​Magdalena Zolkos

Magdalena Zolkos is Humboldt Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform (2019-2021) of the Goethe-University in Frankfurt and Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Jyväskylä University. She has researched historical trauma in culture and society in Europe and in Asia-Pacific. Her current research topic is on the repatriation of Indigenous culture heritage from European museums to communities of their origin and custodianship. She is the author of two books: Restitution and the Politics of Repair: Tropes, Imaginaries, Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and Reconciling Community and Subjective Life. Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing in the Work of Jean Améry and Imre Kértesz (Bloomsbury, 2010). She is also co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot Be Touched (Lexington, 2019).