Louise Schou Therkildsen
Postdoctor
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, andAbout Louise Schou Therkildsen
Post doc project
My ongoing post doc project at the Center for European Research (CERGU) examines post-colonial reconciliation processes in Europe at the state level – official apologies and the wider context of investigations and truth commissions. I will focus on, among other things, the role of the Nordic countries in a European context and the various discursive frameworks and norms that govern the various reconciliation processes as well as the significance of ceremony and ritual in the context of reconciliation.
Alongside and as an extension of this, I am also conducting a smaller project where I explore contemporary literary narratives about the colonization of Greenland and Sápmi with a focus on the renegotiation of collective norms and public memory (funded by the Åke Wiberg Foundation)
PhD project
In my thesis defended in March 2022, I examine collective identity formation within the EU in a contemporary historical and constitutive rhetorical perspective. The thesis can be downloaded here: http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1635526&dswid=92…