SCAS News - 8 July, 2020
SCAS Launches a New Fellowship Programme Aimed at Advancing the Study of Cultural
Diversity in a Global Perspective
The Swedish Collegium rests on a belief that science has a significant role to play in contributing to
a
democratic
and inclusive future. In this spirit, we are now launching a new fellowship
programme,
the Barbro Klein Fellowship, which
intends to advance the study of cultural diversity in a global
perspective. The fellowship is open to scholars
from across disciplines in the humanities and social
sciences, with an emphasis on research on cultural and
social diversity, cultural heritage and creativity,
societal structures and public resistance, and varieties of
cultural expressions in local and global
perspective.
Barbro Klein (1938-2018), who was Deputy Principal and Permanent Fellow at SCAS and Pro-
fessor
of
Ethnology at Stockholm University, devoted her research to oral
narration,
rituals,
museum displays and other forms of expressive culture in complex multiethnic settings.
She also
worked on broad methodological issues and on the entangled disciplinary histories, with a persistent
and
clear view to the diversity of the human condition and predicament.
SCAS is now delighted to announce that the first holder of this new Fellowship is
Dr. Inan
Özdemir
Taştan,
Ankara, who will be in residence at the Collegium in the academic year 2020-21.
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