Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
Researcher
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa is a professor of Eastern and deputy dean at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University in Sweden. Her main research interests are cultural memory, heritage, identity and nationalism in Eastern and Central Europe, but she has also published on Polish-Swedish cultural relations. She has participated in many international research projects and, for example she was the leader of the European research network “In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe” (financed by the EU’s COST-programme 2012-2016). Her international experience also includes visiting fellowships at universities in Berkeley (2003) and Stanford (2013). She is the editor and author of a number of books and articles in English, Swedish and Polish as well the editor-in-chief of “Slavica Lundensia” and co-editor of the book series "Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe" from CEU press.
Publications
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Postmigrant Talks Experiences of Language Use in Swedish Academia Academic Migrants in Sweden
Maja Povrzanovic Frykman, Eleonora Narvselius, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2023) Ethnologia Scandinavica, 53 p.114-135
Journal articlePopulist Memory Discourses in Contemporary East Central and Southeastern Europe – Their Roots and Main Features
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2023) Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch, 47 p.187-200
Book chapterCreating Cultural Heritage for a Better Future. The case of the “District of Mutual Respect” in the Polish city of Wrocław
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Igor Pietraszewski
(2023) International Journal of Heritage Studies, 29 p.908-923
Journal articleLämnar Rysslandsromantiken därhän
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2023) Signum: Katolsk orientering om kyrka, kultur, samhälle , p.55-56
ReviewPopulist Memory Discourses in Contemporary East Central and Southeastern Europe : Their Roots and Main Features
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2023) Südosteuropa Jahrbuch, 46
Book chapterCosmopolitan Memories under Pressure : The Case of Postcommunist Wrocław
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Igor Pietraszewski
(2022) History and Memory, 34 p.7-32
Journal articleCosmopolitan memories under Pressure : The Case of Postcommunist Wroclaw
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Igor Pietraszewski
(2022) History & Memory, 34 p.7-32
Journal articleOlgi Tokarczuk szwedzka droga do Nagrody Nobla
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Krzysztof Stala
(2022) Studia Slavica Upsaliensia, 51 p.220-241
Book chapterKatolicismen i Polen : Dess historia och nutidsdilemma
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2022) Signum: Katolsk orientering om kyrka, kultur, samhälle, 48 p.6-12
Journal articleThe legacy of 1989 in Poland : Conflicts and commemoration 30 years after the end of Communism
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2021) Baltic Worlds, XIV p.12-25
Journal articleEastern and Central Europe as a Region of Memory : Some Common Traits
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2021) Constructions and Instrumentalization of the Past. A Comparative Study on Memory Management in the Region : State of the Region Report , p.15-22
Report chapterPopulist Memory Discourses in Contemporary East Central and Southeastern Europe : Their Roots and Main Features
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2021) Südosteuropa Mitteilungen, 61 p.53-64
Journal articleIn Search of Transnational and Transcultural Memories of the Holocaust : Examples from Sweden and Poland
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2021) S: IMON. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation, 8 p.65-83
Journal articleNationalismernas återkomst : Fallen Ungern, Polen och Katalonien
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2020) Europa : 75 år av ständig förändring , p.315-325
Book chapterFear and Cultural Trauma : The Case of the Polish Memory of the Holocaust
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2020) Encountering Fear , p.119-138
Book chapterFacing the challenges of migration in Europe. Museums of emigration in Sweden and Poland in light of the processes of europeanization
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2019) Narrating Otherness in Poland and Sweden : European Heritage as a Discourse of Inclusion and Exclusion , p.101-127
Book chapterNarrating otherness in a time of European instabilities. Introductory remarks
Krzysztof Kowalski, Łucja Piekarska-Duraj, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2019) Narrating Otherness in Poland and Sweden : European Heritage as a Discourse of Inclusion and Exclusion , p.9-26
Book chapterIntroduction
Jarosław Suchoples, Stephanie James, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2019) World War II Re-explored : Some New Millenium Studies in the History of the Global Conflict , p.31-39
PrefaceNarrating Otherness in a Time of European Instabilities : Introductory Remarks
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Krzysztof Kowalski, Lucja Piekarska Duraj
(2019) Studies in European Integration, State and Society, 5 p.9-28
Book chapterFacing the Challenges of Migration in Europe. Museums of Emigration in Sweden and Poland in Light of the Processses of Europeanization
