Link to the Research School's webpage and calendar

DOCTORAL SEMINARS
Normally the texts are uploaded in the internal learning platform GUL: “Etappseminarier för doktorander”.
If you don't have access to GUL contact Anna Frisk.

Thursday, 10th September, 13:00 - 15:00
50% seminar: Lena O Magnusson, Research on Arts Education, HDK
Title: Fotografiska sam-handlingar – digitalkameror, treåringar och intra-aktivitet
Discussant: Anna Palmér, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Child and youth Studies, Stockholm University
Venue: Room 301, HDK
Lena's text can be found in GUL: Etappseminarier för doktorander or send an email to lena.magnusson@hdk.gu.se. This seminar will be in Swedish.

Friday, 11th September, 9:00 - 12:00
25% seminar: Annelies Vaneycken, Design
Title: Kids in Space: What Children Can Teach Us about the Design of Public Spaces.
Discussant: Professor Erling Björgvinsson, School of design and crafts, HDK
Venue: Room 608, HDK
Annelies' text can be found in GUL: Etappseminarier för doktorander or send an email to annelies.vaneycken@hdk.gu.se. This seminar will be in English.

Thursday, 24th September, 10:00 - 12:00
50% seminar for licentiate: Joakim Andersson, Research on Arts Education, HDK
Title: Att lära sig slöjda.
Discussant: Ragnhild Sandberg Jurström, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Music Education at Karlstad University
Venue: Room 301, HDK. This seminar will be in Swedish.
Email Joakim at joakim.andersson@hdk.gu.se for his text.

Thursday, 15th October, 13:00 – 16:00
End seminar for licentiate: Birgitta Nordström, Crafts, HDK
Title: I ritens rum – om mötet mellan tyg och människa.
Discussant: Anneli Palmsköld, PhD and lecturer at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg.
Venue: Room 310, HDK. This seminar will be in Swedish.

Wednesday, 18th November, 13:00
25% seminar: Imri Sandström, Literary composition, poetry and prose, Valand Academy
Discussant: Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, new PARSE professor at HSM
Venue: Glashuset, Valand Academy (entrance from Chalmersgatan 4)

Tuesday, 15th December, 13:00 – 16:00
End seminar for licentiate: Mirjana Vukoja, Design
Title: Jag ser inte, jag förstår inte – en berättelse om seende
Discussant: Open
Venue: Röhsska Museum. This seminar will be in Swedish.

THE RESEARCH SCHOOL

Research School’s Symposium – on Mapping the field 
Time: Monday, 12th October – Tuesday, 13th October
Venue: Glashuset, Valand Academy (entrance from Chalmersgatan 4)

The theme of the two-day symposium October 12-13 is “Mapping the Field” and it can be seen as an extension of the workshop in September. Among the speakers are the writers of the theses we were examining in the workshop: Cecilia Björck, Tina Carlsson and Andreas Gedin, and the key note speakers are Märtha Edling and Simon Sheik.
Sign up by sending an e-mail to Anna Frisk.

WALLENBERG TRAVEL GRANT, Application deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2015

The University of Gothenburg annually allocates funds from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to provide travel grants to mainly young researchers at the University of Gothenburg (including doctoral students). For the year 2015, there is SEK 25,000 available to be distributed within the faculty. The amount paid shall be made in each case to cover a substantial portion of travel expenses. No particular application required. Please attach any invitation or confirmation to a conference, etc. if you have one. There is an agreement between the heads of departments from 2011 on co-financing the travel grants.
Applications must be received by the Faculty Office, Anna Frisk, Box 141 (internal mail) or Box 141, 405 30 Gothenburg (normal mail) by Monday, 15 September 2014 at 16:00. Please write "Wallenberg Stipendium" on the envelope. You are also welcome to e-mail your application.
Read the announcement here.

CURRENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
Here you can find a list of scholarships and grants offered by the Univesity of Gothenburg for different categories of applicants in all disciplines. The list is sorted by the application deadline. 
http://www.gu.se/forskning/stipendier/aktuellastipendier/

A-Venue at Avenyn
Submission Deadline: Sunday, September 13, 2015

A-venue is a joint exhibition venue on Avenyn, Gothenburg, for the three art institutions Valand Academy, HDK - School of Design and Crafts and Acadmey of Music and Drama. A variety of exciting activities will take place during the coming year. The premises will be used to present various projects initiated by teachers, students or PhD-students.
All teachers and students are encouraged to send suggestions in how to use the space. The space is around 250 sqm and there will be possibilities of having parallel activities. Activities can be for example exhibitions, presentations, social projects, concerts, seminars, performances, experiments, etc. 
Express interest here.

Publications

Artistic Research Yearbook 2015 from Vetenskapsrådet/Swedish Research Council:
From Arts College to University

ISBN: 978-91-7307-299-1

From Arts College to University is the twelfth edition and begins with a examination of the academicisation that has taken place the past decade or so and still continues within artistic education and research. The opening article is an updated subject overview by the Swedish Research Council´s Committee for Artistic Research. Subject overviews have been drawn up for all the subject areas within the council as the basis for the Government´s Research Bill 2016.

This year we have two doctoral thesis reviewed – one on literary composition, the first of its kind in Sweden, and one on photography. The theses are by Fredrik Nyberg and Niclas Östlind, respectively and they both are from the University of Gothenburg. Download PDF version here.

