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, […]
Lees verder1-3/7/2025 – 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 […]
Lees verder24-25/4/2025 – 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 […]
Lees verder6-8/11/2024 – 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 […]
Lees verder5/3/2025 – 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 […]
Lees verder19-20/12/2024 – 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. […]
Lees verder29-30/08/2024 – 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 […]
Lees verder30-31/05/2024 – 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 […]
Lees verder02-03/05/2024 – 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 […]
Lees verder15/04/2024 – 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 […]
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