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2019) Studies in European Integration, State and Society, 5 p.101-128
Book chapterNarrating Otherness in Poland and Sweden : European Heritage as a Discourse of Inclusion and Exclusion
(2019) Studies in European Integration, State and Society, 5
BookÖst är öst och väst är väst och ibland mötas de två : Minnen och historiska erfarenheter i ett asymetriskt Europa
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2019) Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitetsakademiens årsbok, MMXIX
Book chapterPolen : ett litet bokslut trettio år efter kommunismens fall
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2019) 1989 : en antologi om de kommunistiska regimernas fall i Centraleuropa , p.42-58
Book chapterEuropeanization in Regional Museums? : Examples from Sweden and Poland
Lucja Piekarska Duraj, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2018) Politeja, 52 p.25-56
Journal articleDiversity and Unity. How Heritage Becomes the Narrative for Europe’s Future : the thematic issue of the journal Politeja nr 1 (52), 2018
(2018) Politeja, 52 p.1-193
Editor for a journalCultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia
(2018) Eurasian Studies Library, 11
BookHumour as Mode of Hegemonic Control : Comic Representations of Belarusian and Ukrainian Leaders in Official Russian Media
Alena Minchenia, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Yuliya Yurchuk
(2018) Euroasian Studies Library, 11 p.211-231
Book chapterThe transnational dynamics of local remembrance : The Jewish past in a former shtetl in Poland
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2018) Memory Studies, 11 p.301-314
Journal articleEuropeizacja dziedzictwa : O moralnym zaangazowaniu pewnego pojecia
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Krzysztof Kowalski
(2017) Zarzadzanie w kulturze, 18 p.549-570
Journal articleIn Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe
(2017) CFE Conference Papers Series, 8
BookVad fan angår dig Polens affärer? : Polen ur svenskt perspektiv igår och idag
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2017) Slavica Lundensia, 28 p.237-250
Conference paperUr de polsk-skandinaviska kontakternas historia : Miscellanea
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2017) Slavica Lundensia, 28
BookMemory Studies in Motion : Reflections on two new research trends in the field
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
(2017) CFE Conference Papers Series, 8 p.135-148
Book chapterThe Twentieth Century in European Memory : Transcultural Mediation and Reception
(2017) European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics, 34
BookIntroduction: On Transcultural Memory and Reception
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Tea Sindbaek Andersen, Astrid Erll
(2017) European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics, 34 p.1-23
Book chapterEastern Europe, Western Europe, New Europe or Just Europe? : Changes of Identities in Post-Cold War Europe
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2016) Routledge Advances in Sociology, 174 p.185-201
Book chapterClashes between National and Post-national Views on Commemorating the Past : The Case of the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Pietraszewski Igor
(2016) Media and Cultural Memory, 24 p.320-351
Book chapterDisputed Memory : Emotions and Memory in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
(2016) Media and Cultural Memory, 24
BookCosmopolitan Memory, European Memory and Local Memories in East Central Europe
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2016) Australian Humanities Review , p.136-154
Journal articleIntroduction : Beyond the History of Ethnic Cleansing in Europe
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2016) Studies in Contemporary European History, 18 p.1-15
Book chapterIntroduction : Disputed Memories in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Andersen Sindbaek Tea
(2016) Media and Cultural Memory, 24 p.1-20
Book chapterLocal Memories under the Influence of Europeanization and Globalization : Comparative Remarks and Conclusions
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2016) Studies in Contemporary European History, 18 p.208-226
Book chapterThe Europeanization of the Memory and Heritage of the Second World War and the Holocaust in Sweden
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2016) Europeanisation of Heritage and Memories in Poland and Sweden , p.133-162
Book chapterWroclaw Changes in Memory Narratives
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Pietraszewski Igor
(2016) Studies in Contemporary European History, 18 p.17-48
Book chapterHeritage and Memory in a Changing Europe : Introductory Remarks
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Krzysztof Kowalski
(2016) The Europeanization of Heritage and Memories in Poland and Sweden , p.15-32
Book chapterWhose Memory? Which Future? : Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
(2016) Studies in Contemporary European History, 18
BookJan Schwarz, Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2016) Studia Judaica, 19 p.356-360
ReviewEuropa Wschodnia, Europea Zachodnia, Nowa Europa, czy po prostu Europa
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2015) Przeglad Wschodni, 14 p.27-46
Journal articleDoes the Baltic See Region have its own Identity?
