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Tid, minne, representation:
ett mångdisciplinärt forsknings-program om
historiemedvetandets förvandlingar
[Time, Memory and Representation:
A Multidisciplinary Program on Transformations in Historical Consciousness]
SAMMANFATTNING
Main applicant:
Prof. Hans Ruin (Philosophy),
Södertörn University College,
141 89 Huddinge,
Sweden
hans.ruin@sh.se
Programmet samlar 24 företrädare från 13 olika ämnen och 7 universitet i ett gemensamt
utforskande av historiemedvetandets aktuella förvandlingar. Det syftar till att utveckla ett
kritiskt-reflexivt historiemedvetande för de humanistisk-historiska vetenskaperna. Vad är
historia och historiskt vetande? Vad är dess förhållande till minne, trauma, gemenskap och
framtid? Hur och med vilka tekniker och institutioner skapas våra kronologiska rum? För
vem, om vem och av vem görs historia? Historiens problem spelar idag en allt större roll inom
forskningen. De stora berättelserna har brutits upp liksom tron på en fast kunskapsteoretisk
punkt från vilken historiskt vetande produceras. Inom många ämnen omprövas hur kanon,
traditioner och kronologier skapas. Samtidigt letar man i historien för att finna en hållpunkt i
nuet. Många discipliner historiserar, men utan att ställa frågor kring det historiska som sådant.
Programmet är strukturerat i tre sektioner utifrån ledorden: Tid, Minne och Representation.
Den första utvecklar begreppshistorisk kritik av vedertagna historiska kategorier, den andra
utforskar minnespolitik och historiebruk, den tredje hur olika framställningar av historien styr

historiemedvetandet. Metodologiskt förenas hermeneutiska, genealogiska, genusteoretiska,
dekonstruktiva, narratologiska, och post-koloniala analysmetoder.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1) Short statement of purpose
2) General background
3) Creating a research program
4) Organization, research plan and activities
5) International board of experts
6) Description of the three sections
7) List of participants with short cv:s
8) Description of research environment, planned activities, and financial needs
9) Bibliography
10) Participants publications
SHORT STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The proposed program gathers 25 researchers from 13 different disciplines, for a joint
exploration and development of recent transformations in historical consciousness, and its
implications for the human and historical sciences. The program is organized from Södertörn
University College, but researchers are recruited from all six major universities in Sweden
(Uppsala, Lund, Stockholm, Göteborg, Linköping, and Umeå).
The post-war period has witnessed an increased preoccupation with the role and
significance of historical knowledge, and the relation between the present, past, and future.
During the last decades, through the linguistic and hermeneutic turn in philosophy, with
critical cultural analysis, genealogy, feminist critique of science and established canons,
conceptual analysis, and post-colonial “subaltern” questioning of culturally biased narratives,
the very way in which history is studied, interpreted, and produced, has become a central
academic concern. This academic concern also mirrors a more general growing preoccupation

in Western culture with history, with politics of memory, with the cultural heritage, the
construction and destruction of memorials.
The program explores this new common territory in three general sections
organized along the key words: Time, Memory and Representation. The first section develops
the conceptual historical critique of fundamental historical categories, including established
chronologies, the second investigates how politics of memory and uses of history shape the
relation to the past and explores the existential foundations for historical consciousness, and
the third explores how different mediums (literature, film, language) shape and influence
historical narratives and representations, and how this orients historical consciousness.
GENERAL BACKGROUND
The modern human sciences are born out of the new historical awareness that emerges during
the second half of the 18 th century, where the essence of man is gradually understood in terms
of his historical becoming. Philosophically it achieves its highest articulation in the writings
of Herder and Hegel. Its more mundane form and expression is fixed within the historicist
paradigm of the 19 th century. It coincides with the birth of the great narratives of nations and
cultures, including the founding of the modern university, the museum, the systematic
exploration and collecting of the past. The main narrative is that of Enlightenment teleology.
The creating of this narrative often also coincides with a national agenda. This historicism and
its cultural institutions have played an important role in the shaping of nation states, political
movements, as well as geopolitical and military doctrines.
A criticism of historical culture, and its illusions of a neutral subject of
knowledge with the ability to judge and comprehend the past, arose already in the 19th
century. One of its strongest voices is that of Nietzsche, which continues to reverberate also in
Foucault and contemporary discussions on historicity. In the 1874 essay “The Use and Abuse
of History for life”, he criticizes the excessive culture of historical learning, defining
historical existence in terms of the monumental, the antiquarian, and the critical. Also the idea
developed in Dilthey’s hermeneutics, that the study of the past has a self-reflexive structure,
and that the subject and object of research is of the same nature, has continued to animate the
contemporary critique. It established the idea that man is a historical being, whose historicity
implies his interrelatedness and indebtedness as a prerequisite for every kind of theoretical
thematization and exploration of the past. This became the basis for the theory of historicity

explored by Benjamin and the existential ontology of Heidegger, as well as the more recent
work of Ricoeur.
From the mid-war period the historical disciplines started to experiment with
new ways of depicting historical processes, history of the long duration, the attempt to write
global history, and in general showed an increased interest in the narrative dimension of
history. Marxist critique of dominant national discourses emerged as an important source of
reorientation. In 1952 the journal Past and Present was started, and in 1961 the journal
History and Theory. From the early sixties there is also a rapid development of critical theory
(Adorno/Horkheimer), philosophical hermeneutics (Gadamer) and conceptual history
(Koselleck). The following decade witnessed the emergence of poststructuralist critique of
meta-narrative (White, Lyotard, Derrida), Foucault’s project of a genealogical historical
research, the feminist critique of science and established canons (Scott, Spivak), as well as the
new field of subaltern studies and post-colonial critique of historical writing (Said, Guha).
White’s work led to the initiative of establishing “History of Consciousness” studies in Santa
Cruz. While critical in its approach, the main thrust of these new orientations was to develop
new ways and perspectives in historical narratives and representation, often with the explicit
purpose of letting the previously silenced speak.
This concern with history has profoundly influenced the way many academic
disciplines look at themselves and their own activity. It has led to a productive questioning of
established canons and traditions. There has also been an increasing tendency not only in the
traditional human-historical sciences, but also in neighbouring disciplines, to adopt the
methods of historizing, of critical conceptual historical analysis. In archaeology the traditional
material-based chronology (stone, bronze, iron) is now disputed as a basis for scientific
practice. In historical disciplines the traditional framework of the pre-modern, modern, and
postmodern, is likewise being questioned, and researchers have begun to experiment with
other ways of organizing the chronological framework of their disciplines. In historiography,
the standard image of the historian as an independent witness before the object of the past is
being put in question. In literary and media studies there has been an increasing interest in the
techniques of narrative, and how they influence the manifestation of historical content.
Not only within the academy is history a growing concern. Also in society at
large has the relation to the past become an increasingly obsessive preoccupation, with
significant and sometimes destructive political overtones. How and what should a culture
remember of its past? How should the past be represented, remembered, monumentalized,
rejected, destroyed, or cultivated? These tendencies have their origin partly in the traumatic

experiences of the 20 th century. In the traditional historicist paradigm, history is an entity –
the past – which we can choose to study and remember. But we are now becoming aware that
history is a source of anxiety and fear, that it will return, or that it will disappear (Cf. Anze &
Lambek). There is a growing sense of how historical memory and historical writings
contribute to the shaping of political controversies, how they sometimes even anticipate and
outline the geography of lethal conflicts (cf. Anderson 1991/2006). This situation increases
the stakes in historical research, and puts light on the ambiguous role of historians, how
indeed history can be both of “use” and “abuse”.
CREATING A RESEARCH PROGRAM
Our interest in organizing a transdisciplinary research program around these issues has grown
out of the realization that while transformations in historical consciousness have had profound
reverberations in many different disciplines, there has not been any sustained effort to bring
these developments to a more comprehensive articulation. In the human and social sciences at
large there is an urgent need to discuss these issues and their consequences within a more
general framework. At the recently established Södertörn University College it has been
possible to develop a more open transdisciplinary discussion on the basis of a general shared
theoretical and philosophical framework, partly through the support of a local network
“Cultural technologies”. It then became obvious that within many disciplines a discussion and
preoccupation with issues of historical awareness and critical historiography was taking place
that could profit from a common approach.
At the same time there is also a widespread distrust against what is considered to
be only theoretical speculations, in particular within the discipline of history itself. The debate
between the ”post-modernists” and their critics has dominated the agenda within the human
sciences at large for three decades. But there are signs that this often unproductive tension
could be overcome. We can begin to see how the theoretical interest in the forms and
premises of historical knowledge and narrative are not predestined to lead to a relativization
of knowledge, but rather to an increased self-awareness of how research and knowledge is
produced. Frank Ankersmit, one of the leading contemporary theoreticians of history, and
editor of the new Journal for the Philosophy of History, argues in a recent book (2005) that it
is time to move beyond these battle lines and to replace the restricted epistemological
questions toward a theoretically guided research on the foundations of historical
consciousness.

Not least for this reason is it important to initiate a broadly conceived
exploration concerning the forming of historical knowledge and narrative, how historical
spaces and historical consciousness is constituted and cultivated within the academy. The
overall ambition is to revitalize the theoretical and methodological awareness and discussion
in and for the human and social sciences. Beyond the stale dichotomy of relativism and
realism, the program will therefore also explore the emergence of a more existentially
grounded concept of truth, where issues of justice and fairness are again integrated in the idea
of what historical truth can mean.
It is by no means evident what it could mean to study and explore historical
consciousness and its transformations. The word itself has many meanings. It can point
toward the level of knowledge of past events as well as a sense of belonging to the past. The
starting point here is the increased critical awareness of how historical belonging influences
both a culture in its practices and concerns, but also how it inevitably has implications for the
practice of scientific research. This not only motivates but also ultimately necessitates a
deepened critical and self-critical historical awareness within the human sciences if they are
to respond to their own predicament. As history professor Peter Aronsson writes (2005: 275):
“Questions of historical consciousness and use of history show up in all parts of the cultural
sciences, and thus it is not a limited field of research, but a perspective of relevance for all
forms of cultural studies”.
Still, in order to make such a complex territory into a manageable research task
it is important to identify its central components. To speak of historical consciousness is to
speak of, at least, a three-partite structure. First of all one can identify the objective structure
of historical awareness, in terms of the guiding concepts and patterns of thought, and thus
questions having to do with conceptual analysis, and ultimately with the meaning of the
categories time and history themselves. But in the contemporary debate there is also a strong
emphasis on the use of history, of history as an ethical and political domain, as memory and
nostalgia, suffering, repression, and forgetting, what we could tentatively speak of as a more
subjective component. Finally there is the aspect of how and by what means history is
represented, the dimension of mediation, imagination, and narratives. Together they point
toward an objective, a subjective and an intermediate dimension. Motivated by this tentative
structure, we have named the program “Time, Memory, and Representation”. At the same
time it is also important to see to what extent these dimensions necessarily also overlap.
A similar kind of enterprise – with such a large number of different disciplines
involved – has not been tested before. It is a unique attempt in its scope and its

