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 […]
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Meerstemmig herdenken: een pleidooi voor verbinding
In commemoration culture, an unanimous perspective increasingly prevails. Nicole Immler and Limor Reshef see in their three generation Holocaust research a great need for more multivoicedness, including within ourselves. They argue that learning to see one’s own dialogical self is the precondition for dialogue and connecting people.
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 […]
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Leed en Erkenning. Verschillen tussen de generaties.
Limor Reshef and Nicole Immler wrote about how conversation with Holocaust survivors and their families revealed that the meaning of recognition clearly differs between generations and how important it is to take different needs into account.
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 […]
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Interview on pleading for more space at universities for debate and emotions
30-10-2023 ‘Verdeeldheid over hoe verder op Universiteit Utrecht nu debat over oorlog verhardt: waar doe je goed aan?’ – AD
In this article Nicole Immler was interviewed on how the debate on war intensifies at universities, specifically in the conversation about the war between Israël and Hamas. In the interview she pleaded for more space at universities for debate and emotions.
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Call on Dutch institutions for higher education to speak out on (de)humanization in the face of the violence in Palestine and Israël
27/10/2023 ‘Hamas-Israël conflict moet studenten leren niemand te ontmenselijken’ – Trouw
‘Wees niet bang om ‘partij te kiezen’ gericht op humanisering’ – Nieuw Wij
In this opinion piece Siri Driessen, Nicole Immler, Obiozo Ukpabi and Niké Wentholt called on Dutch institutions for higher education to take a stand against dehumanization in the face of terrorist attacks and genocidal violence.
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Meerstemmigheid in erkenning van onrecht
Dagmar Punter interviewed the DoJ team on the Dialogics of Justice project, and multivoicedness in the recognition of injustice.
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