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Upcoming events

PhD Defence: Alexander Ulrich Thygesen

12 Dec
Thursday 12 December 2024, at 13:15

Alexander Ulrich Thygesen will defend his PhD titled Beyond 30 Pesos: Memory, Resistance and Urban Space in the Chilean Estallido Social and its…

Symposium: Performativity and Change in Post Conflict Memory

13 Dec
Friday 13 December 2024, at 13:00 Aarhus University

More info will follow

Past Events

Colonial Memory in Denmark and the Netherlands

7 May
Tuesday 7 May 2024, at 14:00 Aarhus University

Frank van Vree, Astrid Nonbo Andersen, and Thea Bladt discuss different approaches to engaging with a colonial past.

Conspiratorial Memory on the Far-Right: "Memory-Holing" and Ephemerality on 4chan

6 May
Monday 6 May 2024, at 16:00 Online Event

Once a relatively unknown and innocuous subcultural online imageboard, 4chan and its self-described "Politically Incorrect" /poll-users have over the…

Artistic Activism and Memory: The Matapacos Statue Intervention in Santiago de Chile

5 Apr
Friday 5 April 2024, at 15:30 Online Event

In November 2019 and during the largest social mobilization in the history of Chile, a large statue of a black dog with a red bandana appeared in the…

When Memory Activism Meets Politics: The Bureaucracy of Commemoration

28 Feb
Wednesday 28 February 2024, at 14:00 Online Event

With the global Black Lives Matter movement of 2020, a year-long activist­driven project for a slavery memorial in Utrecht finally gained traction and…

Uses of the Past and Memory Studies Association Seminar ‘The Future of Atrocity Memory'

24 Aug
Wednesday 24 August 2022, at 14:00 Blended event at the Aarhus University Conference Center/ Faculty Club, building 1420, room M2, on Zoom and via live stream on YouTube. See details for online attendance at the bottom of this page.

Dirk Moses (City College of New York) in conversation with Charlotte Wiedemann (Berlin) and Wulf Kansteiner (Aarhus University).

Programme
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Uses of the Past Seminar Kolonialisme og koloni-arv i en Dansk kontekst

20 May
Friday 20 May 2022, at 13:00 Nobelparken, building 1485, rum 226

Med Søren Hein Rasmussen og Niels Brimnes

After the Monument: Unmaking the Valley of the Fallen in Contemporary Spain

24 Sep
Friday 24 September 2021, at 14:15 Building 1481, room 231

Uses of the Past lecture with Francisco José Ferrándiz Martin on the politics of memory over Spain’s most conspicuous fascist monument, the Valley of…

Exhibiting postcolonial Europe

17 Jun
Thursday 17 June 2021, at 14:00 Zoom

Online debate featuring scholars from the ECHOES (European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities) Horizon 2020 Project and the House of…

Public lecture with writer and poet Max Czollek

1 Jun
Tuesday 1 June 2021, at 16:30 Room: 1482-105 (Nobelauditoriet, Nobelparken) or via Zoom

With his 2018 book Desintegriert Euch (“De-integrate Yourselves!”, Hanser 2018) and his recent essay Gegenwartsbewältigung (“Coming to terms with the…

When monuments fall: Practices around difficult heritage

16 Mar
Tuesday 16 March 2021, at 15:00 Zoom [registration for this event is closed]

Uses of the Past panel discussion on Zoom with Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld (PhD), visual artist and scholar, Professor Paul Mullins (Indiana…

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