RCMS in Washington for the ASEEES 57th Annual Convention

Four members of the Research Centre for Memory Studies (RCMS)— Tereza Juhászová, Ivana Koutníková, Ondřej Klípa, and Kateřina Králová — travelled to Washington, D.C. to take part in this year’s Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention.

In their joint panel “Memory Across Borders: Postwar Displacement, Testimonies, and Transnational Narratives”, Kateřina, Ivana, and Tereza — together with colleagues from Poland and Czechia — presented their research on the memories of displaced individuals in Central and Eastern Europe, examining the long-term impact of traumatic experiences and transnational memory flows. Ivana presented her work on “Testimonies of Condemned: Reflecting on Swedish-Czech Testimonies of WWII Refugees”. Tereza introduced her “Post-Memories of Displacement: The Expulsion of Germans from Slovakia in Individual Perspectives Across Borders” and Kateřina talked about “Greek Civil War Refugees in Czechoslovakia and How They Remember”.

Our RCMS members also attended the Czech and Slovak Studies meeting with its long-time leader and frequent IMS visiting professor, Chad Bryan.

Additionally, Kateřina Králová joined the Hellenic Studies Society meeting, and presented her latest book, Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946 (Brandeis University Press, 2025).