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.

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

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