22.4. Book launch: Memory studies in the Nordic Countries

Book launch: Memory Studies in the Nordic Countries: A Handbook

22 April, 16-18
Arcanum A269

This peer-reviewed international handbook focuses on memory studies in the Nordic countries. It is a multi-disciplinary and transnational work that explores and maps characteristics and applications of the fast-growing field of memory studies in the Nordic region and in relation to the global context.

With contributions focusing on theoretical and disciplinary reflections, illustrative thematic overviews, as well as elaborations of concepts and approaches in the Nordic setting, the handbook serves as a multi-disciplinary reference guide for researchers and students interested in memory studies. Existing and emerging debates have been carefully mapped, as well as disciplinary trajectories of the field, thematic, pragmatic, aesthetic, and ideological features of Nordic memory cultures.

This comprehensive handbook of memory studies in the Nordic countries provides a stepping stone for future developments in the field.

Programme

Welcome words (SELMA)

Ulla Savolainen (University of Helsinki, editor): Introduction to the Handbook

Anu Koivunen & Riikka Taavetti (Gender Studies, chapter authors): Queer Memory

Riitta Jytilä (Finnish Literature, chapter author): Traumatic Memory in Literature

Anne Heimo (Folkloristics, chapter author): Multiperspectivity in Museums

Discussion

Refreshments

Further information about the volume on Brills’ website.