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Before the French Revolution, family trees were reserved for the feudal upper classes, who used them to consolidate their social status. While feud...

Johan Ihre (1707-1780) was professor of Rethoric and Politics at Uppsala University for 42 years. During this time he managed no less than 453 diss...

On Sunday, 30 June, six seminars on sustainability and urbanisation focusing on India and Sweden will take place in Almedalen. To find out more, we...

Participating in a race for women plays an important role for women and increases self-confidence among participants. Women aim to perform as well ...

Tomislav Dulić, Senior Lecturer in History and Director of the Hugo Valentin Centre, has been awarded the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award 2019.

Many 20th-century accounts of international relations and diplomacy often leave out the role of women. Diplomats’ wives were not officially employe...

The Martin Henriksson Holmdahl Prize is Uppsala University’s foremost award for efforts to promote human rights and liberty. This year’s prize is a...

Håga, Scandinavia's most significant Bronze Age site, is relatively unknown. But in a new book, archaeologists at Uppsala University have brought t...

A new international study shows the importance of studying historical skeletal material to increase knowledge about how viruses develop.

The intensive whaling that has pushed many species to the brink of extinction today may be several centuries older than previously assumed. This vi...

H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf has decided to award Uppsala University’s Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson and Johan Svedjedal, Professor of Literature, H.M. ...

The 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award winners at Uppsala University teach subjects related to art history, informatics and media, pharmaceutical bi...

Human diversity abounds in language, culture and biology. An understanding of this diversity is central to a lot of research, but it is important t...

How, where and when we eat are key issues for human health and wellbeing. A multidisciplinary research network at Uppsala University aims to deepen...

Nowadays, civil rights are usually connected with citizenship of a country. But how do growing globalisation and more mobility affect this?

Remarkably little research is conducted on higher education in Sweden, but a large share of existing research on the subject is at Uppsala Universi...

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently elected new members. Two Uppsala researchers were elected as international honorary members.

In late April, a ship will reach New York bringing the exhibition “The Vikings Begin” which will embark on a two-year tour of the US. On display wi...

Every year, Vitterhetsakademien (The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities) confers prizes for outstanding scholarly achievemen...

Uppsala University’s Oscar Prize for young researchers has been awarded to Eric Cullhed, Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics and Philol...