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 [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on November 18th
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. Zoom [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on October 7th
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 [...]
Call for Blog Posts
PoSoCoMeS enters the blogging space and is looking for guest contributors! 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 [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on June 3rd
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” [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on April 8th
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. Zoom [...]
PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar on January 8th
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
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
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 [...]
The 2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference: Program and registration
The 2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference "Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition" is approaching. It will be held at Tallinn University in Estonia on 20-23 September, and is hosted by the project "Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past [...]
CfP for a journal special issue: Dialogic Remembering beyond Reconciliation: Politics, Practices, and Potentialities
Call for papers for a journal special issue Dialogic Remembering beyond Reconciliation: Politics, Practices, and Potentialities Guest editors: Ksenia Robbe, Andrei Zavadski, and Agnieszka Mrozik In our age of human rights, ‘reconciliation’ has been an [...]
CfP: Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition, 20–23 September 2023, Tallinn (DEADLINE EXTENDED: 10.02.2023)
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 [...]
CfP: PoSoCoMeS stream at the MSA conference, 3-7 July 2023
PoSoCoMeS at the MSA conference, 3-7 July 2023, Newcastle On July 3-7, 2023, the Memory Studies Association (MSA) organizes its 7th annual conference in Newcastle, United Kingdom, under the title "Communities and Change". At this [...]
PoSoCoMeS at the MSA working & regional groups online conference, 11-12 July 2022
PoSoCoMeS at the MSA working & regional groups online conference, 11-12 July 2022 On July 11-12, 2022, the Memory Studies Association (MSA) hosts a working & regional groups online conference jointly organized by the MSA’s [...]