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Medievalism: The Medieval Past in Modern Imagination

AI produces stereotypical and anachronistic images when portraying the past

Can AI help us understand the past – or does it project a hallucination of history? A research project tested how an image model visualises the year 1936: the results are stereotypical, anachronistic and shaped by today's digital image flows.

Department of Society, Culture and Identity

The Department of Society, Culture and Identity is a multidisciplinary department operating at the intersection between the humanities and social sciences. Our focus is on issues related to the relationship between people and society.

She’s back after a year "in space"

For the past year, astrophysicist Shilpa Bijavara Seshashayana has been conducting space observations and operating the instruments at the Nordic Optical Telescope on the Canary Island of La Palma.

Meet our new professors

In October 2026, Malmö University will install eight new professors across five faculties. During the university’s celebratory week from 12 to 16 October, they will give open breakfast lectures, which will be filmed. The lectures will be published here...

Imagining and Co-Creating Futures

In a world that seems caught in a crisis-ridden present, there is a need to reawaken our capacity to collectively imagine, make, organise, and educate towards more hopeful futures. The centre offers a transdisciplinary space for collaborative research and...

Academic traditions

About Malmö University's academic traditions and the insignia used at the ceremonies.

Honorary doctorate lecture – ‘Foul arsehole’: Offence and the future of courtesy

The Institute for Studies in Malmö's History (IMH)

The Institute for Studies in Malmö's History (IMH) is a centre for urban history research. We research the role of cities in history, changes in city life, and how their identities are produced and spread. An important part of our activities is to create...