Monday, 23 February 2026, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Jan Kubik and Richard C. M. Mole discuss their co-edited book The Anatomy of Right-Wing Populism: Dealing with transformational fatigue in Central and Eastern Europe (UCL Press, 2025) with Dovilė Budrytė and
Wednesday, 28 January 2026, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Una Bergmane discusses her book Politics of Uncertainty: The United States, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Oxford University Press, 2023) with Andris Banka.
Moderator: Dr. Viktorija Jonkutė, The Institute […]
Wednesday, 14 January 2026, 5:00 CET
The 36th session of the seminar series will be the PoSoCoMeS Pre-conference seminar.
Presenter: Ruzanna Tsaturyan, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan State University, Armenia
This seminar examines […]
Monday, 15 December 2025, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Catherine Wanner discusses her book Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine (Cornell University Press, 2022) with Zuzanna Bogumił.
Everyday […]
Thursday, 27 November 2025, 4:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair discusses her book Commemoration of World War II in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War (transcript, 2024) with Mischa Gabowitsch.
Monday, 6 October 2025, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Bartłomiej Krzysztan discusses his book Representations of Collective Memory in Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia and Nagorno Karabakh. The Political, Memory and Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) with Gayane Shagoyan and Malkhaz Toria.
Monday, 16 June 2025, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Svitlana Biedarieva discusses her books Art in Ukraine between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance (Routledge, 2024) and Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukrainian-Russian Case (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) with Valeria Korablyova and Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė.
Monday, 2 June 2025, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Katie L. Stewart discusses her book Legitimating Nationalism: Political Identity in Russia’s Ethnic Republics (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024) with Guzel Yusupova and Ekaterina V. Haskins.
Monday, 5 May 2025, 5:30 CET
At this PoSoCoMeS seminar, Kate Korycki discusses her book Weaponizing the Past: Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First Century Poland (2023) with Brian Porter-Szűcs.
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 […]
