Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies

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Ann Rigney

co-convenor

Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication Utrecht University

Keywords: Cultural memory theory, Narrative, Social movements, Memory activism, Monuments

Susanne Knittel

co-convenor

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University

Keywords: Sites of memory; Holocaust memory; Perpetrators; Complicity; Genocide and Ecocide

Ton Robben

Professor of Cultural Anthropology, department of Social Sciences Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Utrecht University

Keywords: Memory and Trauma in Argentina; Reconstructing Cities After Bombing; Necropolitics

Judith Keilbach

Associate Professor of Television Studies, Media and Culture Studies Department Utrecht University

Keywords: Media and Memory; Holocaust Memory

Ido de Haan

Professor of Political History, Department of History and Art History Utrecht University

Keywords: Holocaust memory; Reconstruction after large-scale violence

Lorena de Vita

Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations at Utrecht University

Keywords: Holocaust memory; Diplomatic history; International relations

Anna Poletti

Associate Professor of English Language and Culture

Keywords:  Life narrative; Digital storytelling; Testimony

Monica Jansen

Assistant Professor of Italian Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University

Keywords: Transnational Italies: Memory and mobility cultures; Cultural memories of protest in Italy

Alec Badenoch

Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University—HERA-project “Transnational Radio Encounters (TRE)”

Keywords: Audiovisual memory in postcolonial contexts; Digital heritage and transnational memory

Britta Schilling

Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University

Keywords: Colonial memory and postcolonial heritage

Reindert Dhondt

Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at Utrecht University

Keywords:  Memory cultures in Latin America

Christian Wicke

Assistant Professor of Political History at Utrecht University

Keywords: Politics of history; Memory and urban movements

Sophie van den Elzen

Post-Doctoral Researcher at Utrecht University

Keywords: Memory and activism; Language

Tashina Blom

PhD Candidate at Utrecht University

Keywords:  Memory and activism; Slogans and tactics

Duygu Erbil

PhD Candidate at Utrecht University

Keywords: Memory and activism; Life narratives

Clara Vlessing

Docent at Utrecht University

Keywords: Memory and activism; Life narratives

Daniele Salerno

Post-Doctoral Researcher at Utrecht University

Keywords: Memory and activism; LGBT+ memory

David Henig

Associate Professor at Utrecht University

Keywords: Death and mourning; History and memory; Reckoning; Slow violence; Wastes of war; Yugoslav wars

Renée Vulto

Lecturer in Cultural History at Utrecht University

Keywords: Memory and collective identities; Political song cultures

Julie Deschepper

Assistant Professor in Heritage and Museum Studies at Utrecht University 

Keywords: Critical heritage studies; (Post)Soviet heritage; Contested monuments; Iconoclasm; Material culture 

Michela Borzaga

Assistant Professor at Utrecht University

Keywords: Cultural trauma theory; (Post)colonial memory studies; Anti-mafia and anti-globalized crime memorials; time; Memory and narrative

Marit van de Warenburg

PhD candidate at Utrecht University

Keywords: Memory and activism; (Protest) songs and poetry

Diantha Vliet

Assistant Professor of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University 

Keywords: Media & memory; Memory as politics; Postcolonial heritage; Vernacular Narratives; Black Studies 

Sarah Adams

Assistant Professor of Modern Dutch Literature, Utrecht University

Keywords: Literature; Popular culture; Cultural identity; Slavery memory and heritage

Nermin Elsherif

Assistant Professor of Screen Cultures and Heritage, Utrecht University

Keywords: Nostalgia, Digital Memory, Popular Memory, Postcolonial theory, Arab World, Middle East, Social Movements