Bladt's PhD-project "Commemoration of Colonialism in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1990-2022: Local Appropriation of Global Trends” applies methods of transitional justice, memory studies and global history to a consistently structured collection of data in order to test one key hypothesis: That the redress debates from the 1990s onwards have unfolded as inherently entangled events both in terms of the dynamics of the debates erupting in different national arenas and the types of redress ultimately provided, but that said debates have also manifested themselves differently in individual countries as a results of diverging cultural, political, and legal traditions influencing redress processes.
Keywords: Official commemoration, Black Lives Matter, monuments, teaching material, national history canons, slavery, redress
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