interdisciplinary ambitions, and also in terms of its theoretical and philosophical platform. In
Denmark some of these issues were recently explored in an impressive research project on
Historical transmission and use of history (Historieformidling), organized by Bernard Jensen
and Claus Bryld. From a partly phenomenological and hermeneutic perspective it investigated
how history is composed, transmitted, and used, raising critical questions concerning the how
and what of history in the present. The focus of this project was historical “didactics”. The
purpose of the present program is to address a more encompassing problem, from a wider
range of subjects, within which the question of didactics and use of history also has its place.
Here it will be explored in the context of how historical spaces are conceptually constructed
and mediated, and how we should understand the relation between present, past, and future.
Methodologically the program combines a number of different approaches,
some of which rarely engage in dialogue. Hermeneutic phenomenology is an important source
for the original formulation of the problem of history and historicity as both a conceptual and
existential phenomenon. The program also has a strong footing in conceptual history. But
these approaches are complemented with contemporary means of studying medialisation. A
central dimension of how the problem is articulated here comes from the achievements of
feminist critique of science and of the academic canon, and also the later fusion of gender
theory and critical conceptual and genealogical analysis. Likewise the program contains some
of the leading researchers in Sweden in postcolonial studies and critique, which bring an
important dimension to the problem of historical narratives. A further angle is provided by
psychoanalytical and linguistic cultural theory. One of the program’s goals is to establish a
common framework for debate and analysis between these different means of analysis.
ORGANIZATION, RESEARCH PLAN, AND ACTIVITIES
The program involves the following disciplines: Aesthetics, Anthropology, Archeology, Art
and Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, History, Intellectual
History, Comparative Literature, Media and Communication Studies, Philosophy, Political
Science, and Theology. The researchers represent seven universities (Uppsala, Lund,
Stockholm, Göteborg, Umeå, Linköping, and Södertörn). It has a fair balance between female
and male researchers, and between people with a senior and junior position.
Organizing such a big group of scholars spread out over a large territory in an
efficient way poses certain problems. Naturally, the individual researchers will perform most
of the work at their own departments. But the whole idea of the program is to generate a

substantial surplus value from collaborating in the context of the program. It is therefore vital
to establish from the very start of the program an intellectual environment for discussion,
interaction, and mutual critique. For this purpose it will organize a two-day workshop every
semester, starting early the first year, where all of the participants will participate. This will
take place at a good location somewhere around Stockholm that permits overnight stay.
During these meetings ongoing research will be presented and discussed, and an
external guest will also be invited, primarily from among the board of experts. For the first
workshop in March 2010 Joan Scott will be invited, and for the workshop in October 2011
Hayden White. Some of these workshops will be for work in progress, others will have the
form of a more thematically focused symposium, centred around one of the Key words Time,
Memory, Representation. The papers presented during the latter meetings will be published in
three volumes.
In year 3 an international conference with a call for papers will be organized
under the preliminary title “Time, Memory, and Representation: Current Transformations in
Historical Consciousness”.
When possible, the outcome of the meetings will first be made available online
on the program web page as work in progress. The webpage will be an important platform for
communication within the whole group, where links and information about activities related
to the program can be posted. Throughout the program smaller seminar activities related to
the program will be organized at Södertörn. In the higher seminars at the department of
Culture and Communication at Södertörn there will also be ongoing activities that relate to the
program.
The program, when fully funded, will result in a substantial number of
publications, monographs, and journal articles, with also a visible presence in the general
cultural debate.
The program committee consists of Hans Ruin, Ulla Manns, Marcia Schuback,
and Irina Sandomirskaja, from Södertörn University College. The program has also recruited
an international board of experts listed below with expertise in the different dimensions
covered by the program, and whose members will visit the group at least once during the
program in connection with the workshops, symposia, or the conference. The program, when
funded, also plans to hire a research assistant, with a PhD in a relevant subject, who will be
responsible for the practical management of the program, the meetings, publications, external
information, and the virtual forum.

INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF EXPERTS
NICK COULDRY, Prof. of Media and Communications, University of London
WALTER MIGNOLO, Prof. of Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University
KLAUS NELLEN, Professor of Philosophy, IWM, Vienna
JOAN SCOTT, Prof. of History, Institute for advanced study, Princeton University
JEANNE MARIE GAGNEBIN DE BONS, Prof. in Philosophy, Pontifícia Universidade de
São Paulo
HAYDEN WHITE, Prof. of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION OF THE THREE SECTIONS
I. TIME: Conceptual History and the Remapping of Time
Participants: Aronsson, Bartelson, Burström, Hornborg, Jonsson, Karlholm, Lettevall,
Lorenzoni
A central dimension of the new development in historical knowledge and consciousness is the
critical awareness of to what extent language and inherited conceptual patterns shape our
understanding of the past as well as of our present. Hermeneutic philosophy, from Heidegger
and Gadamer, insisted on the necessity of pursuing a mutual critical exploration of our central
concepts in order to achieve a more transparent and well reflected knowledge of the past.
They insisted on the need to expose our own conceptual framework to historical critique, of
how and by what means it has developed. Through the project “Archiv für
Begriffsgeschichte”, the work of Koselleck, and that of Skinner, this impulse grew into an
important line of empirical-philosophical research. Also the work of Foucault, and the
genealogical analysis of discourses has had an enormous impact on historical studies. Of
particular importance is the growing interest in questioning and historically excavating the
fundamental temporal-historical framework itself. How has concepts such as progress,
evolution, modernity, and ultimately history itself, come to organize the representation of
reality? (Cf Mignolo 1999).
Time itself – whatever it is, if indeed it can be said to be at all – has no inherent
chronological structure. Time is what we organize, by means of calendars and clocks, in order

to pursue our tasks, and to create working communities. It is what we divide into periods in
order to produce a tale of who and what we are. This fundamental statement lies at the basis
of much critical reflection within the human sciences today. It should remind us of the
constant need to reassess our basic narratives, to expose our activities as historically
interpreting beings, and ultimately to open our attention to the new and unknown. Yet, in the
contemporary passion for historizing there is often a lack of reflection on how these basic
historical frameworks are conceptually organized and maintained. The present section gathers
researchers from History, Political Science, Archaeology, Anthropology, Aesthetics, Art, and
Intellectual history, that share an interest in exploring different aspects of the fundamental
conceptual framework within which historical knowledge is organized.
Peter Aronsson will pursue an investigation of the concept of history itself, how
it has emerged and been transformed over different periods. From the perspective of Art
History and Archaeology Karlholm and Burström will explore the concept of “the present”, in
its relation to the past. With the tools of conceptual history and post-colonial critique, the
whole concept of modernity - and its implied framework: pre-modernity and post-modernity –
can be placed in question. This is the theme of Hornborg’s study, and it also motivates the
work of Jonsson and Lorenzoni, where the latter focus more specifically on criticizing the
function of a unified subject of historical narratives, such as the “people”, “nation”, or
“culture”. In all of these contributions, the work is directed towards the opening up of new
ways of representing history, so as to include the previously non-represented and excluded.
The need for conceptual-historical critique is felt increasingly also in political
science as demonstrated by Bartelson, and this is also the theme of Lettevall. Once the basic
political vocabulary that organizes the historical narratives, with concepts such as nation,
sovereignty, power, war and peace, cosmopolitanism and patriotism, are historized, new ways
of representing the past also emerge, with an ultimate bearing on the present. In sum, this
section will show how the internal revision of basic temporal-conceptual frameworks which is
going on in separate disciplines today, constitute a shared ground of theoretical concerns that
unite the human and social sciences.
II. MEMORY: Politics of Memory and the Uses of History
Participants: Fareld, Gaunt, Hegardt, Lindén, Manns, Redin, Ruin, Svenungsson

The 19 th century paradigm of historical narrative was often based on the naïve adoption of
national and cultural agendas, in a both a monumental and antiquarian spirit, to use
Nietzsche’s terms. An important part of contemporary critical theory has focused on revealing
the inherent bias in traditional historical narratives, in both political and aesthetic
historiography. At the same time there is an increasing academic interest in how history is
organized and preserved precisely from the point of view of the present, its concerns, its
memories, passions, traumas, fears, and hopes (cf. Antze & Lambek). Among historian these
issues have long been discussed under the heading of didactics and use of history. But the
efforts to formulate an agenda for the teaching and transmission of historical knowledge has
also led to the growth of more theoretical concerns, regarding the nature of the historical as
such. The politics of cultural heritage is today an expanding field of research, where memory,
history and forgetting are explored in new ways (Cf. notably Nora (1992), Assman (1999),
and Ricoeur (2005)). The field of museology, following Bennet (1995), has grown rapidly,
including studies of various forms cultural self -representation. In the present section this line
of research is represented first by the endeavour to write the history of the national historical
museum of Sweden itself. In Hegardt’s study of this institution it will be surveyed with the
methods of traditional historical analysis, but also critically reflected with the tools of
museological research and critical cultural theory. Also Aronsson’s ongoing research on the
museum and uses of history in a European comparative perspective will be an important
contribution to this section.
The current interest in the use of history and cultural self-representation, if yet
vital, is still in need of reflecting more deeply on its own premises in order not to become just
another field of gathering historical facts. For the program as a whole, and in particular within
the present section, it is important to develop a proper sense and understanding of the way
which history constitutes an existentially lived reality, also on the part of the investigating
historian. To be a historical subject is in a sense always to be claimed by history, taken in by
it, forced to respond and make choices. The attempt to develop a more general theory of
historical existence – human historicity - was the task that Heidegger set up in his seminal
work Sein und Zeit (1927), which has been inspiration to many of the theorists involved in the
program. He suggested that the essence of the historical somehow has to do with the relation
to the dead. In the study by Ruin this theme of history as a mode of living with the dead, as
the spectral or ghostly, is developed with means from phenomenology, psychoanalysis and
critical anthropology, building partly on the work of Derrida (1993).

