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Carsten Humlebæk

Associate professor , Ph.d.
Carsten Humlebæk

Department of International Culture and Communication Studies

Dalgas Have 15, 2V.056
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3291
Cell phone: +45 61264744
Fax:+45 3815 3293
E-mail: ch.ikk@cbs.dk



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Academic interests:

Theoretical fields: History of memory. Theories of nationalism, identities, and culture.
Empirical fields: Spain. Spanish history and culture. Spanish politics, economics, and social relations. Spain's relationship to the EU and the rest of the world. Intercultural communication Spain-Denmark. National symbols and places of memory (lieux de mémoire).

Primary research areas

  • Recent Spanish history (post-1975)
  • Spanish nationalism and its modes of expression
  • National symbols and places of memory (lieux de mémoire)
  • Theories of nationalism and identities
  • History of memory
  • The cultural encounter between Danes and Spaniards


Selected publications

Er Spanien anderledes? ( Is Spain different?), thematical issue of Den Jyske Historiker (No. 91/92, 2001), co-edited with Jens Toftgaard Jensen, Claus Møller Jørgensen, Mathias Otzen Kruse, Rune Haahr Petersen, Anne Sørensen and Kenn Tarbensen.
"National holidays and the national question in post-Franco Spain" (in italian translation), In Alfonso Botti and Carmelo Adagio (editors): Nazioni e nazionalismi in Spagna, (Italy), (forthcoming - 2005).
"Political uses of the recent past in the Spanish post-authoritarian democracy", In Max Friedman and Padraic Kenney (editors): Partisan Histories, Palgrave, (forthcoming - 2005).
"Remembering the Dictatorship. Commemorative activity in the Spanish Press on the Anniversaries of the Civil War and the Death of Franco", In Jerzy Borejsza and Klaus Ziemer (editors): Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism in Europe - The Short- and the Long-Term Perspective, Berghahn, Oxford/New York (forthcoming - 2005).
"Il problema della memoria nella Spagna dopo Franco" ("The problem of memory in post-Franco Spain"), In: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900, Vol. 6 (2003), no. 2, pp. 349-353.
"Die spanische Zeitgeschichtsforschung zur Franco-Ära seit 1975" ("Spanish historical research on the Franco period after 1975"), In: Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte, Vol. 4 (2003), pp. 161-188.
"Collective Memory and National Identity in the Spanish Democracy: The Legacies of Francoism and the Civil War", co-authored with Paloma Aguilar Fernández, In: History and Memory, Vol. 14 (2002), no. 1/2, pp. 121-164.
“Skabelsen af Las dos Españas. Forestillinger om det nationale i Spanien 1808 – 1975” ("The creation of Las dos Españas. Notions of the nation in Spain 1808 - 1975"), co-authored with Ulla Grøn, In: Den Jyske Historiker, no. 91/92 (2001), pp. 77-114.
“Spansk nationalisme efter Franco” ("Spanish nationalism after Franco"), co-authored with Ulla Grøn, In: Den Jyske Historiker, no. 91/92 (2001), pp. 172-206.
“La construcción de continuidad y la representación de la historia nacional en el discurso de la prensa en el aniversario de la muerte de Franco en 1976” ("The construction of continuity and the representation of the national history in press discourse on the first anniversary of the death of Franco in 1976"), In: Amparo Álvarez et al. (editors): El siglo XX: balance y perspectivas. V congreso de La Asociación de Historia Contemporánea, Fundación Cañada Blanch, Valencia, 2000, pp. 379-388.


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