact with the royal family. After studies and a number of foreign study trips, Skytte became Swedish ambassador to Portugal in 1641, but left his diplomatic mission in 1647, converted to the Catholic Church and became a Franciscan. After studying theology, he was ordained within the order to devote himself to writing and teaching. In 1653, he was called to Rome, where Queen Christina arrived in 1655 after her abdication, and to her he dedicated his book Peregrinatio sancta, the Holy Pilgrimage. In it, he explains his thinking and choice of life path. The book has not previously been translated. Skytte spent the rest of his life in Rome. For a period, he served as a counselor/social worker for Kristina. He continues his theological writing and teaches theology in the Franciscan Order. |
Hampf, Jan |
Särö Cultural Heritage |
Digitalization of Särö Cultural Heritage - from database to virtual museum |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 300 000
The purpose of the project is to develop the Särö Cultural Heritage database so that it meets high demands from the public and researchers regarding quality and accessibility. The database will contribute to creating a basis for understanding events and contexts from a dynamic period of Sweden's economic and social development, the years 1850-1950. Our ambition is to offer a high quality virtual museum. Särö is located in northern Halland, two miles south of Gothenburg. During the period 1850-1950, it was a well-known seaside resort environment that became a meeting place for leading Swedish entrepreneurs, politicians and artists as well as the royal family. The cultural heritage from this period is documented in an extensive but scattered collection of pictures, writings and paintings. In recent years, Särö has been highlighted in a couple of research reports. The issue of digitizing our cultural heritage is receiving increasing interest at both national and international level. Behind the project is the Särö Cultural Heritage Foundation, whose task is to make Särö's cultural heritage accessible to the public and researchers by tracing, documenting and making this material visible through a digital museum. In an active outreach manner and through an extensive network, material is borrowed by the Foundation for digitization, a material that to a large extent would not naturally find its way to the established institutions. Since its launch in 2009, more than 3 000 images and documents have been digitized and made available. |
Ivansson, Birgitta |
Karlanda Byalag |
Karlanda parish book |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
Ideas for a parish book for Karlanda have been in the minds of several people for a long time and were also well underway about 20 years ago, but stopped due to lack of funds. A couple of years ago this work started again. Kerstin and Håkan Unneberg, who have moved back to the area, have been the driving force behind this project, gathering people in the area via the Karlanda village association. Meetings have been held every two months and the content of the book has gradually emerged. |
Fischer, Peter |
The Swedish Cyprus Expedition |
The Swedish Cyprus expedition at Hala Sultan Tekke: intercultural relations in the Late Bronze Age |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 134 000
The project is a continuation of the traditional "Swedish Cyprus Expedition" that started in the 1920s. The aim of the excavation of the large Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke (Larnaca) is to study intercultural relations and absolute chronology during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-1100 B.C.). During this period, which is referred to as the first "international" period, the Mycenaean (Greece, Troy) and Minoan (Crete) cultures and the famous 18th dynasty in Egypt flourished. The then very popular Cypriot pottery is today archaeology's main tool to synchronize numerous cultures: Cypriot pottery has been found from Italy in the west to Mesopotamia in the east, and from Anatolia in the north to Egypt/Sudan in the south. In 2010 and 2011, using georadar, the expedition found and partially exposed a large building complex with dwellings and workshops from the period 1300-1150 BC (carbon 14 dated). A temple was discovered during the last week of the excavation. The wealth of finds is outstanding: complete vessels, tools, jewelry and weapons as well as imports from Greece, the Levant and Egypt, a stone figurine of a god, a cylinder seal with religious motifs in hematite and a large complete vessel with motifs of high artistic level. The finds will be used for cultural synchronization and further excavations will concentrate on the newly discovered temple. |
Hadenius, Patrik |
Research & Progress |
Publication of Research & Progress in 2012 |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 44 000
The purpose of the journal is to report primarily on Swedish research and the role of research in society. The content should be factual and relevant. The areas that are highlighted must be of significant intra-scientific and/or societal interest. The editorial material should be designed so that it invites reading, is understandable even for non-experts and consolidates the readers' interest in research. In 2012, the journal will be published in ten issues. Each issue has a controlled circulation of 33 500 copies (2010) and is read by 128 000 people. Articles in the journal are written by active researchers, journal editors or independent science journalists. In 2012, work will continue to find new audiences among teachers, researchers and other university staff, as well as the general public with a real thirst for knowledge. The editorial team consists of four specialist editors, three of whom have doctoral or licentiate degrees in their areas of coverage, and an editor responsible for editorial planning and electronic publishing on the web and for tablets. The editorial team is led by Patrik Hadenius, who is also editor-in-chief of the popular science journals Språktidningen and Modern Psykologi. |
Ferm, Olle |
Stockholm University |
Swedish students and teachers at foreign universities in the Middle Ages |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
An important element of Europe's integration during was universities, a European invention. The project examines the origins of Swedish students, their contribution at university and the importance of knowledge for postgraduate achievement. The focus is on the late Middle Ages, when the source situation is favorable. Post-study contributions are linked to the importance of social and acquired cultural capital for advancement, as well as the importance of skills for the institutions in which they worked. Teaching and examinations are evidence of how people responded to contemporary trends. In general, this applies to the transition from late scholasticism to humanism/Renaissance/Reformation. Two factors are essential. One is associated with a return to classical Latin. The differences between scholastic Latin and the ancient models became apparent when the study of ancient manuscripts began, leading to a focus on the costume of the language itself. The second stream concerned theories of knowledge: a realist and a nominalist one. Nominalism prepared the ground for Luther's work; it was also compatible with humanism in that it focused on the individual words, their meanings and their combination into phrases; earlier allegorical readings disappeared. Some universities settled on a particular epistemology, others left the choice to the teachers themselves. The latter became dynamic (Vienna, Leipzig), the others rigid (Cologne). |
Dahlström, Per |
Götebog Art Museum, City of Gothenburg |
Overview work for the Gothenburg Museum of Art |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 270 000
The Gothenburg Museum of Art lacks an up-to-date overview of its internationally sought-after collections. An English-language book on the collection is particularly needed. The museum therefore wants to create a book that is intended to serve as both a catalog of a selection of works and a popular science presentation of the collection. The book is planned in a Swedish and an English version. With the support of the Sten A. Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture, a research unit was set up at the museum in 2008 to examine the museum's history and collection from different perspectives. Since January 2011, an infrastructure project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond has been underway to create a scientifically reviewed catalog of the collection available online. Both the work of the research department and the basic research of the infrastructure project will form the basis of the catalogue. The book, planned for 320 pages with 260 color illustrations, presents the museum's collections in an attractive design. Popular science essays are interspersed with shorter texts to present the latest research on the collection in an accessible form. Project management and editing takes place at the museum. The texts are produced by museum staff in collaboration with the research department. |
Eliasson, Roger |
Aeroseum |
Aeroseum education project |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
The Aeroseum's education project aims to open up the aviation experience center/museum for teaching students from pre-school to university level. This is to increase interest, study motivation and understanding in MNT - math, science and technology. Our subject areas will in the future cover everything from our cultural heritage to different subject areas according to the new curriculum. In addition to on-site teaching, there will also be opportunities for different types of degree projects and research. A large part of the teaching will be based on practical teaching, which is why we want to build up different stations and environments in an interdisciplinary way. The goal is that we will be able to receive about 300-500 school classes per year. The teaching will mostly be carried out by educators employed at the Aeroseum. The background to our project is requests from schools to use Aeroseum's unique environment and content. The school project was started in the fall of 2010 after being granted funds to conduct various types of feasibility studies. The project has gradually grown and the working groups cover expertise ranging from preschool to university and technical college level. The next major step in our school project is to build up the planned "stations", equip the Aeroseum with modern information technology, etc. In order to organize the teaching in a modern, pedagogical way, the Aeroseum receives help from Pedagogen, Chalmers, the University of Gothenburg and various special educators. |
Engwall, Gunnel |
Stockholm University |
Publication of the Collected Works of August Strindberg |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 2 754 069
