Astrid Rasch
Om
Jeg er professor i kultur og samfunnsstudier i engelsk ved Institut for språk og litteratur. Forskningen min undersøker minnekultur etter oppløsningen av det britiske imperiet med særlig fokus på memoarer fra Zimbabwe, Australia og Karibia samt post-imperial minnepolitikk i det tidligere imperiet. Jeg er utdannet master og ph.d. i engelsk fra Københavns Universitet. Jeg har desuden lest ved Monash University, Melbourne og vært gjestedoktorgradstudent ved Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Jeg sitter i bestyrelsen for den nordiske avdelingen av Memory Studies Association.
Jeg underviser emnene ENG1404 (Britain and the World after 1945), ENG2455 (Memory Politics After Empire) og ENG2501 (Africa in the Postcolony). I tillegg veileder jeg gjerne masteropgaver innen kultur- og samfunnsforhold i den engelsktalende verden, postkoloniale studier, imperiehistorie og nyere litteratur, især erinndringslitteratur og postkolonial litteratur.
Faglige interesser
- Erinndringspolitikk
- Avkolonisering
- Britisk, australsk, karibbisk og zimbabweansk historie og samfunn
- Selvbiografi
- Nostalgi
- Online erindringskultur
Utvalgte forskningsprosjekter
- Intimate afterlives of empire: Memory and decolonisation in autobiography, Manchester University Press 2025
- Med-organisator (med Tatek Abebe) av forskninsgprojekt: Collective for Interdisciplinary Studies of Sound and Text (2024-25)
- Leder av forskningsgruppe: Trondheim Analytica (2018-2022)
- Leder av forskningsnettverk: Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa (2019-2023)
- Med-organisator av forskningsnettverk: Anglophone Political Cultures
- Leder av forskningsnettverk: Decolonial Research Group (2018-2020)
- Medlem av forskningsgruppe: The Embers of Empire (2013-2018)
- Ph.d.-stipendiat: Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Collective Memory in Dialogue (2013-2016)
Redaksjonelle oppgaver
- Redaktør av antologien The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe (med Minna Niemi og Amanda Hammar, Brill, 2025)
- Redaktør av særnummeret Writing Repression in Zimbabwe for Journal of Southern African Studies (med Minna Niemi og Jocelyn Alexander, 2021)
- Redaktør av antologien Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain (med Stuart Ward, 2019)
- Redaktør av særnummeret Life Writing After Empire for Life Writing (2016)
- Gjesteredaktør for Kvinden&Samfundet (2009)
Vitenskapelig og faglig arbeid
Jeg blir brukt som ekspert i britiske og zimbabwiske forhold i dansk tv og radio.
Sammen med kolleger og studenter har jeg tatt initiativ til plattformer for skandinaviske studenter og forskere som bekymrer seg om klimaforandringene. Jeg har skrevet kronikker, leserbrever og artikler om de narrative utfordringene ved å håndtere klimaforandringene.
Ph.d. stipendiater
Tóra Djurhuus: The Legacy of the Past in Brexit Britain (primær veileder: Sara Dybris McQuaid). Disputert 3. juni 2022.
Kristine Graneng: Connecting migration and European integration: Discursive issue-linkages in EU referendums (primær veileder: Pieter de Wilde). Disputert 2. mai 2024.
Anna Bil-Jaruzelska: Emotion and Identity Politics on Social Media (biveiledere: Pieter de Wilde and Anamaria Dutceac Segesten).
Forskning
Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa
The workshop series ‘Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa’ is an initiative to foster a Nordic research environment on African culture and literature.
Trondheim Analytica
TRONDHEIM ANALYTICA (TA) seeks to address one of the most profound challenges for democracy in the 21st century: the social media revolution and its attendant problems of fake news, message targeting, and echo chambers.
Publikasjoner
2026
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2026)
Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives by Emma Parker, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 208 pp., ISBN, 9781350353794.
Life Writing
Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review
2025
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2025)
Book presentation: Intimate afterlives of empire: Memory and decolonisation in autobiography.
Annen presentasjon
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2025)
Intimate afterlives of empire: Memory and decolonisation in autobiography.
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
Vitenskapelig monografi
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Rasch, Astrid;
Niemi, Minna Johanna;
Hammar, Amanda;
Alexander, Jocelyn.
(2025)
Book launch: The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe.
Annen presentasjon
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Rasch, Astrid;
Niemi, Minna Johanna;
Hammar, Amanda.
(2025)
The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe.
