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?

Forum Modernism at Stockholm University is an association for researchers whose work in some way concerns modernism, both through studies of its various mainstream and marginalized expressions, and through critical examinations of the concept as such.

The Heritage Seminar at Stockholm University gathers around a shared interest in heritage and museums. From various academic disciplines, we explore how memories, objects, and events are preserved, as well as how different actors select, interpret, and communicate different forms of heritage.