28/11/2022 Dagblad Trouw schrijft over de discussie rond de excuses voor het slavernijverleden en vraagt zich af hoe je het wel goed kunt doen. Hoogleraar Nicole Immler ziet vaak dezelfde dingen misgaan bij het aanbieden van excuses voor historisch onrecht.
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27/11/2022 Oil and gas companies such as Shell must reckon with the past and their responsibilities in Netherlands and in Nigeria. Ukpabi writes in reaction to the decision of the four Nigerian widows who sued Shell for their alleged complicity in human rights violations in the Niger delta, to drop their case. After years of litigation they see no more options to seek redress for the ‘unavoidable consequences of the destructive logic of profit over people’.
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12/11/2022 In this article, Rianne Oosterom reconstructs how the Dutch slavery past moved from the letters page (with a letter from Volkskrant reader Roy Kaikusi Groenberg) to the front page of the public debate. Recently, the Dutch cabinet announced that it will offer formal apologies for the role of The Netherlands in the slavery past. Nicole Immler provided Oosterom with commentary on this decision.
Lees verderThe symposium was organised by Prof. Dr. Tine Destrooper, Justice Visions – Human Rights Centre (Ghent University) and Dr. Cira Palli-Aspero, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University to share insights and reflect on accountability for and recognition of (post-)colonial violence and its effects onsociety today. Nicole Immler and Niké Wentholt presented and participated in the rich […]
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Nicole L. Immler, De (Dia)Logics van Herkenning en Herstel. Het belang van geschiedenis voor rechtvaardigheid. Oratie Universiteit van Humanistic, Utrecht, 29 September 2022. Download here: https://www.uvh.nl/uvh.nl/up/ZimojduKoG_Oratie_Nicole_Immler.pdf
Lees verderIn collaboration with Peter Aers (Building Conversation), Thomas Block (Centre for Sustainable Development, UGhent) and Ellen vandenplas (UGhent) Obiozo Ukpabi facilitated a Parliament of Things with students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to reflect on and discuss urgent ecological, social and political questions and their implications for human/non-human and ‘nature’ relationships. Inspired by the […]
Lees verderHoe erken, verwerk en herstel je historisch onrecht en trauma? Van excuses tot herstelbetalingen, en van kennisverspreiding tot échte sociale gelijkwaardigheid: hoe maken we van het slavernijverleden een gedeeld verleden? Een gesprek met prof. Nicole Immler, dr. René Koekkoek (Universiteit Utrecht) en Urwin Vyent (directeur Nationaal instituut Nederlands slavernijverleden en erfenis) over excuses, erkenning en herstel. […]
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21/08/2022 On this special occasion the organisers of the commemoration wished to reflect on the question of renewal of their commemorative tradition. Why do we commemorate? And how can we do this in a way that remains relevant for a younger generation when, in future, there will be no more survivors of the atrocities to commemorate with?
Lees verderOn 29 September Nicole Immler delivered her inaugural lecture as Professor Historical Memory and Transformative Justice at University of Humanistic Studies. Download the lecture (in Dutch)‘De (Dia)Logics van Erkenning en Herstel. Het belang van geschiedenis voor rechtvaardigheid‘ in a digital booklet here: https://www.uvh.nl/uvh.nl/up/ZimojduKoG_Oratie_Nicole_Immler.pdf The inaugural lecture is also available in English here: Or watch the […]
Lees verderImmler, Nicole, Siri Driessen, Jeannette van Brenk (2022) ‘Bosnië is veranderd, terwijl wij zelf stil zijn blijven staan’, Terugkeerreis veteranen vanuit een relationeel perspectief. In: Military Spectator No 6,352-359 Read here: https://www.militairespectator.nl/thema/veteranen/artikel/%E2%80%98bosni%C3%AB-veranderd-terwijl-wij-zelf-stil-zijn-blijven-staan%E2%80%99
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