Theses written by doctoral students admitted to Södertörn University and doctoral students admitted to other universities.

Subjects: Aesthetics, Art History, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Media and Communication Studies, Philosophy, The Theory of Practical Knowledge

Graduate school: Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS)

2024

22 November
Maria Mårsell: Fredstematikens kritiska potential. Feminism, militarism och kolonialism hos Frida Stéenhoff, Elin Wägner och Hagar Olsson External link, opens in new window.
Subject/graduate school: Comparative Literature/BEEGS

15 November
Francesca Morini: Design + Data journalism: shifting epistemology, ideals, and practices External link, opens in new window.
Subject: Media and Communication Studies

31 May
Karl Katz Lydén: Critique and the Care of the Self: The Economy of Truth and Government in Michel Foucault's Late Work External link, opens in new window.
Subject/graduate school: Philosophy/BEEGS

12 April
Kirill Polkov: Queering Images of Russia in Sweden: Discursive Hegemony and Counter-Hegemonic Articulations 1991-2019 External link, opens in new window.
Subject/graduate school: Gender Studies/BEEGS

9 February
Joel Odebrant: Spår, kropp, tid: En undersökning av den måleriska gestens materialitet 1952 – 1965 External link, opens in new window.
Subject/graduate school: Art History/BEEGS

2023

1 December
Emma Kihl: Äventyrliga utföranden: en läsning av Agneta Enckells dikter med Isabelle Stengers kosmopolitik External link, opens in new window.
Subject/graduate school: Comparative Literature/BEEGS

2 June
Anna Bark Persson: Steel as the Answer? Viking Bodies, Power, and Masculinity in Anglophone Fantasy Literature 2006–2016 External link, opens in new window.
Subject: Gender Studies
Research Programme: ReNEW ‑ Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World

2022

21 October
Mats Dahllöv: Det absoluta och det gemensamma: Benjamin Höijers konstfilosofi External link, opens in new window.
Subject/graduate school: Aesthetics /BEEGS

13 May
Oscar von Seth: Outsiders and Others: Queer Friendships in Novels by Hermann Hesse External link.
Subject/graduate school: Comparative Literature/BEEGS

2021

15 October
Philipp Seuferling: Media and the refugee camp: the historical making of space, time, and politics in the modern refugee regime External link.
Subject: Media and communication studies
Research project: The (dis)connected refugee: The role of communication technologies in trust-building in Sweden and Germany

24 September
Mani Shutzberg: Tricks of the Medical Trade: Cunning in the Age of Bureaucratic Austerity External link.
Subject/graduate school: The theory of practical knowledge/BEEGS

4 June
Raili Uibo: “And I don’t know who we really are to each other”: Queers doing close relationships in Estonia External link.
Subject: Gender studies
Research project: Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Region

28 May
Camilla Larsson: Framträdanden: Performativitetsteoretiska tolkningar av Tadeusz Kantors konstnärskap External link.
Subject/graduate school: Art history/BEEGS

21 May
Anna-Karin Selberg: Politics and Truth: Heidegger, Arendt and the Modern Political Lie External link.
Subject: Philosophy

7 May
Gabriel Itkes-Sznap: Nollpunkten: Precisionens betydelse hos Witold Gombrowicz, Inger Christensen och Herta Müller External link.
Subject/graduate school: Aesthetics/BEEGS

23 April
Oscar Svanelid: Att forma tillvaron: Konstruktivism som konstnärligt yrkesarbete hos Geraldo de Barros, Lygia Pape och Lygia Clark External link.
Subject/graduate school: Art history/BEEGS

26 March
Anna Enström: Sinnesstämning, skratt och hypokondri: Om estetisk erfarenhet i Kants tredje Kritik External link.
Subject/graduate school: Aesthetics/BEEGS

2020

25 September
Patrick Seniuk: Encountering Depression In-Depth: An existential-phenomenological approach to selfhood, depression, and psychiatric practice External link.
Subject: The theory of practical knowledge
Research project: The Phenomenology of Suffering in Medicine: Explorations in the Baltic Sea Region

4 September
Johan Sehlberg: Of Affliction: The Experience of Thought in Gilles Deleuze by way of Marcel Proust External link.
Subject: Philosophy

5 June
Ingrid Forsler: Enabling media: Infrastructures, imaginaries and cultural techniques in Swedish and Estonian visual arts education External link.
Subject/graduate school: Media and communication studies/BEEGS

8 May
Maria Pröckl: Tyngd, sväng och empatisk timing: förskollärares kroppsliga kunskaper External link.
Subject: The theory of practical knowledge
Research project: Being and Becoming: A phenomenological perspective on formative dimensions of pre-school education in Sweden and Germany

2019

3 May
Mari Zetterqvist Blokhuis: Interaction between rider, horse and equestrian trainer – a challenging puzzle External link.
Subject: The theory of practical knowledge
Research project: Horse Cultures in Transition. Interaction and Ethics between Human and Horse in Sweden and Poland

2018

7 December
Irina Seits: Architectures of Life-Building in the Twentieth Century: Russia, Germany, Sweden External link, opens in new window.
Subject/graduate school: Aesthetics/BEEGS

28 September
Matilda Tudor: Desire Lines: Towards a Queer Digital Media Phenomenology External link, opens in new window.
Subject: Media and communication studies
Research project: Habitus and higher education: a research project on media, taste and cultural dissonance

