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Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

We organise a monthly research seminar as well as additional events. Our regular meetings take place on Monday afternoons, from 17.15 to 18.30 hours. Invitations are circulated via our email list – please contact us at MCL@uu.nl if you would like to be added!

Please also have a look at our Projects and Networks pages for further activities initiated by scholars from our groups.

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    “There’s more to history than dark pages”

    News

    20 April 2026

    Ann Rigney, Professor Emeritus of Literary Studies, on how commemorating protest anchors today’s society.
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    Ann Rigney receives royal decoration for “groundbreaking insights that extend beyond academic walls”

    News

    17 December 2024

    Rigney’s has showed that “cultural memory forms the foundation of our identity and social awareness, while also being a subject of debate and even conflict”.
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    Becoming Animal

    Publication

    1 November 2024

    Kári Driscoll translates Teresa Präauer's ‘Tier werden’ into ‘Becoming Animal’, which explores cultural zoology and the evolution of words, images and identity.
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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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