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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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
![Victoria Fareld](/polopoly_fs/1.749460.1720699471!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Markus Huss
Universitetslektor, Docent
![Markus Huss](/polopoly_fs/1.395674.1534239355!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Anna Jörngården Galili
Senior lecturer, associate professor
![Anna Jörngården](/polopoly_fs/1.401530.1647540060!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Members
Krzysztof Bak
Professor
![Krzysztof Bak. Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Krzysztof Bak](/polopoly_fs/1.646075.1675773595!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Julia Baumann
Data Steward
![profil4](/polopoly_fs/1.649606.1678110893!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Christine Becker
Senior Lecturer, Vice head of department
![Christine Becker](/polopoly_fs/1.523597.1659955633!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Mats Burström
Professor
![Mats B](/polopoly_fs/1.559473.1622815787!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Kristina Fjelkestam
Professor
![Kristina Fjelkestam Kristina Fjelkestam](/polopoly_fs/1.407029.1539864946!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Carin Franzén
Professor
![Carin Franzén. Carin Franzén](/polopoly_fs/1.518320.1601016271!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Lotten Gustafsson Reinius
Professor
![Lotten Gustafsson Reinius. Foto: Peter Segemark, Nordiska museet. Lotten Gustafsson Reinius. Foto: Peter Segemark, Nordiska museet.](/polopoly_fs/1.357289.1510817972!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Heidi Grönstrand
Professor, head of department
![Bild: Mika Tolvanen Bild: Mika Tolvanen](/polopoly_fs/1.719530.1709620867!/image/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpeg)
Stefan Helgesson
Deputy Vice President for Human Science, Professor
![Stefan Helgesson](/polopoly_fs/1.731715.1713966650!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Olena Jansson
Lecturer
![OlenaJansson](/polopoly_fs/1.696760.1701788004!/image/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpeg)
Tora Lane
Universitetslektor
![Tora Lane](/polopoly_fs/1.691911.1700473518!/image/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpeg)
Caroline Merkel
Universitetslektor
![ImageMerkel](/polopoly_fs/1.293784.1472127949!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Irmgard Schweiger
Professor
![Irmy](/polopoly_fs/1.543464.1614591639!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Susanne Tienken
Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Joakim Wrethed
Professor
![Joakim W. Tie and jacket](/polopoly_fs/1.732093.1714112786!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Maria Ioana Zirra
Postdoctoral researcher
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Martin Wiklund
Senior lecturer, associate professor
![Foto: Sören Andersson / Stockholms universitet Martin Wiklund](/polopoly_fs/1.631648.1665662357!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)