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Cluster for Nordic Colonialism The Research Cluster for Nordic Colonialism within the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies investigated how the European…
Project: Sovereignty and the Suppression of Piracy in Maritime Southeast Asia, c.1850-1910 The suppression of piracy and other forms of maritime violence was a keystone in the colonisation of…
Project: Huseby in the World Joseph Stephens was one of many young Scandinavian men in the 1860s who chose to make a career in colonial India. The British Empire’s large work market, characterized by…
Project: The colonial and post-colonial Qur'an The project focuses on Muslim translations of the Qur'an into English from 1905 to today. The aim is to explore to what extent tendencies in the…
Project: Intermediaries in Imperial Expansion: Connections and Encounters on the U.S. Frontiers, 1876–1916 The project focuses on a U.S. Cavalry officer, Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934), a…
Project: The Aru Islands: Trade, beliefs and colonial encounters on the fringe of Indonesia The project focuses on a part of the Moluccas in present-day Indonesia, the Aru Islands. These islands are…
Project: The Borders of Humanity: Linnaean Natural Historians and the Colonial Legacies of the Enlightenment In this project we explore how the formation of ethnographic knowledge gave rise to an idea…
Project: Beyond curiosity and wonder—understanding the Museum Stobaeanum This collaborative project is the first comprehensive study of the Museum Stobaeanum, Kilian Stobaeus’ (1690-1742) extensive…
Project: Captain Jack's riding whip – Swedish emigrants and indigenous peoples in North America A riding whip belonging to the Modoc leader Captain Jack is one the treasures at the Ethnographic Museum…
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Project: Mapping Lived Religion: Medieval cults of saints in Sweden and Finland This five-year project aims to build a comprehensive, online database providing open-access to data (both textual and…
Project: The India-China Corridor The large trans-border region, connecting Bengal in India, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, and Yunnan in China to each other, has been shaped by multiple polities under…
Project: Public libraries in a changed political landscape – a democratic mission for a new era? The aim of the project was to investigate political influence on local public libraries in six…
Project: Women on their own to America and back again The focus of the project is the experiences of single women who emigrated to the United States in the early 20th century and later returned to…
Project: Tracks through nature – the railways and environmental consequences of colonial infrastructure in India, c. 1860-1870 By focusing on environmental conditions and resources, this project…
Project: Imperial Expansion and Intercultural Diplomacy: Treaty-making in Southeast Asia, c.1750−1920 This collaborative research project in Global and Diplomatic History investigates the often…
Archaeothanatology Working Group Archaeothanatology is a multi-disciplinary approach in archeology, that studies funerary rituals in the past. Based on knowledge of natural decay processes, the method…
Doctoral project: The making of the Filipino/a "homosexual" This doctoral project aims to investigate the history of how non-normative genders and sexualities were medicalized and pathologized in the…