Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-19)

From Feb 11 to Feb 22, @rbsagallery hosted our exhibition "Remembering is Painful, Forgetting is Unbearable". We'd like to say thank you to everyone who visited -- some photos and a recap of our workshop on Feb 15 are now available on our blog at: blog.bham.ac.uk/urbterr/2025/0…

Open today is a brand new exhibition; Remembering is Painful, Forgetting is Unbearable: Creative Responses to Terror. The exhibition was curated and researched in collaboration with the University of Birmingham and developed with survivors of recent terror attacks in Europe.

Our exhibition “Remembering is Painful, Forgetting is Unbearable: Creative Responses to Terror” is now open at @rbsagallery in Bham’s Jewellery Quarter! The works explore the use of creative practice in the aftermath of terror and you can visit up until Feb 22nd.

Reminder about our event on Monday 11th Novemeber! Çetin Gültekin and Mutlu Koçak will read and discuss excerpts of their book, “Born, raised, and murded in Germany: the too short life of my brother Gökhan Gültekin and the Hanau Shootings”. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/racism-kills…

As of today you can download our @Palgrave Open Access edited volume, Remembering, Imagining and Anticipating Violence. A huge thanks to all our contributors for their work -- we are so glad it is now out in the world! #toc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Our fantastic PhD researcher @MireyaTMedina has published an article on her research into antiterrorist legislation in Spain in national newspaper @elmundoes. You can read it here! elmundo.es/opinion/2024/0…

Save the date — Saturday, June 1st, 7pm! Our PI Katharina Karcher and PhD candidate Yordanka Dimcheva will be at @hayfestival to deliver their talk “Creative Responses to Terror: Three Objects, Six People and Their Stories”

Our fantastic team member @MireyaTMedina recently published an article, "10 imágenes para entender la construcción de la memoria colectiva del 11M", in @Conversation_E! You can read it there, or at our blog below: blog.bham.ac.uk/urbterr/2024/0…

CURATOR WANTED! We are looking for a curator to help us plan and deliver an exciting gallery exhibition at Birmingham's RBSA Gallery from the 11th to the 22nd of Feb 2025. More information and details on how to apply on our blog: blog.bham.ac.uk/urbterr/2024/0…

@katharkarcher @EuropeUrban @unibirmingham @artsatbham @SteveHewittUK @LCAHM_UoB We're running a survey for researchers that have worked/working on (self-described) emotionally demanding research topics. If you have some time, your responses would be appreciated! birmingham.ac.uk/euniwell-maste… (link to survey on our blog)

The details of our first UK workshop, which will be held in Southampton on 21st September, 2023, are available now on our blog! This will be a workshop with descendants of Basque refugees in the UK during the Spanish Civil War. More information here: blog.bham.ac.uk/memoryastransg…

Our last panel on "Reconciliation and its Sites of Memory" is tomorrow morning at 9:00 with @Ito_RJusue @YordankaDimchev and others. Come and join the discussion! #MSA2023

Two panels down and one to go! Several members of our research team and working group have presented or will be presenting at the #MSA2023 conference in Newcastle this week — a group photo with just a few of us here! @MemStudiesAssoc

Finally out!! Massive pleasure to put together with @AliceCMartini a fantastic set of chapters pushing CTS' boundaries. Big thank you to all the authors who made it happen and to the Routledge team who supported us! routledge.com/Contemporary-R…

Our first OA @EuropeUrban project piece - written together with @katharkarcher, @YordankaDimchev & @MireyaTMedina - has just been published in Contemporary Reflections on Critical Terrorism Studies (by @RaquelBPSilva & @AliceCMartini)! Download it here: tinyurl.com/bddbcc6c

We have an upcoming event! We would love for you to join us at our latest expert seminar with Prof. Jon Coaffee, at the University of Birmingham. Details on the below flier or on our blog: blog.bham.ac.uk/urbterr/2023/0…

CounterText's latest issue on #posthumanism & the #tragic is out! Super happy to have been able to contribute to this issue with a piece on hope for (post-)Anthropocenic times!

An amazing collective effort is out and available for pre-order!!! Can't still quite believe it!!! Big thank you to everyone who put up with @AliceCMartini & myself to get it done!!! routledge.com/Contemporary-R…

We're delighted to share the cfp for this (funded) workshop on 'situational awareness' @unihh @EGeertsPhD @AtmoCT @ERC_Research @katharkarcher @SaraFregonese @SteveHewittUK

Reminder - Somatechnics cfp - “The Somatechnics of Violence: Affective, (Im)material and Digital Transformations” - abstracts due by 31/10! This is a follow-up to the @EuropeUrban (Im)materialities of Violence conference. See lnkd.in/ecBB2tqh #cfp #somatechnics #violence