Anthropology’s Populism Question: A Note on Studying Populism from Below | MEMPOP.ORG Diána Vonnák reflects on how anthropology can approach populism from below, not only as ideology or discourse, but as something embedded in everyday life, affect, and social experience.” Diána Vonnák ...

What does it mean to study populism from below?
In our latest #MEMPOP blog, Diána Vonnák reflects on anthropology’s approach to populism beyond leaders and slogans, through everyday lives and relations.

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The latest glimpse from our #MEMPOP team comes from the monument Eternal Flame, commemorating the 1999 NATO bombing. Erected without permission in Belgrade, it nests memory beyond the institutional frame—through candles, flowers, and presence.
www.mempop.org/glimpses/
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Stay in touch with our research activities through fieldwork glimpses on our webpage www.mempop.org/glimpses/

The latest one comes from Lviv by our postdoctoral researcher Diána Vonnák:

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The latest fieldwork glimpse comes from Burgerland, by our post-doc, Franz Graf: "It does not take much rainfall for the peaty soil to recall its centuries-long character."

Check out more glimpses at www.mempop.org/glimpses/

MEMPOP Postdocs Deliver Guest Lectures at Charles University | MEMPOP.ORG Laura Mafizzoli and Franz Graf gave guest lectures at Charles University, exploring how borderland landscapes—from Istrian foibe to Austrian–Hungarian peatlands—shape memory, politics, and social ineq...

In December and January, our postdoctoral researchers, Franz Graf and Laura Mafizzoli, were guest lecturers at the Charles University Institute of Ethnology in Prague. Read more about this and our other activities at :
www.mempop.org/output/mempo...

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📸 Check out the newest fieldwork glimpse that our postdoctoral researcher Diána Vonnák shared from the iconic Fedorov Square book market in Lviv mempop.org/glimpses/

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📸 Starting the new year with a new Fieldwork Glimpse by our postdoctoral researcher Laura Mafizzoli. More insights from her fieldwork will be shared at our institutional seminar in March.

🔗 www.mempop.org/glimpses/

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Wrapping up an intensive year of fieldwork, the #MEMPOP team gathered for a workshop with Nicolette Makovicky to reflect on returning from the field and transitioning from data to analysis and writing. A great discussion & team spirit!

#Anthropology #ERCResearch #ERC #Fieldwork

A new journal article by our post-doctoral researcher, Laura Mafizzoli, in the @asiacitalia.bsky.social journal on how an archival research of the KGB files can catalyse memory activism!

"Becoming a Memory Activist" is oppen acces: riviste.fupress.net/index.php/as...

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Astrea Nikolovska: Geopolitics Socks Image 1: Gift shop window in Belgrade, May 2025, photo by Astrea Nikolovska In the mid-2010s, the tourist center of Belgrade was full of various souvenirs featuring the image of Vladimir Putin. T-shir...

Focaal blog reposted the post by our associated researcher, Astrea Nikolovska, initally published on mempop.org. We are happy to see that the interest in our researchers work is growing! #MEMPOP #ERC www.focaalblog.com/2025/11/17/a...

Why populism became popular [FREE TO READ] It appeals more to a way of thinking than to a set of ideas — but is it just wrong?

Why populism become popular
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Visit our FB page www.facebook.com/profile.php?... to see the latest academic adventures of our team.

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Quaking time | OtherwiseMag 'The past makes the present shudder under the weight of conflicting historical truths' - Read Laura Mafizzoli's piece in the Graphic issue.

We are thrilled to share this immersive "ethno-graphic" by our post-doctoral researcher Laura Mafizzoli www.otherwisemag.com/quaking-time

Learn more about Laura's work in this interview: www.otherwisemag.com/meet-the-aut...

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Hello, it's the other #mempop as we jokingly call each other, but it's true, the deadline has been postponed to November 10. mempop.eu/final-confer...

Stepping into Ambivalence - Populism from Below in Serbia | MEMPOP.ORG Autumn has officially arrived, and with it, the long season of socks is upon us. In Belgrade, one can keep their feet warm in the company of some rather unexpected figures: Vladimir Putin, Donald Trum...

🧦 Autumn in Belgrade comes with a twist — you can keep your feet warm with Putin, Trump, or Kim Jong-un.

