Join us at York University or online (details forthcoming) on April 3, 2025 from 12-2 p.m. EST in celebrating the launch of Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Reflections, edited by Professor Alison Crosby and Heather Evans.

Memorializing Violence brings together feminist and queer reflections on the transnational lives of memorialization practices, asking what it means to grapple with loss, mourning, grief, and desires to collectively remember and commemorate–as well as urges to forget–in the face of disparate yet entangled experiences of racialized and gendered colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. The volume uses a transnational feminist approach to ask, How do such efforts in seemingly unconnected remembrance landscapes speak to, with, and through each other in a world order inflected by colonial, imperial, and neoliberal logics, structures, and strictures? How do these memorializing initiatives not only formulate within but move through complex transnational flows and circuits, and what transpires as they do? What does it mean to inhabit loss, mourning, resistance, and refusal through memorialization at this moment, and what’s at stake in doing so? What might transnational feminist analyses of gender, race, sexuality, class, and nation have to offer in this regard?

The book features work by Carmela Murdocca, Amber Dean, Karine Duhamel, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, María de los Ángeles Aguilar, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Shahrzad Mojab, Chowra Makaremi, Ayu Ratih, Honor Ford-Smith, Juanita Stephen, Erica S. Lawson, Ola Osman, Alma Cordelia Rizzo Reyes, Charlotte Henay, Camille Turner & Mila Mendez. The book is available for pre-order at this link: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/memorializing-violence/9781978843257/

Professor Alissa Trotz from the University of Toronto will be the discussant for the launch. More details to follow!

Co-sponsored by the York Research Chair in Reparative and Racial Justice, the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, and the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies.

We are live! Thanks to the dedicated efforts of the Research Team and our web programming and design consultant, as well as the generosity of our funders, we are delighted to launch the Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues project website. This website will function as the primary source of information about, and updates on, the project and its activities. Later this year, the website will also be the point of access for our interactive, crowdsourced digital archive. To the best of our knowledge, it will be the first digital archive on memory and memorialization through a transnational feminist lens. Find out how you can contribute to this innovative archive here.

In October of 2019, the Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues project co-sponsored an international conference at the University of Toronto with Equity Studies at New College, University of Toronto and the Decolonization, Social Movements and Performance in the Caribbean and Canada: 1968-1988 workshop at York University. The conference gave scholars, artists and activists the opportunity to dialogue about critical transnational feminist theoretical engagements with memory and memorialization, highlighting the legacies and continuities of colonialism and centring Indigenous thought on both the notions of memory, remembrance and transnationality. The program, including the list of presenters, is available for viewing and download. Reclaiming Justice Full Program