On 10 April 2025, more than 30 scholars, artists, curators and museum educators within the fields of cultural memory, museums and cultural heritage came together in Utrecht to address the representation of colonial and ecological violence in museums. The workshop titled “Representing Violent Pasts: Museums, Colonialism and Environmental Degradation” was co-organized by the Utrecht Memory…

Edited by Lorena de Vita and Constantin Goschler This edited volume offers a new interpretation of the historically momentous 1952 Wassenaar negotiations between representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, and the Jewish Claims Conference to negotiate reparations, compensation, and restitution in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Wassenaar 1952 marked the first time that…

Edited by Sophie van den Elzen and Ann Rigney How does language shape the memory of activism? And how do memories, of hope or of repression, inflect the language used by social movements in the present day? This edited volume, featuring international scholars across literary and cultural studies, anthropology, legal studies, and linguistics, shows how…

Edited by Duygu Erbil, Ann Rigney, and Clara Vlessing. This collection addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? How is life writing, as an act of cultural remembrance, used in activism? Building on cutting-edge scholarship on the socio-political potential of narrating lived experience, this volume…

Ghent, Belgium, 10-12 September 2025 The thirteenth edition of the Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by the Flemish Memory Studies Network (a collaboration of memory scholars at Ghent University and KU Leuven) and will be held in person in Ghent, Belgium, from Wednesday 10 September 2025 to Friday 12 September 2025. The annual Mnemonics…