research interests
Film Studies, Cultural Memory Studies, Media and Culture, Indonesian Popular Culture, Dutch East Indies Literature
Events
Can you put your arm around me too? Positive affect, resistance, and the remembrance of profound love during World War II
At this year's annual Memory Studies Association Conference, I will co-present the paper “Can you put your arm around me too? Positive affect, resistance, and the remembrance of profound love during World War II” with psychologist and independent researcher Jilly Vlekke. This interdisciplinary paper argues that narratives of resistance that show profound love can provide fertile ground for eliciting positive affect in the present.
Edible Heritage and Gastronational Memories: Postcolonial food media, ownership of intangible cultural heritage, and a shared colonial past
This paper draws from my larger ongoing research project. It takes the tradition of the ‘rijsttafel’ (rice table) as starting point to discuss how eating practices that emerged in the Dutch East Indies are now postcolonially experienced across the globe. To be presented at the Food and Memory: Practices, Narratives, and Afterlives of the Past conference organised by the University of Gastronomic Sciences.