CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Löfgren, I. (2025). "L'image de la maternité noire au Brésil de l'arrière-plan au premier plan". Colloque Le Brésil Illustré, Maison de l'Amérique Latine, Paris, France, May 5, 2025.
Löfgren, I. (2025). "Visual Narratives for the Future: Developing a Media Production Course from a Sustainability Perspective". Critical and Creative Approaches to Environmental Communication – Storytelling as, and for, Sustainability. The Biennial Environmental Communication Conference - MISTRA. 12-13 March, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden.
Löfgren, I. (2024). "EcoJust Studio: Framing Ecological Justice in an Artistic Research Framework". EcoJust - Ecologically and Socially Just Sustainability Transformations Annual Conference. 18-19 November, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I. (2024). "Either We Stay or Disappear: Using Social Theater to Untangle the Future of the City". Swedish STS Conference 2024, October 3-4, Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden. (Panel presentation)
Löfgren, I. (2024). "Revealing the Indigenous Gaze in Art and Visual Culture in Brazil". Narratives of Extraction: Perspectives on Art, Culture, and Environmental Justice in the Global South (EcoJust), June 12, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I and Borelli, V. (2024). "The Memetization of Laughter in the Pre-election period in the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Elections". VI Seminário Internacional em Midiatizacão e Processos Sociais, 8 May, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
Löfgren, I (2024). "Book Launch: 'The Planalto Riots' and 'Mediatization North and South' ". VI Seminário Internacional em Midiatizacão e Processos Sociais, 7 May, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
Löfgren, I and Borelli, V. (2023). "Quando o Brasil voltou a rir: a circulação do meme 'Patriota do Caminhão' ". Simpósio Nacional da ABCiber, 29 November, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Brazil.
Löfgren, I. (2023). “What Would a Swedish Mine Be Without a Party? On Metals, Minerals and Love in the Anthropocene: Climate propaganda in the 2021 advertising campaign 'The Swedish Mine'". IAMCR Pre-Conference: Climate, Media, and Public Issues, 7 July, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.
Löfgren, I. (2023). "Smart Cities and Cultural Resistance" [Workshop and Lecture]. Smart(er) Cities Conference [Funded by FORMAS], 25 May, Lakehead University, Orillia, Canada.
Löfgren, I. (2022). "Para não dizer que não falei das nuvens: Imaginários sócio-técnicos da terra dos anjos tronchos e algumas considerações planetárias para a mediatização". V International Research Seminar on Mediatization and Social Processes, 12 December, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Brazil.
Löfgren, I. (2022). “What Would Swedish Mines Be without a Party? Lobbying, Sovereignty and Climate Propagandas in the Advertising Campaign The Swedish Mine”. Reclaiming Sustainability through HumanitiesScience Pathways: Transdisciplinary Co-Production of Knowledge on Climate-Energy Futures, December 1-2; South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies (SARAS), Maldonado, Uruguay.
Löfgren, I. (2022), "Semiotics of Care and Violence: Memetization and Necropolitics during the Brazilian 2018 Elections and the action #MarielleMultiplica", V Seminário Internacional de Pesquisa em Mediatização e Processos Sociais, 21 November, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil.
Löfgren, I. (2022), "Memes as means of resistance: Politics and Visuality of Protest in Brazil in the #MarielleMultiplica action", Media and Governance in Latin America, 20-21 June, Jönköping University, Jönköping, SW.
Löfgren, I. (2021). "Casa Chama and the Mediatization of Trans Care”, IV International Research Seminar on Mediatization and Social Processes, 14 November, Universidade do Vale dos Sinos (UNISINOS), online conference.
Löfgren I, (2021), “Narratives to Postpone the End of the World”, Panel Holistic Climate Narratives”, Weather Glass or Crystal Ball?, 22 September, Goethe Institut, Stockholm, SW. Watch the symposium here
Löfgren, I. (2021). "A ética da hospitalidade em cidades divididas". Jornadas de Pesquisa em Midiatização CAPES/STINT. Online conference, UNISINOS. Watch my presentation here Watch the conference here
Löfgren, I. (2020) “At the end, all we might be left with in the landscape is the clouds”, Landscape Literacies - Investigating Energy and Social Transitions, 7 December, LABLAB, online conference. More about LABLAB
Löfgren, I. (2020). “This is Why I am in Europe: Vilém Flusser and the Communicological Turn at the XII 1973 São Paulo Biennial”. Conference 2020: Vilém Flusser and His “Languages”, 29 June, Vilém Flusser Archive, online conference.
Löfgren, I. & Gouvêa, P. “Ways of Seeing Black Motherhood in Slavery Archives in Brazil: Mãe Preta, an exhibition and artistic research project”. Big Berks 2020 - Berkshire Conference of Woman Historians, May 2020 (conference postponed). Baltimore, USA.
Löfgren, I. & Burga E. (2019). “Diasporic Representation in Swedish Art Collections”. Framtiden i backspegeln – 20 år med 1% till konsten.12 september, Haninge kulturhus, Haninge, SW.
