How does language shape the memory of activism? And how do memories, of hope or of repression, inflect the language used by social movements in the present day? This edited volume, featuring international scholars across literary and cultural studies, anthropology, legal studies, and linguistics, shows how memories of activism live in the medium of language….

How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? How is life writing, as an act of cultural remembrance, used in activism? Building on cutting-edge scholarship on the socio-political potential of narrating lived experience, this edited volume addresses these inter-related questions. In doing so, it offers life-writing as a new point…

The 2024 Zumkehr Prize for Scholarship in Public Memory has been awarded to Daniele Salerno (Memorights) and Marit van de Warenburg (ReACT)  of Utrecht University in The Netherlands. They earn both a $2000 prize and an invitation to share their work in a lecture at Ohio University during the 2024-25 academic year.   The Zumkehr…

The open access collected volume on Archiving Activism in the Digital Age, edited by Daniele Salerno and Ann Rigney, with the Institute for Network Cultures (Amsterdam) is out now!     Copies of the book in PDF form can be downloaded directly by following this link: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/archiving-activism-in-the-digital-age/. Free hard copies are also available on a…

This semester, our very own Dr. Susanne Knittel has been awarded an ERC grant for her project “Ecologies of Violence: Crimes against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination”. Many congratulations to her, and we wish her all the best with this exciting new opportunity!         About the Project The ongoing destruction of…

David Beorlegui, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Basque Country (EHU), will be joining the ReAct team as a visiting researcher in the period September-November 2020. David’s research deals with the analysis of the radical movements, subjectivities, and temporalities that emerged in Spain and Western Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Theoretically, his…

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Her talk is entitled ‘The Afterlife of Hope: how the killing of demonstrators is remembered.’ In her presentation and in the discussion that follows, Ann Rigney talks about cultural memory in connection with activism and social movements as well as ways of moving away from thinking about the past primarily in terms of trauma. As the podcast…

Article on our project in El Pais. https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/06/23/actualidad/1561300389_026914.html?rel=mas