The Popular Dynamics team at the PoSoCoMeS conference in Yerevan
Panel “Imagined Pasts, Invented Traditions” featuring papers by project members Matthias Schwartz, Nina Weller, Indira Hajnács and Aleksandra Szczepan at the 3rd PoSoCoMeS (Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies) – MSA Working Group conference “Post-Socialist Memory in Times of Crises and Speculation”, Yerevan, 22-24 January 2026
Where: Yerevan State University
When: 24 January 2026, 12:45–2:30 p.m.
Panel 6.2 “Imagined Pasts, Invented Traditions”
24 January 2026
12:45–2:30 p.m.
Indira Hajnács (GWZO Leipzig) – “Strengthening the Eastern Roots”: Reinventing Ancient Musical Traditions in Hungary
Matthias Schwartz (ZfL Berlin) – Reimagining the Communist Past: Resentment and Escapism in Recent Eastern European Popular Culture
Aleksandra Szczepan (U Potsdam) – Imagining the People, Remembering the Injustice: Peasants in Polish Popular Culture
Nina Weller (ZfL Berlin) – ‘Like the Cossacks…’ Reactivation and Rewriting of a Myth in Ukrainian Popular Culture (1970s–2000s)
Chair: John K. Cox (North Dakota State University)