Brill Academic Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
2024
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Graneng, Kristine;
Wilde, Pieter de;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2024)
Connecting migration and European integration: Discursive issue-linkages in EU referendums.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktorgradsavhandling
2023
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2023)
Exemplar empires: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2022
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Wilde, Pieter de;
Rasch, Astrid;
Bossetta, Michael.
(2022)
Analyzing Citizen Engagement With European Politics on Social Media.
Politics and Governance
Leder
2021
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Rasch, Astrid;
Niemi, Minna Johanna;
Alexander, Jocelyn.
(2021)
Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature.
Journal of Southern African Studies
Leder
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2021)
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs.
Journal of Southern African Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2021)
Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe: Versions and Subversions of Crisis, Oliver Nyambi, (review).
Biography
Anmeldelse
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2021)
Anxious Reading: Interrogating Selective Empathy in Trauma Memoirs.
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2020
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2020)
Increasing student preparation and participation through flipped classroom and other measures.
Læring om læring
Fagartikkel
2019
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2019)
“Keep the balance”: The Politics of Remembering Empire in Post-Colonial Britain.
Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Ward, Stuart;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2019)
Introduction: Greater Britain, Global Britain.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Ward, Stuart;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2019)
Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain.
Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Academic
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
2018
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2018)
Postcolonial Nostalgia: The Ambiguities of White Memoirs of Zimbabwe.
History and Memory
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2018)
The Family Connection: White Expatriate Memoirs of Zimbabwe.
Journal of Southern African Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2017
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2017)
Life Writing After Empire.
Routledge
Routledge
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2017)
Review: How Empire Shaped Us, edited by Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy.
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Anmeldelse
2016
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2016)
'This Union-Jacked Time': Memories of Education as Post-Imperial Positioning.
Life Writing
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2016)
Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Collective Memory in Dialogue.
Copenhagen University
Copenhagen University
Doktorgradsavhandling
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2016)
Editorial: Life Writing After Empire.
Life Writing
Leder
2015
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2015)
A Postcolonial Education: Using End of Empire Autobiographies to Introduce Postcolonial Studies.
European journal of life writing
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2026)
Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives by Emma Parker, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 208 pp., ISBN, 9781350353794.
Life Writing
Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review
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Wilde, Pieter de;
Rasch, Astrid;
Bossetta, Michael.
(2022)
Analyzing Citizen Engagement With European Politics on Social Media.
Politics and Governance
Leder
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Rasch, Astrid;
Niemi, Minna Johanna;
Alexander, Jocelyn.
(2021)
Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature.
Journal of Southern African Studies
Leder
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2021)
Subversion or Identity Work? Tracing the Reception of Zimbabwean Counter-Narrative Memoirs.
Journal of Southern African Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2021)
Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe: Versions and Subversions of Crisis, Oliver Nyambi, (review).
Biography
Anmeldelse
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2021)
Anxious Reading: Interrogating Selective Empathy in Trauma Memoirs.
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2020)
Increasing student preparation and participation through flipped classroom and other measures.
Læring om læring
Fagartikkel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2019)
“Keep the balance”: The Politics of Remembering Empire in Post-Colonial Britain.
Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2018)
Postcolonial Nostalgia: The Ambiguities of White Memoirs of Zimbabwe.
History and Memory
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2018)
The Family Connection: White Expatriate Memoirs of Zimbabwe.
Journal of Southern African Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2017)
Review: How Empire Shaped Us, edited by Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy.
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Anmeldelse
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2016)
'This Union-Jacked Time': Memories of Education as Post-Imperial Positioning.
Life Writing
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2016)
Editorial: Life Writing After Empire.
Life Writing
Leder
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2015)
A Postcolonial Education: Using End of Empire Autobiographies to Introduce Postcolonial Studies.
European journal of life writing
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Bøker
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2025)
Intimate afterlives of empire: Memory and decolonisation in autobiography.
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
Vitenskapelig monografi
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Rasch, Astrid;
Niemi, Minna Johanna;
Hammar, Amanda.
(2025)
The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe.
Brill Academic Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
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Ward, Stuart;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2019)
Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain.
Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Academic
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2017)
Life Writing After Empire.
Routledge
Routledge
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
Del av bok/rapport
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2023)
Exemplar empires: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Ward, Stuart;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2019)
Introduction: Greater Britain, Global Britain.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Rapport
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Graneng, Kristine;
Wilde, Pieter de;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2024)
Connecting migration and European integration: Discursive issue-linkages in EU referendums.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktorgradsavhandling
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2016)
Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Collective Memory in Dialogue.
