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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?
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Foto: Deyan Georgiev, Giuseppe Porzani, Yasar Unlutas, alla Mostphotos. Jacques Bertaux.

Cultural memory studies is an interdisciplinary research field that engages with the entanglements between the past and the present and the dynamics between remembering and forgetting; in literature and the visual arts, in material culture, and in historical, philosophical and political debates. The network for cultural memory studies at Stockholm university brings together researchers from a broad range of disciplines within the humanities, and provides a forum for interdisciplinary dialogues, events and research initiatives centred on the study of differing modes of relating to the past and its continued presence in the present; in the form of traces, fragments, and unfinished legacies.

Chapter in book by Irmy Schweiger - Sketches on a Blank Slate: Shawna Yang Ryan's Future-Oriented Memories of the Past in Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century.: A Critical Reader / [ed] Chia-rong Wu & Ming-ju Fan, Singapore: Springer , 2023, p. 217-233

Book review by Irmy Schweiger - The Landscape of Historical Memory. The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan by Kirk A. Denton 2024. In The Journal of the European Association of Chinese Studies, ISSN 2709-9946, Vol. 4, p. 301-305.

Book review by Irmy Schweiger - "Riemenschnitter, Andrea, Jessica Imbach, and Justyna Jaguscik: Sinophone Utopias. Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream" Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, vol. 77, no. 3-4, 2023, pp. 789-794. In Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques: Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft, ISSN 0004-4717, E-ISSN 2235-5871, Vol. 77, no 3-4

Nachhaltige Zukunft? Taiwanliteratur in Geschichten. Chapter by Irmy Schweiger - In Die Zukunft mit China denken / [ed] Daniel Fuchs;Sascha Klotzbücher; Andrea Riemenschnitter; Lena Springer; Felix Wemheuer, Wien: Mandelbaum Verlag , 2023, s. 265-286

Irmy Schweiger editor of journal - The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies: Special Issue: Culture and Memory Vol 4 (2023)

Book by Joakim Wrethed - Gothic Hauntology: Everyday Hauntings and Epistemological Desire (2023)

Chapter by Mats Burström - For love of archaeology in For Love of Archaeology: To Bjørnar J. Olsen from friend and colleagues (2023)

Chapter by Caroline Merkel in Nils Mohl - "Welch ein Zuhause!" Urbane Peripherie in Nils Mohls Stadtrand-Trilogie (2023)

Article by Christine Becker and Anta Kursiša in German as a Foreign Language - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Blended Learning und bichronem Online-Lernen im universitären DaF-Anfängerunterricht aus Lehrendenperspekt (2023)

Chapter by Susanne Tienken in Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online - Kulturelle Kontiguität: Cultural contiguity (2023)

Article by Caroline Merkel in Deutsche Biographie, NDB-online , 2023 - Berendsohn, Walter Arthur: Pseudonym: Bernhard Florian (1908–1910)

Irmy Schweiger in Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century.: A Critical Reader - Sketches on a Blank Slate: Shawna Yang Ryan's Future-Oriented Memories of the Past (2023)

Chapter by Anna Jörngården in Literary Landscapes of Time - Presencing Absence: Ruin as Counter-Monument in Caribbean Literature (2022)

Article by Susanne Tienken and Rahim Rahmani Chianeh in Procedia Computer Science - Distributed Meta-Learning for Context Based on Culture Heritage Collection Data in an Immersive Reality System (2022)