Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies

Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies

Agenda

Upcoming events

Previous events

09/02/2026
Discomfort Work: Latin American Literature and the Feminicide Frame – A Seminar with Sofía Forchieri
22/01/2026
The Lives and Afterlives of Women Activists on the World Stage
04/12/2025
Ice Memory
21/11/2025
Stories, Memory, and Method: Rethinking How We Study the Past – A Workshop with David Mwambari
26/09/2025
Building Future Heritage
12/09/2025
The Art-Heritage-Religion Nexus: Global Comparisons
18/06/2025
This Is Not a Trial – Theater Performance
15/05/2025
Interfaces of Heritage and Memory: A Conversation with Sharon Macdonald and Ann Rigney
11/04/2025
UU Heritage Lecture and Dr. Albert van der Zeijden Thesis Award Ceremony
10/04/2025
Workshop Representing Violent Pasts: Museums, Colonialism and Environmental Degradation
13/03/2025
Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human
31/01/2025
Impact Network Culture, Heritage & Arts (CHAIN) Meeting
10/12/2024
The War is Not Yet Over: Runaways, Refugees, and Slavery Temporalities
10/12/2024
UU Networkshop: Un/forgetting the Past
06/12/2024
Protest Memory: How Narrating the Past Changes the Future
04/06/2024
Book Talk with Yael van der Wouden on The Safekeep
28/05/2024
Law and Property: Debates on Restitution in Spanish Early Colonial Times
27/05/2024 -
28/05/2024
Slow Memory ECR Training School: Belgrade May 27-28, 2024
04/05/2024
4 May Lecture – Remembrance in Times of Crisis
01/05/2024
Roundtable on Italian Fascist and Colonial Heritage: Past and Present
30/04/2024
Expert meeting: Protecting Cultural Heritage, Protecting People?
29/04/2024
Rethinking the Margins Series of the Fair Transitions Platform with IOS: Staging Ecocide
26/04/2024
Open Cities Reading Circle: Reading for Sudan
23/04/2024
Memory Forum Seminar with Arash Ghajarjazi
20/02/2024
Vanessa Tautter Research Talk
05/02/2024
Book Presentation: Repertoires of Slavery
18/01/2024
Book Launch: Porpora Marcasciano’s AntoloGaia
15/01/2024
Memory, Heritage and Implication: Narrating Where It Hurts
08/12/2023
Meeting RNW Theory of History: “Controversial Monuments and the Changing of Mnemonic Regimes”
23/11/2023
Global Iconoclasm: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Public Statues, Human Bodies, and the Power of Monuments
31/10/2023
Urban Politics of Memory and Heritage
16/05/2023
Book Launch – Localising Memory in Transitional Justice: The Dynamics and Informal Practices of Memorialisation after Mass Violence and Dictatorship
06/04/2023
Seminar with Reindert Dhondt: Decolonizing Heritage and Subjectivity in Gabriela Wiener’s Huaco retrato
29/03/2023 -
31/03/2023
Remembering Activism Conference: Critical Perspectives on the Memory-Activism Nexus
28/03/2023
Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side – A Conversation with Antonius Robben and Alexander Hinton
01/03/2023
Seminar with Julie Deschepper: Weaponizing Cultures. Uses of Heritage during the War in Ukraine.  
23/02/2023
Historical Concert Revolution! Songs and Politics from the Musical Memory of the Netherlands
16/02/2023
Talk by Prof. Dr. Željana Tunić: Protest Movement “Justice for David” in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between Private Forensic Investigation, Public Mourning and Political Activism 
16/02/2023
Distinguished Lecture by Rodney Harrison: Rethinking Heritage and Museums in and for the Climate Emergency
18/01/2023
Seminar with Boris Noordenbos: Weaponizing the Past: The Conspiratorial Memory Work of Putinist Propaganda
13/12/2022
Public Lecture by Katarina Schwarz: “Historical” Injustice, Contemporary Redress: The Case for Reparations for Transatlantic Enslavement
14/11/2022
Seminar with David Henig
19/10/2022 -
21/10/2022
Words, Contention, Memory: Expert Meeting
06/10/2022 -
03/11/2022
Memory Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives in Dialogue
20/09/2022
Public Lecture by Andreas Huyssen: Political Memory Art in the Global South
12/09/2022 -
14/09/2022
Remembering Contentious Lives
01/06/2022
Public Lecture by Stef Craps: Ecological Mourning: Living with Loss in the Anthropocene
26/05/2022
Launch of Deana Heath’s Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India
23/05/2022
Public Lecture by Karunika Kardak: Opening up the Archive: History, Memory and Fiction in Contemporary Uruguay
31/03/2022
Launch of Eva Mona Altmann’s Das Unsagbare Verschweigen
22/03/2022 -
23/03/2022
Interdisciplinary and international conference: Wassenaar, 1952: Re-Inventing Reparations
16/12/2021
Public Lecture by prof. Federico Finchelstein: On Why the History from the Margins is Central to Fascism and Populism
14/12/2021 -
16/12/2021
KNIR Colloquium: “Us versus Them. Exploring Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins”
03/11/2021
Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work
08/06/2021
Seminar with Sakiru Adebayo: Ethics and Transnationality of Memory
19/11/2019