The national edition of August Strindberg's Collected Works contains all the works completed by Strindberg. These are novels, short stories, dramas, poems, essays and newspaper articles, totaling about 150 texts, published in 72 volumes. It includes the famous novels The Red Room and The Servant's Son, the dramas Miss Julie and A Dream Play, as well as articles on theater, art, language and science. The edition, which is aimed at both the general public and scholars, is based on Strindberg's own manuscripts. In this way, Strindberg's intentions can be preserved and a multitude of previous misprints and censorship errors can be corrected. In each text volume, Strindberg's texts are complemented by extensive commentaries on the creation and reception of the works. In addition, explanations of words and facts are included, making the texts more accessible to a contemporary audience. Special text-critical commentaries document how the texts have been established. Original manuscripts and first editions, variants and drafts are also presented, and in many cases secondary texts for each work are reproduced. The edition is supplemented by an index volume so that readers can easily find the various works included in the different volumes. Many of the published parts of August Strindberg's Collected Works are already included in the online Literature Bank (www.litteraturbanken.se). The entire edition, both text volumes and critical commentaries, will be included and preserved in this electronic bank of literary texts. |
Bergman, Lars |
Risk association Sverigekontakt |
The Saga project |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 500 000
The project includes the translation of all the Icelandic sagas, a total of 40 sagas and over 50 "tåtar" into three languages (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish). This application concerns the Swedish part. A chief editor has been appointed, as well as an editorial committee consisting of professionals from each country. The chief editor is Dr. Phil. G |
Björnsson, Anders |
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David Anthin, "Evert Taube" |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
Ever since it was founded in 1896, the Swedish Humanities Association has safeguarded classical education in our country and endeavored to make humanistic research accessible to a broader public. This is done through lectures in more than 35 local humanities associations and by publishing publications. Each year, the association publishes a book that is primarily distributed to almost all of its approximately 3 500 members, but has a much wider circulation. In recent years we have had the pleasure of working with quality publishers such as Atlantis, Carlssons, Norstedts and Santérus, and with writers such as Carina Burman, Bo Lindberg, Olle Ferm and Marin Kylhammar. In 2012, a work by literary scholar David Anthin on Evert Taube will be a yearbook. We believe that this work will attract considerable attention and contribute to a deeper understanding of this poet. |
Castenbrandt, Helene |
University of Gothenburg |
The mortality rate in Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries due to red tide |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: 253 333 SEK
The research project examines the mortality rate of dysentery in Sweden from 1750 to 1900. Today, the common name is dysentery, and the word red soot came from the symptoms of the disease, often bloody diarrhea. The project is based on Europe's demographic development, with decreasing mortality from several infectious diseases in the 19th century, which contributed to a strong population growth. Measles was one of the most common infectious diseases in the 18th and early 19th century, and Sweden suffered several severe epidemics of measles. For example, nearly 20,000 people in Sweden died of measles in 1773. Moreover, mortality was not evenly distributed across the country, so in some areas the disease had very devastating consequences. Towards the end of the 19th century, a change took place and after the turn of the century red rot was rarely mentioned as a cause of death. Despite its former importance, historical research has paid very little attention to the disease, focusing instead on the most prominent diseases of the time, such as plague, cholera and smallpox. However, the diseases that receive attention do not necessarily correspond to the diseases that have the greatest demographic impact. This project will therefore draw attention to the severe red soot epidemics in Sweden and map when the epidemics occurred and study geographical differences in the spread of the epidemics. The project also aims to discuss possible factors behind the emergence of the epidemics and the subsequent disappearance of the disease. |
Back Danielsson, Ing-Marie |
Stockholm University |
Size as strategy: An analysis of the Late Iron Age use of miniature objects in Scandinavia. |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 530 000
The project aims to understand why and how miniature objects began to be used during the Late Iron Age (550-1050 AD) in Scandinavia, and the beliefs and conditions behind their creation and use. The miniature objects include axes, shields, staffs, cube chairs/thrones, needles, scythes, sickles, spears, fire steels, anchors and swords. These have been found as loose finds, in certain settlement contexts, as depot finds and as grave finds. The miniatures are analytically examined based on the concepts of materiality, event, context and connotation. The study of miniatures is a very neglected research area that has great potential to contribute significantly to new and deeper understanding of both size manipulations and Late Iron Age rituals at cult sites. |
Andersson, Christer |
Halland county museums |
Ås monastery |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
At the height of its development, Ås Monastery was the largest brick building in Halland, covering between 250 and 300 farms in northern Halland. After the Reformation, the church and other buildings were demolished and the material was reused at Varberg Fortress. In 2010, a ground-penetrating radar survey was carried out when we discovered the monastery, previously unknown in both location and extent. In the summer of 2011 an excavation was carried out which showed that the walls were in surprisingly good condition and a very fine stone floor was excavated. Lime samples that can date the age of the walls have been taken during this summer's excavation and a follow-up of this in future excavations provides reliable and highly interesting information about Ås monastery. For the project to be successful, in addition to the scientific report on the excavation in the form of an anthology, the written source material needs to be highlighted. A review of the medieval written source material needs to be made, i.e. collection of all evidence for farms in the two surrounding districts and for all the monastery's properties (which is not the same thing, since the monastery owned property in several places). The same farms will then be examined in the post-medieval map material. These examinations provide a basis for e.g. discussions on the role of the monastery in the local economy. |
Andréasson, Maia |
Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt |
Swedish in America - a continuation |
Other |
2011 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, 1.3 million people emigrated from Sweden to America. This meant that a large proportion of the world's Swedish speakers at that time actually lived in America, and many Swedes still move to the US today. Nevertheless, we know very little about both the American Swedish of that time and the Swedish spoken in America today. The project examines how Swedish in Illinois, Wisconsin and Texas, USA, looks like today and how it has changed over time, thus contributing to a more comprehensive picture of Swedish in the world. The material is collected in a robust database for researchers around the world. The database makes it possible to examine how Swedish Americans relate to and use Swedish and how the language system differs from the older American Swedish, standard Swedish and the dialects spoken in the areas from which the informants originate. The material is thus of interest to various types of linguists, but is also relevant to researchers in other disciplines, such as historians and ethnologists. There are still American-born speakers who use the older American Swedish that originated in the mass emigration around the turn of the century 1800-1900. These speakers are now over 80 years old, and the old emigrant Swedish is very much a dying variety. It is therefore urgent to find and record the descendants of the Swedes who emigrated in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
Welander-Berggren, Elsebeth |
National Museum |
Gösta Adrian Nilsson |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 79 500
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Wettre, Åsa |
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"Patchwork - a cultural treasure" |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 350 000
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Åblad, Jonas |
Stockholm University |
Research days |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
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van der Vliet, Anna |
Röda Sten Cultural Association |
The place of art in a time of creativity fever / Art in a Time of Creativity Fever |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
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Wallsten, Lars |
University of Gothenburg |
Notes on Tracks |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 156 000
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Ulväng, Göran |
Uppsala University |
The forgotten consumption. The Swedish auction business in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
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Rahe, Ulrike |
Chalmers University of Technology |
Pattern Generation in Formal Systems - A Basic Design Approach to Formation of a Language of Form |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 000 000
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Ralph, Bo |
Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt |
The Saga project |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 000 000
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Rollenhagen Tilly, Linnéa |
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Carl Johan Cronstedt Architecture Library |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
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Normark, Staffan |
Kungl. Academy of Sciences |
Ingvar Lindqvist Prize 2011 |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: 247 500 SEK
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Nyberg, Gudrun |
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Biography of Clas Alströmer (1736-1794) |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 64 000
