News and Events

Modern and Contemporary Literature Seminar

We organise a monthly seminar with guest speakers from the Netherlands and abroad. The meetings are announced in the 'Events' section on this page. Also see our past seminars. For any further information, please contact Birgit M. Kaiser.

Other Research Activites and Networks

See the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies and Terra Critica for other activities initiated by scholars from our group.

The research group also hosted the annunal meeting of the ACLA in Utrecht in 2017, the first ever to be held in Europe.

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    The Visual Memory of Protest

    Publication

    22 August 2023

    Available in open access, this work edited by Professor Ann Rigney and researcher Thomas Smits, zooms in on the role of photography in the memory-activism nexus.
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    Special section the minnesota review: Mobilizing Creativity

    Publication

    12 June 2023

    Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Iris van der Tuin, and Nanna Verhoeff have edited a special section in the minnesota review on Mobilizing Creativity: A Humanities Perspective (part 1 of 2).
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    Poetry as protest: Iranian poet spoke out for women’s self-determination 100 years ago

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    11 November 2022

    The socially critical poetry of Parvīn Iᶜtiṣāmī (1907-1941) is more relevant than ever. Postdoc researcher Zhinia Noorian explains why (video).
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    Ann Rigney formally admitted to the Royal Irish Academy

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    23 May 2022

    Newly elected members are praised for their exceptional contributions to the sciences, humanities and social sciences, as well to the public.
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    NWO Veni grants for economic historian Selin Dilli, literary scholars Leila Essa and Mia You, and Islamic studies scholar Mehrdad Alipour

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    7 April 2022

    The funding will enable these young researchers to further develop their research ideas over the next three years.
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    The Ends of Critique

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    17 February 2022

    Associate professor Genderstudies Kathrin Thiele and Associate professor Comparative Literature and Transcultural Aesthetics Birgit Kaiser have recently published their new book The Ends of Critique.

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