Op donderdag 27 mei 2021 ondertekenden Rita Rahman, voorzitter van de Werkgroep Caraïbische Letteren, en... Lees verder →
Eternal ereschuld of the spotless mind
De parlementaire enquêtecommissie stelt dat er sprake is van een ‘ereschuld’ tegenover Groningen. Saskia Pieterse legt de koloniale én paternalistische wortels van die term bloot. In haar essay laat ze zien dat zowel sentimenteel schuldbesef als strenge begrotingsdiscipline al sinds de koloniale tijd onderdeel zijn van de Nederlandse politieke verbeelding.
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Conference – Slavery in the Cultural Imagination; Voices of Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space, 17th-21st Century
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH), and Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) are co-convening a two-day conference on the cultural imagination of slavery. The conference will be held on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 October 2021 at the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht.
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Call for Papers
Voices of Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space, 17th-21st Century
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH), and Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) are co-convening a two-day conference on the cultural imagination of slavery. The conference will be held on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 October 2021 at the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht. The aims and motivations for the conference can be found below. We warmly invite contributions to this conference.
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