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 [...]
Introducing a New PoSoCoMeS Logo!
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 [...]
Online Seminar #15: Online portal „The GDR in Film”
At the monthly PoSoCoMeS seminar on 7 November 2022, 5.30 pm (CET), Holger Pötzsch discusses how the GDR past is constructed in features films, series, and documentaries, with Daria Gordeeva, editor of the online [...]
Online Seminar #13: Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research
At the monthly PoSoCoMeS seminar on 5 September, 2022, 5.30 pm (CET), Amy Sodaro discusses aspects of digital Holocaust Memory production and dissemination in post-Socialist states with chapter authors Sanna Stegmaier, Svetlana Ushakova and [...]
Online Seminar #12: Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe
At the monthly PoSoCoMeS seminar on 6 June 2022, at 5.30 pm (CET), TBA discusses memory preservation and production with Stephen N. Norris, editor of the book: "Museums of Communism. New Memory Sites in [...]
Online Seminar #11: Unwilling Witnesses. Women, Former Political Detainees, and the Memory of Communism in Romania
At the 11th PoSoCoMeS seminar on 2 May 2022, at 5.30 pm (CET), Ionuț Biliuță discusses aspects of the memory of post-communist resistance with Claudia-Florentina Dobre within the context of the book under discussion: [...]
Resources for scholars in danger
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 [...]