CfP deadline extended to May 31 | The Pilecki Institute’s Congress “Embracing the New, Preserving the Old: Studying Fascism, Communism, and Totalitarianism in the 2020s” - Instytut Pileckiego

The deadline for submitting paper proposals for our conference “Embracing the New, Preserving the Old: Studying Fascism, Communism, and Totalitarianism in the 2020s” has been extended to midnight May 31.

The conference, hosted by the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw in partnership with the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polish History Museum in Warsaw, and the Davis Center at Harvard University, will be held in Warsaw on October 14-15. We are inviting historians, political scientists, sociologists, scholars of culture and media, and others interested to reflect on methods, cases, and knowledge production related to the study of fascism, communism, and totalitarianism in the 2020s. We seek to foster an interdisciplinary conversation on how the pasts and presents of fascism, communism, and totalitarianism continue to shape scholarly, political, and cultural activity across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. 

The language of the conference is English.

There will be some funding available for travel and hotel expenses, particularly for those travelling from Europe and overseas.

Please email proposals to conference2026@instytutpileckiego.pl:

• Individual paper proposals should contain a title, an abstract of approximately 250 words and a biographical note about the speaker of maximum 100 words.

• Panel proposals should contain a title and brief description and 3-4 abstracts (250 words each) along with biographical notes (100 words) in a single document. Indicate a proposed moderator on the first page.

• Roundtable proposals should contain a title, brief description and an overall abstract of 250 words along with biographical notes for 3-4 speakers in a single document. Indicate a proposed moderator on the first page.

• Email documents in .docx or .pdf format  to: conference2026@instytutpileckiego.pl.

For more information about the conference, please have a look at our web page:
https://instytutpileckiego.pl/en/badania/konferencje/embracing-the-new-preserving-the-old-studying-fascism/call-for-papers.