Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe

Media

  • News bulletins on KNAW report on monuments in the Netherlands on NOS news broadcast. Available here(starting at 15.15).
  • KNAW report on monuments in the Netherlands on NOS radio. Available here(starting at 42:00).
  • For an overview of different news outlets that have covered the KNAW report on monuments in the Netherlands, click here.
  • KNAW report on monuments in the Netherlands on the NOS news website. Available here.
  • Video of Ann Rigney talking about the ReAct Project and the Paris Commune. Available here.
  • Video of Duygu Erbil talking about her PhD project, which focuses on the cultural remembrance of Turkish student leader and Marxist revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş. Available here.
  • Recording of the online book launch The Visual Memory of Protest (Ann Rigney & Thomas Smits, eds, AUP, 2023). Available here.
  • Clara Vlessing, episode on the podcast “Anarchist Essays” from the Anarchism Research Group, entitled “Remembering Louise Michel: From Anarchist Assassin to Banksy Boat”. You can listen to the podcast on Spotify here.
  • Platform Frans and the Historisch Nieuwsblad (June edition, in print) published an announcement for Clara Vlessing’s thesis defense. You can find the online announcement here.
  • Ann Rigney, moderator of a panel on “Stories that Matter”, organized by World Press Photography, Amsterdam (May 13, 2023). For more information, click here or here.
  • Clara Vlessing, blog “Socialist-Suffragette, Suffragette-Socialist: Intersecting Struggles in Sylvia Pankhurst’s Life and Memory” at ZARAH Blog, March 24, 2023. For more information, click here.
  • Duygu Erbil, interview about her PhD project as part of the article “Grieken in Egypte, radicaal studenten-activisme in Turkije en atheïsme in Marokko” [Greeks in Egypt, radical student activism in Turkey and atheism in Morocco] by Joas Wagemakers. ZemZem 2023/1. To see the article, click here.
  • Ann Rigney, interview on the role of memory in the recent protest of climate activists in Lützerath: “De bezetters van Lützerath vergeleken zich met Rosa Parks, die ook ‘bleef zitten’ voor verandering. Is dat terecht?”, Trouw, 17 January, 2023. To read the interview, click here.
  • “Conference Review: Remembering Contentious Lives”, October 2022, IABA SNS Blog. To read the review, click here.
  • Ann Rigney and Stefan Poland, presentation “Capturing Memory Using Digital Tools”, at MSA Week of Virtual Events, July 2022. To watch the presentation, click here.
  • Duygu Erbil and Clara Vlessing, “Telling Stories Differently: An Interview with Clare Hemmings”, June 2022, IABA SNS Blog. To read the interview, click here.
  • Ann Rigney, online interview on “Current Issues in Memory Studies” at  Academy in Exile, May 2021. To see the interview, click here.
  • Tashina Blom, presentation at the “Housing Futures” event at the Independent School for the City, organized by the New Institute in the workshop “Collective Memory: on Documenting and Archiving Alternative Housing Strategies”. Apr. 15, 2022. For more information, click here.
  • Ann Rigney, panel presentation “Monuments and Transitions” at Bruges Triennial 2021 “TraumA”, Nov. 18, 2021 (online).
  • Michelle Caswell, PhD (UCLA), public lecture “Urgent Archives: Enacting Lilberatory Memory Work” at Utrecht University, 3 November 2021. To listen to the lecture, click here.
  • Ann Rigney, inaugural lecture Belgian Francqui Chair 2020-2021. ‘Stories in the Wild: How Public Life is Shaped by Narrative’. To see the lecture, click here.
  • Ann Rigney, interview with Siim Raie, Director General of the Estonian Heritage Board, Minevik on tänapäeva lähtepunkt (intervjuu Ann Rigney’ga). – Sirp 26 II 2021 [translated: “The Past as a Point of Orientation for the Present”]. To see the interview, click here.
  • Ann Rigney, interview on “Current Issues in Memory Studies” at the Academy in Exile, May 2021. To see the interview, click here.
  • Ann Rigney, keynote “Materializing Memory and the (Re)Making of Monuments” at conference “Quo Vadis Memory”, Tallinn University, 7 November 2020. For the lecture, click here.
  • Daniele Salerno, interview in the Latin America News Dispatch. To read the interview, click here.
  • Tashina Blom, public discussion and artist talk with photographer Bertien van Maanen on the importance of documenting feminist movements on International Women’s Day at the Stedelijk Museum for the Mama Cash Feminist Festival. March 8, 2020. For more information, click here.
  • Ann Rigney, guest speaker on the Connecting Memories Podcast “The Afterlife of Hope: how the killing of demonstrators is remembered.” All episodes are available to stream at https://anchor.fm/connectingmemories as well as on Spotify (here) and on Apple Podcasts (here). Links to listen on Breaker, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic and Google podcasts can all be found here.
  • Astrid Erll, seminar “Literary Memory Activism in an Age of Migration: The Refugee Tales” at Utrecht University, January 21, 2020. To watch the lecture, click here.
  • Tashina Blom, interview for article from the Dutch platform De Correspondent “Wat de boze boer en de klimaatactivist met elkaar gemeen hebben”. Dec. 13, 2019. To read the article, click here.
  • Tashina Blom, contribution to and featured in the exhibition “De Straat Op! 100 jaar vrouwenkiesrecht en activisme”, organised by the Atria institute on gender equality and women’s history, which was exhibited at the Amsterdam Public Library. July 28, 2019. For more information, click here.
  • Ann Rigney, guest for the discussion at Taferelen #31 “Media Making Memory” organized by FotoDok. Jan. 16, 2019. For more information, click here.
  • El Pais: El poder de las protestas, article on the ReAct project. To see the article, click here.