Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe

Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe

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26/03/2025
New publication: Remembering Contentious Lives (Duygu Erbil, Ann Rigney, Clara Vlessing, eds)
26/03/2025
New Publication: Memory and the Language of Contention, edited by Sophie van den Elzen and Ann Rigney
06/12/2024
Farewell Lecture Ann Rigney “Protest Memory and Changing the Future”
22/10/2024
Special Issue “Remembering Activism: Explorations in the memory-activism nexus”
27/05/2024
PhD defense Duygu Erbil “Remembering Deniz Gezmiş”
21/05/2024
Daniele Salerno and Marit van de Warenburg win 2024 Zumkehr Prize
17/05/2024
Publication Archiving Activism in the Digital Age (Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney, eds)
29/04/2024
Ann Rigney presents work at the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid
21/12/2023
Clara Vlessing Wins OSL Award for her PhD Thesis
08/12/2023
Meeting RNW Theory of History: “Controversial Monuments and the Changing of Mnemonic Regimes”
23/11/2023
Global Iconoclasm: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Public Statues, Human Bodies, and the Power of Monuments
20/11/2023 -
27/11/2023
Webinar on Monumental Matters with the participation of Ann Rigney
23/10/2023
Presentation of report on “Contested Monuments” by the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
19/10/2023
Sophie van den Elzen at International Institue of Social History to Celebrate Acquisition of Antiracist Archive
10/10/2023
Sophie van den Elzen at Work-in-Progress Workshop for the Handbook of Transnational Periodical Research
04/10/2023 -
06/10/2023
Ann Rigney to participate in a conference on Democratic Memory in Europe, in Madrid 4-6 October 2023
21/09/2023
Online Book Launch: The Visual Memory of Protest
03/07/2023 -
07/07/2023
ReAct Panel on Annual Memory Studies Association Conference
27/06/2023 -
29/06/2023
Duygu Erbil and Clara Vlessing to Present at Mnemonics Summer School
05/06/2023
PhD Thesis Defense by Clara Vlessing “Remembering Revolutionary Women: The Cultural Afterlives of Louise Michel, Emma Goldman and Sylvia Pankhurst”
25/05/2023
Lecture by Clara Vlessing “Remembering Emma Goldman: Writing in her Lives and Counterlives”
13/05/2023
Ann Rigney to Moderate Panel on “Stories that Matter” at World Press Photo
29/03/2023 -
31/03/2023
Conference Remembering Activism: Critical Perspectives on the Memory-Activism Nexus
16/02/2023
The Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies invites you to a talk by Prof. Dr. Željana Tunić
26/01/2023
Duygu Erbil Wins OSL Award for Best Reviewed Article
18/01/2023
Seminar with Boris Noordenbos: Weaponizing the Past: The Conspiratorial Memory Work of Putinist Propaganda
13/12/2022
Public Lecture by Katarina Schwarz: “Historical” Injustice, Contemporary Redress: The Case for Reparations for Transatlantic Enslavement
19/10/2022 -
21/10/2022
Words, Contention, Memory: Expert Meeting
06/10/2022 -
03/11/2022
Conference “Memory Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives in Dialogue”
12/09/2022 -
14/09/2022
Conference Remembering Contentious Lives
11/07/2022 -
12/07/2022
Duygu Erbil organising MSA Online Panels on Memory and Activism, Ann Rigney and Clara Vlessing moderating
07/07/2022
Ann Rigney to present the ReAct database in a panel on new methodologies during online conference of the Memory Studies Association
30/06/2022
Ann Rigney to give keynote presentation to the annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative
18/06/2022
Sophie van den Elzen presented at Memory Meets Social Movement Studies, Ruhr University Bochum
15/06/2022
Clara Vlessing presented at IABA Turku, Life Writing: Imagining the Past, Present and Future
14/06/2022
Duygu Erbil presented at IABA Turku, Life Writing: Imagining the Past, Present and Future
08/06/2022
Ann Rigney and Sophie van den Elzen presented at the inaugural meeting of the COST-Action Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change
01/06/2022
Public Lecture by Stef Craps: Ecological Mourning: Living with Loss in the Anthropocene
20/05/2022
Sophie van den Elzen presented at Grassroots Activism in History and Memory, Nottingham Trent University
19/05/2022
Clara Vlessing organised 2022 OSL PhD Day “Making Stories Work”
15/05/2022
Call for Contributions: Archiving Activism in the Digital Age
23/04/2022
Sophie van den Elzen presented at Raymond Williams Centenary Conference
03/11/2021
Public Lecture “Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work”
08/09/2021 -
10/09/2021
Ann Rigney, keynote lecture “When Monuments Matter” at the European Heritage Heads Forum in Tallinn, Sept. 9, 2021
11/06/2021
Clara Vlessing to present at OSL PhD Day 2021, The Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies
10/06/2021
Clara Vlessing to present at Sites of Feminist Memory – Remembering Suffrage in Europe and the United States of america
10/05/2021
Ann Rigney to Present Seminar Series and Inaugural Lecture Francqui Chair
06/05/2021 -
06/04/2021
Ann Rigney respondent at Columbia University’s Seminar on Cultural Memory: “Revolutionary Affects and the Archive of Memory”
19/03/2021
PhD Defence Sophie van den Elzen: How the early feminist movement strategically used the history of slavery
19/02/2021
Book Presentation: Christel N. Temple, Black Cultural Mythology with response by Ann Rigney
07/12/2020 -
09/12/2020
Online International Workshop Disappointed Hopes: Reclaiming the Promise of Resistance – University of Edinburgh, UK
04/12/2020
Ann Rigney to present at Experiencing and Remembering Cultural Trauma
11/09/2020
Duygu Erbil presents at workshop “Memory as a Dialogue? History for Young People”, Berlin, Germany
09/09/2020
Ann Rigney to present at Second ICOMOS Online Lecture: Public monuments, memory & identity: a discussion across borders
06/05/2020
CANCELLED: A public lecture by Professor W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago): Metapictures: For an Atlas of Visual Culture
21/04/2020
CANCELLED: Seminar with Chiara De Cesari: Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine
28/02/2020 -
29/02/2020
“Memory and Political Responsibility” Conference with Keynote by Ann Rigney
11/02/2020
Seminar with Stefan Berger: Memorializing an Industrial Past: by whom, for whom and how? The Ruhr area of Germany in Comparative Perspective.
21/01/2020
Seminar with Astrid Erll: Literary Memory Activism in an Age of Migration: The Refugee Tales
16/01/2020
Ann Rigney presents at Taferelen #31 – Media Making Memory
04/12/2019
Thomas Smits presented at the 2d International Conference on AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
19/11/2019
Seminar with Daniele Salerno: Where do protesters go in winter? The afterlives of masses
31/10/2019
Lecture by Ann Rigney at the University of St. Andrews, UK
29/10/2019
Seminar with Alison Ribeiro de Menezes: Tactile Translations: Re-Locating the Disappeared
18/09/2019
Lorenzo Zamponi presents at the 2019 Mnemonics Summerschool
18/09/2019 -
20/09/2019
Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school “Memory and Activism”
18/09/2019 -
20/09/2019
Tashina Blom and Clara Vlessing present at the 2019 Mnemonics summer school
09/09/2019 -
10/09/2019
Ann Rigney and Clara Vlessing present at Conference on the Afterlives of Protest, Manchester, UK
27/06/2019
Ann Rigney participates in Special Session on Memory Activism in Comparative Perspective, Madrid, Spain
13/05/2019
Tashina Blom presents at Conference Archiving Protest, Warwick, UK