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 […]
Read more02-03/05/2024 – 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 […]
Read more15/04/2024 – SPUI25: 3rd Balzan Bystanding Lecture on ‘Responsibility for the Holocaust and Slavery in a Relational Perspective’
The question how to study, teach and remember historical mass crimes, above all the Holocaust and Slavery, has become emblematic in recent years. This 3rd Balzan Bystanding Lecture took up the challenge and provided grounds for a relational perspective based on new conceptual thinking from the field of Transitional Justice and fresh empirical work on […]
Read more20-22/03/2024 – INEA Congress Intercountry adoption: creating a multiperspective narrative
From March 20 until March 22 the first (international) INEA Congress took place. The theme of this three-day congress was: Intercountry adoption: creating a multi-perspective narrative. On day one Nicole Immler participated in the opening paneldebate, following-up on the keynote speaker Elvira Loibl. The paneldebate discussed what is meant by ‘Transformative Justice’ and in which […]
Read more13/03/2024 – The Justice Visions Conference at the University of Ghent
How to bring scholars and practitioners from the Global South and North in the field of Transitional Justice in an exciting dialogue? The Justice Visions conference at the University of Ghent focused on questions on victim’s participation, mobilization and – importantly – resistance; such as the focus fom Luke Moffet’s presentation. Niké Wentholt, Naomi Ormskerk and […]
Read more23/11/2023 – Conference Groningen in Beeld. The societal consequences of gasexploitation and future directions
During the conference, Obiozo Ukpabi and Nienke Busscher of the Kennisplatform Leefbaar en Kansrijk Groningen presented a session about the impacts of oil and gas exploitation in the Niger Delta and Groningen.
Read more16-17/11/2023 – Symposium zur Wiedergutmachung
Nicole Immler presented another victim-centered approach to reparation research by using oral history to explore the emotionality and perception of the descendants of second and third generation victims in relation to (not) experienced reparation. When considering transgenerational memory processes, the main thing is: A discrepancy between the perceptions of the applicants and politicians is clear […]
Read more30/06/2023 – The Ethos of Global Law: The Multitudinous Communities of Global Lawyering.
In 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 […]
Read more09/06/2023 – Transformations of the Rule of Law: The Impact of Decolonization in Europe since 1945’ at the European Studies Centre at St Antony’s College Oxford
Nicole Immler held a lecture at the conference ‘Violent Democracies. Colonial violence on trial – how otherness blinds human rights regimes.’
Read more01/06/2023 – Law and Society Association Annual Conference. San Juan.
At 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 […]
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