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, vinner av Wulf Kansteiner MSA First Book Award
- 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
2025
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2025)
Intimate afterlives of empire: Memory and decolonisation in autobiography.
Manchester University Press
Vitenskapelig monografi
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Rasch, Astrid;
Niemi, Minna Johanna;
Hammar, Amanda.
(2025)
The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe.
De Gruyter Brill
Antologi
2024
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Graneng, Kristine;
de Wilde, Pieter;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2024)
Connecting migration and European integration: Discursive issue-linkages in EU referendums.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandling
2023
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2023)
Exemplar empires: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2022
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de Wilde, Pieter;
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
Bokanmeldelse
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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
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Ward, Stuart;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2019)
Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain.
Bloomsbury Academic
Antologi
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
Antologi
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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
Bokanmeldelse
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
Doktoravhandling
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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
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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.
(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.
(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.
(2016)
'This Union-Jacked Time': Memories of Education as Post-Imperial Positioning.
Life Writing
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
Bokanmeldelse
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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
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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.
(2021)
Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe: Versions and Subversions of Crisis, Oliver Nyambi, (review).
Biography
Bokanmeldelse
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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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de Wilde, Pieter;
Rasch, Astrid;
Bossetta, Michael.
(2022)
Analyzing Citizen Engagement With European Politics on Social Media.
Politics and Governance
Leder
Bøker
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2025)
Intimate afterlives of empire: Memory and decolonisation in autobiography.
Manchester University Press
Vitenskapelig monografi
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2017)
Life Writing After Empire.
Routledge
Antologi
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Rasch, Astrid;
Niemi, Minna Johanna;
Hammar, Amanda.
(2025)
The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe.
De Gruyter Brill
Antologi
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Ward, Stuart;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2019)
Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain.
Bloomsbury Academic
Antologi
Del av bok/rapport
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Ward, Stuart;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2019)
Introduction: Greater Britain, Global Britain.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2023)
Exemplar empires: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
Studentoppgave eller avhandling
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Graneng, Kristine;
de Wilde, Pieter;
Rasch, Astrid.
(2024)
Connecting migration and European integration: Discursive issue-linkages in EU referendums.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandling
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Rasch, Astrid.
(2016)
Autobiography After Empire: Individual and Collective Memory in Dialogue.
Copenhagen University
Doktoravhandling
Formidling
2026
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ForedragRasch, Astrid. (2026) Challenging colonialism through academia and activism. Challenging colonialism through academia and activism
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Annen presentasjonRasch, Astrid; Parker, Emma; Boehmer, Elleke. (2026) Life writing and memory at the end of empire. Life writing and memory at the end of empire
2025
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid; Niemi, Minna Johanna; Hammar, Amanda; Chikumbu, Anotida. (2025) The Dr. Anotida Chikumbu - BOOK SERIES: The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe.
