Monday, 7th April 2025, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Magdalena Schmukalla discusses her book Communist Ghosts: Post-Communist Thresholds, Critical Aesthetics and the Undoing of Modern Europe (2021) with Liene Ozoliņa.
Communist Ghosts […]
PoSoCoMeS will have a strong presence at this year’s Memory Studies Association conference in Prague, taking place from July 14–18, 2025. Our contributions include nine panels, two roundtable discussions, and one individual paper.
We have created a dedicated page, […]
Monday, 17th March 2025, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Mischa Gabowitsch and Mykola Homanyuk discuss their book Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine (Central European University Press, February 2025) with Ekaterina Haskins and Yuliya Yurchuk.
Monday, 3rd March, 4:00 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora discuss their co-edited book Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolutions with Redi Koobak.
Moving past the conflation of state […]
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the 3rd PoSoCoMeS Conference, titled “Post-Socialist Memory in Times of Crises and Speculation,” which will be held in Yerevan, Armenia, from January 22–24, 2026. The conference is organized in collaboration with the project Conspiratorial Memory: […]
Monday, 20th January, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Ekaterina Haskins discusses her book entitled Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memory in Putin’s Russia (Penn State University Press 2024) with Elizaveta Gaufman and Alexandra Yatsyk.
Monday, 2nd December 2024, 6:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Karin Roginer Hofmeister discusses her book entitled “Remembering Suffering and Resistance Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church” (CEU Press, 2023) with Zuzanna Bogumił.
Assessing […]
Monday, 18th November 2024, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Neringa Klumbytė discusses her book entitled “Authoritarian Laughter. Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania” (Cornell University Press, 2023) with Julie Hemment and Jogilė Ulinskaitė.
Authoritarian Laughter explores […]
Monday, 7th October 2024, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko discuss thier book entitled “In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos” (MIT Press, 2023) with Mischa Gabowitsch and Anna Topolska.
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 […]
