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Malin Thor Tureby is Professor of History and Head of Research at the Department for Society, Culture and Identity.
Her research is situated in the intersections of Holocaust studies, oral history and cultural heritage studies. Professor Thor Tureby current research interests lie in the history of survivors’ memory work, the archival and digital practices of cultural heritage institutions and the history and practice of shared authority and ethics within Holocaust studies.
She is presently the PI of two research projects funded by the Swedish research council: The Ethical Dilemmas of Digitalization: Vulnerability and Holocaust Collections and Memory and Activism: Survivors Remembering, Commemorating and Documenting the Holocaust. Among her latest publications are: Revisiting Shared Authority. Special Issue of Oral History (guest editor with Annika Olsson), Vol. 52, No. 1 (2024) and Oral History and the Holocaust, Thematic Section of Eastern European Holocaust Studies, (guest editor with Yurii Kaparulin), Vol. 2, No. 1 (2024).
Thor Tureby was previously the PI for the Swedish Research team and co-founder of the consortium Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts (DigiCONFLICT) funded by JPICH & the Swedish National Heritage Board (2018-2022). Important outputs from this project was the publication Santander Art & Culture Law Review: Special Issue: Cultural Heritage and Technology (guest editor with E. Manikowska and G. Pasternak) and* Culture Unbound. Special Issue: Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts**, (guest editor with E. Manikowska and G. Pasternak), vol. 14, no. 2, 2022. *
Thor Tureby is also researching the history of the Jewish women in Sweden and was the PI for the research project Jewish and Woman. Intersectional and Historical Perspectives on Jewish Women's Lives in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2017-2024), funded by The Swedish Research Council.
During the years 2017-2020 she was the PI for the research project Narratives as Cultural Heritage (2017-2020) where she focused on how a cultural heritage about and together with migrants has been created during the development of the multicultural welfare state. Important outcomes from the project is the book Migration och Kulturarv [Migration and Cultural Heritage], together with Jesper Johansson as well as the chapter "The making of the cultural heritage and ethnicity in the archive" (with J. Johansson) in C. Johansson & P. Bevelander, Museums in a time of migration.
Thor Tureby is one of three chairs of the oral history and life stories network at the ESSHC the Swedish representative and co-organiser of the NOS-HS Nordic research workshop series: Histories of Refugeedom in the Nordic countries and NORDIC VOICES: The use of oral history and personal memories in public history settings
Thor Tureby worked as an appointed expert to the committee of inquiry on a museum about the Holocaust in Sweden (2019-2020).
Publications
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2024 | Article in journal
Historiska perspektiv på judiska kvinnors berättelser om erfarenheter av antisemitism i Sverige under 1900-talet och 2000-talet
Malin Thor Tureby, Emma Hall
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2024 | Article in journal
Beyond testimony: early recounting and active listening at a boarding school for young Holocaust survivors in Sweden 1946-1948
Malin Thor Tureby
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2024 | Article in journal
Oral History and the Holocaust: An Introduction
Malin Thor Tureby, Yurii Kaparulin
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2024 | Chapter in book
Reflections on the ethics of digitization: Accessibility and 'distant listening' of two Holocaust collections in Sweden
Malin Thor Tureby, Kristin Wagrell, Jenny Sjöholm
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2024 | Article in journal
Editorial introduction: revisiting shared authority
Malin Thor Tureby, Annika Olsson
Research Projects
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Research project
Memory and Activism. Survivors Remembering, Commemorating and Documenting the Holocaust
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Research project
Learning, prevention and consequences of antisemitism in the Swedish educational system
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Forskningsprojekt
Att samla Förintelsens minnen i Sverige, ett nätverk för transdisciplinära praktiker och perspektiv på samlingar, samlande och etik
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Research project
Nordic voices: The use of oral history and personal memories in public history settings
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Research project
The Ethical Dilemmas of Digitalization: Vulnerability and Holocaust collections.