Katja Ekman

My current doctoral research focuses on the fields of theology and memory studies. In my thesis, I am more specifically examinging theological approaches to traumatic collective memories within the German and the South African context respectively. Here, I mainly engage with the German catholic scholar Johann Baptist Metz and the South African reformed theologian Robert Vosloo. 

I am interested in the notions of collective and cultural memory and trauma, and how categories as victim and perpetrator dictate the memory and trauma discourse. Theologically, I bring these considerations in discussion with the concepts of shame and hope. I view these as connected in the traumatic founding event of Christianity, the Easter narrative, that lies at the heart of the Christian memory.