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Piehl, Christina |
My Big Day Foundation |
Making the dreams of seriously ill children come true |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 175 000
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Nordenfelt, Eva |
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Book on Axel Larsson, furniture designer and interior designer |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
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Nordgren, Sune |
Museum Vandalorum Foundation |
Study archive in Vandalorum |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 500 000
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Nordqvist, Bengt |
Swedish National Heritage Board |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 500 000
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Nitenberg, Annelie |
Lake Vänern Museum |
The Sunnerby project |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 500 000
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Nord, Anders |
The Nordic Museum |
An enigmatic medieval pigment |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 80 000
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Nilsson, Lars-Erik |
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Detailed examination of a rock carving |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 24 000
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Mankell, Bia |
University of Gothenburg |
Fashion pictures |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 150 000
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Nauman, Sari |
University of Gothenburg |
The Sworn Society: The Edes in Sweden c.1500-1850 |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 10 000
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Nilsson, Lars Erik |
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The language of the rock carver |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: 148 500 SEK
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Lindfors, Frida |
Stockholm Medieval Museum |
Opening of the tomb of Magnus Ladulås in Riddarholm Church. |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
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Ling, Jan |
University of Gothenburg |
Herbert Blomstedt Collection - A Musician Returning Home |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 700 000
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Ling, Johan |
University of Gothenburg |
The Kungahälla Project - The role of Viking Age Kungahälla in the formation of the Nordic kingdom |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 600 000
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Larsson, Lars |
Lund University |
Burnt down houses - burning questions |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 459 360
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Lind, Lotta |
University of Gothenburg |
Gothenburg International Science Festival |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
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Larsson, Kristian |
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Masks of storytelling |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 20 000
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Keinänen, Marja-Liisa |
Uppsala University |
With fire, magic and sisu. A study of acculturation and assimilation processes among forest Finns in Värmland, Orsa and Norrland. |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
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Klackenberg, Day |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2010 |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
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Kumlin, Ewa |
Swedish form |
Design D. Knowledge and skills development day |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
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Husebye, Alexander |
Center for Business History |
The history of coachbuilders - English translation |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: 125 000 SEK
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Jansson, Per-Ola |
Friends of the Rule of Law Foundation |
Seminar on the interaction between judicial activity and psychology |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 200
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Husebye, Alexander |
Centrum för näringslivshistoria in cooperation with Föreningen Svensk Form. |
Swedishdesign.se |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 100 000
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Hagberg, Johnny |
Skara Stiftshistoriska Sällskap |
Edition of melodies in medieval saints' offices (hystorie) |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
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Hellblom Sjögren, Lena |
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Best interests and human rights of the child in difficult custody disputes |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 350 000
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Hesselbom, Ted |
Röhsska Museum |
Shelf N |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 400 000
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Fj |
Research & Progress Foundation |
Publication of Research & Progress in 2011 |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
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Gyberg, Bo-Erik |
Nyckelvik school |
Hertha's hill - first phase |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
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Hagberg, Johnny |
Skara Stiftshistoriska Sällskap |
The Scarab Museum |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
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Brunnström, Lars |
University of Gothenburg |
Translation of a book on Swedish design history |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 95 000
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Dahl, Karin |
University of Gothenburg |
Book presentation/workshop: Stig Dagerman in France |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 9 735
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Engwall, Gunnel |
Stockholm University |
Publication of the Collected Works of August Strindberg |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 406 733
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Brown Ahlund, Carolina |
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"Among shepherdesses and white women. Literary themes in Swedish portraits of women in the 18th century". |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 60 000
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Blom, Maria |
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Acupuncture - a therapeutic aid for dry mouth in Sjögren's syndrome. Positive side effects on fatigue and dry eyes. A clinical study |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: 135 000 SEK
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Brodin, Louise |
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Axel-Nilsson - museum man and all-round artist |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
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Andréasson, Maia |
Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt |
Swedish in America |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 97 000
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Andrén, Anders |
Stockholm University |
The material dimensions of Nordic religion |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 500 000
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Anckar, Maj-Britt |
Stift T Segerstedt Memorial |
An annual visiting professorship at the University of Gothenburg in the name and spirit of Torgny Segerstedt. |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
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Andersson, Kent |
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GOLD - from the Vikings and their ancestors |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
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Andersson, Christer |
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Archaeological survey of Ås Abbey 2011 |
Other |
2010 |
Amount granted: SEK 375 000
The project started in 2009 with a geo-radar survey to determine the exact location of the monastery, which was unknown both in terms of size and location. In 2010, the monastery buildings were discovered south of the king's house. Halland's first monastery was founded at the mouth of the Viskan river around 1194 on the initiative of Archbishop Absalon. Monks were sent here from Sorö Monastery in Denmark and the monastery was favored by both Bishop Valdemar and King Valdemar Sejr. The monastery was significant in the Middle Ages and owned at most 200-300 farms. Here, King Magnus Eriksson and Queen Blanka buried 'their little children' who died in infancy in the mid-14th century. After the Reformation, the monastery was gradually dismantled and during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, stone and lime were taken to Varberg Fortress and used as building material, after which the remains disappeared underground and were forgotten. In the southern part of the eastern length is an extension. It was most relevant to start the archaeological investigations at the small extension because the georadar measurements show very clear shapes, which means that one would certainly find building remains and thus for the first time get a picture of the monastery buildings in Ås. For future surveys with less clear structures, it would be useful to have an idea of the character of the building and the nature of the alcove. |
Stenhammar, Olof |
HM Queen Silvia's Care About the Children Foundation |
On the occasion of HM The Queen's 70th birthday |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
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Svedjemo, Gustaf |
Uppsala University |
Landscape dynamics |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 25 468
The settlement structure on Gotland has over the years been described as unique, as there are no chambered villages on the island, as on the mainland. There are only single farms on Gotland. But if you look at the first historical maps, about 300 years old, there doesn't seem to be much difference from Uppland, for example. There are individual farms and groups of farms. You can also see the same mix of ownership as on the mainland, although not as regulated. It is not villages that are missing, but only that in the land registers (older property registers) the farms are registered by farm and not in the groups (villages). These hundreds of maps are now available digitally and can be analysed in digital map programs, known as geographic information systems (GIS). As far as the settlement of the Early Iron Age 200-550 AD is concerned, Gotland and Öland are actually unique. On these two islands, people built their houses and enclosures with cold stone walls, which are largely preserved in today's landscape. These also seem to be located a lot in villages. There are about 1800 visible in today's landscape that are registered in the digital map-based ancient monuments register. I have identified another 500 or so in old map material. My working hypothesis is that there have always been villages on Gotland and that the island actually has great similarities with the mainland. By analyzing the spatial structures in GIS and identifying these villages, and comparing them with other factors, I will explain why there are no chambered villages on Gotland in historical times. |