Copenhagen University
Copenhagen University
Doktorgradsavhandling
UTSTILLING
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2025)
Book presentation: Intimate afterlives of empire: Memory and decolonisation in autobiography.
Annen presentasjon
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Rasch, Astrid;
Niemi, Minna Johanna;
Hammar, Amanda;
Alexander, Jocelyn.
(2025)
Book launch: The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe.
Annen presentasjon
Undervisning
Emner
Formidling
2025
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2025) Studying post-imperial memory politics through autobiography: The case of anti-racist essay-memoirs. The Private Side of Politics , Oslo 2025-06-04 -
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid; Kennedy, Rosanne. (2025) Book launch: Intimate afterlives of empire: Memory and decolonisation in autobiography. Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability , Prague 2025-07-14 - 2025-07-17
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2025) Who apologises to whom? Inter- and intra-state requests for colonial reparations. Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability , Prague 2025-07-15 - 2025-07-17
2024
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2024) Deep Reading: Introducing Students to the Joy of Uninterrupted Reading. ISL-dag , NTNU 2024-05-29 -
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2024) Memory Politics After Empire: A work not yet in progress. Critical Uses of the Past in the Present , NTNU 2024-06-21 -
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2024) Anxious Reading: Interrogating Selective Empathy in Trauma Memoirs. Visceral Writing 2024-05-25 -
2022
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Faglig foredrag
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2022) The autobiographical example in black British essay-memoirs. Genres of political writing , University of Cambridge 2022-05-05 - 2022-05-06
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2022) Whose Great Betrayal? Strategies of Self-Defence in Ian Smith and Joshua Nkomo’s Political Memoirs. Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe , Gilleleje 2022-09-16 - 2022-09-18
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid. (2022) #AbolishTheMonarchy - blir britene tvunget til å sørge?. NRK NRK [null] 2022-09-15
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid. (2022) Kritiserer det britiske kongehuset: Det er mye følelser. VG VG [null] 2022-09-09
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid. (2022) Etter Elizabeth, syndfloden? Storbritannias perfekte storm. NRK NRK [null] 2022-09-11
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2022) Experiences with co-editing. Erfaringer med medforfatterskap , NTNU 2022-09-30 -
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2022) Re-Embodying Mediated Memory: Countermemories of Race and Empire in Black Autobiographical Nonfiction. Explorations of Counter-Memory , Reykjavik 2022-10-13 - 2022-10-14
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Faglig foredragBoasson, Frode Lerum; Rasch, Astrid; Ingulstad, Mats. (2022) Men er det bra? Kritisk Panel vurderer de nominerte til NTNUs litteraturpris. Basta. Sakprosafestivalen i Trondheim , Trondheim 2022-11-11 - 2022-11-12
2021
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2021) (Struggling with) Interdisciplinary Collaboration. How to succeed with interdisciplinary research. Digital transformation webinar , NTNU 2021-05-05 - 2021-05-05
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2021) Trondheim Analytica: Demokratisk engasjement på sosiale medier. Muligheter og utfordringer – eller, en prosjektleders bekjennelser. Frokostseminar - DH-lab , NTNU 2021-09-14 -
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Faglig foredrag
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Faglig foredragBoasson, Frode Lerum; Rasch, Astrid; Ingulstad, Mats. (2021) Kan sakprosa redde verden? Litteraturhusets kritiske panel diskuterer nyere norsk klimasakprosa. Sakprosafestivalen , Litteraturhuset i Trondheim 2021-10-29 - 2021-10-29
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ProgramdeltagelseRasch, Astrid. (2021) Literature and the Politics of the Past in Southern Africa: Petina Gappah and Elleke Boehmer in Conversation. Youtube Youtube [Internet] 2021-05-07
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2021) Becoming Postcolonial: Memory Dialogues in Post-Imperial Autobiography. Memory Studies Association Annual Conference , Warsawa 2021-07-05 - 2021-07-09
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2021) Avkolonisering av akademia. Avkolonisering av sørsamisk arkeologi og historie? 2021-04-21 - 2021-04-21
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2021) Becoming Postcolonial. American Comparative Literature Association's 2021 Annual Meeting 2021-04-08 - 2021-04-11
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2021) The people were speaking with my ‘voice’: Legitimating Narratives in Zimbabwean Political Memoir. Memory in Africa 2021-11-24 - 2021-11-25
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2021) Trondheim Analytica: Hva vi vet og ikke vet om demokratisk engasjement på sosiale medier. Møte i Ytringsfrihetskommisjonen , Scandic Nidelven, Trondheim 2021-10-21 -
