Presentation

Mikael Larsson is Associate Professor of Old Testament at the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is head of the Department of Biblical Studies and vice-president of the Swedish Society of Exegesis. His research focuses on the Bible in contemporary culture and on issues of gender, sexuality and power. He did a post-doc at the Center for Gender Studies (Uppsala University) and was a researcher at the Church of Sweden Research Unit. He is a member of Interfilm and has participated in the ecumenical juries of the Zlin (2008), Berlin (2011) and Nyon (2017) international film festivals.