The project July 22 and the Negotiation of Memory studies the cultural afterlife of the terror attacks on July 22 2011 in the Norwegian society. The project focuses on the ways the tragedy is being represented and interpreted through temporary and permanent markers in public space.

The project gives special attention to the transition from the early phase, when the tragedy was processed through spontaneously created temporary memorials and unofficial markers, to the later creation of permanent and official monuments, memorials and sites commemorating the terror attacks. The relation between these two "stages of memory" is central to the project.

The project is owned by the Cultural Heritage Programme at the Department of Historical Studies, NTNU, and is financed by NTNU and the Falstad Centre. 

James E. Young, who has been collaborating closely with the research group in advising the memorial process at Utøya (Hegnhuset) and the the establishing of the July 22 Center, is awarded an honorary doctoral degree at NTNU. He will give a public lecture at Dokkhuset Thursday 15 November at 11 AM.