Aktuality
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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. -
Call for papers! Special Issue Memory Studies: Memory and Resilience
Following the MSA Prague 2025 Conference we invite all Prague participants and all current Memory Studies Association members to contribute to the Special Issue Memory Studies: Memory and Resilience, which will be co-edited by Maria Alina Asavei, Kateřina Králová, and Juliane Tomann. The deadline (for proposals) is Dec 15, 2025. -
Prof. Králová will be presenting her book at Yale University
We are delighted to share that Kateřina Králová, head of RCMS will be giving a talk at Yale University next week on her book, Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946 (Brandeis University Press, 2025). It explores the rarely told stories of Greek Jews who returned home after World War II—revealing the complex realities of survival, loss, and reintegration in postwar Greece. -
IMS FSV UK offers a Ph.D. position in the Horizon Europe SOCIAL project "Sociology of Authoritarian Law: Insights from Central Asia"
The Institute of International Studies at Charles University's Faculty of Social Sciences is opening a Ph.D.
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Podcast on Serbian Orthodox Church with Karin Hofmeisterová
RCMS member Karin Hofmeistrová was recently a guest on the Hej Slované podcast. Together with host Jakub Novosad, they discussed the role of the Orthodox Church in Serbia, its links to political structures, especially the regime of Aleksandar Vučić, and its historical role in shaping Serbian identity. The interview covers the period from the establishment of the position of Orthodoxy in the Ottoman Empire, through its significant strengthening after 2000, to the current situation during the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. -
Invitation: online seminar with Tereza Juhászová
We warmly invite you to a seminar with RCMS member - Tereza Juhászová! She will be prezenting her work on "Navigating Turbulent Times: A Microhistory of a Multilingual Small Town in Mid-20th Century Slovakia".Tereza has recently defended her dissertation on this topic and we are sure that visiting Nižný Medzev and exploring it's diverse community with her will be an inspiring and thought-provoking journey. Join her in a debate with Tomasz Rawski (Center for Research on Social Memory Center for Research on Social Memory). The event will take place online: Tue, 4 November at 9:30am CET.