Tengström, Emin |
Royal Swedish Society of Science and Letters in Gothenburg |
Bridges to antiquity influence on Swedish cultural and social life 1780-1850 |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 25 000
The application concerns a printing grant for a study of the influence of antiquity on Swedish cultural and social life 1780-1850. The focus is on the "creative class" (writers, artists, scholars and political opinion leaders). It first examines the influence of antiquity on the choice of motifs and styles in art. This includes sculpture, painting, architecture and interior design. This is followed by a study of the impact of antiquity on the literature of the period, particularly poetry and drama. Many writers of the time not only translated ancient poetry as a contribution to the development of Swedish poetry. They also began to use more and more ancient verse in their own poetry. They also used ancient poets, ancient genres or individual works as stylistic models. Ancient mythology and ancient rhetoric have left deep traces in the Swedish literature of the time. This gives a picture of the importance of antiquity for the universities of the time. Most of the dissertations of the time were written and defended in Latin and many dealt with ancient subjects. There was also frequent translation as part of a deeper interpretation of the texts. In the social debate, many references to antiquity were made both by the royal power and by the opposition. The assassination of Gustav III, for example, was inspired by the ancient view of tyrannicide. The study leads to a number of conclusions about the nature of the ancient influences, the aspects of antiquity that were referred to and the extent to which attitudes towards antiquity changed during the period. |
Trossholmen, Ninni |
Ethnological Association of West Sweden |
Architectural details and lives in the Utby/Utbynäs district |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
Some years ago, the Ethnological Society of West Sweden was contacted by the Utby Hembygdsförening for help in producing a book on Utby/Utbynäs, a district on the outskirts of Gothenburg. As vice president of the association and researcher and author, I was asked to compile the book together with my colleague Håkan Andréasson. The book was published in spring 2011 and has since been nominated for and received an honorable mention as the local history book of the year. Part of the book deals with the architecturally interesting district of Utbynäs, where the architect Arvid Bjerke at the beginning of the 20th century created a number of villas in the national romantic style with some influence from the earlier Jugend era. For reasons of space, only a fraction of the material on Arvid Bjerke and the Utbynäs district was included. Arvid Bjerke went on to become one of the leading architects in Gothenburg and had a great influence on the buildings created in connection with Gothenburg's centenary celebrations in 1923. Together with Robin Barnholdt, an architectural antiquarian who has worked with the unique buildings in Utbynäs as part of his education at the University of Gothenburg, the intention is to create a book about Arvid Bjerke and Utbynäs, but also the rest of Utby's buildings and his continued work based on all the collected material. |
Sandquist Öberg, Christina |
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Medieval textual treasure in Uppland churches |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
Medieval church paintings are an important part of our country's cultural heritage. Not only the images but also the integrated texts, usually in Latin, provide valuable information about the underlying medieval concepts and ideas. While the pictorial representations have to a large extent been treated in art history, the texts of the language tapes have only been documented to a limited extent. Nor have they been examined philologically, except in exceptional cases. For our time, however, they often constitute a key to the interpretation of the paintings and their function and thus deepen our understanding of the works and their authors. This is clearly illustrated by the only example of Albertus Pictor that has already been studied. A similar pioneering work is therefore urgently needed for other church painters in late medieval Upper Sweden, with the new challenges this disparate material poses in terms of time and execution. The current project aims to examine the texts of such church painters in 80 churches in Uppland, a politically and ecclesiastically central region at that time. The work will result in a linguistically elaborate edition with translation, comments and individual and summarizing analyses of all preserved language tapes. Thus, the results of the project will significantly increase the knowledge of a long-neglected genre in medieval Latin and promote the accessibility of this textual treasure also for researchers in related fields as well as for the interested public. |
Sidén, Karin |
Prince Eugene's Waldemarsudde |
Karl Nordström as an artist and art politician |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
Karl Nordström (1855-1923) was a leading figure in National Romantic atmospheric painting and has come to be known in Swedish art history as one of our most important landscape painters. Karl Nordström was also active as an art politician and during his permanent leadership as chairman of the Swedish Artists' Association between 1896 and 1920, he succeeded in creating a favorable climate for modern art in Sweden. He was also a popular teacher at the Swedish Artists' Association's schools. Karl Nordström is the artist most widely represented in Waldemarsudde's collections, and Prince Eugen made his first purchase as an art collector at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 with a winter landscape painted by Karl Nordström on Tjörn. As a complement to our upcoming spring 2014 exhibition on Karl Nordström, a publication highlighting Nordström's entire artistic development and his important role as an art politician will be produced. The book's articles are written by a number of prominent experts on late 19th century art life. The publication will fill a gap since no corresponding and more comprehensive publication on Karl Nordström is yet available. The richly illustrated publication will be published in collaboration with Carlsson förlag. |
Sjöstrand, Ylva |
Stockholm University |
Value of the waste and costs of disposal |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
The thesis "The value of waste and the costs of disposal. Recovery, incineration and recycling in Stockholm 1900-1975" spans between political environmental history, consumption history and cultural history. The aim is to connect ideas about waste with the material conditions that created waste, and thereby analyze change and continuity in the practical disposal of waste in Stockholm. The change in the view of waste, and in the practice of waste disposal, is discussed in the thesis through the concept of waste regimes, which brings together material and discursive aspects of waste. The period 1900-1927 is characterized by a waste regime with far-reaching recovery. This was replaced in the 1930s by a regime based on incineration. In the 1960s, incineration was criticized as the dominant practice and in the early 1970s, small-scale practical experiments with recycling were made. The thesis thus deals with the establishment, maintenance and termination of a recovery regime, and the establishment, maintenance and challenges of an incineration regime. The view of waste as an asset or liability is central to the chosen disposal solution. The waste material as a value, and the disposal as a cost, has not been assessed solely on the basis of market economy conditions, but also on the basis of a larger context of, for example, thrifty ideals, striving for modernity or environmental awareness. |
Norrhem, Svante |
Lund University |
Alliance partner or subject? Sweden and French subsidies 1630-1800 |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 205 667
Between 1631 and 1795, the Swedish state received recurring subsidies from various European states - mainly France. These subsidies could periodically amount to 25% of the Swedish state budget and were therefore important contributions to Sweden's ability to maintain its independence. Ironically, this independence from enemy nations required the Swedish state to place itself in a position of dependency on alliance partners. Typically, subsidies were paid so that Sweden could a) afford to maintain an army in peacetime, b) afford to intervene in war on the side of the subsidizer, or c) refrain from intervening in a war event. In simple terms, the subsidies were used by the donor to gain control over the violent apparatus of another state. Since control over a country's monopoly of violence was central to the exercise of power, subsidies also influenced power relations in the country receiving the subsidy. In certain periods, subsidies were necessary for the royal power to be able to afford to maintain an apparatus of violence to guarantee its position in relation to competing power groups within the country - mainly strong noble groups. This in turn made the royal power dependent on external forces to maintain its internal independence. This study will examine the importance of the subsidy system for the development of the Swedish state, who benefited and who lost. The focus is on the relationship between Sweden and France during the period 1631-1795. |
Nyberg, Klas |
Stockholm University |
'Silky green, camouflage or good cloth'. Three Swedish fabric sample collections |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
In this current work, Adolph Modéer's fabric sample collection from 1766 in the Nordic Museum is published in a lavishly annotated catalog. The catalog is part of a major textile history initiative by Kulturhistoriska Bokförlaget and is an independent continuation of Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark's 18th-century textiles, the magnificent catalog of Anders Berch. |
Norrby, Göran |
