Department of Cultural Sciences

The research projects and the courses at the Department of Cultural Sciences investigate culture from a number of different perspectives. We offer subjects that are part of the aesthetic sciences and that explore different cultural areas such as the pictorial arts, music, and film, i.e. ‘Culture’ in a traditional, narrow sense.
However, the Department also comprises subjects where various cultural expressions are viewed from a broader, social perspective. Cultural studies, the study of Children’s and Youth Culture, Ethnology, and Gender Studies are some examples of this. Irrespective of whether the studies concern different kinds of specific cultural expressions or wider cultural perspectives, our common aim is to explore a multitude of aesthetical, historical, communicative and meaning-making aspects of human interaction in contemporary society.
News
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Culture and languagesThe Latin American Studies Association (LASA) awards Dr. Valeria Villegas Lindvall with the Early Career Award2023
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Culture and languagesFrom archive to game with GPS400: New ways to tell the city'sstory
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Culture and languagesAstrid von Rosen – A pioneer in scenographyresearch
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Culture and languagesGender studies unit - Statement against thewar
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Culture and languagesLatin American horror film with politicalpotential
Events
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ToCulture and languagesHere and now - there andthen
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Multiple datesCulture and languagesAxel and Arne Svensson: Two Generations of Gothenburg Images1898-1960
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Culture and languagesA girly room. The magazine Starlet1966-1996.