Media

140 Jahre Berliner Afrika-Konferenz

23/5/2025 – ‘140 Jahre Berliner Afrika-Konferenz’ – Zeitgeschichte Online

Report by Nicole Immler on her visit of the Africa Conference in Berlin. It is about much more than genocide or restitution: dignity – at the conference commemorating the Berlin Africa Conference of 1884/85. To this day, the conference continues to shape European thinking about Africa and African thinking about Europe. It is worth taking a close look at the narratives that have become established about the conference and examining their consequences.

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Media

Podcast Dialoog: De Geschiedenis is voorbij, de Dialoog niet.

7/4/2025 ‘De Geschiedenis is voorbij, de Dialoog niet’ – Podcast Dialoog

In this podcast episode by Stichting Dialoog NJI, Nicole Immler discusses the impact of trauma and the importance of engaging in dialogue. This is difficult, but according to Immler, you don’t always have to agree to make progress. Listening and self-reflection are key.

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Publications

How (Post) Memory Matters to Justice

“How can narrating the past change the future?”. The volume ‘Dynamics, Memory, Mediation: Doing Memory Studies with Ann Rigney’ is a dedication to the work of Ann Rigney. Nicole Immler wrote a chapter on ‘How (Post) Memory Matters to Justice’.

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Attended events

19-20/12/2024 – 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. […]

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Attended events

29-30/08/2024 – 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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