Symposium: Contested Sites of Memory

KONFERENS
Startdatum: torsdag 18 januari 2024
Tid: 10:00
Slutdatum: fredag 19 januari 2024
Tid: 16:15
Plats: Biblioteket, Manne Siegbahnhusen, Frescativägen 24E

Nätverket för kulturella minnesstudier inbjuder till ett symposium som också fungerar som avslutning för doktorandkursen ”Contested Sites of Memory: History, Politics, Emotions”. Öppet för alla intresserade.

Collage av fyra bilder: arkivlåda, svartvita foton, ruin, teckning av monument som rivits

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

Anmälan görs till

anna.jorngarden@littvet.su.se

Lunch endast för nätverkets medlemmar.

Abstracts

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Programme

18 January

10:00 – 16:15

10:00 – 10:15Introduction
10:15 – 11:15Hans Ruin, Professor of Philosophy, Södertörn University: “Enacted Memories and Contested Pasts: Philosophical and Hermeneutic Perspectives ”
11:15 – 11:30Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30Dirk Gindt, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Stockholm University: ‘”We Shall Live On’: Circumpolar Performance as a Means to Reclaim and Promote Cultural Memories, Practices and Legacies”
12:30 – 13:30Lunch
13:30 – 14:45

Two PhD presentations and commentaries by Dirk Gindt/Hans Ruin

Ebba Vikdahl, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm University:
“Tracing ‘Elf Mills:’ Nordiska museet and the Construction of a Magic Past”
Julia Stina Skoglund, Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University:
“(Re-)Searching the Amateur: Critical Theatre Historiography and Non-Professional Theatre Makers in the Archive”

14:45 – 15:00Coffee break
15:00 – 16:15

Two PhD presentations and commentaries by Hans Ruin

Sofia Iaffa, Comparative Literature, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University:
“Post-Memory and Trauma in Gloria Gervitz’ Long Poem Migraciones”
Pedro Scofano de Almeida, Media and Communication Studies, Örebro University:
“Collective Memory, Writing and Rewriting History Through Official Newsreels in Brazil”

19 January

10:00 – 16:00

10:00 – 10:15Introduction
10:15 – 11:15Jenny Wüstenberg, Professor of History and Memory Studies, Nottingham Trent University (Zoom): “Remembering Extinct Species Fast/Slow”
11:15 –  11:30Coffee break
11:30 – 12:45

Two PhD presentations and commentaries by Jenny Wüstenberg (Zoom)

Adam Lindquist Wadstein, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University:
“The Silenced Sea: Unearthing the Forgotten Narratives of Cypriot Marine Interaction”
Erik Isberg, History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH:
“Archiving an Ocean: Deep Sea Core Drilling and Planetary Memory”

12:45 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:00Ola Larsmo, Writer and Visiting Professor at Remeso, Linköping University: “’Generations of Unwashed Ancestors' - How the Role of the Swedish Immigrant Changed from 1880 to 1920”
15:00 –  15:15Concluding remarks
Drinks at Accelerator

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