Engaging Vulnerability

Don Kulick has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. We extend our warmest congratulations to Don on this well-deserved recognition!🎉🍾

Don Kulick Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Engaging Vulnerability Don Kulick, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Director of Engaging Vulnerability from 2015 to 2025, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Established in 1780, the Academy is one of the oldest and most prestigious learned societies in the world, honoring ex...

We’re delighted to share that our former doctoral student, Kristian Sandbekk Norsted, has a new book out with University of Toronto Press: Anxious Intersectionality: An Anthropology of Swedish Feminist Activism. Congratulations, Kristian!🎉🍾

Anxious Intersectionality - University of Toronto Press Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Stockholm’s feminist activist community, this book explores how anxiety is produced and practiced among activists, tracing its roots to the complex translation of intersectionality from theory to activist practice.

Former EV doctoral student Karl Ekeman has been awarded the 2026 Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Work by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (Vitterhetsakademin) for his dissertation In Want of a Sovereign: Metapolitics and the Populist Formation of the Alt-Right.
Warm congratulations to Karl – we are very proud of this achievement!🏆🎉

Övriga priser Henrik Almqvist, Gullmarsgymnasiet i Lysekils kommun. Almqvist är en föredömlig lärare i samhällskunskap som med gedigna ämneskunskaper och förmåga att skapa ett gott klassrumsklimat bidrar till elevernas trivsel, utveckling och lärande. Genom dialog, nyfikenhet och humor väcker han elever...

Fresh of the press: a new edited volume by Don Kulick and Simo Vehmas is out now! “This book explores how we can think about vulnerability – what it is and how it works – by examining cases where different kinds of vulnerabilities collide.”

New Book: Clashing Vulnerabilities, Disability and Conflict - Engaging Vulnerability This book, edited by Don Kulick and Simo Vehmas, is about how we might think about vulnerability—what it is and how it operates—by looking at cases where different kinds of vulnerabilities clash. Disability is often portrayed as a vulnerability in itself, and disabled people are often labelled a...

Today, EV PhD student Aliaksandra "Sasha" Shrubok successfully defended her dissertation, "Cultivating Love: Elderly Women and their Plants in the Belarusian Countryside."🪴 The faculty opponent was Professor Sophie Chao (U of Sydney). Our warmest congratulations to Sasha – very well done!🎉🥂🍾

Yesterday, Meryem Saadi successfully defended her thesis ”Mobilizing Vulnerability”. Congratulations Dr. Saadi!!🥂🍾🥳🏆

Former EV PhD student Karl Ekeman receives VR International Postdoc!🥳🏆🍾🥂

International postdoc within humanities and social sciences as well as educational sciences (spring call) In the 2025 Spring call for international postdoc grant within humanities and social sciences including educational sciences, the Swedish Research Council approved 9 out of 90 applications. Nearly 36 million SEK will be allocated over the period 2025–2028.

🎉 EV PhD student Meryem Saadi has "nailed" her thesis!🏆 The defense will take place on June 13, at 10.15, in Geijersalen, Campus Engelska parken.

Mobilising Vulnerability: Practices, Methods, and Tactics of Rural Artist-Run Initiatives in Sweden - Engaging Vulnerability Today, EV PhD student Meryem Saadi “nailed” her PhD thesis: it is now announced and handed over to the university library. This thesis examines how three rural artist-run organisations in Sweden mobilise vulnerability to generate artistic, curatorial, and pedagogical practices that resonate with...

Congratulations to EV PhD student Ida Grönroos for successfully defending her thesis today!🥳🏆

Congratulations EV PhD student Ida Grönroos on "nailing" your thesis!🎉🍾🥂✨ The defense will take place on Friday Feb 14, at 10.15, Humanistiska teatern, Uppsala.

“I Can't Play God, You Know” - Engaging Vulnerability Ethical Dilemmas that Archivists Face in the Assessment of Records from Social and Psychiatric Care Today, EV PhD student Ida Grönroos “nailed” her PhD thesis: it is now announced and handed over to the university library. This dissertation examines archivists as street-level bureaucrats, empha...

On Friday, EV PhD student Qing Shen "nailed" his thesis!👍 The defense will take place on November 8, at 09:15, in Geijersalen (ENG 6-1023). Faculty examiner: Professor Sara Friedman, Indiana University

Q***r Fun in Shanghai: The Social Lives of Elderly Working-Class Chinese Men - Engaging Vulnerability On Friday October 18, EV PhD student Qing Shen “nailed” his PhD thesis. It is now announced and handed over to the university library. ABSTRACT This thesis uses “play” as a core concept to examine the lives and subjectivities of older working-class q***r men (mostly above 60 years old) in Sh...