Press Release from The Swedish National Agency for Education: Difficult conditions for art, music and crafts teacher
The Swedish National Agency for Education's national evaluation of crafts, music and art has revealed that while the subjects are perceived as both fun and interesting by students, many teachers are unqualified. The evaluation demonstrates the need to strengthen the teachers in art, music and crafts in various ways. Among other things, teachers have expressed a great need for skills in assessment and grading.

Professor Monica Lindgren from Academy of Music and Drama, and Senior Lecturer Peter Hasselskog from HDK - School of Design and Crafts have worked for the Swedish National Agency for Education for five years. They have been invovled in the national subject evaluations of music and crafts in grades 6 and 9, respectively. Read full press release here (in Swedish).

New syllabus for artistic research
The University of the arts Helsinki, Finland/Academy of Fine Arts (KuvA) and Theatre Academy (TeaK) have announced their new syllabus for the academic year 2015-2016. Anyone interested in their study offerings can contact the Academic Affairs Coordinator Elina Raitasalo

Seminar: Linda Shamma Östrand
Title: Being part of a negotiation - On how we relate to identities that find themselves in transit position

How do we relate to identities that do not seem to fall into the usual norms and how do we categorize them? Based on examples from her own art practice the artist Linda Shamma throws light on questions of how identities and cultures may seem intimidating in that they are not established. Yet how an identity can be under constant negotiation. With her father from Palestine and her mother from Sweden, Linda Shamma has been examining her own ambivalent position for some time. Linda Shamma, is an artist active in public art, gallery and academia.

Time: Wednesday, 9th September, 15.00-17.00
Venue: Diamanten, Institutionen för kulturvård, Göteborg
This seminar will be in English.

Making / Narratives : The Design Lecture Series Autumn 2015 at HDK

The following schedule is for September. For further information and full schedule please contact Henric Benesch or view HDK calendar.

Markus Miessen
Markus Miessen is an architect and writer. The initiator of the Participation tetralogy, his work revolves around questions of critical spatial practice, institution building, and spatial politics. Since 2011, Markus founded the Winter School Middle East (Dubai, now Kuwait).  He is the author of The Nightmare of Participation – Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality (Sternberg Press, 2010). Together with Nikolaus Hirsch, he is the editor of the Critical Spatial Practice book series at Sternberg Press.
Markus Miessen will be presenting on two occassions. Please note the different time, dates and venues:
Seminar
Time: Thursday, 17th September, 13:00 - 16:00
Venue: Room 310, HDK
Send confirmation e-mail to henric.benesch@hdk.gu.se
Lecture
Time: Friday, 18th September, 13:00
Venue: Stora Hörsalen, HDK – School of Design and Craft Kristinelundsgatan 6
No confirmation required

Matilda Plöjel / Niclas Östlind
Matilda Plöjel is a graphic designer focusing on book and exhibition design. She runs the micro publisher Sailor Press and is one of the initiaters of Publishing as (part-time) practice. Her talk will be in dialogue with Niclas Östlind - curator, writer and PhD in Photography at Valand Academy.
Time: Friday, 25th September, 13:00
Venue: Stora Hörsalen, HDK – School of Design and Craft Kristinelundsgatan 6

Linda Shamma
Linda Shamma is an artist. Her work is conceptual and involves a variety of different media that challenges pre-conceived notions of the gallery and of the public. In recent years she has been primarily engaged in artistic research in which she examines the hybrid concept. Examples of works that adjacent to this theme is“Älg I postformulerat tillstånd” at Telefonplan in Stockhom and “Oophaga vicentei × Oophaga pumilio” where she has broadened her view of this synthesis by breeding a living hybrid, fertile, frog.
Time: Friday, 25th September, 15:00
Venue: Stora Hörsalen, HDK – School of Design and Craft Kristinelundsgatan 6

Symposium:
Blind Spots - A Symposium on art and migration

In light of the current situation where an increasingly heated political climate is shaping the rhetoric and discussion concerning migrants and refugees – we wish to investigate the agency of art and artists working with these matters or within related fields. The symposium Blind Spots will explore a number of different artistic practices operating in a social and political context over two days. Participants: CAMP (Center for Art and Migration Politics), Maria Concetta Borgese, Maj Hasager, Maria Kjær Themsen, Ask Kæreby, Silvia Litardi, Ibrahim Mahama, Unicorn – Artists In Solidarity

Time and Venue:
Thursday, 17th September: Inter Arts Center (IAC), Bergsgatan 27 (3rd-4th floor), Malmö
Friday, 18th September: Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmöhusvägen 6, Malmö
More information here (In English).

Symposium: En skrift på egna villkor

Welcome to 'En skrift på egna villkor', a half-day symposium on artistic research in Literary Composition. The symposium aims at summarizing and discussing seven years of artistic research, theses and projects within the subject of Literary Composition, which began in 2008 at Valand Academy. Speakers and discussants include Fredrik Nyberg, Helga Krook, Sigrid Combüchen and Martin Glaz Serup.
Time: Monday, 21st September, 12:30 - 17:00
Venue: Glashuset, Valand Academy
This symposium will be held in Swedish.
More information and detailed schedule (in Swedish).

The 1st PARSE Biennial Research Conference on TIME

The first biennial PARSE conference at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden November 4-6, 2015 takes as its point of departure the question of TIME. Confirmed Keynote Speakers are: Simonetta Carbonaro, Simon Critchley, Coco Fusco, Bruno Latour, Jalal Toufic
Time: Wednesday, 4th November - Friday, 6th November, 2015
Venue: Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
More information about Conference Organization and Registration here. Link to PARSE.

Editors: Anna Frisk, Kanchan Burathoki
Göteborgs universitet, e-mail: anna.frisk@gu.se
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