Löfgren, I. (2019). "Memes as means of resistance: Politics and Visuality of Protest in Brazil", Urgent Publishing: New Strategies in Post-Truth Times, Institute of Network Cultures, 15-17 May, Arnhem, The Netherlands. Watch the presentation here
Löfgren, I., Burga, E. & Dusant, M. (2018). "Public Art in Sweden from a Decolonial Perspective”, Samtal om offentlig konst. Konstnärscentrum, 13 October. Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I., Burga, E. & Dusant, M. (2018). "We Have Heard That..." Artists Out of Office (AOOO), IASPIS
Konstnärnämnden/Konstfrämjandet, 3 May, Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I., Burga, E. & Dusant, M. (2016). "Nuestras Madres - en la mesa". 2016 3rd Architectural Humanities Research Association Conference (AHRA) Architecture and Feminisms, 16-17 November, Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I. (2016). Mãe Preta: Memorializing Black Motherhood in Brazil. Higher Seminar, NILAS - Nordic Institute for Latin American Studies, Stockholm University. 16 September, Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I. (2016). "Satellitstaden - Participation and Hospitality”. Art, the City, the Residents: the Role of Art in Urban Transformations. Public Seminar, Department of Art History, Södertörn University, 10 April. Stockholm, Sweden.
WORKSHOPS
Löfgren, I. and Sokolova, T. (2024). "Playing in Tamed and Wild Environments: Unusual places, temporalities, and artistic methods for learning in non-artistic disciplines". Swedish STS Conference 2024, October 3-4, Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden. (Workshop)
Löfgren, I., Nejadibabadaei, O. and Sokolova, T. (2024). "Playing in Tamed and Wild Environments: Unusual places, temporalities, and artistic methods for learning in non-artistic disciplines". Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental Pedagogies, Play, Policies, and Spatial Design, August 30, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden. (Workshop)
Löfgren, I. (2023). "Smart Cities and Cultural Resistance" [Workshop and Lecture]. Smart(er) Cities Conference [Funded by FORMAS], 25 May, Lakehead University, Orillia, Canada.
Löfgren, I. (2020). “The Eye and the Cloud - a Digital Self-Portrait in the Age of Energy Transition” [Workshop and Lecture]. Lyssna! - om klimat i gränslandet mellan kunskap och känslor, 10 March, Färgfabriken, SW. Watch the presentation here and an interview here
GUEST LECTURES
Löfgren, I. (2023)."To see with/through indigenous eyes: Environmental and Visual Justice and the Decolonial Gaze". 25 November, PhD course in Sustainable Communication, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Jönköping University. (online)
Löfgren I. (2020). "From Site to Theory to Practice: Working Through Slavery Image Archives in Brazil". Department of Graphic Design, 14 October, Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I. (2019). "Affective Networks: Visual Complexity in Times of Political Change". Department of Media Studies and Journalism, 29 February, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine.
Löfgren, I. (Spring 2016/17/18/19). "Satellitstaden: Art, Participation and Hospitality", Master Course in Public Art, Department of Art History (Konstvetenskap), Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I. (2016). "A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Islands: the Iconography of Utopias and Dystopias". [Workshop and lecture]. 1 November. Department of Game Design, Uppsala University, Visby, Sweden.
Löfgren, I. (2014). "Site, Intervention, New Media: Satellitstaden and a New Media Logic of Public Space", OCAD University, 23 February, Ontario, Canada.
Löfgren, I. (2013). "Satellitstaden: Art, Architecture and a Spatial Philosophy of Hospitality". Department of Architecture, Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan (KTH). 15 December. Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I. (2010). "Islands, Origins, Originality: Philosophy and Desert Islands". School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Institute of Technology, 17 September. Singapore.
Löfgren, I. (2010). "From Peepshows to Sensors: A Brief History of Illusions in Media Art History". National University of Singapore (NUS), 22 November. Singapore.
ARTIST TALKS
Löfgren, I. (2019). Mãe Preta. AllArtNow, Stockholm. 30 November.
Löfgren, I. & Burga E. (2019). “Diasporic Representation in Swedish Art Collections”. Framtiden i backspegeln – 20 år med 1% till konsten.12 september, Haninge kulturhus, Haninge, SW. 14 September.
Löfgren, I. & Gouvêa, P. (2018). "Mãe Preta". Espaço Chão, São Luiz, Brazil. 10 December.
Löfgren, I. & Gouvêa, P. (2018). "Mãe Preta". Galeria Mário Schemberg, FUNARTE, São Paulo, Brazil. 4 October.
Löfgren, I., Burga, E. & Dusant, M. (2018). "Public Art in Sweden from a Decolonial Perspective”, Samtal om offentlig konst. Konstnärscentrum, 13 October. Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I., Burga, E. & Dusant, M. (2018). "We Have Heard That..." Artists Out of Office (AOOO), IASPIS
Konstnärnämnden/Konstfrämjandet, 3 May, Stockholm, Sweden.
Löfgren, I. (2015). "A Möbius Trip: An Archipelago Odyssey", Maretopia: Experiencing Sites in Movement, 28 September. Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden. 24 April.
Löfgren, I. (2013). "Diaspora and Hospitality". Diasporic Dispersals/Categorical Conditions, Stills Gallery, 15 May. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Löfgren, I. (2012). "Satellitstaden och deltagandeprocesser". Can Art Change Society?, Arkitekturmuseet, 12 December. Bergsjön, Göteborg, Sweden. 10 December.
Löfgren, I. (2009). "Art collectives in Brazil". SuperMarket Talks, 9 February, Stockholm, Sweden.
ON THE WEB
Isabel Löfgren in conversation with Martyna Nowicka, CuratorLab (2019). Read here