Post-monuments: when art takes responsibility for history

Context This knowledge transfer conversation, within the project “Nordic Insights: addressing cancel culture in public spaces through artistic dialogue and cultural innovation”, features Rebecka Katz Thor, researcher and head of museum development at the Swedish...

Rebecka Katz Thor

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Rebecka Katz Thor is a writer. researcher, and associate professor at REMESO, Linköping University. She holds PhD (2018) in Aesthetics from Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research interests are cultural memory studies, processes of commemorations in monuments and...

Temporary monuments, permanent questions: curatorial strategies for contested heritage

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This knowledge transfer conversation, within the project ”Nordic Insights: addressing cancel culture in public spaces through artistic dialogue and cultural innovation”, features Lisa Rosendahl, Associate Professor of Exhibition Studies at Oslo National Academy of the...

Keeping difficulty visible: why contested monuments should spark dialogue, not consensus

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Context This knowledge transfer conversation features Olga Zabalueva, Associate Professor in Museology at Umea University with studies in Moscow and a master’s degree from Lund, in dialogue with Oana Nasui, a cultural researcher. Their discussion explores how...

Olga Zabalueva

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Olga Zabalueva is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University, and holds a PhD in Culture Studies. Her research examines museology as a discipline, museums and the (re)construction of identities, Memory Studies, and museum...

Lisa Rosendahl

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Lisa Rosendahl is a Swedish curator and writer based in Berlin. She was the curator of the 2019 and 2021 editions of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA). Since 2018, she is Associated Professor of Exhibition Studies at Oslo National...

How cities remember: transforming public spaces through community and memory work

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Context This conversation features Robert Nilsson Mohammadi, Associate Senior Lecturer at Malmö University and theme leader for Urban Humanities at the Institute for Urban Research, in dialogue with Oana Nasui, a cultural researcher. Their discussion explores...

The Pendulum of Public Memory: From Toppled Pedestals to Presidential Lawns

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In the volatile summer of 2020, something unprecedented happened across the Western world. Within weeks of Derek Chauvin pressing his knee into George Floyd’s neck on a Minneapolis street, hundreds of monuments and memorials fell — pulled down by protesters,...

Managing Contested Public Art: From Conflict to Conversation

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Managing Contested Public Art: From Conflict to Conversation is a practical toolkit developed through the Nordic Insights project, designed for cultural operators, historians, artists, educators, local authorities and community activists working with contested...

Whose monument? Memory ownership, contested heritage and cancel culture in Northern and Eastern Europe, Oana Nasui ed.

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Whose Monument? Memory Ownership, Contested Heritage and Cancel Culture in Northern and Eastern Europe (Oana Nasui, ed., PostModernism Museum Publishing House, 2026, ISBN 978-630-95002-3-6) is a collaborative study book bringing together researchers, cultural...

Robert Nielsson Mohammadi

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With a disciplinary background in history and a current focus on cultural memory studies, I research memory, monuments, and the city. My current work focuses on how local actors handle the afterlives of far-right racist attacks. By studying public memory art in...

Listening as Method: From Contested Sites to Common Ground

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The third virtual roundtable of the Nordic Insights project brought together cultural practitioners from Romania, Republica Moldova, and the Nordic countries to explore how artistic interventions can transform contested public spaces. Oana Nasui, cultural researcher,...

”Artists as megaphones”: transforming contested heritage through community engagement

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This knowledge transfer interview is part of the Nordic Insights project, which facilitates knowledge transfer from Nordic experts to Romanian and Moldovan cultural practitioners on addressing cancel culture issues related to public monuments and contested heritage....

Iwona Preis

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Iwona Preis is Director and CEO of Intercult (Sweden) and Governing Chair of Smart Coop Sweden, bringing over 15 years of expertise in international cultural collaboration and European project leadership. As President of the European network River//Cities Platform...

„Noii industriași, creativii” 05: Instrumentalizarea istoriei, drepturi de autor și AI în cultură

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Lansarea volumului 5 din seria „Noii industriași, creativii” (care a avut loc pe 16 decembrie 2025 la Seneca Anticafe din București), a reunit autori și participanți pentru o discuție de aproximativ două ore și jumătate. Volumul, editat de Oana Nasui în cadrul...

Call for Participants: Online Roundtable – From Dialogue to Action: Policy and Community Engagement for Contested Public Spaces

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Formare Culturală platform invites cultural practitioners, arts professionals, researchers, cultural organization representatives, and heritage institution professionals from Romania and the Republic of Moldova to participate in the third virtual roundtable of the...

Toppling Monuments: How Russia’s War Reshaped Latvia’s Memory Politics

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In November 2022, Mārtiņš Kaprāns, senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, published an in-depth analysis of how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine accelerated the dismantling of Soviet-era monuments in Latvia —...

Invitație la masă rotundă online: De la dialog la acțiune – politici și implicare comunitară pentru spații publice contestate

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Platforma Formare Culturală invită practicieni culturali, profesioniști din domeniul artei, cercetători, reprezentanți ai organizațiilor culturale și instituțiilor de patrimoniu din România și Republica Moldova să participe la cea de-a treia masă rotundă virtuală din...

Jonas Dahlberg

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Jonas Dahlberg is an artist based in Stockholm. He is a professor at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the founding director of the interdisciplinary studio Of Public Interest (OPI). OPI conducts its activities as a studio for realizing actual projects, a...

Two Soviet Monuments in Salonta: A Quiet Case of Contested Heritage in Romania’s West

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Historical context: the fighting around Salonta, late September – early October 1944 The Soviet monuments in Salonta have a verifiable historical anchor. According to the Romanian military historian Col. (r) Prof. univ. dr. Alesandru Duțu — former researcher at the...