Stockholm university

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.

Group members

Group managers

Victoria Fareld

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Victoria Fareld

Markus Huss

Universitetslektor, Docent

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
Markus Huss

Anna Jörngården Galili

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Anna Jörngården

Members

Krzysztof Bak

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Krzysztof Bak

Julia Baumann

Data Steward

Stockholm University Library
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Christine Becker

Senior Lecturer, Vice head of department

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
Christine Becker

Mats Burström

Professor

Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
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Kristina Fjelkestam

Professor

Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies
Kristina Fjelkestam

Carin Franzén

Professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Carin Franzén

Lotten Gustafsson Reinius

Professor

Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies
Lotten Gustafsson Reinius. Foto: Peter Segemark, Nordiska museet.

Heidi Grönstrand

Professor, head of department

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
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Stefan Helgesson

Deputy Vice President for Human Science, Professor

Department of English
Stefan Helgesson

Renata Ingbrant

Senior Lecturer

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
Renata Ingbrant

Olena Jansson

Lecturer

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
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Tora Lane

Universitetslektor

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
Tora Lane

Caroline Merkel

Universitetslektor

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
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Irmgard Schweiger

Professor

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern studies
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Susanne Tienken

Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German
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Joakim Wrethed

Professor

Department of English
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Maria Ioana Zirra

Postdoctoral researcher

Department of English
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Martin Wiklund

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Martin Wiklund

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