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…

On 31 October 2023, the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies organized the workshop “Urban Politics of Memory and Heritage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the City as an Agent in Historical Culture”. The workshop report is now available and can be viewed below: For more information about the event, click here.

This semester, our very own Dr. Susanne Knittel has been awarded an ERC grant for her project “Ecologies of Violence: Crimes against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination”. Many congratulations to her, and we wish her all the best with this exciting new opportunity! About the Project The ongoing destruction of nature raises critical questions…

In January and February 2024, PhD student Vanessa Tautter will visit Utrecht University. Vanessa is an oral historian with research interests in memory studies, historical cultural studies, family memory, transnational history, and the history of emotions. Their PhD project at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories at the University of Brighton explores personal memories…

Speakers: Maria Grever (EUR / NL-Lab) and Ann Rigney (UU) Moderator: Pieter Huistra (UU) Please, register: huizinga@uu.nl Both speakers are members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and participated in the KNAW committee “Controversial Monuments”.  On October 23, 2023, the committee presented the report Wankele Sokkels. Omstreden Monumenten in de Openbare Ruimte (Unstable Pedestals. Contested Monuments in Public Spaces). For…