Rimantė Jaugaitė is a recent PhD graduate from the Global Histories, Cultures and Politics programme at the University of Bologna. Her dissertation explored the artistic use of coffee rituals in commemorating the Srebrenica genocide. While her recent research has focused on the Balkans, she is also interested in the wider Eastern European region and holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES). She is drawn to alternative memory practices, counter-narratives and memory activism, nationalism and its impact on memory and identity, including hybrid and fluid identities. In the MEPOST project, she will focus on researching industrial heritage sites in Lithuania and Poland.