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Literary Agenda special bookcircle with
footballer LILIAN THURAM! ⚽️ ⚽️ 🇫🇷

50 students. 1 book. 5 reading circles. 1 conversation that matters. 1 meeting with Lilian Thuram — here at SSE.

This year, Literary Agenda presents a special reading circle around White Thinking by Lilian Thuram.

A former World Cup-winning footballer, author and philantrophist, Thuram explores the history and mechanisms of racism and challenges us to think about race, identity and society.

HOW IT WORKS
50 students → receive a copy of White Thinking → discuss the book in groups of 10 (in November)
1 special encounter → meet Lilian Thuram at Stockholm School of Economics in late November to discuss the book, its themes and the questions it raises.

SIGN UP via link in bio. Open for the SSE community.

Literary Agenda @ssesportinitiative @sselibrary

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Read. Discuss. Meet authors.

Registration for the Literary Agenda 2026/2027 is now open.

Sign up, and in a few weeks you’ll be assigned to a group with ten other students and a group leader.

In the pictures, you can see this year’s reading list: six newly published works of fiction.

For nine years, the Literary Agenda has given SSE students the opportunity to take part in book circles and author talks led by faculty, staff, and PhD students.

Each year, participants read six selected books. The aim is to promote self-reflection, empathy, and cultural literacy.

The Literary Agenda is open only to the SSE community.

Learn more and sign up via the link in bio.

www.hhs.se/literaryagenda

The Literary Agenda is sponsored by The Hamrin Foundation. @thehamrinfoundation

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Five new group study rooms are becoming spaces for both learning and art 📚🎨

Artist and designer Cilla Ramnek has been commissioned to create an artistic intervention for five new group study rooms at the SSE Library, designed by Ivar Tengbom in 1926 and renovated in 2026.

Titled TEXERE II, the work is inspired by five pioneering women connected to SSE and uses weaving as a metaphor for how knowledge is created, bringing together ideas, experiences, and perspectives to form something new.

At the heart of the project are fuse beads (pärlplattor), a material deeply rooted in Swedish everyday life and childhood creativity. Ramnek transforms this familiar medium into a sophisticated artistic language, connecting craft, design, and learning while highlighting the relationship between the work of the hand and the work of the mind.

The commission is part of SSE’s ongoing commitment to integrating art into the academic environment and has been made possible through a donation from Ulrika Werdelin.

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Summer reading anyone?🤓

The reading list for next academic year’s Literary Agenda 2026/2027 has arrived.

Whether you are spending your summer at the beach, in a park, or on the train, you might just find your next great read on this year’s list.

Now entering its ninth year, Literary Agenda brings together hundreds of students, faculty, and staff to read, reflect, and discuss books from different perspectives.

Registration for the program opens in August, so don’t sleep on this.

Happy reading! 💛

Literary Agenda is made possible through the generous support of The Hamrin Foundation.

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Lock in, exam season is upon us📚

From quiet corners to full-on group mode. Here are some of the best study spots on campus. Good luck with your exams and the last weeks of the semester!

And our friends at @sselibrary will keep you up to date with more available study spots around campus! Got any other go-to spots we should know about?

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Welcome to the SSE permanent collection, Liminal by Johan Thurfjell.

Johan Thurfjell’s piece Liminal (2023) consists of a constructed doorway obscured by a blue banner. From underneath the curtain, a pair of shoes poke out giving the impression of someone standing right behind the veil. Printed on the curtain, a dreamlike smoke wafts across a moonlit sky.
One common motif of Thurfjell’s art is the combination of sculpture, technology, and traditional stagecraft. In Liminal, Thurfjell programmed a mechanism to move the shoes in a subtle but unexpected pattern. Sometimes the movement is a light shift in the direction of a foot. Other times, one of the feet may abruptly lift and tap the ground.

You can find Liminal in the @sselibrary .

Text by @eedahlman - SSE student and art tour guide at the school.

@johan_thurfjellart @johanthurfjell @galerie_nordenhake

#bluehour #blåtimmen

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It’s exam week, and the school feels a little different — quieter, more focused.

Today, we’re highlighting works from the SSE permanent collection that invite you to pause and look a little longer.

