Kirsten Mahlke, Universität Konstanz. Abstract: Discussions surrounding restitution not only involve colonial artifacts housed in museums. They also delve into emotive realms, tackling issues of cultural identity, interpretive sovereignty, land and rights, property and self-determination. This talk aims to address these questions. They are part and parcel of the long colonial history, since the debate…

On 30 April, an expert meeting on heritage and conflict in Ukraine and beyond takes place at Utrecht University. The session aims to draw light to the relationship between communities’ well-being and the protection of cultural heritage. It is organised in light of the 70th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection…

What defines how we commemorate? With historian Dr Lorena de Vita. On May 4 we remember all victims who have been killed or murdered in the Kingdom of the Netherlands or anywhere else in the world in war situations or during peace-keeping operations since the outbreak of WWII. But who or what is on your…

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 do we hold them to account? How do we acknowledge human and non-human victims? What is the power of a legal concept such…

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; Senior lecturer in Italian Studies, University of Amsterdam) Respondents: Dr. Britta Schilling (Associate Professor, Dept of History and Art History, Cultural History); Dr….