Daria Khlevniuk

a night time view of yerevan is armenia ALT: a night time view of yerevan is armenia

One week left to apply to the Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies Conference (Yerevan, January 2026). Was the previous conference the best one I attended? Yes. Will this be even better? It certainly might! www.posocomesyerevan2026.com

Where Does the Past End and the Present Begin? The Temporalities of Propaganda in the Russian War on Ukraine - (Mis)Translating Deceit Daria Khlevniuk, GN, Boris Noordenbos write about how Russian propaganda invokes the past to reshape perceptions of the present.

📢 Where does the past end and the present begin? explores the temporalities of propaganda in the Russian war on Ukraine.

Read it here: 🔗 www.mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog...

Thanks to our colleagues in the Mis(Translating) Deceit project, our typology of temporal relations in memory politics is now available in a more digestible form!

📢 Call for papers & panels is open – there’s still plenty of time to submit. Join us in January 2026 for what promises to be a fantastic few days of discussions and exchanges in Yerevan.

www.posocomesyerevan2026.com

Chișinău, Tallinn… and now Yerevan! The Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies conference is heading to Armenia for its third (!) edition, and I still can’t believe it’s happening!

Risk is evaluated differently by each researcher, especially in unclear, high-risk contexts. Supporting anonymity shouldn’t be the exception; it should be the norm.

We explained GN’s situation to BJS editors, and I’m grateful they allowed anonymity. But this practice needs to be normalized.

This was a true collaboration — our ideas, data analysis, and writing are so intertwined, it’s impossible to separate where one ends and the other begins.

An important detail about our latest paper (🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1468...): It’s co-authored by me, Boris, and our anonymous colleague, "GN."

Our typology isn’t just about our case—it’s a tool to analyze memory politics across different contexts.

Narratives range from keeping the past distant to collapsing time entirely—turning audiences into participants in a timeless, ongoing struggle. Moving beyond what is invoked, we focus on how these connections are narrated.

The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine This paper seeks to enhance memory studies' conceptual toolkit by reconsidering established perspectives on “memory politics.” The paper theorizes various modes of temporal connectivity cultivated th...

A new paper, co-authored with my fantastic colleagues, explores not what is remembered in politics but how the past and present are connected in narratives.

We propose a typology of temporal distances in memory politics. Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/1468...

New #OpenAccess book out! Our former colleague
@mgabo.bsky.social (now JGU Mainz) together with his co-author Mykola Homanyuk just released "Monuments and Territory. War Memorials in Russian Occupied Ukraine" (with CEU Press).

Belated announcement that I have finally released an openly-licensed collection of textual datasets extracted from Russia's main government websites.

Yearly update expected.

https://tadadit.xyz/posts/2024-10-russian-institutions-dataset/

Great news for the #BlueSkyStorians - Check out this *blue and bold* cover for Félix Krawatzek, Friedemann Pestel, Rieke Trimçev, and Gregor Feindt's forthcoming "Shades of Blue." Intrigued? You should be! More at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

It is happening! My second book is out and it can be yours 😁

The whole country in one ad. Hi, the US, it’s always an experience visiting you

I wonder if they ran polls to test which of the terms leads to less anxiety in the audience

The field of post-socialist memory studies might, at long last, set the agenda for broader memory studies rather than simply following established trends." posocomes.hypotheses.org

post-socialist memory was often portrayed as inadequate—either following behind the dominant “progressive” memory regime or failing to live up to it entirely. However, the current attention to social and economic rights presents an opportunity for a more nuanced understanding.

🚨 PoSoCoMeS has launched its blog, and I’ve contributed a reflection on post-socialist memory. No breakthroughs here, but this is where my thinking is at right now: "With the earlier emphasis on transitional justice and addressing violations of political and civic rights...

One unexpected perk of teaching outside my research (human rights/memory) is that course prep can double as family movie night inspiration. While preparing for a class on posthumanism & care, I stumbled on The Biggest Little Farm—my kids loved it!

Coming from the Russian context, the chaos around restricting protests feels both eerily familiar and like a distant memory from a time when protests were still somewhat allowed. The parallels are exhausting. Really hoping for the best in this case.

A protest against massive budget cuts in Dutch higher education was set for today—until, in a familiar move, the municipality called it off less than 24 hours prior due to "safety concerns." This sparked a whirlwind of messages, rumors, and a scramble to organize a smaller protest instead.