Jelena Đureinović is a postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator of the Research Platform “Transformations and Eastern Europe” at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Giessen. Her current research project combines the approaches of transnational history and memory studies and explores the role of memory in the context of networks of solidarity in the global Cold War and decolonisation setting, focusing on the agency of Yugoslav war veterans. She is also interested in the memory work of the far-right and specificities of memory politics in contemporary authoritarian democracies.
Her book The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia: Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution (Routledge, 2020) centres on the question of how memory politics works, investigating the radical revision of the Second World War in post-Yugoslav Serbia. She developed the Memory Activism Programme at the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade, where she is still involved in providing strategic direction.

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Sang-Hyun Kim is associate professor at the Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University, Korea. He holds a D.Phil. in chemistry from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Edinburgh. Kim’s research has focused on the intersections between history and sociology of science, environmental history, and intellectual history of development. His recent research interests extend to the analysis of the imaginaries and experiences of growth-oriented, technocratic development and modernization as key discursive and material sites of memory conflicts. His publications include: Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (co-edited with Sheila Jasanoff, University of Chicago Press, 2015); “Science, Technology, and the Imaginaries of Development in South Korea” (2017); “Korean Ecumenical Movement and the Politics of ‘Modernization’ and ‘Development’ during the 1960s and early 1970s” (2019).

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.

Hanna Teichler is a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of English and American Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt. She holds a PhD from the department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Goethe University Frankfurt, and an M.A. in English and Romance Studies. Her research interests include Anglophone world literature, memory studies, oceanic literature and cultures, ecofiction and environmental studies, as well as postcolonial literatures. Hanna is the co-editor of the book series Mobilizing Memories and of the Handbook Series in Memory Studies (with Rebekah Vince, both Brill). She co-directs the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform with Astrid Erll. In 2023, Hanna co-founded a new journal in memory studies, the Memory Studies Review (Brill, with Justyna Tabaszewska, Erol Gülüm, and Paul Leworthy).

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).