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 [...]
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 [...]