25 May
Maria Lönn: Bruten vithet – om den ryska femininitetens sinnliga och temporala villkor External link, opens in new window.
Subject/graduate school: Gender studies/BEEGS

27 April
Rebecka Katz Thor: Beyond the Witness. Holocaust Representation and the Testimony of Images: Three Films by Yael Hersonski, Harun Farocki and Eyal Sivan External link, opens in new window.
Subject: Aesthetics
Research project: Perceptions of the other; aesthetics, ethics and prejudice

2017

15 December
Roman Horbyk: Mediated Europes: Discourse and Power in Ukraine, Russia and Poland during Euromaidan External link.
Subject: Media and communication studies
Research project: Narratives of Europe

8 December
Julia Velkova Öberg: Media technologies in the making: user driven software and infrastructures for computer graphics production External link.
Subject/graduate school: Media and communication studies/BEEGS

6 October
Lovisa Andén: Litteratur och erfarenhet i Merleau-Pontys läsning av Proust, Valéry och Stendhal External link.
Subject/graduate school: Philosophy/BEEGS, Södertörn University and Uppsala University

22 September
Gustav Strandberg: Politikens omskakning – negativitet, samexistens och frihet i Jan Patočkas tänkande External link.
Subject: Philosophy
Research project: Loss of Common Grounds

2 June
Alberto Frigo: Life-Stowing from a Digital Media Perspective: Past, Present and Future External link.
Subject: Media and communication studies

24 May
Krystof Kasprzak: Vara - Framträdande - Värld. External link.Fenomenets negativitet hos Martin Heidegger, Jan Patočka och Eugen Fink External link.
Subject/graduate school: Philosophy/BEEGS

24 March
Kim West: The Exhibitionary Complex: Exhibition, Apparatus and Media from Kulturhuset to the Centre Pompidou, 1963-1977 External link.
Subject: Aesthetics
Research project: Power, space, and ideology

2016

18 November
Petra Werner: Ett medialt museum. Lärandets estetik i svensk television 1956-1969 External link.
Subject: Aesthetics

21 October
Ramona Rat: Un-common Sociality: Thinking Sociality with Levinas External link.
Subject/graduate school: Philosophy/BEEGS

8 June
Cecilia Annell: Begärets politiska potential: Feministiska motståndsstrategier i Elin Wägners ”Pennskaftet”, Gabriele Reuters ”Aus guter Familie”, Hilma Angered-Strandbergs ”Lydia Vik” och Grete Meisel-Hess ”Die Intellektuellen” External link.
Subject/graduate school: Comparative literature/BEEGS, Södertörn University and Stockholm University

2015

14 November
Björn Sjöstrand: Att tänka det tekniska: En studie i Derridas teknikfilosofi External link.
Subject: Philosophy, Södertörn University and Uppsala University

2014

24 October
Liudmila Voronova: Gendering in Political Journalism: A Comparative Study of Russia and Sweden External link.
Subject/graduate school: Media and communication studies/BEEGS, Södertörn University and Örebro University

17 October
Signe Opermann: Generational Use of New Media in Estonia External link.
Subject: Media and communication studies
Research project: Audiences in the Age of Media Convergence: Media Generations in Estonia and Sweden

3 October
Ekaterina Kalinina: Mediated Post-Soviet Nostalgia External link.
Subject/graduate school: Media and communication studies/BEEGS

27 September
Henriette Cederlöf: Alien Places in Late Soviet Science Fiction: The "Unexpected Encounters" of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as Novels and Films External link.
Subject/graduate school: Comparative literature/BEEGS, Södertörn University and Stockholm University

9 May
Markus Huss: Motståndets akustik: Språk och (o)ljud hos Peter Weiss 1946–1960 External link.
Subject/graduate school: Comparative literature/BEEGS, Södertörn University and Stockholm University

14 February
Carina Guyard: Kommunikationsarbete på distans External link.
Subject/graduate school: Media and communication studies/BEEGS

2013

18 January
Fredrik Stiernstedt: Från radiofabrik till mediehus: Medieförändring och medieproduktion på MTG-radio External link.
Subject/graduate school: Media and communication studies/BEEGS, Södertörn University and Örebro University

2012

5 October
Linus Andersson: Alternativ television: Former av kritik i konstnärlig TV-produktion External link.
Subject/graduate school: Media and communication studies/BEEGS, Södertörn University and Örebro University

1 June
Anne Kaun: Civic experiences and public connection: Media and young people in Estonia External link.
Subject/graduate school: Media and communication studies/BEEGS, Södertörn University and Örebro University

23 March
Peter Jakobsson: Öppenhetsindustrin External link.
Subject/graduate school: Media and communication studies/BEEGS, Södertörn University and Örebro University
Research project: Digital Media Cultures. Audiences, Lifestyles and Generations in the Age of Digital Reproduction

2011

21 January
Anders Bartonek: Philosophie im Konjunktiv: Nichtidentität als Ort der Möglichkeit des Utopischen in der negativen Dialektik Theodor W. Adornos (Subjunctive Philosophy: Nonidentity as the Place for the Possibility of the Utopian in the Negative Dialectics of Theodor W. Adorno) External link.
Subject/graduate school: Philosophy/BEEGS

18 December
Carl Cederberg: Resaying the Human: Levinas Beyond Humanism and Antihumanism External link.
Subject/graduate school: Philosophy/BEEGS