Upcoming Events:

• 23 May 2025 ‘Recht und Moral. Das Vermächtnis Fritz Bauers: Menschenrechte und Moral im institutionalisierten Rechtsverständnis’, Fritz Bauer Forum Bochum, featuring a presentation by Dr. Lorena De Vita.
  
  Full programme available here
  
• 3 July 2025 Wording Repair Project presentation by Dr. Lorena De Vita at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF) – both online and on location
  
  Find out all the details and sign up here

Past Events:

• 7 May 2025 ‘Redefining Reparations: Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair’, book launch of the book edited by Lorena De Vita and Constantin Goschler hosted by the University of Amsterdam’s REPAIR Research Group led by Felix Stein.
  
  You can read the book’s introduction here and you can find out more about the book on the publisher’s website
  
  
  

• 6 September 2024 ‘The Politics of Repair in the First Person Singular: Otto Küster’s Diary’, Presentation by Dr. Lorena De Vita at the 2024 Annual Conference of the German Historical Society. Manchester (United Kingdom)
  
  Click here for the full programme of the 2024 GHS Annual Conference
  

• 22-24 August 2024 Presentation of the Wording Repair project at the Historicidagen Maastricht in the panel: Bystanders in Times of Atrocities: Personal and Collective Experiences in New Research on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the Local Dynamics of Political Violence. Maastricht (Netherlands)
  

• 4 May 2024 Studium Generale 4 mei lezing by Dr. Lorena De Vita: Remembrance in Times of Crisis

• 17 April 2024 Roundtable: Public (Holocaust) History and the Role of Ego-Documents. Public Conversation between: Liesbeth van der Horst, Krijn Thijs, Lorena De Vita. Verzetsmuseum / Resistance Museum Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  
  
• 20 March 2024 Workshop held by dr. Lorena De Vita and dr. Laura Fahnenbruck, with the support of Naomi Hoogenraad in the context of the Spring 2024 Education Program of Utrecht University’s Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). Their lecture will be followed by a workshop on handwritten character recognition led by Coen van der Stappen and drs. Arja Firet. Utrecht (Netherlands)
  
  Click here for more information about the CDH Spring 2024 programme and to sign up for the Wording Repair workshop
  
  
• 15-16 February 2024: dr. Lorena De Vita and dr. Laura Fahnenbruck, Wording Repair Project Presentation at the Transkribus User Conference TUC-2024. Innsbruck (Austria)
  

• 7 February 2024: 9:30-17:00 Graduiertenkolleg at the Duitslandinstituut Amsterdam (DIA) on Reparations in German History. Event with and for early career researchers, (R)MA and PhD students, co-organised by dr. Hanco Jürgens (DIA) and dr. Lorena De Vita (Utrecht University). Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  
  Click here for more information and to apply to join the conversation
  
  Click here for the programme including presentations and discussions by an international cohort of (R)MA and PhD students
  
  

• 7 February 2024: 20:00 Waves of Restitution, Reparation, and Cultural Memory after the Second World War. Lecture by prof. Constantin Goschler (Ruhr University Bochum) and comments by dr. Lorena De Vita (Utrecht University). Spui25, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  
  Click here for the evening programme and to register
  
  
• 19 January 2024: dr. Lorena De Vita, ‘Negotiating Reparations for Victims of National Socialism’, academic paper presentation at: Beyond 1945: Rethinking the end of the Second World War organised by dr. Thomas Bottelier and prof. Guillaume Piketty. Sciences Po Paris (France)