Existential Terrains

Environment

The Department of Media Studies (IMS) is the largest department at Stockholm University and has a nationally leading and internationally prominent position in research and education in Media and Communication Studies, Journalism, Fashion and Cinema Studies.

Stockholm University is one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

Contact Information

Amanda Lagerkvist is visiting scholar in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London during the academic year of 2018/2019.

Charles M. Ess was our visiting Professor during 2017
ET has an important publication in Feminist Media Studies in 2017
Important publication from ET in OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying in 2018

NEW COLLECTION FROM ET:
Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture, London: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture) edited by Amanda Lagerkvist and with a foreword by John Durham Peters.

Digmex Research Network
On Virality: Valuing Existential Voids in Digital Media
Participants

Funding

  • Stockholm university
  • Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
  • Wallenberg Academy Fellows
  • Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond

EXISTENTIAL TERRAINS is a research programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2014-2018) and by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (2015-2017) headed by Amanda Lagerkvist, PhD., Associate Professor and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University.