FMSP continues to be a connective hub for scholars, students and practitioners of collective memory. This term we welcome the following visiting scholars:
Prof. Ksenia Robbe is a Senior Lecturer in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen and a Humboldt Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt (2025-2026). Her research sits at the intersection of postcolonial and postsocialist studies, with the focus on concepts and practices of memory, time, gender, and feminism in literature, film, and visual art.
Prof. Zeynep Gültekin Akcay is currently working on the project titled “Remembering the Cinema Experience of 1950s to 1970s in Sivas”. At the FMSP of Goethe University Frankfurt, she will research the cinema experiences in the cultural memory of Sivas people living in Germany. She will stay with us until next year.
Dr. Esin Gülsen is a postdoctoral researcher at FMSP since September 2025. She has been awarded a research scholarship by the Gerda Henkel Foundation for her project on the intergenerational transmission of collective memory of violent past within the Kurdish diaspora in Germany.
Adriano de Salles Oliveira Barcha is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political and Economic Law at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Brazil), where he is a merit-based scholar, in a cotutelle program with the Universidad de Huelva (Spain), where he is a talent attraction scholar.