Media

Opinion piece on learning how to demonstrate and how they do it in Serbia

20/03/2025 ‘Demonstreren kun je leren. Zo doen ze het in Servië’ – Trouw

Niké Wentholt wrote an opinion piece to connect the ongoing, inspiring student-led protests in Serbia to the urgency to protest in the Netherlands. Here, too, we can come together in our shared dissatisfaction with right-wing politics and increasing authoritarianism. The piece was published a day before the international day against racism and the mass protest (15.000 people joined) against racism and fascism on March 21.

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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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