Center for Research on Social Memory

Our Center investigates how groups and societies make sense of the past. With a focus on East-Central Europe, we explore a wide range of topics, including memories of war and socio-political transformation, memory politics and history policies, as well as mnemonic structures and memory activism. We examine how history is mobilized – and to what ends – by politicians, educators, heritage professionals, and other memory makers.

The Center is based at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, and continues the work of the Social Memory Laboratory, established in 2010.

News & updates

December 19, 2024

Projects

The researchers of the Center pursue individual projects of their own choice and have been also involved in several international and national collaborative projects.

Publications

Our publications, mainly in Polish and English, cover wide range of uses of the past in nation-building, religious, cultural, and economic processes in East-Central Europe.

Education

Each year we offer several courses related to memory studies and cultural heritage for BA and MA students at the University of Warsaw (in Polish or English). We also collaborate with MA and doctoral students in our research projects.

About Us

We are a group of interdisciplinary scholars working at the intersection of sociology, history, social anthropology, and cultural studies.
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Center for Research on Social Memory

Our Center investigates how groups and societies make sense of the past. With a focus on East-Central Europe, we explore a wide range of topics, including memories of war and socio-political transformation, memory politics and history policies, as well as mnemonic structures and memory activism. We examine how history is mobilized – and to what ends – by politicians, educators, heritage professionals, and other memory makers.

The Center is based at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, and continues the work of the Social Memory Laboratory, established in 2010.

News & updates

December 19, 2024

Projects

The researchers of the Center pursue individual projects of their own choice and have been also involved in several international and national collaborative projects.

Publications

Our publications, mainly in Polish and English, cover wide range of uses of the past in nation-building, religious, cultural, and economic processes in East-Central Europe.

Education

Each year we offer several courses related to memory studies and cultural heritage for BA and MA students at the University of Warsaw (in Polish or English). We also collaborate with MA and doctoral students in our research projects.

About Us

We are a group of interdisciplinary scholars working at the intersection of sociology, history, social anthropology, and cultural studies.
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Center for Research on Social Memory

Our Center investigates how groups and societies make sense of the past. With a focus on East-Central Europe, we explore a wide range of topics, including memories of war and socio-political transformation, memory politics and history policies, as well as mnemonic structures and memory activism. We examine how history is mobilized – and to what ends – by politicians, educators, heritage professionals, and other memory makers.

The Center is based at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, and continues the work of the Social Memory Laboratory, established in 2010.

News & updates

December 19, 2024

Projects

The researchers of the Center pursue individual projects of their own choice and have been also involved in several international and national collaborative projects.

Publications

Our publications, mainly in Polish and English, cover wide range of uses of the past in nation-building, religious, cultural, and economic processes in East-Central Europe.

Education

Each year we offer several courses related to memory studies and cultural heritage for BA and MA students at the University of Warsaw (in Polish or English). We also collaborate with MA and doctoral students in our research projects.

About Us

We are a group of interdisciplinary scholars working at the intersection of sociology, history, social anthropology, and cultural studies.
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Center for Research on Social Memory

Our Center investigates how groups and societies make sense of the past. With a focus on East-Central Europe, we explore a wide range of topics, including memories of war and socio-political transformation, memory politics and history policies, as well as mnemonic structures and memory activism. We examine how history is mobilized – and to what ends – by politicians, educators, heritage professionals, and other memory makers.

The Center is based at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, and continues the work of the Social Memory Laboratory, established in 2010.

News & updates

December 19, 2024

Projects

The researchers of the Center pursue individual projects of their own choice and have been also involved in several international and national collaborative projects.

Publications

Our publications, mainly in Polish and English, cover wide range of uses of the past in nation-building, religious, cultural, and economic processes in East-Central Europe.

Education

Each year we offer several courses related to memory studies and cultural heritage for BA and MA students at the University of Warsaw (in Polish or English). We also collaborate with MA and doctoral students in our research projects.

About Us

We are a group of interdisciplinary scholars working at the intersection of sociology, history, social anthropology, and cultural studies.
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Center for Research on Social Memory

Our Center investigates how groups and societies make sense of the past. With a focus on East-Central Europe, we explore a wide range of topics, including memories of war and socio-political transformation, memory politics and history policies, as well as mnemonic structures and memory activism. We examine how history is mobilized – and to what ends – by politicians, educators, heritage professionals, and other memory makers.

The Center is based at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, and continues the work of the Social Memory Laboratory, established in 2010.

News & updates

December 19, 2024

Projects

The researchers of the Center pursue individual projects of their own choice and have been also involved in several international and national collaborative projects.

Publications

Our publications, mainly in Polish and English, cover wide range of uses of the past in nation-building, religious, cultural, and economic processes in East-Central Europe.

Education

Each year we offer several courses related to memory studies and cultural heritage for BA and MA students at the University of Warsaw (in Polish or English). We also collaborate with MA and doctoral students in our research projects.

About Us

We are a group of interdisciplinary scholars working at the intersection of sociology, history, social anthropology, and cultural studies.
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Dr Tomasz Rawski

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw

Tomasz Rawski is a political and cultural sociologist. He deals with issues of nationalism, symbolic/memory politics and nation-/state-building in contemporary Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the former Yugoslavia, Poland and Russia. He published a book on Bosniak strategies of nation-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1995, as well as several articles on these topics. Tomasz participated in several research projects focused on memory studies, including Horizon2020: REPAST. He was a visiting scholar at University College London, Uppsala University and University of Sarajevo.

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