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Modets växlingar hos förnamn i Norden

Thanks to name statistics published by the national bureaus of statistics in Scan­dinavia it is possible to study the changing popularity of first names. This paper is based on statistics from the years 1998-2002 in Sweden, 1998-2000 in Finland and 1880-2000 in Norway. The rise and fall in popularity — and in some cases renaissance — of individual names are shown and analyzed.It is observed that o

"From Hafiz" : Irish Orientalism, Persian Poetry, and W. B. Yeats

Methodological strategies to understand smartphone practices for social connectedness in later life

Digital practices in later life are not yet well understood. Therefore, this paper discusses the framework for a research design project that aims at tracing differences and similarities in how older adults use their smartphones in circumstances in and outside their homes in Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada. The research questions of this international research project focus on the exten

Using academic work places to involve older people in the design of digital applications : presentation of a methodological framework to advance co-design in later life

Methods to involve users in design have long been used to create relevant content and increase the accuracy of product development. Demographic trends have raised the issue of the needs and demands of older people, especially with regard to digitization. In contrast to the high number of publications discussing the importance of involving people in the design of their daily life, very few publicat

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På besök i stormaktstidens Sverige

Indigenous Collections : Belongings, Decolonization, Contextualization

Administrating sickness: The workings of an all-female sickness fund, 1898–1931

This chapter investigates the characteristics of a successful voluntary sickness fund in early twentieth-century Sweden. The practices of the Seamstresses Sickness and Burial Fund reveal how a working-class organisation functioned in improving the living conditions of its members. When it was first founded in 1898, it was a small all-female and marginal sickness fund, but by the 1930s it had devel

Hvad er idéhistorie?

Retorikens didaktik

Onto-politics in the making: Exploring the work of 'Atelier für Sonderaufgaben'

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Vad görs för Pompeji?

Egyptiserad Medusa från Pompeji

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Ichthyologia

En barock mentalitet och 1600-talet som motsatsernas tid : Exemplet Johan Ekeblad

Mostly known for his letters, written in an impressionistic style, Johan Ekeblad was a nobleman and diplomat during the period of the Swedish Empire (svenska stormakts-tiden) in the seventeenth century. This article seeks to treat Ekeblad and his writing as an example of a baroque mentality—here de+ned as marked by dialectical relation-ships of old and new, order and disorder, the religious and th

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