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2015) Herito, 20 p.104-113
Journal article reviewBeyond Transition? Memory and Identity Narratives in Eastern and Central Europe
(2015) CFE Conference Papers Series, No. 7
BookThe EU as a Normative Success for National Minorities. Before and after the Enlargement.
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Magdalena Gora
(2014) Baltic Worlds, VII p.39-50
Journal articleErindringspolitik till förhandling
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2014) Historielärarnas Förenings Årsskrift , p.219-222
ReviewRhetoric and the cultural trauma: An analysis of Jan T. Gross’ book Fear. Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2014) Memory Studies, 7 p.161-175
Journal articleUniwersytet Latajacy i jego miejsce w polskiej pamieci zbiorowej
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2014) Kultura, tozsamosc i integracja europejska , p.103-192
Book chapterMinne och manipulation : om det kollektiva minnets praktiker
(2013) CFE Conference Papers Series, 6
BookComing to terms with anti-Semitism: Jan T. Gross´ writings and the construction of cultural trauma in post-communist Poland
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2013) European Cultural Memory post-89 / European Studies: A Journal Of European Culture, History & Politics, 30 p.125-150
Book chapterPainful Pasts and Useful Memories. Remembering and Forgetting in Europe
(2012) CFE Conference Papers Series, 5
BookPolsk Marialyrik
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2012) Signum: Katolsk orientering om kyrka, kultur, samhälle, 1 p.56-57
ReviewUse and NON-Use of the Holocaust Memory in Poland
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2012) CFE Conference Papers Series, 5 p.11-28
Book chapterPolsk-skandinaviska möten
(2011) Slavica Lundensia, 26
BookErobrernes kart: sovjetiske, litteraere, vitenskapelige og kulturelle aktørers mentale kartlegging av Øst- og Sentraleuropa, 1944-1953
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2011) Nordisk Østforum, 25 p.193-196
ReviewIntroduction
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Stala Krzysztof
(2011) Cultural Transformations after Communism: Central and Eastern Europe in Focus , p.7-17
Book chapterCultural Trauma Theory and The Memory of Forced Migrations: An Example From Lviv
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Eleonora Narvselius
(2010) Flerstemte minner , p.35-52
Book chapterInte bara polsk riksdag... : adelskulturen och dess arv i dagen Polen
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2009) The Arts in Dialogue : essays in honour of Fiona Björling
Book chapterVitryssland : en stat med olika ansikten
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Mattias Nowak
(2009) Det nya Östeuropa : stat och nation i förändring , p.109-128
Book chapterRemembering Europe’s Expelled Peoples of the Twentieth Century. A project outline
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Bo Petersson
(2009) CFE Conference Papers Series, 4 p.4-14
Conference paperThe Arts in Dialogue : Essays in Honour of Fiona Björling
(2009) Slavica Lundensia, 24
BookRemembering Europe’s Expelled Peoples of the Twentieth Century
(2009) CFE Conference Papers Series, 4
BookEnergy Security in Europe
(2008) CFE Conference Papers Series, 2
BookA Discipline Divided. Polish Economists and the Communist Regime 1945-1960
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2008) Nordisk Östforum, 2 p.227-230
ReviewSkandinavien och Polen : möten, relationer och ömsesidig påverkan
(2007) Slavica Lundensia, 23
BookHomophobia and Nationalism in Poland
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Agnes Malmgren
(2007) Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures & Societies, no 23 p.1-40
Journal articleThe Swedish Solidarity Support Committee and Independent Polish Agency in Lund
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Maria Heino
(2007) Skandinavien och Polen. Möten, relationer och ömsesidig påverkan, Slavica Lundensia 23 p.25-59
Book chapterFlygande universitetets återkomst. Underjordisk undervisning som en motståndsstrategi i det polska samhället
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2007) Historia mot strömmen. Kultur och konflikt i det moderna Europa
Book chapterA Tale of a Former Shtetl: The Memory of Jews and the Holocaust in Poland
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2007) How the Holocaust Looks Now. International Perspectives
Book chapterBorderlands and Identity. Reflections on Antonina Kloskowskas’s model of identification
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2007) Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 31 p.97-109
Journal articleDiabeł tkwi w szczegółach. Uwagi na temat szwedzkiego tłumaczenia powieści Czesława Miłosza Dolina Issy
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2006) Jako blagopesnivaja ptica (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis)
Book chapterFattiga kusiner från landet eller fullvärdiga familjemedlemmar? : Polen och Europa
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2006) Tredje rummet 2002-2006 , p.42-57
Book chapterHistory, Language and Society in the Borderlands of Europe : Ukraine and Belarus in Focus
(2006) History, Language and Society in the Borderlands of Europe. Ukraine and Belarus in Focus
BookTale of Szydlowiec. Memory and Oblivion in a Former Shtetl in Poland
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2006) The holocaust on post-war battlefields : genocide as historical culture
Book chapterRemembering World War II in Belarus, A Struggle between Competitive Historical Narratives
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2006) History, Language and Society in the Borderlands of Europe. Ukraine and Belarus in Focus.