We’d love to know: which piece in the school’s permanent collection makes you stop and take a moment?

Featured works:
1. Two Parallel Now — detail, Meta Isæus-Berlin
2. Due Dei — Fredrik Wretman
3. Fågelkvitter — Sara Nilsson
4. Seated Figure — Sean Henry
5. Var uppmärksam / Handelshögskolan — August Eriksson
6. Drowning Sailors — Truls Melin
7. Chair — Richard Nonas

#takeapause #permanentcollection #examweek

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Bokcirkeln rullar vidare. Nästa titel var redan bestämd när vi plötsligt upptäckte att boken inte längre gick att köpa. En livlina kastades ut av @sselibrary som väldigt generöst donerade böcker till AF Arte. Stort tack!

Biodlaren Sergej Sergejitj är en saktmodig man. Äktenskapet gick i kras och dottern ser han aldrig numera. Han lever ensam i en stuga med trädgård i slutet av en sömnig bygata. Livet bjuder inga överraskningar och det är så han vill ha det. Men allt är inte som vanligt. Grannarna har gett sig av och husen omkring honom står kusligt övergivna.
Byn ligger mitt i den ”grå zonen” i Donbass, i ett ingenmansland som varken kontrolleras av den ukrainska armén eller av de ryska separatisterna.

Gradvis växer en övertygelse inom Sergejitj att bina måste räddas till säkerhet. Och en dag lastar han bilen med sina bikupor och ger sig av mot något han knappt anar konturerna av. Hans resa in i Ukraina (innan Rysslands invasion) blir en rundmålning av ett land och dess invånare, av pyrande konflikter, levande liv, drömmar och besvikelser. Sergejitj är en enkel man, han föredrar binas intelligenta ordning framför världens kaotiska myller. I krocken uppstår en helt egen ton, poetisk och varm, djupt mänsklig.

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New in the SSE permanent collection:

Fågelkvitter (Birdsong) by Sara Nilsson, 2023 (Mixed media/blandteknik) - placed in the SSE library.

Sara Nilsson’s sculptures and paintings explore a reflective and quiet relationship with the natural world. Fågelkvitter (Birdsong) evokes a gentle resistance to contemporary life’s speed and disconnection, offering instead a vision of care, stillness, and attunement.

Nilsson’s sculptures, formed from paper pulp, then sanded and painted by hand, come alive with her own distinctive and strong aesthetic language.

Nilsson’s practice is deeply inspired by the countercultures of the 1960s and ’70s as well as her rural surroundings in Värmland. Her work speaks to a growing desire for ways of living that are less extractive, more reciprocal, and deeply rooted.

Sara Nilsson (b. 1978) lives and works in Olsäter, Värmland. Educated at Konstfack, she earned her Master’s degree in Fine Art in 2007. In recent years, Nilsson has had several solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Sara Nilsson was recently invited to exhibit at the Swedish Pavilion at the 2024 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea. She has also created several public artworks across Sweden.

Fågelkvitter by Sara Nilsson was generously donated to SSE by Elisabeth Brandberg and Mimmi Brandberg.

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Soft launch of the new library 📚

Filled with welcoming study places, comfortable armchairs, and intriguing art, we are finally ready to open the doors to the newly renovated SSE library.

Have patience! There are still some renovations on the top floor being made, so a grand inauguration will have to wait a little while.

See you in the library!🥸

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Our beloved library is getting a much deserved glow-up! We know the wait isn’t easy, but the transformation is well underway. Very soon, we’ll be able to welcome you all back. Until then, here’s a first sneak peek at what’s happening behind the doors 🚧📚 @sselibrary

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AF Arte besökte 2025 Lars Strannegård på Handelshögskolan, ett möte som gav mersmak. Inspirerade av deras modell införde vi bokcirklar på Adolf Fredrik musikklasser. För att bredda perspektiven hos lärare, personal och elever. Se omständigheter ur andra människors perspektiv. Bidra till ökad empati, kulturell kompetens och förmåga att reflektera.

25/26 läser vi:
En liten plats - Jamaica Kincaid
Grå bin - Andrej Kurkov
Eurotrash - Christian Kracht

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