Memory and heritage researchers

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Gunhild Ravn Borggreen
Associate professor 
Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

I focus on art and visual culture in Japan, including the way in which Japanese and Korean contemporary artists address a shared cultural memory in the contested geopolitical relations between Japan and Korea.

  • visual art
  • Japan
  • East Asia
  • imperialism
  • 'cultural women'
  • transculturation

Mette Sandbye
Professor
Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

I specialize in photography studies with a focus on photography's history and theory, contemporary art, and vernacular photography as everyday culture and memory culture.

  • family photo albums
  • women's early photo culture
  • photography as cultural and personal memory
  • minor culture
  • war photograhy

Rasmus Rask Poulsen
Postdoc
Ethnology, Saxo Institute

I study what happens when contemporary religious communities and their sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage in Denmark.

  • anthropology of Christianity
  • religious heritage
  • world heritage
  • critical heritage studies
  • tourism

Peter van der Meijden
Teaching associate professor
Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Section for Art History and Visual Culture

My research revolves around museums, collections and exhibitions, especially ephemeral art forms and the way they are and can be collected, documented, preserved and displayed.

  • archive
  • performance
  • intangible cultural heritage
  • curating
  • collecting
  • mediation
  • digitality

Amalie Skovmøller
Assistant professor - Tenure track
Art history, Department of arts and cultural studies

I study art in public spaces, specifically statuary monuments in bronze, marble and granite. I focus on issues related to infrastructure, meaning how such monuments are produced –and by whom- and their long material afterlives.

  • public art
  • statuary monuments
  • preservation/ conservation/ restoration
  • infrastructure
  • representation
  • activism
  • materiality

Karen Arnfred Vedel
Associate professor
Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

My research centers on historiographic studies in dance and performing arts. My foremost interest is on developing methodological approaches that bridge between archival and artistic practices.

Mathias Danbolt
Professor
Art History, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

I work on the contact zones between art history and colonial history in a Nordic context with a special emphasis on memory politics, monuments, and art in public space.

  • Nordic colonialism
  • monuments
  • multidirectional memory
  • art
  • aesthetics
  • memorials

Kristian Handberg
Assistant professor
Art History, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

My research concerns modern art in geopolitical contexts, museums and memory. Currently in the project Exhibiting across the Iron Curtain on Danish artists in the state socialist societies, 1945-1989.

  • modern art
  • exhibition histories
  • retro culture
  • museum history
  • cold war
  • contemporary history

Emilie Dybdal
PhD fellow
Minority Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

I specialise in contemporary Danish literature about Greenland, with a particular emphasis on how Danish cultural memory regarding its former Arctic colony is negotiated within and through these literary works.

  • literature
  • Greenland
  • Kalaallit Nunaat
  • Nordic colonialism
  • decolonisation
  • exceptionalism
  • difficult heritage
  • cultural memory

Louise Kjærgaard Depner
PhD fellow
Department of Ethnology, Saxo Institute

My research focuses on museum- and collection-practices in a current and historic perspective. I study in particularly how historic buildings have been practiced as heritage, atmospheric and museological sites. 

  • museology
  • atmosphere
  • historic architecture
  • in-situ museums
  • collections
  • museums

Tea Sindbæk Andersen
Associate professor
East European Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

I am a cultural historian working mainly with contemporary history of Southeastern Europe. My research focuses on issues related to uses of history, cultural and collective memory, identity politics and popular culture in the Yugoslav area.

  • Southeastern Europe
  • balkans
  • cultural memory
  • memory politics
  • education
  • identity politics
  • cultural heritage
Tine Damsholt
Professor
European Ethnology, Saxo-Institute

Everyday temporalities – how entangled pasts, presents, and futures are imagined, articulated, materialized, and cared for in everyday life practices. Empirical studies of grass-roots memorials, vernacular and religious forms of heritagization in contemporary Denmark including world heritage site Christiansfeld.

  • ethnology
  • everyday practices
  • grass-roots memorials
  • vernacular and contested heritagization
  • past presencing in everyday practicing of futures

Vera Skvirskaja
Associate professor
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

My research has been focused on the grass-roots/vernacular forms of heritage and heritagization as well as on ‘heritage of absence’, dealing with the heritage of disappeared or (e)migrated communities and groups.

Another strand of my research interests concerns heritage issues in the context of violence and decolonization (the case study of Ukraine).

  • anthropology
  • post-Soviet society
  • migration
  • decolonization
  • grass-roots heritage/vernacular heritage
  • heritage of absence
  • Ukraine

Anne Folke Henningsen
Associate professor
European Ethnology, Saxo Institute

My research centers on museology and memory cultures with a particular emphasis on postcolonial perspectives and processes of racialization and differentiation.

