April 15th-17th 2026
Assessing Recognition and Reparation Procedures for Historical Injustice (NWO-VICI)
The Dialogics of Justice team is happy to announce and invite you to our final conference on April 15th-17th 2026. We have witnessed a rise in civil cases brought before Dutch district courts by people adversely affected by colonial violence, military missions, sexual abuse, and environmental harm. Can court cases truly challenge responsibility and bring about the recognition people long for? What does justice need to look like to become transformative for claimants and wider society?
Over the past five years, we – Nicole Immler, Nike Wentholt, Siri Driessen, Obiozo Ukpabi, Naomi Ormskerk, Carla Boulos, Leah Niederhausen, Rosa Mul, and Phoebe Hargrave – studied five cases of institutional injustice,uncovering shared logics of systemic injustice and coloniality. At this conference, we will share our findings and discuss the future research agenda for the Historical Memory and Transformative Justice chair group with(inter)national scholars, stakeholders and affected parties. We invite you to join us!
Join us for our kick-off public event on April 15th at BAK Basecamp, with human rights advocate Liesbeth Zegveld as our keynote speaker. Hasan Nuhanović, who together with Zegveld held the Dutch state liable for the killing of his family during the Srebrenica genocide, and his daughter Nasiha will then share their expertise and experience on the lived and transgenerational impact of court cases. On the 16th and 17th the conference will continue at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht on April 16th and 17th (see the preliminary programme below for details). If you want to attend, feel very welcome, then please fill out the form.
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