Post-Cold War Military Zones in Central and Eastern Europe

Project Title: Post-Cold War Military Zones in central and Eastern Europe (2017-2021)

Project Status: in progress [2018.11.14.]

Project Description: The post-Cold War military zones in Central and Eastern Europe represent an interesting environment for social sciences. The presence and withdraval of the Soviet Army in large areas of Central and Eastern Europe and also activities of the Allied forces after 1989, have impacted both landscape and human communities in many different ways. Their legacy is a subject to continuous renegotiations, reinterpretations and interventions on individual, local, regional and even transnational levels. The seminars on this topic (first of which took place in Borne Sulinowo in 2016) are an attempt to provide researchers an unique opportunity to compare original data from a number of states and to present analyses of dealing with the post-Cold War past and ‘foreign’ legacies.

Project Events Accomplished so far:
2017 November: First Seminar in Borne Sulinovo, Poland.
2018 November 6-8: Second Seminar, at the Ethnographic Museum of the National Museum, Prague, Czechia, November 6-8, 2018.

Project Organizers and Experts:
Dagnosław Demski (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Dominika Czarnecka (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Jan Pohunek (National Museum, Prague)
Petr Janeček (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague)
Karolína Pauknerová (Czech Republic)
Jiří Woitsch (Czech Republic)
Marie Černá (Czech Republic)
Prokop Tomek (Czech Republic)
Barnabás Vajda (History Department, Selye J. University, Slovakia)
Christoph Lorke (Germany)
Christoph Meissner (Museum Berlin Karlshorst, Germany)
Ayur Zhanaev (Poland/Russia)
Melinda Harlov (Hungary)
Tatiana Safonova (Hungary)
Istvan Santha (Hungary)
Nikolay Nenov (Bulgaria)
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (Dept. of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, Univ. of Tartu)
Oskars Okonovs (Latvia)