Negotiating Memory from the Romans to the Twenty-First Century
Manipulation of the past and forced erasure of memories have been global phenomena throughout history, spanning a varied repertoire from the destruction or alteration of architecture, sites, and images, to the banning or imposing of old and new practices. The present volume addresses these questions comparatively across time and geography, and combines a material approach to the study of memory with cross- disciplinary empirical explorations of historical and contemporary cases. This approach positions the volume as a reference-point within several fields of humanities and social sciences. The collection brings together scholars from different fields within humanities and social science to engage with memorialization and damnatio memoriae across disciplines, using examples from their own research. The broad chronological and comparative scope makes the volume relevant for researchers and students of several historical periods and geographic regions.
ivind Fuglerud is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway.
Kjersti Larsen is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway.
Marina Prusac-Lindhagen is an Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Keeper of Antiquities at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway.
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Dario Calomino British Academy Newton International Fellow, is a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He previously worked in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum and curated the exhibition Defacing the Past. Damnation and Desecration in Imperial Rome (2016).
Diana Edelman is a Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. Her research concentrates on forms of early Judaism, the socio-religious culture of Yehud and Judean diasporas and the creation of books of the Hebrew Bible in the Persian and early Hellenistic periods.
ivind Fuglerud is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. His regional area of expertise is Sri Lanka, where he has worked for the last 35 years on questions of nationalism, political violence, and migration.
Kjersti Larsen is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. She has been a visiting scholar at University of Oxford; EHESS, Paris; Leiden University. She has co-edited the Norwegian Journal of Anthropology (NAT). She conducts research in Zanzibar (1984-present) and Sudan (19972009) and has several international publications, books, chapters, and articles.
Sigrid Lien is a Professor of Art History and Photography Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has published extensively on nineteenth century as well as modern and contemporary photography. She recently headed the project Negotiating History: Photography in Smi Culture, funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
Terje steb is currently the Chair of the Department of Religion and an Associate Professor at the Center for African Studies and the Department of Religion, University of Florida. His research focuses on Islam in contemporary Ethiopia and reformism in Africa.
Arne Aleksej Perminow is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. Since the 1980s, he has done research in Tonga and among Tongan migrants in New Zealand exploring the relationship between practical engagements with the environment and sociality and between mobility and cultural change.
Marina Prusac-Lindhagen is an Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Keeper of Antiquities (Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Egyptian collections), Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. She has written From Face to Face: Recarving Roman Portraits and the Late Antique Portrait Arts (2011). Her publications include numerous articles, including discussions on memory manipulation.
Knut Rio is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen in Norway. He has worked on Melanesian ethnography since 1995, with fieldwork in Vanuatu on social ontology, production, ceremonial exchange, and art. More recently, he has focused on witchcraft and sacrifice as well as concepts of wealth and property.
Maruka Svaek is a Reader in Anthropology in the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast. Her major publications include Emotions and Human Mobility (2012), Moving Subjects, Moving Objects (2012), (with Birgit Meyer) Creativity in Transition (2016), and (with Milena Komarova) Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space (2018).
Eric R. Varner is the author of Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture
