Eirini Arampatzi, Amber Bader, Cathy Box, Dorien van Gerven, and Anouck Masse, Research Master’s Programme Comparative Literary Studies. On March 10th, the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies hosted the book launch for Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins. Towards a Transcultural Aesthetics of Postmigration and Antifascism, edited by Reindert Dhondt, Monica Jansen,…

New article by Charley Boerman and Clara Vlessing. Remediating Holodomor photography: Frames of violence in the afterlives of famine, just published in the journal Memory Studies The Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, known as the Holodomor, was denied and covered up by the USSR at the time. Since the late twentieth century, the cultural remembrance of…

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, 3-5 September 2026 The fourteenth edition of the Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform (FMSP) and will be held in person at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, from Thursday 3 September 2026 to Saturday 5 September 2026. The annual Mnemonics summer school brings together junior and…

 Thursday 29 and Friday 30 October 2026, Utrecht University Organizers: Katherina Kinzel and Robert Vinkesteijn   Conference theme Recent reconceptualizations of historicity—most notably in the work of Walter Benjamin and related thinkers—have challenged the modern ideal of progress by foregrounding historical experiences of loss and destruction. These approaches question the assumption that history unfolds as a…

We are pleased to share our December issue of the Journal of Perpetrator Research with you! This substantial issue brings together both historical examples and contemporary cases, from Nigeria to Romania, showing how the interaction of legal, extra-legal, institutional and ideological regimes and practices define perpetration of mass violence. The issue features four standalone articles,…