Breaking Down the Silos of Memory Research: Theories, Methods, Concepts
Guest lecture by professor Astrid Erll, Frankfurt.
Astrid Erll is a leading researcher in the field of cultural memory studies. She is specialized in memory and literature with a focus on narratology and is working with a broad range of media such as photography and film in a transnational memory perspective. Recently, she has been investigating memory and transformation of political violence. Her introduction to memory studies Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen (2005) /Memory in Culture, Palgrave 2011) has been translated into five languages. Her most recent book brings together perspectives from literary and cultural history with media theory and psychology presenting the approach of a longue durée memory: Travels in Time. Essays on Collective Memory in Motion (OUP 2025). In 2023 Astrid Erll was appointed honorary doctor to the University of Copenhagen. In her talk she will present and discuss the potential of research across the subdisciplines of cultural memory studies.
The talk is open to all. It is the final of the 2025 CEMES Lecture Series.
About CEMES Lecture Series
Throughout the year, and across Copenhagen, Lund, and Malmö, several lectures will exhibit cutting-edge research within our research themes of Modern European Studies, some coming from our three partner institutions and some from elsewhere.
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