Museums and Memorials
This theme examines how art, cultural objects and artefacts as well as their stakeholders engage with and give shape to cultural heritage and memory.
Within the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary domains of the school, AHM particularly excels on national and international levels in five research areas (‘themes’) that cross and connect the fields of heritage, memory studies and material culture. Each of these themes relates to several working research groups in the school, but has in principle a rather open character, and closely collaborates with the other research themes and research groups:
AHM Research themes
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Heritage and Conflict
This theme explores the heritage of conflicts and the memory boom in the present, as well as the activation of heritage and memory as means of conflict resolution -
Transnational Memory Narratives
This theme investigates the dynamics of memory and the politics of narrative, broadly conceived, in relation to identity formation and material culture agencies. -
Digitality and E-Memories
The theme examines digital technologies and they ways in which they influence the production, transmission of and engagement with cultural heritage and memory. -
Materiality and Material Culture
This theme focuses on the documentation, analysis, interpretation and conservation of materials and material culture varying from archeological sites, (art) object to landscapes.