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.

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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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"; Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe. International conference for heritage scholars and practitioners – Center for Research on Social Memory

Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe. International conference for heritage scholars and practitioners

2020-10-21
 – 2020-10-24

The Center for Research on Social Memory, ECHOES project

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Post- and decolonial approaches already have a strong foothold in post-socialist Eastern European scholarship and public discourse with regard to the legacies of Russian/Soviet, German/Nazi, Habsburg, Polish, and Ottoman imperialisms. But in practice, the impact of decolonial critique has been limited to temporary interventions rather than more sustainable heritage methods and strategies. Similarly, the rediscovery of 19th and 20th-century entanglements among East-Central Europe, Asia, and the Global South by historians have been only weakly echoed in the museum sector. Overseas collections in East-Central European museums call for special attention with regard to both their histories and futures.

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