Anna Jörngården Galili, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, has written an article in the new issue of the journal Representations, with the title: “Black Lives Matter in Paris 1771 and 2021: Monuments Made, Unmade, and Not Made”.

Anna Jörngården, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, has written a chapter in the new book Literary Landscapes of Time: Multiple Temporalities and Spaces in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures (De Gruyter).

Victoria Fareld, Associate Professor of History of Ideas, is in a new article exploring the relation between the present, the past and the future in a intertwined rather than chronological view of times.

Victoria Fareld, associate professor of History of Ideas at Stockholm University, has written the article "Time" in the anthology The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory, edited by Chiel van den Akker. Abstract This chapter will discuss the changes that have occurred in recent years to the concept of time in historical studies, and the development of temporal constructivist approaches among historians. Since Koselleck, historical time itself has turned into an object of historicization by historians interested in how conceptions of time frame the writing of history. A common topic in current debate is a shared experience of crisis or profound changes in our present experience of time. By some historians these changes are seen as a threat to historical consciousness and by others they are rather understood as offering an opportunity to scrutinize the chrononormative underpinnings of academic historiography. The article gives an overview of how a linear and homogenous concept of historical time is presently challenged by new ways of understanding temporality, notably by theories of presentism and of multi-layered temporalities; as well as how traditional ways of periodisation and scaling are challenged by theories of long-term history and synchronization. Finally, the chapter will contextualize the current temporal trends within the field of history and relate them to a bigger reorientation occurring within the humanities.

In a new article in the journal Memory Studies (16/2 2021), Victoria Fareld, associate professor in History of Ideas, Stockholm University, analyzes how the Austrian writer Jean Améry formulates his memories of the Holocaust in the contemporaneous situation of decolonisation. Fareld argues that Améry found a language to remember and mediate his experience of Nazi violence in Franz Fanon's narrative about colonial violence. The article shows how both stories of violence echo each other in Améry's testimony, turning it into an entanglement of voices that transgresses clear-cut boundaries between individual and collective memories. Read the whole article in Memory Studies Find out more about Victoria Fareld's research here