Ildikó Barna and Márton Rakovics represented our research group at the Addressing the Past – Shaping the Future: Memory Politics in Europe and Canada conference, held at the University of Victoria, funded by the Jean Monnet Network European Memory Politics (EuMePo) and co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada and the University of Victoria, Centre for Global Studies.
Márton Rakovics (researcher of RC2S2) presented in the graduate panel of the conference. The title of his presentation was: “Commies” left and right – Invoking communism as a political bludgeon in the last two decades of parliamentary speeches in Hungary.
Ildikó Barna (senior researcher of RC2S2) held a lecture in the second plenary session of the conference, titled Reinventing the Nation and Political Community: Memory Politics in Central Eastern European Societies. The title of her presentation was: The (mis)use of memory politics in Hungary.
The detailed program of the conference can be found here: https://www.eucanet.org/22651-2/