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Call for Papers‼️ For the Expert Meeting: Words, Contention, Memory. 💡Interested? Send a 350-word #abstract and short #bio to react@uu.nl March 1st, 2022. 💻For more info, visit: rememberingactivism.eu/2022/01/18/wor… #activism #protest #europe #culture #researcharticle

🚩✊ New blog: "Colour: Remembrance as Resistance" Ann Rigney looks at a 1951 mural of the murdered Belgian miner Louis Tayenne and thinks through the question "Why should the memory of activism crystallize around police violence?" rememberingactivism.eu/2022/02/15/col…

📢We’re welcoming proposals for our upcoming expert meeting on “Words, Contention, Memory” (19-21 October 2022, Utrecht)📢 Join us if you’re interested in exploring the power of words and activist language!

First blog is up! Following the recent (global) wave of protests, Ann Rigney asks what happens when demonstrations disappear from the news and are turned into memory. rememberingactivism.eu/2019/11/04/rec…

In the closing paper of #mnemoncs2019, @D_FarrellBanks discusses the emotional and ethical challenges in working on extreme right-wing memory activism @StudentsNCL @UtrechtUni

Taylor Annabell discusses how young women engage in affective memory work on social media and their emphasis on joyful moments and positive emotions #mnemonics2019 @KingsCollegeLon

For #mnemonics2019’s final panel, Taylor Annabell and @D_FarrellBanks reflect on the role of memory researchers in activism @UtrechtUni @KingsCollegeLon @StudentsNCL

#mnemonics2019 is enjoying Wulf Kansteiner’s thorough and theoretically rich third keynote on memory in right-wing politics and activism @UtrechtUni @AarhusUni

Women Mobilizing Memory panel&book launch. Ayse Gul Altınay, Marianne Hirsch, Red Chidgey, and Stef Craps. This is such an inspiration for all of us. Talked much about the ways of situated feminist storytelling. Thank you.@Utrecht #mnemonics2019 #womenmobilizingmemory

Had a great time at the #mnemonics2019 conference dinner

Looking forward to welcoming everyone to the #mnemonics2019 conference dinner @UtrechtUni

Marianne Hirsch and Ayse Gul Altinay #mnemonics2019

Dr. Red Chidgey of @KingsCollegeLon offers her response to Marianne Hirsch and Ayse Gul Altinay’s Women Mobilizing Memory, inviting us to ponder ‘practicing memory’ and embracing unknowing #mnemonics2019 @UtrechtUni

@ERC_ReACT @UtrechtUni and #mnemonics2019 are proud to host Professors Marianne Hirsch and Ayse Gul Altinay for the European launch of their latest volume, Women Mobilizing Memory

Lungile Tshuma demonstrates how activists of the Mafela Trust use the power of historical photographs to reclaim public awareness for their role in the struggle for Zimbabwean independence @UniversityOfJHB @UtrechtUni

@UtrechtUni’s own Clara Vlessing explains how ‘the lively battle over Louise Michel’s representation’ resulted in a rich, divergent afterlife in visual media #mnemonics2019

Nethanel Treves unpacks the continuous conflicts in decades of remembering the Jewish Bund by different agents and across different media #mnemonics2019 @scuolanormale

Nethanel Treves, Clara Vlessing and Lungile Tshuma explore power plays around reputations in this next panel of #mnemonics2019 by looking at the afterlives of Louise Michel, the Jewish Bund and former ZIPRA freedom fighters @UtrechtUni

@brydiekosmina analyzes the influence of 1970s activists and herstorians on radical memories of the witch as a feminist icon #mnemonics2019 @UniofAdelaide @UtrechtUni

Helen Makhdoumian reads together Linda Hogan’s Solar Systems and current transindigenous activism and resistance to conceptualize modes of memory transmission during ongoing political struggles #mnemonics2019 @Illinois_Alma @UtrechtUni