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?
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.
Group members
Group managers
Victoria Fareld
Professor
Anna Jörngården Galili
Senior lecturer, associate professor
Members
Krzysztof Bak
Professor
Julia Baumann
Data Steward
Christine Becker
Senior Lecturer, Vice head of department
Mats Burström
Professor
Kristina Fjelkestam
Professor
Carin Franzén
Professor
Lotten Gustafsson Reinius
Professor
Heidi Grönstrand
Professor, head of department
Stefan Helgesson
Deputy Vice President for Human Science, Professor
Renata Ingbrant
Senior Lecturer
Olena Jansson
Lecturer
Tora Lane
Universitetslektor
Caroline Merkel
Universitetslektor
Irmgard Schweiger
Professor
Susanne Tienken
Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Joakim Wrethed
Professor
Maria Ioana Zirra
Postdoctoral researcher
Martin Wiklund
Senior lecturer, associate professor
