Laboratory of International Memory Studies, LIMeS

https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/ukraines-agency-between-geopolitics-and-historical-narratives

Ukraine’s Agency Between Geopolitics and Historical Narratives ZOiS Spotlight 8/2026 | Georgiy Kasianov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G0YwPK2QHU

«Я — ворог народу»: Георгій Касьянов про політику пам’яті й війну. Георгій Касьянов — історик, якого знають у Гарварді й Кембриджі, але критикують в Україні. За часів Януковича йому пропонували піти в Адміністрацію Президент...

https://www.coe.int/en/web/observatory-history-teaching/ohte-talks

OHTE Talks - Observatory on History Teaching in Europe - www.coe.int During OHTE Annual Conferences, renowned historians and experts shared compelling insights into how history shapes our understanding of the present and guides us toward the future. These talks explore themes like geopolitics, education, and the manipulation of narratives, offering diverse perspecti...

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=U4SREQAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PP1&hl=en

The new book has just been released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAOPx8T1NbA&ab_channel=Майстер-масон

Talk about Polish-Ukrainian relations in the field of collective memory and memory politcs (in Russian)

Национальная память: Польша-Украина Милые друзья, продолжаю инновационный для меня популярно-аналитический проект. Он в первую очередь для все еще интересующихся историей и культурой Украины, н...

https://www.routledge.com/The-Holodomor-in-Politics-Memory-and-History-Cognitive-Interpretive-and-Explanatory-Challenges/Kasianov/p/book/9781041135029

The Holodomor in Politics, Memory and History: Cognitive, Interpretive and Explanatory Challenges This volume presents the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the collective memory of the Holodomor—the Ukrainian Great Famine of 1932-1933—examining its construction, evolution, and contestation across nearly a century. Moving beyond historical accounts of the event itself, this book inte...

"The Russian-Ukrainian case represents an extreme form of mnemonic anxiety, amounting to the securitization of memory and the clash of antagonistic narratives of the past. Russia's instrumentalization of the shared past resulted in mnemonic conflicts with all immediate neighbors. In the case of Ukraine, the securitization of the collective memory by Russia turned into weaponization and justification of military aggression against the entity, which "does not exist" in Russia's historical outlook. Based on a self-deceptive idea of Ukraine as a part of Russia's historical body, the Russian ruling class wages a "historical war" aimed at the destruction of Ukraine as a "non-historical nation".

International conference "Memory, War, and Social Coherence:
Bringing Together and Tearing Apart", Mikkeli, Finland, June 5-6, 2025. The Laboratory was presented by Georgiy Kasianov with the report "Shared Past: The Roadmap to War? The Russian-Ukrainian Case

International conference "Memory, War, and Social Coherence:
Bringing Together and Tearing Apart", Mikkeli, Finland, June 5-6, 2025. The Laboratory was presented by Georgiy Kasianov with the report "Shared Past: The Roadmap to War? The Russian-Ukrainian Case

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/history-politics-in-the-russian-ukrainian-relations-the-2000s2022-shared-past-as-a-casus-belli/24B5F059988F2EE9BC8D97EB67FEA4CA

History Politics in the Russian – Ukrainian Relations, the 2000s–2022: Shared Past as a Casus Belli | Nationalities Papers | Cambridge Core History Politics in the Russian – Ukrainian Relations, the 2000s–2022: Shared Past as a Casus Belli

Productive and thought-provoking discussion at the Muzeum II Wojny Światowej, thank you, dear colleagues, it was a great pleasure to chat with you! Photo: courtesy of the Gdansk Museum of the World War II, author Agnieszka Stawrosiejko