On 6 December 2024, Professor Ann Rigney was appointed Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. Rigney was awarded the Order of the Dutch Lion by Deputy Mayor Rachel Streefland, who also delivered the laudatory speech. In her address, Streefland explained that Rigney was receiving the honour for her “groundbreaking and innovative insights that extend…

We are delighted to announce the publication of Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization: Doing Memory Studies with Ann Rigney (De Gruyter, 2025) edited by Astrid Erll, Susanne Knittel, and Jenny Wüstenberg. This book is a liber amicorum as well as an invitation. It honors Ann Rigney’s achievements in chapters written by her students, colleagues, and friends. At…

Special Issue of Memory Studies. We are happy to announce the publication Remembering Activism: Explorations in the memory-activism nexus, the October 2024 special issue of the SAGE Memory Studies Journal (17:5). The special issue contains an editorial, twelve research articles and a closing commentary from an interdisciplinary team of authors that together present an array…

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…