Several of the projects in this section are concerned precisely with this
existential dimension of history. Fareld will contribute two projects to the program within this
area, the first deals with history as a space of guilt and forgiveness, through the work of
Arendt and Jankélévitch. At the centre of attention is their understanding of the ethical
relation between past, present and future. This project will be developed with a study of the
political and public debates around monuments and memorials in Germany and France in the
post-war period, how the traditional self-elevating monument has been replaced by
monuments of mourning and grief, especially around the memory of the Shoa. Generally
there is a growing sense and interest in history in terms of categories such as trauma, grief,
and also the fear of repetition. History is not only the scene of memory, but also of destruction
and repression of memories, and of a necessary forgetfulness. In the study by Redin the
aesthetical aspect of a politics of memory is addressed, and here with a longer perspective
which seeks to determine the emergence of such an aesthetics of memory from German
romanticism onward. It concerns not just the handling of painful memories, but also how and
why cultures choose to create preserved spaces, of natural and created habitats, within their
own borders. The overall orientation of this section is to reconsider the scientific historical
culture in the broader context of a culture and politics of memory.
An important dimension of this theme concerns how historical narratives of
minorities are written, how one remembers “one’s own”. In the case of oppressed
communities, the writing of history itself becomes a politics of memory in the most acute
sense. The different ways in which this is done and handled is the topic of Gaunt. The
experience of being a victim of history, and of having lived on its margin, also motives
revisions of historical narrative, as well as of the historical itself. If the dominant tendency
within Western historiography for a long time was built around large narratives of progress,
movement, and gradual growth of civilization, the emergence of counter narratives, - not least
in the influential movement of subaltern and post-colonial studies, which also has its
counterpart within critical studies of worker’s history and women’s history – has opened up
new trajectories. These trajectories not only constitute new and complementary stories to the
established nation-state narratives, they also challenge the form of representing historical
reality. This dimension is closely connected to the projects of Jonsson, Hornborg and
Lorenzoni in Section I.
An important line of thought in this respect is the critique of history that issues
from within a secularized Jewish messianism. Jayne Svenungsson will contribute two studies
to the program, one on the role of messianism and prophetic writing for the thinking of

history in modern thought, notably that of Derrida, Vattimo, and Trias. In a second study she
will work closer with the topic of messianic time and temporality, through Rosenzweig,
Benjamin, and Levinas, and see how they use Jewish messianic tradition to invent a secular
revision of the totalizing implications of a Hegelian and progress-oriented philosophy of
history. The messianic here becomes a critical platform for questioning a potentially violent
universalism, without resigning to a separatist celebration of the particular.
The urgent need to rewrite history has also been an important dimension of the
relatively new discipline of Gender studies, and it is deeply rooted in political feminism
historically. Establishing the new discipline has partly implied a rewriting of many previously
canonic narratives. It strengthens the awareness that the use of history is not something that
can be studied only as a sociological phenomenon outside academic discourse, but something
that touches the core of how academic disciplines themselves organize their historical-
chronological structure. The essentially critical sense of history in Gender Studies and
feminism also runs parallel to the establishing of a new political and cognitive canon. A
forerunner in raising critical question of gender and historiography has been Scott (1988/99).
To reflect on and develop these operations, and to make the alternative historicization itself
into an explicit theme is the task of the projects by Lindén and Manns.
III. REPRESENTATION: Narrative Representations and the Constitution of Historical
Consciousness
Participants: Carlshamre, Ericson, Fjelkestam, Helgesson, Lundemo, Olsson, Sandomirskaja,
Schuback, Spindler.
A central focus of historical-philosophical research and debate in recent decades has been the
role of mediation of historical knowledge, the implication of the fact that historical knowledge
is necessarily represented knowledge, that it is told, narrated, and configured, poeticized. The
work of Hayden White has been seminal here, mirroring a growing preoccupation among
many researchers, documented not least in Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative (1983-85), and also
in the work of Carr (1986). The question of the narrative aspect of historical knowledge and
representation of historical reality, has profound epistemological reverberations. It brings to
theoretical awareness how what we usually look upon as history itself is a volatile space,
constantly in the process of being configured, construed, and brought to presence, through

various techniques, strategies, and concerns. On a fundamental philosophical level it raises
the question, explored here by Carlshamre, of the possibility of truth of historical account:
What does it mean to have truth in history in the first place, in view of the fact that the truth is
couched in a narrative form?
Often the debate surrounding these issues in the historical disciplines resulted in the stale
controversy around so called “postmodernist” thought. The present section is not meant to
vindicate some or other theoretical standpoint, but to use the collective efforts of many
different modes of analysis to bring this whole discussion a step further. It unites a unique
constellation of different analytical techniques that looks at the very problem of representation
in and of history from different angles, bringing together hermeneutics, narratology,
structuralism, and deleuzian conceptual analysis. There are signs today that the
epistemologically structured debate around truth vs. non-truth could eventually be replaced by
a more refined understanding of the ethical and political dimension of the concept of truth
itself, where the very idea of veracity in history has to take account of a fundamental sense of
justice, of doing justice through narrative.
An important basis for the program as a whole is hermeneutic theory of history.
Schuback will show how the contemporary concern with objectivity vs non-objectivity has its
origin in the very foundation of the discipline of history. Already in Dilthey’s hermeneutics it
was clear that the human sciences contain an irreducible element of dialogical identification
between the subject and object of knowledge. The project will show how this points toward
what in post-colonial theory today is referred to as the “third space” (Bhabha), which she will
develop as the imaginative space of “the in-between”. Also in the work of Olsson
philosophical hermeneutics will be the starting point for developing a theory for the
historicity of literary works, how it is only in opening oneself to the address of the past that it
reveals its claim to validity and truth.
The increasing attention to narrative form in history has opened up new ways of looking
at literature and the relation between academic history and history as literary fiction.
Helgesson develops this theme through a close analysis of some African and Latin American
literary texts. The project touches on the issues addressed in section II, concerning the
possibility of representing and preserving the memory of and for a community in new ways,
and it shows how literature in certain respects has been path-breaking in forming new modes
of historical representation. Likewise Fjelkestam’s project analyses some key literary 19 th
texts that gave a voice to previously underrepresented groups, such as women and Jews. The
role of creative language in the shaping of historical narrative points in the direction of more

general issue of language and linguistic structure, in organizing our overall temporal and
historical framework. From a cultural linguistic perspective Sandomirskaja will explore some
issues related to this connection.
Traditional hermeneutics was sometimes accused of being naïve when it comes to the
role and function of medialization. In the contemporary theoretical landscape the media-
oriented approach and the hermeneutic emphasis on meaning, dialogue and appropriation
rarely engage in productive dialogue. One idea with the program as a whole, and in particular
with this section, is to bring together these perspectives in the context of the general problem
of the forming of historical consciousness. Original narrative theory of history from the 70s
and 80s, was primarily focused on the relation between history and literature, and in general
on the literary dimension of history. But the rapid recent rise of media-studies in the last
decades has made clear the importance of taking a larger perspective on the very phenomenon
of medialization for the forming of historical awareness. Ericson will here develop a study on
the particular historicity and temporality of televised history. Lundemo will work on the role
of cinematic techniques for depicting time throughout the 20 th century. They will both
highlight to what extent what we commonly refer to as historical consciousness is today
increasingly the effect of visual techniques. One philosophical inspiration for much of what is
going on in film theory has been the work of Deleuze, whose preoccupation with time and
temporality goes back both to Bergson and Nietzsche. In a separate study this aspect of his
work will be explored by Spindler.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS WITH SHORT CV:s
ARONSSON, PETER.
”The Concept of History” [Section I]
B. 1959. Professor in Cultural Heritage and the Uses of History since 2001 at Culture Studies
department, Linköping University. PhD in history from Lunds University 1992. His recent
work is on the role of historical narrative and consciousness in directing action, in regard both
to historiography and the uses of the past in historical culture at large. Currently he is co-
ordinator of two international projects exploring the uses of the past (cf. www.namu.se and

www.nordicspaces.eu). His most important recent publication is Historiebruk - att använda
det förflutna.
Aronsson’s project on museums and use of history, which is separately funded,
will contribute to Section II. It will establish a connection to contemporary European
networks in this area. With the funding from the Program he will contribute a book length
study on the Concept of History within Section I. The study problematizes the established
understanding of “history”. First, it will use the resources from conceptual history (Koselleck
2002), in order to explore how different societies, genres and professions at different times
have used and referred to “history”. Thus it becomes a study of different ways in which
societies have understood themselves through this concept in its complexity and manifold
meanings. Secondly it will question the standard conception of “the past” as simply an
existing reality open to historical investigation. History obtains its meaning from the point of
view of the contemporary situation, its fears and expectations, in ways articulated already by
Augustine. The ancient concept of history remains an arena of productive epistemological
dilemmas whose tensions will here be explored over time. This will be done by demonstrating
the prevalence of conflicting views, de-historicizing and culturalizing the historiography of
historical discourse, bringing the profession of academic history within a larger context of
cultural heritage, memory and myth. Aronsson will be part-time funded by the program, and
co-funded by University of Linköping. The project will be published as a monograph in
Swedish (possibly also in English translation), and a condensed article will be sent to History
and Theory.
BARTELSON, JENS
“Conceptual History and International Relations” [Section I]
B. 1961. Professor of Political Science, Lund University. PhD from Stockholm University in
1993 with dissertation A Genalogy of Sovereignity, later published by Cambridge UP.
Previously Professor of international relations, Copenhagen University (2000-08). Fellow at
SCAS (1997) and PUC (Rio de Janeiro, 2008). Most important recent publications: Visions of
World Community, forthcoming at Cambridge UP.
Bartelson is involved in exploring the conceptual foundations of the emerging
global international political system. The established vocabulary for understanding political

communities is still bound by the modern state-based system. In order to enable new
conceptual innovations, the foundations of the way politics is thought must be explored (cf.
Koselleck (2002), Ball (1995) and Farr (1995)). Many concepts of domestic political thought
have been investigated, yielding important insights into the foundations of modern political
discourse and institutions. A corresponding body of knowledge is still lacking within the
realm of international relations. The project will explore how the different meanings of war
has conditioned warfare. Rather than focusing on moral questions about the legitimate use of
force, it addresses the social ontology of war. It analyzes how and why war has been
constructed as a meaningful activity during different periods of history. It contributes an
important perspective from political science and international relations on how historically
decisive events can be critically interpreted from the point of view of how they were
conceptually understood and anticipated by the historical agents. Ultimately it will show how
the categories we use to understand fundamental historical events from the viewpoint of the
present are conditioned by that very same history. Bartelson will be co-funded by program,
and also by Lund University. The work will be published in the form of a monograph in
English (probably Cambridge UP).
BURSTRÖM, MATS
“The ‘Recent’ as an Archaeological Category: Problems and Possibilities” [Section I]
B. 1962. Professor of Archaeology, Stockholm University (SU). PhD from SU in 1991, with
the dissertation Arkeologisk samhällsavgränsning. His research has developed in the direction
of the use of the past in the present, and also to expanding the theories and methods of
archaeology in the direction of more recent material culture. His most recent publication is
Samtidsarkeologi. Introduktion till ett forskningsfält (2007). He served as editor of the
Current Swedish Archaeology during 1993-2000. He has also been instrumental in building
the department of archaeology at Södertörns högskola during 2003-2008.
In the context of the program Section I he will explore the emergence of the
temporal framework of archaeological knowledge, with a particular emphasis on the category
of the “recent”. It is only during the first part of the 19 th century that man obtains a “pre-
history”, a historical space going back further than written documents. Archaeology is
established as the discipline with the task of chronologically sorting remains from this early

