14/4/2026 ‘Hoe kunnen we luisteren naar Groningen?’ – Podcast Trage Vragen
In this episode of Trage Vragen, a podcast from the University for Humanistic Studies, Limor Reshef talks with Joop van Wijnen about the question: How can we listen to Groningen? Can spiritual care contribute to recognition and recovery in a failing system?
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Professor Nicole Immler has recently joined the board of the Keti Koti Tafel Foundation. With her expertise, she strengthens the further substantive development of the foundation, at the intersection of historical awareness and contemporary societal issues.
Read moreRelational approaches have become increasingly prominent in the social sciences and humanities, resulting in the so-called ‘relational turn’ (Dépelteau 2013). Rather than focusing on isolated actors or events, such approaches seek to understand phenomena through their relations: between people, practices, institutions, histories, and systems of power. But what does it mean to work relationally in research? Dialogics […]
Read moreOn Friday 23 January, the Oral History Network of the Huizinga Institute hosted an inspiring gathering at University Utrecht that brought together practices and reflections from Oral History, Transitional Justice, and Memory Studies around our project: The Multivoiced Archive. During the session we – Nicole Immler, Siri Driessen, Leah Niederhausen and Rosa Mul – presented our Multivoiced Archive project, […]
Read moreIs there a human right for multivoicedness? From 12 November until 12 December 2025, Utrecht was dedicated to human rights. On Wednesday 10 December, International Human Rights Day, all initiatives came together in and around the Stadhuis of Utrecht. Living Library At a new edition of the Living Library by the University of Humanistic Studies, visitors met “living books” […]
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The Dialogics of Justice team is happy to announce and invite you to our final conference on April 15th-17th 2026. We have witnessed a rise in civil cases brought before Dutch district courts by people adversely affected by colonial violence, military missions, sexual abuse, and environmental harm. Can court cases truly challenge responsibility and bring about the recognition people long for? What does justice need to look like to become transformative for claimants and wider society?
Read moreLeah was invited to give a guest lecture in the MA Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In a source analysis workshop, Leah discussed emotions she encountered on a fieldwork trip to Namibia, and about the practical and emotional challenges working within academic structures poses when doing collaborative and decolonial work.
Read more“Wherever I was I had a nice time, I can’t say, but it’s not mine, I’m stepping on foreign land, I’m in a stranger’s house”
Read more“Whenever I read texts or, historical archives, I would read it within my grandfather’s voice […] I would read it within that voice and the way he would, or his voice would tell me, or would guide me”
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Niké Wentholt and Obiozo Ukpabi will conduct research into so-called “transformative” justice in the Niger Delta. They have been awarded an NWO XS grant for this purpose.
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