One-day bilingual symposium (English and Italian) When: 9th June 2026, 9:00-17:30 Where: University Museum Utrecht (UMU), room Bovenzaal This symposium focuses on the rapidly expanding field of Italian queer archival scholarship and practices. It brings together and stages a dialogue between scholars and archivists, scholars of Italian queer archives working within and outside of Italy, and scholars…

Date: 12 May 2026 Time: 15:00 – 19:00 Location: Theaterzaal, Muntstraat 2A, Utrecht Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Der vermessene Mensch (OL with English subtitles)  The Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies invites you to a special screening of the German historical drama Der vermessene Mensch (Measures of Men, dir. Lars Kraume, 2023), followed by a panel discussion with scholars from…

Date: 27 March 2026 Location: Janskerkhof 2-3, Room 0.19, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL On 27 March, the UU Memory & Heritage Network and the Dutch Centre for Intangible Heritage organise the UU Heritage Lecture and present the annual Dr Albert van der Zeijden Thesis Prize. The award was given to the best thesis on intangible cultural heritage….

Date: 28 May 2026 Location: Auditorium of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, VU Main Building, De Boelelaan 1105 On 28 May 2026, we warmly invite staff and stakeholders from across the field to participate in a national symposium organised in the context of the Sectorplan Cultural Heritage and Identiy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The event will bring…

Argentine historian Federico Finchelstein famously argued that the transnational dynamics of fascism and populist movements become clearer when viewed from the margins, because it was in Latin America – and not in Europe – where fascism and populism first intersected, with Argentine Peronism as the paradigmatic case. When adopting such a transatlantic perspective, how can…

21 November 2025, 13.30-17.00, Utrecht University Library, Drift 27, Room 1.25 (Tielezaal) How do we study memory in societies marked by displacement, conflict, and loss? Please come join David Mwambari in a workshop that will explore creative and collaborative approaches drawing on orature, arts-based practices, and qualitative research to reimagine how we gather and understand…

Gathering of the Sectorplan Sub-Theme Material and Immaterial Heritage 26 September 2025, VOX POP Heritage is deeply entangled with violence, conflict, and the destructive transformations that are affecting our present such as the climate emergency. Yet, while heritage can be destroyed, transformed, re-interpreted or manipulated, it also serves as a powerful tool for cultural resistance…

Friday September 12, 2025 Interdisciplinary research workshop Organized by Erik Meinema in the context of the NWO Veni-project ‘Art, Religion, or Heritage?’ This workshop aimed to critically analyse how the frames of ‘art’, ‘heritage’ and ‘religion’ are mobilized to (re)present elements of the past and mark these as relevant for the present. Within critical heritage…

Report by Mohana Zwaga: On May 15th, Utrecht University hosted the event Interfaces of Heritage and Memory: A Conversation with Sharon Macdonald and Ann Rigney, bringing together two of the most prominent figures in their respective fields to reflect on the convergences and tensions between memory studies and critical heritage studies. Moderated by Susanne Knittel…

UU Heritage Lecture: Selling the past to remember it: Tourism’s generative frictions of slavery and colonial heritage The lecture and ceremony took place on April 11, 2025, 14.00-17.00 at Drift 25, Room 002, at Utrecht University. Explanation of the lecture from keynote speaker Emmanuel Adu-Ampong In this lecture, I offer an invitation and a provocation through…