For more information, see: https://www.unifrankfurt.de/58224939/Hanna-Teichler

Joanna Wawrzyniak is a senior researcher at the University of Warsaw. She is interested in developing memory studies at the intersection of sociology and history, as well as in exploring Eastern European memory processes in a global comparative framework. She has published among others in Memory Studies, Contemporary European History, East European Politics and Societies and Polish Sociological Review. Her books in English include co-edited Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives (Berghahn Books 2016); co-authored The Enemy on Display: The Second World War in Eastern European Museums (Berghahn Books 2015); and Veterans, Victims and Memory: The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland (Peter Lang 2015). Her current projects include work on memories of socialism, neoliberal transformation, and deindustrialization in Poland and contributions to collaborative research on cultural heritage and memory processes in Eastern Europe, Western Europe and East and South Asia.

Stef Craps is a professor of English literature at Ghent University, Belgium, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. His research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, memory and trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism and environmental humanities. He is the author of Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds(2013) and Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation(2005), and a co-editor of Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies(2017). He has also co-edited two special issues of Studies in the Novel, on climate change fiction and postcolonial trauma novels, and one of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, on transcultural Holocaust memory. He has recently co-authored an introductory guide to the concept of trauma, which is forthcoming in Routledge’s New Critical Idiom series, and is currently guest-editing a special issue of American Imagoon ecological grief.

For more information, visit his personal website at https://www.stefcraps.com/

Tea Sindbæk Andersen is Assistant Professor of Balkan Studies at the Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. Tea’s research focuses on the contemporary history of Southeastern Europe, especially on issues related to uses of history, cultural memory, identity politics and popular culture in the Yugoslav area. She is the author of Usable History? Representations of Yugoslavia’s difficult past from 1945 to 2002 (Aarhus University Press 2012) and, with Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, editor of Disputed Memory. Emotions and memory politics in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe (De Gruyter 2016)

Jonathan Bach is a Professor of Global Studies at The New School in New York. His work looks at social transformation in Germany and China with a focus on questions of memory, material culture, urban change, and space and identity. He is the author most recently of What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Columbia University Press 2017), (German edition: Die Spuren der DDR: Von Ostprodukten bis zu den Resten der Berliner Mauer, Reclam Verlag, 2019), and co-editor of Re-Centering the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity (UCL Press 2020) and Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City (University of Chicago Press, 2017). His articles have appeared in, among others, Cultural Anthropology, British Journal of Sociology, Cultural Politics, Public Culture, Theory, Culture and Society, Cultural Politics, German Politics and Society, and Philosophy and Social Science. He previously served as the co-chair of the German Studies Association Interdisciplinary Memory Studies Network.

Małgorzata Pakier is Head of the Research Department at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and advisor for scholarly programs at the European Network Remembrance and solidarity. Since 2011 she has coordinated, jointly with Joanna Wawrzyniak, the ‘Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe’ program at ENRS. She is a member of the Social Memory Laboratory at Warsaw University. Pakier’s academic interests include social and cultural remembrance in Eastern Europe, the concept of Europeanization of memory, and Holocaust memory and representation. Her most important publications include: The Construction of European Holocaust Memory: German and Polish Cinema after 1989 (2013); A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance (ed. with Bo Stråth; 2010, 2012); Memory and Change in Europe. Eastern Perspectives (ed. with Joanna Wawrzyniak, 2015).