Dear Scholars and Researchers,
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our blog, dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary discussions in the field of Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies. Join the conversation!
Historical memory plays a dynamic and pivotal […]
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar on 3 June 2024, Monday, 5.30 pm (CET), Lea David discusses her book entitled “The Past Can’t Heal Us! The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights” (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Gruia Bădescu.
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar on 8 April 2024, Monday, 5.30 pm (CET), Timothy Williams discusses his book entitled “The Complexity of Evil. Perpetration and Genocide” (Rutgers University Press, 2020) with Jonathan Leader Maynard.
Why do people participate in genocide? […]
At the monthly PoSoCoMeS seminar on 8 January 2024, Monday, 5.30 pm (CET), Veronika Pehe, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Jogilė Ulinskaitė and Ute Hirsekorn discuss the neoliberal turn and collective memory in Eastern Europe after 1989.
At the monthly PoSoCoMeS seminar on 4 December 2023, Monday, 5.30 pm (CET), historians Diana Cucuz and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz discuss how during the early Cold War, USIA officials used idealized images of American women as happy, fulfilled, and feminine wives, mothers, and homemakers to showcase a […]
At the monthly PoSoCoMeS seminar on 6 November 2023, Monday, 5.30 pm (CET), Beata Nessel-Łukasik discusses the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization in museums constructed after 1991 in former communist countries that deal with their communist experience, with Stephen Norris, the editor of the book under discussion: […]
Guest editors: Ksenia Robbe, Andrei Zavadski, and Agnieszka Mrozik
In our age of human rights, ‘reconciliation’ has been an aspiration of virtually all post-conflict societies or states that ‘transitioned’ from colonial, dictatorial or authoritarian […]
Following its highly successful 2020 […]
On July 3-7, 2023, the Memory […]
