Leah 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 more1/9/2025 – European Network in Universal and Global History – Archival Restitution to Challenge Epistemic Injustice?
Presentation held by Leah Niederhausen at the European Network in Universal and Global History on “Archival Restitution to Challenge Epistemic Injustice? Coba’s Death and the Archives of the Court of Civil and Criminal Justice of Suriname, 1849”.
Read more21–30/7/2025 – European Peace Conference on Perpetrator-Victim Dynamics
From 21 July – 30 July the European Peace Conference on Perpetrator-Victim Dynamics will take place in Amsterdam. At this year’s peace conference, the first of its kind, an international group of scholars, experts and practitioners, will seek ways to explore how perpetrator-victim dynamics run through our lives, families, business and politics. With guest lectures, […]
Read more1-3/7/2025 – Conference: Srebrenica 30 Years After the Genocide: Memory, Responsibility, and the Challenges of Denial
30 years after the genocide in Srebrenica This year marks 30 years since the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Niké Wentholt was invited to speak at the international conference Srebrenica 30 Years After the Genocide: Memory, Responsibility, and the Challenges of Denial. Leading researchers in genocide studies, including Dirk Moses, Hikmet Karčić, Edina Bećirević, Henry […]
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140 Jahre Berliner Afrika-Konferenz
It is about much more than genocide or restitution: dignity – at the conference commemorating the Berlin Africa Conference of 1884/85. Berlin is the place where, 140 years ago, the division of Africa among the European colonial powers was legitimised by treaty. To this day, the conference continues to shape European thinking about Africa and […]
Read more24-25/4/2025 – Archiving Dis:connected Cultural Heritages in Africa: Prospects, Processes and Challenges
Leah Niederhausen “How can we archive restitution?” This was one of the questions I had the privilege of discussing during the truly inspiring workshop “Archiving Dis:connected Cultural Heritages in Africa: Prospects, Processes and Challenges”, hosted by the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at LMU Munich. Archival Silences and Pan-African Legacies Throughout our conversations on […]
Read more6-8/11/2024 – Ukraine Legal Network, Capacity-Building & Training Event
Niké Wentholt joined the Ukraine Legal Network (ULN) for their capacity-building training in November 2025. For the two-day event, around twenty Ukrainian legal experts and practitioners from around Europe came together in Amsterdam to together build their knowledge on the possibility for compensation for Ukrainian victims of Russian agression. Niké was invited as panelist to […]
Read more5/3/2025 – ECHO: Lezingenavond Bearing Witness
On Wednesday, March 5th, Platform POST organized the lecturenight ‘ECHO’ in the midst of the exhibition Bearing Witness at POST, Arnhem. This exhibition brings together works by artists from (post-)conflict areas with stories from veterans and their moral doubts about participating in various UN missions. Together, they show how events that may be historically defined still […]
Read more19-20/12/2024 – 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. […]
Read more29-30/08/2024 – 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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