Research Output per year
Organization profile
Organisation profile
The Research Group Memory and Uses of Pasts (MUP) investigate how people use pasts in different social, temporal and spatial contexts for various purposes. We explore how people connect past, present and future. We are focused on how people process memories and how people weave their own personal life stories into different forms of communities of memory. We are interested in the processes that determine what is remembered and what is forgotten and the power-related implications of these processes. We are contributing to the multidisciplinary research field’s theoretical development and working across time and space.
The group is focused on the presence of the past is present – today and in past times. We investigate how the past is experienced, sensed, remembered, constructed, discussed and staged. We do not only look at the representations of the past, but also at the uses of pasts as process and practice. We are investigating how the past is used to create meaning, to construct, maintain and transform social communities and how it involves power and conflict. We are working with history both as a subject and as part of people’s lifeworld and we aim to build bridges to people’s use of the past.
The research group was formed in 2010 and has completed several joint projects that, among other things, have led to joint publications: A theme piece in the journal Temp - Tidsskrift for history no. 2.2011 about memory and uses of history; the book Fortider tur/retur. Reenactment og historiebrug 2015, and the article “Doing pasts: authenticity from the reenactors’ perspective” in Rethinking History, 21,2,2017.
The members of the group participate in research projects and networks together with Danish and international researchers. We are frequently holding open seminars for colleagues at museums, upper secondary schools, vocational colleges, public schools and other universities.
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Profiles
Josef Peter Batikha
- Department of Communication and Arts - PhD Fellow
- Memory and Uses of Pasts - PhD Fellow
- Communication, Journalism and Social Change - PhD Fellow
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Anne Brædder
- Department of Communication and Arts - Academic assistant
- Memory and Uses of Pasts - Academic assistant
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Freja Gry Børsting
- Department of Communication and Arts - PhD Fellow
- Memory and Uses of Pasts - PhD Fellow
- Intercultural studies - PhD Fellow
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Research Output 2002 2020
Elites and Social Bonds – How Nordic Were the Nordic Medieval Elites?
Esmark, K., Orning, H. J. & Bijsterveld, A-J., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250: II: Strategies and Social Networks. RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Introduction
Esmark, K., Orning, H. J. & Hermanson, L., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250: II: Strategies and Social Networks. Orning, H. J., Hermanson, L. & Esmark, K. (eds.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Kith and Kin: Ties of Blood and Marriage
Esmark, K., Vogt, H. & Sigurðsson, J. V., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050-1250: II: Strategies and Social Networks. Orning, H. J., Hermanson, L. & Esmark, K. (eds.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Projects 1986 2020
Nordic Network on Global Studies
Persson, H., Schulz-Forberg, H., Stråth, B., Bödeker, H. & Harbsmeier, M.
17/04/2008 → …
Project: Research
Activities 1990 2019
Interfaces - A Journal off Medieval European Literatures (Journal)
Mia Münster-Swendsen (Editor)2019 → …
Activity: Editorial work and peer review › Editor of Research journal › Research
"When the Going was Good?" The Materiality of Travelling Between Denmark and France in the Twelfth Century
Mia Münster-Swendsen (Speaker)3 Jul 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
Present Pasts. Performing publics at living history museums
Tilde Strandbygaard Gabriel Jessen (Speaker)2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
Press / Media
Nye helligdage er blevet del af kulturkampen
07/03/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Prizes
50th Struga Poetry festival, Struga Macedonia: Invitation to read and be a part of literary debates.
Kim Simonsen (Recipient), 27 Sep 2011
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Arbejderhistorieprisen 2017
Chris Holmsted Larsen (Recipient), 6 May 2017
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Arbejdslegat - Augustinus Fonden
Chris Holmsted Larsen (Recipient), 31 Jan 2011
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions