1/7/2023
Nicole Immler was quoted in the speech held by Deputy Prime Minister Carola Schouten at the commemoration of the slavery past on 1 July 2023 in Middelburg. “The slavery past feels close due to the structures this history has left behind.”
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30/6/2023 ‘Hoe zien de herstelbetalingen voor slavernij eruit?’ – Trouw
Nicole Immler was interviewed by Robin Goudsmit en Maurice Timmermans about repair for the slavery past. It is the elephant in the room during the slavery commemoration: reparations. Will they ever come, and what should restitution look like?
Lees verderIn this two-day international workshop organised at Tilburg University, participants were brought together from practice, academia and the student bodies in a transnational conversation about ethos of transnational lawyering. Obiozo Ukpabi presented an intervention to the meeting about the power of writing legal and political narratives, which align at times but not always. Obiozo shared […]
Lees verderNicole Immler held a lecture at the conference ‘Violent Democracies. Colonial violence on trial – how otherness blinds human rights regimes.’
Lees verderAt the annual conference of the Law and Society Association, titled ‘Separate but Inequal,’ Niké Wentholt presented the Dialogics of Justice project and was discussant in a final panel on transitional justice. Important issues were raised by the audience on the thickness of social representations, impeding true justice and recognition, and the colonial nature of […]
Lees verderNiké Wentholt held the keynote on the 2023 Law Research Master Conference. Connecting the conference themes Responsibility: Past, Present, and Future, she argued that historical injustice cases ask us the same questions as cases of systemic injustice that emerge today. A dialogical approach to responsibility would thus mean to question how to restructure social relations […]
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1/9/2023
We are happy to welcome Carla Boulos, who will join the Dialogics of Justice team in September 2023.
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Nicole Immler & Niké Wentholt
In the absence of a coordinated national political response, grassroots and civic initiatives can play a key role in pushing for recognition and justice for the colonial past. Nicole Immler and Niké Wentholt, from the University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht, draw on the example of the Keti Koti Dialogue Tables in the Netherlands to show how such initiatives can contribute to breaking down cycles of denial, acknowledgment of the systemic nature of historical injustices and transforming citizens’ engagement with the colonial past.
Lees verderThe workshop, which was held at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) was organized by members of the TEGL research project, a collaboration between the law faculties of Maastricht University, Open Universiteit NL, Tilburg University and the UvA. Participants from academia and practice examined how the positions and arguments of judges and the litigating parties in climate cases […]
Lees verderThe conference Wiedergutmachung: Auseinandersetzung – Entschädigung – Verantwortung in Berlin discussed the legacy of the German reparation program; 70 years after the signing of the Luxembourg Agreement (1952)which, signed by Israel, the Jewish Claims Conference and Germany, forms the basis for all future compensation schemes for atrocities of National-Socialism. While the ‘Wiedergutmachung’ is considered often as model in […]
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