Book chapterLanguage and Belarusian Nation-Building in the Light of Modern Theories on Nationalism
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2005) Annus Albaruthenicus, 6 p.109-118
Journal articleEast goes West or West goes East
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2005) Unity in Diversity. Europe and the European Union: Enlargement and Constitutional Treaty,
Book chapterOm EU:s inflytande i Öst
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2005) Bulletin - Sällskapet för studier av Ryssland, Central och Östeuropa samt Centralasien , p.11-13
ReviewNågra reflexioner kring EU:s östutvidgning
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Mattias Nowak
(2004) Politologen , p.5-9
Journal articleThe union between Belarus and Russia in the context of Belarusian nation-building
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2004) Contemporary change in Belarus , p.21-39
Conference paperRecension av Dorota Michulka and Marja Leinonen (eds), Poland. On Politics, Culture, Literature and Education. Papers from the First Finnish-Polish Seminar Held 21.03. 2003
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2004) Nordiskt Östforum , p.24-122
ReviewRecension av David Wästerfors, Berättelser om mutor. Det korruptas betydelse bland svenska affärsmän i Öst- och Centraleuropa, doctoral dissertation in sociology.
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2004) Bulletin - Sällskapet för studier av Ryssland, Central och Östeuropa samt Centralasien , p.10-12
ReviewEnade vi stod? Postsovjetiska berättelser om andra världskriget i Vitryssland
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2004) Nordisk Østforum, 3/18 p.325-344
Journal articleReview of doctoral dissertation "Higher Education and National Identity - Polish Student Activism in Russia 1832-1863
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2003) Bibliotheca Historica, 4
ReviewMordet i Jedwabne – en utmaning för polackernas kollektiva minne. En analys av den polska debatten kring Jan Gross bok Sąsiedzi (”Grannar”)
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2003) Historisk Tidskrift , p.395-417
Journal articleThe Jedwabne Killings - A Challenge for Polish Collective Memory
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2003) Echoes of the Holocaust: Historical Cultures in Contemporary Europe
Book chapterÖstutvidgning eller Västutvidgning?
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2003) Europeiska brytpunkter
Book chapterNationsbildningsprocesserna i Karpaterna : Rusynerna och Andy Warhol
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Niklas Bernsand
(2002) Nordisk Østforum, 16 p.131-146
Journal articleThe Complex of the Unwanted Child: Meanings of Europe in Polish National Discourse
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2002) The meaning of Europe : variety and contention within and among nations
Book chapterHaperende natievorming. Die Unie Tussen Wit-Rusland en Rusland
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2002) Oost-Europa Verkenningen
Journal articleNationalism and Minority Questions in Central and Eastern Europe in the Context of Enlargement
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(2001) CFE Working Paper Series ; 12
Working paperSverige och Polen : nationer och stereotyper
(2000) Slavica Lundensia, 20
BookAdam Mickiewicz : polack, litauer och europé
(1998) Slavica Lundensia, 18
BookCollective Identities in an Era of Transformations. Analysing Developments in East and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Klas-Göran Karlsson, Bo Petersson, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(1998)
BookThe Wheel of Polish Fortune : Myths in Polish Collective Consciousness during the First Years of Solidarity,
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
(1992) Lund Slavonic Monographs, 2
Dissertation
Research Project
Current Project at CMES
Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities - Exploring Politics of Memory, Space, and Religion in Middle Eastern Nationalisms (2022-2025), funded by the MECW Research Program