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Huge thanks to the organizers of #MSA2025 in Prague for an inspiring conference.
The #MEMPOP team is grateful to the opportunity to exchange knowledge with such a fantastic group of scholars!

¡Hasta el próximo @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social ! 🇦🇷📚

Dear colleagues at the MSA conference, join us for the Memory and Populism working group meeting 👇

Johana Wyss and Jan Ort - double book launch | LinkedIn Dear colleagues, With great pleasure, we would like to invite you to join us for a special double book launch hosted by the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences: 🔹 Johana Wyss, PI of the ...

📚 Dear friends in Prague and MSA attendees, join us for a double book launch at the Institute of Ethnology CAS on Sunday at 5PM!
@johanawyss.bsky.social (PI of our #ERC #MEMPOP) and Jan Ort present their newest books
👇
www.linkedin.com/events/73487...

Humour, Memory, and Populism “From Below” in Istria: Preliminary Reflections | MEMPOP.ORG On February 27, 2025, La Voce del Popolo, the main newspaper of the Istrian Italian community in Croatia, featured a curious and provocative headline in Italian: “Đalović, il Terminator degli italiani...

In our latest #MEMPOP blog post, Laura Mafizzoli shares reflections from fieldwork in Istria, where jokes & irony shape political memory. #ERC #Istria

🔗 www.mempop.org/humour-memor...

Yesterday, #MEMPOP hosted two events with Prof. Florian Mühlfried. Check our webpage to find out more about the project events: mempop.org/glimpses/
#MEMPOP #ERC

🎉 MSA 2025 merch is live!

Grab your sustainable, non-profit souvenirs before May 31 & pick them up in Prague.

🛍️ Let’s make memories...mindfully.

Shop here 👉 mymerchstore.net/en/

#MSA2025Prague #MemoryStudies #SustainableMerch

Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants' The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...

The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning.

👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

Also, our postdoctoral researcher, Laura Mafizzoli, will present her paper, "Becoming a Memory Activist: Political Agency and the KGB Documents of the MIA Archive in Tbilisi, Georgia."

Looking forward to seeing you there!

#erc #MEMPOP

Only 3 days left to apply for the Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization conference at Nottingham Trent, where our PI
@johanawyss.bsky.social will join the closing roundtable alongside Jeff Olick (Chair), Aleida Assmann, Stef Craps, Paul Max Morin & Hannah Wilson.

🔗 aimsntu.org/conference/

Exciting news and opportunities from Prague - GWZO is opening a department "Knowledge and Participation." There are 2 Posdocs and 2 Doctoral researchers opportunities 👇👇👇https://www.leibniz-gwzo.de/sites/default/files/dateien/Ausschreibung_Prag_2025_en.pdf

Call for applications

An exciting workshop in November at a fellow #ERC project CONSPIRATIONS projekt.ht.lu.se/conspiration...

...and left-wing populism as well. Share your thoughts with us! #MEMPOP

An interesting day for the researchers of right-wing populism.

Glimpses | MEMPOP.ORG Images from our fieldwork & research

If you are interested in our #ERC day-to-day activities, you can head to our glimpses section, where we share images and impressions from our fieldworks and seminars mempop.org/glimpses/ #MEMPOP

Registration has been extended to April 6, and we are so looking forward to this year's MSA in our hometown!

Research Positions (PhD positions) <br /> &nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;

🚨 2 PhD Positions in Bielefeld at the project "Mnemonic Populism in Contemporary Europe" led by Prof. Dr. Kornelia Kończal 🚨 Spread the word! uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/412...

A gentle reminder for colleagues in Bruxelles not to miss this exciting lecture tomorrow by our PI @johanawyss.bsky.social

Dear colleagues, Tomorrow's talk will start at 3pm instead of 2PM. The ZOOM link and the location stay the same. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you tomorrow. #MEMPOP #ERC

Conférence Johana WYSS - Mnemonic Exclusion and the Politics of Memory: A Case Study of the Velvet Revolution - LAMC - Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains

We are incredibly proud to announce that our PI @johanawyss.bsky.social will hold a lecture on Thursday, March 13 in Brussels at the Laboratorie d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains! Bienvenues!
tinyurl.com/5xte4s5w

Book Talk with Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University) | LinkedIn The MEMPOP Team cordially invites you to the upcoming hybrid book talk “Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History” by Balázs Trencsényi (Centr...

📌🗓 Save the date

Tuesday Marhch 11, 2PM

book talk with Balázs Trencsényi! www.linkedin.com/events/73035...

After an eventful first week of March, we will continue with exciting events next week. First on our agenda will be one of the leading European historians, Balázs Trencsényi, in a dialogue with Diána Vonnák on March 11 at 2pm in the Cefres library (and online) cefres.cz/en/events/bo...

It was a pleasure having you @jleser.bsky.social We hope that we will soon meet again and continue the discussions.

We hope we lived up to the expectations ;)

Dear colleagues, do not forget about our exciting lecture on Wednesday by @jleser.bsky.social www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/The-...

The Figure of the Wolf in German Far-Right Politics: Deliberations on Natur | LinkedIn Lecture by Julia Leser (CRC Dynamics of Security, Marburg University) Discussant: Thorsten Gieser (Institute of Ethnology, CAS) Julia Leser explores the intersection of socio-ecological transformati...

Dear colleagues, follow our LinkedIn page where we post about the project's activities, and do not forget about our event with @jleser.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/events/thefi...

another great event by the fellows of the Department of Ecological Anthropology @czechacademy.bsky.social

Follow @czechacademy.bsky.social the wonderful host of our #ERC project <3

An exciting hybrid event co-organized by our project on March 5 at The Institute of Ethnology in Prague with @jleser.bsky.social www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/The-...

A screenshot of the paper titled "Populist truth-making: a conceptual approach to populism in the context of European museums" published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies.

Our paper on "Populist Truth-Making" is out! This has been 4 years in the making and reflects our project's ongoing discussions about the concept.

#openaccess (thanks HU!) here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to share our new article "Banana Populism" published in Social Meedia + Society with @lanihart.bsky.social, @soschma.bsky.social and Mike Cole! We explore how populist leaders use mundane objects & whimsical imagery in political communication (1/7)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....