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FERSEN: A story of the rise and fall of a great power and a noble family |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
The book links one of the most important noble families in Swedish history with the rise and fall of the Swedish Empire. It describes how the Fersen family adapted to changes in Sweden's power bases, from the accession of Estonia in 1561 to the death of the last female descendant in 1879. The family, which contributed several field marshals and provincial governors during the period of great power, only moved to Sweden proper after 1721. There it flourished during the 18th century. The historically undervalued Fredrik Axel Fersen (Axel the Elder) was then the leader of both the Hat Party and the Swedish nobility in the fight against royal autocracy - while the other men and women of the family excelled in the sweet life of the court. Axel the Younger, Marie-Antoinette's favorite, is also included, but now in a critical light. He failed to adapt to 19th century bourgeois society and squandered his fortune. The book analyzes how a noble family's strategies and networks enabled it to reproduce itself socially over many centuries. It focuses on family ties - while revealing how an overly positive mythical image has been built up around the family's most internationally renowned member, Axel the Younger, and how his actions actually undermined the family's ability to survive. The analysis also shows the central role of Estonia (and the Baltic nobility) in Sweden's emergence as a European power in the first place. The analysis is based entirely on published scientific works, letters and diaries, contemporary memoirs, etc. |
Normark, Staffan |
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
Ingvar Lindqvist Prize 2014 |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 300 000
Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien wants to show Sweden's teachers in mathematics and science their appreciation, and at the same time draw society's attention to the teachers' important role in the country's development. The prize is named after Professor Ingvar Lindqvist, who was President of the Academy from 1987 to 1991. He initiated a number of Academy activities to highlight the importance of teachers in society. The prize has been awarded since 1991. Colleagues, principals, students and parents are invited to nominate candidates. After preparation by the Academy's Committee on School Affairs, the proposals for winners are submitted to the members of the Academy, who decide on the winners at a regular meeting. The Committee for School Affairs consists of representatives of the Academy's classes for mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, technology and social sciences, as well as didacticians and former laureates. The award ceremony takes place on the Academy's anniversary day. In connection with this, a half-day symposium is held where the laureates present their work and Academy members give scientific lectures. The Ingvar Lindqvist Day 2014 was highly appreciated, as were the study visits organized for the laureates. The Academy's ambition is to continue working to raise the status of the teaching profession. |
Nitenberg, Annelie |
Lake Vänern Museum |
The Sunnerby project |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 400 000
Since 2000, the Sunnerby project has conducted archaeological research with annual excavations on Kållandsö in Västergötland. An aristocratic habitat with, among other things, a hall building from the younger Iron Age and graves on the adjacent burial ground have been investigated as well as the remains of a medieval church with a cemetery. One of the investigated graves is Kungshögen, a large mound from the 6th century. It is important to note that similar burial environments have not been investigated archaeologically before in western Sweden. The hall in Sunnerby is contemporary with Kungshögen and it is easy to imagine that one of the men buried in Kungshögen sat as a chief in the hall. The hall has been a magnificent building, 12 meters wide and about 35 meters long with large posts that in pairs carried the roof. From the traces in the ground we understand that the building was of impressive size and fully comparable with similar buildings from aristocratic environments in the rest of Scandinavia. We have previously only a few examples of aristocratic habitats with hall buildings in a West Swedish context. After thirteen years of archaeological fieldwork, work is now underway to summarize and present the results. |
Nordqvist, Bengt |
Archaeology Victim site Finnestorp |
Time of gold and Finnestorp sacrifice site |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 697 500
During 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, research investigations were carried out at the Finnestorp sacrifice site. A site that turns out to contain a find material that belongs to the category "the finest and most exquisite objects from Sweden's pre-Christian era" and it belongs to one of the more important remains from Nordic prehistory.At the Finnestorp sacrifice site, warriors upon warriors have repeatedly been sacrificed together with their battle stallions and valuable weapons. These mighty men whose arsenal consisted of magnificent gilded swords, lances and golden horse equipment. Magnificent objects of royal value, made by the most skilled craftsmen in Europe at the time. This year's application concerns a very limited fieldwork around the Finnestorp sacrifice site as well as one of the most spectacular gold finds such as the site of the gold neck collar from Möne (north of Ulricehamn) and the battlefield at Varola. The ongoing research work includes minor excavations, conservation of a small number of objects, international comparisons and publication of the research work in the form of a major scientific book and a popular science book. In 2013 an analysis of the metal objects from Finnestorp was started. The first book volume on Finnestorp will be published in 2014. |
Lindblom, Ina |
Umeå University |
Reproduction and digitization of the Gjörwell family letter collection |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 85 000
The grant concerns funds for the digitization of Carl Christoffer Gjörwell's letter collection "Family Letters", stored at the Royal Library. The librarian and publisher Carl Christoffer Gjörwell, known for his activities in the Swedish magazine and book industry of the 18th century, accumulated during his life one of the largest private letter collections that still remain from this period. Despite the existence of this rich material, existing research on Gjörwell is fragmentary, especially regarding private aspects of his life. This may be considered odd given that Gjörwell's private letter collection has been considered to provide a very close picture of the life of the bourgeoisie at this time, while Gjörwell has become known for being an archetype in his private life of the cult of friendship and the emotional relationship with nature that characterized the 18th century. In a dissertation project in history conducted at Umeå University, these aspects of Gjörwell's life are examined and the grant concerns the reproduction and digitization of the source material that forms the basis of the study. The purpose of the digitization is to facilitate the processing of this large, fragile and sometimes difficult-to-read material, as well as to protect it from wear and tear and increase its accessibility to other researchers. |
Lundgren, Helena |
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Large-scale inventory of fire stations |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The project concerns a large-scale inventory of fire stations in Gävleborg and Värmland counties with a newly developed method. The project is a continuation of the two projects conducted in 2012 and 2013. The 2012 project included the development of a new method for inventorying fire stations and field testing of the method in three counties. It also included procedures for preliminary valuation of the objects, based on architectural, building and cultural history factors and assessments. A continuation project is being carried out in 2013 to refine the methodology and data management for large-scale inventories with testing in another three counties. This includes the introduction of fully digitalized information management from field collection to final documents. The project in 2014 concerns large-scale inventories in Gävleborg and Värmland counties with the new method. The aim is to ensure that the method results in high quality inventories under production conditions. The tools in the field will be completely digital: mobile phones and tablets with the possibility of positioning with GPS, automatic data transfer and synchronization and security storage via cloud services. The processing of data and the production of inventory reports should also be done with easy-to-use digital tools. The entire chain of tools and computer programs must be independent of suppliers and operating systems, and must be easy to use for inventors. |
Lundqvist, Anna |
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Rörstrandsgatan - people and activities for 200 years |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The place Rörstrand is an old cultural settlement since the 13th century. Rörstrand's porcelain factory, 1726 to 1926, was one of the country's largest industries. In the 1720s, there were small low wooden houses in the area and "the wolf often walks close to the town and during the winter it is often seen in Rörstrand's pasture". In the 19th century, a mill community was built around the factory, with residential buildings, trading stalls, a butchery, bakery, mission house and a couple of schools. Conditions were very difficult for the workers. In the 1900s, the coal smoke lay heavy over Rörstrand. The town needed space for housing and the Rörstrand factory was moved and the buildings demolished. Residential buildings were built throughout the area. Wealthy people and poorer families lived in the same courtyard. A new wave of restoration began in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, Rörstrandsgatan is a modern street in Birkastan. The aim is to portray how people lived in times of disease, sanitary misery, overcrowding, but also the development of society with its joys and relaxation. One can hardly imagine an infant mortality rate of more than thirty percent in the 1850s to the prosperity we have today. A book with the street's historical data, rich pictorial material and descriptions of social life has a cultural-historical and educational value. A number of well-known people have lived on Rörstrandsgatan and a number of businesses, in addition to the porcelain factory, have left their mark on the street's environment. |
Kuusela, Tommy |
Stockholm University |
Giants and giantesses in Norse mythology |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: 67 500 SEK