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Annen presentasjonRasch, Astrid. (2025) Book presentation: Intimate afterlives of empire: Memory and decolonisation in autobiography. ISL-dag
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2025) Studying post-imperial memory politics through autobiography: The case of anti-racist essay-memoirs. The Private Side of Politics
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid; Kennedy, Rosanne. (2025) Book launch: Intimate afterlives of empire: Memory and decolonisation in autobiography. Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2025) Who apologises to whom? Inter- and intra-state requests for colonial reparations. Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability
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Annen presentasjonRasch, Astrid; Niemi, Minna Johanna; Hammar, Amanda; Alexander, Jocelyn. (2025) Book launch: The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe. African, Afropean, Afropolitan
2024
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ForedragRasch, Astrid. (2024) Deep Reading: Introducing Students to the Joy of Uninterrupted Reading. ISL-dag
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2024) Memory Politics After Empire: A work not yet in progress. Critical Uses of the Past in the Present
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2024) Anxious Reading: Interrogating Selective Empathy in Trauma Memoirs. Visceral Writing
2022
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Foredrag
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2022) The autobiographical example in black British essay-memoirs. Genres of political writing
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2022) Whose Great Betrayal? Strategies of Self-Defence in Ian Smith and Joshua Nkomo’s Political Memoirs. Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe
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Intervju
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Intervju
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Intervju
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Foredrag
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2022) Re-Embodying Mediated Memory: Countermemories of Race and Empire in Black Autobiographical Nonfiction. Explorations of Counter-Memory
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ForedragBoasson, Frode Lerum; Rasch, Astrid; Ingulstad, Mats. (2022) Men er det bra? Kritisk Panel vurderer de nominerte til NTNUs litteraturpris. Basta. Sakprosafestivalen i Trondheim
2021
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ForedragRasch, Astrid. (2021) (Struggling with) Interdisciplinary Collaboration. How to succeed with interdisciplinary research. Digital transformation webinar
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ForedragRasch, Astrid. (2021) Trondheim Analytica: Demokratisk engasjement på sosiale medier. Muligheter og utfordringer – eller, en prosjektleders bekjennelser. Frokostseminar - DH-lab
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Foredrag
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ForedragBoasson, Frode Lerum; Rasch, Astrid; Ingulstad, Mats. (2021) Kan sakprosa redde verden? Litteraturhusets kritiske panel diskuterer nyere norsk klimasakprosa. Sakprosafestivalen
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Deltakelse i radio- eller TV
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2021) Becoming Postcolonial: Memory Dialogues in Post-Imperial Autobiography. Memory Studies Association Annual Conference
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ForedragRasch, Astrid. (2021) Avkolonisering av akademia. Avkolonisering av sørsamisk arkeologi og historie?
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2021) Becoming Postcolonial. American Comparative Literature Association's 2021 Annual Meeting
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2021) The people were speaking with my ‘voice’: Legitimating Narratives in Zimbabwean Political Memoir. Memory in Africa
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ForedragRasch, Astrid. (2021) Trondheim Analytica: Hva vi vet og ikke vet om demokratisk engasjement på sosiale medier. Møte i Ytringsfrihetskommisjonen
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2021) The Politics of the Past: Exploring Pasts in Zimbabwe's Presents. The Politics of the Past: Exploring Pasts in Zimbabwe's Presents
2020
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Foredrag
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Intervju
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Foredrag
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ForedragBoasson, Frode Lerum; Rasch, Astrid; Ingulstad, Mats Asklund. (2020) Men er det bra? Kritisk panel. Sakprosafestivalen i Trondheim
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ForedragRasch, Astrid. (2020) Digitale løsninger for økt studentaktivitet. Erfaringer fra høstens undervisning
2019
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2019) Keynote: Storied orders/ordered stories: memoir and power. Storytelling and Social Order
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2019) The other audience of counter-narratives: Ambiguities in Zimbabwean anti-Mugabe memoirs. International Auto/Biography Association Europe Conference
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2019) Complexity made simple: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain. Memory Studies Association Conference
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Aviskronikk
2018
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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
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Konferanseforedrag
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KonferanseforedragRasch, 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
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2018) Complexity made simple - Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain. Bordering on Brexit
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2018) Complexity made simple: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain. Colonial Entanglements: Institutions, Memory, Resistance
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Intervju
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Foredrag
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Intervju
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IntervjuRasch, Astrid. (2018) I covered Donald Trump’s visit to the UK for the Danish national broadcaster TV2 News.
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2018) Studying post-imperial memory through autobiography: challenges and opportunities. Transnational biographies
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Aviskronikk
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Intervju
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Intervju
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Intervju
2017
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2017) Replaced by Nothing: White Postcolonial Nostalgia. North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting
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KonferanseforedragRasch, Astrid. (2017) The Political Positioning of Trauma: White Zimbabwean Family Memoirs. Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association
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ForedragRasch, Astrid. (2017) Ekspert på panel til litteraturfestivalen Fakta F. NTNUs litteraturpris : Kritikk, kåring og kunstnerisk