Minutes from the MSA Nordic meeting 21 Oct

[Dagmar Brunow]

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MSA Nordic – minutes from the Zoom meeting 21 Oct
Present: Jessica Ortner (Copenhagen), Heiko Pääbo (Tartu), Pauline Stoltz (Aalborg), Chloe Wells (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu), Maria Zirra (Stockholm)
Host: Dagmar Brunow (Växjö)

1) MSA Nordic – fast track panel for Charlottesville
Call for panel co-ordinator. Are you interested in going to MSA Charlottesville in 2020? As a regional group we will have one panel as fast track, e.g. it will be automatically accepted. Our group could submit a proposal of four papers plus Jessica Ortner as a respondent/discussant. So, do get in touch if you are interested in organising one or more MSA Nordic panels for the conference.

2) MSA Nordic workshop in April or September. Probably in Copenhagen. Date and topic tba. Preliminary focus: memory and its modes of reception / literature (media) as prosthetic memory / notions of re-translation / “mmenomic migration” (Ortner)

3) Getting to know each other to facilitate networking. Here’s some info on the ongoing research from our members present at the meeting.

Jessica Ortner has just started a research project on post-Yugoslav migrant literature in Germany, Scandinavia and England, together with Tea Sindbaek (Copenhagen).
https://engerom.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en%2Fpersons%2Fjessica-ortner(1080dbf1-0ff2-4399-aadd-21cbeb503e82).html
Recent publiations: Introduction: Memories of Joy. / Andersen, Tea Sindbæk; Ortner, Jessica. In: Memory Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 02.2019, p. 5-10.
The MSA conference 2017: Reflections on themes and the development of Memory Studies as a research field. / Ortner, Jessica; Andersen, Tea Sindbæk. In: Memory Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 02.2019, p. 88-90.

Heiko Pääbo: https://ut-ee.academia.edu/HeikoP%C3%A4%C3%A4bo
Current research projects:
IUT34-30 “Ideology of Translation and Translation of Ideology: Mechanisms of Cultural Dynamics under the Russian Empire and Soviet Power in Estonia in the 19th – 20th Centuries (1.01.2015−31.12.2020)”, Lea Pild, Tartu Ülikool, Humanitaarteaduste ja kunstide valdkond, maailma keelte ja kultuuride kolledž. And
PUT1138 “Russian National Identity in a Comparative Context: Towards an Intersubjective Identity Database (1.01.2016−31.12.2019)”, Viatcheslav Morozov, Tartu Ülikool, Sotsiaalteaduste valdkond, Johan Skytte poliitikauuringute instituut.

Pauline Stoltz:
https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/124105
gender/transnational memory/violent conflicts

Recent and forthcoming publications:
Feminisms in the Nordic region: Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial Critique
Keskinen, S. (ed.), Stoltz, P. (ed.) & Mulinari, D. (ed.), 2019, (Accepted/In press) Palgrave Macmillan. (Gender and Politics).

Gender, resistance and transnational memories of violent conflicts
Stoltz, P., 2019, (Accepted/In press) Palgrave Macmillan. (Memory Politics and Transitional Justice).

Masculinities, postcolonialism and transnational memories of violent conflicts
Stoltz, P., 24 Jan 2019, In : NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies.

Chloe Wells is currently writing her PhD on “Vyborg is Ours’: the memory and postmemory of a borderland town”, supervised by Kimmo Katajala and Paul Fryer
https://uef.academia.edu/ChloeWells/CurriculumVitae

Wells, C., (2019) “Vyborg is ours”. The collective memory of a lost Finnish city. In Brunnström, P.and Claesson, R. (eds.) Creating the City. Identity, Memory and Participation.Conference proceedings. Malmö: University of Malmö. pp. 194 – 215. Available at:http://muep.mau.se/handle/2043/28212

Wells, C., (2019) The ‘lost city’ of Vyborg and the construction of remembered borders betweenFinland and Russia. In Katarzyna Stokłosa (ed.) Borders and Memories. Conflicts and Co-operation in European Border Regions. Zurich: LIT Verlag: Reihe: Mittel- und Ostmitteleuropastudien. pp. 17-29.

last, but not least:

Maria Zirra
Congratulations to Dr. Maria Zirra who recently defended her Ph.D.-thesis at Stockholm University – as a joint Ph.D. with Ghent University, supervised by Stefan Helgesson (SU) and Stef Craps (Ghent):

Abstract and download here: Visual Poetic Memory: Ekphrasis and Image-Text in Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Wopko Jensma http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1344706&dswid=-7720

Maria has now started a three month visit to London as a guest researcher for her upcoming project.

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