Memory Studies

TRANSITION Data Lab

We will explore how Memory Studies can inform research on rural–urban transitions and people’s experiences of social, cultural, and spatial change.

Taking Astrid Erll’s article Travelling Memory as its point of departure, the lab focuses on memory as something that moves across places, communities, media, and time. Rather than treating memory as fixed or bound to stable cultures, Erll invites us to study how memories are carried, transformed, and reinterpreted in changing contexts.

This opens up important questions about how people remember, narrate, and make sense of rural–urban change: How are experiences of mobility, belonging, loss, adaptation, and place shaped through memory? And how can Memory Studies help us analyze life stories, dialect recordings, autobiographies, literary texts, and other materials that connect individual experience with broader historical transformations?

TRANSITION Data Labs are hands-on sessions where we gather to discuss theory, methods, and/or data relevant to research on rural–urban transitions. The format is inspired by public humanities approaches: open-ended, reflective, and collective. Data Labs are spaces for thinking together across disciplines and perspectives, rather than presenting finished results. If you are interested in joining.

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