UNIVERSITETETS HJEMMESIDE
Institut for Æstetiske Fag
Institut for Æstetiske Fag
Netværk for erindringskultur
Upcoming network events
February 9, 2012, 10:00-12:00
Lecture by Bernard Stiegler: "Media and Memory"
University of Copenhagen
Karen Blixens Vej 1, 2300 København S
Building 27, ground floor, room 27.0.17
10-12 May 2012
Conflict in memory: Interpersonal and Intergenerational Remembering of War, Conflict and Transition
Interdisciplinary conference, Matchpoints 5
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Melbourne)
James Wertsch (Washington University, St. Louis)
Dorthe Berntsen (Aarhus University)
Daniel Levy (Stony Brook University)
Anna Bull (University of Bath)
Luisa Passerini (University of Torino)
Tom Dunne (University College Cork)
Willliam Hirst (New School of Social Sciences, New York)
Aarhus University
Deadline for proposals January 15, 2012.
20-22 September, 2012
Aesthetics and Ethics of Memory
PhD course hosted by Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies
Confirmed keynote speaker: Sharon Macdonald, Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester.
Aarhus University
Deadline for submission of proposals 15 April, 2015.
6-7 December, 2012
Migration, Memory and Place
Seminar hosted in collaboration with Network for Migration and Culture
News
A few memory related events:
- Towards a Common Past? Conflicting Memories in Contemporary Europe. Interdisciplinary conference organized by the Nordic Network in Memory Studies. Lund University May 14-16, 2012. Abstract deadline March 1, 2012.
- Summerschool on Text - Memory - Monument. The use of the past in Italian Renaissance Culture. Rome July 17-29, 2012. Application deadline March 15, 2012.
Recent perfomances by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Stefan Iversen on Memory culture are now awailable online (in Danish):
- Danskernes akademi: Vores fælles erindringer
- Univers: På sporet af erindringer
- Danskernes akademi: Vidnesbyrd fra kz-lejre
See also two recent articles by Britta Timm Knudsen on tourism and memory :
- "Thanatourism: Witnessing Difficult Pasts" Tourist Studies 11.1 (2011): 55-72.
- "The past as staged-real environment: communism revisited in The Crazy Guides Communism Tours, Krakow, Poland" Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 8.3 (2010): 139-153
About the network
The Danish Network for Cultural Memory Studies coordinates activities that facilitate interdisciplinary research within the field of cultural memory studies in a cooperation between researchers and graduate students at University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University.
The activities of the network is funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research in 2011-12 and will have a focus on the aesthetics of memory, the practice of memory culture, and memory cultures and transnationalism.
In 2011 and 2012 the network will organize series of 8 graduate seminars, some in cooperation with The University of London, 3 internal working seminars with all members of the network, and 3 open international conferences with invited guest speakers.
The directors of the network are Associate Professor Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus) and Associate Professor Frederik Tygstrup (Copenhagen).
On this site you can find information about the people involved, past and upcoming events, images, videos and texts from our seminars and links to other resources in the field of cultural memory studies.
Contact: memory@au.dk