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…

On Thursday, November 23rd, the Cultural History Section of the Transcultural Connections Group will organize a workshop focused on exploring the similarities through space and time between practices, discourses, and images of iconoclasm, and the ways these connections can be further conceptualized today. The event will feature talks by renowned scholars in the field, who engage with…