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Adam Bisno

Postdoc

My research focuses on democracy, public space, and the cultural meanings of inventorship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe.

Postdoc at Tema Q

I have recently received grants from The Swedish Research Council and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for two separate projects 鈥� one on democracy and commercial spaces, the other on antisemitism and techno-optimism.

Current Research

I am the principal investigator for two projects: 鈥淐ommercial Dining Establishments as Democratic Infrastructure: Lessons from Weimar Berlin,鈥� funded by the Swedish Research Council, and 鈥淯seful Inventors: Science, Technology, and the Fight Against Antisemitism in German-Speaking Europe,鈥� funded by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Recent book

My recent book, Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875鈥�1933 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) is available at . The book is based on my dissertation, Hotel Berlin: The Politics of Commercial Hospitality in the German Metropolis, 1875鈥�1945 (Johns Hopkins University, 2018).

Publications

2024

Isabelle Strömstedt, Adam Bisno (2024) History of Intellectual Culture 3/2024: Experimental Spaces: Knowledge Production and its Environments in the Long Nineteenth Century, p. 49-71 (Chapter in book)
Adam Bisno (2024)

2023

Adam Bisno (2023) Smithsonian Magazine (Article, review/survey)

2020

Adam Bisno (2020) Inventor Stories (Article, review/survey)

2019

Adam Bisno (2019) Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Vol. 64, p. 27-52 (Article in journal)

News

Campus Norrk枚ping.

SEK 50 million from the Swedish Research Council to LiU

The Swedish Research Council has awarded SEK 50 million to LiU. This is the outcome of six calls for proposals where the allocation of grants was recently decided. The research covers areas such as segregation, youth crime and opioid dependence.

SEK23 million for research in humanities and the social sciences

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond grants over SEK 23 million to research projects in the humanities and social sciences at 福利姬. These include the significance of names, the consequences of uranium mining, political polarisation, and robots.

Organisation

Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media (KSFM)

The division conducts problem-oriented cultural science research and teaching at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences.

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.
Groups of students at tables in Studenthuset

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FILFAK)

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences provides education and research in humanities, social- and behavioral sciences, commercial law, art disciplines and thematic science.

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