Max Liljefors

My current research revolves around the human body in relation to bioscience and biopolitics. My project “Anatomy in the Expanded Field”, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2011-2013), examines how biomedical images change our understanding of the human body. It is linked to the Linnaeus research environment Bagadilico, where I am PI since 2013 for The Cultural Science Research Team.

I also have the project “MRI Artistic Research”, with artist Conny Blom, funded by the Humanistic Research Group, LU (2011-2013). The objective is to design an MRI experiment that map what kind of questions MRI allows.

I also conduct research about biology as cultural heritage, and co-manages research initiations within Law & Humanities, Visual Ecocriticism, and an interdisciplinary project about stem cell research.

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Research

Present projects
cultural science and criminologyEthnography and cultural analysis are important tools to scrutinize the processes at the micro and macro levels, which contribute to the illegal becomes ...
The Human Stem Cell: Health, Hope, Bioeconomy. The Human Stem Cell: Health, Hope, Bioeconomy. Characteristic of today's biomedical development are: 1.Desire to create health, 2.Patients' expectations, ...
Visual Ecocriticism (research leader)Initiation of a new research field, Visual Ecocriticism.
Biology as cultural heritage (research leader)A study of Swedish biobanks seen in the light of developments within bio-philosophy, bio-hacking and bioart.
Humanities and Medicine (HuMe)The project aims at increasing research collaboration between the medical and humanities faculties. Expansion of HT's research infrastructure by developing ...
Anatomy in the expanded field. Aesthetics, ethics and epistemology in contemporary medical imaging. (research leader)New technologies has turned medicine into partly an image science. The research project aims to investigate epistemological, aesthetic and ethical aspects ...
Bagadilico - The Cultural Research TeamBagadilico is an interdisciplinary network for research on Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, both caused by the death of nerve cells in the part ...
The Archaeology of Time Travelxxxx
Completed projects
Believing in ESS: Size, Vision and Pioneering (research leader)An analysis of the cultural metaphors and aesthetic tropes used in marketing ESS.
Desire for Freedom: Art after 1945. [Verführung Freiheit. Kunst in Europa seit 1945] (research leader)Desire for Freedom: Art after 1945. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 2011-2012. Commission to investigate Swedish avant-garde art after 1945 in ...
Performing Crisis: Body and Authority in Contemporary Art (research leader)Contemporary art often comes in conflict with the law. The project explores contemporary art that enacts conflicts between societal institutions and the ...
Cultures of Intensified Experiences and Special Effects (research leader)Cultures of Intensified Experiences and Special Effects [Upplevelsekultur och specialeffekter], funded by the Allhem Foundation’s postdoc-grant, and a ...
Myths of Nations (research leader)Mythen der Nationen: 1945 — Arena der Erinnerungen. Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), Berlin, 2003-2004. Commission from DHM to investigate how Swedish ...
Images of the Holocaust (research leader)Images of the Holocaust: Meaning, Memory, Incrimination [in Swedish] was my PhD project, completed 2002, about the contemporary cultural and societal ...