past, gradually integrating material from periods with written sources. The discovery that
material and written sources can contradict each other has led to an increasing interest in
analyzing more contemporary remains with archaeological methods. The project argues that it
is no longer meaningful to delimit the field of archaeology in temporal-historical terms. This
new way of conceiving the field of archaeology destabilizes the standard chronological
divisions, and brings in a trans-historical dimension, that looks at materiality and meaning
from new perspectives. The category of the “recent” will be used here to reflect critically on
the often obsessive relation to chronology in archaeology and in the historical sciences in
general, and also to question the “chronological cleansing” that takes place at archaeological
sites. Burström will be part-time funded by the program and his research will be co-funded by
Stockholm University. The result will be published in a Swedish monograph, and at least one
international journal article, preferably in European Journal of Archaeology or American
Antiquity.
CARLSHAMRE, STAFFAN
“True Stories?” [Section III]
B. 1952. Professor in Theoretical Philosophy, Stockholm University, Deputy Chair of
Department. PhD from University of Gothenburg 1987, with the dissertation Language and
Time: An Attempt to Arrest the Thought of Jacques Derrida. The book Förklara och berätta
vad som hänt (1995) explores the philosophy of historical narration. Part-responsible for the
large project “Meaning and Interpretation”, (RJ, 1995-1999), and editor of the volume Types
of types of Interpretation (2003).
In the context of Section III he will pursue problems concerning the relation
between narrative form and the content of narration, and the problem of “truth” in historical
narratives. He will focus on the cognitive gains and risks of casting factual information in
narrative form, not only in history proper but also, e.g., in journalism. A central question will
be: what is it for a story to be true? One can give a very distorted picture of a real chain of
events while keeping to the smallest detail of what actually happened. But what does it mean
for the general picture given by the story to be true or false? One hint is that the “gestalt”
properties that seem to characterize interesting stories – the articulation of personalities into
heroes and villains, the overall patterns characteristic of tragedies, comedies, satires, etc. – all

seem to presuppose a value perspective. But whose values are relevant? One reason to feel
betrayed by a story is that one is trapped into valuations and identifications that are not one’s
own. In this way, there seems to be something inherently relativistic about narrative truth, but
there still seems to be room for arguing about the truth of stories, and for blaming some
accounts for being misleading or false, even beyond the basic requirement to “get the facts
right”. His work is intended to result in a collection of articles, to be published in English,
some of which will first be sent to international journals, primarily History and Theory and
Philosophy and Literature.
ERICSON, STAFFAN
“The Times of Television” [Section III]
B. 1956. Docent, Associate Professor, Media and Communications, Södertörn University.
PhD from Stockholm University in 2004, with the dissertation Två drömspel. Från
Strindbergs modernism till Potters television, that engages with historical implications of
Walter Benjamin’s and Raymond Williams’s cultural theories. Has edited several books on
television and currently leads the research project ”Media Houses” (Baltic Sea Foundation).
Ericson will contribute a study on television and contemporary historical
awareness. During the last decade, Western television has become increasingly occupied with
the representation of history (Bell 2007), as indicated by large-scale documentaries and
serials, specialized history-channels, new technologies for accessing archival material. The
medium’s influence on collective memory is by now well recognized (Volkmer 2006). This
development raises urgent questions: how does television represent the past? How may these
representations be distinguished from traditional historiography, or the narratives of film and
literature? Such questions pose a challenge for media studies, where television mainly has
represented an ahistorical temporality, producing “forgetfulness, not memory, flow, not
history” (Heath, 1990). This study will explore different ways in which television may portray
what happened (”history on television”), as well as different temporalities in its mode of
presentation (“television as historian”). Specifically, it will portray three temporal forms: the
time of the chronicle, where television organizes flows of historical time through
documentaries, fictional series, yearly chronicles, etc; the time of catastrophe, as breaks in
this flow, through live broadcasts of events where history is represented as catastrophe, crisis,

disaster (cf. Doane 1990); the time of ritual, as in televised ceremonial events, Olympic
games, elections, installations, etc, (cf Dayan & Katz 1992). These forms will be analyzed
through contemporary examples (cold war history, 9/11, presidential elections). The
hypothesis is that their interrelations are fundamental for understanding how television
represents historical consciousness. The results will be sent primarily to international journals,
e.g., Media, Culture and Society, and eventually in a monograph on Television and History.
FARELD, VICTORIA
“Contemporary Forms of Memory: Monumental History Inverted” [Section II]
B. 1973. PhD, History of Ideas, Göteborg University 2007, with Att vara utom sig inom sig:
Charles Taylor, erkännandet och Hegels aktualitet, awarded with Sten Lindroth Award for
best dissertation of the year in History of Ideas. During 2008 visiting scholar at Institut für
Philosophie, Potsdam Universität and at Sophiapol, Université de Paris-X Nanterre.
Within the program Fareld will contribute two studies to Section II. The first is
devoted to the problem “Forgiveness, Future and Past: History as Collective Self Inquiry in
Arendt, Jankélévitch and Améry”, a study which has already received funding from RJ for the
period 2009-11. The aim of this project is to discuss forgiveness and memory in relation to
conceptions of guilt and responsibility in Western Europe since the post-war period, focusing
on the writings of the above-mentioned authors. At the centre of attention is their
understanding of the ethical relation between past, present and future, and the role they
ascribe to history in the light of this relation. By reading their texts against the two current
notions historical consciousness and uses of history, the analysis will contribute to a
contemporary discussion about how history is used as a common space to express the failures
of one’s own society. In a subsequent period (2012-14), this project will be further developed
through a study of the public debates around memorials in Germany and France since the
post-war period. In recent years the role of monuments in Europe has become a subject of
debate and scholarly research (cf Heimrod 1999, Huyssen 2003, Young 2000). In contrast to
the affirmative role of the monument in the 19 th century, many monuments in Europe during
the last decades manifest failures and regrets of Western civilization, notably the Shoah. In
studying the debates around memorials, the focus is on how historical experiences are
narrated and used in contemporary memory culture, as memorials reflect society not only

through representing the past but also, and primarily, by manifesting society’s ongoing
relation to this past. Fareld will be connected to the program throughout the full period, but
funded during the period 2012-14. The result of the expanded project will be four articles,
three in English and one in Swedish.
FJELKESTAM, KRISTINA
“The Politics of the Sublime” [Section III]
B. 1967. PhD 2002 from Stockholm University in Comparative Literature, with dissertation
Ungkarlsflickor, kamrathustrur och manhaftiga lesbianer: Modernitetens litterära gestalter I
mellankrigstidens Sverige. Currently employed as research assistant at Umeå University,
Center for Gender Studies. She has participated in two research projects, on “The New
Woman” and “The aesthetics of masculinity”, and in 2004 she was a STINT scholar to New
York University.
The project which she will contribute to the program is concerned with the
institutionalization of aesthetics as an academic discipline, from a gender-theoretical and
critical perspective. The study will focus on the central concept of the sublime, as first
articulated by Burke and then developed by Kant. More specifically it will look at how it can
initially be said to imply a “colonization of the other” (as suggested by Freeman 1995, cf also
Battersby). But through a sequence of examples from 19 th century literature, it will
demonstrate how it also obtains an emancipatory function, e.g., as in de Staël’s Corinne,
where it is both an ethical and political notion, meant to inspire revolutionary action. Also, in
the novel Jenny by Fanny Lewald the opression of the Jewish people is shown as articulated
by a sublime voice, by means of which the non-representable other is suddenly represented, in
an ambiguous movement of absence and presence. The expected entertainment is transformed
into an experience of irrepressible and almost haunting truth, the return of the repressed
through literary and aesthetic expression. Through its sublime aesthetical representation, the
voice and aspiration of the repressed return to inhabit the awareness of the audience. The role
of literary narrative will be explored in its role both of shaping and representing, and thus
ultimately strengthening marginal voices and groups within general historical consciousness.
Fjelkestam will participate in the work and meetings of the program, but she will not need

funding as she is supported from Umeå University. Her result will be published in the form of
a monograph in Swedish, and two articles in English.
GAUNT, DAVID
“Minority Perspectives on Historical Narratives” [Section II]
B. 1944. Professor of History at Södertörn University. PhD Uppsala 1975 with dissertation
Utbildning till statens tjänst. Received a Woodrow Wilson National Scholarship, Thord-Grey
Fellowship; Nordic Scholar. Member: advisory board for Social History; scientific council
Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies (Moscow). Large research projects:
Explaining Inter-Religious Violence (Baltic Sea Foundation) and Kinship and Social Service
(EU-6 th Frame). Recently published Massacres, Resistance Protectors: Muslim-Christian
Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I (2006).
The project will seek to interpret how the story of minorities affects traditional
historical narratives. This is particularly clear in the case of the Black population of the U. S.
where the history of slavery and racial discrimination is increasingly integrated into
textbooks. In Europe the experience of the Jewish minority is slowly being placed into
national contexts. Similar integrative changes and general concern can be seen for the Saami,
while the history of the largest European minority, the Roma, has yet to make a mark in the
national narratives. Since the 1980s the writing of multicultural history has increasing bearing
on the national history. The case of the Polish town of Jedwabne is representative. Here Poles
killed their Jewish neighbours in July 1941. This realization has shattered the Polish self-
image as an innocent society that did not participate in the holocaust. Critical debates over the
eradication of minorities in Ottoman times are explosive inside Turkey. We can discern
several forms of treating minorities: Multicultural in which each culture writes its own story
with little interconnection. Tolerant nation in which there is a dominant socio/cultural frame
and the minorities are subordinate. Ethnic-territorial Imperative in which state marginalizes
the minorities within the territory that the state claims. The task of the study is to critically
thematize and combine case studies with more principal arguments concerning the way
politics and public debate challenge historiography. Gaunt’s project is partly funded by
Södertörn University College. He will be part funded by the program for two years, but will
remain connected to the group throughout the whole program. His contribution will be

published as a book by an international academic publishing house, hopefully Oxford
University Press.
HEGARDT, JOHAN
“A Historical Museum – and How it Contributed to the Shaping of Sweden” [Section III]
B. 1960. PhD in Archaeology, Uppsala University 1997, and associate professor (docent) in
Archaeology 2007, Uppsala University. In his research Hegart has mainly been concerned
with the cultural and existential role of archeology in the present. His most recent publication
is Fyrtio minuter. En essä om arkeologins berättelser (2007).
Hegardt is co-leader for a large project, funded by the The Royal Swedish
Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, The Museum of National Antiquities and The
Swedish Arts Council, to write the history of The Museum of National Antiquities. The work
has a clear empirical focus in seeking to provide a thorough chronicle of the origin and
development of this central institution, founded in 1866, for the knowledge, research and
general shaping of national historical consciousness in Sweden. It will combine
archaeological and historical knowledge and methods with contemporary museological
theories and debates around the role of museums in modern culture (Bennet 1995, Message
2006). The investigation will also make use of the growing interest within the discipline of
history of the way history is told, shaped and used within the overall project of shaping a
public consciousness (Aronsson 2004). With the analytical tools of the new museology it will
be possible to study the Historical museum not only as a historical phenomenon in its own
right, how it was shaped and changed by political decisions. It can also be shown how it has
been instrumental in influencing the historical consciousness of the Swedish population
through its high profile exhibitions, in particular how it contributed to shaping the idea of
Sweden, its culture, inheritance, and its historical role. The project fits well within the
multidisciplinary research envisaged by the program, within which the representation of the
past is seen as a decisive factor in the shaping of collective identities and communities. The
project is already funded, but will be connected to the program. After its completion, Hegardt
will be funded by the program for developing a more theoretical analysis of the findings of
this project. The result will be published in the form of one scientific article and a more
popular essay.

