PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on January 28
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, [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on January 14th
Wednesday, 14 January 2026, 5:00 CET The 36th session of the seminar series will be the PoSoCoMeS Pre-conference seminar. Link: https://teams.live.com/meet/9361814345634?p=F2RnOYriXF2vpWL2rf Remembering Rupture and the Loss of Terroir: Artsakh Foodways in Displacement Presenter: Ruzanna [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on December 15th
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. Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/j/99595105069 About the [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on November 27th
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. Zoom link: [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on October 6th
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) [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on June 16th
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. Zoom [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on June 2nd
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 [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on May 5th
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. Zoom [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on April 7th
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. Zoom link: https://lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/61182078743?pwd=TEpTM1BGRGZueXkyekpTaGpvU2tMUT09 [...]
PoSoCoMeS at MSA 2025
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 [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on March 17th
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 [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on March 3rd
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. Zoom link: https://lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/61182078743?pwd=TEpTM1BGRGZueXkyekpTaGpvU2tMUT09 About the book Moving [...]
Call for Papers: 3rd PoSoCoMeS Conference in Yerevan 2026
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 [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on January 20th
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 [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on December 2nd
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. Zoom [...]