Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies

29/09/2026

Fakta, fejk och flöden – hur hanterar du den nya medieverkligheten i klassrummet?

Desinformation, alternativa mediekanaler, newsfluencers och AI-genererat innehåll gör det allt svårare att avgöra vad som går att lita på. Den 20 oktober bjuder IMS in lärare och andra som arbetar med kommunikation till en kostnadsfri heldagsworkshop om mediekunnighet i ett medielandskap i förändring.

På förmiddagen presenterar forskare och journalister aktuella perspektiv:
🔹 Kristoffer Holt – Unga vuxna och nyheter
🔹 Andreas Jahrehorn Önnerfors – Konspirationsteorier i skolans värld
🔹 Beate Schirrmacher – Så berättas nyheter på TikTok
🔹 Jonathan Lundberg – Kunskapsvirus och verifieringsvaccin

Under eftermiddagens workshop, ”Äkta, fejk eller AI?,” får du själv prova de verifieringsverktyg som journalister och faktagranskare använder för att granska bilder, filmer och virala påståenden—och diskutera hur de kan bli övningar i klassrummet.

📅 Tisdag 20 oktober, kl. 09.30–15.30
📍 Linnéuniversitetet, Växjö, eller via Zoom
🗣 Workshopen hålls på svenska
💸 Kostnadsfritt

Läs mer och anmäl dig här: https://www.lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/aktuellt/kalender/2026/ims-nyhetsmedier-i-skolan/

Dela gärna med kollegor som kan vara intresserade!

08/06/2026

Welcome to the weekly IMS seminar on the 10th of June, with Claudio Paolucci, Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages, University of Bologna.

“Semiotic lifeworlds. A confrontation between Husserl's phenomenology and Peirce's phaneroscopy”.

If we think of cognition and experience from the enactivist idea of a structural coupling between organism and environment, we see that this environment is first and foremost a semiotic environment, crowded with objects, norms, habits, institutions, and artefacts that shape our minds and represent the background of our perception of the world. This semiotic environment, which goes far beyond the opposition between nature and culture, (See Paolucci 2021. Cognitive semiotics: Integrating signs, minds, meaning, and cognition. Berlin: Springer: ch. 1.) is a semiotic lifeworld that is important to compare with the classic idea of lifeworld coming from phenomenology. In this paper, (i) we will first start with a comparison of the semiotic Lebenswelt and the phenomenological Lebenswelt; (ii) we will follow the construction of the semiotic lifeworld coming from Peirce’s Anti-Cartesian essays; (iii) we will make a deep comparison between the phenomenology coming from Peirce (phaneroscopy) and the phenomenology coming from Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty; (iv) we will show how these very same principles also ground structuralism; (v) we will show how this new semiotic lifeworld grounded on phaneroscopy is neither pre-logical nor pre-categorial. Rather, it is founded on the primacy of “telling” over “showing,” and on the primacy of discourse over perception.

To attend the seminar online, please email [email protected]

11/05/2026

Welcome to the weekly IMS seminar on the 13th of May, 10.15-12.00!

What are media borders?

Media boundaries, intermedial relationships and the qualifying aspects of media types.

About the seminar:
Intermedial studies explore relations between different media forms and therefore require concepts to define similarities and differences among media types. One such concept is that of media borders or media boundaries, which is central to intermedial research but also poses conceptual and analytical challenges. One the one hand, the crossing of conventional media borders lies at the core of intermedial relations, and we readily perceive differences between what we label literature, visual art, film, journalism, or video games. On the other hand, these distinctions often blur on closer inspection. In digital, networked communication, formerly distinct media types converge in hybrid media products that combine text, image, and sound in related but still different ways, depending on communicative aims. For instance, not every media product that looks and sound like ‘news’ is produced according to the professional journalistic standards. In the area of ecomedia, what looks like trustworthy media products may on closer inspection be part of climate science denial material.



Intermedial phenomena thus highlight established media boundaries while simultaneously transgressing them and questioning whether such borders exist at all. How do we deal with these elusive borders? How do media borders relate to convergence and hybridity? How can we analyse relationships between different but related media products without getting trapped in essential claims or boundary struggles? To address these issues, we revisit Lars Elleström’s discussion of media types and media borders (2021, pp. 54–73). Using ecomedia and news media as example, we explore what happens when analysis moves from drawing boundaries to qualifying media conventions and expectations. Yet, as usual in the “What is…”-workshop series, we invite you to contribute cases you want to discuss or conceptual or analytical approaches that you want to explore.

To attend online, please email [email protected]

20/04/2026

Dear all,
welcome to this week’s IMS seminar with Sabrina Vellucci!

The IMS seminar will take place on Wednesday, the 22nd of April, at 10.15-12.00, in Dacke and on zoom. Please email [email protected] for the link.

