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.

Edited by Reindert Dhondt, Monica Jansen, and Maria Bonaria Urban. This volume brings together leading international experts in politics, discourse, memory, and culture to examine the complex entanglements of populism(s) and fascism(s) in political thought and cultural productions. The starting point is Argentine historian Federico Finchelstein’s assertion that the dynamics of transnational fascism and populist…

On May 15th, Utrecht University hosted the event Interfaces of Heritage and Memory: A Conversation with Sharon Macdonald and Ann Rigney, bringing together two of the most prominent figures in their respective fields to reflect on the convergences and tensions between memory studies and critical heritage studies. Moderated by Susanne Knittel and Birgit Meyer, the…