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New publication! Redefining Reparations: Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair
Edited by Lorena de Vita and Constantin Goschler This edited volume offers a new interpretation of the historically momentous 1952 Wassenaar negotiations ...

New publication! Memory and the Language of Contention
Edited by Sophie van den Elzen and Ann Rigney How does language shape the memory of activism? And how do memories, of hope or of repression, inflect the ...

New publication! Remembering Contentious Lives
Edited by Duygu Erbil, Ann Rigney, and Clara Vlessing. This collection addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention ...

CfP Mnemonics 2025: Memory and Responsibility
Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2025 The thirteenth edition of the Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by the Flemish Memory Studies Network (a ...

Ann Rigney receives royal decoration for “groundbreaking insights that extend beyond academic walls”
On 6 December 2024, Professor Ann Rigney was appointed Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. Rigney was awarded the Order of the Dutch Lion by Deputy ...