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Choice Award 2023 for Ton Robben

Professor Emeritus Ton Robben (Dept. of Anthropology) has received the prestigious 2023 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library Association for the book Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (2023, Stanford University Press) that was co-authored by Alex Hinton (Rutgers University). Based on in-depth interviews with Argentine and Cambodian perpetrators of disappearances and…

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Memory Forum Seminar with Arash Ghajarjazi

Remembering Khayyam: Episodes of Unbelief in Persian Thought I am currently in the final stages of completing a book project that I have been working on for two years, as part of the ERC project Beyond Sharia led by Prof. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. At its core, Beyond Sharia aims to explore antinomian…

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Book Presentation: Repertoires of Slavery

During this session Sarah Adams will present her book Repertoires of Slavery: Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810 (Amsterdam University Press 2023). Through the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire of Dutch abolitionist theater productions, this study prises open the conflicting ideological functions of antislavery discourse within and outside the walls of the…

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Slow Memory ECR Training School: Belgrade May 27-28, 2024

Organized by Orli Fridman and Jovan Ivanovic “Theoretical approaches to Slow Memory” The Slow Memory Cost Action invites applications from junior scholars and PhD students for our 2024 training school that will focus on “Slow Memory theory”. The training school will take place at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) in Belgrade on May 27-28. For admitted participants,…

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Book Launch: Porpora Marcasciano’s AntoloGaia

On 18 January, Italian activist Porpora Marcasciano will launch her book AntoloGaia: Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir. She will be in dialogue with Gianmaria Colpani (Gender Studies, Utrecht University), Monica Jansen (Italian Language and Culture, Utrecht University), Marijke Huisman (Cultural History, Utrecht University), and Vreer Sirenu (TGEU and Principle 17, Amsterdam). AntoloGaia AntoloGaia offers…

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