Laboratory of International Memory Studies, LIMeS

22/04/2026

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

ZOiS Spotlight 8/2026 | Georgiy Kasianov

09/04/2026

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

Георгій Касьянов — історик, якого знають у Гарварді й Кембриджі, але критикують в Україні. За часів Януковича йому пропонували піти в Адміністрацію Президент...

05/04/2026

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

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...

07/11/2025

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

The new book has just been released.

12/08/2025

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)

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

16/07/2025

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

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...

10/06/2025

"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

10/06/2025

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

28/05/2025

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

24/03/2025

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