The aim of the research programme Nordic Spaces: Formation of States, Societies and Regions, Cultural Encounters, and Idea and Identity Production in Northern Europe after 1800 is to generate new research on Northern Europe and research collaboration within the region.
Director of Graduate Studies and Researcher at Konstfack/University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Leader of the Nordic Spaces in the North and North America project.
Dr. Lizette Gradén is Director of Graduate Studies and Researcher at Konstfack/University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Gradén has published on methodology and heritage politics, folk art, and display events in the wake of migration processes between Norden and North America. She is author of prizewinning dissertation On Parade: Making Heritage in Lindsborg, Kansas (2003), co-editor of Modets Metamorfoser: den klädda kroppens identiteter och förvandlingar (2009) and recipient of fellowships from the American Scandinavian Foundation, the Sweden America Foundation, the Malmberg Foundation, and the Swedish Institute. Her research interests include fieldwork methodology, dress and costume, ritual and performance. Her current study deals with cultural gifts as performance within the two projects Nordic Museums in the United States (2010-2011), and Nordic Spaces in the North and North America: Heritage Preservation in Real and Imagined Nordic Places (2008-2011), the latter co-directed with Dr. Hanne Pico Larsen. (lizette.graden@konstfack.se)
How are Nordic spaces created expressively in the Nordic countries and North America? How do such spaces give shape to cultural heritage, delimit identities and draw boundaries via recognition of difference?