Aftergrowth is a student-led forum for essays and reflections that explores war, human rights, international law and politics through the lens of memory and trauma. We believe that the personal bleeds into the academic, which is why our contributors publish two essays at a time: one academic article and one thematically linked personal story – such as travel writing, memoir, or narrative essay. This curational dual lens serves to strengthen and preserve the inextricable link between historiography , trauma, identity, and memory.
As of 2026, Aftergrowth has been serving as the literary arm of The Lemkin Society for Genocide Studies at Maastricht University .