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The CFR seminar 2009 will be held in Oslo, Norway with the theme Families and Memories June 15 to 17, 2009. The seminar is a co-arrangement between Oslo University College and the Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities (HL-center) and will take place at Villa Grande on the Bygdøy penincula – the museum area in Oslo. Villa Grande which now hosts the HL-center was the perpetrator Vidkun Quisling’s private estate during the war.

Families construct memories as well as memories constitute families. Each family member creates different stories and biographical narratives. At the same time these stories are related to each other and there is a collectiveness in the memory-making within a family. Memories are crucial both for the development of individual and collective identities, and they are framed by discourses such as national master narratives.