The official images of the empresses Plotina and Sabina were changed during the period of the adoptive emperors Trajan and Hadrian. A central focus in this thesis is how Trajan and Hadrian exercised their power by letting the pictures of their wives play an important pu...

When the Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women (Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, SKBL), became freely available online, it opened the opportunity to examine and transform its text-based content in new ways. The purpose of this project is to apply and reflect on exp...

This study aims to compare two exhibitions to find out the decolonizing strategies and how they are affecting the material culture that they exhibit. ñseums around the world are in the midst of decolonization. This process has been going on for a long time and covers al...

Purpose: The reason behind this study comes from the numerous difficulties and challenges that have affected promoting the cultural integration of Syrian immigrant craftsmen and decreased their opportunities for practicing their crafts in Sweden. Thus, the main aim of t...

This essay aims to analyse how different archaeologists interpret archaeological remains as ritualistic. It compares different definitions of rituality in archaeology as well as Catherine Bells definition of ritualisation and applies those definitions to select archaeol...

Visual Relationship Detection (VRD) is a relatively young research area, where the goal is to develop prediction models for detecting the relationships between objects depicted in an image. A relationship is modeled as a subject-predicate-object triplet, where the predi...

Calling for a church service by bell ringing has a long history in Sweden. In order for the sound to be heard as far as possible, it was most natural to hang them in the church tower. Large, cast bells first appeared in the 13th century and with that they began to hang ...

Lime tree hedges and other architectural compositions of this plant material have historically been a part of the visual aspects in and surrounding cultural heritage environments in Sweden and continue to be a part of them to this day. Traditionally, the pruning of thes...

The thesis investigates and discusses performance art within a museum context and from a conservator’s perspective. It is done by the case study of a performance artwork entitled The Passion Flower, created by the Swedish artist Ingela Ihrman in 2017. The artwork consis...

Introduction Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a neurological condition characterized by cognitive decline greater than expected for an individual's age and education level. Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI) is a selfreported decline in cognitive abilities but not ...