ERC-funded project @UniUtrecht ‘Remembering Hope: The Cultural Memory of Activism in Europe’ directed by Ann Rigney
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Joined February 2019
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📢 New Special Issue!
Memory Studies Vol. 17, Issue 5 is co-edited by Samuel Merrill & MSA President-Elect Ann Rigney. It explores how memory and activism intersect in diverse movements.
🔗Check it out: bit.ly/48hluQK
Some articles are open-access!
#MemoryStudies
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Happy to have contributed to this great #openaccess collection on the The Visual #Memory of #Protest (@AmsterdamUPress) edited by Ann Rigney & Thomas Smits with a chapter called: Memory, Iconicity and Virality in Action: Exploring Protest Photos Online aup.nl/en/book/9789048555475…
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ReAct is organizing the conference "Critical Perspectives on the Memory-Activism Nexus".
📅29-31 March
Everyone interested is warmly invited to attend.
No registration necessary.
👇Details and programme here👇 rememberingactivism.eu/2023/…
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Climate activists in Lützerath compare themselves to Rosa Parks. But is that right? 👇
trouw.nl/verdieping/de-bezet…
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Come join us for a reading group session on the new Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism! The meeting will take place on Zoom Friday January 27 between 15:00 and 16:30, UTC+1. Everyone is welcome! groups.memorystudiesassociat…
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For everyone interested in memory, activism and incendiary rhetoric, join us tomorrow at the Sweelinckzaal @UniUtrecht @HumanitiesUU and spread the word.
@CulturalHistUU @MemStudiesAssoc @OslNl @HuizingaInstit
Join us 19-21 October for an expert meeting on "Words, Contention, Memory"✍️✊
The meeting is open to all friends and members of Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies. Keynotes by Tamar Katriel and Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill.
👇Details and programme
rememberingactivism.eu/2022/…
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More reasons why memory scholars should be writing about the political appropriation of activist memory:
In one of the most absurdly cynical co-optations of racial justice politics imaginable, the CIA just unveiled a statue of Harriet Tubman at their HQ in Langley, "honoring" her as an "intelligence pioneer." cia.gov/stories/story/honori…
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Are you excited for #MSA2023 in Newcastle? Due to the high number of requests & expressions of interest (🙌), we are extending the deadline for submissions until Monday 17th October ❗️ Re-read the Call for Papers & prepare your conference paper NOW! msa2023newcastle.dryfta.com/…
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This afternoon's kick-arse keynote was from Anna Poletti "'Can the Monster Speak' ventriloquism and voice in trans activist life writing" - no live tweeting coz battery issues but im definitely gonna check out more of their work #memoryactivism
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And finally, the fabulous Duygu Erbil and Clara Vlessing who have done the heavy lifting of organising this conference, are doing a shared presentation (despite their very different PhD subjects) on 'The Speaker as a Model of Radical Subjectivity' #memoryactivism
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The #MSA Seventh Annual Conference is getting closer! Submit your paper on the theme of "Communities and Change" now, and join us in Newcastle, UK, from July 3–7, 2023. 📝
🕑 The final deadline for submissions will be Monday 3 October 2022.
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📢 @UniUtrecht is hosting the conference “Remembering Contentious Lives”, exploring the relationship between memory, activism and life writing.
🗓️Date: 12-14 september
📍Location: Sweelinckzaal, Utrecht University
rememberingactivism.eu/2021/…
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Ongoing Call for Host Institutions ! 🗣
The MSA is looking for institutions across the world that would like to provide a place of academic refuge including matching funds or equivalent in-kind assistance ➡️
memorystudiesassociation.org…
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Register now for Andreas Huyssen's upcoming online lecture "Political Memory Art in the Global South"! This lecture is organised by Utrecht Forum for Memory studies.
🔸Date: 20 September 2022
🔸Time: 17:00 - 18:30 CET
🔸Location: Online
utrechtmemorystudies.nl/2022…
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👥The #2022WeekofVirtualEvents continues with the MSA groups’ panels! Starting now till tomorrow 10 pm CET, they organise 24 sessions on specific and various themes all related to #memory 🤩 Don’t forget to check the programme and join us 👇
memorystudiesassociation.org…
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After just finishing Ann Rigney's extremely interesting take on "Capturing Memory Using Digital Tools", we move on to Jie-Hyun Lim's presentation on critical relativisation and radical juxtaposition 🎉
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🎉Join us for our 2022 Week of Virtual Events! From July 4 till July 8, the MSA organizes its annual conference. 5 days, 5 panels on #memory, all related to very actual themes: #climate, #genderedviolence… Check the program and register 👇 memorystudiesassociation.org…
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🗣️ New interview on the IABA SNS blog!
IABA's Duygu Erbil and @cvlessing talked to Professor Clare Hemmings about life writing, storytelling, feminist icons and more...
iabasns.wordpress.com/catego…
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If you are a member of The MSA you can now access our new group sites! 🧑🤝🧑 memorystudiesassociation.org…
Once you have created an account, view the groups' sites at groups.memorystudiesassociat…, and 'sign up' to be a member of the different groups via the "My Account" page ✨
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Vorige week is hoogleraar Algemene literatuurwetenschap Ann Rigney officieel geïnstalleerd als Honorary Member van de Royal Irish Academy (@RIAdawson), de Ierse equivalent van de KNAW. @ERC_ReACT @UniUtrecht uu.nl/nieuws/ann-rigney-form…