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Fellow during the summer term 2024
Silke is an associate professor at Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland), where she teaches in the Department of Cultural and Social history. Her research focuses on memory cultures and hidden histories, including gender history. Her other research interests are: critical arctic studies, heritage cultures, micro-historical approaches and anti-/decolonial perspectives. Before coming to Greenland in 2018, she worked at the University of Karlstad, Sweden and the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland (based in the Shetland Islands).
Arctic memory cultures are often seen as subject to, rather than active participants in, imperial historical processes and narratives, despite being sites of multiple voices, significant geo-political domains and concurrent identities. Building on anti-/and decolonial perspectives in Arctic memory studies, her research explores relationships that shape cultural memory as part of the coloniality of knowledge. Using both archival and published material, the project investigates the (re)making of Arctic memory cultures as global and transnational memory spaces (Transnationale Erinnerungsorte) shaped by colonialism.