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2021) The Politics of the Past: Exploring Pasts in Zimbabwe's Presents. The Politics of the Past: Exploring Pasts in Zimbabwe's Presents 2021-05-07 - 2021-05-09
2020
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2020) Teaching Memory Politics After Empire. Inaugural Symposium of the MSA Nordic , Copenhagen 2020-09-29 - 2020-09-30
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid. (2020) I covered British politics and Brexit for the Danish National Broadcaster program Deadline three times in January 2020. Deadline, DR Deadline, DR [null] 2020-01-31
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2020) Teaching Memory Politics After Empire. Claimed Pasts brown-bag seminar , University of Agder 2020-11-18 -
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Faglig foredragBoasson, Frode Lerum; Rasch, Astrid; Ingulstad, Mats Asklund. (2020) Men er det bra? Kritisk panel. Sakprosafestivalen i Trondheim , Trondheim 2020-10-31 - 2020-10-31
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2020) Digitale løsninger for økt studentaktivitet. Erfaringer fra høstens undervisning , NTNU 2020-12-08 -
2019
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2019) Keynote: Storied orders/ordered stories: memoir and power. Storytelling and Social Order , Oxford University 2019-03-14 -
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2019) The other audience of counter-narratives: Ambiguities in Zimbabwean anti-Mugabe memoirs. International Auto/Biography Association Europe Conference , Complutense University Madrid 2019-06-19 - 2019-06-21
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2019) Complexity made simple: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain. Memory Studies Association Conference , Complutense University Madrid 2019-06-25 - 2019-06-29
2018
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Faglig foredragBoasson, Frode Lerum; Rasch, Astrid; Ingulstad, Mats Asklund. (2018) Men er det bra? Litteraturhuset i Trondheims kritiske panel diskuterer de nominerte til NTNUs litteraturpris: Marit Paasche - Hannah Ryggen, Morten Søberg - Eidsvold-Ekofisk, Dag Hoel - Fred er ei det beste, Maria Berg Reinertsen - Reisen til Bretton Woods. Fakta F. Sakprosafestivalen i Trondheim , Kunsthall Trondheim 2018-11-03 - 2018-11-03
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2018) Opening remarks: The Embers of Empire. The Break-Up of Greater Britain , Holckenhavn Slot, Nyborg 2018-07-01 - 2018-07-04
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2018) 'Keep the balance': The Politics of Remembering Empire in Post-Colonial Britain. After Empire? The contested histories of decolonisation, migration and race in modern Britain , University of Leeds 2018-12-13 - 2018-12-14
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2018) Complexity made simple - Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain. Bordering on Brexit , Gibraltar Garrison Library 2018-09-21 - 2018-09-23
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2018) Complexity made simple: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain. Colonial Entanglements: Institutions, Memory, Resistance , NTNU 2018-09-12 - 2018-09-13
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Intervju
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2018) Ansvarsmanual i klimaforandringenes tid. Møte for Studenter for Klimaet 2018-09-10 -
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid. (2018) Bordering on Brexit: interview with Dr Astrid Rasch (NTNU) by Professor Richard Toye (Exeter). Youtube Youtube [Internet] 2018-09-22
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid. (2018) I covered Donald Trump’s visit to the UK for the Danish national broadcaster TV2 News. TV2 News TV2 News [null] 2018-07-13
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2018) Studying post-imperial memory through autobiography: challenges and opportunities. Transnational biographies , University of Copenhagen 2018-05-08 -
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid. (2018) I covered the Zimbabwean elections in seven separate television appearances on the Danish national broadcaster TV2 News and TV2 main channel from 30 July to 3 August. TV2 News and TV2 TV2 News and TV2 [null] 2018-07-30
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid. (2018) Avkolonisering splitter mellom "inkluderende" og "destruktivt". Under Dusken Under Dusken [null] 2018-10-16
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid. (2018) Vil forbedre demokratisk engasjement i sosiale medier. Nxtmedia Nxtmedia [null] 2018-10-09
2017
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2017) Replaced by Nothing: White Postcolonial Nostalgia. North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting , Denver, Colorado 2017-11-02 - 2017-11-05
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Vitenskapelig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2017) The Political Positioning of Trauma: White Zimbabwean Family Memoirs. Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association , University of Copenhagen 2017-12-14 - 2017-12-16
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Faglig foredragRasch, Astrid. (2017) Ekspert på panel til litteraturfestivalen Fakta F. NTNUs litteraturpris : Kritikk, kåring og kunstnerisk , Litteraturhuset 2017-11-02 -