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shows how advocates for women’s rights, in the absence of their ‘own’ history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model.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

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…