HELGESSON, STEFAN
“Illegitimate History: Postcolonial Temporalities and Literary Language” [Section III]
B. 1966. Docent in Comparative literature, Uppsala University. PhD in Literature from
Uppsala University in 1999. STINT Post-doc 2003-5 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal,
Pietermaritzburg. Between 2000 and 2006 co-organiser of the project “Literature and Literary
History in Global Contexts” (VR). Individual project between 2007 and 2010, “Inventing
World Literature” (VR). From 2009 director of SALT at Uppsala University.
Helgesson will analyze the clash between temporalities actualized in some Latin
American and African historical narratives. Chinua Achebe’s Nigerian novel Things Fall
Apart (1958) problematises the production of legitimate history. The historicist discourse of
the “Commissioner” legitimizes colonization and invalidates (African) Igbo experience as
legitimate history. This conflict is constitutive of postcolonial cultural expression. Arguably,
it was first addressed by writers, whereas the massive undertaking by postcolonial theorists
(notably Mudimbe 1988; Chatterjee 1993; Bhabha 1994; Mignolo 1995; Spivak 1999;
Lazarus 1999; Chakrabarty 2000; Mbembe 2001) to reconceptualize historical time is of a
more recent date. The purpose here is to investigate if literature is more amenable to
interrogating what Mbembe has called the entanglement of temporalities. If so, how, and
within what limits? The project will approach these questions along a South-South
comparative axis. By reading Euclides da Cunha’s Brazilian “scientific essay” Os sertões
(1902) alongside the South African novel The Story of an African Farm (1883) by Olive
Schreiner, it will look at the incomplete attempts of these “nation-founding” texts to
appropriate Spencerian evolutionism. A second part will look at Thomas Mofolo’s South
African novel Chaka (1910), Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) and Miguel Angel Asturias’s
Guatemalan novel Hombres de maíz (1949), narratives that all offer forms of transit through
asymmetrical temporal conflicts. The investigation will conclude by critiquing specific
conceptions of a unified literary-historical time (Casanova 1999; Thomsen 2008). How do
these varied approaches to entanglement affect the narration of global literary-historical time?
His work will result in a concise book. He will also seek to publish 3-4 articles in journals
such as Interventions, Luso-Brazilian Review, Research in African Literatures and Critical
Inquiry.

HORNBORG, ALF
“Modernity as Social Space: The Temporalization of Global Inequalities” [Section I]
B. 1954. Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University. PhD in Cultural Anthropology from
Uppsala University 1986. Has published widely on global environmental history and the
indigenous cultures of South America. Co-recipient of Linnaean grant for LUCID: Lund
University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of
Sustainability.
Hornborg will critically examine the conventional historical chronology of “pre-
modernity”, “modernity”, and “post-modernity”. The most widespread definition dates the
advent of modernity to 17th century Europe and its global demise to the 1970’s. Sociologists
have emphasized the “disembedding” of technological, economic and political rationality
from specific cultural contexts, and the consequent abstraction of trust and individual identity
(cf. Giddens 1990). Such processes have been seen to promote increasing standardization and
homogenization of social life. Other scholars have observed that the flip side of individualism
is existential alienation and an epistemological dualism of subject vs. object, mind vs. body
and culture vs. nature (cf. Evernden 1985). Simultaneously, the modern project has been
characterized by its assumptions of progress and expansion, whether expressed through
concepts such as “growth” and “development” or through a faith in the increasingly exact and
comprehensive “master narrative” of science. However, recurrent concerns with tradition,
ethnicity, community, local knowledge, spirituality, diversity, environment, etc. have
challenged the modernist paradigm. Building on world-system analyses of global inequalities
(Hornborg 2001), the study will seek to redefine modernity as a privileged social condition
made possible at certain positions within global systems of resource flows, and thus
physically and socio-economically impossible to universalize (cf. Bauman 1998). It will
interrogate the condescending attitude that throughout history tends to permeate the approach
of the affluent classes to the “pre-modern” lifestyles of the supposedly backward peoples in
the global periphery. Rather than representing a past historical period (a “then”) within an
evolutionist sequence, the so-called “less developed” populations of the world can be
recognized as occupying a complementary – and contemporary – social space (a “there”). The
results will be published in journal articles, preferably in Comparative Studies in Society and

History or Theory, Culture and Society.
JONSSON, STEFAN
“Collectivity and Universality in the New Humanities” [Section I]
B. 1961. Docent in Aesthetics, Södertörn University. PhD in Literature, Duke U. 1997.
Author of several books in post-colonial studies, literary studies, cultural theory, and
European modernism, most recently A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions
(Columbia UP, 2008). Fellow at Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 1998-2000. Visiting
professor, U of Michigan, 2006. Involved in two research projects: “The Image of the Masses
in European Culture”; “European Integration and European Colonialism”, the latter funded by
the Swedish Research Council. Literary critic at Dagens Nyheter.
This project is an investigation of concepts that serve to interpret human
collectives and explain historical change. Since its modern inception, European human and
social science has attributed historical agency to collectives by calling them “classes
“nations,” “masses,” “peoples,” or “cultures” – terms that have profoundly shaped our
historical consciousness. These terms are now contested, theoretically and politically, and
researchers seek new ways of describing collective phenomena. Jonsson will chart the
conceptual geography that emerges as scholars in philosophy, post-colonial studies, critical
anthropology, and spatial cultural history trace collective modes of being and acting.
Important notions will be “network,” “subalternity,” “multitude,” “migrant,” “flow,”
“movement,” “community,” and “humanity.” A study of this kind is needed because these
ideas about the common and the universal heavily influence future developments of human
and social science and its views of cultural transformations. Two hypotheses will be tried: (1)
the new concepts avoid reference to fixed identities, thus rejecting prevalent modes of cultural
analysis that see actions and artefacts as “representations” of group identities; (2) they
understand the collective as a spatial, rather than temporal or historical phenomenon.
Consequently, a general aim is (3) to historicize these conceptions of collective being and
action, so as to disclose that each presents a different model of a liveable social future. His
project will result in an English monograph, to be translated into Swedish, and before that in
one or two articles for international journals.

KARLHOLM, DAN
“Art and the Passing Present: Contemporary Art in Time” [Section I]
B. 1963. Professor of Art History, Södertörn University. PhD in Art History from Uppsala
University in 1996, with dissertation on Handböckernas konsthistoria. Om skapandet av en
‘allmän konsthistoria’ i Tyskland under 1800-talet. His work on historiography includes Art
of Illusion: The Representation of Art History in Ninteenth-Century Germany and Beyond
(2004). Founder and director of the Department of Art History at Södertörn, responsible for
research project “Art (without) Spaces: Identities of Internet Art in Germany, Lithuania, and
Sweden” (Baltic Sea Foundation). Editor-in-Chief for Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art
History (Routledge) from 2009.
Karlholm will contribute a study which addresses the need within art history to
reconsider the standard scheme of historicizing art, with particular view to how
“contemporaniety” is and has been understood. The “contemporaneity” to which
contemporary art ultimately refers appears less as a temporal sequence than as a contested
space of issues of relevance for “us” “here” “now”. The standard mode of art history writing,
modelled on 19 th -century narratives of nonlinear development, is ill suited for assessing
contemporary art as a historical-conceptual phenomenon. This art is discursively dissociated
from the past as well as the future, and excluded from most art simultaneous with it. To avoid
perpetuating historicism by suggesting further neo- or post-isms, the need to critically
reconsider this entire scheme of historicizing art is evident. The project will compare a
number of historical situations or microenvironments of art over two centuries in order to
establish discursive regularities as well as contingent nuances when it comes to situating art to
(ones own) time. Building on the work of Jacques Rancière, Niklas Luhmann and Reinhard
Koselleck, the intention is to contribute to an understanding of modernity, where new
artworks are not merely diachronically linked to previous contenders, but situated in their
respective synchronic environments and art systems. The result will 1-2 articles intended for
publication in Art History or Oxford Art Journal, and a monograph in English to be sent to an
English or American Press.

LETTEVALL, REBECKA
“Historical-analytical rationality as a Tool of Conceptual History” [Section I]
B. 1962. Associate professor at Department for History of Ideas, Södertörn University, and
director of research at CBEES and The Nobel Museum. PhD in History of Ideas, Lund
University 2001, with dissertation En europeisk kosmopolit. En idéhistorisk studie av
Immanuel Kants Om den eviga freden och dess verkningshistoria. She has worked on the
history of political thought, and in particular on the ideas of cosmopolitanism, world peace,
and neutrality, and she recently edited the volume The Idea of Kosmopolis. History,
philosophy and politics of world citizenship.
Lettevall will contribute an in-depth conceptual-historical study on the
constellation of the conceptual pair patriotism and cosmopolitanism, which will seek to
combine the resources of historical and analytical rationality. By working simultaneously on
these two conceptual terms she will encircle the problem of modern citizenship, in the tension
between different forms of communities, the local and the global. While the cosmopolitan
ideal has received attention over the last decades, that of patriotism is today partly hidden and
repressed, as if certain concepts are forced into the background by changing historico-political
situations (cf. Kateb 2006). But the significance of conceptual history, as delineated by
Koselleck, is to trace the key concepts that can open up the past for us in new ways, and thus
ultimately also to achieve a better understanding of the present. The premise for the study is
that “patriotism” in particular provides such an important key for interpreting past political
reality. The development of its use during the 20 th century has contributed to making it
problematic in the European political situation. At the same time, American popular culture
and contemporary political discourse constitutes an important contrast. The idea is to develop
a combination of historical conceptual analysis with a more critical-analytical approach. Her
research will be published in the form of 4 articles in English, for Journal of the history of
ideas, History of European ideas, Kantian Review, or Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik, and a
monograph in Swedish or English
LINDÉN, CLAUDIA
“Historizing as Method in Gender Theory and Research in Sweden” [Section I]

B. 1963. Associate Professor at Center for Gender Studies, Stockholm University. Phd. in
Comparative Literature 2003, Stockholm University with diss. Om kärlek. Litteratur,
sexualitet och politik hos Ellen Key. Responsible for the research project Maskulinitetens
estetik, funded by The Baltic Sea Foundation. Has published extensively on Gender Theory,
and the History of feminist thought.
Lindéns contribution will be an investigation into the interconnectedness
between constructivism and historicity within Gender theory. It is concerned with how the
historizised view of gender is a prerogative for the conception and establishing of the new,
theoretical but primarily non-historic, academic discipline Genusvetenskap (Gender studies).
The question is therefore twofold: How is history and historicizing used as a method within
gender theory; and secondly, how can feminism write and represent its own history in a way
that does not fall prey to traditional kinds of historical narrative, as it establishes its own
tradition, canon, and identity? This involves thinking history not as a fact, or as a foundation,
but more as something that is produced at the same time as we are produced by it.
Constructivism is an important tool in gender theory against essentialism, and
constructivism builds on historicism. When historicizing is used as an analytical technique it
is usually taken for granted that we know history. But rarely is the question asked in what way
history is known, and how the basic chronological frameworks are established. A
constructivism that does not reflect on its uses of history makes feminists liable to repeat
universalism and make use of a language of history that is structured in problematic ways
around concepts such as time, causality, chronology, narrative and space.
The aim is to critically investigate, from modern theories of corporeality (Butler
1990, 2004), the place and the uses of history as a part of constructivist argumentation in
gender theorizing. Previous research in this area mostly discusses the range and depth of
historicizing, not the effects of the technique or the philosophical consequences of it for
gender theory itself. Very few studies have been done from a critical perspective (for an
exception, cf Honkanen 2004), and none on the place of history in the new Swedish field of
Genusvetenskap. The result will be 4-5 articles to be submitted to Feminist Studies, European
Journal of Gender Studies, NORA, and Genusvetenskaplig tidskrift.
LORENZONI, PATRICIA
“Nation, Sovereignty, and the Wild” [Section I]

