Business meetings on Zoom every other Friday at 9 am CET (Warsaw/Zagreb/Berlin/Amsterdam time). All welcome.

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Next meetings: 1 April, 15 April, 29 April, 13 May, 27 May

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NEWS

Jun 9

Announcement: PoSoCoMeS at the MSA working & regional groups online event, 11-12 July 2022

On July 11-12, 2022, the Memory Studies Association (MSA) launches a second part of the Week of Virtual Events 2022 with working &...

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May 23

Announcement: 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...

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May 16

Announcement: PoSoCoMeS website is moving!

Please be informed that starting from January 1, 2023, the current PoSoCoMeS website https://www.posocomes.org/ will no longer be...

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May 16

Online seminar #15: Online portal „The GDR in Film”

Daria Gordeeva in conversation with TBA PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar Series, session #15 Monday, 7 November, 2022 5.30 pm CET Zoom link:...

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Apr 7

Online seminar #14: Winning Women's Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and USSR

Diana Cucuz in conversation with TBA PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar Series, session #14 Monday, 3 October, 2022 5.30 pm CET Zoom link:...

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Apr 7

Online seminar #13: Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research

Victoria Grace Walden, Sanna Stegmaier, Svetlana Ushakova and Imogen Dalziel in conversation with Amy Sodaro PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar...

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Apr 6

Online seminar #12: RESCHEDULED!! Museums of Communism. New Memory Sites in CE and EE Europe

Stephen M. Norris in conversation with TBA PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar Series, session #12 PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THIS SEMINAR IS...

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Apr 1

Online seminar #11: Unwilling Witnesses. Women and the Memory of Communism in Romania

Claudia-Florentina Dobre in conversation with Ionuț Biliuță PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar Series, session #11 Monday, 2 May, 2022 5.30 pm CET...

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Mar 6

Resources for scholars in danger

PoSoCoMeS is collecting information about fellowships and other resources for scholars from Ukraine and others affected by the war,...

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Feb 25

Statement on the invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. PoSoCoMeS condemns this war of...

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Feb 8

Online seminar #9: Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Romania: Post-Communist Remembering

Monica Ciobanu in conversation with Roland Clark, Mihai-Stelian Rusu, and Joanna Wawrzyniak PoSoCoMeS online seminar series: session #9...

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Feb 7

Online seminar #8: RESCHEDULED! All Things Past: On Public History in Russia

Vera Dubina and Andrei Zavadski in conversation with Ivan Kurilla This event has been rescheduled! Please note the new date. PoSoCoMeS...

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Jan 23

Online seminar #10: RESCHEDULED! Remains of Socialism in Postsocialist Hungary

Maya Nadkarni in conversation with Ferenc Laczó PoSoCoMeS online seminar series: session #10 NEW DATE & TIME OF THIS SEMINAR Monday, 28...

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Jan 20

Announcement: MSA conference in Seoul (3-7 July 2022): call for submissions

NB. The MSA has extended the deadline until 5 February, so panel / paper proposals are still welcome! In 2022, the Memory Studies...

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Jan 14

Announcement: CfP for PoSoCoMeS panels at the Memory Studies Association 2022 online conference

This year, in addition to the onsite convention in Seoul, the MSA conference will have an online edition organised by the working and...

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Dec 14, 2021

Online seminar #7: Memory and Justice: Personal Reminiscences and Public Narratives of Communism

Daniela Koleva in conversation with Nikolai Vukov PoSoCoMeS Online Seminar Series, session #7 Monday, 10 January, 2022 5.30 pm CET Zoom...

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Nov 1, 2021

Online seminar #6: The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum

Twelve Museums, Six Countries, Systematic Analysis Stephan Jaeger in conversation with Daniel P. Reynolds PoSoCoMeS online seminar...

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Sep 30, 2021

Online seminar #5: Forest Entanglements in Communist and Authoritarian Pasts

Why the Future of Poland's Białowieża Primeval Forest Rests on its Interpretation Eunice Blavascunas in conversation with Patrice M....

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Sep 10, 2021

Online seminar #4: Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China

Bin Xu (Emory University) in conversation with Iza Ding (University of Pittsburgh) PoSoCoMeS online seminar series: session #4 4 October,...

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Aug 4, 2021

Online seminar #3: Environmental Memory and Migration

Małgorzata Praczyk in conversation with Adam Izdebski PoSoCoMeS online seminar series: session #3. 6 September, 5.30 pm CET. Zoom link:...

