Lena Ekberg
Professor Emerita
16.01.2025 – 29.01.2025
“I am professor emerita of Scandinavian Languages at Lund University. My main research interests are semantics and grammar, language development, and second language use and multilingualism. I have been engaged in projects concerning multiethnic youth language as well as migration and language acquisition in rural areas in Sweden and Finland. I also have done research on language planning and policy, and during 2009 and 2012 I was head of the Language Council in Sweden.”
“In the 17th and 18th centuries, French orthography was standardised as new editions of the Dictionnaire de l’AcadĂ©mie française were published. The dictionary was the sanctioning body, but it was rather the learned elite and the printers who promoted a new orthography. The purpose of my stay in Paris is to examine the influence of printers by studying a selection of printed texts for which the manuscripts are available at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.”
Michaela Granit
Director, Dramaturg, Scriptwriter
16.01.2025 – 29.01.2025
“Michaela Granit is a director, screenwriter and dramaturge since 1984. She has an international reach and is known for directing newly written pieces. She often incorporates various art forms such as dance, music, opera and film. Granit is recognized for her innovative performances on major Nordic stages. As artistic director, Granit has run several prominent Nordic collaborative projects. Now preparing a play about the opera singer Jenny Lind this autumn at Norrbottensteatern, premiere Oct 5th.”
“Me, Michaela Granit director, dramaturg and scriptwriter has a two-week stay in Jan 2025 at CCS, Paris, for research, preparatory work for directing and dramaturgy of a multi-art work, a new opera based on the artistry and sisterhood of the composers Nadia and Lili Boulanger, together with Eva SidĂ©n composer, pianist and sound artist. Hemsida: www.michaelagranit.se”
Stina Jofs
Editor, author
02.01.2025 – 15.01.2025
“I am a journalist, living in Stockholm. In 23 years a worked at a monthly magazine called Vi. I have also written three books: Lärdomar, together with former Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, and two biographies about actors named Marie Göranzon and Marianne Mörck.”
“I am working on a new book that has Paris as one of three, four interesting places for the story.”
Katarina Löfström
Visual Music
02.01.2025 – 29.01.2025
“I am a sculpturer and a film maker since the beginning of the 00s. I work with installations and public commissions, as well as with animated film. My artistic practice is based on human perception and investigations into our brain’s functions and limitations and how those determine the way we understand the world. The works invite the viewer to let go of habitual patterns of thought and go what can be explained with a rational mind.”
“During my stay at the Swedish Institute, I will conduct research for an upcoming project in the borderland between music and visual art, based in the artistic tradition of so called Visual Music and the long tradition of experimental music centered around Paris. I’m hoping to find musicians and fellow artists to collaborate with for an upcoming show.”
Adam PĂĄlsson
Actor, director and script writer
02.01.2025 – 15.01.2025
“I’m a Swedish actor since twenty years. I’ve worked on the royal dramatic theatre in Stockholm for several years, for instance, and acted in lots of Swedish and international film and tv productions! The last five years I’ve also started directing and writing!”
“I’ll be in Paris to write a film that’s partly set in France, which I look a lot forward too.”
Malin Roitman
Associate professor in French Lingusitica
02.01.2025 – 15.01.2025
“Malin Roitman is Associate Professor in French at Stockholm University. Her research deals especially with argumentation and pragmatic phenomena in media and political discourse, especially the presidential elections debates in France. She has mainly been interested in the use of negation as an argumentation strategy in political and media discourse.”
“Negative Meaning and Disagreement in Political Debates – The study examines the use of the French negation “ne…pas” in political debates, focusing on how negation functions when politicians present reasons to vote for them and criticize the opposition. Ne is disappearing in spoken French, but its use is context-dependent. Collaborating with Sorbonne Université Nouvelle, we aim to develop a program for analyzing large linguistic datasets.”
Eva Sidén
Composer, pianist, sound artist
16.01.2025 – 29.01.2025
“Eva SidĂ©n composes both instrumental and electronic music, sound and video installations, multichannel works. She performs around the world primarily with her own art-music and as a soloist. Work presented at Museum of Modern Art, Liljevalchs, Royal operahouse, Concerthouse, City theater Sthlm, Abrons art center, Scheen center Shift New York, Recoleta Art center Buenosaires and many more.https://art-music-art.web.app www.evasiden.se”
“Me, Eva SidĂ©n composer, pianist and sound artist has a two-week stay at Institut suĂ©dois, Paris, Jan 2025 for research and composing of a multi-art work/ new opera based on Nadia and Lili Boulangers artistry and sisterhood, a project together with Michaela Granit, director, dramaturg, scriptwriter. I will also have meetings with colleuges and organizers for future events. During my stay, Tuesday jan 21, I am invited to  l’Atelier contemporain au PSPBB et au CRR de Paris to present my music and artistry. ”
David Thurfjell
Professor in the History of religions
02.01.2025 – 15.01.2025
“I am a historian of religions, a researcher and an author. I have a broad range of interests within the field of history, sociology and psychology of religion. I have a background in Iranian and Islamic studies but have moved towards the study of secularisation.”
“While in Paris, I will be working on two book projects: One is about the history meaninglessness in Europe, and the second about imaginary landscapes in the history of religions.”
Marie Ă–hman
Associate Professor in Comparative Literature
16.01.2025 – 29.01.2025
“For many years, I have been active as a teacher, researcher, and leader in academia. In 2007, I completed my doctorate at Ă–rebro University with a dissertation on Ă…sa Nelvin’s writings. My postdoctoral research has focused on ecocriticism and posthumanism, and recently, on reading promotion initiatives. I currently serve as prefect at Malmö University. Prior to this role, I held the position of Dean at Jönköping University and worked as a teacher and research leader at Mälardalen University.”
“I will be working on my book project, What is (the) Matter? Conceptualizations of Technology, Materiality, and Cognition in Contemporary Nordic Literature. The book addresses the intellectual history of materiality and new materialist perspectives in literary texts. In relation to this, I will utilize access to original sources at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the seminar series at l’UnitĂ© de Formation et de Recherche (UFR) de Philosophie.”