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Mnemonics Keynote Lectures Now Online
Seminar with Daniele Salerno: Where Do Protesters Go in Winter? The Afterlives of Masses
- 19 November 2019; 15.15-17.00; Trans 8, A.W. de Grootzaal, Utrecht University
Seminar with Astrid Erll: Literary Memory Activism in an Age of Migration: The Refugee Tales
- 21 January 2020; 15.15-17.00; Drift 25, Room 0.01; Utrecht University
Ann Rigney
Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication Utrecht University
Prof. Ann Rigney is the project leader of the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies. In the past years she has directed several related projects: The Dynamics of Cultural Remembrance (2006-2010) and Transnational Memory (2008-2012). She is also the convenor of NITMES (Network in Transnational Memory Studies) and, together with Astrid Erll, project leader in the COST-project ISTME (In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe); for their inaugural talk, see Mediation and European Memory.She was recently awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (REACT), which began in January 2019 and will run for five years.
Contact
Website: www.rigney.nlE-mail: a.rigney@uu.nl