In Norse myths, the relationship between gods and giants is a central theme and can be understood as two opposing power groups. The myths describe and express the contradictions and interactions between them, which form a central theme in mythology. The gods have a sustaining, creating and ordering function and act as prototypical actors with their patterns of action. Giants are an older group that constantly try to overthrow the supremacy, power and creations of the gods. In this aspect, giants can be interpreted as forces of chaos, but their image is not done justice by such a categorical classification, it is more ambivalent. Giants are not solely destructive and they are often associated with an origin of something with the most famous example being the formation of the world from Ymer's body. The gods are not omnipotent and seek out the realms of giants to gain knowledge of things hidden from them or to exploit resources beyond their direct control. The gods are prominent in creation myths but cannot create ex nihilo they shape or recreate something already existing which can be likened to the role of the craftsman, poet or artist. The gains the gods make are that they subdue, extract and conquer creative energies found in the giants, which may be knowledge (e.g. runes, cosmological knowledge) or a power-laden object (e.g. skaldic mead, Thor's belt of strength) which in the hands of the gods becomes useful to man. Giants as "the others" is a common thread that is followed in the thesis. |
Larsson, Lars |
Lund University |
Gods and goddesses - a ritual deposit from the Late Bronze Age |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 123 000
During excavation of a hillside at Fogdarp, central Skåne, a deposit from the 8th century BC was found. The deposit is absolutely unique in southern Scandinavia with two bell pieces for lurking, four fitting plates that sat on two horses, two yoke bow fittings, four rattles for a bridle and two arm rings. The casting is of the highest quality. The finds are often mentioned in connection with discussions about the Late Bronze Age in northern Europe in terms of craftsmanship, social structure and thought. Particularly the yoke bow fittings have attracted great interest. On one are two male heads equipped with bird beaks and horns, probably depicting a double god found in rock carvings. The heads on the second piece are fragmented. The recovered parts of one head show a neck fitted with a snake. The fragments of a second head show a hairstyle known from women in coffin graves. It is clear that the heads are different. The bone fittings show figures of great importance in the Bronze Age imaginary world. It is therefore important to recover other fragments from the heads in order to understand what they looked like and to be able to relate them to different Bronze Age images. The investigation is planned as a metal detector survey combined with mechanical excavation. Clay after casting shows that it was collected in the local area. Therefore, an inventory by an archaeologist who scans the nearest fields combined with a test survey is planned. |
Lidström, Carina |
Örebro University |
Swedish travelers' travelogues 1667-1829 from a genre perspective |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 40 000
"Berättaren på resa" is a study of the forms of the Swedish travel narrative during the long 18th century. The 18th century is usually regarded as the great century of the travel narrative, at least in Swedish literature. Despite this, there is still no comprehensive study of the rich material - a gap that my study intends to fill. The starting point for the study is the different roles the travelers take on in their travel narratives - is the traveler portrayed as a bold "adventurer", as a scientist, an aesthete or simply as the reader's "man on the spot"? The starting point of the travelogue's self-presentation has, among other things, given the study an interdisciplinary character. Depending on the roles played by the travelers, aspects of the history of ideas and science are considered alongside aspects of the history of literature, art history and gender history. Of the 68 travelogues published during the period, 14 are discussed in more detail, but an overview of all titles and a chronological bibliography are also included. |
Karlsson, Krister |
City of Mölndal/Gunnebo Slott |
Sculptural decoration for Gunnebo orangery - Gunnebo back to the 18th century |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 350 000
Gunnebo Slott och Trädgårdar AB intends to fulfill the vision of recreating the country estate Gunnebo according to the intentions of the Hall family and C.W. Carlberg. The goal is to create a coherent cultural-historical built environment in which buildings, gardens, park and landscape form a whole for a deeper understanding and experiences inspired by the late 18th century. Now it is the turn of the orangery to be reconstructed. For the overall understanding of the historic Gunnebo, the orangery is of great importance for aesthetic, functional and educational reasons. The reconstruction follows Carlberg's preserved drawings and is carried out using authentic craftsmanship methods under the direction of Gunnebo's administrator and building antiquarian Stefan G |
Karlström, Lennart |
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Tomas Tranströmer. A bibliography. Part 3 |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The present work is the third part of a bibliography of the 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Tomas Tranströmer. It lists Tranströmer's own works with reviews, interviews, recordings, compositions, foreign language translations, literature about him, etc. over the past thirteen years. In addition, there is a section that is unusual in such contexts, "Presskavalkad", where particularly interesting texts are reproduced in full. These are mainly reviews and interviews, but also news items and so on. This makes the bibliography unusual in that it is not intended solely for scholars; it offers much that is of great interest to readers of poetry outside the circle of scholars. This third part comprises about 800 pages. |
Klackenberg, Day |
The Swedish History Days |
The Swedish History Days 2014 |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 100 000
The overall aim of the Swedish History Days is to encourage contacts and exchanges between professionals from different professions related to the subject of history, and history enthusiasts in general, thereby increasing the historical knowledge of as many groups in society as possible. The ambition is therefore to present historical topics and historical research in a way that is popular science but also accessible to non-specialist participants. For many history teachers, the History Days are the main opportunity for continuing education, particularly in terms of reconnecting with the research community, and for academic historians this forum is an opportunity to make new research results available. Many of the lectures are published in print. |
Herjulfsdotter, Ritwa |
Röhsska Museum |
The collections and history of the Röhsska Museum |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 335 000
The purpose of the project is to document, compile and analyze the history, background and emergence of the Röhsska Museum from relevant and current humanistic perspectives with a particular focus on how the museum has shaped the view of form & design. The focus is on the intersection between questions of cultural heritage, the use of history, scientific theory and the Röhsska Museum's collection policy at the beginning of the 20th century. The project Röhsska Museum - Collections and History contributes to making the museum's historical archives and collections available to researchers and the public and contributes to the museum staff's own knowledge building. The study lays the foundation for a deeper understanding of where the museum is today and where it is going. An investigation and analysis of the Röhsska Museum's history provides a broader perspective on the museum's activities then and now and shows how the museum's history is part of Gothenburg and, not least, an important link between East and West in the form of the extensive and internationally interesting East Asian collections. |
Josephson, Olle |
Swedish Humanist Association |
Biography of Joseph Rooth |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 45 000
The biography of Joseph Rooth is currently being written by Anders Björnsson and will be published as a membership book within the Swedish Humanist Association. The book introduces a major international author to a Swedish readership. Many have heard of his novel The Radetzky March from 1932, but otherwise his work has been largely unknown in Sweden. In this book of about 200 pages, the author wants to highlight how Roth relates to his time and how he returns to history to make sense of the turbulence and chaos that the First World War created in the core European countries. Roth participated as a volunteer officer in this war, and these experiences made an indelible impression on him. His childhood and upbringing in eastern Galicia were also formative. Jewish personalities are legion in his books, but so is the mixture of peoples, languages, religions and races that characterized the old imperial Central Europe. In an unpublished essay, Björnsson has uncovered some of the themes of the forthcoming book. The essay can be regarded as a preliminary study for the book, but it does not provide an exhaustive description of its contents. Björnsson has recently translated a collection of stories by Rooth, Kejsarbysten (2012), and has special knowledge from reportage trips in the regions where Roth's books are set and impulses from five (2008-2012) years as editor-in-chief of the international quarterly magazine Baltic Worlds/www.balticworlds.com. |
Karlsson, Daniel |
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Veteran aviation - a book about our flying history |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
This is the book about historic airplanes that are still alive. These are the stories of the machines and the people who keep them flying. Complemented by unique aerial photographs of our Swedish veteran aircraft, the reader is taken on a dizzying journey up in the air - and through history. The book will tell the story of some 20 different historical aircraft types that are kept in the air. The selection will show the wide range and development of aviation, both at home and abroad. The book's appeal, layout and appearance should be attractive even to those who are not familiar with the subject. It should inform - and above all inspire. The book wants to contribute to attention and a tailwind for Swedish veteran aviation. It will hopefully also be a "receipt" to all enthusiasts, that the activity is important and appreciated even in wider circles. |
Gidlöf, Leif |
Society of Personal History |
