About the group
Cultural memories consist of a society or group's collective references to the past and provide a framework for belonging and understanding.
The research group gathers scholars from different disciplines working on a wide range of topics related to cultural memory. We examine cultural memory from different perspectives and within different language areas and genres.
We study:
- Memories from different traumatic conflict situations – as represented in testimonies, in narratives from later generations and in fictional texts.
- Transnational memory, the way memory narratives are transmitted between cultures.
- The importance of cultural memory for different understandings of identity, such as national identity, religious identity, gender identity.
- The relation between oblivion and remembrance.
Activities
- June 24, 2022: Panel on EST22 (10th EST Congress: Advancing Translation Studies), University of Oslo/OsloMet: “Translation and transcultural circulation of memory narratives” (program session 1, program session 2)
- September 20-21, 2022: Workshop “Approaching Distant Memory”, University of Oslo (program)
- September 18-19, 2023: Workshop “Still Approaching Distant Memory”, Ghent University (program)
- October 31, 2023, 12.15–14: Reading group, GM, undervisningsrom 215. Text: McCarroll & Kirby (2023): “The repair shop of memory”
PhD-projects
The group welcomes PhD-projects that are set within a cultural memory studies-approach, and linked to our areas and research interests. Prospective PhD-candidates will need to identify the relevant area of their project proposal. The research group’s host department, ILOS, announces PhD fellowships once a year.