Symposium: Contested Sites of Memory

Conference

Start date: Thursday 18 January 2024

Time: 10.00

End date: Friday 19 January 2024

Time: 16.15

Location: The Library, Manne Siegbahn Buildings, Frescativägen 24E

Welcome to a symposium arranged by the Cultural memory studies network as a termination of the PhD studies course Contested Sites of Memory: History, Politics, Emotion. Open to all.

Four pictures: file box, old photos, house ruins, Drawing of monument razing

Photo: Deyan Georgiev, Giuseppe Porzani, Yasar Unlutas, all Mostphotos. Jacques Bertaux.

Please register to:

anna.jorngarden@littvet.su.se

Lunch for network members only.

Abstracts

Cultural memory studies

The course Contested Sites of Memory: History, Politics, Emotions

Programme

18 January

10:00 – 16:15

10:00 – 10:15	Introduction
10:15 – 11:15	Hans Ruin, Professor of Philosophy, Södertörn University: “Enacted Memories and Contested Pasts: Philosophical and Hermeneutic Perspectives”
11:15 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30	Dirk Gindt, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Stockholm University: “‘We Shall Live On’: Circumpolar Performance as a Means to Reclaim and Promote Cultural Memories, Practices and Legacies”
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:45	Two PhD presentations and commentaries by Dirk Gindt/Hans Ruin Ebba Vikdahl, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm University: “Tracing ‘Elf Mills:’ Nordiska museet and the Construction of a Magic Past” Julia Stina Skoglund, Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University: “(Re-)Searching the Amateur: Critical Theatre Historiography and Non-Professional Theatre Makers in the Archive”
14:45 – 15:00	Coffee break
15:00 – 16:15	Two PhD presentations and commentaries by Hans Ruin Sofia Iaffa, Comparative Literature, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University: “Post-Memory and Trauma in Gloria Gervitz’ Long Poem Migraciones” Pedro Scofano de Almeida, Media and Communication Studies, Örebro University: “Collective Memory, Writing and Rewriting History Through Official Newsreels in Brazil”

19 January

10:00 – 16:00

10:00 – 10:15	Introduction
10:15 – 11:15	Jenny Wüstenberg, Professor of History and Memory Studies, Nottingham Trent University (Zoom): “Remembering Extinct Species Fast/Slow”
11:15 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:45	Two PhD presentations and commentaries by Jenny Wüstenberg (Zoom) Adam Lindquist Wadstein, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University: “The Silenced Sea: Unearthing the Forgotten Narratives of Cypriot Marine Interaction” Erik Isberg, History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH: “Archiving an Ocean: Deep Sea Core Drilling and Planetary Memory”
12:45 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:00	Ola Larsmo, Writer and Visiting Professor at Remeso, Linköping University: “’Generations of Unwashed Ancestors' – How the Role of the Swedish Immigrant Changed from 1880 to 1920”
15:00 – 15:15	Concluding remarks Drinks at Accelerator

Theme

Research subjects

History of Philosophy Comparative and transnational perspectives in and on literature History of Knowledge Literature and Philosophy

Research group

Cultural memory studies

What is the cultural significance of memory? How and why do we remember the past, not only as individuals but across generations, as social and cultural communities? And how do these memory practices relate to politically and emotionally charged questions of national or ethnic identity, historical traumas, and experiences of dislocation, loss and forgetting?

Ruins of houses destroyed by bombardment

Last updated: January 18, 2024

Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics