In this session, we will be discussing Localising Memory in Transitional Justice: The Dynamics and Informal Practices of Memorialisation after Mass Violence and Dictatorship, edited by Mina Rauschenbach, Julia Viebach and Stephan Parmentier (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022). For more information, click here. The book seeks to make sense of practices of commemoration and memorialisation of various…

Heritage is always an instrument. In times of war, it becomes a weapon. Its alteration or destruction, while possibly being collateral, incidental, or inadvertent, is often part of broader strategies: this is the case in the current war in Ukraine where a certain heritage is targeted, deliberately, by Russian forces. Heritage is used as a tool not…

Agenda What happens to social movements when their momentum ebbs away, the streets are emptied and campaigning ceases? They become memory. At the core of the Remembering Activism research project at Utrecht University is the claim  that protests have afterlives in the stories that are later told about them with the help of texts, images,…

London, UK, 27-29 June 2023 The eleventh Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by King’s College London, the University of Westminster, and Goldsmiths, University of London from Tuesday 27 to Thursday 29 June 2023, and will take place on-site at King’s College London and the Regent’s Street Campus of the University of Westminster (with some panels…

Discussants: Iva Vukusic and Abram de Swaan In a groundbreaking book, Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (Stanford University Press 2023), Ton Robben and Alexander Hinton discuss what it means to study perpetrators of genocide and mass violence. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in Argentina and Cambodia, Robben and Hinton reflect not only on how researchers deal with…