The Cultural Afterlives of Louise Michel, Emma Goldman and Sylvia Pankhurst By Clara Vlessing. Remembering Revolutionary Women considers the afterlives of individual revolutionary women and proposes that to understand how they are remembered requires a focus on the active role of remembering subjects and the groups they form; not only asking how memory persists but also why – what motivates…

Memory Work and the Legacy of Abolitionism By Sophie van den Elzen. In this book, Sophie van den Elzen shows how advocates for women’s rights, in the absence of their ‘own’ history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model. Through a detailed analysis of a wide range of sources produced over the…

By Ann Rigney. How are social movements remembered and how does that memory impact later mobilizations? Does the memory of earlier defeats inspire or inhibit civil resistance? How does forgetting figure in these dynamics? In Remembering Hope, Ann Rigney examines the role of storytelling in transferring hope in social transformation from one generation of activists to…

Gathering of the Sectorplan Sub-Theme Material and Immaterial Heritage

Interdisciplinary research workshop organized by Erik Meinema in the context of his NWO Veni-project Art, Religion, or Heritage? in cooperation with the Memory and Heritage Network at Utrecht University.