Guest: Prof. Sabrina Vellucci: “Bending the Code”: Adapting Tennessee Williams’s South for the Screen”
Chair: Niklas Salmose

Starting from the mid-1940s, Tennessee Williams’s experiments and poetic innovations on the stage would shape a peculiar transnational/transcultural South that became the privileged setting and subject of his cinematic imagination. This presentation will focus on two of Williams’s adaptations, The Rose Tattoo (1955) and Baby Doll (1956), and explore how, revising dominant Hollywood types, the protagonists become self-fashioning characters whose outspoken desires question the patriarchal and racial hierarchies of the culture they inhabit. The process of adaptation from stage to screen, as well as Williams’s reworkings of his previous versions of the texts, testify to the disruptive potential of his “steamy Southern Gothic,” while also exposing – through the negotiations between playwright directors and producers, and the plots’ ambivalent endings – the contradictions and hypocrisies of postwar racial and gendered discourses

08/04/2026

Art, ecology, community: The HULT residency projects 2026
Click the link for the seminar’s homepage: https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2026/ims-seminar-vt2611/

Ingela Johansson: A Labyrinth of Sorrow, Strength, and Healing
Ingela’s plans for the residency. I am interested in the intersection: memory politics, care-work, ancient knowledge, organic farming as cultural landscape heritage, and feminism. Through my project A Labyrinth of Sorrow, Strength, and Healing, I aim to explore feminist resistance to central authority, accumulation, extraction and how it has materialized or been socialized across disciplines. Much of my concept for HULT is based on Silvia Federici’s work on reproduction of labor and witch hunts as a form of social control. Additionally, I’m having a great pleasure of reading Elin Wägners 1000 år i Småland.

My work will pick up various threads. Take the legend of Blenda that has, in a real sense, served to strengthen collectivist and feminist ideals in Småland—a fictional legend that led to actual political change, such as equal inheritance rights. This legend is mentioned by Wägner, has been the inspirational source for many, for example recently the “Blenda project” in 2018. I am interested in monastic life with an emphasis on cultivation in relation to environmental transition, ecofeminism, and the commons. There is little written record on these gardens, but Nydala Abbey maintains cultivation as part of the green cultural heritage. This interest in the 1600-1700 century may also involve examples from peasant culture and the use of witchcraft. Who were the marginalized and free-thinking individuals who challenged the norm? I’ve looked a bit into Nydala Monastery and St. Sigfrid Mental Hospital, how can one compare these confined environments—one chosen and one imposed? The Småland Museum archives contain interesting leads, such as the 1960 Poverty Exhibition, Furthermore there are also examples within the art-design context of Småland with lots of silent knowledge. This will likely result in various dialectical treads, a montage-style work with different focal points.
Leandro Ferre Caetano: Methodologies for long-distance intimacy
Leandro’s plans for the residency “My curatorial approach focuses on creating conditions for collective processes of listening and co-learning, treating rural contexts as active sites of knowledge production where climate urgencies circulate between local and global spheres. I'm particularly interested in exploring how artistic practices can engage with the specific ecological and cultural landscapes of Kronoberg, developing methodologies that value non-academic knowledge and cultivate "long-distance intimacy" between rural territories and broader networks of thinking. My presentation will be dedicated to my practice-based research which informs my curatorial approach, followed by how this has evolved to consider the specificities of Kronoberg's local 'ecologies.'
The HULT residency program explores the interaction between humans and nature, capturing contemporary, complex issues around climate emergency and societal transformation. The starting point is Kronoberg's rural context where many different types of actors and interests take place. This includes cultural organizations, activists, community actors, municipalities and academic partners. The basis is a strong desire to promote the development of new ways of thinking and collective living as a response to the most pressing challenges of our time.

About the presenters
Ingela Johansson is a writer and artist based in Stockholm. Mainly working with video, installation, narrative film, textile and text, Johans son’s practice engage in topics such as social history and memory – she is known for her work around individual and collective experiences of history writing: poetics of solidarity, microhistories and archives on the labor organization. More recently she has taken an interest in the practices of care, mourning and healing, herstories, storytelling that is intersecting eco-feminism and cosmologies.
Johanssons most recent exhibitions, screenings and projects includes: Kin, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiruna (2025), Umeå Konsthall (2024), Havremagasinet, Boden: Liljevalchs, Stockholm: Modem, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Hungary(2023), Bröhan Museum, Berlin (2022), Södertälje Konsthall, Luleåbiennialen (2021), Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm, Göteborgs Konsthall (2020) among others.
Ingela Johansson

Leandro Ferre Caetano, born in Mogi das Cruzes, Tietê River territory in Brazil, is a curator and researcher based in Copenhagen, working between the Nordic region and South America. His curatorial practice is grounded in art-based research and cultural mediation, with a strong interest in postcritical and decolonial approaches in artistic practices.
Leandro is a curator, researcher and project manager at ARIEL – Feminisms in the Aesthetics and has previously collaborated with institutions such as SESC (BR), the São Paulo Biennial, Videobrasil (BR), Museum of Impossible Forms (Helsinki), and Skēnē (Malmö). Leandro holds an MA in Visual Studies and Art Education (Aalborg University & Aalto University). Recent projects focus on socially engaged projects, ecological practices, and collaborative methodologies, developing projects that connect artists and researchers across Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Brazil.
https://arielfeminisms.dk/

We welcome Ingela Johansson and curator Leandro Ferre Caetano, fellows for the HULT residency in Kronoberg 2026 . The residency provides curators and artists with the opportunity to explore the relationship between humans and to connect art, climate change and community development. IMS looks forwar...