In our new #MEMPOP blog, Astrea Nikolovska explores populism from below, one sock at a time.

👉 mempop.org/stepping-int...

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☕ Next Tuesday, October 14, at 9am, The Department of Mobility and Migration at the Institute of Ethnology at @czechacademy.bsky.social hosts Daria Krivonos for an exciting "Morning Brew Talk"

👇 For online attendance and details, see the link 👇

🔗 www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Back...

Glimpses | MEMPOP.ORG Images from our fieldwork & research

Our PI @johanawyss.bsky.social shared the newest glimpse from her fieldwork during the Czech elections last weekend mempop.org/glimpses/
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Next tuesday in Brno and online, a lecture by #MEMPOP postdoctoral researcher Franz Graf

🔗 www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/What...

🍂 The #MEMPOP team kicks off autumn activities!
Our researcher Diána Vonnák joined the #GenealogiesOfMemory conference in Berlin, speaking on the curation of stolen & endangered heritage in Ukraine.
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📸 Jan Prosiński / ENRS

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Listening to the Alienated: Johana Wyss and MEMPOP in A-Magazine | MEMPOP.ORG An article about Johana Wyss, her research, and the MEMPOP project was featured in the latest issue of A-Magazine, published by the Czech Academy of Sciences. The piece explores the rise of populism n...

📰 New feature in @CzechAcademy A-Magazine: In the article “Listening to the Alienated,” @johanawyss.bsky.social presents the #MEMPOP core question: why do populist leaders’ words resonate with so many?

👉 www.mempop.org/output/liste...

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Mnemonic Inclusion and Belonging in Populism | MEMPOP.ORG Mnemonic inclusion in populism is a way to think beyond the usual binaries that dominate the study of memory and populism. Rather than seeing populist memory politics only as exclusionary or antagonis...

New blog post by our PI @johanawyss.bsky.social
on "mnemonic inclusion," exploring how populist politics give space to those left out of official memory.

mempop.org/mnemonic-inc...

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Huge thanks to the organizers of #MSA2025 in Prague for an inspiring conference.
The #MEMPOP team is grateful to the opportunity to exchange knowledge with such a fantastic group of scholars!

¡Hasta el próximo @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social ! 🇦🇷📚

Dear colleagues at the MSA conference, join us for the Memory and Populism working group meeting 👇

Johana Wyss and Jan Ort - double book launch | LinkedIn Dear colleagues, With great pleasure, we would like to invite you to join us for a special double book launch hosted by the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences: 🔹 Johana Wyss, PI of the ...

📚 Dear friends in Prague and MSA attendees, join us for a double book launch at the Institute of Ethnology CAS on Sunday at 5PM!
@johanawyss.bsky.social (PI of our #ERC #MEMPOP) and Jan Ort present their newest books
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www.linkedin.com/events/73487...

Humour, Memory, and Populism “From Below” in Istria: Preliminary Reflections | MEMPOP.ORG On February 27, 2025, La Voce del Popolo, the main newspaper of the Istrian Italian community in Croatia, featured a curious and provocative headline in Italian: “Đalović, il Terminator degli italiani...

In our latest #MEMPOP blog post, Laura Mafizzoli shares reflections from fieldwork in Istria, where jokes & irony shape political memory. #ERC #Istria

🔗 www.mempop.org/humour-memor...

Yesterday, #MEMPOP hosted two events with Prof. Florian Mühlfried. Check our webpage to find out more about the project events: mempop.org/glimpses/
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🎉 MSA 2025 merch is live!

Grab your sustainable, non-profit souvenirs before May 31 & pick them up in Prague.

🛍️ Let’s make memories...mindfully.

Shop here 👉 mymerchstore.net/en/

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Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants' The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...

The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning.

👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

Also, our postdoctoral researcher, Laura Mafizzoli, will present her paper, "Becoming a Memory Activist: Political Agency and the KGB Documents of the MIA Archive in Tbilisi, Georgia."

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Only 3 days left to apply for the Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization conference at Nottingham Trent, where our PI
@johanawyss.bsky.social will join the closing roundtable alongside Jeff Olick (Chair), Aleida Assmann, Stef Craps, Paul Max Morin & Hannah Wilson.

🔗 aimsntu.org/conference/