, Poland | 2nd April 2026 - 2nd April 2026
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memory and nostalgia for communism
uses and abuses of communism (for example, communism as a narrative means to address contemporary problems or bygone evils and injustices)
fighting and/or embracing communism
historicising communism and history through the lenses of communism
the public and the private communism
the tragic and the comic interpretations of communism
sympathies and fears evoked by communism (the Red Scare, the Cold War)
crimes of communism (tortures, prisons, trials, communism dividing nations and families, traumas, corruption, abuse of power)
communisms and their values, ideas, and norms
the rise and fall of communism
communism versus capitalism
legitimisation processes of communism (founding myths, fantasies, manipulation, falsifying history, propaganda, stereotypes)
dismantling communism (narratives exposing the lies of communism and challenging its intellectual basis)
communist and anti-communist heroes (ideologues, spies, protesters, resistance movement members)
communism as a form of oppression and colonisation
communism and its wars (with the bourgeoisie, its own people, and non-communist nations)
communism as an intellectual revolution, cultural movement, and a substitute for religion
affects, agency, and everyday life
attitudes towards the environment and industry under communism
identity formation under and against communism (love, coming of age, survival, death)
philosophical, political, social, and psychological takes on comm