Events
- 25 Jan Swedish for lunch: Language practice with colleagues Mondays at noon, Språkstudion offers informal language support to SU and CIVIS staff in Swedish. Join in if you would like to practise Swedish, or support colleagues in their Swedish language development. Welcome!
- 26 Jan Writing group at the Academic Writing Service The writing group is a regular online meeting hosted by the Academic Writing Service. In a writing group you can develop your writing skills together with other students in a supportive environment.
- 27 Jan Digital Humanities Now Hosted at Stockholm University on 27-29 Jan 2021, this conference will showcase new and ongoing research in the broad Digital Humanities field.
- 27 Jan Ecopoetics ‘beyond the page’: Romantic poetry and environmental protest Welcome to an open online guest lecture by professor Kate Rigby, Bath Spa University och Monash University, 27 January.
- 28 Jan China and Latin America in the post-Trump era China's growing presence Latin America became increasingly controversial as the conflict between the US and China grew during the Trump administration.
- 29 Jan 90-årsjubileumsseminarium vid Avdelningen för finska Undervisningen i finska vid Stockholms universitet fyllde 90 år 2020. Jubileet och ämnets långa historia firas 29 januari 2021 genom ett digitalt seminarium med ett heldagsprogram.
- 05 Feb Public defence: Ethical Encounters Welcome to Erika Theissen Walukiewicz's public defence on February 5. She will defend her thesis "Ethical Encounters. The Value of Care and Emotion in the Production of Mediated Narratives".
- 08 Feb Online Workshop: Digital Active Learning Would you like to create a teaching and learning context that activates, challenges and motivates your students? Active learning is an umbrella concept for a number of teaching approaches that encourage students to engage in the various steps in the learning process. These approaches and methods can also be used in digital environments by combining synchronous and asynchronous teaching. In the workshop we investigate and discuss what interactive and collaborative teaching options are offered with Zoom and Athena as the basis.
- 15 Feb Online Workshop: Pre-recorded video lectures and other ways to use video in your online teaching Many students want lectures to be recorded. What are the advantages of this, and what is the best way to record? Does it matter if you are recording a live lecture in Zoom or lecturing to a camera in your office for the film to be seen afterwards? What should you think about before and while filming a lecture? How can pre-recorded videos change teaching? What happens when students can see recordings at any time or only for a certain period? How can the students' own video recordings be used in the course?
- 19 Feb Online Workshop: Teaching in English — strategies when teaching in a non-native language This workshop has been designed for non-native English speaking university teachers who teach (or plan to teach) their subject matter in English. The aim is to help participants reflect on their own teaching strategies with respect to the teaching language and how these relate to student learning.
- 22 Feb Online workshop: Can we really develop Wikipedia assignments at the university? Wikipedia is a well-used source of knowledge. Its reputation has also become better within the academy and formal education, not only being the everyday target for looking up things. However, in order for Wikipedia to be used to its full potential, we must know both how it functions, how we can work with it in a source critical manner, and how we ourselves can contribute to the medium.
- 23 Feb Learn to create collaborative and flexible learning environments online Open Networked Learning (ONL) is aimed at teachers, educational developers, learning technologists and course designers in Higher Education, who want to develop teaching using digital tools and learning environments. The course offers the opportunity to explore and try collaborative learning in an open online learning environment with colleagues from different universities, disciplines and cultures (nationally as well as internationally).
- 24 Feb Get the job done! Tips for managing your thesis writing The Academic Writing Service presents tips on thesis writing for students writing their bachelor's and master's theses.
- 26 Feb Online Workshop: Group supervision of PhD students ─ a way to increase participation and learning This workshop, aimed for supervisors of PhD students provides you with insights into the benefits of collective supervision and supervision collectives as a way to support PhD students in the writing of their thesis. The workshop allows you to discuss the benefits of collective supervision of PhD students from different perspectives.
- 18 Mar Online Workshop: Cultivating research environments at a distance A workshop for you who have the role of Director of studies for PhD education, research group leader or PhD supervisor at Stockholm University. Based on recent research on how contextual factors interact with research productivity together with research on learning environments in an online environment, we will in this workshop discuss strategies and tools for creating a fruitful research environment for PhD students.
- 25 Mar French Romance, Medieval Sweden and the Europeanisation of Culture Sofia Lodén, Pro Futura Scienti Fellow, SCAS, Docent i franska vid ROMKLASS presenterar sin nya bok
- 08 Apr La posizione dei clitici con forme non finite del verbo: sondaggi sul toscano e sul lombardo medioevali Elisa De Roberto - Universitetslektor i italiensk språkvetenskap vid Romas tredje universitet - håller ett seminarium med följande titel
- 13 Apr Online workshop: Using and reusing open resources What open educational resources are available in your subject area? How can you find them, and how are you allowed to use them? How can resources that others have prepared and made available enrich your courses?
- 15 Apr Online Shut up and write! Are you writing a thesis, report or research essay this semester? Join the Academic Writing Service for an online Shut up and write! session.
- 20 Apr Online Workshop: ABC method for course design This workshop offers tools for analysing and developing the course design of your course. The workshop is online and based on the ABC method for developing course design. Bring your colleagues and take the workshop as a teaching team.
- 21 Apr Workshop: Online discussion and argumentation in teaching In this workshop we will explore how to use asynchronous online discussion and argumentation in teaching. Taking a highly hands-on approach, the workshop will arm participants with different teaching activities and teaching resources that they can make use of for their own lessons, in Athena and other systems. The workshop is a collaboration between Stockholm University and the Singapore University of Social Sciences, co-taught by lecturers from the two Universities.
- 29 Apr Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse The conference will deal with cultural images of collapse that are endorsed by the extinction of biological species and disappearance of familiar biological communities.
- 04 May Workshop: 12 steps to succeed as a teacher This workshop is aimed for new seminar leaders, doctoral students or to those with many teaching hours looking for new impulses, ex: Insights into communication with students about learning processes and teaching.
- 05 May Online workshop: Source criticism or plagiarism in higher education? Source criticism is a challenge in higher education as many students do not pay sufficient attention to the diversity of sources, they want a quick access to facts that they can reuse. This workshop on the topic of plagiarism gives you the opportunity to work on real case studies to see how to detect plagiarism attitudes at an early stage and how to prevent most of these cases from happening in the future.
- 24 Sep POSTPONED to September 2021: Inauguration and Conferment Ceremony The combined ceremony for the conferment of doctoral degrees and inauguration of new professors will take place in Stockholm City Hall.