Programme
The Swedish Memory Studies Network coordinates research activities in the field of memory studies at Stockholm University and Linköping University, and in the context of the “Time, Memory, and Representation” research programme that is organized from Södertörn University. Cultural Memory studies have been established at the Department of Culture and Communication at Linköping University since 2009 through the organization of symposia and seminars, and it is an important field of research within the interdisciplinary environment of Tema Q/Culture Studies. “Time, Memory, and Representation,” for its part, is a research programme that gathers 25 scholars from 14 different disciplines and all six major Swedish universities for the joint exploration and further development of recent transformations in historical consciousness and its implications for the human and historical sciences.
Websites:
- http://histcon.se/
- http://www.liu.se/ikk/seminarier/kulturellt-minne?l=sv
- http://www.isak.liu.se/temaq?l=sv
Contacts
Andrus Ers is Senior Research Officer at Södertörn University. He is responsible for the coordination and practical management and a member of the Program Committee of the ”Time, Memory, and Representation” research program. He is the author of The History of the Victors: Power, History and Liberty Studied through the Example of Herbert Tingsten 1939-53 (H:ström, 2008) and a co-editor of Rethinking Time: History, Memory and Representation (Södertörn Philosophical Studies 9, Stockholm, 2011).
Kristina Fjelkestam is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature in the Department of Culture and Communication (IKK) at Linköping University. She is a participating scholar in the research project “Time, Memory, and Representation.” Her most recent book is Det sublimas politik: Emancipatorisk estetik i 1800-talets konstnärsromaner (2010). Forthcoming in 2012 is Ta tanke: feminism, materialism och historiseringens praktik.
Jesper Olsson is LiU Researcher and Swedish Academy Researcher in the Department of Culture and Communication (IKK) at Linköping University. His most recent book is Remanens. Bandspelaren som re-pro-du-dak-tionsteknologi (2011), and he is a co-editor of Media and Materiality in the Neo-Avant-Garde (forthcoming 2011). Currently he is finishing a study on the tape recorder as an aesthetic technology and is engaged in establishing a research group on Literature, Media Histories, and Information Cultures at the Department of Culture and Communication.
Pieter Vermeulen is a Senior Lecturer in English literature at Stockholm University. He was earlier affiliated with the universities of Ghent and Leuven. He works in the fields of critical theory, memory studies, and the contemporary novel. He is the author of Romanticism after the Holocaust (Continuum, pb 2012), and he is currently working on a book on the afterlife of the novel form in early-twenty-first-century fiction.
Institutions
Linköping University is a university in the south-east part of Sweden with around 27,000 students. It is renowned for its long tradition of interdisciplinary studies and research.
Södertörn University is located in southern Stockholm, and currently has 13,000 enrolled students. Its keywords are multidisciplinary, multicultural, and civic education.
Stockholm University is one of the largest universities in Sweden with over 60,000 students and 6,000 employees. Its Faculty of Humanities is the largest in the country, and consists of some twenty different departments.
