MSc. Emma Arnold

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- emma.arnold@savba.sk
- 02 / 5296 4707, ext. 108
- collective memory and communicative memory, migration, transnational families, cultural politics of emotion, 20th-century communities
- Emma Arnold earned a master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In her thesis, she focused on migration and explored how the street as a public space becomes a site of embodied or suppressed memory—particularly in the context of migration, political change, and the cultural politics of emotion. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v. v. i., where she studies the memory of migration from former Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989. Her work examines how these experiences are preserved and transmitted within Slovak transnational families, with a focus on gendered narratives and the ways in which the stories of individuals and communities of the 20th century become part of communicative and collective memory.