Personal History Society in a new research and media environment |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 200 000
The Personal History Society has a tradition of well over 100 years behind it. During these years, a considerable amount of scientific literature has been published with an emphasis on basic personal history research and biographies. Personhistorisk Tidskrift, published by the Society, is now in its 109th year and is an important source of research. The editor and editorial board represent a high level of scientific competence. Today, the Society faces major challenges in connection with the transition to digital technology and in meeting and stimulating the newly awakened great interest in personal history on a scientific basis. Modernizing the publishing procedures and administration with an emphasis on open access and creating a more attractive interface with members and an interested public is crucial for the Society's future as a creative and communicative force in the field of personal and cultural history. The application thus intends to provide the opportunity for the society to concentrate on the journal as such and any other publications as well as the website and outreach activities to achieve greater visibility. |
Hadenius, Patrik |
Research & Progress |
Publication of the journal Forskning & Framsteg in 2014 |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: 44 500 SEK
The purpose of the journal is to report primarily on Swedish research and the role of research in society. According to the editorial policy adopted by the board, the content must be factual and relevant. The areas highlighted should be of significant scientific or societal interest. Other popular science magazines in Sweden write exclusively about science and history. In Forskning & Framsteg, 60% of the articles are based on natural sciences and 40% on humanities and social sciences. The editorial material should be designed so that it invites readers to read, is understandable even for non-experts and consolidates readers' interest in research. Emphasis is placed on visuals, as skillfully executed images motivate readers, explain complex passages and highlight key sections. The journal will be published in 10 issues in 2014. |
Hedblad Ring, Linda |
Stockholm University |
Research Days 2014 |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 75 000
The Research Days will be held over two days in October 2014. Twenty-nine short popular science talks will be given by early career researchers, which form the core of the Research Days. A total of 41 researchers will participate. The audience consists of high school students, but also existing students and the general public. The presentations cover everything from monitoring premature babies, how we socialize via computer games, to how we can detect climate change in the Arctic. Since 2005, the 'Ask the Scientist' panel discussions have been organized, where the audience can ask questions to experts. Ahead of the approval of the UN report on climate change, the IPCC will visit Stockholm this fall. Ask the Scientists therefore touches on a highly topical subject and will, among other things, discuss the importance of water for the climate. The purpose of the Research Days is to present and make current research within the university more accessible to the outside world. Research in natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and law is presented. The event enables an exchange between researchers and people who do not usually come into contact with research. The Research Days aim to raise awareness of and interest in individual subjects, promote interdisciplinary contacts and strengthen the link between undergraduate and postgraduate education. The Research Days are thus important in strengthening the image of Stockholm University and in the long-term recruitment of students and postgraduate students. |
Eliasson, Roger |
Aeroseum |
Aeroseum Science Center |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 175 000
The Aeroseum started a school project in 2010 with the aim of opening the aviation experience center/museum for education for students from pre-school to university level. The motivation was to increase interest, motivation and understanding in MNT - math, science and technology. Our subjects will in future cover everything from our cultural heritage to different subject areas according to the new curriculum. A large part of the teaching is based on practical teaching, which is why we build up different stations and environments in an interdisciplinary way. The goal is to be able to accommodate around 500 school classes per year. The original project has now moved on to the Aeroseum becoming a Science Center. The reason for this is that it is now a condition from the authorities to be granted public funds for school activities in the future. This places new demands on our school activities. More interactive workstations are required today. The use of even more data-based information, etc. All this places new demands on our computer network. Our existing network is very old and does not work with today's technology. A modern network is the framework on which we can install what is required to be approved as a Science Center. |
Engwall, Gunnel |
Stockholm University |
Publication of the Collected Works of August Strindberg |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 1 000 000
The national edition of August Strindberg's Collected Works contains all the works completed by Strindberg. These include novels, short stories, plays, poems, essays and newspaper articles, totaling around 150 texts, published in 72 volumes. They include the famous novels The Red Room and The Servant's Son, the dramas Miss Julie and A Dream Play, as well as articles on theater, art, language and science. The edition, which is aimed at both the general public and scholars, is based on Strindberg's own manuscripts. In this way, Strindberg's intentions can be preserved, and a multitude of previous printing errors and censorship errors can be corrected. In each text volume, Strindberg's texts are supplemented by extensive commentaries describing the creation and reception of the works. In addition, explanations of words and facts are included, making the texts more accessible to a contemporary audience. Special text-critical commentaries document how the texts have been established. Original manuscripts and first editions, variants and drafts are also presented, and in many cases texts related to the work in question, such as Strindberg's own translations or drafts, are also reproduced. The edition is completed by an index volume so that readers can easily find the works included in the different volumes. All of Strindberg's Collected Works will be published in the online Literature Bank (www.litteraturbanken.se), where several works are already freely available along with many other Swedish literary texts. |
Fischer, Peter |
Swedish Cyprus Expedition |
The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Survey and protection of the burial site |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 585 000
The Swedish Cyprus Expedition has been active on the island since the 1920s. The rich finds from the expedition now form the main part of the Mediterranean Museum's collections in Stockholm. Under the direction of Professor Peter M. Fischer, University of Gothenburg, the 50 ha Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke is being explored. During mapping east of the city in June 2013, human skeletal remains were discovered in a heavily eroded area. These findings were made near two rich chamber tombs excavated in 1968. A closer examination of the eroded area revealed the presence of three more graves, one of which was excavated by the Swedish team. The grave contained four skeletons with grave goods including silver, bronze and faience jewelry and ceramic vessels. The tomb is dated 1300-1200 BC. Variations in the vegetation in the nearby 1 ha field most likely point to further graves indicating a burial field. The scientific value of the project is considered high as the information from the settlement and cemetery provide the most complete picture of this Bronze Age culture that had contact with Sweden according to lead isotope analysis of Swedish bronzes. The aim of the project is therefore: to map the extent of the cemetery using radar and magnetometer prospecting, to excavate the most exposed graves and to protect the area by fencing and guarding. The risk of looting, erosion and a planned building make an immediate intervention necessary. |
Björkman, Peter |
Swedish veteran memorials abroad |
Renovation of the Battle of Fraustadt memorial stone 1706 |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The Battle of Fraustadt was a successful battle for the Swedish army during the Great Northern War. The memorial stone is located outside the current Polish town of Wschowa. The stone was damaged during the Second World War. It is heavily damaged, partially deformed and shows signs of shelling. The carved text is almost unreadable. The planned renovation will be done in cooperation with the city's mayor who is very interested in promoting the city's historical past. |
Botwid, Katarina |
Lund University |
Skärvan's Renaissance - a new method of analysis for the interpretation of archaeological pottery |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 350 333
As a researcher and archaeologist, I work to convey the stories that can be interpreted from the concrete material that emerges from an archaeological excavation. The craftsman is often the focus of today's archaeology and in the future we may be able to identify individuals or small groups that have specialized in crafts. There are several challenges in the craft perspective. Some challenges may be to investigate how people in the past organized their craft environment and how they made use of the surrounding resources. Other questions may concern how the environment and climate change may have affected the situation and development of crafts. The ancient craftsman probably had to change his way of working when the climate became colder or more humid. In ceramic artifacts, fingerprints and marks from different tools can be left for us to interpret. You see the traces burnt and solidified into the shape that can now give us the information we so eagerly seek. As a potter and archaeologist, I can read the vessels. My ability to see how an ancient colleague suddenly went into a hurry and hastily finished an initially meticulous job two thousand years ago allows these wordless events to be verbalized and understood over time. Being able to see and make use of this information provides another opportunity to see the vast archaeological pottery material in museum stores as a highly interesting source of new knowledge. |
Dahlin, Michael |
Kalmar County Museum |
Misterhult's Bronze Age - the development of agricultural history |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 58 540
