Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies

Agenda

Upcoming events

13 December 2022, 16:00 - 18:00

Public Lecture by Katarina Schwarz: “Historical” Injustice, Contemporary Redress: The Case for Reparations for Transatlantic Enslavement

The movement for reparations for transatlantic enslavement ties past, present, and future together in a call for recognition, reckoning, and reformation. ...

18 January 2023, 17:15 - 19:00

Seminar with Boris Noordenbos: Weaponizing the Past: The Conspiratorial Memory Work of Putinist Propaganda

In the context of the current war, commentators frequently point to the Kremlin’s ludicrous vilifications of Ukrainians, as brutal ‘fascists,’ rabid ...

Previous events

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.