In the latest #MEMPOP blog post, Franz Graf takes us to a village meeting in Burgerland where groundwater becomes a window into neo-feudal power, technocratic depoliticization, and populist translation. 📖 www.mempop.org/contesting-w... #ERCresearch

Contesting Water Authority: When Neo-Feudal Grievance Is Translated into Populist Politics in Burgenland’s Seewinkel | MEMPOP.ORG

In this fieldwork reflection from the Austrian region of Burgenland, Franz Graf explores how conflicts over water-management reveal deeper questions of land ownership, political voice, and why feeling...

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On Tuesday, June 9, at 5 PM, we will have a talk with Małgorzata Łukianow about her latest book: Memory in Postmigration Communities. Join us in person in Prague at @czechacademy.bsky.social or online 👇 www.facebook.com/events/10636...

A gentle reminder for our event tomorrow! #MEMPOP #ERC 👇

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📢 Upcoming dMSA Event | Roundtable Discussion This event explores how memories of migration, displacement, violence, and shifting borders shape contemporary populist politics across Eastern and Central Europe. www.memorystudiesassociation.org/event/memory...

We are happy to invite you to our panel at dMSA on June 4! #MEMPOP #ERC #MEMORYSTUDIES ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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📢 Upcoming dMSA Event | Roundtable Discussion This event explores how memories of migration, displacement, violence, and shifting borders shape contemporary populist politics across Eastern and Central Europe. www.memorystudiesassociation.org/event/memory...

Read our associated researcher's Astrea Nikolovska piece on the radioactive war remnants in Serbia #MEMPOP #ERCResearch www.eurozine.com/poison-and-p...

Poison and promise

When NATO intervened in the Yugoslav wars on 24 March 1999, depleted uranium weaponry punctured Serbian targets across the region, leaving permanent contamination behind. Populists, whose victim narra...

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📢 On 1 April, Czech President Petr Pavel visited the Institute of Ethnology (CAS) @czechacademy.bsky.social Our researcher Diána Vonnák presented the key research areas of the #MEMPOP project as part of the welcoming delegation. #ERCResearch #Anthropology www.mempop.org/output/mempo...

MEMPOP Presented During Visit of Czech President to the Institute of Ethnology | MEMPOP.ORG

On 1 April Czech President Petr Pavel visited the Institute of Ethnology, as part of his visit meeting centres of excellence within the Czech Academy of Sciences. Diána Vonnák presented the key resear...

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What does it mean to study populism from below? In our latest #MEMPOP blog, Diána Vonnák reflects on anthropology’s approach to populism beyond leaders and slogans, through everyday lives and relations. www.mempop.org/anthropology...

Anthropology’s Populism Question: A Note on Studying Populism from Below | MEMPOP.ORG

Diána Vonnák reflects on how anthropology can approach populism from below, not only as ideology or discourse, but as something embedded in everyday life, affect, and social experience.” Diána Vonnák ...

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The latest glimpse from our #MEMPOP team comes from the monument Eternal Flame, commemorating the 1999 NATO bombing. Erected without permission in Belgrade, it nests memory beyond the institutional frame—through candles, flowers, and presence. www.mempop.org/glimpses/ #ERC

Stay in touch with our research activities through fieldwork glimpses on our webpage www.mempop.org/glimpses/ The latest one comes from Lviv by our postdoctoral researcher Diána Vonnák: #MEMPOP #ERC

The latest fieldwork glimpse comes from Burgerland, by our post-doc, Franz Graf: "It does not take much rainfall for the peaty soil to recall its centuries-long character." Check out more glimpses at www.mempop.org/glimpses/

In December and January, our postdoctoral researchers, Franz Graf and Laura Mafizzoli, were guest lecturers at the Charles University Institute of Ethnology in Prague. Read more about this and our other activities at : www.mempop.org/output/mempo... #ERC #MEMPOP #CharlesUni

MEMPOP Postdocs Deliver Guest Lectures at Charles University | MEMPOP.ORG

Laura Mafizzoli and Franz Graf gave guest lectures at Charles University, exploring how borderland landscapes—from Istrian foibe to Austrian–Hungarian peatlands—shape memory, politics, and social ineq...

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📸 Check out the newest fieldwork glimpse that our postdoctoral researcher Diána Vonnák shared from the iconic Fedorov Square book market in Lviv mempop.org/glimpses/ #MEMPOP #ERC #Ukraine️ #visualanthropology

📸 Starting the new year with a new Fieldwork Glimpse by our postdoctoral researcher Laura Mafizzoli. More insights from her fieldwork will be shared at our institutional seminar in March. 🔗 www.mempop.org/glimpses/ #MEMPOP #ERC #ethnography #visualanthropology

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...

Astrea Nikolovska: Geopolitics Socks

Image 1: Gift shop window in Belgrade, May 2025, photo by Astrea Nikolovska In the mid-2010s, the tourist center of Belgrade was full of various souvenirs featuring the image of Vladimir Putin. T-shir...

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Why populism became popular

[FREE TO READ] It appeals more to a way of thinking than to a set of ideas — but is it just wrong?

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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

Quaking time | OtherwiseMag

'The past makes the present shudder under the weight of conflicting historical truths' - Read Laura Mafizzoli's piece in the Graphic issue.

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🧦 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

Stepping into Ambivalence - Populism from Below in Serbia | MEMPOP.ORG

Autumn has officially arrived, and with it, the long season of socks is upon us. In Belgrade, one can keep their feet warm in the company of some rather unexpected figures: Vladimir Putin, Donald Trum...

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☕ 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

Glimpses | MEMPOP.ORG

Images from our fieldwork & research

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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

Listening to the Alienated: Johana Wyss and MEMPOP in A-Magazine | MEMPOP.ORG

An article about Johana Wyss, her research, and the MEMPOP project was featured in the latest issue of A-Magazine, published by the Czech Academy of Sciences. The piece explores the rise of populism n...

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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

Mnemonic Inclusion and Belonging in Populism | MEMPOP.ORG

Mnemonic inclusion in populism is a way to think beyond the usual binaries that dominate the study of memory and populism. Rather than seeing populist memory politics only as exclusionary or antagonis...

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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 👇

📚 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...

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 ...

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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...

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...

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