Bladt's PhD-project "Negative Moments and Waves of Commemoration: Official Redress of Colonialism in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1990s-2025” centers on how governments, provinces and municipalities in the two countries have engaged with colonial history and calls for redress since the 1990s. It draws on the fields of memory studies and comparative history and contains a consistently structured collection of redress data for the two countries. The project centers on the research question: Which mnemonic efforts have characterised Denmark and the Netherlands’ official redress responses to negative moments from the 1990s-2025 and what are the lasting effects of these forms of redress?
Keywords: Official commemoration, Black Lives Matter, monuments, teaching material, national history canons, slavery, redress, Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)
Baun's PhD project combines approaches from far-right studies, memory studies, and digital humanities to investigate how memories of the past are radically mobilized in online extremist communities. Focusing on data from 4chan’s /pol/ forum, the project examines how users mobilize historical narratives in response to estrangement from contemporary society. Employing a combination of machine learning, natural language processing, quantitative statistics, and interpretative readings, the project bridges disciplinary gaps in order to better understand the ever-evolving culture of online extremist communities. Previous publications include studies on terrorism and history, the far-right’s response to the war in Ukraine, and digital methods for memory research.
Keywords: far-right, memory studies, digital humanities, 4chan, extremism, online culture, radicalization
Thygesen's PhD-project focuses on the interconnections of memory and activism during the estallido social protest wave (2019-2020) in Chile and the subsequent constitutional process that it provoked. His research interests include feminist and LGBTQ+ performances, activists' remodelling of urban spaces, the protest symbol Negro Matapacos, a crowdfunded activist museum of the estallido social, and activist memory on Twitter.
Keywords: Chile, activist memory, artistic activism, digital memory discourse