  • museology
  • (post)colonial heritage
  • material culture and materializations
  • memory cultures
  • memory activism
  • memory politics

Stine Grønbæk Jensen
Tenure Track assistant professor
Education, Department of Communication

My research centers on the history, memories and memory-work of former institutionalized children and adults in Denmark. My work has pointed out the lasting impact of institutional neglect and violence, but also creative attempts to manage the past and negotiate history.

  • memory-work
  • memory-activism
  • the politics of official apologies
  • the Danish Welfare State
  • residential care
  • oral-history
  • ethnography

Nanna Kann-Rasmussen
Associate professor
Head of section. Section of GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)

My research regards cultural institutions and cultural policy. I am particularly interested in the relationship between cultural institutions and society. This relation affects how cultural institutions legitimize themselves, the leadership and organization of the cultural institutions and how they change. 

  • cultural policy
  • museums
  • libraries
  • archives
  • legitimacy
  • memory institutions
  • heritage institutions

Kirsten Thisted
Associate professor (Adjunct professor in the Department of Culture, Language, and History at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland)
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

My research focuses on minority-majority relations, postcolonial dynamics, and asymmetrical power structures. Currently, I am leading a collective research project that investigates how Denmark's and Greenland's entangled histories are being renegotiated in historiography, literature, and personal narratives.

  • narratives of identity and belonging
  • cultural memory
  • emotional communities
  • cultural translation
  • representation
  • Denmark-Greenland relations
  • Greenlandic (Kalaallit Inuit) literature
  • media
  • film

Henriette Roued
Associate professor
Section for GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), Department of Communication

My research focuses on the creation and use of digital heritage in cultural institutions and amongst Heritage Practice Communities. My recent studies of family historians and their online engagement, seeks to understand heritage practice within a wider democratic framework.

  • digital heritage
  • open heritage data
  • openGLAM
  • heritage practice communities
  • digitisation
  • heritage data ethics
  • marginalized heritage
  • family memory

Tim Flohr Sørensen
Associate professor
Prehistoric Archaeology, Saxo Institute

I am a reactionary archaeologist, primarily working within contemporary archaeology and epistemology in the humanities. In particular, I am interested in the relationship between the temporary character of memory and de/formation of archaeological traces.

  • archaeological theory
  • con/temporary archaeology
  • memory/forgetting
  • traces
  • art/aesthetics

Marianne Kirk
PhD student
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

My research centers on the commemoration of the Holocaust in Denmark focusing on the 2022 action plan against antisemitism, in which the Danish government decided to make Holocaust education mandatory in Danish schools.

  • European memory politics
  • holocaust memory
  • history education
  • administrations of memory
  • ethnographic fieldwork
  • transcultural and transnational memory
  • German and Danish memory culture
  • literature and mediations
  • literary translations

Bo Ærenlund Sørensen
Assistant professor, Tenure Track
China Studies, University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS)

My research focuses on how people construct and make sense of their worlds by consuming and producing stories. Working both with fiction and other kinds of texts, I’m particularly interested in how memories of past events and expectations of the future shape shared understandings of history, the ordering of society, bodies, emotions, and ethical norms.

  • collective memory
  • material memory
  • trauma in fiction
  • cognitive literature studies
  • public memory

Barbara Wall
Associate professor
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

In a time when “fake news” and conspiracy theories bloom, comprehending the way how narratives can bewitch us is a key competence to filter information. My research seeks to understand the popularity of narratives with a strong focus on the circulation, translation and adaptation of narratives in East Asia. My research agenda is organized around three major questions: 1) How, and why, do some narratives persist, while others fall into oblivion? 2) What role do adaptation, translation, and intertextuality play for the circulation of narratives? 3) How can digital tools help us to understand the circulation of narratives. 

  • abbreviated storytelling
  • historical narratives
  • knowing audience
  • snack culture
  • dynamic authenticity

Anna Sandberg
Associate professor
German Studies, Department of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies

My research focuses on German-Danish cultural relations and transfers, also in the framework of cultural memory. The ongoing DFF-project “Danish-German Cultures 1773-1864. Conflict and Cohesion” investigates the forgotten entanglements of the Danish-German composite state:  identity formations, narratives, and imaginaries in a zone with conflicting and coexisting national, regional and lingual orientations before the nationstate 1864. A focus in my teaching is contemporary German memory cultures and migration literature as a medium of memory.

  • Danish-German cultural memory
  • national memory narratives
  • language (and language cultures) as cultural heritage