Person

Reader, Researcher
- Media History
- Department of Communication and Media
Contact information
E-mail sune.bechmann_pedersenkom.luse
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 117, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Phone +46 46 222 84 89
Room SOL:A231
I am Associate Professor in History and Researcher at Media History, Department of Communication and Media. My current research focuses on international mobility in Cold War Europe, European integration and visual culture. In the project "Holidays behind the Iron Curtain", I study the politics and practices of western tourism to Communist Europe, e.g. in diplomatic negotiations, holiday photography and guidebooks. In previous projects I studied cinema and memories of the communist past in Germany and the Czech Republic.
I am the coordinator of the research platform DigitalHistory@Lund, Reviews Editor of the Journal of Tourism History, co-editor of Tourism and Travel during the Cold War (Routledge 2019) and co-author of The History of the European Travel Commission 1948-2018 (ETC 2018).
EDUCATION
PhD in History, Lund University, 2015
MA in History with distinction, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 2009
BA in History, University of Copenhagen, 2006
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- DigitalHistory @ Lund (research leader)
- The Gateway Guide: A Transnational Book & Tourism History, 1950-1975 (research leader)
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications
PEER-REVIEWER FOR
Cold War History, Media History, Food & History, Scandia, Lychnos, Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, Journal of Tourism History, History of Intellectual Culture
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
Mobility and Leisure Travel in the Cold War, Centre for European Research, University of Gothenburg 7-8 December 2017.
Crossing the Iron Curtain: Tourism and Travelling in the Cold War, Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies, University of Amsterdam, 7-8 April 2017.
COURSES PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT
- Historisk fagdidaktik
- Digital History: Media and Methods in Theory and Practice
- What is Central and Eastern Europe: history, ideas, culture and identities
- History of Modern Tourism
- Historieformidling med formidlingsteori
- Film och historia
- Media and Armed Conflict - Past and Present
- 1989: Revolution och reformer
- Katastrofernas århundrade

Reader, Researcher
- Media History
- Department of Communication and Media
Contact information
E-mail sune.bechmann_pedersenkom.luse
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 117, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
Phone +46 46 222 84 89
Room SOL:A231