Postdoc @UniUtrecht, @ERC_ReACT | Cultural History | Modern Literary Cultures
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Joined July 2019
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Sophie van den Elzen retweeted
Call for Papers‼️
For the Expert Meeting: Words, Contention, Memory.
💡Interested? Send a 350-word #abstract and short #bio
to [email protected] March 1st, 2022.
💻For more info, visit: rememberingactivism.eu/2022/…
#activism #protest #europe #culture #researcharticle
Sophie van den Elzen retweeted
🚩✊ New blog: "Colour: Remembrance as Resistance"
Ann Rigney looks at a 1951 mural of the murdered Belgian miner Louis Tayenne and thinks through the question "Why should the memory of activism crystallize around police violence?"
rememberingactivism.eu/2022/…
Sophie van den Elzen retweeted
First blog is up! Following the recent (global) wave of protests, Ann Rigney asks what happens when demonstrations disappear from the news and are turned into memory.
rememberingactivism.eu/2019/…
In the closing paper of #mnemoncs2019, @D_FarrellBanks discusses the emotional and ethical challenges in working on extreme right-wing memory activism @StudentsNCL @UtrechtUni
Taylor Annabell discusses how young women engage in affective memory work on social media and their emphasis on joyful moments and positive emotions #mnemonics2019 @KingsCollegeLon
For #mnemonics2019’s final panel, Taylor Annabell and @D_FarrellBanks reflect on the role of memory researchers in activism @UtrechtUni @KingsCollegeLon @StudentsNCL
#mnemonics2019 is enjoying Wulf Kansteiner’s thorough and theoretically rich third keynote on memory in right-wing politics and activism @UtrechtUni @AarhusUni
Sophie van den Elzen retweeted
Women Mobilizing Memory panel&book launch. Ayse Gul Altınay, Marianne Hirsch, Red Chidgey, and Stef Craps. This is such an inspiration for all of us. Talked much about the ways of situated feminist storytelling. Thank you.@Utrecht #mnemonics2019 #womenmobilizingmemory
Looking forward to welcoming everyone to the #mnemonics2019 conference dinner @UtrechtUni
Dr. Red Chidgey of @KingsCollegeLon offers her response to Marianne Hirsch and Ayse Gul Altinay’s Women Mobilizing Memory, inviting us to ponder ‘practicing memory’ and embracing unknowing #mnemonics2019 @UtrechtUni
Lungile Tshuma demonstrates how activists of the Mafela Trust use the power of historical photographs to reclaim public awareness for their role in the struggle for Zimbabwean independence @UniversityOfJHB @UtrechtUni
Nethanel Treves unpacks the continuous conflicts in decades of remembering the Jewish Bund by different agents and across different media #mnemonics2019 @scuolanormale
Nethanel Treves, Clara Vlessing and Lungile Tshuma explore power plays around reputations in this next panel of #mnemonics2019 by looking at the afterlives of Louise Michel, the Jewish Bund and former ZIPRA freedom fighters @UtrechtUni
Helen Makhdoumian reads together Linda Hogan’s Solar Systems and current transindigenous activism and resistance to conceptualize modes of memory transmission during ongoing political struggles #mnemonics2019 @Illinois_Alma @UtrechtUni
Ida Marie Olsen pursues the implications of the ‘cultural memory construct of the wilderness’ in contemporary novels and environmental movements for #mnemonics2019 @ResearchUGent @UtrechtUni
In #mnemonics2019’s second panel of the day, Ida Marie Olsen, Helen Makhdoumian, and @brydiekosmina discuss the mobilization of memory in environmental activism, transindigenous resistance and twenty-first century feminism @Utrechtuni
Jennifer Noji analyses how Japanese-American activists mobilize ‘incarceration memory’ to protest the current US govt. treatment of migrants at #mnemonics2019 @UtrechtUni @UCLA