B. 1975. Post-doc fellow at School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. PhD in
History of Ideas, University of Gothenburg 2007, with dissertation Att färdas under dödens
tecken: Frazer, imperiet och den försvinnande vilden. Visiting Research Scholar at Centre for
Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University, funded by STINT, in 2005.
Departing from Dipesh Chakrabarty’s call for a theoretical “provincialization”
of Europe within academic history, Lorenzoni will study the concepts of state, nation, and
sovereignty in legal texts regulating indigenous minorities in Brazil, in particular the Estatuto
do Índio from 1973. This legislation, still in force although widely criticized, struggles with
how regulate within the law those who are understood as outside it. The purpose of the
Estatuto is stated as “preserving” the culture of “índios or silvícolas” (wild), and to “integrate
them, progressive and harmoniously, into the national communion”. The presence of
indigenous minorities within the geographical boundaries of the state, points to how its
claimed territory does not coincide with what is in the legislative text defined as the nation.
Although original to the territory, the índios are understood as belonging to the “wild” rather
than to the national culture. Expressed here is the necessary continuation of a 500 year long
process of gradual consolidation of “civilized” society, springing from the desire for a nation
to be identical with itself, where the territory coincides with the population. Since the purpose
of the legislation is also stated as “preserving” indigenous culture, tensions arise around the
possibilities for national belonging. This tension is not limited to the conceptual level, since
level of integration or non-integration historically has allowed or denied access to rights.
Chakrabarty urges us to write history from the productive parts played by encounters with that
which was – and is – non-reducible to the categories of Occidental scholarship, thus striving
to open up for imagining political possibilities not easily congruent with Occidental
modernity. The results will be published in 2-3 articles in international journals and a
monograph in Swedish.
LUNDEMO, TROND
“Montage as History: Modes of Juxtaposition in Visual Arts and Media” [Section III]
B. 1963. Associate Professor at the Department of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University.
PhD in 1996, with dissertation Bildets oppløsning; Filmens bevegelse i historisk og teoretisk
perspektiv. Member of the steering committee of the Research School for Aesthetics at

Stockholm University. Individual research project 2005-2008: “Image Intersections”, funded
by Swedish Research Council. Visiting professor and visiting scholar at the Seijo University
of Tokyo for in all three semesters, in 2002, 2004 and 2007.
Lundemo will contribute a study on the role of cinema and specifically the
concept of montage for shaping historical consciousness. Commenting upon his eight-part
video essay Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998), Jean-Luc Godard argues that cinema is
technically predisposed for the construction of historical connections. This is because
cinema’s main structural principle is montage, and the juxtaposition of images, sounds and
texts is what constitutes history. This aligns Godard’s project in various ways with many
other works deploying the historical aspects of montage in the 20 th Century, as Sergei
Eisenstein’s and Dziga Vertov’s in cinema, Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas in art history,
as well as Walter Benjamin’s Arcades project and numerous approaches to history in
contemporary art. What are the historical-methodological implications of various concepts of
montage, and which forms of historical consciousness and subjectivity do they convey? The
project will study the classical, or ‘organic’, montage; the dialectic, or ‘intellectual’, montage
devised in the Soviet montage school, and the database ‘montage’ in gallery multi-screen
projections and in online archives (YouTube, Internet.archive, etc). Lundemo is currently in
the process of concluding and compiling the findings of a three-year research project financed
by VR on ‘image intersections’ in different ages of archival techniques, to be published as an
English language monograph. The proposed project should be seen as a continuation and
development of these findings towards a historical-theoretical discussion of montage. The
result will be a number of conference presentations, to be published in proceedings and
anthologies, eventually to be reworked into a monograph, presumably published by
Amsterdam UP.
MANNS, ULLA
“ Memory and Historical Narration in the Making of Feminism” [Section II]
B. 1959. Associate professor in Gender Studies, Södertörn University, Docent in History of
Ideas. PhD in History of Ideas, Stockholm University 1997 with the dissertation Den sanna
frigörelsen: Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet 1884-1921, which received the Sten Lindroth Prize.
Has published a number of studies on 19 th century feminism, and been involved in several

esearch projects within Gender History. Presently responsible for project ”Translating and
Constructing Gender Studies in The Nordic Region, 1975-2005” (Baltic Sea Foundation). In
2006 Guest professor at the History Department, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New
York.
Manns studies historical consciousness in 19 th century feminism, when
numerous publications were produced by Western activists (Deraismes, Gripenberg,
Abensour). The purpose of the project is to analyze how memory and politics interact within
the making of feminism through a construction of history, analyzing major European
publications from the period. Feminist leadership deliberately used history to socialize
feminists and make politics (cf. Manns 2000, 2009). Ethical, political and religious ideals
created strong narratives about feminism and representations of feminists, and ideological
stances. In all, these narratives played an important role in the larger construction of a western
feminist Pantheon. This honoured place of memory told about what and who was to be
remembered, as well as how feminism was to be comprehended in the light of historical and
political circumstances. The project takes its point of departure from historiography, post-
colonial discussions about linearity and inherent structures of progress and dualism within
Western thinking, and in feminist theories about identity formation as processes (Chakrabarty,
Mignolo, Spivak, Butler, Scott). Memory politics, historical narration, knowledge production
and socialization within early Western feminism have not been analyzed sufficiently. In
shedding light on the forming of feminist historical consciousness, its “we”, and how it
functioned in a larger political and geo-political framework, the study will provide knowledge
about meta-historical structures within Western political thinking. Manns is part of the board
of directors for the program. The result will be published in the form of a monograph in
English, and 1-2 articles in international journals.
OLSSON, ANDERS
“A Contribution to the Understanding of the Historicity of the Concept of Canon” (“Ett bidrag
till förståelsen av kanonbegreppets historicitet”) [Section III]
B. 1949. Professor in Comparative Literature, Stockholm University. Member of the Swedish
Academy. PhD in Comparative Literature from Stockholm University in 1983, with the
dissertation Ekelöfs nej. Has published extensively in the area of poetic modernism and

literary and hermeneutic theory, notably Den okända texten (1987), Läsningar av intet (2000)
and Skillnadens konst (2006). Currently in charge of a research project on Nelly Sachs,
funded by VR.
Olsson will contribute a study which develops the concept of canon and its
historicity, on the basis of Gadamer’s hermeneutic philosophy. Through the idea of
Wirkungsgeschichte it will elaborate an understanding of canonic works as dialogue with the
tradition, rather than as a list of guiding examples. The concept of Wirkungsgeschichte
provides a fruitful entry to this problematic, in that it dislocates the historicity of the
exemplary texts from the historicity of linear time. At the same time is it evident that it does
not refer to an eternally valid order of “timeless” works. The important works must somehow
demonstrate their validity anew, in a process of continued reception, where the ongoing
dialogue constitutes the norm, rather than the works themselves. In his later writings Gadamer
speaks of how the eminent work demands a renewed lingering, a Verweilen, by the recepient,
in order to be fully understood. If one puts so much emphasis on the role of reception in
understanding, how can one account for these textual demands, that seem to be immanent in
the work itself? How can one understand this demand for repetition and renewed reading and
interpretation, on the basis of the concept of Wirkungsgeschichte? Does this endow the work
with a new form of historicity, or does it instead explode the framework of dialogical
hermeneutics? The later Gadamer seems to suggest that we think of the eminent work in
different terms than in those of meaning-oriented understanding. The study will also address
the criticism that has been raised against Gadamer in subsequent aesthetic theory, by Hans-
Ulrich Gumbrecht, Christoph König, Jean Bollack and also by Jacques Derrida. Olsson will
be connected to the program for the full period, but supported during a limited time. His work
will result in a short monograph in Swedish, published by Bonniers, on the problem of canon
and interpretation.
REDIN, JOHAN
“Imaginary Memory – Aesthetic Models for Cultural Self-Reflexivity” [Section II]
B. 1972. PhD in Aesthetics at Uppsala University in 2003 with the dissertation Ars
Inventrix – En studie av Friedrich von Hardenbergs (Novalis’) paraestetiska project, that

eceived a prize from the Swedish Academy. Has published several articles on the
philosophy of romanticism. In 2002-2005 connected to multidisciplinary NORFA-project
”Infectio: Litteratur og sykdom”. In 2006 guest lecturer (with Jan and Aleida Assmann and
Peter Jackson), at graduate course ”Religion og Minne”, Tromsö University.
Redin will study how contemporary practices of shaping and preserving
cultural memories are historically connected to aesthetic ideas stemming from German
romanticism. It will seek to develop a framework for understanding what could be
designated as “the aesthetics of preservation”, as a new way of addressing the politically
charged idea of “cultural heritage”. The current UNESCO directive for “the safeguarding
of intangible cultural heritage” globally, and the need to index our even abstract or non-
physical artefacts, calls for a broadened research on the concept of cultural memory. This
will be done by examining some fundamental aspects of cultural self-reflexivity
(philosophical and representational) that still are instrumental when selecting and
exhibiting culture today. A thesis is that the strong emergence of an institutionalised
preservation of cultural memorials has its roots in aesthetical thinking. By establishing a
closer link between museum studies and cultural memory theory with the romantic
understanding of history, time and imagination (cf. Assmann 2004, Johnson 2002), the
project sets out to investigate the aesthetic aspects of what it means to “imagine culture”.
An important historical reference point for this analysis is the understanding of the
romantic sense of imagination (Einbildung) as also a political instrument. From this aspect
it will develop an analysis of how and why this aesthetically mediated relation has become
such a powerful agent in the development of Western modernity. Redin’s work will result
in a monograph, and 2 articles, to be published in Swedish academic journals, and also a
longer concluding article for an International journal.
RUIN, HANS
“Living with the Dead: History as Ghostly Presence” [Secion II]
B. 1961. Professor, Philosophy, Södertörn University. PhD in theoretical philosophy from
Stockholm University in 1994 with dissertation Enigmatic Origins: Tracing the Theme of
Historicity Through Heidegger’s Works. Has published extensively in the field of
phenomenology and hermeneutic theory. Co-founder and board member of the Nordic

