The ongoing destruction of the natural world raises critical questions about responsibility. How do we remember the victims, both human and non-human? And how do we negotiate the difficult question of who is to blame, especially in situations where we are all in one way or another implicated? Contemporary culture plays a crucial role in…

Marit van de Warenburg is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry and a member of the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies. Her project “When heritage becomes contested: Transcultural Appropriations of Poetry and Song” is funded by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO). The project regards the conditions under which the cultural…

NITMES (Network in Transnational Memory Studies) was a collaborative project among some of the leading scholars in cultural memory studies that ran from 2012 to 2015.The Network was initiated by Professor Ann Rigney of Utrecht University. The project’s goal was to intensify collaboration between a number of key players in the field of cultural memory studies…

Daniele Salerno is a Marie-Curie Fellow (2019-2023) associated with the ReAct group. His research entails a comparative study of the role of cultural memory in LGBTQ activism in the Netherlands, Argentina, and Italy. Since the Stonewall riots in New York (1969) and the marches organized to mark its anniversary, LGBT uses of cultural memory in activism…

Mass demonstrations make the headlines. But how are they remembered when they are no longer news? And how does the cultural memory of earlier movements play into later ones? In Remembering Activism (ReAct), we address these questions. We focus on how the memory of civil resistance has been produced in documentaries, memoirs, commemorations, archiving projects…