This application aims to deepen the knowledge of the agrarian historical development around Misterhult's Bronze Age. At present there is a lack of basic knowledge about the importance of cultivation and grazing in the magnificent Bronze Age environments in the area. Today the landscape appears barren and with poor conditions for cultivation. There is therefore no obvious understanding of the underlying economy of the various environments with Bronze Age remains. Only with knowledge of the agrarian historical conditions is it possible to understand the underlying factors why there are so many graves in Misterhult despite the seemingly poor conditions. |
Bergman, Lars |
Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt |
The Saga project |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: 635 500 SEK
Icelandic fairy tale literature is really the only truly unique Nordic contribution to world literature. The other Nordic countries have also claimed to be involved. The Norwegians have regarded the Icelandic settlement as a spin-off from Norway. Iceland was part of the Danish Empire until 1944. When the Swedes were keen to build up a glorious past during the time of the Great Power, they shamelessly invoked the entire ancient history of the North, from the supposed feats of the Vikings and the testimony of the runic inscriptions to the medieval Icelandic literature, which was considered historically reliable. Sweden was also the first to systematically publish Icelandic texts in print (in the 17th century). More recently, awareness of the common Nordic heritage has periodically flared up and influenced the spiritual climate, not least what we have come to perceive as national literature. Esaias Tegnér's Frithiofs saga (1825) is a prominent example. To avoid historical ignorance and lack of context, every generation should have access to good translations of Icelandic medieval literature, which through the development of history is also part of the Swedish heritage. The project will provide Swedish readers with such a translation of the highest quality and more complete than any before. |
Bergwik, Staffan |
Uppsala University |
"As before, our victories on the battlefields": Media use of inventors, entrepreneurship and industries in Sweden 1800-2000 |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 50 000
The anthology "As before, our victories on the battlefields": Media use of inventors, entrepreneurship and industries in Sweden 1800-2000 is about how inventors, entrepreneurs and successful industries have historically been used to describe Swedish national identity. Ever since the 19th century, ideas that technological know-how, entrepreneurship and modernity are part of Swedishness have been formulated in many contexts and contributed to the national self-understanding. In this book, eleven researchers from different historical disciplines study - in nine empirical studies - how and where these ideas were formulated and disseminated. Some contributions deal with how engineers such as Alfred Nobel and Gustaf Dalén have been described in the media. Other chapters discuss how the national self-image has become part of institutions such as schools. The anthology's overall starting point is that ideas about technology, industry and Swedishness do not follow naturally from industrial development. Descriptions of the nation are formulated in the cultural discussion. There the idea that inventions, entrepreneurship and industry are both Swedish specialties and future development paths has a striking persistence. |
Bjerrhede, Staffan |
Kållereds Hembygdsförening |
Preparing for digitization of local history material from Kållered |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 216 000
Preparations for the documentation of the Sagered farm with links to the East India Company. Kållereds Hembygdsförening has an extensive archive consisting of documents and photos. This material has so far been unrecorded and difficult to understand. To this material has now been added a large farm archive from the Sagered farm in Kållered. This farm has a strong connection to the East India Company, which makes it even more interesting for historical researchers. In order to accommodate interested researchers, all this material needs to be listed and classified. |
Arvidsson, Kristoffer |
Gothenburg Art Museum |
A painted history. Swedish history painting in the 19th century |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 344 000
In 2014, in collaboration with the National Museum in Stockholm, the Gothenburg Museum of Art is undertaking a major initiative in the form of a research-based exhibition on Swedish history painting from the 19th century. These are visually striking large-format images that tell dramatic events from Sweden's history but also resonate with contemporary popular culture. Prior to the exhibition, an interdisciplinary research project is being carried out with seven external researchers (art and film scholars and a historian). It asks new questions about history painting in relation to contemporary visual culture with film and photography, where its imagery has lived on in other forms. The status, forms and motifs of history painting, its conditions, dissemination and legacy are examined on the basis of individual works and artists. In addition to forming the basis of the exhibition, the research results are presented in a combined research publication and catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition. History painting touches on burning questions about the view of history and notions of Swedishness, questions that are urgent to ask anew in today's multicultural society. Based on the research project, the exhibition aims to create a creative presentation where comparisons and new perspectives highlight history painting in an interesting way. The exhibition will be shown at the Gothenburg Museum of Art between 22 February and 21 September 2014. The application relates to the research part of the project. |
Benno, Hélène |
My Big Day |
Making the dreams of seriously ill children come true |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 250 000
Children's imaginations do not work less well because their bodies do. This sums up the guiding principle of the MinStoraDag Foundation. The foundation helps seriously ill children in Sweden to realize their dreams. The children do not care about research and progress, money and new treatment methods. Their thoughts revolve around play and living as normal a life as possible. Perhaps they dream of driving a racing car, meeting their idol, traveling, having a "princess room" or driving a backhoe. The wish may be big or small, but the happiness you feel when your dream is fulfilled is the same. The Foundation works with all university hospitals and many pediatric and adolescent clinics in Sweden. The selection is not made by the Foundation, but by the treating doctors and health professionals, and all applications are treated individually. Hundreds of StoraDagar events are held every year. In addition, the MinStoraDag Foundation organizes group activities such as concert visits, hospital cafés and camps. In 2012, there were 245 individual Big Days, 285 group activities and 5 camps. The Foundation's dream is to eventually provide all sick children with a much-needed break from sickness. |
Areskoug, Nils-Göran |
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Transdisciplinary dialogues |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 120 000
Against the background of the worrying trend towards increased disintegration in society's increasingly skill-demanding domains - and at the same time an international situation that testifies to the consequences of confrontation and increased tensions in academia, trade and politics - the Nordic region appears to be a relatively calm harbor. It is therefore important that Sweden, in politics and business, builds on this advantage and seeks new ways to develop knowledge-based policies for coordination across disciplines through strategic dialogues. These dialogues are conducted through selected media platforms and communication channels that promote a Nordic knowledge exchange and with the aim of actualizing a future potential based on shared values and common history. An increased strategic and critical dialogue on the future through constructive cultural exchange aims to deepen the sense of belonging and improve the conditions for value creation and growth through cooperation in business, politics, academia and culture. The network of dialogue partners includes face-to-face dialogues at a high strategic level (entrepreneurs, ministers, academics). Some completed knowledge dialogues are reflected in an online arena for opinion and debate, others in topical publications under continuous production. This network-based knowledge integration will develop a basis for future project and programme organization that generates stability and sustainability in the cultivation of culture as the root of dialogue between science and business. |
Anckar, Maj-Britt |
Memory of Torgny Segerstedt |
An annual visiting professorship at the University of Gothenburg in the name of Torgny Segerstedt. |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 300 000
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Andersson, Lennart |
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Göring in Sweden. From aviation hero to Nazi pamphleteer |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 25 000
The work aims to tell the full story of Svenska Lufttrafikaktiebolaget (SLA) and at the same time tell the story of Hermann Göring's escapades in Sweden and his involvement in Swedish aviation - from the SLA era in 1920 to the failed attempt to donate an ambulance plane to the air force in 1938 and Swedish aircraft procurement during the Second World War. |
Andersson, Tommy |
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The unknown rock carvings of the Kiviksgrave |
Other |
2013 |
Amount granted: SEK 59 256
The enormous Kiviksgraben with its eight carved rocks can almost be considered a national monument of the Scandinavian Bronze Age. Since the discovery of the rock carving motifs in the mid-18th century, they have been depicted countless times. Despite this, we note that there is still no modern documentation carried out by professional rock carving documenters. On occasional visits, we have found that there are still motifs on the rocks to be discovered or reinterpreted. As we have a combined experience of documenting rock carvings for more than 40 years, and having documented more than 1000 rock carvings in Bohuslän and Dalsland, we now feel ready to take on the Kiviksgraven rock art. The purpose of the project is partly to make a professional reproduction of the images of the Kiviksgraven rocks and partly to search for missing rocks and parts of them. We intend to publish the results in an archaeological journal. |