Wrapping up an intensive year of fieldwork, the #MEMPOP team gathered for a workshop with Nicolette Makovicky to reflect on returning from the field and transitioning from data to analysis and writing. A great discussion & team spirit! #Anthropology #ERCResearch #ERC #Fieldwork

A new journal article by our post-doctoral researcher, Laura Mafizzoli, in the @asiacitalia.bsky.social journal on how an archival research of the KGB files can catalyse memory activism! "Becoming a Memory Activist" is oppen acces: riviste.fupress.net/index.php/as... #MEMPOP #ERC

Focaal blog reposted the post by our associated researcher, Astrea Nikolovska, initally published on mempop.org. We are happy to see that the interest in our researchers work is growing! #MEMPOP #ERC www.focaalblog.com/2025/11/17/a...

Why populism become popular on.ft.com/3WPrxXX

Visit our FB page www.facebook.com/profile.php?... to see the latest academic adventures of our team. #MEMPOP #ERC #anthropology #memorystudies #populism

We are thrilled to share this immersive "ethno-graphic" by our post-doctoral researcher Laura Mafizzoli www.otherwisemag.com/quaking-time Learn more about Laura's work in this interview: www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-aut... #MEMPOP #ERC #visualanthropology

🧦 Autumn in Belgrade comes with a twist — you can keep your feet warm with Putin, Trump, or Kim Jong-un. In our new #MEMPOP blog, Astrea Nikolovska explores populism from below, one sock at a time. 👉 mempop.org/stepping-int... #ERC #Populism #Serbia

☕ Next Tuesday, October 14, at 9am, The Department of Mobility and Migration at the Institute of Ethnology at @czechacademy.bsky.social hosts Daria Krivonos for an exciting "Morning Brew Talk" 👇 For online attendance and details, see the link 👇 🔗 www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Back...

Our PI @johanawyss.bsky.social shared the newest glimpse from her fieldwork during the Czech elections last weekend mempop.org/glimpses/ #MEMPOP #ERC

Next tuesday in Brno and online, a lecture by #MEMPOP postdoctoral researcher Franz Graf 🔗 www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/What...

🍂 The #MEMPOP team kicks off autumn activities! Our researcher Diána Vonnák joined the #GenealogiesOfMemory conference in Berlin, speaking on the curation of stolen & endangered heritage in Ukraine. 👉 Follow our glimpses: mempop.org 📸 Jan Prosiński / ENRS #ERC

📰 New feature in @CzechAcademy A-Magazine: In the article “Listening to the Alienated,” @johanawyss.bsky.social presents the #MEMPOP core question: why do populist leaders’ words resonate with so many? 👉 www.mempop.org/output/liste... #MEMPOP #ERC

New blog post by our PI @johanawyss.bsky.social on "mnemonic inclusion," exploring how populist politics give space to those left out of official memory. mempop.org/mnemonic-inc... #MEMPOP #ERC #MemoryStudies #Populism

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 👇

📚 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...

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

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

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

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.

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!

🚨 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

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

📌🗓 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...

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-...

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-...

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....

🔊New podcast episode of Seriously Balkans - The #BiEPAGtalks. 🔹#StudentProtests in #Serbia 🎙️BiEPAG Coordinator @fbieber.bsky.social discusses the demands, the protests themselves and the atmosphere with two students from University of Belgrade. #SerbiaProtests 🎧 tinyurl.com/59y3ae6z

The first week of February was eventful for our project. Our team member Diána Vonnák gave a lecture about local networks of military support in an East Ukrainian town, and yesterday, Alice von Bieberstein presented her upcoming book about accumulation through dispossession in Turkey www.mempop.org

The political temperature in Serbia is definitely edging upwards. Bigger crowds on the streets today for protests - President Vucic has organised his own counter-rally in Jagodina as he faces a sustained challenge. AP story here: