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An Associate Professor in Ethnology at the School of Contemporary and Historical Studies and Director of studies of the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at Södertörn University, Sweden. Besides her research interests concerning memory and mourning processes, counter-memories, resilience and the transmission of memory (PhD "Painful legacy of World War II: Nazi forced enlistment: Alsatian/Mosellan Prisoners of War and the Soviet Prison Camp of Tambov” 2013), she is interested in the memorialization’s and heritagization’s processes of industrial sites. Her research has also expanded to ecological issues in the Baltic and Eastern European regions. Currently, she is involved in a research project on Russian and Belarusian migrants and their identity construction in Lithuania and Poland following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Florence Fröhlig

An Associate Professor in Ethnology at the School of Contemporary and Historical Studies and Director of studies of the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at Södertörn University, Sweden. Besides her research interests concerning memory and mourning processes, counter-memories, resilience and the transmission of memory (PhD “Painful legacy of World War II: Nazi forced enlistment: Alsatian/Mosellan Prisoners of War and the Soviet Prison Camp of Tambov” 2013), she is interested in the memorialization’s and heritagization’s processes of industrial sites. Her research has also expanded to ecological issues in the Baltic and Eastern European regions. Currently, she is involved in a research project on Russian and Belarusian migrants and their identity construction in Lithuania and Poland following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Articles by Florence Fröhlig

  1. Conference Report: Past Legacies, Present Tensions, Future Visions: Anthropology and Ethnology in and of the Baltic Sea Region

    The international conference Past Legacies, Present Tensions, Future Visions: Anthropology and Ethnology in and of the Baltic Sea Region, held at Södertörn University from March 30 to April 1, 2026, brought together around thirty scholars—from doctoral researchers to senior academics—to reflect on the shifting political, social, and epistemic landscapes of the Baltic Sea region.

  2. Writing the disaster from Hiroshima to Chornobyl ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR TESTIMONIES AND THE AFTERLIFE OF DISASTERS

    This essay examines the memorialization of two pivotal nuclear catastrophes – the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 and the Chornobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 – through the lens of testimonial writings and Maurice Blanchot’s concept of “the disaster.” Drawing on Japanese hibakusha testimonies and Chornobyl survivors’ accounts, the essay contrasts political memory, which seeks closure and national integration, with cultural memory, which preserves trauma, ambiguity, and unresolved loss. Testimonial writings, rather than commemorating a concluded past, emerge from within the disaster itself, articulating a reality that defies assimilation into redemptive historical narratives.

  3. Laura Lapinské (151) Care to live. Everyday strategies among single mothers in Lithuania

    Abstract [en] This dissertation, Care to Live, offers an in-depth ethnographic study of well-educated single mothers navigating everyday life in Kaunas, […]

  4. Moa Höglund (150) Platser att minnas på. Venedigbiennalen 1991-1993, postsocialism och de nationella paviljongerna [Places of Remembrance. The Venice Biennale 1991–1993, post-socialism and the national pavilions]

    Places of Remembrance examines the cultural functions served by the Hungarian (1909–), Polish (1932–), and Czech-Slovak (1926–) pavilions in the Venice […]

  5. Nicholas Lawrence (149) Salomon Mainmon’s Life; or, the History of the Imagining I

    Abstract [en] This thesis breaks with tradition by reading Salomon Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte as a work of philosophy. Rather than the mere re-telling […]

  6. Ellen Jacobsson (148) Integrators. Contradictions in Practice

    Abstract [en] This thesis investigates contemporary practices focused on facilitating the integration of those who, for various reasons, are perceived […]

  7. Fredrik Bjarkö  (147) The Odyssey of Human Spirit: Historiography of Philosophy in the Post-Kantian Ag

     Abstract [en] In the 1790s, many post-Kantian German philosophers attempted to lay a new foundation for the historiography of philosophy. […]

  8. Gustav Sjöberg (146) Den levande materien: Naturfilologiska perspektiv på hylozoiska och panteistiska estetiker

     Abstract [en] In the classical Western aesthetic tradition, from Aristotle onwards, ’nature’ and ’art’ are conceptualised in relation to each […]

  9. Hamdija Begovic (145) Between Civic and Ethnic: The Party of Democratic Action and the Symbolic Struggle for a Bosnian-Herzegovinian State

     Abstract [en] This thesis examines the persistent political fragmentation of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the role of the […]

  10. Anna Nyquist (144) Creating, maintaining, and enhancing sustainable marketing credibility

    Abstract [en] This dissertation takes as its focus the question of credibility in sustainable marketing: why it is both necessary […]

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