Publications

How (Post) Memory Matters to Justice

“How can narrating the past change the future?”. The volume ‘Dynamics, Memory, Mediation: Doing Memory Studies with Ann Rigney’ is a dedication to the work of Ann Rigney. Nicole Immler wrote a chapter on ‘How (Post) Memory Matters to Justice’.

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Attended events

19-20/12/2024 – Conference on Intergenerational Memories of Mass Violence at the Palais des Académies (Brussels)

This conference explored the complexity of intergenerational memory in the aftermath of mass violence. Nicole Immler shared insights from three-generation-holocaust interviews during her talk: The Struggle for ‘the Right to Exist’. ‘After a war we count in generations.’ It was a timely conference: Intergenerational memories of mass violence – a truly interdisciplinary and international conference. […]

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Media

Interview on the necessary role of women in the transition in Syria

16/12/2024 ‘Sin las mujeres no podrá haber una transición en Siria’ – Artículo 14

Carla Boulos emphasizes that women have been fundamental to Syria’s survival during the war. She notes that while men were engaged in combat, women managed households, took on various jobs, and led civil society, effectively sustaining the country. However, she laments that Syrian society has not fully recognized this decisive role.

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29-30/08/2024 – Victimology Summer School 2024

De Victimology Summer School 2024 (29 & 30 augustus) – georganiseerd door Slachtofferhulp Nedreland en acadademische en maatschappelijke partners – met als thema ‘Grootschalig slachtofferschap: De mensen achter de massa’, richtte zich op de complexiteiten van grootschalig slachtofferschap, zoals terrorisme, online criminaliteit, en casussen als de MH17-ramp, gaswinning in Groningen en de Toeslagenaffaire. Tijdens de […]

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30-31/05/2024 – Workshop Local courts as transnational actors at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law

Niké presented some first reflections from the Dialogics of Justice project on the transnational dynamics in local courts. She argued that from the perspective of plaintiffs, the dynamic between the international and local is second nature – after all, their search for justice often transcends boundaries in time (intergenerational) and space (cross-national, like in the […]

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02-03/05/2024 – Reimagining Victims’ Reparation Global Network (RVRGN): “Reimagining reparation as social repair. A Dialogics of Justice perspective.”

Nicole, Siri and Niké participated in the second workshop of a newly established network on re-imagining victims’ reparations. Sandra Rios Oyola invited this group of international scholars to come together in a beautiful medieval hall at University College Roosevelt. Over two days, discussing multiple cases and theoretical frames, we exchanged ideas on how reparations can […]

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Publications

Meerstemmig herdenken: een pleidooi voor verbinding

In commemoration culture, an unanimous perspective increasingly prevails. Nicole Immler and Limor Reshef see in their three generation Holocaust research a great need for more multivoicedness, including within ourselves. They argue that learning to see one’s own dialogical self is the precondition for dialogue and connecting people.

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