Seminar with Daniele Salerno: Where Do Protesters Go in Winter? The Afterlives of Masses.
29/10/2019
Seminar with Alison Ribeiro de Menezes: Tactile Translations: Re-Locating the Disappeared.
20/09/2019
Keynote Lecture by Wulf Kansteiner: Memory, Right-Wing Politics, and the European Election of 2019.
19/09/2019
Mnemonics Keynote Lecture by Marianne Hirsch and Ayşe Gül Altınay: Women Mobilizing Memory: Stories of Feminist Co-Resistance.
18/09/2019
Mnemonics Keynote Lecture by Lorenzo Zamponi: Memory in Action. Reflections on the Role of the Past in Social Movements.
11/02/2019
Seminar with Stefan Berger: Memorializing an Industrial Past: By Whom, for Whom and How? The Ruhr Area of Germany in Comparative Perspective.
21/01/2019
Seminar with Astrid Erll: Literary Memory Activism in an Age of Migration: The Refugee Tales.
26/11/2018
Seminar with Hanna-Leena Nissilä: Forced Migration in Finland during and after WWII
19/11/2018
Seminar with Rosanne Kennedy: Locating Multidirectonal Memory: The Productive Frictions of Holocaust Remembrance from Australia to Shanghai
04/04/2018
Public Lecture by Clemens Maier-Wolthausen: Berlin Zoo under the Sign of the Swastika: Animals, Ideology, and the Politics of Memory
04/12/2017
Seminar with Stijn Vervaet: Transnational Memory in the Balkans.
27/11/2017
Seminar with Astrid Erll: ‘Homer’ – A History of Relational Memory.
28/06/2017
Research Seminar on Playing Memory.
22/05/2017
Seminar with Debarati Sanyal: Poetics of Detention Framing the Refugee ‘Crisis’.
09/04/2017
Seminar with Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier: Performances of Memory in Post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia. Images, Archives, and Bodies in Transition.
22/03/2017 -
24/03/2017
Workshop: Mirroring Evil Revisited (In cooperation with the Perpetrator Studies Network).
26/02/2017
Seminar with Nicole Immler: Whose Memory, Whose Justice? Memory Studies Transitional Justice.
21/02/2017 -
22/02/2017
Workshop Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation.
10/01/2017
Seminar with Christoph Kreutzmüller: Exhibiting Photos of the Holocaust.
10/11/2016 -
12/11/2016
Workshop: Teaching about Perpetrators: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (In cooperation with the Perpetrator Studies Network)
23/09/2016
Masterclass with Michael Rothberg: From Multidirectional Memory to the Implicated Subject (In cooperation with the Huizinga Institute, AHM, and KNHG)
02/09/2016
Film Screening: Hate Radio and Talk Milo Rau (In cooperation with the Perpetrator Studies Network)
01/09/2016
Staged Reading: The Woman at His Side (In cooperation with the Perpetrator Studies Network)
31/08/2016 -
03/09/2016
Representing Perpetrators of Mass Violence (In cooperation with the Perpetrator Studies Network)
06/07/2016 -
09/07/2016
Topographies of Memory in an Uneven World. ACLA Seminar
06/07/2016 -
09/07/2016
Ambivalent Affect: Perpetration in Contemporary Representations of the Holocaust. ACLA Seminar
12/06/2016
Mediated Testimony Symposium
17/01/2016
Staged Reading: If the Whole Body Dies (In cooperation with the Perpetrator Studies Network)
16/01/2016
Writing History for the Stage: Raphael Lemkin and the Treaty against Genocide. A Talk by Robert Skloot (In cooperation with the Perpetrator Studies Network)
10/12/2015
Seminar with Dirk Moses: The Modern Imagination and the Vocabulary of Transgression
05/11/2015
Screening of Los Caminos de la memoria (2009) and Seminar with Francisco Ferrándiz
28/10/2015
Ananya Jahanara Kabir on Archive-Repertoires of Memory: Notes on Postcolonial Remembering, Forgetting, and Memorialising
08/10/2015
Reenacting Genocide: A Seminar with Vanessa Agnew
10/09/2015 -
12/09/2015
Workshop: Teaching about Perpetrators: Documents, Media, Representations (In cooperation with The Perpetrator Studies Network)
19/05/2015
Workshop: Memory, Posthumanism, and the Anthropocene
28/04/2015 -
30/04/2015
Workshop: Teaching about Perpetrators: Theories, Concepts, Approaches (In cooperation with The Perpetrator Studies Network)
25/04/2015
Hijacking Human Rights: A Seminar with Joseph Slaughter(In cooperation with the Utrecht Comparative Literature Seminar)
14/04/2015
Jokes, War, and Genocide. The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Seminar with Damir Arsenijević
15/03/2015
Why Look at Perpetrators? A Seminar with Kjell Anderson, Ugur Ümit Üngör, and Susanne C. Knittel
10/03/2015
Workshop: Discovering the Past with Augmented Reality Apps
11/02/2015
Material Memories of Empire: Coming to Terms with German Colonialism. A Seminar with Britta Schilling
11/12/2014
Seminar with Alec Badenoch: ‘Reassembling the Memory Box? Transnational Radio Encounters in the Age of Digital Heritage’
03/11/2014
Seminar with Andrew Hoskins: ‘The Right to be Forgotten in Post-Scarcity Culture’
04/06/2014
Seminar with Paloma Aguilar-Fernández: ‘Arduous Tasks and Risky Labours’
12/05/2014
Seminar with Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz: ‘Debating Perpetrator Histories: The Counter-Monument in Transnational Context’