Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe

Media

  • Ann Rigney, interview on the role of memory in the recent protest of climate activists in Lützerath: “De bezetters van Lützerath vergeleken zich met Rosa Parks, die ook ‘bleef zitten’ voor verandering. Is dat terecht?”, Trouw, 17 January, 2023. Available online.
  • “Conference Review: Remembering Contentious Lives”, October 2022, IABA SNS Blog. Available online.
  • Ann Rigney and Stefan Poland, “Capturing Memory Using Digital Tools”, July 2022, MSA Week of Virtual Events. Available online (1.26-16.40)
  • Duygu Erbil and Clara Vlessing, “Telling Stories Differently: An Interview with Clare Hemmings”, June 2022, IABA SNS Blog. Available online.
  • Ann Rigney, interview on “Current Issues in Memory Studies”,  Academy in Exile, May 2021. Available online.
  • Michelle Caswell, PhD, (UCLA), public lecture Utrecht University, 3 November 2021, ‘Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work’. Available online.
  • Ann Rigney, inaugural lecture Belgian Francqui Chair 2020-2021. ‘Stories in the Wild: How Public Life is Shaped by Narrative’. Available online.
  • Ann Rigney keynote, conference Quo Vadis Memory, Tallinn University, 7 November 2020, ‘Materializing Memory and the (Re)Making of Monuments’. Available online.

  • Daniele Salerno interviewed in the Latin America News Dispatch: Available online.

  • Ann Rigney guest speaker on the Connecting Memories Podcast ‘The Afterlife of Hope: how the killing of demonstrators is remembered.’ All episodes are available to stream at https://anchor.fm/connectingmemories as well as on Spotify (here) and on Apple Podcasts (here). Links to listen on Breaker, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic and Google podcasts can all be found here.
  • Astrid Erll, seminar, Utrecht, January 21, 2020. ‘Literary Memory Activism in an Age of Migration: The Refugee Tales’. Addressed the practice of literary memory activism, using the Refugee Tales (www.refugeetales.org) as an example. The lecture is available on lecturenet.uu.nl.
  • El Pais: El poder de las protestas, article on our project, available
    online.