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Kazimierz Moczarski, lawyer, journalist, Home Army soldier and author of the famous "Conversations with an Executioner". Imprisoned, tortured and persecuted by the communist regime of the People's Republic of Poland.

As every year on 23 August, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes, the ENRS recalls those persecuted in the name of totalitarian and authoritarian ideologies.

"In Between?" is an educational project initiated in April 2016 by European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. The participants are given an opportunity to conduct research in the European borderland regions using oral history methodology. In 2019 the workshop was devoted to the 80th anniversary of the World War II outbreak on 1 September 1939 in Kashubia (Pomerania), close to the city of Gdańsk. The participants took part in artistic workshops and lectures, as well as they met inhabitants of the region and witnesses to history, in search for contemporary traces of memory of the traumatic events that took place in the Piaśnica forests in 1939–1940.

Prepared by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity in cooperation with historians from over a dozen countries, the exhibition is an attempt to synthesise the turbulent beginning of the interwar period with the focus mainly on East-Central Europe. Over 200 archive and multimedia materials – pictures, maps and films – together with individual stories of those who lived back then present a complex yet coherent picture of New Europe established in the east-central part of the continent. The main goal of the project is to illustrate the scale of the political changes and show their impact on current politics as well as to present different national memories. More information about the exhibition you will find here: https://enrs.eu/afterthegreatwar

Prior to 1914, women held electoral rights in only several countries worldwide. At the end and shortly after the Great War they were granted such rights in over 20 countries, including Poland, Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Georgia.

We invite visual arts amateurs and professionals, enthusiasts of history, cultural anthropology and sociology aged 18 – 25 to apply for the online edition of the international project In Between? – image and memory, which focuses on the relations between visual arts and memory studies. The project, taking place between 3 and 18 August 2020, will consist of a webinar, individual online masterclasses and a final photo competition. Application deadline is 28 June 2020.

The summary of the 8th European Remembrance Symposium in Paris. This edition's theme was: "The Making and Re-Making of Europe: 1919–2019".

Prof. Martin Schulze Wessel delivering a keynote speech: Universalist and Particularist Policy Legitimations in the Transformation Period Chair: Rafał Rogulski (ENRS) The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.

Sabine Stach (German Historical Institute): Guiding through Memory: A Case Study on (Post)Communism Tours Bartłomiej Krzysztan (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences): Capitalizing Socialism in Postcolonial Georgia. Post-socialist Economic Reality and Structure of Memory on Peripheral Flea Market Mykola Makhortykh (Amsterdam School of Communication Research): We Were Hungry, but we also Were Free: (Counter)Narratives of the Russia’s first post-Soviet Decade on Instagram Chair and discussant: Bogdan Iacob (University of Exeter) The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.

Till Hilmar (Yale University): Drawing Moral Lessons from Economic Transformations: Economic Memory, Deservingness and Social Relations in post-1989 (East) Germany and the Czech Republic Joanna Wawrzyniak (Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw), Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając (Kozminski University in Warsaw) Nostalgia and Moral Economy in Post-socialist Industry: Poland Mariusz Jastrząb (University of Warsaw) How Did We Survive? Official Corporate Histories from the Period of Systemic Change Chair and discussant: Florian Peters (Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin) The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.

Prof. Adam Mrozowicki delivering a keynote lecture: Coping with System Change: the ‘Grand History’ of Transformation and Biographical Experiences of Polish Workers Chair: Dr Małgorzata Pakier (ENRS) The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.

Commentators: Dr Veronika Pehe (Czech Academy of Sciences) Dr Mateusz Werner (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw) The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.

Dr Alex Condrache (University of Western Ontario): That is how Billionaires Smoke: The Nouveau Riche of the Transition in Romanian Post-Communist Cinema Olga Gontarska (Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences): Cinema without an Audience: Experience of Transformation Depicted in Ukrainian films Saygun Gökarıksel (Department of Sociology, Bogaziçi University): “The Great Betrayal”: 1989 and the “Secrets” of Poland’s New Capitalism Chair and discussant: dr Ksenia Robbe (Leiden University) The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.

Prof. Thomas Lindenberger (History Department and Hannah-Arendt-Institutefor Totalitarianism Studies, TU Dresden) giving a keynote speech entitled: "Transformation through Unification = Unification through Transformation? Regimes of Truth and the Discontent of Memories in the German Transformation Regime" The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.

Dr Veronika Pehe (Czech Academy of Sciences) "Let's Start a Business": The Memory of Entrepreneurship and the Czech Student Generation of 1989 Dr Gazela Pudar Drasko (Institute of Phillosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade): Post-Socialist Transformation in Serbia: Critical Perspective of Intellectuals Dr Katarzyna Waniek (institute of Sociology, University of Łódź) Biographical experiences of transformation in the cohort born 1980-1990. A case analysis Chair and discussant: Dr Oldřich Tůma (Czech Academy of Sciences, ENRS) The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.

Dr Rigels Halili (Centre for East European Countries, University of Warsaw): Post-communist Transformation, Social Memory and Blaming of the “Other” – the Case of Albania Dr Jill Massino (University of North Carolina at Charlotte): Pluralism or Plutocracy? Popular Expectations and Perspectives of Economic Change in Post-socialist Romania Andrzej Pabisiak (Institute of Sociology, Jagielonnian University): Thirty Years After: The Collective Memory of Transition in Poland based on Research on Polish Sejm Transcripts Chair and discussant: Saygun Gökarıksel The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.

Dr Florian Peters (Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin): Shock Therapy Mythologies: Contested Memories of Poland's Balcerowicz Plan Dr Muriel Blaive (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Prague): Velvet Revolution, Economic Reforms, and Lustration: A Trilogy Imposed by Circumstances or by Political Rivalry? Essay in Counterfactual History Wolf-Rüdiger Knoll ((Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin): A “Bad Bank” of Transformation: The Role of the “Treuhandanstalt” in the Collective Memory of East Germans after Reunification Chair and discussant: Prof. James Mark (University of Exeter) The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.

Prof. James Mark (University of Exeter) Dr Bogdan Iacob (University of Exeter) Dr Tobias Rupprecht (University of Exeter) Chair: Dr Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw) The 9th Genealogies of Memory conference aimed at exploring the still ongoing and dynamic process of memory sedimentation of the economic transformations, most of all the post-1989 changes in East-Central Europe, taking into account their contradictory valences ranging from unlimited opportunities to traumatic failure. The conference took place in Warsaw between 28 and 30 October 2019.