Society for Phenomenology. Co-editor for Nietzsche´s Collected Works in Swedish. Member
of the Board of Sats and Jahrbuch für Hermeneutische Philosophie. Co-Editor for Södertörn
Philosophical Studies. In 2000-03 directed research project The Utopia of Tradition, and
edited with M. Schuback The Past´s Presence: Essays on the Historicity of Philosophical
Thought. Currently responsible for research project “Nihilism, Technology and Lifeworld”
(funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation).
Hans Ruin is member of the program committee and will serve as Director for
the Program. He will contribute a study devoted to the philosophical and psychological
foundations for historical consciousness, in the existential predicament of relating to the dead.
In his theory of human historicity, Heidegger (1927) indicated that the historical as such (the
historical artefact or event) is essentially connected to a shared world no longer there, to those
“once-having-been”, in other words to the dead. This opens the question of history as a way
of being-with-the-dead, a category that Heidegger never really elaborates. Already the great
French historian Jules Michelet spoke of historiography as a desire to ”speak with the dead”
and also to ”calm the dead who still haunt the present”. The idea is to elucidate from a
philosophical-anthropological and psychoanalytical perspective what it means to live with the
dead, as a life both present and absent, in other words with the spectral or ghostly. Jacques
Derrida (1993) has introduced the question of the spectral as a relevant category for thinking
history. History is the space where the dead live on, where the rise and emerge, and haunt the
living. It implies mourning, nostalgia, repression and its return, the uncanny. In a series of
papers Ruin will develop his earlier work on the theory of historicity and historical existence
(1994), combining existential-phenomenological and psychoanalytical methods (Freud, Klein,
and Abraham/Torok). The work will be published in the form of articles in international
journals, preferably in in Journal for the philosophy of History and, Continental Philosophy
Review, and Journal of Comparative and Continental Philosophy, and subsequently gathered
in a book to be sent to an international publisher, and possibly prepared also for publication in
Swedish.
SANDOMIRSKAJA, IRINA
“Evidencing Time: Construction of Temporality through Linguistic Analysis” [Section III]
B. 1959. Professor, Cultural Studies, Södertörn University. 1991 PhD in Linguistics from

Institute of Linguistics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, with dissertation Metaphoric
Emotive Verbs with the Semantics of Human Conduct. SCAS scholar in 1996-98. Has written
several works on the history of linguistic practices, theories of mother tounge, and theory of
translation, notably Kniga o rodine: opyt analiza diskursivnyx praktik (“A Book about the
Motherland: Analyzing Discursive Practices”). Co-organized the research project “Cultures in
Dialogue” 1998-2001 (Baltic Sea Foundation), and has organized numerous symposia, e.g.,
on national identities, cybernetics.
Sandomirskaja, who is also member of the program commmittee, will contribute
a series of studies that combines linguistic theory and film theory in exploring ways in which
linguistic structure and cinematographic visualization has influenced the way time and change
has been conceptualized and understood in modernity. In European languages time is
conceptualized as an anthropomorphic being capable of moving, passing, coming, going. The
knowledge that “time goes” would seem intuitively obvious, but in fact it deserves close
scrutiny. The question will be raised as to the evidencing of time, how temporal passage is
made evident. While Indo-European linguistics supplied the 19 th century humanities with a
model of scientific historicism in formalized positive knowledge, Saussure’s subsequent
synchronic/diachronic approach to la langue became the scientific model for the 20 th century
social sciences with its “snapshots” (theory and modelling) and its “serializations”
(comparative/diachronic comparisons). The project will concentrate on a few linguistic texts
(Jakobson, Spitzer) to find out how they re-interpreted Saussure and shortcomings of his
model. An important inspiration for this analysis is the critique of linguistics by Walter
Benjamin. A parallel investigation will address how cinema makes the flow of time
apparently present. Rapid juxtaposition of photographic snapshots here creates an optical
illusion of movement, which is filled in by the spectator who expects time to “flow”. Today,
in the post-cinematic age, the role of the cultural critique of knowledge is to make visible the
invisible temporal intervals, and thus the constructions of time and history as movement and
flow. Sandomirskaja’s project is already funded by Södertörn University, so she will not need
funding from the program.
SCHUBACK, MARCIA SÁ CAVALCANTE
“The role of imagination in comparative hermeneutics” [Section III]

B. 1957. Docent in Philosophy at Södertörn University. PhD from Federal University of Rio
de Janeiro (1992), with a thesis O começo de deus, on Schelling’s concept of beginning. Has
published numerous articles and three monographs in philosophical hermeneutics, latest
Lovtal till intet – essäer om filosofisk hermeneutik. Directed the Research project “Det egna
och det främmande, om Bildningstankens aktualitet”, supported by VR (2003-2006). Co-
editor of Södertörn Philosophical Studies. On editorial board of Journal for Comparative and
Continental Philosophy.
Her contribution is a critical reappraisal of classical hermeneutics by developing
the role of imagination. Through the work of Dilthey, Gadamer and Ricoeur, human sciences
show an irreducible element of identification between the subject and object of knowledge.
The question of history is thus connected to questions of intersubjectivity and interculturality.
In contemporary criticism (post-colonial and feminist) philosophical hermeneutics is often
portrayed as a reduction of differences to a common ground. The project raises the question if
this criticism does not often reproduce the same logic. Both in the contemporary critique and
in classical hermeneutics, the problem remains if understanding is a projection into the other,
preserving a logic of identity. The solution, it will be argued, lies in the idea of a “third room”
(cf. Bhabha 1994/2004), developed through a new understanding of imagination, as
establishing an “in-between” space. Building on her previous work (2006) Schuback will
show how the figures of past, present, and future can be understood as imaginative
dimensions. The aim is ultimately to critically question temporal and spatial distinctions such
as between pre-modernity and modernity, past and actuality, absence and presence and to
contribute to a comparative hermeneutics that considers the uniqueness of the other and that
contributes to cross-cultural understanding. Schuback is a member of the program committee.
The results will be published in a monograph, and in journal articles, preferably in
Continental Philosophy Review and Journal of Comparative and Continental Philosophy.
SPINDLER, FREDRIKA
“Untimeliness, virtuality, actuality and reality” [Section I]
Fredrika Spindler, b. 1966, assistant professor at Södertörn University, head of department.
PhD in philosophy in 1996 from Université de Montpellier, dissertation: Philosophie de la
puissance et détermination de l’homme chez Spinoza et chez Nietzsche. Has published

extensively on Spinoza, Nietzsche and Deleuze. In 2005-07 co-responsible for research
project ”The ingraspable art: Hannah Arendt and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Rethinking of
Aesthetics and Politics” (Baltic Sea Foundation), and also ”Explorative Architecture”,
Chalmers School of Technology (Formas, 2002-2004).
The contribution is devoted to critically interpreting and developing the
understanding of time and space in the thought of Gilles Deleuze. Modern Western thought
has conceived time and history mainly along the model of continuity and progress.
Chronological, linear thinking appears natural and logic, situating the present as a result of the
past, and as an opening toward the future. This intuition also implies a self-identical subject,
from whose central perspective the world is determined and understood. In philosophy,
several attempts have been made to transcend the idea of linear time and a centred subject. In
Spinoza, e.g., the individual is instead conceived as a variable composition, existing in a
dynamic duration. In Nietzsche the subject is seen as the focal point of competing forces,
operating in a multi-dimensional temporality, motivating a genealogical analysis. Both of
these thinkers greatly influenced Gilles Deleuze in his exploration of subjectivity, time, and
space. Through concepts such as virtuality, actuality, difference and repetition, he sought to
convey new modes of conceptualizing the historical space of understanding, taking inspiration
not only from philosophy, but also from aesthetics and cinema. Building on earlier
interpretations (de Beistegui, Smith) the project will explore the consequences of this critique
for the present attempts to conceive new models of thinking continuity, change, and
understanding. The result will be published in a monograph, and in several articles to be
published in anthologies and international journals, e.g., Deleuze Studies.
SVENUNGSSON, JAYNE
“Historical Rupture of History: Messianic Time in Rosenzweig, Benjamin, and Levinas”
[Section II]
B. 1973. Th.D., Senior Lecturer at Stockholm School of Theology. Th.D. in Systematic
Theology in 2002 from Lund University, with dissertation: Guds återkomst. En studie av
gudsbegreppet inom postmodern filosofi. 2008 Honorary Research Fellow (University of
Glasgow). In the board of Svensk Teologisk Kvartalsskrift. Swedish board member of NSPR

(Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion). Currently involved in the research project ”Att
tänka historien: Om profetism, messianism och Andens utveckling” (funded by VR).
The research project in which Svenungsson is currently involved, and which
will be linked to the program, focuses on the renewed presence of traditional theological
concepts for interpreting history (prophetism, messianism, the development of the spirit) in
the contemporary European politico-philosophical discourse. After its completion,
Svenungsson will be funded by the program to develop a study which elaborates the theme of
messianic time and temporality in the works of F. Rosenzweig, W. Benjamin and E. Levinas.
Common to these three 20 th -century philosophers, all of whom were of Jewish origin, is the
endeavour to break free from the totalizing implications of a Hegelian and progress oriented
philosophy of history (cf. Moses 2006 and Bouretz 2003). They all found resources for this
endeavour in the Jewish messianic tradition. However, none of them sought to reinstate a
mythological conception of historical redemption. Rather, they sought to develop what could
best be termed “a historical rupture of history”; a way out of history, which does not
invalidate the particularity and historicity of the human being. The lasting value of these
messianic philosophies, it will be argued, lies in the critical platform they offer for
questioning a potentially violent universalism, without resigning to a separatist celebration of
the particular. This work will be published in the form of a monograph in Swedish, but also 2-
3 articles for international journals, e.g., Studia Theologica, Modern Theology and Political
Theology.
DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT AND FINANCIAL
NEEDS
The Program comprises 24 researchers, from 13 different academic disciplines and from all
the major universities of Sweden. The group will convene for seminars and symposia at
different locations. But the institutional basis will be Södertörn University College in South
Stockholm. This institution has a short history. It has been in operation as a teaching and
research environment since 1996. It was created to serve as a second campus in Stockholm for
Human, Social, and Natural (Life) sciences, with support for specially targeted research from
the Baltic Sea Foundation. Its stated task and purpose was to reach full university privileges

y the year 2003. However, for political reasons, this decision has been postponed. In its
structure and organization, and also in its hiring policies, it has from the start set itself a high
standard of academic excellence, and it can today be compared in most respects to the
established universities.
The research program has been developed from within the vital collaboration
between the Humanities/Aesthetics and Gender Studies, both of which have been selected as
“strong research environments” by the school. Most of the disciplines connected to this
environment belong to the Department of Culture and Communication, but also to the
Department of Gender, Culture and History as well as to the Center for East European and
Baltic Studies (CEEBS). The disciplines represented in this platform at Södertörn are
Philosophy, Aesthetics, Media and Communication Studies, Gender Studies, Art
History/Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Archeology, Intellectual
History. Within this constellation of disciplines there is a strong emphasis on theoretical
models and methods from continental philosophy and critical theory. There is also a strong
competence in gender, feminist, and post-colonial theory. Philosophy at Södertörn also has a
developed profile in modern continental thought, with a high competence in German Idealism
(Kant, Hegel, Schelling), Nietzsche, and hermeneutic thought (Heidegger, Gadamer), as well
as in modern French thought (Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida). Within this environment there
have been several research projects, many of which have been funded by the Baltic Sea
Foundation, but also by VR, RJ, and Ax:son Johnson Foundation. In Philosophy, Gender
Studies, Media- and Communication Studies there is vital higher seminar, with a good group
of PhD students (in collaboration with Stockholm, Uppsala, and Linköping University). From
the start several large conferences have been organized that relate to the topic of the program,
e.g., “Thinking in History” in 2004. Over the years a number of prominent international
scholars have appeared as guest lecturers, e.g., Zygmunt Baumann (1998), J. Derrida (2000),
G-H. von Wright (2000), H. Dreyfus (2002), J. Butler (2003), S. Critchley (2004), R. Rorty
(2005), J. Rancière (2006), J-F. Courtine (2007), John Sallis (2008), Wendy Brown (2008).
The present program is the outcome of a long discussion between representatives from many
different disciplines at Södertörn to develop a joint exploration that can unite today’s
humanities. Södertörn is the base for this initiative but the purpose is to bring together some
of the leading senior and junior scholars from different institutions and environments in
Sweden that have a special interest in the overall theme.
The Budget includes, apart from costs for salaries, the following:

