Embracing the New, Preserving the Old: Studying Fascism, Communism, and Totalitarianism in the 2020s - Streaming

Research / Conferences Embracing the New, Preserving the Old: Studying Fascism, Communism, and Totalitarianism in the 2020s

The following conference events will be streamed live and can be viewed at these links:

14 October 2026

9:30–10:30

Keynote Address by Juliane Fürst: The Contemporary History of Writing Soviet and Post-Soviet History or What War Did to Our Field

10:45–12:15

Session I-a: The Musealization of Forced Migrations in Poland: Deportations, Displacements, and Resettlements in the 20th Century

13:00–14:00

Keynote Address by John Connelly: Unexplored Origins of Totalitarianism: Russian and German Imperialisms in Comparative Perspective

14:15–15:45

Session II-a: Remembering and Contesting Georgia’s Soviet Past

16:00–17:30

Session III-a: Imported Revolutions? Eastern Europe, Afro-Asian Socialism, and the Road to the One-Party State

15 October 2026

9:00–10:30

Session IV-a: Authoritarianism, Dystopia, and Political Futures in Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature

10:45–12:15

Session V-a: Fascism Goes Central East and South European Province? Provincial Society and Far-Right Mobilisation in Interwar East-Central Europe

13:00–14:30

Session VI-a: A Struggle for Work, Land, and Love. Practicing Communism in the First Half of the 20th Century

14:45–16:15

Session VII-a: Rethinking the Soviet Past and Post-Sovietness: New Analytical Frameworks (Discussion Panel)

16:30–18:00

20th Century Fascism & Totalitarianism: Legacies & Challenges Today (Keynote Discussion)

Embracing the New, Preserving the Old: Studying Fascism, Communism, and Totalitarianism in the 2020s - Streaming - Instytut Pileckiego