Talks and Events - Decolonisation and Memory Politics

Podcast

Who gets to be a victim? Trauma and memory after the Dutch-Indonesian War (1945–9)’, talking with Anne van Mourik, host of the NIOD Rewind Podcast series, Episode 46, January 2026.

Talks on Camera

My inaugural lecture as Professor of Global Political History at the Vrije Universiteit , A Monument to Westerling (And Other Possible Futures) (YouTube, 6 October 2025)

Colonial Pasts and Image Wars, 20th Annual History Council of Victoria Lecture (YouTube, 25 October 2023).

Recent Lectures and Seminar

‘The politics of trauma and the limits of decolonisation’, PULSE Medical and Health Humanities Network,  University of Amsterdam and VU Amsterdam, 27 February 2025.

‘Everyone wants to be a historian: Global politics and political history now’, Keynote for the annual Research School for Political History/Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis Opening of the Academic Year, 22 September 2023.

‘Late starters: The post-colonial afterlives of war photographs from Indonesia and neglected histories of colonial violence’, Photo-Sensible: Historians, Archives and the Dissemination of Controversial Photographs in the Digital Age, EyCon Project, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 9-10 June 2022.

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