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Jun 9, 2021

Online seminar #2: The memory of the People's Liberation Struggle in Yugoslavia and beyond

Gal Kirn in conversation with Lana Lovrenčić PoSoCoMeS online seminar series: session #2 Monday, 2 August, 5.30 pm CET Zoom link:...

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Jun 7, 2021

PoSoCoMeS at the MSA conference in Warsaw, July 2021

UPDATED INFO! PoSoCoMeS is sponsoring a rich programme of events at and before the MSA's (online) conference in Warsaw in July 2021. Our...

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Apr 26, 2021

PoSoCoMeS Online Seminars. #1: Victory Day. Ethnographies of Post-Soviet Commemoration

We are thrilled to announce that PoSoCoMeS is launching a new series of online seminars which will take place onсe a month. The first,...

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Mar 15, 2021

PoSoCoMeS conference in September 2023: save the date!

Following its highly successful 2020 online conference co-organised with the Institute of Oral History of Moldova, PoSoCoMeS is preparing...

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Oct 3, 2020

PoSoCoMeS Group Zoom meetings (aka Business Meetings)

Many of you have expressed an interest in getting involved in our group's activities on a regular basis. We have therefore decided to...

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Oct 2, 2020

PoSoCoMeS CfP for MSA Warsaw

Here is our group's call for panels for the MSA's annual conference in Warsaw (5-9 July 2021). You can also find it on the MSA website,...

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Aug 26, 2020

PoSoCoMeS Video Interviews

As a pre-conference treat, we have prepared video interviews with colleagues in the field of post-socialist memory studies. In the...

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Aug 20, 2020

Draft Programme

The programme of our online conference is now available on the website. Soon it will be populated with links to video-presentations, so...

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Apr 17, 2020

Letters are out!

We sent out letters concerning our conference. Please, email us at posocomes@gmail.com if you applied to the conference but did not...

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Mar 20, 2020

PoSoCoMeS 2020 Conference in Chisinau update

Dear colleagues, Amid the uncertainty caused by the Corona/Covid crisis, we would like to provide a quick update on the PoSoCoMeS 2020...

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Jan 16, 2020

The deadline for submissions is extended until February 1

There is still time to submit proposals for the first PoSoCoMeS conference Post-Socialist Memory in a Global Perspective:...

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Dec 17, 2019

𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 PoSoCoMeS 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌

The panel Memories of Revolutions and Civil Wars was devoted to the paradoxes of commemorating the 1917 Revolution’s centennial in Russia.

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Nov 18, 2019

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐒𝐨𝐂𝐨𝐌𝐞𝐒 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

The Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies (PoSoCoMeS) working group is part of the Memory Studies Association

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NEWS

Announcement: PoSoCoMeS at the MSA working & regional groups online event, 11-12 July 2022

Announcement: Introducing a New PoSoCoMeS Logo!

Announcement: PoSoCoMeS website is moving!

Online seminar #15: Online portal „The GDR in Film”

Online seminar #14: Winning Women's Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and USSR

Online seminar #13: Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research

Online seminar #12: RESCHEDULED!! Museums of Communism. New Memory Sites in CE and EE Europe

Online seminar #11: Unwilling Witnesses. Women and the Memory of Communism in Romania

Resources for scholars in danger

Statement on the invasion of Ukraine

Online seminar #9: Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Romania: Post-Communist Remembering

Online seminar #8: RESCHEDULED! All Things Past: On Public History in Russia

Online seminar #10: RESCHEDULED! Remains of Socialism in Postsocialist Hungary

Announcement: MSA conference in Seoul (3-7 July 2022): call for submissions

Announcement: CfP for PoSoCoMeS panels at the Memory Studies Association 2022 online conference

Online seminar #7: Memory and Justice: Personal Reminiscences and Public Narratives of Communism

Online seminar #6: The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum

Online seminar #5: Forest Entanglements in Communist and Authoritarian Pasts

Online seminar #4: Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China

Online seminar #3: Environmental Memory and Migration

Online seminar #2: The memory of the People's Liberation Struggle in Yugoslavia and beyond

PoSoCoMeS at the MSA conference in Warsaw, July 2021

PoSoCoMeS Online Seminars. #1: Victory Day. Ethnographies of Post-Soviet Commemoration

PoSoCoMeS conference in September 2023: save the date!

PoSoCoMeS Group Zoom meetings (aka Business Meetings)

PoSoCoMeS CfP for MSA Warsaw

PoSoCoMeS Video Interviews

Draft Programme

Letters are out!

PoSoCoMeS 2020 Conference in Chisinau update

The deadline for submissions is extended until February 1

𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 PoSoCoMeS 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐒𝐨𝐂𝐨𝐌𝐞𝐒 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