​Beyond Hegemonic Narratives and Myths

European Consortium for Political Research General Conference (ECPR), Oslo, Norway

Maria-Alina Asavei was the organizer of a panel called Re-thinking Political Agency, Identity and History through Art (link here) and the co-chair of another one called Arts and Politics: Resistance and/or Complicity to Past and Present Injustices (link here). During the latter mentioned, she presented her paper entitled Resistance and Complicity to Hegemonic Regimes of Representation: 'Contemporary Roma Art' (abstract).

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European Consortium for Political Research General Conference (ECPR), Oslo, Norway

Hana Kubátová presented her paper entitled Politics of Troubled Past in the Slovak Republic during the ECPR Conference 2017 in Oslo, as a part of the Arts and Politics: Resistance and/or Complicity to Past and Present Injustices panel. Link here

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Why remember: Remembering and Forgetting in Times of War and its Aftermath Conference, WARM Festival 2017, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Barbora Knappová presented her paper entitled "Promises and Limitations of Post-museum as a Model Institution for Reconciliation: The Case of History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina" on June 30, at an international conference "Why remember: Remembering and Forgetting in Times of War and its Aftermath", organized during WARM Festival 2017, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

International Responses to Wartime Rape Conference, Maynooth University, Ireland

Maria-Alina Asavei presented her paper entitled "Beyond Nationalist Ideologies: Transnational Artistic Memory of Mass Violence against Women" on June 20, at an international conference "International Responses to Wartime Rape Conference", organized at Maynooth University, Ireland. Link here.

Online Access of Holocaust Documents: Ethical and Practical Challenges, `Elie Wiesel` National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest, Romania

Jiří Kocián discussed challenges in presenting and using video interviews as sources for the research of the Holocaust during his presentation entitled “Survivors‘Reflections on Usage of Their Testimonies from USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive” at the international  EHRI workshop Online Access of Holocaust Documents: Ethical and Practical Challenges, organized by the 'Elie Wiesel`National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest, Romania on 6.6.2017. Link here.

Populism, migration crisis, religion and media, Centar za istraživanje religije, politike i društva, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Primus team member Karin Hofmeisterová presented her paper "The Picture of Jews in the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Narrative of the Holocaust" at an international conference in Novi Sad, Serbia on May 26. The conference, titled "Populism, migration crisis, religion and media" was organised by Centar za istraživanje religije, politike i društva and the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Novi Sad.

Les Conflicts de Mémoire: Arts, Histoire, Commémorations, Université du Maine, Le Mans (France)

Maria-Alina Asavei presented a paper entitled “Spaced Memory: The Artistic Memory of the Jewish Sites that no Longer Exist in South-East Europe” at the international conference Les Conflicts de Mémoire: Arts, Histoire, Commémorations, at the Université du Maine, Le Mans in France on 6.4.2017. Link here.

Stepping Back in Time Workshop Warsaw

Maria-Alina Asavei presented a paper titled "Performing History and Living Memory in Recent International Art Exhibitions in Romania" for the international workshop Stepping Back in Time. Living History and Other Performative Approaches to History in Central and South-Eastern Europe. The workshop was organized by German Historical Institute Warsaw and Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena in Warsaw on 23-24.02. 2017. Link here.

CENTRAL Project Workshop Meeting, Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Universität Wien

Kateřiná Králová, Maria-Alina Asavei, Jiří Kocián, Nikola Karasová, Karin Hofmeisterová and Tereza Auzká participated together at this event and presented the PRIMUS Project in an international event for the first time.