The 2024 Zumkehr Prize for Scholarship in Public Memory has been awarded to Daniele Salerno (Memorights) and Marit van de Warenburg (ReACT, current PhD student) of Utrecht University in The Netherlands. They earn both a $2000 prize and an invitation to share their work in a lecture at Ohio University during the 2024-25 academic year. The…

The open access collected volume on Archiving Activism in the Digital Age, edited by Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney, with the Institute for Network Cultures (Amsterdam) is out now! Copies of the book in PDF form can be downloaded directly by following this link: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/archiving-activism-in-the-digital-age/. Free hard copies are also available on a first come…

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…