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PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on January 8th

January 2nd, 2024|0 Comments

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. Zoom [...]

PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on December 4th

October 30th, 2023|0 Comments

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 [...]

PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on November 6th

October 30th, 2023|0 Comments

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 [...]

CfP: Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition, 20–23 September 2023, Tallinn (DEADLINE EXTENDED: 10.02.2023)

January 30th, 2023|0 Comments

2nd PoSoCoMeS – MSA Working Group conference (20–23 September 2023, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia) CfP: Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition (Submission deadline: 10.02.2023) Following its highly successful 2020 online conference co-organised with the Institute of Oral History [...]

Introducing a New PoSoCoMeS Logo!

May 23rd, 2022|0 Comments

We are happy to announce that after four years of activity, PoSoCoMeS, the working group on post-socialist and comparative memory studies within the Memory Studies Association (MSA), changes its logo! The new logo visualizes the [...]

Resources for scholars in danger

March 6th, 2022|0 Comments

PoSoCoMeS is collecting information about fellowships and other resources for scholars from Ukraine and others affected by the war, especially those fleeing persecution in Russia or Belarus. Our list is already quite extensive; it also [...]

Statement on the invasion of Ukraine

February 25th, 2022|0 Comments

On 24 February 2022, the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. PoSoCoMeS condemns this war of aggression and stands in solidarity with our Ukrainian colleagues. Ukrainian memory studies experts have made [...]