1) A part time secretary (50%), with a monthly salary of 30 000 (+3% increase/year) with a
PhD in a relevant subject, who will help organize meetings, conferences, update webpage,
and assist in the editing of publications. Total salary cost: 1 164 600
2) Technical creation and support of webpage: total for the whole period: 50 000
3) Funding for the participants participation in international conferences: 5000/funded
participant/year, total: 330 000
4) The cost for the workshops includes travel expenses (for those outside Stockholm area),
food and lodging for all participants, and also the cost of inviting one representative from the
international board of experts, 60 000 per workshop, total of 12 workshops: 720 000
5) The cost for the international conference covers 4 invited guest speakers, program and
publicity, travel and lodging for members of the program from outside Stockholm: 120 000
6) Research literature: 6000/ funded participant, total: 132 000,
7) Language check and publication costs (10 000/funded participant): 220 000
Total expense budget (except salary): 1 572 000, per year: 262 000
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PUBLICATIONS BY PARTICIPANTS (SELECTION OF RELEVANT WORKS):
ARONSSON, PETER, Bönder gör politik: det lokala självstyret som social arena i tre
smålandssocknar, 1680-1850. (Lund: Lund University Press, 1992 Diss.),
– "The possibilities of conceptual history 'from above' and 'from below': Reflections on the
concept of samhälle 'society' in Sweden, 1700 to 1990." Historia a Debate, tomo II, Retorno
del Sujeto, Actas del Congreso Internacional "A historia a debate" celebrade el 7-11 de julio
de 1993 en Santigao de Compostela, 1995).
– Aronsson, Peter & Lennart Johansson, (red.). Ett landskap minns sitt förflutna. Monument
och minnesmärken i Värend och Sunnerbo. (Växjö: Kronobergs läns hembygdförbund, 2003).
– Aronsson, Peter & Andreas Nyblom, (eds.). Comparing: national museums, territories,
nation-building and change. (Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2008).
BARTELSON, JENS, A Genealogy of Sovereignty, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1995).
– The Critique of the State, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, Diss.)
– Visions of World Community, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
– The Future of Political Community (with G. Baker) (London: Routledge, 2009).
– ‘Are there any International Relations Anymore?’, Études Internationales, Vol. 36, No. 2,
2006.
– ‘The Concept of Sovereignty Revisited’, European Journal of International Law, Vol. 17,
No. 3, 2006.
– ‘Philosophy and History in the Study of Political Thought’, Journal of the Philosophy of
History, Vol. 1, No. 1.
BURSTRÖM, MATS, Arkeologisk samhällsavgränsning. En studie av vikingatida
samhällsterritorier i Smålands inland (Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 9. Diss., 1991)
– Mångtydiga fornlämningar. En studie av innebörder som tillskrivits fasta fornlämningar I
Österrekarne härad, Södermanland. (Stockholm Archaeological Reports, Nr 27, 1993)

– 1996. Other generations’ interpretation and use of the past. The case of the picture stones on
Gotland. Current Swedish Archaeology, Vol. 4. 1996.
– 2007. Samtidsarkeologi. Introduktion till ett forskningsfält. Studentlitteratur. Lund.
– 2009. Garbage or heritage. The existential dimension of a car cemetery. I: Contemporary
Archaeologies – Excavating Now. (Red.) Holtorf, C. & Piccini, A. Peter Lang Internationaler
Verlag der Wissenschaften. Franfurt,
CARLSHAMRE, STAFFAN, Förklara och berätta vad som hänt: fyra historiefilosofiska
uppsatser. Skrifter utgivna av fakultetsprogrammet Forskningens villkor, nr 1
Humanistiska fakulteten, Göteborg. (1995)
– Types of Types of Interpretation. In Carlshamre, S. and Pettersson, A., editors, Types of
Interpretation in the Aesthetic Disciplines. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003,
– Vad berättelser betyder. Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, no. 3-4 (2004),
– Carlshamre, S. “Art as Meaning and Manipulation”. In Kvantifikator för en Dag: Essays
dedicated to Dag Westerståhl on his sixtieth birthday, volume 35 of Philosophical
Communications, Web series. Department of Philosophy, Göteborg university (2006).
ERICSON, STAFFAN, Två drömspel. Från Strindbergs modernism till Potters television
(Stockholm: Symposion, 2004)
– Hello Europe! Tallinn Calling! Eurovision Song Contest 2002 som mediehändelse,
(Mediestudier vid Södertörns högskola 2002:3, Huddinge: MKV).
– eds. with Espen Ytreberg, Fjernsyn mellom høy og lav kultur (Oslo: Høyskoleforlaget,
2002)
– ”Death at Broadcasting House”. In Jansson, André & Amanda Lagerkvist: Strange Spaces.
(London: Ashgate Publishing, 2009, forthcoming)
– eds. with Kristina Riegert, Media Houses. Architecture, Media, and the Production of
Centrality (New York: Peter Lang, 2009, forthcoming).
FARELD, VICTORIA, ”Hegel and Exposure”, (Forthcoming in Translating Hegel: The
Phenomenology of Spirit and Modern Philosophy, Site Editions 2009),
– Att vara utom sig inom sig: Charles Taylor, erkännandet och Hegels aktualitet [Being
without Oneself within Oneself: Charles Taylor, Recognition, and Hegel’s Actuality],
Göteborg: Glänta 2008

– ”Charles Taylor’s Identity Holism: Romantic Expressivism as Epigenetic Self-Realization”,
Telos: A Journal of Radical Philosophy, No. 141 2007.
– ”Contexts in Flux: The Constructive Practice of Backward Reading”, Ideas in History: The
Nordic Society for the History of Ideas, Vol.2 No. 3 2007.
– “Wilhelm von Humboldts frihet som epigenetisk bildning” [“Wilhelm von Humboldt’s
freedom as epigenetic self-cultivation”], Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria
[Annual of the Swedish History of Science Society] 2006, Uppsala: Lärdomshistoriska
samfundet, 2006.
FJELKESTAM, KRISTINA, “Estetik som politik. Moderniteten och medborgaren som man”,
TFL 2008: 3-4.
– “Allegorizing Modernity”, The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening, ed. E. Witt-
Brattström (Stockholm: Södertörn Academic Studies, 2004)
– “Historcitet”, Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift 1999: 4,
– Ungkarlsflickor, kamrathustrur och manhaftiga lesbianer: Modernitetens litterära gestalter
I mellankrigstidens Sverige (Stockholms Universitet, 2002, diss.)
GAUNT, DAVID, Utbildning till statens tjänst. En kollektiv biografi.av stormaktstidens
hovrättsauskultanter (Uppsala 1975) Ph.D. thesis,
– Familjeliv i Norden (Gidlunds 1984 and new edition 1996)
– Main editor for Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania (Peter Lang 2004).
– Massacres, Resistance Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during
World War I (Gorgias Press 2006) (also in Turkish translation 2007).
– Co-editor for Re-conceptualising the Pogrom: Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern Europe
(Indiana University Press (in press).
HEGARDT, JOHAN, Relativ betydelse. Individualitet och totalitet I arkeologisk kuklturteori
(Uppsala Universitet, 1997, diss),
– “Man the interpreter. From natural science to hermeneutics in Swedish archaeology”,
Current Swedish Archeology, 2000:8.
– The role of cultural heritage in a globalized world (Swedish national heritage board, 2006)
– Fyrtio minuter. En essä om arkeologins berättelser (OPIA 40, Uppsala University, 2007)

HELGESSON, STEFAN, Writing in Crisis: Ethics and History in Gordimer, Ndebele and
Coetzee. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press, 2004.
– “‘Minor Disorders’: Ivan Vladislavić and the Devolution of South African English”.
Journal of Southern African Studies 30:4 (2004).
– “Reformernas epok: striderna kring litteraturundervisning för svensklärare 1965-1975”.
(“The Age of Reform: The Controversies Surrounding the Teaching of Literature for Teachers
of Swedish 1965-1975”.) Bengt Landgren (ed.), Universitetsämne i brytningstider. Uppsala:
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2005.
– “Modernism under Portuguese Rule: José Craveirinha, Luandino Vieira and the Doubleness
of Colonial Modernity”. Stefan Helgesson (ed.), Literary Interactions in the Modern World
part 2, vol. 4 of Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2006.
– Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality
of Print Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
HORNBORG, ALF, eds. with J.D. Hill, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past
Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory (University Press of Colorado, in
press)
– & J.R. McNeill & J. Martinez-Alier, eds., Rethinking Environmental History: World-System
History and Global Environmental Change (AltaMira/Rowman & Littlefield, 2007)
– & C. Crumley, eds., The World System and the Earth System: Global Socio-Environmental
Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic (Left Coast Press, 2007)
– “Ethnogenesis, Regional Integration, and Ecology in Prehistoric Amazonia: Toward a
System Perspective”, Current Anthropology 46:4 [2005].
– The Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment.
(Altamira/Rowman & Littlefield 2001)
JONSSON, STEFAN, A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions. New York:
Columbia UP, 2008,
– Subject Without Nation: Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity. Durham/
London: Duke UP, 2001
– Världen i vitögat: tre essäer om västerländsk kultur. Stockholm: Norstedts, 2008
– De dödas testamente - och andra essäer. Stockholm: Norstedts (forthcoming in 2009)

– Masses Mind Matter: Political Passions and Collective Violence in Post-Imperial Austria.” I
Representing the Passions: Histories, Bodies, Visions. Red. Richard Meyer. London: The
Getty Research Institute Publications, 2003.
KARLHOLM, DAN, “Surveying Contemporary Art: Post-War, Postmodern, and then
what?”, Art History, vol. 31, 2009 (special issue on art historiography), forthcoming
– ”Tradition and Visual Culture in the Face of Contemporary Art” (Keynote address at
NORDIK 2006) (http://nordik.uib.no/nordik2006/index_papers.html)
– Art of Illusion: The Representation of Art History in Nineteenth-Century Germany and
Beyond, Peter Lang, Bern, 2004. (2nd ed.: 2006)
– “Icons and Idols: On the Role of Representation in the Practice of Interpretation”, in
Rossholm Lagerlöf, Margaretha & Dan Karlholm (ed.), Subjectivity and Methodology in
Art History (Eidos 8, Stockholm, 2003)
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