Remembering Contentious Lives

About

Ann Rigney is professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University and PI of the Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (ReAct). She has published widely in the field of cultural memory studies including most recently The Visual Memory of Protest (edited with Th. Smits Amsterdam UP 2023) and Remembering Hope (forthcoming). Duygu Erbil is affiliate researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) Utrecht University. She completed her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature at Utrecht University in 2024. Her PhD project analysed the cultural afterlife of Deniz Gezmi and was part of the project Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (ReAct). Clara Vlessing is a lecturer at Utrecht University and a postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen. She completed her doctoral degree at Utrecht University in 2023. Her PhD analysed the cultural afterlives of three women revolutionaries and was part of the project Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (ReAct).