Leah Niederhausen
May 12, 2026 | Editorial: cultural infrastructures in Africa
In this special issue on Cultural Infrastructures in Africa, Leah Niederhausen reflects on archival-museological shifts during the restitution process of the Witbooi Bible and their implication on institutional frontiers of restitution narratives at large.
Read moreApril 15th-17th 2026 Dialogics of Justice (NWO-VICI) – Final Conference About the conference The last decade has witnessed an increase in civil proceedings brought before Dutch district courts by people adversely affected by colonial violence, military missions, sexual abuse, and environmental harm. Does legal action against institutions such as the Dutch state, the military, the church, and […]
Read moreOn Friday 23 January, the Oral History Network of the Huizinga Institute hosted an inspiring gathering at University Utrecht that brought together practices and reflections from Oral History, Transitional Justice, and Memory Studies around our project: The Multivoiced Archive. During the session we – Nicole Immler, Siri Driessen, Leah Niederhausen and Rosa Mul – presented our Multivoiced Archive project, […]
Read moreLeah 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.
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Leah Niederhausen
Dec 16, 2025 | Tweedewereldoorlog.nl
“Restitution is a social process in itself, which reflects and reproduces existing power structures.”
Read morePresentation 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 moreLeah 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 […]
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Leah Niederhausen
April 9, 2025 | The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Leah Niederhausen wrote an entry on restitution as both a restorative and transformative concept for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict.
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