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- Rethinking the Margins Series of the Fair Transitions Platform with IOS: Staging Ecocide
Speaker: Dr. Susanne KnittelDiscussant: Dr. Luísa Netto Ecocide raises fundamental questions regarding the way we think about guilt, liability and the duty of care. How do we determine who is responsible and how … Read more - Open Cities Reading Circle: Reading for Sudan
This event is organized by UFMS member Nermin Elsherif On April 15th, 2023, the clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in Sudan, leading … Read more - Roundtable on Italian Fascist and Colonial Heritage: Past and Present
Speakers: Dr. Roberta Biasillo – Utrecht University (uu.nl) (Assistant Professor in contemporary political history, Dept of History and Art History); Dr. Maria Bonaria Urban (Director of Studies in History at the KNIR; … Read more - Memory Forum Seminar with Arash Ghajarjazi
Remembering Khayyam: Episodes of Unbelief in Persian Thought I am currently in the final stages of completing a book project that I have been working on for two years, as part of … Read more - Book Presentation: Repertoires of Slavery
During this session Sarah Adams will present her book Repertoires of Slavery: Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810 (Amsterdam University Press 2023). Through the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire … Read more - Slow Memory ECR Training School: Belgrade May 27-28, 2024
Organized by Orli Fridman and Jovan Ivanovic “Theoretical approaches to Slow Memory” The Slow Memory Cost Action invites applications from junior scholars and PhD students for our 2024 training school that will focus on … Read more - Book Launch: Porpora Marcasciano’s AntoloGaia
On 18 January, Italian activist Porpora Marcasciano will launch her book AntoloGaia: Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir. She will be in dialogue with Gianmaria Colpani (Gender Studies, Utrecht University), Monica … Read more - Vanessa Tautter Research Talk
On February 20th, visiting scholar Vanessa Tautter will give a talk about their current PhD project. The event is open to all and no registration is necessary. For more information, see below. … Read more - Meeting RNW Theory of History: “Controversial Monuments and the Changing of Mnemonic Regimes”
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 … Read more - Global Iconoclasm: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Public Statues, Human Bodies, and the Power of Monuments
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, … Read more - Memory, Heritage and Implication: Narrating Where It Hurts
A conversation with artist duo Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill. Moderated by Susanne C. Knittel. On 15 January 2024 we are delighted to welcome Dutch-American documentary filmmakers and creative producers Eline Jongsma … Read more - Urban Politics of Memory and HeritageA report of the workshop is available here: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the City as an Agent in Historical Culture. 1-Day Workshop at Utrecht University 31 October 2023, Drift 21, room 005 This … Read more
- Book Launch – Localising Memory in Transitional Justice: The Dynamics and Informal Practices of Memorialisation after Mass Violence and DictatorshipIn this session, we will be discussing Localising Memory in Transitional Justice: The Dynamics and Informal Practices of Memorialisation after Mass Violence and Dictatorship, edited by Mina Rauschenbach, Julia Viebach and Stephan … Read more
- Seminar with Julie Deschepper: Weaponizing Cultures. Uses of Heritage during the War in Ukraine. Heritage is always an instrument. In times of war, it becomes a weapon. Its alteration or destruction, while possibly being collateral, incidental, or inadvertent, is often part of broader strategies: this is … Read more
- Remembering Activism Conference: Critical Perspectives on the Memory-Activism NexusAgenda What happens to social movements when their momentum ebbs away, the streets are emptied and campaigning ceases? They become memory. At the core of the Remembering Activism research project at Utrecht … Read more
- Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side – A Conversation with Antonius Robben and Alexander HintonDiscussants: Iva Vukusic and Abram de Swaan In a groundbreaking book, Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (Stanford University Press 2023), Ton Robben and Alexander Hinton discuss what it means to study perpetrators of genocide … Read more
- Distinguished Lecture by Rodney Harrison: Rethinking Heritage and Museums in and for the Climate EmergencyReading Group – Heritage Futures Friday 17th , 10.00-11.30am We will discuss one of Rodney Harrison’s chapters: “Heritage as a Future Making Practice” (open access). Rsvp at: j.c.deschepper@uu.nl
- Historical Concert Revolution! Songs and Politics from the Musical Memory of the NetherlandsLiederen zijn verweven met kantelmomenten in de geschiedenis. Ze spelen een grote rol bij sociale protesten en revoluties. Denk aan de liederen die het actuele verzet tegen het Iraanse regime begeleiden, het … Read more
- Talk by Prof. Dr. Željana Tunić: Protest Movement “Justice for David” in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between Private Forensic Investigation, Public Mourning and Political Activism The death of one student under unclear circumstances in the northern Bosnian city of Banja Luka gained public resonance after the father of the deceased privately initiated a forensic investigation showing the … Read more
- Seminar with Reindert Dhondt: Decolonizing Heritage and Subjectivity in Gabriela Wiener’s Huaco retratoContemporary decolonial thought questions the role museums have played and continue to play in the constitution of the Eurocentric aesthetic and epistemic order that characterizes the ‘modern/colonial’ world system. Both ethnographic and … Read more