Check out the latest special issue of Journal of Perpetrator Research, emerging from the conference “Reflections on the Boundaries of Perpetrator Studies: Looking at Violence, Politics, and Harm” (26–27 June 2024, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium). The conference was organized by Dr Margaux Coquet (Université de Luxembourg), Dr Marie-Sophie Devresse (Université de Louvain), Prof. Damien…

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…

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Elzen shows how advocates for women’s rights, in the absence of their ‘own’ history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model.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…