Place, materiality and memory
In recent years, scholars have begun to explore how physical objects, spaces, and the environment play a crucial role in shaping, preserving, and interpreting memories. This seminar will bring together three eminent scholars to present and discuss these issues.
Speakers
Dylan Trigg, senior researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, is the author of “The Memory of Place: a Phenomenology of the Uncanny, and “Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror”.
Ola Sigurdsson, professor of Systematic Theology, University of Oslo, the author of “Atmosfärer – En introduktion” (soon upcoming in English translation).
Hans Ruin, professor of Philosophy, Södertörn University, the author of among others “Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics and the Roots of Historical Consciousness “